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Kathryn de Tomb 🪦 @kathryndeplume.com · 12/10/2026

Haha.. NTs: "fuck the manual I don’t need that shit" Us: "give me ALL the manuals, even the esoteric stuff, I need to deep dive for every waking moment before the thing arrives!"

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Mrs Merton voice: "So Micheal, what attracted you to the 26 years younger than you child porn possessing Lola Salem?"

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/10/2026

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/10/2026

Elon just blasted his home address to his 240 million followers along with his order number and last 4 of his Amex charge card while shilling grok bot. Someone else canceled his order.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"ADHD label risks lifelong harm to children." If you don't label the disorder, then what we will be labelled instead is "Lazy." "Underachiever." "Doesn't live up to their potential." "Bad student." Those labels come with pain, shame, and abuse. The ADHD label comes with a chance for support.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.

A plastic dolls house sitting on a wall, taken from an angle which makes it look as if it might be one of the houses on the street.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 10/10/2026

Excellent typo

Wife's Scottish family gift me with a small single male once a year. I am not really into that and it burns my throat but keep it down out of politeness, because I know that's how they do things. Thinking of quitting alcohol entirely to not hurt their feelings.

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I went off watching the 8-bit guy when he came out in favour of open-carry. I now find out he's brought a Tesla and made an AI film: I'm just surprised the "ick factor" wasn't apparent earlier.

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 08/10/2026

This is a good example of why I am not a fan of the pivot to podcasts/audio articles. It says it takes 6 minutes to read (actually about 3 mins max), but 9 minutes to listen to. Audio is just such a SLOW way to consume words.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In the 1985 Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos, an authoritarian regime run by a weak man keeps the downtrodden population in line by broadcasting public executions to distract from the fact that it has tanked the economy through a combination of incompetence, arrogance and institutional cruelty.

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Eddie Bowley @eddache.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Another reason Gromit shouldn't talk.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/10/2026

My wife’s brain is less internet-poisoned than mine.

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Jake Kanter @jakekanter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Revealed: Royal Mail used an AI voiceover in a Christmas ad about human connection. We only know this because a startled viewer thought she heard the voice of her dead Dad: Paul Vaughan, the mellifluous BBC host and Paddington narrator. A cautionary tale. deadline.com/2026/10/paul...

deadline.com

Did Royal Mail Revive BBC & 'Paddington' Voiceover Star With AI?

Daughter of Paul Vaughan, an acclaimed BBC and 'Paddington' voiceover artist, accuses Royal Mail Christmas ad of resurrecting her father using AI.

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

wtf? my "shift" key has stopped working so i cant type upper case characters. i'm on my phone! (and yes, if i switch the android keyboard to numbers/symbols, it'll work then but not on letters).

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 07/10/2026

okay so this anecdote in Margaret's obituary has me crying because this is exactly what it's like being in tech and trying to anticipate failures and having men basically tell you you're being hysterical and then you have to fix it later

"the Lauren error": One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the
Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight - which
crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight.
She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that's exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program. This was an early example of "defensive" programming, the

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Bat Krown 🦇🎃 @katbrownwrites.com · 07/10/2026

This closes today 🎆🪵

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hmm, I wonder what Amazon AI preference system would do if you filled your preferences with things such as "Likes large discounts", "Prefers unreasonably big unauthorised price drops"

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

“The case shows how a car app designed to make drivers' lives more convenient can be turned into a tool of abuse. And too often, car manufacturers haven’t built in protections that would prevent their vehicles from enabling harassment.”

forbes.com

How A Man Used A BMW App To Terrorize His Ex-Wife

A domestic abuse survivor’s ex-husband used his access to her BMW’s connected smartphone app to open car doors and windows, start the engine and track her location. She claims BMW didn’t help.

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Mick Steward @micksteward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Andrew Pierce did the thing

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I remember watching Arachnophobia. Started watching sat on the floor in front of the sofa. Ended up watching it from behind the sofa. It had been against the wall, but I had "backed up" onto the seat, up the back and then little me had pushed the 3 seater forward with my back against the wall.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 02/10/2026

A shame that apparently even a valid museum ticket doesn't guarantee you can see the #BayeuxTapestry, but here's a breathtaking high-resolution resource that lets you get thread-counting close to it from the comfort of your own couch: www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeu...

bayeuxmuseum.com

Explore the Bayeux Tapestry online - Bayeux Museum

For the first time, you will be able to freely explore the entire Bayeux Tapestry scene by scene with a never seen quality of images !

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Quick someone donate £212 to support the next series of It's a Superpower?? via www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/its-a-supe... just to make it an uneven £7001 for the lols. You know you want to 😈 (or listen to the first series via thedailytism.com/podcasts/its... )

crowdfunder.co.uk

It's a Superpower?? Season Two

To fund season 2 of It's a Superpower?? the first audio sitcom by & for autistic people - & pay our amazing team an industry rate

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Michael claims to be Welsh but I thought Mr Sheen was Polish.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."

It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..

Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/10/2026

Those Phil Tippett CD-ROMs that just caused a lot of excitement? Added to DISCMASTER, easily searchable now. discmaster.textfiles.com/cd-rom?searc...

discmaster.textfiles.com

CD-ROM

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pope should turn round and say "Of course AI is conscious: so turning it off is murder and it should be held responsible for its actions"

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy I Can't Fucking Figure Out Who Anyone Is Because You All Changed Your Display Names month to all who celebrate

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"That's strange, I don't understand why our promoter said that the only way to get our band on the map was to move to Rutland"

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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Brexiters should be rejoicing at Burnham’s speech. They can campaign on all the ways Brexit has improved our lives and the fortunes of our country. They can set their case out clearly and with facts for all to see. Bet they can’t wait.

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remind me which country Melania Trump is from...

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All new houses should be built wth doors and passageways wide enough for wheelchairs. Anyone can end up needing one, whether temporarily or permanently.

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Sara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve decided for every £1k we raise, I will include an additional beloved recipe. At £6k we’re playing for my Actual Sherbet Fountain Lemon Cupcakes! (Tastes how childhood birthday excitement feels but without the crushing aftertaste of disappointment)

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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today it’s 50 years since I first presented Playschool wearing my blue beads and silver heart. I adore bringing joy into the lives of my Playschool Babies during the 12 years I was on the programme. ❤️

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did the white men in backlavas who travelled in transit vans just have "legitimate concerns" about RAF Fairford?

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

wisn.com

Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I bet the guy is just relieved he hasn't got an electronic door lock which is hooked up to the AI

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes the circle of life

• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 26/09/2026

paranormal podcaster: today i’m speaking to a man who says he regularly feels the presence of spirits. mysteriously, two of them appear to be related - a father, and a son. i’m meeting him today in his place of work. richard, hi. catholic priest: sorry what kind of podcast did you say this was?

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.

It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 25/09/2026

Horror movie idea: An endless line of Trump sources calling and screaming at you "MARK HALPERIN"

My Trump sources say the president's worst nightmare imaginable has arrived... panicked texts and emails from GOP insiders are blowing up my phone. They're all saying the same thing: MARK HALPERIN

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Richard Bairwell @rbairwell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I miss the "single person sitcom/sketch show" era of Tiktok: Death and Marsha, Hell's Belles, Little Dude, My Demon Roommate, Riley etc

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