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Because the poster is clearly British and posted to a British novelty account followed and commented on mainly by British readers. Please stop being tedious.

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 10m

Software agents are just more like nerve agents than travel agents.

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 12m

There are literally dozens of them, I hear.

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 16m

Maybe his house isn’t that portable?

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milk bottle champion @stepheniscowboy.bsky.social · 28m

Me: So how does this blood test work? Elizabeth Holmes: It just needs a finger prick Me: Alright just a question wasn't it knobhead

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1h

Eric Claxton's guiding principle when designing Stevenage was that separating bikes and cars was fine, if: - Their routes ran parallel - For every metre the bikes gave up in gradient, the cars should give up two - If necessary, you make the cars go further not the bikes Because cars have ENGINES

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Mick Fealty @mickfealty.bsky.social · 3h

1/ In August 1969 a gang of loyalists, fresh from burning Catholic-owned pubs in Belfast, walked into my mum's bar and asked if the town had any. Her Protestant customers said no. Eight in ten were, ours included. They called the men a taxi. 🧵

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 4h

Yes! Excellent post. Standards aren’t regulation or red tape. Europe’s success with the GSM standard (while the US allowed standards competition) helps explain success in mobile tech.

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Simon Frankel Pratt @simonpratt.bsky.social · 3h

Let me talk about 7 October 2023. Tbh I'm not comfortable doing so here. I don't trust you. On that day, and in the days following, my experience of social media was deeply, profoundly unpleasant. But a lot changed in my life as a result of the attack and the war. So I may as well share how.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12h

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 2h

Just scrub the tannin stains off. Case closed.

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 2h

Very odd. It looks like someone asked what rounding off a cybertruck would look like. Not my cup of tea, but it’s very distinctive and screams “I am rich”. Good third car to have in Gulf states.

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 2h

Best three pies in London just landed.

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 2h

If this was posted by anyone else, it would trigger more tedious food discourse. I know your followers will do better.

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 2h

“It was always you … Camilla”

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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 10h

The waters at bath: far away, expensive Drinking from the wash near Boston, Lincolnshire: close, affordable.

regimen.
I also visited Freestone, near Boston, in Lincoln-shire, to which place a number of tradesmen and farmers resorted with their wives, in hopes of receiving benefit from the use of the salt water, in a va-mety of complaints; which they had been advised to do by the faculty, for a month, with particular directions to bathe every other day, and on the intermediate days to drink half a pint of the water in the course of that day. But these wise people, on duly considering the matter, were fully convinced that this would detain them from their families and business longer than was altogether convenient; and also (which they supposed their medical friends never thought of that they could bathe the full number of imes, and drink the prescribed quantity of the wate n a week or a fortnight at farthest, and thus not onl expedite the cure, but likewise enable them to return to their families and business so much earlier, as well as sing the secessa yengin of attending heat continuing
These united considerations appeared to thein
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 3h

FT exclusive: UK tax authorities probed Manchester City in 2018 over whether it used complex arrangements to underpay tax, nearly a decade before the club was found to have breached the Premier League’s financial rules. www.ft.com/content/796e...

ft.com

HMRC opened probe into Man City’s tax affairs in 2018

Investigation into whether English football club was underpaying tax began after its internal emails were leaked

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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 4h

"Suggest you google this guy" Manchester City Council responded to my 2013 Freedom of Information request for details of their deal with Manchester City by flagging my background to City's chief communications officer. Deeply inappropriate (and that's being generous).

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Chris Ponting @chrisponting.bsky.social · 14h

Thursday 27th January 2022. Alan Titchmarsh tells Alan Bennett that Barry Cryer has died.

27 January. A call from Alan Titchmarsh to tell me Barry Cryer has died. Sheer sorrow - no mixed feelings, a light extinguished.
Not my sort of man at all and I was always amazed he liked me - ringing up out of the blue but almost on a weekly basis ("Cryer, I'm afraid') or embarking (without any introduction) on a joke and signing off, 'Well, I'll give you back your day? Dozens of people on his distinguished joke circuit - Judi Dench, Andrew Marr, Tony Harrison - quite apart from his radio and TV audiences.
As so often it's the landscape that alters.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 11h

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
10:53 PM • 10/4/26 • 1.3M Views

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 06/10/2026

Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 27% (+3) RFM: 22% (-3) CON: 20% (+1) LDM: 11% (-1) GRN: 11% (=) RES: 3% (=) SNP: 3% (+1) Via @yougov.co.uk, 4-5 Oct. Changes w/ 27-28 Sep.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 15h

the tech bro who uses AI to play fantasy football for him is being dragged online. no one has ever been quite so mad frankly.

"but you've automated your hobby"
...
no, fantasy football is not my hobby. it's more of a social obligation.
my actual hobbies are gainful and awesome and mostly involve being outside. not fixating on team news and sportsball RNG. i have more time to do them because I use Al for all the boring stuff in my life.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16h

Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.

nytimes.com

Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)

The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 14h

What is the movie that came out before you were born that you’ve watched the most times? (I love how similar the angles are in these two shots despite Harry Palmer being spun as the “anti” James Bond.)

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 15h

Labour strategists will be having meetings from now until the election to figure out which way round Badenoch & Farage should go in this poster

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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 20h

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

8 Closed
Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 17h

As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear

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Mrs Quent @quarkquent.bsky.social · 16h

Excuse me, I have just been made aware (by Reddit) that some people butter both slices of bread in a sandwich. I need to know that this is a minority of perverts, and not the done thing.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 16h

The daily sea surface temperature is now so high, they had to add more chart because the previous version only went up to 30C

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RedScharlach @redscharlach.bsky.social · 17h

NO. DO NOT DO THIS. Do NOT think about The Event and under NO circumstances attempt to relive The Event. This may cause DISTRESS and CONFUSION. REMAIN INDOORS.

A double decker London bus with a poster on the side of it, saying “Relive the Event”. The poster is advertising Disney+ and the event in question is the Oasis reunion tour.

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 15h

Yes, it’s like polishing just one shoe. Exactly like that.

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Dylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 18h

buddy if your comms office is making this graphic, it's too late

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 17h

Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 18h

Whose bright idea was it to have a Ukrainian kids choir sing under a Shahed drone suspended from the roof? #CPC26

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 21h

"did you kill me in plain sight?" #CelebrityTraitors

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 19h

Linke saying "well fine, just piss off" finally to Wagenknecht and tankies around her actually reinvigorated the party to the extent to which it is now in an increasingly successful process of reinvention. Maybe the CDU can only survive if it takes that ruthless step in ejecting its waverers too

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 22h

Illegal Wheel of Fortune den found in Cardiff industrial estate

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 06/10/2026

Our latest Westminster voting intention poll (4-5 October 2026) shows a five point lead for Labour Labour: 27% (+3 from 27-28 Sep) Reform UK: 22% (-3) Conservatives: 20% (+1) Lib Dems: 11% (-1) Greens: 11% (=) Restore Britain: 3% (=) SNP: 3% (+1) Plaid Cymru: 1% (=) yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That’s both Leicester and Nottingham closing down languages then, after Lincoln closed theirs in 2024.

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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 18h

If he’s made of testosterone, he’d certainly be flammable. So that part checks out.

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