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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 29/09/2026

Just tried to watch a YouTube gaming video but the Gen-Z making it kept calling it a "Gameboy Advanced". Advanced. Not advance. Advanced. It's not as if it isn't written on the front of the actual fecking machine or anything.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 29/09/2026

New set of posters, billboards and bus Ads around town telling us how important it is to conserve water... Meanwhile data centres.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 28/09/2026

It's September and I've yet to get on a train that hasn't been delayed or cancelled this year. Just got turfed off a Carlisle train at Newcastle. No explanation, just "this train is terminating here"... Along with any hopes of making my connection mate. Thanks.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 26/09/2026

They turn your culture into content. You don't feel very content.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 25/09/2026

Ok, we are all set up and ready to go! Starting at 2pm, finishing at 8pm (ish). BALANCE, Arc/Stockton 2026

A concrete block on a plank, forming a see-saw with an orange tyre ramp in a black box theatre space awaits a performer.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 25/09/2026

And if you prefer to see some art that is live and happening, come on over to ARC in Stockton today between 2pm and 8pm to see us perform BALANCE, a Durational performance sculpture as part of the Turner on Tees programme.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 24/09/2026

Ok. It is exactly like you imagine. Some very sharply dressed humans with little joy on their faces listening to speeches that thank everyone but the staff serving them food and drink. The entire place has the energy of cocaine.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 24/09/2026

Off to the Turner Prize opening tonight. A room I've never been in before. I will report back! Please temper your expectations.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 24/09/2026

Despite the fact you carry your phone around with you and use it all the time, isn't it weird that you never see it in your dreams?

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 23/09/2026

So many comics these days are just poorly structured essays with characters doing reaction poses like TikTok videos. Real lack of craft and form. Remember. You can actually learn, for free, how to get good at this stuff.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 23/09/2026

*precious lives* as opposed to those non-precious lives that you were ok with.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 23/09/2026

I mean, I always thought it was bullshit when the AA claimed to be Britain's fourth emergency service while the RNLI was literally out there saving lives from the briney void.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 23/09/2026

The pursuit of realism and versimilitude in video games has cost us all in terms of money and enjoyment. The fundamental misunderstanding of what makes things fun.

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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The LibDems should be foregrounding the only positive aspect of Ed becoming PM: when he meets the King, the photo can be captioned "Chas & Davey".

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 23/09/2026

Very frightened people. People disagreeing with them scares them. People looking different scares them. Places they don't control scares them. Leaving their home scares them. Online scares them. Maybe they are the ones that need help? www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/2657247...

thetelegraphandargus.co.uk

Top Reform councillor 'too scared' to walk through Bradford city centre on her own

TOP Reform Councillors have disputed claims that Bradford has turned a corner – with one claiming she is too afraid to walk through the city…

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 23/09/2026

I miss the old days when protest meant some dude named Swampy sitting in a tree for six months and not children chanting "let them drown" through megaphones.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 22/09/2026

The thing with hipster pop-up shops: They always start by telling everyone they are being a service to the community. They always end by demanding that the community chips in to help pay for them when it doesn't pan out.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 22/09/2026

One of my favourite things about living in the North is that when London gets improved trains with critical safety features we get to have their old stock!

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 22/09/2026

One band consistently left out of British 90s music discourse is Asian Dub Foundation. I'm sure there are legit reasons for that, right? Anyway, treat yourself and your ears and give this a spin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4972...

youtube.com

Asian Dub Foundation - R.A.F.I (Full Album Remastered 2022)

YouTube video by Asian Dub Foundation

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 22/09/2026

My favourite internet drinking game is to take a shot when I see the triple tautology of "I myself personally" It isn't 11am and I'm hammered.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 21/09/2026

Wild that BBC verify exists to stop us falling for fake news and yet the BBC seems more susceptible to it than ever.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 21/09/2026

Clive Myrie's Mastermind patter is shite, isn't it?

