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Robscurantist

@robscurantist.bsky.social
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Unconscionably self-centred bit-player. Not 100% neurotypical. Just out of shot, at the back and to the left. Pronouns: your choice. ngl.link/robscurantist

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Julie @panny.bsky.social · 21h
Fuck that, why does EVERY fucking app ask you to rate it EVERY TIME YOU USE IT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 3rd 2026 (Hard), in less than 21 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 02/10/2026
Imagine if Elon were rotting away in a maximum security prison with poor conditions instead of helping to shape the future of technofascist warfare
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
No fluffing?
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 02/10/2026
Their mission is the pursuit of human rights for their technology designed to deprive you of human rights.
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lichtenstein wasn't even mid, technically OR conceptually, and I'll die on that hill without hesitation
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer
Line chart titled 'GB News has lost £142m to date', showing cumulative losses in pounds rising steadily from around £3m in 2020/1 to £142m by 2025. The red line climbs most steeply between 2021/2 and 2023/4, reaching roughly £110m, then flattens as growth slows towards £142m. A note states the latest figures cover the seven-month period to 31 December 2025. Chart by Press Gazette, source: Companies House
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Punished 'Woke' Bane @baneforyou.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
any serious suggestion for rejoining the EU that involves a public vote of any kind would need to follow a Leveson 2 that has the power to issue prison sentences.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In a competition between “we could try to find out what people think by asking them” and “we could try to find out what people think by not asking them” you’ll be surprised to find out what won.
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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
These guys are a part of it www.kickstarter.com/projects/sto...
An array of mercenaries. They're all wearing at least a little bit of yellow.
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The sad and happy man riding a train meme but both sides changed to the sad man. On the left the there is text above him that reads "Having a job" and on the right text that reads "Not having a job"
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Phantom of Heilbronn, also referred to as the Woman Without a Face, was a presumed female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at 40 crime scenes across Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009.

In March 2009, investigators concluded that the supposed serial killer did not exist, and the DNA belonged to a woman who worked at a factory that made the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples
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Json Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
Not a serious country
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Who amongst us hasn't been tempted...
Accountant calls police after being asked to attend meeting
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$𝖆𝖙𝖆𝖓’ 𝕻𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖈€$$ @void.church · 02/10/2026
I’m spreading the news about it being lunchtime and friday at the same time, this only happens every 10080 minutes so treasure it you filthy degenerates.
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Niall Huggan @hugan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Poor sods, eh?
9 photo meme. What my friends, family, society, tenants think I do all have a photo of a leech. What I think I do frame has an image of Jesus. What I actually do frame shows, yup, a leech.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I feel so bad for laughing, but this bear posting up under this man's house for a good month boosted my serotonin levels like nobody's business. And the fact that they tagged him and dragged him back out to the wilderness and he came right back a year later like, "Now what, bitch?" is sending me.
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500-pound bear returns to Altadena neighborhood months after taking up residence under home
YouTube video by CBS LA
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I wonder how many BBC presenters are private landlords?
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I misclicked right at the end there when it was basically done. D’oh! I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 2nd 2026 (Tricky), in less than 17 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟨🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I would be very careful with this factoid because it is very dependent on generous defined benefit schemes which future generations of pensioners, beginning with late GenX to early millennials, will not have
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Extended waits for a diagnosis can have life threatening outcomes. Setting a minimum of two years for diagnosis risks being catastrophic for some of those needing one. It shows a callous disregard for neurodivergent individuals lives www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Woman died after three-year ADHD assessment wait

The exterior of Grove House Medical Practice is brown bricked, and there is a porch entrance with a grey slate roof.

Bethany Hewitt told staff at Grove House Medical Practice she was having thoughts about hurting herselfCharity threatens legal action over two-year NHS wait for ADHD and autism assessments
Exclusive: ADHD UK may seek judicial review of West Yorkshire NHS integrated care board’s ‘unlawful’ policy
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I could rock this to be honest
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I hear you’re having trouble with a snake
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Snart Vampire Screaming
Alt: Amanda Donohoe out of Lair of the White Worm
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Many are thinking this
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Free advice for the USA: if you find an unbelievably stupid guy who is also a colossal cunt, don’t put him in charge of your military (or - y’know - your entire country).
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We should find ways to make the world less horrible
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For most of the last 40 years or so the US had this unheralded nuts military infrastructure that could zip around to the opposite side of the globe and flatten half a country in two weeks but this dude saw one overweight army logistics guy and decided that sucked, actually.
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Paste Magazine @pastemagazine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Macklemore's "Free Palestine" tour sells out immediately
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Macklemore's "Free Palestine" tour sells out immediately
The rapper's three-day tour includes stops in Dublin, Paris, and London, all scheduled for the last week of October.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm kinda fully over that "the British conquered the world for spices and don't use any of them" joke because for one, you cannot recycle material for 5 straight generations and get a laugh worth a damn but also because in order to make it you have to agree with Tommy Robinson about who is British
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A providential case of collective catastrophic food poisoning would do the world a big favour here and also give us all a good laugh.
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026
Every AI CEO sounds like this.
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BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AI is nature's way of telling BBC bosses to put tired formats out of their misery
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 29/09/2026
Child's imaginary restaurant acquired, shuttered by private equity
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Child's imaginary restaurant acquired, shuttered by private equity
BRANDON, MB - 4-year-old Mikaela Hermer's imaginary restaurant, in which she served invisible hot dogs and ice cream to her parents and friends, has filed for bankruptcy after being acquired by Hedges...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Paul McMc @paulmcmc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Or they'll do what they did the last time and offer possibly the only system worse than the current one in a waste-of-time referendum.
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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yep
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Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’
BUENOS AIRES—After exhausting a significant amount of his intellectual energy in a series of company launches, a creatively tapped-out Peter Thiel announced Tuesday a new startup called “Frodo, But Ev...
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham evoking GG Allin here
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I saw that picture of Elon, but I too am middle-aged and funny looking, so glass houses and everything.
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Stephen Graves @stephengraves.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Absolutely fuck off. variety.com/2026/tv/glob...
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BBC Boss Says He Watched a ‘Pretty Good’ AI-Generated Episode of ‘Doctor Who’: ‘Everyone’s a Creator, Not All the Creativity Is Bad’
BBC boss Matt Brittin says he watched an episode of 'Doctor Who' entirely generated by AI which he deemed 'pretty good.'
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Well we're not really a part of the core EA community, we're more like EA-adjacent, maybe about 30th percentile? we have some disagreements about how precisely “effectiveness” is measured and quantified when -

Yeah, this is it
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Morning Bluesky.
Comics panel: a man and a woman talk
Man: I'M IN CHARGE! WE'RE THE LEGIONNAIRES OF EARTH!
Woman: YOU’RE IN CHARGE?
A MALE?
Man: OF COURSE!
Woman: YOU MEAN EARTH
STILL HAS A PRIMITIVE.
PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY...
RULED BY MEN?
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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“inevitable” tech
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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Means testing is just wedge used to turn the obviously outrageous "should we have this social net at all" into "who deserves this social net?". Every edge case is then used as an argument to diminish provision until it's gone. Cynically using people's sense of fairness to fuck everyone over.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The giant domino meme.

Beside the tiny domino is the caption ‘some lads steal some petrol’ and beside the giant one ‘US forces are expelled from all British military bases’.
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Zohran’s Mommy Dommey @loridiletto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Joke’s on this guy because his daughter can easily have multiple degrees and still do sex work to pay bills regardless of what happens with AI
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