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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Best stars I ever saw in my life were in southern Africa... Three photos: from Rocklands (South Africa), Mozambique, and Sossusvlei (Namibia). All just on an iPhone 13 Pro.

A sky full of stars behind a lit-up boulder in the foreground. I am no poet, so I will not attempt to describe the stars' beauty, but there's a lot of them.

A sky full of stars, with the milky way prominent as a bright streak with dark patches. Trees are silhouetted on the horizon and a blurred figure is seen in the foreground.

Just stars, nothing else. The milky way is again prominent, with bright clusters of stars.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You know the guy makes these videos by asking it to follow a script, right? If you actually try it, it gets it right. They’ve come a long way since 2023.

How many e's in the word "seventeen"

Four. The word is s-e-v-e-n-t-e-e-n, so the e's fall at positions 2, 4, 7, and 8.

How many o's in the word "bookworm"

Three. Spelled b-o-o-k-w-o-r-m, the o's are at positions 2,3, and 6.

How many g's in the word "extraordinary"

Zero. Spelled e-x-t-r-a-o-r-d-i-n-a-r-y, the word has no g's.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

France, Belgium, America and the UK:

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Democrats aren't Labour, and if you're going to claim that, then you're going to have to explain why these two maps are in almost one-to-one correspondence. You can give Democrats the power to stop attacks on trans people. Or you can throw trans people under the bus. Your choice.

A map of state legislative control as of this moment.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My Irish-passport girlfriend living in France, watching as I navigate a Kafkaesque nightmare of bureaucracy, literal scams, confusing forms, documentation requirements, and surrendering my passport for a month, just to get a work visa and join her:

$Invincible meme: two fighter jets fly by in the background as Omni-Man says "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power"$

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Her opinion is that it’s better if a Republican like Ken Paxton wins. That’s a pretty shitty opinion, both for trans people (in Texas and beyond) but also immigrants, women, other LGBT people, the people who had USAID withdrawn and are dying from it, etc. She should own it (and so should you).

What you do with this information is up to you. Many, myself included, have argued against voting for the worst offenders on this list even where it means a Republican takes the seat. A Republican victory costs the community one seat for one term…

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What’s wrong babe? You’ve barely touched your giant Kemi Badenoch BuzzBall

Blue Beyond
@Blue_Beyond

Enter the Blue Beyond raffle to win a 1.75L Biggie Ball signed by Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP

£2 a ticket | 3 for £5 | 10 for £10 | 20 for £15

18+ | Must collect at CPC26 on Tuesday

Grab yours

Win Kemi Badenoch Signed BuzzBall!

(There is a link to buy tickets below. The thumbnail shows a giant ball that looks like some kind of weird potion)

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The government shouldn’t be involved in people’s sex lives, even if those people are bad people

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm enjoying this little tooltip to tell me just how many sick burns I can expect in this thread

A screenshot of the new thread tooltip (showing this is post 1/77)

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Are you just blocking every single person who points out that you’re running cover for scam artists and money launderers?

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@capthenpc.bsky.social • 3h
Joined Jun '23

The way your staff continues to dogpile and suspend Palestinian accounts simply asking for humanitarian aid should go against this policy then.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

TIL: one singular bus is considered Mass Transit™, but an underground metro is not.

An image of text with "Typically, Mass Transit would use one or more modern high-capacity bus, tram or tram-train type vehicle" highlighted.

Full text:
How does Mass Transit fit into our wider plans for transport in West Yorkshire?

Mass Transit will offer another way to travel in West Yorkshire that will improve choice and reliability for residents.

It will connect seamlessly with other modes—buses, rail, walking, and cycling—through the Weaver Network, creating one unified network. Typically, Mass Transit would use one or more modern high-capacity bus, tram or tram-train type vehicle.

