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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 1h

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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BBQdotgov @bbqdotgov.bsky.social · 1h

Wow, he actually did it

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 1h

I hate archers, The Archers, and Jeffrey Archer. You're all deceitful cowards. I just realised then that that only applies to archers and Jeffrey Archer, but not to The Archers, who to be fair are a mixed bag.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 11h

Chapeau to the BBC picture editor

Andrew takes legal action over arrest search warrants with hearing this week

UK

5 Oct 2026, 08:52

Updated 4 mins ago

Reuters

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor photographed leaving a police station in February

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 13h

For the millionth time, it’s so obvious that these should be banned. Like, overwhelmingly so. I think the tech giants have also realised the way the wind’s blowing - Meta seem to have pivoted hard to their necklace thing (which does exactly the same stuff but is less useful.)

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 13h

i may have missed a few news stories recently due to just generally having enough of events and my life, and i won't get into it but i do need to ask one question... why is everybody talking about terrorist doggers?

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 13h

"noooooo, go away space face"

another screenshot from that episode. there's a guy in a space suit with a distorted face, who seems to be fighting off another distorted face, which is just floating around.

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 14h

also i remember this episode of x files, which for some reason my parents let me watch. btw the caption for this reads 'The episode was derided by one critic for its "pretty decidedly unscary" graphics.'

a screenshot from the x files episode "space", where some guy's face is morphing to resemble a famous picture of a rock on mars that looked like a face.

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 14h

i think it was the doctor who special, basically between the show ending, and the show starting again, there was a film, who fans will know, but i don't. i'm pretty sure it was that. there were a bunch of cybermen marching down a street and for some reason it scared the s*** out of me.

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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 14h

ranting about antisemitism from my account on x – the nazi child rape app – that is owned and operated by a nazi with the express purpose of spreading and normalising nazism across the globe. this is the difference a labour government can make. hope. hope again.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 16h

There's something very sad about the trend I'm seeing: if people who never used, in this case, Windows XP are performing nostalgia (imagined idealised past that never existed) not appreciation (interest in how it actually was; inclusive of critique and factual accounts) for it...

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Mama twins @hi-its-alaa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Netanyahu is irrelevant. If he wins or loses Israel will behave the same. Trump is irrelevant. If he wins or loses US foreign policy will be the same.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 15h

Sonia Sodha in The Times crying about banning conversion practices

Conversion Practices Bill is a licence for trouble
Prime minister needs to ditch toxic legislation that threatens the rights of women and parents
Sonia Sodha @soniasodha

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. A maxim that has been embraced by campaigners for men to be able to intrude into female spaces and for children experiencing gender distress to be pushed down a risky medical pathway, all under the misleading banner of “trans rights”. These campaigners have lost some important battles. Their strategy of bullying female opponents out of their jobs and public life ran into problems when the courts made clear that this was unlawful discrimination. Then the Supreme Court clarified that men are never women for the purpose of using female-only facilities and services.

Meanwhile the medical consensus is finally shifting to an understanding that children experiencing transitory gender distress, often a product of other issues, should be able to access exploratory therapy rather than puberty-blocking drugs.

Now gender campaigners have opened a new front, pushing for legislation to ban so-called “conversion practices”. This innocuous-sounding but dangerous Trojan horse is designed to override legal protections for single-sex spaces and to threaten parents, teachers and healthcare professionals acting in children’s best interests. Worst of all, it was adopted in Labour’s 2024 manifesto, a quid pro quo for the party dropping self-ID.

There is a long and terrible history of same-sex-attracted people being subjected to conversion practices such as electroshock therapy and corrective rape. These practices are thankfully rare, and importantly already criminal.

As is anything constituting harassment or physical or sexual assault under criminal statute. Indeed, the minister who led the Lords debate simply listed a number of existing offences as justification for the bill and when pushed was unable to provide concrete examples of practices that should be — but are no…

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 15h

working age disabled people can be demonised for political gain. some loudmouth in a focus group responded well to the idea of making our lives more difficult.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 17h

Diana Buttu: "every one of these candidates is somebody who has supported Israels genocide.. the anti Netanyahu bloc is very much against him personally. They very much espouse his views, they just don't want him in office any longer" @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social on the Israeli election

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 19h

really cold tonight. i've just made myself a cup of tea because i can't sleep. if we're gonna do this it'll be on my terms.

