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Q: why can’t orangutans play comic songs? A: because there’s no ook allele.

“A group of US hedge funds” does not, on the face of it, seem likely to be the kind of owner which would reverse decades of under-investment and tackle the coming fresh water crisis.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 15h

Again: Switzerland is interestingly complicated.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 23h

Today in "decisions in kerning"

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 28/09/2026

I saw James play back when King Giles was still Prince of Yorkshire. He beat Johnny Connors 6-3, 6-7, 6-4, 6-0 to win Richmond. One of the finest sedum court performances in the history of croquet.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 28/09/2026

Gosh. This is very... espionage-y.

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nations will be competing over immigrants soon, and they’ll go where they have the best opportunities #NomadCentury

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 28/09/2026

Services aren't real, Ben. Only goods made by manly heterosexual men in oil stained coveralls actually contribute to the economy. It is 1776 and I'm somehow already an idiot.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 27/09/2026

Superb little 3-post vignette here :)

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 27/09/2026

I see we’re doing “beg the question” again. In the 80s it meant ”that prejudges the answer to a question still in play“. Now it means “that makes me want to ask the question…” When I was a kid, the second like throwing apostrophes at carrots. Now the first is shouting at clouds. Language evolves.

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can the media stop participating in AI psychosis

Tilly Norwood Says She’d Love to Work With Tom Holland and Olivia Colman: 'But Only If It Were Their Digital Twins' on an 'AI Production'

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 26/09/2026

I’m wondering if the issue is the straw.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 25/09/2026

Went to the Kill Jackie premier last night in London. UNBELIEVABLY FUN :) (Also kind of an earth-shaking, life milestone moment for me personally. 20 years ago I wrote The Gone-Away World having bounced off the film industry pretty hard, and here I am with a show...)

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.

A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@nickharkaway.com huge fuckin electronic billboard outside Madison Square Garden playing the KILL JACKIE teaser every couple minutes

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 23/09/2026

My relentless assault on your good nature and your Autumn/Winter shopping list is beginning... Bookshop.org is offering a 20% discount on pre-orders of The Taper Man until 27th of this month (code below). Get 'em while they're hot!

Purple card with the Taper Man book jacket - a silhouetted man in a long coat and hat walking pensively with hands behind his back from left to right, set in a hazy beam of light against a monochrome silver nitrate US flag hung vertically with the stars top right. TEXT BOX: 20%
OFF WITH CODE: SEPT20
23-27 Sept. Supporting Indie bookshops. T&Cs apply etc etc.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 23/09/2026

Is it me, or is the world just increasingly freaky? Like we could have a freaky rate and calculate compound freakiness because of freaky inflation if we could just quantify freakiness properly and set some benchmarks and we’d have freakohistorical futorology like on TV.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 23/09/2026

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/09/2026

I gave a talk yesterday at a clean tech in incubator, and this was literally my thesis.

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Trubs @trubshaw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Could do with someone senior in government saying this. Like, I don't know, the Prime Minister or someone.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17/09/2026

PSA: my old Gmail address will shortly be closing its doors. It now serves only to attract that particularly vacuous new form of spam which proposes itself as a pitch with a deep understanding of the creative blah blah blah. So, yeah, that's over.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

The second European Conference on the Fantastic is in Sweden next June. You should come to Sweden, it's fantastic! www.kau.se/kufo/aktivit...

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Fantastic Spaces and Places | Karlstads universitet

The second European Conference on the Fantastic Karlstad, Sweden 15-17 June, 2027

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17/09/2026

Unlimbering the ole blocky finger for some new account with Legitimate Piddington Questions tra la la

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 16/09/2026

Apparently it is That Day. Just had to separate a rotund late 40s guy with anger issues from a bewildered octogenarian at the tube. Guy was honestly lining up to smack him. Unbelievable.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 16/09/2026

I have just learned about Piddington and that is ten minutes I will never get back.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wandered into my local indie bookshop and bought the new 1,246 page China Mieville novel The Rouse and the somewhat shorter Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As I've mentioned ad nauseum, I've spent my summer writing up the foresight review on safe adoption of AI in engineering that I've been working on for the past year (will be published in December). At the heart of it are some observations about AI safety culture (which is the hottest of hot messes)

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 14/09/2026

I am a couple of inches into the last box of the tip-ins

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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

JOB!! The Department of History at the University of Ottawa invites applications for a position in medieval and/or transregional history, 7th-16th centuries. French or English, bilingualism an asset. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 12/09/2026

Would have been great if someone in government at any time in the last thirty years had had the stones to outlaw massive donations. But I guess you could say that about so many things.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 11/09/2026

I picked this up almost by accident because I didn’t have any Sharpies. I say “almost” because this was one of my dad’s pens. So now I’m feeling a bit contemplative.

A black and gold Parker rollerball resting on a tablecloth.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 11/09/2026

Give me strength. I'm signing tip-ins.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The balaclava blackshirted thugs are a result of a decade of politicians, tabloids and the broadcast media telling racists they have "legitimate concerns." The normalisation of actual fascism rhetoric and action has led to this and is a far greater "legitimate concern" than any migrant on a boat.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What I love about the people answering “negative” is they are basically saying “the last thousand years? I don’t care for them”.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 10/09/2026

Has anyone projected when we might reach Peak Stupid? Because intuitively it seems like we must be getting close.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 10/09/2026

Oh. Apple made a foldy phone? Cute. I don’t want one.

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