Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialMark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”. 301120463
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 572215224193
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026From the new Private Eye 562729986
qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026You say that name and all I see and hear in my head is "don't touch me when I'm on the toilet!" 100
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialDan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The most disappointing video you’ll see today. 1042261653
qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026For sure, and I do at first couple listens, but after that... I'm harsh, I kick the ones I don't like to the curb! Then again I'm not an absolute loyalist to any band or artist, much less in fact than when I was younger. I may be strange, dunno 110
qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Playing an album in full... It's not for me! Not keen on the skipping chapters in a book analogy, as how many books do you read as many times as you would listen to an album? After a while you just know you don't dig certain tracks. Life too short, spread your ears to other things! 100
qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Huh? How has Lucy Connolly been destroyed? She's getting paid to spout horseshit on X... just like Braverman et al. 1251
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026AI has lost the Mandate of Heaven I’m afraid. WSJ saying it’s a “when” the ai bubble bursts. SNL dabbing on their biggest names for being weird. FT says 50% of chips sold in 2026 and 2027 have nowhere to go. Hundreds of billions short on revenue for even 10% ROIC. A disaster. 342239417
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33 321010544
qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Well I'm sure it's not my kind of old school techno! 000
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialSara @greatnelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If test scores is the measure of success then I have to concede that teaching to the test is remarkably effective but is it worth the losses elsewhere? The arts, humanities, languages, oracy, critical thinking, and mental health are a few that come to mind. 151
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving? 5253370722
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270... 6428131171
qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I only heard the Brian and Roger podcast with her in it for the first time the other day. What she does with Brian is all I will think of now when I hear of her, even more than a wilting lettuce 000
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Anyone remember that time when two fighting aged men living at those barracks ran amok and assaulted a member of the public.... why didn't Piddington declare independence then I wonder? www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2324828...oxfordmail.co.ukSoldiers banned from every pub in Bicester after 'dreadful' attack on civilianBradley Barr and Owen Thomas, both 20, were given community orders 851352442
qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I heard a frothing boomer calling for more on LBC this morning. These sort of people really can't see they're being played more than anyone 4411
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers. 1052352687
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online. 485297787666
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2026when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO 241790535
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialRobert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 12/09/2026Reform has already enjoyed several years of support from a loss-making TV channel whose main function seems to be to give money and favourable coverage to its MPs. The government has done nothing about this. It's probably a more effective way of spending millions than Farage will manage. 26926233
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power 431410562
qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Ah yes the mighty Doctor Avalanche! Also bands like Cocteau Twins using one for their amazing music meant I never had any qualms about their use in any genre 020
qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026We have an expression for it over here in the UK, coined by @mrjamesob.bsky.social, I believe - the footballification of politics. I suppose you can help yourself to the term soccerification 000
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards. 3034381277
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage. 93934452234
qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Do herself an injury? No, that would be the multiple scumbags who set on her, mate. "She walked into my fist" defence 0293
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialLeigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A real test now of the media's appetite for Cambridge professors and their ethics. 8682206
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI 20836001430
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialAlistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher. 31168871707
qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Wow, Get Out of Jail free card, bought with pocket change, and then no doubt can carry on committing the same crimes/negligence anyway. Papering over cracks 000
qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026youtu.be/IfHJgZptH-w?... As this lovely song outlines...youtu.beSTORYBOOK INTERNATIONAL UK Opening Larry Grossman 1983YouTube video by ILOVETHE80S 000
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26 10628191393
Reposted by @qubist.bsky.socialChance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4645481568
qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I asked once about it on Twitter I think, but no responses. Did I dream it? I think it was a Mod based thing. 2/2 000
qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026We had something similar in late 70s and early 80s Bucks playgrounds, but even more than this I remember kids going round chanting "1, 2, 3, 4, sound o-of chipmunk!....1, 2, 3, 4...", gathering a larger and larger group that I think removed into some sort of bundle. 1/2 100
qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 08/08/2026This mix of mine might also work...Listen to transfixture - 90s techno-trance - volume 1 by various artists on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/l22qnGWwLwX5...soundcloud.comtransfixture - 90s techno-trance - volume 1A look back at some older tracks that were of a time before techno and trance really split off from one another. Some of this falls more in what you might call the techno camp, but I've chosen the mus 010
qubist.bsky.social @qubist.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Chain Reaction is great, but also check out what might be considered the pre-cursor to that, Basic Channel. Timeless Berlin techno that keeps on giving 000