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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Pepys taking some time out of his busy schedule of sexual harassment for some casual antisemitism.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

1667, so not for another couple of years.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A documentary on drug use in the Vatican, titled ‘High Cardinality’.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/10/2026

Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I like the facial expressions on the snakes. “Oh, fuck, she’s going to give a 20 minute monologue on the need for cloacal inspections”

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Hauntit Quine 🇵🇸 she/her @rummlie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

JK Rowling putting up a disclaimer about having mold in her castle in the FAQs section of her website is satisfying. She was so bothered about the mold she learned how to blur her backgrounds, now this. Bullies are such pathetic creatures.

1. Is J.K. Rowling transphobic? ^

2. Has J.K. Rowling been cancelled? ^

3. Does J.K. Rowling have cancer? ^

4. Is Beira's Place anti-rights as highlighted in the recent Amnesty International report? ^

5. Is J.K. Rowling homophobic? ^

6. Why was J.K. Rowling in the Epstein files? ^

7. Does J.K. Rowling have mold in her house? ^

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

See, this is what we had to put up with before the invention of the metric system.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Outside the RDS: “Welcome”, and then, in smaller print, “BUSINESS ATTENDEES ONLY”. In case of dilettante tourists showing up to the (checks notes) architecture expo? Is this a common problem?

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Idea: rather than raise public transport fares by 15%, simply charge people who insist that their bag needs a seat on the bus 10x normal fare.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Another piece of research which was clearly written by a cat. Previously: www.vice.com/en/article/c...

vice.com

Cats Are Actually Nice, Scientists Find

Sorry, haters.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am, er, unconvinced that those are the main points, @irishtimes.com .

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

‘While "helping the old lady with her argument", he then claimed a man wearing a helmet "brushed past him" on his way inside.’ ‘After leaving the store, Mr Biggs said he was so upset that he feared causing a road accident.’ - Oh, come on, this is obviously a pitch for a sitcom.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I assumed that this was some sort of Waterford Whisperer type fake paper, but, no, apparently this is a real thing that is happening.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Entertained by the idea of ‘small animal noir’ as a genre. Half-tempted to make a Wikipedia page for it. (I’m convinced that people are doing this for music genres; there are multiple Wikipedia pages on ‘genres’ that are basically one band.

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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And by ‘a little business’, I assume, he means ‘sexual harassment’.

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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

Possession of jam to attract the death penalty, which the ECHR will then ban because of health and safety.

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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...

bbc.com

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)

en.wikipedia.org

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

Like, this is the philosophy/pseduo-religion which brought us Roko’s Basilisk. “Deeply stupid” about sums it up.

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

“Liberty: 1776 - 2026” So it’s a death notice, then?

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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 · 11/09/2026

This, as always, won’t last.

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

Bet they sold out within minutes at the Lidl by Nollendorfplatz (the region of Berlin with all the gay kink bars and shops).

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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

(Is it… a reference to castoreum? That’s beavers, tho.)

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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 · 05/09/2026

In fairness, A Deepness in the Sky may give him a run for his money (though strictly speaking those are not actual arachnids). Until I read his other stuff, I always thought of Tchaikovsky as the guy who wrote the _other_, secondary, Space Spider Book.

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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

And yet another one. All three are different judges, too.

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

And another one. It seems like judges have pretty much decided that this is basically okay.

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

This is a surprisingly common type of crime. “[The judge] said it was obvious from the evidence that there was no intention to deprive Bus Éireann and that he simply wanted to get back to Dublin.” Seems like there is an opportunity for them to save money on pricey bus drivers, here.

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

Brexit really did a number on it; it was never what you’d call great journalism, but it’s pretty much just a tabloid now.

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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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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The number of employees this guy gets through…

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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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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Oh, dear. Is this in the Hamlet sense?

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