In strengthening travel choice for residents, it can play a key role in supporting the region's economic ambitions making it easier for people to travel for work, learning and leisure. It can increase opportunities to bring forward new housing and regeneration projects, and make it easier for businesses, workers, suppliers and customers to connect.

The meme of the guy pointing at the butterfly. He's labelled "West Yorkshire" and he's pointing at a bus, asking "Is this mass transit?"

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

this is a commentary on how workers lives are subsumed by the corporation

An AI generated image within the above infographic which has merged a truck, a warehouse, and a guy standing in front of both. It’s really bad.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

If you are genuinely struggling with the geography they’re right here:

A map of England with major cities including Oxford and Cambridge, for complete ghouls who think that this is some kind of gotcha

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Still cannot believe he didn’t get a red card for this. The video is even more blatant: youtu.be/JSin3tvcla8

Italian player grabs English player Bukayo Saka by the collar and pulls him to the ground as he’s about to get the ball during the 2021 Men’s Euros

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Bluesky, how dare you, this was a 14/10 photo

A zoom into the top right of the first photo reveals Bluesky has added a “1/10” icon to the UI.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

No, it isn’t a defence and people should’ve gone to jail for failing to consult the no-strike list after misidentifying the hospital building, but it doesn’t make Obama a war criminal, which is what you’re arguing.

From https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule156

(iii) Mental element. International case-law has indicated that war crimes are violations that are committed wilfully, ie., either intentionally (dolus directus) or recklessly (dolus
eventualis). The exact mental element varies depending on the crime concerned.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I too can share Wikipedia screenshots. ELIZA very much did not pass the Turing test, people were able to identify the human being at rates well above chance. And I never claimed it tested sapience lol, stop putting words into my mouth. Just that LLMs showed a remarkable advance.

Wikipedia. Two passages are highlighted:
• Baseline models (ELIZA and GPT-40) achieved win rates significantly below chance (23% and 21%, respectively).
• GPT-4.5 was identified as the human 73% of the time-significantly more often than the actual human participants

Full text:
In late March 2025, a study evaluated four systems (ELIZA, GPT-40, LLaMa-3.1-405B, and GPT-4.5) in two randomized, controlled, and pre-registered Turing tests with independent participant groups. Participants engaged in simultaneous 5-minute conversations with another human participant and one of these systems, then judged which conversational partner they believed to be human. When instructed to adopt a humanlike persona, GPT-4.5 was identified as the human 73% of the time-significantly more often than the actual human participants. LLaMa-3.1, under the same conditions, was judged to be human 56% of the time, not significantly more or less often than the humans they were compared to. Baseline models (ELIZA and GPT-40) achieved win rates significantly below chance (23% and 21%, respectively).

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

My dad’s life was saved by the NHS and several litres of donated blood, so I decided to pay it forward today. It would be lovely if I could inspire a few people to do the same! ❤️ Also, my partner told me she was oddly proud of how quick it was for her:

A screenshot of an (edited) tweet:

Nurse: it only took 6 minutes for your blood donation, most people need 15 minutes

Me (to myself): This is great. I'm going to get a good grade in blood donation something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Yeah, me neither, I just think we should always present the best argument and that means not using dodgy data when there’s more convincing evidence. e.g. this graph showing number of news articles about trans people which spikes after 2020, or even just other google trends.

A graph showing number of news articles about trans people (per 30 days) against time. It’s a very small baseline before about 2015, when it starts growing to about 200 by 2019, and then grows to almost 400 in 2021 and peaks at over 1000 in 2022. (The data resolution is monthly and it’s quite noisy).

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I don’t get where the accusations are coming from? He seems good on trans rights, e.g. just yesterday: Maybe I just haven’t seen it

lan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social • 4h

This would be a pointless and vindictive move which would shame those who propose it for the rest of their careers.

