Reposted by Paul ClammerJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026What on earth is happening? 23833121339
Reposted by Paul ClammerThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is the most masculine video on the internet right now 336185495073
Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026There should be an internet law that whenever a writer sees this Harlan Ellison on their feed, they have to repost it, like the Tom Holland Umbrella clip. 111
Reposted by Paul ClammerMichael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 15/08/2026If James Percival is arguing that Haiti is a safe place to send people back to and that they no longer require Temporary Protected Status in the United States, I am happy to take him around Port-au-Prince and environs at a time of his choosing so he can see that “safety” for himself. 092
Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026All hail eyewitnesses Corinna and Andrea, whose reaction to a collapsing bridge was to have an extending drinking session at the local Spoons. 083
Reposted by Paul Clammerelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/08/2026You deal with global warming. Lebanon deals with global warming while having Israel as its neighbour. 4310196
Reposted by Paul ClammerPaul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026As a sidebar, this just one of hundreds of AI slop travel guidebooks that currently plague Amazon, helping crowd out actual human travel writers. It's happened to me, with my own worked stolen and vomited back up to sold by a fake author with a fake cover on the tax-dodging 'book' site. 172
Reposted by Paul ClammerSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/08/2026KEEP BULLYING THEM IT WORKSwired.comThe AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an ImpactPlatforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content. 2663342783
Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026As a sidebar, this just one of hundreds of AI slop travel guidebooks that currently plague Amazon, helping crowd out actual human travel writers. It's happened to me, with my own worked stolen and vomited back up to sold by a fake author with a fake cover on the tax-dodging 'book' site. 172
Reposted by Paul ClammerRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 09/08/2026“There are dark days ahead. If we are to fight against those with untold financial wealth, we will need untold intellectual wealth….Reading for pleasure and delight are vital – but alongside that and even more urgently: reading for power” 16636
Reposted by Paul ClammerEmma Dabbadoo 🌸🏳️⚧️💚 @emmadabbadoo.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026New website called Bristol.is so the community can add inclusive and exclusive shops and services, many places are adding themselves. Look at this map already ❤️🏳️⚧️❤️ and it’s only just got going. I fucking love Bristol 54915
Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026My one addition to the Odyssey discourse is that it would have been 100% better if it had less angst and more Harryhausen. 010
Reposted by Paul ClammerIndependent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Want to join IHN? You can now sign up as a member for just £10 a year! You'll get our newsletter, access to free online events with experts, invites to our meet-ups and access to online resources. The more of us, the better! Do join up! membermojo.co.uk/independenth... 12320
Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Print runs have gone up, but alas, pay rates for freelance writers have barely changed since the time that Austen was writing. 010
Reposted by Paul ClammerHaiti Support Group @haitisupportgroup.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The US-led Gang Suppression Forces will continue sending troups to Haiti. The UK is funding a human rights compliance mechanism to oversee this operation. However, the structural issues around humanitarian crime remain unaddressed: haitisupportgroup.org/yet-another-...haitisupportgroup.orgHSG Statement: UK funding to the Gang Suppression ForcesUK Funding for Human Rights Compliance to the Gang Suppresion Forces won’t fix 500 Years of impunity in Haiti. 011
Reposted by Paul ClammerRuth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 19/07/2026A mosaic of ‘Marley the Ilford Mammoth’ made from plastic bottle tops by artist Caitlin Atherton commemorates a mammoth skull excavated in 1863 from Uphall brick pits, Ilford. It’s a steppe mammoth, which lived c 200,000 ka 🦣 londongeopartnership.org.uk/wp/wp-conten... #londongeology 26515
Reposted by Paul ClammerWyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The internet’s blessed me by reminding me of Stéphan Gladieu’s insanely hard photos of costumes made by Young Congolese artists from all the shit we dump there I don’t want to ever see another leather jacket wearing billy idol clone in a cyberpunk setting again www.stephangladieu.fr/homo-detritus/ 315150
Reposted by Paul ClammerPJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 13/07/2026Live a life where people talk about you after you die like they do Sam Neil. 1893203
Reposted by Paul ClammerScare-argh Boo-arnard 👻 @sarahbpolar.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Watching Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World (1956) documentary and it starts off great and then.. 1. We have to dynamite these coral reefs for science! :D 2. We hit a whale with our boat :( 3. Sharks attracted to the dying whale >:( 4. We killed the sharks "to avenge the whale" :D Incredible 191
Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026One of the (many) awful things the tech bros have done is to poison the well with their catch-all public definition of 'AI'. Machine-learning is incredibly clever and wonderful; generative LLMs should be burned to the ground and their ashes covered with salt. 040
Reposted by Paul ClammerLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup: 2338681528
Reposted by Paul ClammerArtologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 25/06/2026Werner Herzog didn't drag a 30-ton steamship up a hill so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable" 91459305
Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Anyone who knows about the history of Caribbean slavery, particularly Haiti:static.klipy.comTom Hardy in Mad Max: That's BaitAlt: Tom Hardy in Mad Max: That's Bait 2424
Reposted by Paul ClammerPaul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Celebrating this day six years ago (June 7 2020) when the good people of Bristol tore down the statue of enslaver Edward Colston during a Black Lives Matter protest, and threw him in the river. What a splash this brave act made. 0185
Reposted by Paul ClammerGabrielle Steele ⚔️ Echoes of Chaos out now! @eldris.thellian.com · 07/06/2026UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️petition.parliament.ukPetition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training dataWe ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e... 151017971
Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Celebrating this day six years ago (June 7 2020) when the good people of Bristol tore down the statue of enslaver Edward Colston during a Black Lives Matter protest, and threw him in the river. What a splash this brave act made. 0185
Reposted by Paul ClammerOn This Day - Scala Cinema @otdscalacinema.bsky.social · 07/06/2026On this day (7th June) in 1993, the Scala Cinema closed permanently. A wake was held including a screening of King Kong (1933), the first film shown at the Kings Cross location back in 1981. 0224
Reposted by Paul ClammerPeter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social · 02/06/2026"Why three horses on this wall?" A wonderful piece on prehistoric cave art. By Stephen Phelan, who was taken into the depths of a cave in the Basque Country. He's such a good writer. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...theguardian.com‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintingsThe long read: For tens of thousands of years, these Palaeolithic artworks were unseen. When they were rediscovered, onlookers marvelled at their vivid beauty. One of the world’s leading experts took ... 0187
Reposted by Paul ClammerAlex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026The blood on this man’s hands. Determined to prevent a deal with Iran. Determined to eliminate Palestinians. Determined to kill Palestinian statehood. Determined to drag the wider region into a spiraling circle of death. The war criminal of our era. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...theguardian.comNetanyahu orders Israeli bombing of southern BeirutThousands leave homes after Israeli military instructed to strike ‘terrorist targets’ in largest escalation of war since ceasefire 19413189
Reposted by Paul ClammerPaul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Hot dang – this is good! 001
Reposted by Paul ClammerPaul B. Rainey @pbrainey.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The true story of how I discovered comics. 12211
Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 24/05/2026I can't remember who was recommending this here (@davidveevers.bsky.social?), but I've just finished it and it's bloody brilliant. More book tips like this please, Bluesky. 1114
Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 22/05/2026As a former Lonely Planet writer, this makes me very sad to read. (LP guides do still exist btw, albeit in a form much changed from the backpacking olden times) 291
Reposted by Paul ClammerMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026What the government is doing to trans people is a society-wide version of Section 28. It is a level of bureaucratic cruelty that utterly decimates a whole group of people’s rights and puts anyone who doesn’t ‘look’ right in the eyes of others under constant surveillance. It’s a horrific thing. 11652265
Reposted by Paul ClammerMartin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Pandering to transphobes. Pandering to racists. Pandering to ableists. What is the point of Labour? 35213
Reposted by Paul ClammerDr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Make a mental note that separate but equal never works. 513018
Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026A strange awful feeling, sitting at a departure gate at Heathrow getting ready for an exciting trip, yet shakin with impotent rage at Israel's murderous bombing of Lebanon, seeing places I know in Beirut turned to rubble and columns of smoke. Absolute bastards. 172
Reposted by Paul Clammerelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Israel called today's operations in Lebanon ETERNAL DARKNESS and we are still being told that this fascist nation can be reasoned with. This is just a fact: either Israel is stopped or expect the war to continue and expand. Those are the options. 3666228
Reposted by Paul Clammerelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/03/2026The difference between these two is racism 771692250
Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Happy @alcs.co.uk day to all every writer who only just realised they have to sign into their accounts to see their statement, and spent yesterday feeling sad they didn't get an email, but have just discovered they DID get some free money after all! 🎉🎊🥂 360
Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026I used to walk past this when we lived in Beirut. It's in a heavily residential area, with the British Council & Goethe Institute nearby - even the shop where we bought our sofa. Just the same banal everyday stuff as any city. The Israeli government and IDF are fucking sociopaths. 185
Reposted by Paul Clammerelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 12/03/2026My latest for @972mag.com on how Israel’s war is against Lebanon. Not Hezbollah. Lebanon. www.972mag.com/israels-rene... Quoted @justinsalhani.bsky.social972mag.comIsrael’s renewed war on Lebanon is about more than just HezbollahAfter violating the ‘ceasefire’ 10,000 times, Israel is once again pounding Lebanon as its enduring thirst for war drives ever expanding ambitions. 315597
Reposted by Paul ClammerDr. Jorts, MD @alexandrajordanmd.bsky.social · 10/03/2026A beautiful thread that serves to remind that we we can claim the fellowship of the people of both the past and the present. 1355
Reposted by Paul ClammerEd Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies. 🧵 1/3 4395214