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 20h

is there a number you can ring for help if you suspect an audiobook is being narrated by andrew marr?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 04/10/2026

What? There is literally no overlap between Palestine Action and "skinheads who support neo-Nazi and fascist terrorist organizations/white supremacist terror". The Venn diagram is actually two separate circles. There are zero people who believe this nonsense claim. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

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Mahmood says Palestine Action proscription is needed to curb support for neo-Nazis

Mahmood said 'you've got to be able to apply your principles, even when it's uncomfortable for you'

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is nothing racist about any ethnic or religious group wanting their own homeland. The problem is if this desire is at the expense of another people. Zionism in practise meant "a homeland at the expense of Palestinians". It's really not hard to grasp this basic point!

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is a classic, the “we’re a family” boss whining at your resignation and snapping “oh yeah well you can’t quit because I’m firing you, you’re fired now!”

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

my only opinion is as it always has been, i'm not leaving the door open for an argument about semantics when i can just as easily say israel is committing a genocide, and that for decades, while having the choice to end the violence, has only escalated it.

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

one day i want to live in a country where departments of govt exist for any other reason than strong arming critics of the private sector.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 04/10/2026

End the genocide. Drop the charges. De-proscribe Palestine Action.

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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

yeah we all know how rigged government reviews are in this country. also i just flat out do not believe that 'social care is coming'. labour never does anything that doesn't benefit the wealth class at the expense of the rest of us.

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

ahh but it is "empowering". they "empower" us to take the matter of safety into our own hands. *rolls eyes*

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

thanks, that does look more clean than what i've got.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rachel Millward calls for the re-nationalisation of water without compensation as water companies are insolvent and we ought to own our crucial water infrastructure.

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

honestly you can't even blow up infrastructure and own stun guns now because of woke.

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i made my clever multicursor functions a bit cleverer. i refactored it so you can use it with predefined patterns passed with keybinds, as well as with user input. and i think i've run out of neovim stuff to distract me gist.github.com/rlychrisg/96...

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some clever multicursor functions for neovim

some clever multicursor functions for neovim. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

gonna say that next time my bf catches me flirting with his friends

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Dr Han-kenstein 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't watch The Traitors but since Ross Kemp is on the current celeb series I really want to see that trend of folding photos of him make a comeback, they properly make me laugh every time I remember about them

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A desperately sad post about a family leaving the UK to protect their trans child. “Looking at the legal, medical, media and political landscape, I can’t see a safe, secure and dignified future for my daughter in the UK.” Every public body must do more to ensure trans people’s safety.

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Even if govt meets its 1.5mil homes target, analysis from the Office for Budget Responsibility estimates that under current government policy, increasing rents will cancel out all average wage growth until at least the end of the decade — meaning no improvement in affordability.

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Green Party are leading the way on ending unaffordable rents in this country. This is an issue I have pushed the government on every day that I’ve been an MP (and before!). I have found their empty words and half-measures wanting.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Omg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question

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Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com · 02/10/2026

All alone in my kitchen I hear a mysterious noise from the back wall. 'Shit, what was that?' Then I look up at the skylight and see this.

A photo of a ceiling skylight. A cat is peering through the window

A close-up of the cat's face. It is craning its neck to look through the window and is staring at me with intense indignation. Mate, this is my house

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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Did you get those new seat covers?" "Sure boss; real fucking Provo like you wanted"

View of the interior of a car, showing front seat covers where the headrests look like white balaclavas

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

yeah there is a growing section of the audience that is learning to smell out low effort slop, and i think as well as the normalisation of very unethical tech, AI thumbnails make themselves a false positive.

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this is no more a purity test than telling a vegetarian that there's actually chicken, in the chicken they are eating, if they didn't know already. normalising the use of such a resource intensive task is bad, and people should know. (image generation is far more demanding than text)

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

just checking in on the most progressive labour party in years apparently.

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Chris @reallychris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

that's great but sort of undermined by using generative AI for the thumbnail. this isn't a "we live in a society" meme. it's really easy to not use generative AI. in fact given that so many thumbnails look the same because of it, it probably harms engagement.

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hello, have you thought about investing some of those tasty peanuts you have in my special Autumn bank? No, I will definitely remember where I've put them and you won't find them in random places in the Spring. #SqrlPix

A chubby grey squirrel up on its hind legs with its head slightly turned from the camera.

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