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Ben @rbspage.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Most people are idiots
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/07/2026
‘He Made The Ultimate Sacrifice,’ Trump Tells Military Widow About Scooby-Doo Putting Up With Scrappy-Doo
‘He Made The Ultimate Sacrifice,’ Trump Tells Military Widow About Scooby-Doo Putting Up With Scrappy-Doo
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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 05/06/2026
City AM issues broadside against flood of AI slop being submitted by writers for its pages: "if you can’t be bothered to write it, why should anyone be bothered to read it?" www.cityam.com/there-should...
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There should have been an op-ed here but you filed AI slop
City AM's inbox is drowning in AI pitches. Anna Moloney, who spends her days copy and pasting them into detection software, has had enough.
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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💪🏽🤟🏼💪🏿🫶🏽 L Ramalho 🍉 @ramalho.org · 23/03/2026
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Just been approached by Huel to see if I'll be part of their paid influencer campaign. I don't think they're quite across what I do for a living. (FWIW, and in the interests of having influence, I regard Huel as a soul destroying, miserable product and the death of all that is worth living for.)
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Ben @rbspage.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
“Choudhury’s mugshot was held on the police system only because he had been wrongly arrested in 2021 when he had been attacked on a night out while at university in Portsmouth.”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/02/2026
Warm, Syrupy Pleasure Coursing Through Man’s Veins After Big Hit Of Mattress theonion.com/warm-syrupy-pleasure-c…
Warm, Syrupy Pleasure Coursing Through Man’s Veins After Big Hit Of Mattress
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2026
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Trying to explain to non-politicos that no, we had no idea Mandelson had leaked market-sensitive information to a foreign pal when he was forced to resign in September, that scandal was about said "pal" being convicted of a child prositution offence, which is scandalous for totally different reasons
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 02/02/2026
Top tip: to avoid having the British Union of Fascists logo on the side of your mock-up train, don't use horrible text-to-image AI slop instead of actual designers and artists. www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
awful AI shitslop image of a train in a sort of Scottish looking city that's blue and has a logo on the side formed of a lightning bolt in a thick circlethat same logo in its original blue and red colours, which happens to be the literal flag of the British Union of Fascists
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swedemason @swedemason.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Berry Bars
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🧵 Is it a super flu year? Who knows, but I think the current reporting is stupid. A pissed off thread using data. Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
John Lewis might be onto something with these Christmas Twee decorations…
A John Lewis Christmas tree decoration of a wheelie bin
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 10/11/2025
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
open.substack.com
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/11/2025
Give peas a chance – even AI peas: the Stephen Collins cartoon
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Give peas a chance – even AI peas: the Stephen Collins cartoon
AI can transform all areas of our lives – even boiling a bag of frozen veg
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
unusually big armhole
Trump in a dinner suit, white formal shirt, and black bow tie. His arms are raised parallel to the ground. The dinner jacket has a very big armhole. James Cagney dancing. His arm is also raised, which reveals a small armhole.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 13/09/2025
Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social
This is fine, but Keir Starmer surrounded by violent, foreign money funded bigots waving flags
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Michael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
On the subject of Melvyn Bragg, I think of this Private Eye cartoon more frequently than I care to admit, when I’m struggling to raise the energy for a lecture or graduate supervision
Cartoon Melvyn Bragg raises issues of fierce philosophical complexity with a stubbly & bleary-eyed crew of academics, one of whom responds “fucking hell, Melvyn, it’s a bit early for all that.”
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Andrej @tepid.meme · 27/08/2025
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified Freed from desire, mind and senses purified Freed from desire, mind and senses purified Freed from desire...
Greetings cards labelled "Nan, Nanna, Nanny, Nana and Nannie"
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/08/2025
Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
Microsoft Excel adds Copilot Al to help ...
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The Verget-4.1-mini Al model | 5
successor to the LABS.GENERATIVEAI function Microsoft started experimenting
with in 2023.
Microsoft notes that you can combine its new Al function with other Excel functions, including IF, SWITCH, LAMBDA, or WRAPROWS. The company adds that information sent through Excel's COPILOT function is "never" used for AI training, as "the input remains confidential and is used solely to generate your requested output."
The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can't access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in “high-stakes scenarios” with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT "can
give incorrect responses."
Copy Share Select all Web search Dictionary
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Michael Brunström @michaelbrunstrom.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Gashapon (or Gachapon) are vending machines found all over Japan that dispense capsules containing miniature toys and other items. There are thousands of different kinds. Here’s a thread of the best ones I saw on my recent trip. 🧵
A row of gashapon machines
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/06/2025
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
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Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump adm...
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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
After a couple of recent bad results, we are shocked and delighted to see the proposed revamped Crystal Palace lineup for Wembley next Saturday…unstoppable!
team photo of the Crystal Palace FC men’s squad for 2024/25, with various statue heads photoshopped (GIMPed) over the actual heads
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 09/03/2025
"Gloucester Old Spot at 1m 84cm" by John Miles 1834
John Miles naive pig art meets styscraper
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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
A thing about loss. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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When my sister died, it wasn’t just her own childhood memories that disappeared. Mine did too | Jason Hazeley
Millie had fantastic recall, unlike mine. Now there are parts of my past – and myself – that I’ll never be able to remember, says comedy writer Jason Hazeley
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 20/01/2025
Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.
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Tom @brokenviolin83.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Time to roll out the funniest thing ever (thank you @gralefrit.bsky.social & @jasonhazeley.bsky.social ) #LadyBirdBooksForAdults #Hootenanny
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 24/12/2024
1/ So, where were we? Oh yep, #duvetknowitschristmas. Firstly, some admin: Twitter/X has evidently been run into the ground by a preening, self-radicalised clot, so while there's a slim possibility that this annual celebration might be thriving over there, I won't know cos I won't be looking.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The UK government has created a public survey about copyright law and AI - it’s very technical, but please fill it in if you can I believe this technology must be very carefully regulated, to ensure public safety and to maintain the rights of creators www.gov.uk/government/c...
gov.uk
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
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Nostalgic Things that go bump in the night @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Maybe we could just all get rid of our computers
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