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Neil Henty

@neilhenty.bsky.social
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Editor, copywriter, page designer (magazines), copy editor: Senior Content Editor, Atlantean Media & Sub-editor, British Archaeology Magazine (pt)

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filip from start-track.com @filip.start-track.com · 04/10/2026
Our music blog/label is releasing another digital compilation to showcase small, unheard indie artists. This time, we are looking for SHOEGAZE music. The compilation will raise money for People In Peril, an organization helping people affected by war. starttrack.substack.com/p/open-call-...
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Open call for our next compilation XII.
We are doing another digital compilation! This time dedicated to shoegaze!
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the number of ethical, privacy-based, and practical problems with feeding grant applications into LLMs for triage without human confirmation is dizzying “a machine can never be held accountable, so a machine must never make a decision” has never been more apt
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Talking about the apocalypse means *not* talking about copyright abuse, about privacy invasion, about the creation of misinformation and the destruction of truth, about political manipulation, about CSAM, about economic devastation and about environmental destruction. The real problems.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 16/09/2026
The TLDW: Sheeran blamed the promoter for dropping Macklemore. The same promoter apparently sent an email to its 1,000s of employees on the release of his last album offering to cover the cost of buying his album if they bought it by a certain date to fix the chart position.
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Neil Henty @neilhenty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tech Billionaire: Yeah, so our Ai could kill us all and we don’t know whether we’ll be able stop it. So… The People: So, you’ll stop building it, empowering it. Right? TB: Huh? The People: You’ll stop heading down that route, right? Won’t you? TB: I don’t understand what you’re saying?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Imagine a Vice President of the United States getting a fact-check Community Note that the heckler was right and you are lying. These people just can’t stop lying.
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OKNexus @oknexusexchange.com · 12/09/2026
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Must just be a coincidence that two of Reform's main donors have been convicted of money laundering related offences (Delo and George Cottrell).
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wonder what it is about off shore tax hating billionaires being so drawn to Nigel Farage's "people's party"
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 10/09/2026
Today, we filed a FOIA request with DHS concerning an AI-generated image the @DHSgov X account posted this morning. The image depicts a Transformer facing a South Asian man, over a caption telling "Mr. Singh" to self-deport and get off American roads. We want the prompt.
AI-generated image posted by the DHS account on X, styled as a movie poster. A blue and red robot with the Department of Homeland Security seal on its chest faces a bearded South Asian man in a blue bandana and a monogrammed shirt. A city skyline sits between them at sunset. Text between the two faces reads "SELF-DEPORT OR FIND OUT." Below, in the Transformers logo and typeface, "TRANSFORMERS: AMERICA FOR AMERICANS," and beneath that, "GET OFF OUR ROADS, YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE MR. SINGH." A garbled credit block runs along the bottom.First page of a Project Salt Box FOIA request to the DHS Privacy Office, dated September 9, 2026, addressed to the Office of Public Affairs. It seeks records about the use of generative AI to produce public-facing imagery published by DHS, and describes the image posted to the @DHSgov account that morning.
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Shazzy @shazbear.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Will he be asking the data centre companies to do the same? #IrelandPayHighestForElectricityInEurope
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @handle.invalid · 09/09/2026
Oh and also this, unless you want your images to potentially become discoverable though AI.
Screenshot of IG settings allowing people to create with and reuse your content
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @handle.invalid · 09/09/2026
A new setting to turn off on Instagram…
Screenshot of IG setting to turn off Meta AI using your content
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Neil Henty @neilhenty.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Amazing that someone can be so out of touch will all reality schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-there...
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Reform: 'There will be consequences for not singing anthem'
Braverman believes parents will tip her off if heads don't follow her anthem and hymns rules
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Caroline Keep @ka83k.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Finding it really telling right now we CAN arrest people holding signs peacefully about their political views. But we CAN'T arrest men beating women with literal sticks at Reform UK for expressing their views. So freedom of speech includes violence now for certain groups?
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Maria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
There you go. Not spontaneous or even a 'loose network' of individuals. They belong to an extremist organisation.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Now is not the time to step out of Reform's shadow. That time was two years ago, but instead Starmer decided to magnify Reform, support their narratives and boost their agenda. If he had taken them on rather than accept their ideas, we would be in a very different situation. He would still be PM.
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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So if you protest a genocide you are automatically a "terrorist" but hold up a major shipping route while wearing balaclavas and you are a "protester" and the police "engage with you"? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Disruption at Port of Dover as masked men hold protest
Images appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They are also stopping road traffic - we are told that this is a serious act of "terrorism", entailing long prison sentences, when done for environmental reasons?
