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Human mathematicians are left to sort out this mess. So it’s like someone dropping a burning bag of shit on your doorstep, telling you there’s a silver dollar inside, and wondering why you’re not happy.

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 1h

I feel like my compromise of: "Classic British mammals that are guilty of Classic British war crimes" was rejected without proper consideration. "And on the ten-pound note, an otter that fired indiscriminately into an unarmed crowd of protestors", etc.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 5h

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It appears that the US government pressured the Canadian and Lithuanian governments (as well as the EEAS) to pull their support and representives from the @disinfo.eu conference in Vilnius. This decision happened at the absolute last minute.

The EU disinfo lab 2026 sponsors. Three names have been tapped over

CU you can see the Canada sign has been tapped over.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 19h

I REALLY like this @anildash.com piece on 'unalive' and algospeak in general, particularly the exploration of the implications for a generation of people growing up steeped in it.

anildash.com

We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 19h

All these guys spent all this effort to get "fuck you" money and can't even bring themselves, even once, to use it to say "fuck you" to Trump. Pathetic.

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Nature @nature.com · 07/10/2026

None of this year's science Nobel Prizes have gone to women. The number of these prizes to go to women remains at 27 out of more than 600. See how many you can name in our quiz: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 20h

Any tech geeks out there available to help Jon? This is like... important webcomics history!

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 21h

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 22h

The Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents just dropped! www.ahmath.org/statements

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You can be an expert on things you are opposed to. Just because you have knowledge of something and can explain it in detail, it does not necessarily follow that you are a proponent of them

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 23h

Amazing news - just pounced on some of the few remaining tickets for the Sunday (Sat is already sold out).

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🇪🇸 ESPAÑA! 🇪🇸 Way back when, SITGES was one of the first places to give our indie British sci-fi film MOON a chance on the International stage & Im delighted to say ROGUE TROOPER will be there NEXT WEEK! We love you, we love SITGES and we are coming BACK! 💪🏼❤️✌🏼 sitgesfilmfestival.com/en/film/2026...

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Rogue Trooper

19, a Genetic Infantry soldier, is accidentally dropped behind enemy lines in the middle of a secret military operation. With the identities of his fallen comrades stored on biochips that he carries i...

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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

⚠️ ATTENTION, any fans or anyone who believe that Jonathan Pie (Tom Walker) is in any way a progressive… He’s a transphobe. Evidence: How he talks about us and over us, not even able to get terminology correct… And agrees with this right-wing podcaster like a nodding dog… youtu.be/CxhNRLP8v8Q?...

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Why They Lied About JK Rowling – Jonathan Pie & Andrew Gold Debate

YouTube video by The Daily Heretic

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

"When fascism comes, the sun still shines. The birds are singing. People go to work. Everything is normal. Only transgender people lose their rights. Asylum seekers. Immigrants. People with disabilities. Muslims. Jews. Left-wing journalists. Then other journalists. And me. And you!" Marina Weisband

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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW AD: Introducing SCANDUEL! The only betting app where you can parlay Ken Paxton’s scandals — and get paid! Here’s a tip: Always bet that he did the thing. 💰

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Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Alt text a very unflattering picture of an aging white man gesturing with his arms as if everything is someone else’s fault At least he’s not punching an assistant because the restaurant is shut in this one

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sequel: We regret to inform you that he was, in fact, not a Fine Man

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is it churlish to point out that Fylingdales doesn't have so much as a fucking runway?

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Jason @greedyrunner.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

This handy flowchart is for any fellow cis people out there who have someone in their lives who come out to them as trans.

Flow chart
Your friend or relative comes out as trans
Question. Does this harm you in any way?
If answered is yes, left to box that says, it doesn’t, then on to next question.
If answer is no, on to next question
Question. Are you happy for them?
If answered yes, on to final box that just says, sweet.
If answer is no, on to box that says, Why not? Get your shit together.

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The right decision, years late and Puigdemont now looks very much like yesterday's man. One wonders if he'll tack hard-right as the only way to keep any personal legitimacy in Catalonia.

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Once upon a time, the toast amongst my circles was: "And Jeffrey Archer is *still* in prison". These days, I think we'd substitute Wossname Tate for "Lord" Archer, but the principle still applies.

