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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19/11/2025

I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics. COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs? ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons. conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...

COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?

ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.

COWEN: What’s stopping that? What’s the ultimate binding constraint?

ALTMAN: We’re working on it really hard.

COWEN: If you could have more of one thing to have more compute, what would the one thing be?

ALTMAN: Electrons.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/09/2026

(me, an absolute fool, skimming some weird blogger's embarrassingly tedious harry potter fan fiction in 2010): I can safely say no one who reads this will ever become important

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paultreadaway.bsky.social @paultreadaway.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🎶 Glaciers melting at the dead of night 🎶

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

You've been hearing the story about how Dolly Parton turned down Elvis when his people demanded a chunk of her royalty rights in exchange for recording "I Will Always Love You". That reminded me of something I've wondered about for a long time. The guy who actually put the ask on Dolly was a ...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Jolene actually result of misunderstanding: husband is thinking about Roman empire and muttered 'Julian' in his sleep one time.

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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The Great Impotence Myth? Scientists seek to determine whether erectile dysfunction is real or a social construct, and speculate that the older generation may be turning to pills simply because they're too lazy to google big jiggly butts any more. Channel 4 asks: how hard can it be?

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gav @gavinmit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

looks like simon the seagull needs to return

SIMON THE SEAGULL SAYS

"BE KIND ONLINE"

DON'T CYBERBULLY

DON'T USE RUDE WORDS

DONT SAY THE PRESS HAVE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS WHEN HOUNDING A MAN TO DEATH WAS NECESSARY FOR WAGING A RACIST CULTURE WAR

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/08/2026

It's me, a Telegraph columnist, taking a break screaming bloody murder about fairness in the women's sports I wouldn't be caught dead watching to wax lyrical about academic integrity in sociology, a field I consider to be fake, at institutions I consider to be communist indoctrination centers.

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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This horrific tale cannot be reposted too often.

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paultreadaway.bsky.social @paultreadaway.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Post a perfect album for the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/07/2026

there is no good faith anti-trans sports lobby and never has been it’s been a cynical wedge issue from day one for a group of people looking to replace gay marriage as a cultural weapon none of them have ever cared about women, women’s sports, or even sports

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paultreadaway.bsky.social @paultreadaway.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Bus conductor, before he died of his WW1 wounds

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“boy george admits he used AI to create his new pro-israel song” is now a sentence we can say

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ClaireHam @claireham.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Dear Labour, today you make history by introducing Jim Crow style segregation in the UK at the behest of those who espouse hatred and bigotry. History will remember you for your human rights abuses. You had a choice, you chose to attack the vulnerable. You disgust me. Love A trans woman x

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

One of the very few positives of the Empire was that a lot of people who looked like this died of malaria, or while cavalry-charging a volcano.

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Immanuel Cunt @sheogorath.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

A lot of people don't realise this but in the UK we have to replace our Prime Minister every two or three years or else the rights revert back to Marvel

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I’ve been listening to papers’ and magazines’ politics podcasts for years and I can confirm that the issue here is not “the public can’t explain to journalists why they don’t like Keir Starmer”. The hacks clearly don’t like the reasons they’re hearing, but there is no public reluctance to explain.

Hey, maybe if every single national leader ends up immensely loathed for reasons that people can't really consistently articulate, almost irrespective of their actual policies or ideology, it points to a larger mystery about politics that we should solve
• Charles @gimpyhand.bsky.social • 31m
It feels very similar to Biden or for that matter, Theresa May. Relatively competent
governments, but in a time of polarization, hated by everyone for different reasons, and then ultimately booted for a less viable successor.
Burnham isn't terrible but he won't save labour.

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

As a writer I can only aspire to create a single sentence this dense with implied horror

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

the write ups of the pm's fall never mention his biggest reforms—those that made the uk far, far worse for minorities my latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/starmer-out/

liberalcurrents.com

Starmer Out

Starmer did not "do nothing": he made the country radically more regressive. No wonder he fell.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

It's 2040. Net emigration is 2 million a year. The elderly are dying in the beds without care. The NHS is on the verge of collapse. Matthew Syed and Camilla Long write weekly columns about how the left won't talk about immigration.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Labour won by 20 points and net immigration is down by over 80% in two years. But sure write your column again.

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paultreadaway.bsky.social @paultreadaway.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Most amusing thing would be Burnham winning the by-election and then losing the leadership election, amirite?

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The target Labour voter, as @duncanrobinson.bsky.social has pointed out, is someone who was born in the 1950s, worked in a manual occupation, married young, bought their council house in the 80s and died during the COVID pandemic

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Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

New aftershave in Lidl: gives you the precise aroma of a widowed policeman investigating the murder of his daughter, drawn into a wide-ranging political conspiracy involving nuclear weapons.

