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Edward Martin III @edwardmartiniii.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can’t get over Annie Montgomerie’s sad little elephant doll from the sculpture park

Toddler sized little figure with a desperately sad elephant’s head, bows, school shoes, but it’s the mucky knees on the white tights that are doing my head in.

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“Machine cannot dream.”

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This is like when I recorded the demo programme from my mum’s Yamaha keyboard onto cassette

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Leg Spinner🏏 @judeet44.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For many years I thought Laurence O’Livia and Lawrence O’Rabia were the same person. Is this Fess Hole no wait…

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I'm glad my dad was such a devout sceptic and said many times "there's no such thing as a get-rich-quick scheme" or "if it sounds too good to be true, it's a con".

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Story on Radio 4 at lunchtime: “ordinary people” scammed out of 10’s of 1000’s of £ through investment fraud. Very sad. Bur I’m (more than) halfway through my life, I don’t consider myself poor, and I have NEVER had 10’s of 1000’s of £ to steal in the firstplace.

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Sleepless @paulsdmcr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this second part of the post got mysteriously separated but you can see I posted it like a minute after

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Yep. A solution to something we’d already sorted long ago. And the beauty of a note or calendar on your fridge is billionaire fascists can’t invade every aspect of your life through them

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“But it can help you manage your diary” I keep getting from people under 35 who have never owned a fridge and a handful of magnets.

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This is like when I recorded the demo programme from my mum’s Yamaha keyboard onto cassette

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for me I think I have a level of moral objection, not absolute, but also a lived experience of AI misleading me and wasting my time, and therefore my anti-AI stance feels like a kind of reasoned response to that?

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my only ongoing exposure to AI is in search engine summaries and it continues to give misleading and factually incorrect summaries of academic papers and other articles, direct me to references that contradict it or don’t exist etc… so what exactly am I missing out on?

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Why electric cars might be making some passengers feel sick

I don’t get this when my wife is driving her ID3 because we have the regenerative breaking turned off (without losing any range either). But we both got extremely nauseous in a short test drive in another EV where we didn’t know how to deactivate it, and I understand in some cars you can’t.

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Research shows there are several reasons people might experience motion sickness in electric vehicles.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Most people don’t even know this version exists let alone have seen it. But exist it does & shows off brilliantly the creativity, ingenuity & artistry at work in ‘Old Hollywood’ at the time. ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1933)

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I got this weird redscale film and the one thing I knew it would be good for was taking pictures at Yorkshire Sculpture park.

Field with an ominous statue stumbling towards me, everything is in red

It’s getting closer, it’s honestly terrifying

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t really follow the strange tendency among some fellow Remainers that we can never rejoin because we deserve to be punished and the EU must force us all to wear sackcloth - there’s loads of it on here. No-one has ever left and rejoined before, it will be a negotiation, let’s see.

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Niall Griffiths @niall2025.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ah Mostar, you sexy, sexy city, you...

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New issue on sale! Radionics; ghosts of Ely; Cat in the Hat school scare; Martin Luther’s anal Apocalypse; 9/11 remembered; Pluckley’s Screaming Woods; tech taxi terror; thylacine surprise; haunted tiki bar; Richard Dadd; Skinny Bob; Pétanque massacre, animal treks and more! shop.forteantimes.com

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I dunno guys have you considered that… Mr Electrico… might be completely insane? Just a thought.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The rulers of post-apocalyptic Cambridge will be the herons.

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Steve Worcester @stevewfolds.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve been using chainsaws since ‘62, and did a finger in ‘73. Bought new saw that year and still have it. It was running about 9 years ago. Stihl chainsaws were the only saw that up the mountain logging in ‘72. (see alts)

A ‘73 041 Stihl 20” bar. The other one in background is a 14” ‘94.

Logging in Lenado, Colorado summer ‘72. We passed HST house on the way to Aspen. Drugs were plentiful. I didn’t dare being high at 10,500’. We called logging, “Staying alive in the woods.”

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I get Hendrix looks and was drop dead cool, but one of the greatest musicians ever to live in London? His own material isn’t as good as his famous cover versions, and his guitar playing, whilst unique and highly idiosyncratic, isn’t always that much fun to listen to!

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It was on the borderline of needing glueing / steri strips I think. I liked the idea of going to A&E and telling them I was “refacing the leading edge of a resonator biscuit”

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This morning I managed to slip with a razor sharp new wood chisel & drive it into the index finger of my left hand. Who would have thought the thing that was lifting scelps of hardwood like butter would just pass painlessly through flesh? Fortunately my finger moved with it and that saved the tip.

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Now I know why classical fans rolled their eyes at rock music for so many years, I’ve just heard a bit of Handel that is the middle-eight from Queen’s Flash Gordon theme. I can only assume Freddy Mercury was a time traveller.

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Lola Young: Vaping making it harder to breathe, singer says

The interesting thing in this story is how the metaphor “battery powered” has changed in my lifetime from meaning something was electric, energised, *powerful* to refering to a wheezing, low energy, poorly performing function.

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The Messy singer says her lungs feel "battery powered" due to the effects of vaping.

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setting aside the realities my generation and younger don’t read “1970’s” as fuel shortages and bin strikes, it’s all Bowie, spies, afros, muscle cars, poltergeists… yeah Burnham bring it back!

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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 29/09/2026

Shows the Sun’s ageing demographic that “a socialist plan to take Britain back to the 1970’s” is presented as a self evidently bad thing. Assuming they don’t sell a lot of newspapers to anyone under 45.

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Anthropic: "We are losing unimaginable amounts of cash, more every year. We are also delusional and think we are creating a vengeful god that will kill us all. Please give us more money than currently exists."

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Bent Pylon. A small ink drawing

An ink drawing of a bent pylon, kind of cloudy and overcast , loose and expressive

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LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Could be wrens, but if a little bigger and a bit greyer could be dunnocks? They're even sometimes known as hedge sparrows and very much into scurrying around under bushes.

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Temporary Bat @saredra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If it does turn out to be the diesel notion, that will be very funny. And questions should be asked of a certain president as to his apparent insider knowledge of diesel thievery in the UK.

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PaintSewGlueChew @paintsewgluechew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Two beautiful pigeon-shaped birds in my garden yesterday, never seen anything quite like them. One had their head right down in the ground foraging then when it noticed me flew off with a very distinctive “quacked” warning to its partner. No photo sorry.

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Brexit gave many a shock - we lived in a massive bubble where our views were mirrored back to us. Seeing the xenophobia and intolerance during campaigning and after the vote (albeit stoked by the media), was a nasty shock. Unfortunately I continue to be further disappointed frequently. 😕

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Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I saw this and I realised a certain person is now more willing to attribute agency, and therefore suffering, to a machine than they are to other people, immigrants or the poor.

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I really want someone with a massive speaker to play the Benny Hill music every time the Orange lads try to march down the road :)

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Spent all morning irritated by someone’s indirect snark at a mutual and debating whether to block them and of course the answer is always to block them.

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He's much more open to talking about it, and ways in which the last few decades have impacted him and his family. Obviously you can't extrapolate from a few individuals, but it feels like the ground, very slowly, is shifting. Digging up Drumcree really doesn't help, though.

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