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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.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 3h
If pervert glasses are a problem in Westminster, they're a problem everywhere. www.theguardian.com/technology/2026…
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The eyes have it: Reform politician’s ‘smart glasses’ prompt calls for ban in Westminster
Jason O’Connell’s suspected use of the specs to aid his speech in the Senedd reignites debate over the AI-enabled devices
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Reverend Jesus "🎃" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 6h
He should be HOPING he'll be in prison
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 15h
Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 15h
I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 14th 2026 (Medium), 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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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.
"I can confirm that tonight SpaceX has implemented a speed limit on Starlink terminals while in motion.

The limit currently applies to the StarShield “military package” and is set at 100 mph.

Our defense forces were not given notice of this limit, and this has resulted in the disruption of a number of missions.

It is clear that this action cannot be a coincidence and is related to the current political situation."
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Jason Copland @jasoncopland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Get going on that project that you'll get to... eventually.
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DarkLordNecro, PNW Progressive @darklordnecro.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The "controversial" comic with over 43 false reports to silence the creator and the real feel of the people. Enjoy, like and reshare "The Day All Billionaires Died..." By #noneofthisisok
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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 13/10/2026
Ah yes, perhaps the most beloved literary trope of all: the classic McMuffin
A screenshot that reads: Moore throws in a Hitchcock-style McMuffin in the shape of a secret tape recording which will reveal just who has been betraying the gangsters.
The problem is that no-one has a machine on which to play it.
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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I loved drawing some old school monochrome dungeon and hex map work for a zine Wicked North Games are pulling together. (wickednorthgames.com) . They asked for something simple, which I overshot slightly and had to be reigned in, ha ha. So much fun. #osr #dnd #ttrpg #dungeonmap #dungeoncrawl
Map of a mine from above and cross section for a dnd game
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 13/10/2026
Oh I do hope this chap’s journey goes as well as he deserves!
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Nothing quite sums up the miserable world view of the modern British right like 'there is a time and a place for a hedgehog'
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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 13/10/2026
i actually get claude to smoke the cigarettes for me
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Just remembered the Christopher Columbus bit from the Curtis Sliwa-Adam Friedland podcast, the #1 clip of all time for Not Having Any Idea What Words Are Coming Next
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Nixon resigned for secretly breaking into the opposition's office. Now you can break into the opposition's home openly.
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 12th 2026 (Easy), in 03:27 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
God, that’s going back.
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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 09/10/2026
This comic will never go out of style. 😂👻🎃
A comic of Stephen Miller walking down the street, scaring Jason from Friday the 13th.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Fine, if casting it as enemy action makes it easier to sell to people as an obviously fucking stupid thing to have done. But I do not see how Russian interference could amount to as much as a tiny fraction of the blame that should be laid on the Conservative Party, the Sun, the Mail and others.
Jim Pickard • @pickardje.bsky.social • 1h
The 2016 Brexit vote was targeted by Russian "state-sponsored interference", Andy Burnham has said, as he warned voters in France and Germany about Kremlin-backed attempts to influence their countries' politics.
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Russia 'interfered' in 2016 Brexit vote, says Andy Burnham
UK prime minister calls for European voters to be better informed about efforts to disrupt
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 11/10/2026
Helen Mirren, portraying singer Maggie Frisby in David Hare’s 1975 play Teeth 'n' Smiles at the Royal Court Theatre in London. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...
helen mirren singing
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darkening f. @fabjx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
how strange it is to be anything at all
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Vicarious Between Two Fires reread even though I reread that book a couple of months ago.
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Latest far right malign effect - unfounded accusations of immigrants stealing wild birds to eat have led to a physical assault on a volunteer rescuing a cygnet. The Greenwich Wildlife Network statement is long, but worth a read - it's thoughtful, courageous and impeccably argued:
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 11th 2026 (Brutal), in less than 26 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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Paweł Niezbecki™ @szaulo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Mixing paints
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
An “agent” in this context being literally just a set of instructions, right?
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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I've heard it's #BookshopDay so here are some of my favourite bookshops. Minster Gate Bookshop in York is still one of my favourite shops. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pen #watercolour #drawing #ArtShare
Pen and watercolour drawing of a bookshop with books outside the shop on low shelves protected by a green awning.
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Lizzy Lotter @lizzylotter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What the actual fuck
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I was amused by those twitter screenshots of that obnoxiously silly person, a blast from the past there, but I’d still rather not have seen them. Even if I wanted to see monkeys flinging shit at each other, there are probably better places to see that than Twitter, and with better monkeys.
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Ruin Jane @laurenjane.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
God forbid a woman wants to be adored, flirted with, worshiped and eat your still beating heart
