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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is really fun by Giles and it makes his point superbly.

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just seen Danny Tommo referred to as "Captain Thugwash" and seriously, that's excellent work.

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Amy Poehler's Perfect Chef's Kiss

ALT: Amy Poehler's Perfect Chef's Kiss

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

These idiots are going to get someone killed. From the sound of it there might be enough to prosecute here. The idea of boats having to turn off AIS, which these days is a vital safety system, and weilding knives around inflatables with people in.... The authorities cannot let this roll on.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

5. After around 30 hours at sea, the dinghy was intercepted by the RNLI and those on board transferred to two lifeboats. Two lifeboat personnel tried to secure the empty dinghy. Thomas yelled abuse and knifed the dinghy to deflate it - with a rescuer still on board.

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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 22/09/2026

ICYMI: my post on the sheer unhealthiness and groupthink of the culture around AI, "a community of would-be-martyrs, enmeshed in a deep paranoid fantasy that they alone can stave off the end of the world."

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The AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring Now

Elites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

..so the problem here is not that Ministers say there are "legitmate concerns" about immigration. It's that Ministers don't come out & say "but some so-called concerns, expressed both by so-called protestors and the media, are frankly just xenophobia and racism, and they should have no place here"

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is exactly it I don't want to live forever but I would *love* to know what happens.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

He'll require a minister for DCMS for this so that's out.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/09/2026

If you're in government watching criminal-led blackshirt thugs in balaclavas wage war on the RNLI and you're hedging your bets because you're not sure who the majority of the country will side with, why do you even want to be in government? Why would you WANT to lead people you think so little of?

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Unexpectedly intervened in a suicide attempt off a bridge in Cork, which was unexpected but everyone is fine and clean forgot to take a picture of the well deserved Guinness #4. Was very handy to be hanging out with a team of therapists who were great but could have used a security professional

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sailing from Cork to Dublin this week lads, an occasional series. So we're here... Bit grey.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Cos of my event work I spend a lot of time holding up decibel meters to things and some of the "how can the resident possibly be expected to live through this" videos and the readings they are getting are equivalent to living next to a normal road.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I think it's worse actually because in 2003 you had to go out of your way to say not all Muslims, Islam compatible with life in a democracy, just these extremists etc. and now they don't bother.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Large portions of the data center backlash are based on moral panic, but the the tech right VC types upset by it are very funny considering how gleeful they were about the demise of ‘legacy’ media. What’s that? You’re missing epistemic gatekeepers who would place complex facts in context? Tough shit

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Anyway, Brian Eno said it best:

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature.
CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It's the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Certain words spring a trap in his mind: Asylum seekers = lunatics Transistor factories = trans people Intervention = military

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Yes for a bit, then she would be unsound on something obscure and everyone would get oddly mad.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I think (hope) this type of thing has failed to understand the electoral backlash the type of politics this type of guy represents is about to receive. I really hope the Americans find a *vengeful* candidate next time round to properly shut the door to these guys.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Pete Hegseth could become the presidential candidate of the right-wing media’s id, running a furious culture war campaign fixated on domestic political enemies that checks all the boxes for authoritarian-minded pundits indifferent to traditional policy issues. www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth...

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Take a Pete Hegseth presidential bid seriously

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I love it when I research and buy a thing within 5 minutes, then get constantly moidered about the thing for weeks afterwards, as I am now someone who might buy a thing. Lads it's a toaster, I only need one, I brought one from your website.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 16/08/2026

it's odd to me that the resistance to all this seems to be a one-man operation, and that one man is Sunder, but I thank him for his service. I just don't get how all this is allowed to fester, it's not like we can't guess the consequences

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is very good by Dmitry on systematic bad faith argument.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 14/08/2026

If, God forbid, he gets to power, these guys are going to be as puzzled when it all collapsed as they were with Brexit and Truss, and then still not have a single moment of introspection.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you were to be born at random today in a random country your odds of living a good life in a free and rich country are significantly significantly better if it's a monarchy. Worst case it's a rich gulf state, very very worst N Korea. I would rethink some of your assumptions.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is obviously correct. Anyone who thinks at this point they are rejecting all AI hasn't noticed when they have used it successfully.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I don't disagree with this but so much American commentary completely misses that the damage to alliances/soft power is not something a democrat administration can restore without profound changes at a system level. I think this will be it's biggest impact mid term personally.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

and when Dora saw the breadth of her domain she wept, for there were no more worlds to explorer

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

STOP. HOLDING. YOUR. LAVALIER. MIC. BETWEEN. YOUR. FUCKING. FINGERTIPS. LIKE. A. DAINTY. LITTLE. TEACUP.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I feel like the way of dealing with such behaviour is to look these people right in the eye and say, very gently, "You think your right to park matters more than homes these children?" Then when they reply just repeat it with slightly different emphasis.

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Hundreds slam proposals to turn car park into children's home in Bromley

Plans to build a children’s home on a car park in Bromley have been slammed by nearby residents who call the current parking situation “a…

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

it is a good primer but I think the Casey view (which is unchallenged here) that we need a lengthy public debate/consensus before major reform is the wrong way round. We've had loads of reports, analysis, etc. We need PM/govt to decide & get on with it..

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It's because they are winning now and will win.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

You will literally never be this powerful again, why are you putting a bunch of figures from the past in and having a slew of “attends Cabinet” types from the next generation? “Attends Cabinet” is a choice you make when you’re weak!

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Daniel Lafleur Baron de Cadillac @lafleurmtl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This was published today in 1969 While Apollo 11 was on it s way to the moon Greatest correction ever

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Banjon @beardybanjo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Yes. The right often claims that immigration leads to low trust societies, but I think there is a stronger case that low trust societies lead to immigration scepticism

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 16/07/2026

Canvassers out in force in Clacton.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

When I worked in a rickety old hotel on my ski season circa 2010 we decided to tackle this blocked drain in the kitchen with a cocktail of products. It melted the pipe and dropped through two floors into the cellar like that scene in alien!

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This is a fun set of replies immediately. Skills are hard.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Aside from the hypocrisy of saying this whilst having recently served a government committed to that goal, why would you publish this take unasked for *in this weather*

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Like this is the exact way to reclaim the symbol from the racists.

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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Consider myself a man of tools and I have been humbled by this excellent thread.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Brief stay of execution for Camden area alpacas.

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 06/07/2026

Every lifelong football fan I've ever met is like "I think players are supposed to serve their suspension" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states handballs are mandatory."

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Four-year-old just told his toddler sister “it’s time for the hunt” and they both left the room. Not my business

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

liquid Starmerism: going out on a big announcement about tough choices the party has to make, but the amount of money announced is somehow both more than he’s actually funded and less than it needs to be. he’s competitively useless

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