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It was she who was sullied by his company, not he by hers. "Prostitute" is not a dirty word. We can debate whether "Tory MP" is.

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 06/10/2026

Minister for Women and Equalities Bridget Phillipson says she wouldn’t let a trans woman into a women’s refuge. Read more 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-the…

Bridget Phillipson
Equalities minister doubles down on Trans+ exclusionary approach for single sex spaces in Labour conference interview
Minister for Women and Equalities Bridget Phillipson, answering a series of 'gotcha' style questions on Trans+ rights with The Telegraph at Labour conference, said she wouldn’t let a trans woman into a women’s refuge. She's previously run a refuge for women and children fleeing domestic violence - Attitude

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ZiR was a stupid fucking motion voted for by a handful of members who could afford to attend Conference. It has immediately been weaponized by bad faith actors, as we knew it would. We need to sort it. The Tories, OTOH, are toxic, and revisionist to their core.

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Convicted perjurer & disgraced peer dies

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queer & pleasant danger BDAY 10/9! @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

software developers: please give us the option to see what we’re typing in password fields (as a whole). many of us have disabilities that make the process challenging & having to keep an eye on the exact letter at the exact moment it shows up for a split second is obnoxious.

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I find myself reminded of JG Ballard's short story "A Guide To Virtual Death" more and more these days.

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pffft, clearly if you haven't used a slot machine in the past month or two you have no business discussing slot machines! Pulling a lever is so last month, now it's so much easier, first you fire up a dozen agents for each of the three slot windows... (1/387)

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Shaun Aitcheson @shaunaitcheson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a staggering all-time high 65% off on Steam! 💀⛏️🩸 It's the perfect time to check out our folk horror adventure set on the moors of Northern England. The answers lie in the soil...

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If it has my name on it, I get final edit. No exceptions. If you don't like what I wrote, then reclassify it as "confidential internal research" and send me my money.

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Hazel Southwell @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

imagine being a billionaire and having the ability to fund anything you want to find out about and go anywhere and wasting it being a psychopath flying a private jet between offices to ruin people's lives instead of idk going and having a look at THIS shit wow www.wildmanlife.com/crossing-al-...

wildmanlife.com

Crossing Al Haruj, Africa’s Largest Volcanic Field • wild man life

Right in the heart of the Libyan Sahara, the flat arid desert surface give way to Al Haruj, Africa’s largest volcanic field. Spanning an area the size of Switzerland, this pitch-black labyrinth of anc...

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put trains in space @gunpowdertim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

loved this one from the summer

A post by the verge reads: Call of Duty removes streamers skin after homophobic comments

User yaoi gagarin replies: the punishment is a bit medieval but I appreciate the enthusiasm

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Post Harry Potter art, I'm blocking you without hesitation. I don't care what the excuse is, don't support monsters.

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Have you actually read the text of the motion?

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

From Reddit: "As of 20 minutes ago there were still loads of books. Although a majority of them would be of shall we say limited interest to most people."

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4 October 1936. Battle of Cable Street took place in Cable Street, Whitechapel, London. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police, protecting a march by the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley and various anti-fascist and Jewish demonstrators.

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.

Princess Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland is attacked by rogue owl during chaotic photoshoot.

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

From FB: "Plurabelle Books in Cambridge [UK] (in the industrial estate off Coldham's Lane) has closed down and left masses of unsold stock in a skip and another smaller bin until Monday as a free-for-all."

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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I see that the "Something Must Be Done, This is Something, Therefore it Must Be Done" wing of the GPEW are out in force today. Just because it is manifestly obvious that the actions of the Israeli government are monstrous & beyond unconscionable doesn't mean there's no nuance in how we react to them

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

24 hour time loops are actually extremely common and one is basically always happening. Everybody is trapped, not just the one person- they're just the only one who keeps their memory. There's a girl in Sheboygan, Wisconsin who's conscious of the current one, which has been going 45 subjective years

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My thoughts on tomorrow's conference motion 'Zionism is Racism’

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every time a historical costumer posts that they’ve modified a technique to allow for not getting fucking heat stroke, people have a cow. Gonna let you in on a little secret that is not at all secret, you just don’t get it: Climate change completely aside, it was colder in the past.

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