QUOTED POST:
Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social • 14h

'Trans women must be barred from female toilets, changing facilities and sports teams, new official guidance is to state'

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

SCREENSHOT WITHIN QUOTED POST:
Phillipson to ban trans women from female toilets.
Equalities minister to publish official guidance after ordering 'tweaks'. Bridget Phillipson will finally publish guidance on single-sex spaces

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Great news! There is a button to automatically OCR image text into alt-text (at least on iOS). I’m not sure how it works on Android, but I’m pretty sure you can also do it from your photo library.

A screenshot of the Bluesky alt text entry screen. A red arrow is pointing to the OCR button in the bottom left corner, as seen on iOS.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Nice job cherry-picking a sentence where he said (in 2020!) that he supports the existence of Israel as a country and no more than that (i.e. without further qualification), and twisting it to imply that he’s best buddies with Ben-Gvir. He literally refused to use the label Zionist at first!

During this week's hustings event hosted at Liberal Jewish Synagogue, organised by the Jewish Labour Movement with this paper and Labour Friends of Israel, the leadership hopeful was criticised on Twitter after he declined to call himself a Zionist. Other contenders, Emily Thornberry, Lisa Nandy and Rebecca Long- Bailey, did.

Asked why he chose not to, he said: "I do support Zionism. I said that last night. I absolutely support the right of Israel to exist as a homeland."
"My only concern is that Zionism can mean slightly different things to different people, and as Lisa [Nandy] said, to some extent it has been weaponised. I wouldn't read too much into that. I said it loud and clear - and meant it - that I support Zionism without qualification."

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

TW: spider This is wild. I discovered this tiny guy in my flat missing all but 3 of its legs, all on the same side - yet somehow it’s still able to move around just fine and cling to the side of my table. It’s funny, I’m usually an arachnophobe but this lil guy is too cute and non-threatening 😅

A small (<1mm body, 3mm leg span?) spider chills out on the side of a black table. It’s brown, but it’s missing all the legs on the left hand side and one of them on the right. Somehow it’s still clinging to the table!

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Is this minister racist for clarifying that horsemeat is safe to eat? (I disagree with him here, because yes it’s normally safe to eat but as mentioned it was being sold as beef & coming from sources like retired racehorses without any checks or paperwork).

Horsemeat in burgers poses 'no risk' to food safety
Horse DNA has been found in some beefburgers being sold in UK and Irish supermarkets, the Republic of Ireland's food safety authority has said.
The meat came from two processing plants in Ireland, Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods, and the Dalepak Hambleton plant in Yorkshire.
The burgers were on sale in Tesco and Iceland in the UK and Ireland. In the Republic of Ireland they were on sale in Dunnes Stores, Lidl, and Aldi.
Ireland's Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney, said the discovery posed "no food safety risk".

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

“Chemical alterations that leave the final products bearing almost no resemblance to the original ingredients” Behold, ultraprocessed food: home-baked sourdough!

Some really nice looking home-baked (presumably?) sourdough

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Going after the top end is exactly what I’m suggesting here, though? Fuel subsidies would be a massive transfer of wealth to the rich, and those would be popular while the necessary tax rises to claw that back would not be. We are already subsidising fuel hugely by freezing fuel duty (see below)

Figure 1: The top quintile of income earners will make 2.7 times more from the freeze than those on the bottom

A graph showing the following numbers by quintile, indicating savings due to the fuel duty freeze per year.

Bottom quintile: £56.09
2nd quintile: £109.06
3rd quintile: £135.85
4th quintile: £141.23
Top quintile: £152.83

Source: ONS, OBR, and SMF analysis

Figure 2: Fiscal death by a thousand cuts - expenditure on fuel duty freezes is set to reach
£200 billion in 2028

A graph showing annual costs from ongoing fuel duty freezes hitting almost £25bn around 2025, and total costs hitting £250bn in 2029.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Even the Greens are proposing mass subsidies for fossil fuels. It’s madness.