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I’ve met some mum-pokers in my time.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You know those ‘spot the difference’ puzzles? I’m thinking of launching a ‘spot every racism in this political cartoon’ alternative….
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
good lord how can anyone be this whiny; are you not ashamed
Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "This is the woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize over the Great United States of America, whose Representative, ME, settled eight Wars, and many other things. I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel. I don’t know what the woman has done. I settled 8 Wars, with letters being sent from every President and Prime Minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and I’m about to settle, or win, two more, Iran and, Russia/Ukraine. They’re both happening at breakneck speed but, forget them, it’s the 8 that I’ve already settled, any one of which, in particular, Pakistan and India, would be far more than necessary to win the Nobel Prize. In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1. The 8 Wars are:"Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "Cambodia and Thailand
Kosovo and Serbia
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda
Pakistan and India
Israel and Iran
Egypt and Ethiopia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Israel and Hamas
Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon, and blowing up the entire Middle East and, ultimately, far beyond! I saved more lives than anyone in History and, as Maria Corina Machado, a truly fine person, stated to the Media when she gave me her Nobel Prize of last year, “Donald Trump settled many Wars, and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than any person that has ever received it.” Based on my record of PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to"
Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to do it — Nobody believed this was possible! I removed the World’s Evil Dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from Venezuela, and am in the process of making Venezuela a rich Democracy. Likewise, with Iran, I stopped them from destroying Israel, the Middle East, and Europe. I am also preventing, on a constant basis, a War between South Korea and North Korea, and Japan and North Korea. Add China and Taiwan, and numerous other hot spots, which have not been involved in Wars, only because of President Donald J. Trump, and the United States of America. I am responsible for having NATO countries increase spending from 2% to 5% of GDP, creating a stronger alliance and defense, another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries"Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries in Eastern Europe. Additionally, I have brought 196 hostages HOME from captivity, from all over the World, and did it without having paid a ransom, unlike Biden and Obama who would pay Billions of Dollars. On top of it all, I have created a soon to be very prosperous Arctic. Despite all of this, the Nobel Prize was given today to a liberal person who works at the United Nations, who nobody has ever heard of. In all of the Wars that I have settled, I never spoke to the United Nations—they were of no help. The United States of America, represented by me, as your President, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn’t. This is an indelible stain on Norway, one that will never be forgotten. The Nobel “Peace” Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of Radical Ideologues who are Anti-Democracy, and Enemies of Civilization! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 10th 2026 (Hard), 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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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is because the US press - as bad as they are - didn’t all go to the same university, alongside all the politicians, who they are friends with.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You might ask “where is the British Mamdani” and the brutal truth is that the US press - as bad as it is - gives left wing politicians time and space to talk about their ideas. A British Mamdani gets swiftly kicked to death on camera in an avalanche of all-channels screaming hate.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hang on what is going on here? I can't believe that there is no accounting standard for a basic question like including third party resellers, so which of the two of them is following it?
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you see this we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without an explanation.
Poster for a sperm bank.
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”.
ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says report, as author warns of rise in mental ill health
Summary
• An official review in England finds there is a risk of people being over-diagnosed with
ADHD and autism - three key findings from the report
• As well as neurodevelopmental conditions, the review looks at mental ill health, particularly in younger people. Our health correspondent explains the difference
• It was commissioned earlier this year after Wes Streeting, then the health secretary, said there was an "over-diagnosis" of mental health conditions
• Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme earlier, review chair Prof Peter Fonagy said Streeting was "with respect, completely wrong"
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Bugfuck crazy
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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Jesus this is even worse than the BBC headline. "The NHS will collapse because of ADHD diagnoses" (obviously they use the weasel "as" instead of "because", since they know it's not true but they want to imply it)
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Rush To Diagnose Children "Left Handed" Can Scar Them For Life, Worry Right Handed People Fears mount a recent influx of kids written off as "Left Handed" can lock them out of using right handed scissors Opinion: Jobson LeCruesset-Natwest - I was kicked if I used my left hand & I turned out great
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Jonny Kiehlmann @kiehlmann.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The amount by which my ability to access care on the NHS, due to my ADHD and nhs decline in treatment/care for it, has dropped in the last decade is horrific. Speaking as someone treated on the NHS for adhd for over 26 years
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Another thing that puzzles me is that Diary of a CEO guy. Or at least the fact that his podcast is popular. Just bewildering.
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ngl, I zoomed in to check Greg Norton’s ‘stache.
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Robscurantist @robscurantist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Botched it I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 9th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 22 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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gav @gavinmit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
can't imagine saying this after witnessing what ukip did to uk politics without a sniff of government
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