Two boxes of aftershave called ‘Edge Of Darkness’

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 03/06/2026

they've discovered another brontë - the first new brontë since the discovery of branwell in 1936. but this is particularly exciting since literary critics were pretty sure that additional brontës were impossible - all the rooms had been mapped in haworth parsonage, there was simply no space

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 03/06/2026

eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year

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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

If Charles Goodhart's 'global labour supply theory of everything' is right (and it's been borne out by events in the 2020s) then tight immigration policy will be very costly. www.ft.com/content/1701...

ft.com

Charles Goodhart: ‘Demography is going to make life worse and worse and worse’

The leading economist warns that fiscal pressures will constrain independent monetary policy

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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Sick of the relentless adult content I see on Bluesky: back pain, interest rates, tax brackets, that noise you make when you stand-up sometimes.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This is nicely put. The machine that subordinates all life to its own algorithm of self-expansion is already operating: It’s called capital. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This is good and my only quibble, again, is that the problem here is not a failure of understanding: they know that they’re probably not going to succeed by trying to impress the most hardcore racist reactionaries *and* they would rather try and get crushed by our new far right masters, than go away

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Critics of Starmer’s appeasement were right—we should say so!

Reactionary centrists didn't listen, won't learn, & can't lead

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Sorry to hear about Jeff Bezos's rocket exploding prematurely. A good technique to prevent that from happening is to try thinking about something you find totally unarousing or even repulsive, like giving workers a living wage or paying a fair share of taxes.

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mimi 🩵💛 @knightlyaffair.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

this fucking sucks ( from the creator of the cupcake character, lorynbrantz instagram - www.instagram.com/p/DY2v_qXIoQt )

Lorynbrantz on instagram shares a post about their cupcake character being stolen for these new amazon ai shows. Reads as follows

I am horrified and disgusted by BuzzFeed taking my character, The Good Advice Cupcake, and giving it to an Al platform. My time at BuzzFeed was marked by continually being taken advantage of and lied to. They repeatedly assured me in good faith that they would never do anything with Cuppy without my input, yet offered me no legal options, insisting that I would never need them. The news that this character, who is based on my own personality and whom I created as a microphone to spread love and positivity, has been taken and turned into a soulless Al puppet feels like having my intestines pulled out of my body.

Somebody leaked the news to me early on that there were talks happening, and I pleaded with the CEO Jonah Peretti directly not to do it. Instead, he tried to talk me into signing an NDA. Obviously, I did not.

This is an assault on artists everywhere.

I encourage you to boycott BuzzFeed and any Al-produced or adjacent animation.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I used to stay up half the night playing mid-90s video games, reading books or watching TV. Watching TV at a time when there were only two or three channels broadcasting.

Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky •42m
Very interesting to hear Alan Milburn on social media ban - 'the evidence points in one direction'
And he says of Keir Starmer - "I know this is an issue he is really bothered about. The question is not are you bothered, are you going to do something about it?'
Milburn says he's talked to young people who go to sleep at "2, 4, 5am - sometimes never" because they're scrolling on their phones
"The distress is real amongst young people, and it is leading to functional impairment.
This is a real thing. It's not a fake thing.
They're not making it up. This is a more anxious generation."

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

You can always tell when The Stranglers have been in to return their books.

A stack of books with their spines showing. Gordon Brown, Texture, Lakes, Sun

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Why does anyone give a flying fuck what Tony "yes we'd love to commit war crimes with you Mr Bush" Blair thinks

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Svante Thunberg @svantethunberg.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

"Researchers found undisturbed primary forests store 83% more carbon per acre than the managed forests that are replacing them." This study is "shocking" - as in "we've been lied to by the forest industry" and... it's not in our climate models. sustainability.stanford.edu/news/shockin...

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A ‘shocking’ carbon discovery in Sweden’s forests

A new study finds old-growth forests in Sweden store far more carbon than the industrial tree plantations that are rapidly replacing them, with soil accounting for most of the difference. Protecting u...

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I wonder how those targeted by ICE, including violently, using Palantir technology feel about the company's alignment with "public safety". And honestly, the British business secretary should devote far less time to delivering Palantir's sales pitch. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Palantir hits back at Sadiq Khan after £50m contract with Met police blocked

London mayor accused of ‘putting politics above public safety’ for rejecting deal to use AI in intelligence analysis

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I don’t watch Dragon Ball but I feel like this is something

Dragon Ball background with text saying

WOMAN WITH VAGINA IN WORLD'S TOP 1%? IS SPENDING $2 MILLION A YEAR IN EXTREME HUMAN EXPERIMENT!

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

We’ve been doggedly reporting on Palantir’s contracts with UK state…& this latest one with Met police is both creepy & opaque. Met has used Palantir to spy on its own officers. If it can do this to its own employees…what about the rest of us? By @mc00.bsky.social & @luciaoc.bsky.social

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Writing has been independently invented maybe four times in human history. Radiocarbon dating has found evidence that the original inhabitants of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) invented writing independently. buff.ly/PS5nm5j #ShareGoodNewsToo

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A New Discovery at Easter Island Could Rewrite History As We Know It

Radiocarbon dating of ancient scripts suggests a groundbreaking origin story.

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Rhi @rhilovestv.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

if only Mary Shelley had warned us in 1818 about the dangers of literature instead of the reckless, hubristic pursuit of scientific and technological advancement carried out by ghoulish men with no regard for humanity—men who would desecrate the dead and kill the living to feed their power hunger.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 09/05/2026

Coming back home, pondering how they'll fill their evenings now they've lost their seat.

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mel, binface’s knight 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

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