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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 01/10/2026

Someone at Bjorn should really check the emails they're sending out, because this isn't message they probably want.

Screenshot of an email from the Bjorn language-learning app which says "Your Bjorn usage ranked in the top 11% of all users", with 0 minutes of use over the last month.

Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 30/09/2026

if we could all please remember to join hands and help wake up Billie-Jo Armstrong today. Tea & biscuits will be provided

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 25/09/2026

this is like fining me 0.1p for illegal fly tipping

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 24/09/2026

my theory about the Voynich Manuscript is that whoever wrote and illustrated it was just on a very very long phone call

A double-page spread from the Voynich Manuscript, showing text and illustrations.

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 21/09/2026

"Can I talk to the press?" "Perhaps this foghorn will answer your question"

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 21/09/2026

Reminds me somewhat of Hemingway's quote about going bankrupt: "gradually, then very suddenly". (Morally, of course, Trump has always been bankrupt.)

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 21/09/2026

Got one of those "updated T&Cs" emails today (September 21st). It apparently comes into force on September 15th, so it seems I've already agreed to it before I knew anything was happening.... Doesn't seem to be anything controversial in it, but what if there was?

Screengrab from an email, which reads: "The updates take effect on September 15th. You don’t need to take any action today."

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 14/09/2026

Here's a quick calculation of the total donations to the five national UK parties from July 2024 til Sep 2026, as registered on the Electoral Commission website. Reform's total donations are about 45% of the entire total, and their average donation size is 9 times that of the next highest (Labour).

Table showing total donations to Reform UK at £110m (Conservatives £56m and Labour £52m). Average donation to Reform is £257k as against Labour £30k and Tories £23k.

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 11/09/2026

It's impressive that OpenAI have managed to settle one of the Millennium Problems by proving that a fluid can form a singularity. But what blew my mind was this sentence

screengrab from the OpenAI report which reads: "We used a system of coordinating agents powered by our internal model. The agents had access to tools such as the ability to read from *a cached version of the internet* and the ability to run code."
(My emphasis.)

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 02/09/2026

Always a good idea to proof-read things and ask yourself: "Is it realistic that anyone is planning to build a data centre 9 times the area of London, in London?" That said, I wouldn't put it past the AI bros, given time...

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Jason Arday's utterly sad death holds a stark mirror up to the dehumanising political-media-societal culture we are in – one we must all be honest about being complicit in – which forgets there is a human being at the centre of a story, a case study, an issue, a scandal. It is dehumanising.

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 13/08/2026

but let's build more fucking data centres and drill baby drill

Screengrab from the Met Office website: "Latest heatwave peaks with 38.1°C recorded [...] making it the 5th hottest day on record in the UK"

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 13/08/2026

Really do wonder why so many of these people are happy to lose their £500 deposits, just to make a point that will inevitably get lost in the Binface/Cuntface battle

A list of all the candidates standing in the 2026 Clacton by-election, led by Nigel Farage and Count Binface

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 12/08/2026

This was about as good as it got where we were

The solar eclipse as seen from a field in England. Partially hidden behind some moody clouds.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Forget terraforming Mars. Just stop venusifying Earth.

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 18/07/2026

I'm in the UK. Is there some kind of committee preparing a set of suitably sombre street parties for when the orange guy joins the choir invisible? Maybe samba bands, flypasts, a free bar, that kind of thing?

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 17/07/2026

I made this one for Linkydink, but here it is without the tediously mandatory "what I learned about b2b sales" stuff. A quick comparison of IMAX vs other formats, for The Odyssey.

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 08/07/2026

People of Clacton: You know what you have to do. At least you know the bins would be collected on time.

