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Nick Clarey

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Christian, husband, dad, recovering entrepreneur. Software engineer. Loves coffee, climbing, culture, cuisine, cycling and cats. Aussie in Cambridge, UK. If I can't work out who you are from your profile, we don't have discussions.

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 13/10/2026
Ah yes, perhaps the most beloved literary trope of all: the classic McMuffin
A screenshot that reads: Moore throws in a Hitchcock-style McMuffin in the shape of a secret tape recording which will reveal just who has been betraying the gangsters.
The problem is that no-one has a machine on which to play it.
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 11/10/2026
Steve Smith is on fire, amazing 🔥
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 11/10/2026
What we really need is for Marco Jansen to break in half before he gets going
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 10/10/2026
Nothing makes me happier than when I speak French to a Parisian and they reply in French, and not like they are speaking to a small child
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/10/2026
Juice xkcd.com/3308/
4-panel comic. (1) [Two people, one with a ponytail, sitting and typing at terminals opposite each other. A sign on the wall reads “Juice Mission Control,” with JUICE in huge letters.] PERSON 1: Jupiter Icy Moons Exploder checkin is complete. All systems nominal. (2) PERSON 2 with ponytail. [People turn to look at each other.] PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: Jupiter Icy Moons *Explorer*. (3) [Person 1 turns back to his terminal.] (4) PERON 1: Control, everything is fine, but I need to schedule an urgent spacecraft update. [Person 2 facepalms] PERSON 2: Oh no.
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 09/10/2026
My my, Green Party, if it isn’t the consequences of your own antisemitic actions
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Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I read the Cornell documents, and they paint an extremely grim picture of a group of men who saw Jane Doe not as a fellow human being, but as a vending machine dispensing bro points they could cash in with their buddies. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Everyone Knew What Happened at Cornell Was Wrong
The simple truth behind Jane Doe’s story
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 05/10/2026
Overcome with the sublime
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 04/10/2026
Bern also very pretty
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 04/10/2026
Basel is very pretty. Look closely and you can see people swimming in the Rhine.
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 03/10/2026
I am in Switzerland and once again am surprised by how little is going to be open on Sunday. But I can hop into France to pick up some pain and pastries from 6am.
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 28/09/2026
News at 11 - tree may be behaving like tree. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Hadrian's Wall Sycamore Gap tree stump shows 'encouraging' signs
A thick layer of growth surrounds the stump three years after the landmark was illegally felled.
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Maciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.
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Mark Hetherington @markhether18.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
HEATHER AND PIKES Some nice light amongst the heather up on Sidepike in Langdale from last week. This peak has amazing views for little effort so is great when time is short. #sidepike #heatherseason #fsprintmonday #sharemondays2026 @sonyalpha.bsky.social @fotospeed.bsky.social
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 20/09/2026
Well I may not agree with everything Earl Spencer says, he is absolutely right to point out the similarities between the way Diana was treated and the way Harry and Megan are.
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 19/09/2026
This is exactly it. You tell it what to do and it tries to figure out how to do it using what it has access to. Keep it in a sandbox and it is powerless. This stuff is all utter nonsense for PR clicks and (somewhat more ominously) for trying to raise barriers to entry for open models.
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 14/09/2026
But Don, where are we going to find one of those? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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Trump criticises AI boss who called for slowdown and says only guardrail needed is a 'smart president'
Stock markets fall in the US, Europe and Asia as Anthropic boss Dario Amodei says AI development should be slowed "to reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong".
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 14/09/2026
Today, be like Bob
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 13/09/2026
A definite offside and a very surprising decision. Man U must be furious. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Referees body admits error of judgement over Erling Haaland derby winner
The Premier League refereeing body Pro Ref admits an error of judgement in awarding Erling Haaland's winner in the Manchester derby.
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 13/09/2026
Ventriloquist’s dummy, and looks like one
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 13/09/2026
It is nonsense. I work near the forefront of AI security research and we aren’t remotely concerned about existential threats. Personally I’m more concerned about the lobotomising effect on software engineers
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Hercule Poirot dressed all in black speaks to Captain Hastings in a grand hallway “Please ask the suspects to gather in the library, Hastings: I wish to reveal that our births are random, our lives meaningless, and our deaths absurd.”