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 21/09/2026

I love playing the game where I know what is wrong with me, but if I say it out loud my GP will refute it, so I have to leave a breadcrumb trail of symptoms so that they can feel like they got there on their own.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 21/09/2026

Ed Davey -- An unserious man in a very serious time.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 19/09/2026

I need your help. For some reason I can't remember the name of this chap.

A children's TV presenter holding a soft toy clock and a doll.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 19/09/2026

Over a decade of telling people "anyone can be an artist" and pushing community arts where we flatter attendees into believing they are, we are now left in a situation where they are turning around to practising artists and saying "we can take it from here". And this is what you get.

bbc.co.uk

Scarborough's 'AI slop' art trail cost £11,688, figures reveal

Artists and residents in Scarborough criticised the trail when it was launched in the summer.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 19/09/2026

So far all these so called AI hacking incidents have occurred because humans have instructef the AIs to hack sites using specific methodology in closed box environments and then, somehow "accidentally" connected them to the internet. These aren't geniuses. They are script kiddies.

theguardian.com

Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies

Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 18/09/2026

Can we talk about the fact that the West Coast mainline has only managed 30% of trains on time recently with 10% being cancelled.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 18/09/2026

If you don't say "strong disagree" people might think your disagree is weak or enfeebled.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 18/09/2026

Just had a weird conversation with a younger millennial that was *adamant* that "Goth" was a 2000s movement and what we had in the 80s was "proto-goth". Am I losing my mind? I concede that I might be.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 18/09/2026

Stop fucking talking to machines.

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We gotta do something about the state of our political class

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 17/09/2026

All this prevarication of whether or not AI could gain sentience whilst we casually slaughter millions of animals a day that quite clearly display it, suggests, maybe, we are, as a species, huffing our own farts a little too hard.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 16/09/2026

I decided to reconfigure and tidy the entire house. It's now past midnight and I am sat in a pile of destruction and chaos of my own making ... And so tired that I might just curl up in a junk heap and hope this sorts itself out.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 15/09/2026

So, here is a lovely thing, written by my omni-collaborator Gillian. We are part of the Turner Prize programme.

A poster for Turner Prize 2026 26 Sept to 29 March in Middlesbrough.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 15/09/2026

The removal of humans. The de-hunanizing of every service. From call centres to checkouts, to teachers and doctors. Yet the thing AI can't replace is talking to another human. A process so fundamental to our existence. Won't stop them trying though.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 14/09/2026

Remember, they'll make you drink from paper straws. They'll demand you turn off taps whilst brushing your teeth. They'll get you to sort your rubbish meticulously. But when it comes to AI, here, have a "tidal wave of forever chemicals". www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn

Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 13/09/2026

Today I learnt that AI sucks at translating shorthand. Today I took my first lesson in shorthand.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 13/09/2026

The current word virus is describing everything using the word "deeply". Deeply important. Deeply held beliefs. Deeply concerned. Deeply dippy. Listen out for it, on the radio, online and leaving your own mouth.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 13/09/2026

Someone ran a clearly photoshopped image I made through an AI detector and since it came back negative they have decided that the image is actually real. Just because something isn't AI doesn't mean it is real.

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I guess "oops, gotta stop doing AI or else it'll kill us all next week" seems less embarrassing to them than "oops, we plunged our entire economy into a project that doesn't work great and definitely isn't profitable"

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 13/09/2026

Yes, but not from Kuenssberg on the BBC.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 13/09/2026

I love the announcements of "this company that I run and am in charge of is out of control and might end all life and somebody should do something about it". The single biggest shirking of responsibility in history. Or the single biggest marketing pitch.

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Adam_Y @modernistpunk.com · 13/09/2026

And despite years of being anti-burqa and anti-masking during COVID, it's amazing how quickly these men slap some on for a chance to 'clava up and go sort things out. It's almost as if they have no actual morals, just a set of reactionary paradigms. Either that or they are just massive throbbers.

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 13/09/2026

Once again - The Guardian has a partnership with Open AI, nothing it publishes about AI can be trusted

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b3ta @b3ta.com · 12/09/2026

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