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Robby_red

@robbyred.bsky.social
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iOS dev, parent, interested in science, tech, history, politics and culture. And beer

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 28/09/2026
calling it now: tiktok prank gone wrong
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Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
fact I have for you is according to a supply chains guy at UCL only 4% of DDRAM production got switched from consumer to data centres and this caused the whole consumer price spike!
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Report Reveals Jesus Christ May Have Benefited From Father’s Influential Position To Gain High-Powered Role As Lord And Savior theonion.com/report-reveals-jesus-c…
Report Reveals Jesus Christ May Have Benefited From Father’s Influential Position To Gain High-Powered Role As Lord And Savior
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/09/2026
Separating out real AI risk means you have to somehow be able to separate out what is: 1. Usual big tech hype 2. Clever lobbying for 'regulation' that helps AI companies 3. Sci-fi/cult informed BS 4. Group hysteria 5. Legitimate warnings grounded in reality. Good luck trying to unpick that!
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Riddle me this. If somebody donates £36 million to a political party and £5 million to its leader, how is the £5 million not political? Asking for a parliamentary standards commissioner.
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 08/09/2026
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The Northern line’s Morden extension marks its centenary on Sunday
The Morden extension opened on 13th September 1926, creating what was then the world’s longest railway tunnel and introducing Londoners to Charles Holden’s distinctive Underground architecture.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They are also stopping road traffic - we are told that this is a serious act of "terrorism", entailing long prison sentences, when done for environmental reasons?
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Jansen Mann @hellojansen.com · 04/09/2026
Big shout out to our sponsor.
Big shout out to our sponsor
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Picture of Farage:

