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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 3h

Einstein, 111 years ago. "Our whole, highly praised technological progress and civilisation in general, can be likened to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal."

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 4h

Trump continues to take Steve Bannon's exhortation literally, some much so that he now lives it "Flood the zone with shit"

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 5h

To celebrate the deletion of my last remaining (moribund) Facebook account, a 1st for me: a photograph of my cooking. This regular dish is known, affectionately I trust, to the three generations that consume it, as my "slop".

Old hippy mix of onions, garlic, kidney beans, mushrooms, bell pepper, sweetcorn and chopped tomatoes, with some Worcestershire sauce, black pepper, paprika and cumin.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 6h

The greatest live music performance in the history of the universe (probably) m.youtube.com/watch?v=7e2B...

m.youtube.com

Johnny Cash - San Quentin (Live at San Quentin, 1969)

YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 10h

Everything Trump does is mimicked by these sad puppets.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 18h

I thought this at the time, over five years ago, the 1/6 Capitol riot. Not a blinding insight, but it was a rehearsal, a "proof of concept", a test of lawfare. And it succeeded; but the rest is not history, as the saying goes, it's the present.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A friend was voicing strong disapproval of the current gambling mania, esp. as represented by Polymarket and Kalshi, offering punters profit on misery bets. My mind drifted back a dozen years to...

A fake gold Oscar with the face of Oscar Pretorius, the Plympic double amputee sprinter, who murdered his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

(He's now out on licence, Steenkamp's mother "has forgiven him").

Ad from Paddy Power bookies
text
IT'S OSCAR TIME

MONEY BACK IF HE WALKS

WE WILL REFUND ALL LOSING BETS ON THE OSCAR PISTORIUS TRIAL IF HE IS FOUND NOT GUILTY.

PADDYPOWER.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Recently, Bond has come to mean more than 007 to us, the Persons on the Clapham Omnibus. We're not sure what, but "bonds are yielding more" and we don't like the sound of that. Like 007, dangerous. Maggie would have hated it all but Maggie, as it turns out, is a big part of the problem.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The size of *one* of the AI data centre buildings proposed for Great Torrington in north Devon, versus Exeter cathedral 🤯 From this useful piece profiling the local campaigns against it: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

A diagram comparing the size of one of the AI data centre buildings proposed for Great Torrington in north Devon, with Exeter cathedral. Source: Guardian piece linked to in post.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wondering whether this freeloading Tory was still married to a guy in the ff energy biz, I Searched the Internet. Found an insanely sanitised AI site masquerading as human, ukwisdom. co .uk, using the byline of Saba Asad, who I'll bet a pound to a penny, doesn't exist.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A quick look round the state of play today in #cricket, the sporting love of my life. We all adore Joe Root and always will, despite his recently grown third leg. The Tom Tom Club's season comes to a (meaningless) peak, three of them sharing 558 runs against sad Surrey. And West Indies...

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ofc this was on the cards, $$$ speak like never before in the academic world. Oxford also say they are "digitalising" the library. Depending on the process, this is a shit, high maintenance, low shelf life method of storage. Next step will also be in the name of $$$, "trophy" originals sold.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Non peer reviewed AI lorem ipsum under the byline of Tom Howarth, from the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, whose strap line is "Our goal is for reporting about AI to be treated with at least the urgency of other societal-scale challenges such as climate change." Don't write shit like this, then.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Well, if that's true, then it's a paste and tinsel crown. Tara owned JLR rely completely on their SUV range, Defenders and Range Rovers, for profitability and sales are all over the shop, mainly down. Their answer, the Jaguar 01, an EV brick, starting at £100k... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

JLR is 'jewel in the crown' of UK economy, says PM Andy Burnham

Burnham insists mass car production still has a future in the UK despite concerns over EU policy.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New article! On access journalism, AI replacements for people, and Trump's latest attack on freedom of the press: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...

sarahkendzior.substack.com

Gutting the Fourth Estate

The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Answers on a postcard please, to Dame Melanie Dawes*, Johnson appointee as Ofcom CEO. *not to be confused with "Margery Daw", an 'idle or lazy person'.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think US Americans so often have ridiculous names as a tactic, to make you less likely to take them and their fucked up behaviour seriously. I read that 'Chad Bianco' replaced 'Stan Sniff' as Sheriff in innocuously named Riverside County (most famous for its passion for death sentences).

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Epstein's lawyer, Darren Indyke. Florida estate agent, lawyer, overweight, badly dressed, middle aged white, with dead eyes and a goatee. Throw the key away.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The hopefully-dead-soon hand of Rupert Murdoch is found everywhere in the right wing world, in this example taking the form of TLS, to booster Orban's politicisation of Hungarian universities, and bung the loathesome James Orr loadsa munnee.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Farage's slavish following of Trump's doomed footprints, to courtroom and obscurity, continues. Tired, clichéd messaging, the Stalinesque projection of all sin onto opponents, regardless of its absurdity.

