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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

one good thing about online training is that you can put it at 1.5x speed, play some uk garage in the background and suddenly you have a not-worse-than-average MC talking about programming paradigms

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Reading Tim Powers “Declare” and almost at the end I realised what was irking me about it: it’s a Christopher Nolan movie in book! Really, it’s basically Tenet, in all its good (spectacular images) and bad (awful character work, unnecessary mess narrative)

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a special place in hell for you guys who repost a track in SoundCloud and then create a playlist of just one song to repost it again so every day it’s only your reposts in my feed, the same ones. Guys meaning trommel

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I apply this rule, but it turns out that internet is no longer for meeting people outside the internet.

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ayer aterricé en Netflix en un whodunnit de epoca con José Coronado. Tras el susto de ver el nombre de perezreverte le di una oportunidad porque el reparto parecía majo…

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How, exactly, am I, a mere political historian, supposed to explain this...thing that economists did for FIFTEEN YEARS....to my students?

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 24/09/2026

Please excuse me while I scream into a cushion at the thought of ALL the articles I had to write on the "UK productivity puzzle" in the 2010s www.ft.com/content/c819...

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

So Oxford United just launched, and then quickly withdrew, a new American football-style shirt collection. This was the launch image:

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

watched The Odyssey on BFI Imax, the largest format for the largest screen, and I cannot listen to music for the rest of the day. It is a total sensory nuke.

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Richard Cubitt @richardrcubitt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Once again, the biggest problem with violent far right thugs making our streets dangerous is not that they might not vote Labour.

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Things that my mom doesn’t like: • my necklace • my earrings • my shirt (“it’s too bright, calls for attention “) • my weight (”you are still too skinny”) • my body in general • my face hair • my rucksack she approves having my hair though, so I’ll take that as a win

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Due to the unique way the BBC is funded by you we can have a man stand in the sea wearing a shirt harassing desperate people fleeing Afghanistan

screenshot from BBC News of people seeking asylum on a dinghy in Orange high there’s a BBC reporter in a white shirt holding a Mic stands in the sea talking to them

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Why is Reactor Mag doing an obituary of Tim Curry while they never do any for any scifi writer AND THEY ARE A SCIFI PAGE

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Buscar curro por LinkedIn y que solo te ofrezcan un nuevo producto residente de telemetría etc etc por parte de cientos de perfiles que te añaden

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Quickly, someone replied a “actually I think” in a post where the other 50 replies are encouraging, I must create a vague thread talking about how bullied I was when saying something harmless to get another 50 encouraging replies

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Watching California Split and a good Robert Altman seems to me like one of the top films ever. Saw OC and Stiggs and a bad Robert Altman is a film I see so many amazing bits in

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

What did we do to get this timeline?

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

a reminder that there is no party in the UK who likes or doesn’t hate Brits who live abroad

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 28/08/2026

Saying it for maybe the 50th time: Do not accuse someone of using AI unless you have ABSOLUTELY AIRTIGHT proof, because if not, you're just adding to the paranoia and causing stress for hard-working artists. And yes, going onto social media and going 'Hrrm, I've no proof, but...' is an accusation.

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

2026 and we can confirm that people are still VERY intense about Rocky Horror Picture Show

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Cuando creéis que empiezan a salir los primeros mensajes de alguien que tuvo problemas con Dolly Parton y que en realidad siempre tuvo problemas con [inserte minoria] y que solo es popular por ser caucásica y que a cancelarla

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It has been very difficult to enjoy Minions & Monsters with my partner besides me

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

And when I say “I wish there was an electronic music musical theatre scene” I mean at least an Autechre one

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

took me many years to find out why I was listening to way more British new wave and punk in Spain than in the UK. Mostly this is the reason: they are cunts. And their audience nowadays are cunts.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This was the inevitable end stage of punk

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 21/08/2026

Christopher Nolan's BATTLETOADS

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

my take is that I am surprised how few of the conversations regarding AI are about "if there is less work to do as machines do it, why is society not getting better? why is there not more time for arts?"

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I think Warren Spector and Ron Gilbert are the biggest victims of this. Many self professed Monkey Island fans do not even know who Dave Grossman is.

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Gim @bestyoutuber69.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

And now everyone will do the meme one last time

IGN staff:
"There's a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a hand to a single person" says Warren Spector, creator of thief and Deus ex

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

one thing that I have always been frustrated about myself is how hard is to find people who like a) science fiction b) video games c) electronic music, like Detroit techno, the origins of electro, Juan Atkins talking about Time Space Transmaat

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Una de las cosas que he hecho desde mi primer iPod es llevar una serie de discos conmigo siempre desde 2008, discos a los que no siempre en su día no hice especial caso pero estaban ahí en el caso un día random entrasen, casi todos de carteles del primavera sound

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A way to understand British media and particularly, the commentariat, is to realise that they operate pretty much in the same way as posters on 4chan.

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I still don't know if I like the latest King Gizzard album or not, but it is a surprise how much they adapt to the techno radio station of a GTA clone vibe kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/album/alien-...

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Alien Metal, by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

8 track album

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Btw read “The Translator”. I don’t know why people always recommend his hardcore novels that are part of the canon when there is a simpler and yet gorgeous book right there

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Grodaeu @groda.eu · 12/08/2026

Basically there is a renewable energy revolution but the US and EU are desperately trying to keep up CO2 emissions because of woke 2.0

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Grodaeu @groda.eu · 12/08/2026

"Global emissions reached a record of 37.2 Gt CO2 in 2025, yet the annual growth rate has flattened to 0.7%. China and India entered an emission plateau owing to massive renewable expansion, whereas the USA and EU saw emission rebounds following policy reversals" www.nature.com/articles/s43...

nature.com

Global carbon emissions and decarbonization in 2025 - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - Global carbon emissions and decarbonization in 2025

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

fuera bromas, una vez soñé que un montón de gente miraba al cielo fascinada e hipnotizada por una mezcla de eclipse y fuegos artificiales, y mientras lo hacían los muertos salían de las tumbas para tomar su merienda (carne viva)

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

V interesting indeed on how the whole "move a power cable to avoid Dobby's grave" tale might well have been a pub story that got out of hand.

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Grodaeu @groda.eu · 11/08/2026

The racist crook who is PM of Sweden for one more month has managed to get space in FT. Exceptionally shit article babbling about gang crimes and linking it to immigration because racism.

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risingson2.bsky.social @risingson2.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is a common thread of many people of my age and older that I have seen, with the shared framework of: economy must always be short term (anything else is useless), and any future problem is not ours to solve. Basically, it's parents telling their children "hahaha fuck off, that is your problem"

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

back in the 70's the UK deliberately detonated their IT sector - the UK being where computers were _invented_, mind - in a bid to keep it from being a source of good-paying jobs for women they're very good at shooting their own feet

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How To Kill Your Tech Industry

A cautionary tale about how sexism helped destroy British computing.

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