Trades Union Congress • @The_T... 1h Ø
Boss making you resign to save himself?
Join a union.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026
the most dudes rock thing i have seen i a minute. also yes this is what my algo serves me
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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Channel 4 reporter: Hello. I am Mr. Alias and this is my extremely suspicious comically large donation that i can only make in the form of a bag of money with a dollar sign on it. every other reform guy: seems legit! let me tell you every single way in which i and my boss have broken the law
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It's the only global what....?
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Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If you’re interested in champions league matches this season, I recommend Shakhtar Donetsk’s home games, which are at Stamford Bridge this season. You can buy tickets from Chelsea’s ticket office
Shakhtar Donetsk will play: Real Madrid (home), Inter Milan (away), Sporting (home), PSV (away), Fenerbahce (home), Leipzig (away), AEK Athens (home), Slavia Bratislava (away)
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
✍️ Want to understand the bonkers nature of the modern economy? Take a ride with me on the 30,000 mile journey the cod in a fish finger takes between being caught off the coast of Scotland and consumed in a British home 🤯 Promise I'm not making this up👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-30000-...
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The 30,000-mile fish finger
There’s a good chance the cod on your child’s plate has been around the world and back. Not that you’d learn any of that from the label...
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jack @j4ck.xyz · 25/08/2026
I love Apple’s way of saying sorry for the RAM/storage crisis by lowering the price of the polishing cloth from $19 to $9. Greatly appreciated
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The fact Ukraine still has an independence day in the 5th year of my 3 day war shows I remain a master strategist.
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Amazing 'twins study' examining the anatomy of censorship and propaganda in Russia. Back in 2023 Russia cloned Russian-language Wikipedia and started rewriting it as Ruwiki, but left original untouched. Researcher trace what happened after the hard fork. cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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The anatomy of censorship and propaganda: What Russia’s Wikipedia clone reveals about authoritarian information control
Autocratic regimes shape what citizens know through censorship and propaganda, but their priorities are rarely observable at scale. This column exploits the 2023 cloning of Russian-language Wikipedia ...
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John Gruber @gruber.foo · 16/08/2026
It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthro…
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Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into the generation of text *for me* is patently offensive.
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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Top of the Pops (13th August 1981). Soft Cell are at number 26 with Tainted Love.
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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thameslink advises all travelers: ⚠️❌ DO NOT TRAVEL - between London St Pancras International and Bedford for the remainder of the day. Some people stuck on trains, according to social media posts.
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Ian @hubnut.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Major excitement! Chrysler 180/2-Litre! youtu.be/hNzm_BjNJpU
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This Chrysler deserved better. The 180 story - it's baffling!
YouTube video by HubNut
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The Car Factoids @thecarfactoids.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Ah yes, that ad & here’s a link to the full-length version. The driver, in case you’re wondering, is Gilbert Bataille & yes, that stunt is still impressive 42yrs later…(2) youtu.be/UmyISs4ivbA
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The Leyland Roadrunner Truck TV Commercial from 1984
YouTube video by Mackenzie Rough
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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
FWIW I agree with Ollie Dean: we should want extremists to be deradicalised. We should want former criminals to be rehabilitated and live productive lives. None of that means either group (or someone who is both) should be a candidate for election. conservativehome.com/2026/08/05/i...
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I believe in second chances - but not for former neo-Nazis | Conservative Home
Again, I reiterate that I am all for second chances. But there comes a point in which one cannot extend the generosity of yet another attempt. Bonehill-Paine - I believe -, despite what he has done si...
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 03/08/2026
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Flat £15 train fares for return day trips to Southend-on-Sea
The train company c2c is offering a flat-rate return fare for trips from London to Southend-on-Sea and surrounding areas this month.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Let's explore a specific moment in time: BEFORE radar was invented (~1939) but AFTER airplanes entered warfare (1911). The best way to detect an airplane sneaking up on your border or coastline is with one of these absolutely ridiculous-looking devices. This is a "two horn acoustic locator", 1921.
A two-horn listening device in use at Bolling Field in Washington, D.C., in 1921, used to detect distant aircraft before the advent of radar.
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Adrian Edmondson @adrianedmondson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Bill Oddie, what a lovely bloke. He wrote us a letter when we started making The Young Ones, wishing us the very best, and warning us against interference from higher up. He didn’t know anyone in the cast personally. It just came out of the blue. Lovely thing to do.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
watched the odyssey last night. film ruined by everyone speaking english instead of ancient greek.
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
✍️A TNT shortage, a world at war and why an obscure factory next to a Sheffield fast fashion warehouse could help explain how to reindustrialise Britain. An essay on the new Chancellor, the old Chancellor and whether anyone can actually turn our economy around👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-factor...
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The Factory We Had to Build Again
Rachel Reeves, John Healey, and the surprising story of Britain’s return to manufacturing. With some big explosions along the way
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Richard Hermer @richardhermer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It has been the privilege of my life to serve my country as Attorney General over the last two years. I’ve been so lucky to be a part of Keir’s team, as he delivered for the public at home while rebuilding the UK’s reputation abroad, in particular on the rule of law.
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Friz Frizzle @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Meta are sending Fucko the Knife Robot to stab you in the knee. To disable go to Accounts> Settings> Robots> Knife Robots> Fucko> Opt Out
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Robby_red @robbyred.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
There’s no way on earth England would have beaten Spain if we made it to the final….
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 19/07/2026
When mum came back from the rave with her new pals
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Pitiful. Just won a great victory at football. Immediate response: remind us of a failed war to annex a sovereign territory that your governments only go on about to distract from their manifold failings.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.
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Kris Slazinski ☮️ @kslazinski.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“AI Costs More Than The People It Replaced” - this and more in this interesting article by Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/jemmag... #ai #dev #technology
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AI Costs More Than The People It Replaced
The technology that was supposed to make human labour obsolete is, at this moment, more expensive than the humans it was meant to replace.
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Kyle Hughes @kylehugh.es · 10/07/2026
Anthropic and OpenAI have legacy software media in the blender because they are playing a new game. They are legitimately racing to build God. The products they release are one-off fundraising vehicles to buoy the next training run. They are not trying to build long-term consumer goodwill.
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Brian Larkin @derrymanc.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Colombia v Switzerland being referred to as Charlie v The Chocolate Factory.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I have resigned on a matter of principle. The principle that I want to be able to carry on grifting without having to explain myself to nosy journalists or anyone else.
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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
OK…who made this???
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Kiran Stacey @kiranstacey.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
EXC: Andy Burnham was briefed on the Defence Investment Plan before it was published. But I understand he was *not* told that he would have to find an extra £4.7bn to fund it in his first budget. This has come as a surprise today.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Just perfect
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Robby_red @robbyred.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
They need a hydration break with all that rain…
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Doctor Trivago
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 27/06/2026
The Marks and Spencer's corridor of doom.
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Joseph Simpson @vrhermit.com · 25/06/2026
Me seeing an extra $200 tacked the already expensive Apple Vision Pro. This will definitely help adoption, right?
Joseph received bad news.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Morning.
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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
So how did we get here, with Starmer on the way out after two years? To some extent, it does go back to the beginning. It was not an enthusiastic victory for Labour. Getting rid of the Tories was the top reason people voted for them in 2024, though with their message of 'Change' also resonating.
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