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Paul Pod

@paulpod.bsky.social
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Designer. Ex GOV, NHS, startups. Lives in Wales, London @paulpod on most things 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 website: Neuromantics.net 📨 signal: paulpod.404

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Oh look. More things that makes sense happening in these United States.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham is coming for your pension! By... er... increasing it by slightly less. Whereas Reform will scrap it completely.
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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not online that much just recently (finally moved to Hastings) but ... news ... i mean, is everyone losing brain mass or something?
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
£900,000,000 Nine, hundred, million, new, English, pounds - strip the titles - put a massive asterisk next to the Pep years - expel them from the league - forced sale of club due to owners failing 'fit and proper' test - turn Etihad into dog racing track
theguardian.com
Manchester City found guilty on all Premier League charges over rule breaches
Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period
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EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The companies crying for a slow down are the same ones that have been jamming their half-baked tech into critical systems (including schools, hospitals & our military) Apparently the only risk they care about is the literal extinction of our species — everything else is acceptable collateral damage.
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I swear there was a fairly good tv show once called "The West Wing" about a non-lunatic US president set in The West Wing
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Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is what we are up against. It’s why I’ve always said the under 16 social media ban doesn’t go far enough. We shouldn’t be banning it for children, we should be properly regulating it for everyone. This is scary. How do we fight this?
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A digital illustration of a version of the big board from Wheel of Fortune. An array of green rectangles (each bearing an icon of a hand with crossed fingers inside a circle with rays), and white rectangles that indicate the letters in the secret phrase contestants are trying to guess. The board is not yet solved and reads like this:

M_YB_ I_
_ILL H_PP_N
__D_Y

Standing next to the board in a shiny pink and maroon evening gown and ready to turn around newly-guessed letters is a woman whose head is a human hand with crossed fingers. 

Below the board in the space where viewers at home are informed what type of  phrase is in play it simply reads ‘PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE’
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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Working on the design of a thing where some of the UX risks are making my hair curl. Yikes.
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Rayme @rayme.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jackson, hold all my calls.
BBC News
Why the Dutch have a new word for labia
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So stitching together Tony Blair's interventions of recent months the argument seems to be: become a vassal to US bigtech/Government, then "from a position of strength" rejoin the EU that won't have any issue there. I see flaws.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is what happens when you don’t nip things in the bud. Rampant paramilitarism.
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Tim Schofield 🌹 @timschofield.org.uk · 24/09/2026
Nigel Farage says an attack on Russia pushing disinformation in the UK is an attack on Reform UK When they tell you who they are, believe them.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I mean, don't forget the Nazi font in all this
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cool cool www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
An OpenAI agent infiltrated Medicare – and Australia only found out months later. Here’s what we know so far
Experts say ‘fairly minor’ breach is a portent of things to come and proprietary closed systems like OpenAI are ‘the least of the worries’
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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is true, and many people find it confusing. Names are words, do what you need to do with this information. "True names" was such an internet nonsense, glad I did not play along with that rubbish.
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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
[ scary voice ] EQUINOX
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
something has gone very, very wrong with the UK
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
staff at the boiling people alive factory complain of mental toll of boiling people alive
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876-1923) Linden Avenue on Lijdijkweg and Oostkapelle near Domburg, 1909. Dutch painter who specialized in semi abstract landscapes #WomensArt
Painting with a view looking up a rural road with tall trees on each side, all in shades of blue and purple
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
*this is a sub-epistle*
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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I tell you what you've got to do right. You've got to force people out of their cars onto public transport, and you do that by doubling the price of petr-
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Phew, at least i'm not moving to the orange bit next week
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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 19/09/2026
I feel like this should be bigger news in the UK than two horrid aristos carrying on a decades-old grudge.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fred profits off gambling addiction he is a scumbag
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lord give me the arrogance of a tax exile who feels the right to comment on the tax policies and general running of a country who you have deprived of billions by registering yourself in Monaco
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fix your roof and pay your fucking taxes catweasel www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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The Azure Guardian 🔵🛡️ @theazureguard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Firefox literally just doing this right now by announcing this shit...
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28 Feb - @TheZeldaZone@mastodon...

"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"

16:18 - Feb 28, 2025

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Nothing worse than people who you think are good ones turning out to be bad ones ... and then they join Palantir to seal the deal
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
'The Labour peer and former deputy leader will operate alongside Palantir’s UK and Europe chief executive, Louis Mosley, as the company attempts to fend off pressure on Burnham’s government to axe its £330m NHS contract.'
theguardian.com
Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.
A neon light art piece of Samuel Beckett's famous quote "I can't go on. I'll go on" but spaced - it would seem inadvertently- so that it reads "I can't goon. I'll goon".
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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Definitely both
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Mike Shaw @zax2000.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If this administration is so eager to replace its own workers (who are supposed to be doing work for the American people) with AI, how can we trust them to propose or enforce any kind of regulations on big tech that are meant to protect workers? Spoiler: We can't.
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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yeah i wasn't nicking your bank details i was just a bit misaligned while near a photocopier
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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yeah i wasn't going through your bins i was just a bit misaligned
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Wolfgang Bremer @wolfgang.bremer.co · 16/09/2026
New Siri app on iPhone 13… 😭
This app isn't available. Update to the latest version of iOS, then delete this app and download it again from the App Store.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
you, behind the times: still getting your ducks in a row me, business thought leader: getting my ducks into an n-dimensional matrix for maximum performance throughput
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 16/09/2026
This is as egregious as it's hilarious. Can we *please* get DMA horizontal interoperability for social media @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu, the European social internet is more than ready, we just need an open market to compete in.
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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Noticing that use of the term "vibe coding" is turning derogatory ... well, that was quick.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Okay, for people of a certain age, this is funny.
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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This would be like me explaining the rules of snooker to my cat
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Marios Richards @mariosrichards.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
UK parliament is sovereign, it is not actually the case that people can simply break the law by "getting in X days early" - there's no impediment to "individual donations above £X are illegal and that includes the ones that happened two weeks ago". No impediment, that is, except lack of will.
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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Wild how walking around thinking about the thing you are working on usually helps sort it out while sitting staring at it does not
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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I keep seeing people's little vibe coded side projects. They sound so proud as a pointless thing does it's pointlessness. We definitely need to get back to starting with user needs.
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