Headline from the Independent newspaper: "Nigel Farage latest: Clacton by-election given green light as Reeves refuses to block Reform leader ‘arguing with a bin’

Farage formally steps down but by-election turns to farce as Count Binface emerges as Reform UK leader’s main rival"

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 08/07/2026

Context like this is so important any time there's a large number in public life. The average maths GCSE doesn't really help you visualise 000s

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 07/07/2026

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

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Inequality Media Civic Action @imcivicaction.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Google co-founder Sergey Brin is accidentally making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax better than anyone else could.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 24/06/2026

I was bought a book by a kind stranger. Can confirm this is a genuine thing. I very much enjoyed the book, too

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 24/06/2026

Going to start describing anything made with AI as a "token effort"

Screengrab of a story from 404 Media: "The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI" By Joseph Cox • 24 Jun 2026

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 24/06/2026

I'd go as far as to suggest that our outstanding university sector has been the lodestone of UK soft power since the collapse of empire. Think of all the cultural, financial & political leaders from all around the world who've been through UK universities

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 18/06/2026

So Iran gets to carry on doing the stuff it's doing, and agrees not to start doing stuff it wasn't doing anyway, and in return it gets all sanctions lifted and $300bn towards reconstruction costs?

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 18/06/2026

seems our new alien overlords also subscribe to the new yorker

Email from the New Yorker: "It's going to be a great year. Dear Gaaaaabpftiqdhgnukjlqsrgw0my6xjwptjhi3kpqugz2d0k1gbp63jgnxz6xrrfeymjmj9ouea48dqpnr5kie0mkximgg-vtg==, Thank you for your continued support of The New Yorker..."

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Peter M. Shane @petermshane.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Iran is awarding him the FAFO Peace Prize.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Polls show that only 15% of Americans approve of yesterday’s UFC spectacle on the White House grounds. But in this Palo Alto brothel/ketamine bar, that percentage feels much higher

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 15/06/2026

Hands up if you think this is an obscenity.

The top spot of the Bloomberg Billionaires list as of 15 June 2026, showing Elon Musk at number one with a net worth of $1.11 trillion, up $490 billion this year.

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 09/06/2026

love it when a website unintentionally shortens something the wrong way

a screenshot of a title from a library music site which reads "Happy Birthday - Grab your Cock", the "...tail" having been chopped off by the UI

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 29/05/2026

my stock response to anyone who says "i'm using AI to do [...,], why aren't you using it?" is "because it's shit and I have taste"

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 26/05/2026

I don't really get what it takes to get an agent to actually read your submission. Have had 5 hard "no"s and 9 ghosts so far out of 27 agents submitted to. Either they're not seeing what I'm seeing, or I'm not seeing something that they are

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 26/05/2026

and again, i find myself coming back to the question: why does he care? what is it about the far-right and hobbyhorses?

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Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

Photo of Sonny Rollins playing saxophone in 2009 by John Abbott

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 26/05/2026

i don't really like this heat much. not a big fan

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 23/05/2026

I hear Chris Nolan used actual cyclopses to avoid any cgi

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Robot legs are here and they aren’t going anywhere. [booing begins] Whether you like it or not we are going to cut off all of your legs and arms [booing intensifies] and heads and replace them all with robot legs and only robot legs [shouting over boos] well I can see you aren’t ready for the future

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 23/05/2026

am gonna lie, that hat looks really good on you

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 22/05/2026

Breaking: World's 10 Richest Billionaires Now Worth More Than Poorest 50% of Billionaires

A screengrab of https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/ from 22 May 2026, showing the top 20 billionaires' net worths: only the bottom two are worth less than $100bn

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 21/05/2026

This is a great visualiser. Part of the inertia around extreme wealth, I think, is because it's just not possible to understand numbers with more than a handful of zeroes after them - it's too tempting to think that a billion is "a few million". Compared to £1bn, £1m is a rounding error.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/05/2026

sufficiently large polygons are the domain of lovecraftian horror

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Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 11/05/2026

Slightly increase a band: The Same As Jake

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 11/05/2026

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

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Everlee Has Disappeared

Everlee Wihongi was transferred by ICE to the notorious "Camp East Montana" at Fort Bliss, Texas. Then she disappeared.

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