Caption “Having investigated so many awful murders over the years, it was perhaps unsurprising that Hercule Poirot turned to Existentialism”


p.s. Poirot had presumably been reading a lot of Sartre recently…

 "It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die," Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant)

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (La Nausée)
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 12/09/2026
Well isn’t this an exciting morning of test cricket
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 10/09/2026
Morons. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Crowd gathers outside hotel containing Pakistan under-19 cricket team
People gather at a hotel as Pakistan's under-16 cricket team are wrongly identified as migrants.
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Radical Fairness @rudeeru.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 23/08/2026
theory: the only people left in provincial nightclubs are England cricket players and people trying to start fights with England cricket players
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 23/08/2026
Seems like the guy was hired for a specific job and spent an awful lot of time telling people he was actually hired to do something different I.e. lying about your research, which sounds suspiciously similar to another recent academic debacle
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 17/08/2026
Sad that we couldn't save the cheerleader :-(
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 15/08/2026
Yippee-Ki-Yay
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 15/08/2026
There is no indication that this interview was conducted after Arday’s death, and it is disingenuous to suggest otherwise. Let’s do better than spreading misinformation.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
christ, what a depressing story all round, and what a series of failures of responsibility to get to this.
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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Cast of The Pitt reading a Star Trek TOS classic: I think @boydhilton.bsky.social and @jamescdyer.bsky.social should go to this and tell @pilottvpod.bsky.social passengers what they think www.wgfoundation.org/events/all/2...
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WGF RetroReads Presents: STAR TREK 60th — The Writers Guild Foundation
Please join us as we celebrate our 60th anniversary with a live reading of Star Trek’s classic episode “The Man Trap” on August 30 at the Lodge Room in Highland Park! Noah Wyle will perform the ro...
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 14/08/2026
So glad we have a national alerting system to tell us not to light fires.
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Geraint @geraintg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Although mooses aren't indigenous to all parts of Canada, they can be found elkswhere
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 14/08/2026
Right now that little Farage sideshow is over, back to investigating his financing
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 12/08/2026
A habit partly formed when my grandmother could only understand an American accent
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 08/08/2026
Xena says happy #caturday
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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"are there any bad @stephencollins.bsky.social cartoons?" No, of course not, I've been laughing at this one for three minutes
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Steve Kneale @stevekneale.buildingjerusalem.blog · 06/08/2026
Is gambling sinful? Let me get all my caveats out the way upfront. I have never had a penchant for gambling. I've no interest in horse or dog racing and I don't play poker or any card games. What is more, I never knew my Great Grandfather because, as I understand it, he was an avid gambler who…
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Is gambling sinful?
Let me get all my caveats out the way upfront. I have never had a penchant for gambling. I've no interest in horse or dog racing and I don't play poker or any card games. What is more, I never knew my Great Grandfather because, as I understand it, he was an avid gambler who abandoned his family and ended up in and out of prison due to gambling debts.
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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 01/08/2026
When the wife’s away, the dad will electrolysis…ise
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 30/07/2026
Well looks like the least worst option has been taken www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...
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Stephen Fleming: England appoint former New Zealand captain as Test coach, with Joe Root captain
Former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming is appointed as England Test coach, with Joe Root as captain.
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 27/07/2026
Farewell Bill Oddie. Many happy hours watching you on TV and you will be warmly remembered by me and many fellow Australians. “The Goodies” were in many ways my first introduction to British humour. They were phenomenally popular in Australia. Curious they weren’t as popular here.
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 27/07/2026
According to www.gov.uk/pip/how-much... the maximum payment is £194.60 a week for enhanced, and the minimum wage for <18s is £8 an hour. Part time work is less than 35 hours a week. Which means the maximum you can work is 34 hours. That is £272. This post is poppycock.
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PIP claim help, plus ESA, DLA & Universal Credit
Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 27/07/2026
According to www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/personal-ind... the maximum payment is £194.60 a week for enhanced, and the minimum wage for <18s is £8 an hour. Part time work is less than 35 hours a week. Which means the maximum you can work is 34 hours. That is £272.
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Claim PIP for Anxiety
Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...
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Nick Clarey @nick.clarey.org · 25/07/2026
Peaceful Chatsworth
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