A phoned in tweet from Farage

REFORM

@Nigel_Farage

Instead of lowering your energy bills or cutting your taxes, Burnham has announced a National Centre for Information Defence.

This is a Labour Ministry of Truth targeted directly at Reform.

They know they can't win by fair means, so they're trying to destroy us by foul means.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Way to go, Sir Jim! "Bought two of these and both of them have stopped working. Since I bought it in the UK and wasn’t planning to return it and have thrown the packaging away, I can’t even return them. Disappointed that they scammed so good. Unbelievable that it lasted just two weeks.”

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Only Fans for mushroom fetishists.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

First time Vance has said anything rational.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The main users of Als are other Als and the main funders of Al companies are other Al companies" I asked Google AI "Is this good"? NO, it said. Cost of a million tokens: 🇨🇳DeepSeek V4 Flash costs $0.09 input / $0.18 output. 🇺🇲GPT-5.5 is $5 input / $30 output. memeburn.com/ai-agents-us...

memeburn.com

AI Agents Use 5x More Tokens Than Humans: What OpenRouter Data Reveals - Memeburn

AI agents on OpenRouter hit 7.3 trillion tokens, 5x more than humans. The a16z data reveals an AI economy where machines are the primary customers.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A 100% recommendation for this book. Sharp as a tack writing, lucid, witty, profane; not your average "historical novel" by miles. Laugh out loud and cry along with the multiple personalitied hero. #booksky

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

JAYNE MANSFIELD had an IQ of 163, spoke 5 languages, and was a more than proficient Violinist, as evidenced here playing Vivaldi's Concerto No. 6 in A minor on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1957.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I don't have many "friends": I have a number of aquaintances that I prize, though. Just finished an extremely stressful 10 day week that seems to have worked out ok. Walking slowly to the beach bar on this beautiful day, I met one of my "aquaintances". more

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Watching #Bitcoin degenerate into poker, played by a shrinking number of "Treasuries", I think its main achievement was enabling polite society to say, without censure, the word "nonce".

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One think I've always liked about interlekchewal US libertarians, is their total lack of self awareness.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh dear. Was that a 101 pitch, or maybe the bowling was superb? Nah.

YOR vs SOM

RESULT

YOR

212 & 275

SOM

(T:287) 201 & 101

Yorkshire won by 185 runs

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So, 214 to get, 7 wickets in hand and 30% change of rain from lunch onwards, on the final day, for a chance. Living in Somerset, on and off for 30 years, I loved the County Ground Field Bar, run by the legendary Pat McHale, watching some of the greats. #cricket bsky.app/profile/samc...

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This seventh wicket partnership from Yorkshire may be the end of Somerset's County Championship winning hopes. #cricket

YOR vs SOM

YOR

(55 ov) 212 & 121/6

Day 2 - Yorkshire lead by 132 runs.

Live

Scorecard

Commentary

George Hill

49

65

6

1

75.38

not out

Dom Bess

21

65 1

0

32.30

not out

Extras

3

(lb 1, nb 2)

Total

121/6

55 Ov (RR: 2.20)

YET TO BAT

Kuldeep Yadav, Ben Coad, Ben Cliff

FALL OF WICKETS

1-4 (William Luxton, 1.2 ov), 2-5 (Adam Lyth, 5.1 ov), 3-21 (James Wharton, 13.3 ov), 4-40 (Matthew Revis, 28.4 ov), 5-45 (Jonny Bairstow, 31.6 ov), 6-54 (Sam Whiteman, 33.5 ov)

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

JFC, Bluesky reposts are really tedious, with every other American account gnashing their teeth over more AI slop Truth Social garbage like this, when it's a pound to a penny bet that Natalie Harp is posting it, using Grok or GPT "in the style of President Trump", and the senile fuck has no clue.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A thread 🧵, on Ben Delo and his one successful idea, on Bitmex, the vehicle, and a short history of #Bitcoin bsky.app/profile/samc...

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Healthy dinners" is like "Affordable housing": why should their opposites even exist?

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Whilst we're hating on Delo, a couple of things I haven't seen mentioned: 1) His nitpicking complaint to IPSO about the Oct 2020 Times article "Bitcoin tycoon’s £5m gift gives Oxford the jitters" IPSO went through the motions, as usual. more www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/2924...

ipso.co.uk

Resolution Statement – 29243-20 Delo v The Times - IPSO

Ben Delo complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation that The Times breached Clause 1 (Accuracy) of the Editors’ Code of Practice in an article headlined “Bitcoin tycoon’s £5m gift give...

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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

An unelected American 🇺🇸 with no diplomatic experience is telling me to surrender my home, and telling Ukraine 🇺🇦 to surrender even more land, to an imperialist, fascist dictator committing acts of terrorism every day. I never thought I’d see the day, but here we are 🇺🇸

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