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My heart goes out to the millions of people struggling to remember how to write "Thanks! Sounds great!" in an email.
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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A superb reminder from @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social that climate change is driven by a desire of the super rich for more yacht money.
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A glacier collapsed in Nepal but this is not the time to talk about climate change | First Dog on the Moon
It’s always thoughts and prayers and please don’t politicise this horrible disaster
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
IMHO, The British Museum always goes out of its way to be on the wong side of history. 🤔 #SlowLearner #EndColonialism #BrutishMuseum www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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British Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry
Concern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museum
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blayneydeborah.bsky.social @blayneydeborah.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Lloyd Hatton: “A ghost pollster, missing invoices, and £645,000 of unanswered questions. This is exactly the kind of dirty money loophole that gives politics a bad name. If Reform can’t tell us who they’re paying or why the paperwork keeps disappearing, that’s not an accident — it’s a warning sign."
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
No one had to think super hard about how to make a washing machine useful. A telephone. A vacuum cleaner. So why do our bosses have to constantly challenge us to find something, anything, for which AI might be helpful If your customers don’t find your product useful, that’s a you-problem
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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Have any brand/marketing boffins done a paper or long-read yet on how the pervert glasses thing has made Ray Ban go from 90 years of supercool to absolute 0/10 hell no, wouldn't ever, whole thing totally tainted? Would read this. Can't think of a faster decline. Smoking, perhaps.
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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Whenever I get into a good flow of research, I just despair about why someone would ever hand over this joy to a clumsy AI summary
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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I report every single AI ad I see for fraud. What are they hiding? Why are they using AI fake photos of food that looks like plastic? Why are they not paying people? AI ads just tell me they are a fraudulent company.
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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Farage looks like a man who tried to nonchalantly jump over a low wall to take a shortcut, caught his leg on it and almost fell over, then tried to style it out while also looking accusingly at the wall, before walking off, trying to hide a limp.
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Neil Henty @neilhenty.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Wolves being Wolves. #wwfc #wolverhampton
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GuyD @thenotoriousguy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The only really meaningful statistic to come out of the Clacton by-election
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 09/08/2026
FIFA is right, there has been a ‘concerted effort to undermine’ Infantino. For good reason and entirely because of his own corrupt, unethical, and unprofessional behaviour. Not really sure how the accusation of a campaign against him counts as a criticism or defence.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Government destroys very successful export market, just to appease ignorant racists. As ever.
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/08/2026
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
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How to Disable the AI Features in Gmail and Google Docs
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
yeah, there were no clues that Musk would ever oversell his companies /s
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Neil Henty @neilhenty.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
If only, Sudu, if only… this is what you could have won 😔 #WWFC #WolvesFC
A white football shirt from 1982 with Tatung as the sponsor and a black pin stripes.  The black wolf head shows that it belongs to Wolves
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Elon Musk posted twice as often on UK race and immigration as about SpaceX in IPO run-up www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Elon Musk posted twice as often on UK race and immigration as about SpaceX in IPO run-up
Guardian analysis of X feed shows how keen world’s richest person was to air his views and ‘interfere’ in British politics
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What they don't teach you about heatwaves: It's not just heat. It's: • Your crops dying • Your river drying (Rhine is low again, disrupting shipping) • Your lungs burning from wildfire smoke • Your power grid collapsing It's everything at once.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The most powerful people in our society are spending hundreds of billions of dollars in the attempt to make artificial human minds, while millions of real human minds are being left to die of disease, starvation and conflict. Of all the sick things about the “AI” quest, that is the sickest.
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Neil Henty @neilhenty.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Anti-football lost. Good. There’s so much that was wrong with that #WorldCup but at least a decent footballing side won it. Time for Infantino to go now.
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Neil Henty @neilhenty.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
And Messi not booked for kicking the ball away after the ref gave a foul against him 🤔
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Neil Henty @neilhenty.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Literally nothing wrong with that goal #WorldCup
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Neil Henty @neilhenty.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
A petition to ban the sale and use of smart glasses such as the ones sold by Meta. Just stumbled across it. Nefarious things, made for those with bad intentions. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Introduce an immediate ban on the sale and promotion of smart glasses
The government should immediately ban the sale and promotion of glasses that contain recording capability. The government should explore using existing laws, such as RIPA, GDPR, DPA to take immediate ...
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