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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 30/09/2026

The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So I’m supportive of letting the UK back in, but only if, as punishment, all the euromyths become true. All British fish to be given extra-red EU passports. Whole new forms of geometry to be invented to describe how straight the bananas must be. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Move to rejoin EU among options for UK, says Andy Burnham

The prime minister tells the BBC the current Brexit settlement has caused "more harm than good".

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So I started following this journalist because she was stuck in Seoul during the attempted coup. She apparently just has the worst luck with travel...

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@threebeansaladpod.bsky.social Reminded of Henry’s small brown bird: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_... (Apparently even birdwatchers can’t be bothered to specify the specific bird)

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Little brown bird - Wikipedia

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Carbon capture, 17th century edition. (Not much has changed since RE viability)

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Many people think that the words “Artificial Intelligence” are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence." Noted eloquence expert Donald Trump, there.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Dublin has a bus stop on a bridge. It’s a pretty wide bridge, but it’s still always felt _wrong_ to me.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

From Google's "People Also Ask". Ominous.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Bolt will create a robotaxi network using Lucid's upcoming midsize platform, with the vehicles powered by Nvidia's Hyperion autonomous-vehicle architecture" I'm sorry, they called it _what_?! "ChatGPT, find me a scifi novel about AIs which are involved in transport. Do no further investigation."

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Lidl apparently now going after the lucrative furry market. Also certain BDSM subcultures.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today in disclaimers which absolutely do not need to be made, and which raise questions which otherwise would never have been considered. Reminded of this comic: wondermark.com/c/870/

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Amazing book and well deserved!

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 04/09/2026

It's always grimly amusing to see some arrogant jack hanger bloviate about science or math in a way that demonstrates their high-school-survey-course level of understanding thereof. "You see? The numbers show I'm right!" Except, if you use the wrong numbers (leave aside "use the wrong numbers on

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Trump, seeing the way the polls are going, is apparently trying for most bigliest unpopular president ever.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Who gave Alan Partridge a job at the Daily Star?

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Linehan: would the telegraph print the insane ramblings of a deranged madman? Linehan: i think not! Linehan: it's a very respected journalistic institution with real standards Linehan: british ones but still

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Jane Gentleman, frankly, sounds like a drag name from before anyone had quite figured out how it worked.

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Rowling: bah!! i would never contradict mysself like that! Rowling: you should only expect completely coherent and noncontradictory ssstatementsss from me! Rowling: i am NOT ssome wacko! Black Mold: freemasons run the country! King: what was that? Rowling: nothing

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The Jealous Cactus @jealouscactus.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Somewhere there is a guy complaining his wife won't let him have a skull toilet

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I feel like the real time info displays in dart stations are getting a lot more random. Just saw one go from 7 mins to 1 min to 3 mins in the space of about a minute.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

After largely failing to become relevant to genx and millennials, biscuit company Jacobs is apparently making a play for the zoomer market.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

“Linguists have resorted to spying on people in parks and shops and restaurants, to get "natural" language unperturbed by observer effects, audience tailoring, the filter of writing, etc.” Hence the common phrase, found in most language phrasebooks: “is that a linguist hiding behind that bush?”

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I’m continually fascinated by how dedicated Google Maps directions are to avoiding walking. Sure, take a metro to a different station entirely than the one I’m beside, to cut walking by three minutes? Why not, Google?

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

On Swedish election days, of course, whale orgies are _traditional_.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The late stages of Rowling-Linehan Syndrome are a thing to behold.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Rowling’s brain has broken down again.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Okay, so they’ve moved on to just treating Trump like Caligula, now?

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Excuse me, what. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_p...

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The Daily Telegraph with its finger on the pulse of the nation, no. 297,092

'Harrods sent the wrong Le Creuset dish and then humiliated me when I asked for a refund'.

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The Issue Understander 🏳️‍⚧️ @kosmogrrrl.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Telegraph deadnaming Twitter out of general principles

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Irish personal finance Reddit is going off about inheritance tax again. You can only get a free 400k before having to pay tax on the residual! Such oppression, very tyranny.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Why, in this magical future age of phones with magnets in them, are magstripe hotel room cards still a thing?!

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Here is a full-length movie of the Odyssey that is historically accurate, encoded as base64: ``. It is _a myth_.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/07/2026

Wrote an 8000 word piece artfully framing ai data centers as the subprime mortgages of AI, only for Jim Cramer to outdo me by saying that he “likes data centers so much he wished he lived in one”

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Personally, I would like to see an adaptation of the Odyssey where Helen is played by a nightmarish swan/human hybrid. (Canonically, she _hatched out of an egg_. Which presumably was laid by her (human) mother. Oh, those Ancient Greeks.)

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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Larry the cat has now outlasted six PMs. Honestly if Burnham doesn't work out they should probably just make the cat PM.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I am now imagining that the Financial Times journalist went in in normal Financial Times uniform, which I’m just assuming is a suit. Also, why is this in the Financial Times?

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Saw this out of my eye, and wondered why Alan Partridge was in the news. I think it’s some combo of the haircut and facial expression. Can’t unsee it now.

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Alexander Glass @alexanderglass.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Meanwhile, at the Putin hotel...

Sign: Rivershore Grill - Lounge - Enjoy fall from private balcony

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I like that he felt the need to specify the grit size of the sandpaper. Coarse grit sandpaper would be a turn-off.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Sam went to Ye Olde Rave on the way home.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I once overheard a posh lady on the phone in Waitrose saying with a sense of horrified emergency "well we've run right out of quinoa in *both* houses".

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 21/06/2026

History has hatched in London. For the first time in over 360 years, pelican chicks have successfully been born in St. James’s Park. These four new arrivals mark a monumental milestone for wildlife in the heart of our capital.

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More Beaks To Feed! Pelican Chicks Born At St James's Park For The First Time

Four additions to the feathered family.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

A non-moustache Poirot?! Unthinkable. The moustache is basically a character in its own right.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Every text I send my friends includes a brief bio of myself in case they forgot

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