Panel 1: person with their head full of jumped scribbles says “I just need to subsidise demand”

Panel 2: same person lying in bed thinking “I just need to subsidise demand”

Panel 3: a cycle from “oil prices go up” to “people get angry” to “subsidise demand” and back again

Panel 4: a guy walks in saying “are u okay bro”, person from panel 1 is now surrounded by scribbles and says “yes I just need to subsidise demand”

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Don’t worry, all reginos will be back to normal soon!

Official Bluesky status page:

Service status
Some systems down

We are investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos

"We are experiencing further issues. We appreciate your continued patience"

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Or, from someone in the replies to Katelyn’s post, somehow seem to be spending over $40 a day on groceries (I accept the dietary restrictions add some extra cost and friction - but rice, beans, and veggies are all gluten free! This is a choice to spend that much!)

Redacted username:

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as someone with celiac a week's shop is nearly $300 and i'm vegetarian. i don't know how anyone affords meat in this world

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Two problems with this: 1) The oil from Jackdaw will be sold on the open market, at prices which are set internationally. It won’t make a noticeable difference to prices. 2) We won’t have to use fossil fuels for much longer. Wind, solar, nuclear already provide over half our energy & growing!

A pie chart showing electricity generation this year. Renewables sit at 42.4%, Nuclear at 12.5%, making them ~55% in total. Fossil fuels provided just 27.3% of our electricity.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

High speed rail has a footprint a fraction of the size of most roads. It’s worth building even through agricultural land - the benefits would be orders of magnitude higher. Take this motorway in the UK next to a HSR track (HS1 linking London to the channel tunnel in Dover):

A screenshot from Google Maps, in satellite view, showing a motorway next to High Speed 1 in the UK. The motorway is many times wider.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Likewise this guy here, not parked on the pavement but parked on a double yellow and blocking the dropped kerb. There were free parking spots across the road, too While he was parked there, I saw a kid almost tipped out of a pram as his mum tried to get it down from the kerb.

A van from West London Transport blocks a dropped kerb at the corner of the street. It’s clearly parked on a double yellow line and also blocking visibility round the corner.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Of course, Mahmood would rather a Keir Starmer-led government deport refugees to their certain deaths.

In an interview with the Guardian, Mahmood called for Labour MPs to get behind immigration reforms or risk a Nigel Farage-led government deporting refugees "to certain death".

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

This has to be the most ideologically incoherent alignment I’ve seen at a protest… On one side: Supporters of Palestine and the current regime in Iran On the other: an insane mixture of Israel, Iran under the Shah (wearing “Make Iran Great Again” hats???), America and Ukraine supporters

A protest with Palestinian and Iranian flags on one side, and a counter protest with Israeli, American, old Iranian and Ukrainian flags, outside Glasgow’s royal concert hall

A man wearing a “MIGA” (Make Iran Great Again) hat

A model of a noose with the Ayatollah hanging from it, in rat form, wearing a Keffiyeh (??????)

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Cool misdirection Paul, now riddle me this. If you scroll down a little on the spreadsheet and look at who the undecideds would vote for if it were a head to head matchup between Labour and the Greens, who do they break for almost twice as often? Who does better in a head-to-head vs Reform, too?

A poll showing undecideds breaking for the Greens Party 27% to 16% Labour under the assumption only one of those could win.

A poll showing undecideds breaking for the Greens Party 33% to 19% Reform under the assumption only one of those could win.

A poll showing undecideds breaking for the Labour Party 27% to 20% Reform under the assumption only one of those could win.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

So I’m just imaging that 40% of Americans wouldn’t vote for an atheist? A higher proportion than wouldn’t vote for a Muslim president (34%) or a gay president (22%). Meanwhile, the country is led by, effectively, religious fundamentalists. Why do you keep lying?

A poll showing that as of 2020, just 60% of Americans were willing to vote for an atheist for President. For comparison, 45% would vote for socialist, 66% for a Muslim, and 78% for a gay/lesbian person.

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