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Now imagining about a subreddit for people having sex with different government/retail/health chatbots. Discussing which company's customer service or inventory lookup bot RPs the best once broken. What topics you need to hit to break the system prompts. This probably definitely already exists.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 9h

GOD BLESS NIGELLA “I don’t approve of talking about food as naughty” I have been needing bake off to say that for YEARS. Food is a pleasure, not a guilty pleasure!

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mr pussy (prison arc) @nat.haus · 9h

racially 👏 inclusive 👏 goatse 👏 wall 👏 charger 👏

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 8h

The @microsoft.com Phone Link app is pretty good, but the "suggested contacts" bit is still: a) an utterly pointless waste of screen space, and b) showing me dead people. I'm sure your tech is great, but if I can actually text my deceased uncle that's something else. No? Thought not. Sort it out.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 9h

Fuck. It’s Bake Off tonight. Turns out TV I watch with my husband doesn’t magically just stop when we’re in different cities. Fuckin’ object permanence…

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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 9h

I feel i can speak for the majority of Glasgow when i say - Absolutely the fuck not.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 10h

This article is - amazingly for UK press coverage of dangerous drivers - not 100% written in Motorist Tense (a car hit, someone was hurt), only partly. Which is significantly more shocking than her walking away with a shrug.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11h

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 19h

If the AI bubble did burst, the distribution of money is such that the merely foolish would get hurt while the actively evil would learn nothing. I don’t love that. But I would like a graceful deflation that lets us look at how this tech is managed and deployed and the best value it gives us.

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Nitro Nine Milkshake @adamclegg.bsky.social · 12h

Just imagining a truly online Batman where he beats up people trying to give chilli to their neighbours while screaming “WHAT IF THEY DON’T HAVE SPOONS”.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 13h

There was a fucking antivaxer at the hairdresser today it I really felt for the person doing her hair because that was a clear forty minutes of swivel eyed gibberish. Apparently “they’re saying a third of American boys how have the autism - isn’t that terrible!” Good grief.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean, I’m British, I could just stop brushing my teeth… Obviously not. Eww. But that’s way less gross than actively joining the Potter-industrial complex in 2026.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 15h

There’s twink death, and then there’s your hairdresser offering to tidy up your eyebrows.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 21h

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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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 17h

one of the things I find fascinating is that, even though I constantly hear about how AI (previously "big data") is going to improve everything, it's apparently no one's job to anticipate that the pavement will be full of bikes and the road full of holes at the same time as it's also bin day

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 18h

The fucking weather in Cambridge today. It’s like spring has a head injury.

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 19h

Honestly, yes. All businesses should theme their architecture, furnishing, stationery and outfits around the point of their business like a 1960s Batman villain.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 20h

It never ceases to amaze me how many first-time-at-sixth-form-debating-society sounding reply guys can’t manage a profile picture that doesn’t scream “caught wanking”.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 20h

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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Chris, @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 21h

...an app that encourages you to give it permissions to upload basically the entire contents of your hard disk to Meta, and everyone's excited about it.

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Chris, @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 21h

Also while I'm banging on about AI, it is wild to me that we have gone from the furore about Windows Recall, a product that took and stored screenshots locally and ran local processing over them to help search your computer (which had some serious problems! that were eventually fixed!) to Muse...

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It occurs to me that somehow - some effing how - in my forty three years on this green earth, I have never read a Stephen King novel. Clearly I’m going to start with The Body, given my irrational love of Stand By Me, but woah golly that’s a backlist

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 28/09/2026

i don't think it's glib to say this: it's possible that nobody on earth cares less about consent than mark zuckerberg

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Andy Clark, Nerdling Herder @andycruns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In other news, thanks to the article the other day my headcanon is that all Custodes are in throuples

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’ve been doing this on and off for years, and it’s banging. A couple of additional suggestions: - moisten the naan very slightly before baking - add a little hot sauce to the tomato - the big round ones from the Asian supermarket are best. Golden Spike (I think) is one one the reliable brands.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean, I’m British, I could just stop brushing my teeth… Obviously not. Eww. But that’s way less gross than actively joining the Potter-industrial complex in 2026.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There’s a tourist chasing “what can we put haggis on?” item on a lot of Glasgow menus, and it often lacks the courage of its convictions and comes as a light sprinkle, drowned in a usually too sweet sauce. But the haggis flatbread at the least worst restaurant at Glasgow airport is actually decent 🤷‍♂️

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Back to Cambridge I suppose.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping"

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You will never defeat us, small group of half-naked men we found in the bushes

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 28/09/2026

the thing about Jensen Huang is that he will never ever ever not fundamentally be a guy who runs a graphics card company. Like sure yeah whatever scientific computing AI ok ok he learned everything he needs to know selling VGA cards with badly photoshopped box art at E3 in 1996

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Imagine you are participating a light bit of dogging in a quiet farmers field in the Cotswolds & the next thing happening is the President of America is claiming credit for catching you in the international news & there’s now a photo of you on every major news outlet in the world?

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 28/09/2026

If my life is ever saved by an EMT literally parachuting in from the sky, I'm getting my umbrella and my unspecified "medicines" ready for the rain that will inevitably make him sick and in need of my reciprocal TLC, because that's the set up for the most Green Flag Thai BL ever.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh goodness, this is perfect.

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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Picard management tip: Some of your decisions are going to be mistakes. You have to make them anyway.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A porn site I signed up for over lockdown is furiously advertising me a mini series about... the Greek gods waking from a two thousand year slumber to restore wonder to a world in thrall to technology, by fuckin' Sure. Yep. You got my number. My credit card one, specifically.

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And, as with libertarianism, their sociological failure mode is their recruitment channel: which is mildly intellectual upper middle class white boys who want to feel special and are thus shopping for packaged intellectual commodities to feel smarter than everyone else.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On the one hand, yes, categories are cognitive shortcuts, extrinsic labels we impose upon the world rather than intrinsic properties of the things in it. On the other, what some people will happily list on eBay under “cardigan” makes me think they need urgent psychiatric care.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do the admin task, Rogger. Do. The. Admin Task.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"You haven't heard [song], so you live in a bubble" isn't an inherently trash take, it just dives dick-first into the dumpster when followed by "...which is your fault for being a sanctimonious hipster, as opposed to me, an understander of The People"

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A while ago (in the context of refusing to vote for lesser evils) someone asked: “Is the system capable of receiving the signal you are trying to send?” The interesting part here isn’t reality, it’s that reality has made it into The Times, a signal the government is potentially able to receive.

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Dave Convery @zomda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As with streaming, they’ve discovered that the rent-seeking thing is hard to square against unpredictable creative works and individual consumer choices. It’s a lot harder to not re-up on your fucking CRM than the thing you watch Schitt’s Creek on for the fourth time.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Exhibit number I’ve-lost-track out of so-very-tired for the proposition “SaaS rotted the entire industry’s brain”. If everything is measured against the dream of inventing a business model, of a transformative (rent-seeking) revenue shift, then not much gets space to succeed on product quality 🤷‍♂️

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Dave Convery @zomda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’ve got an idea Satya, if you have a bunch of “developers” they can produce “games” which you can then “sell” in exchange for “money”.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While this is a fairly evergreen and fungible sentiment, I did not predict the specific context here.

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