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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

a late turn around gives Ipswich their third win of the season!

Ipswich Town 2 - 1 Fulham, with late late goals from Ouattara and O'Shea.

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

at his point BlueSky is more vibes than coding

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

you know what, I'm not sure this is ... actually the future at all?

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've been swapping football jokes with Google Gemini. This is the big G's latest attempt.

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the median UK terrorist is now a women in her 50s

UK arrests for terrorist-related activity are up 1,553% on the previous year, with 94% of arrests linked to showing support for the proscribed group Palestine Action

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

for some reason, one of this dangerous radical gang seems to have panicked and called the police

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Absolute vandalism 😠. Across the UK, many good university departments are being shredded like this, and there is no end in sight ...

8 FTE roles to be cut from the School of English; with other departures this is a 37% reduction in staff over a 24 month period.

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

yes I'd a couple of iced coffees before the interview, but I think it went well

Ewen Bremner as Spud in the film Trainspotting.

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

hmmm, is it "difficult" or is it "they can't be arsed" because there are no effective penalties?

Word Spam excusing the AI companies from due diligence on their own products.

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

an ominous email from the University VC, which makes it clear that guesses about future student demand are driving stab-in-the-dark decisions

"we are relatively vulnerable in several areas of activity, including some that are most exposed to rapid changes in student demand"

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

reading a bit about the Danelaw, and very confusingly it is Aethelred I who was found to be unready - though very quick with the excuse of piety ...

Æthelred could not be found at the start of battle, as he was busy praying in his tent, so Alfred led the army into battle.

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"The property would benefit from modernisation and cosmetic improvement"

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Here's yet another way in which the younger generations have been screwed over. I got 3 years of full National Insurance contributions simply for doing A-levels. Anyone who turned 16 after 2010 got nowt.

Between 1975 and 2010 the Government awarded "starting credits" for those aged 16, 17, 18 who stayed on for A-levels.

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

do Microsoft genuinely think this <<late-90s local-newspaper pincer-movement advert>> is going to encourage me to use Excel?? Let alone (spits) Copilot.

I can't read the article at all because of a pincer movement on either side from adverts for Microsoft Excel with Copilot.

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"very different people with very different ideas"

Scene from Gavin and Stacey: Nessa does some early home-schooling for Neil the Baby

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not to mention to AI button that offers to "Auto-Generate Discussion" !! 🤢 Here are some of the AI-generated comments ...

Some AI-generated comments for an introductory course of Special Relativity in physics.

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

in the year 2026, why is the "mark email as unread" button right next to the "delete" button? These are opposites.

a picture of a bin next to picture of a sealed envelope

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If the tech companies are so clever at tracking us to present personalised adverts catering to our every whim, how come I end up with basic slop like this? Who is paying good money to advertise so pointlessly??

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you can dodge a car, you can dodge a ball

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Glasgow has been getting slammed with torrential rain for hours as it hosts the Commonwealth Games. Funny* old world, innit. * not funny

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

OpenAI using the word "sandboxed" in an innovative and exciting new way ...

the testing environment was not, in fact, sandboxed

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Yorkshire not quite seeing the best of Joe Root ...

Root scored 254 without losing his wicket against India, after getting just 6 in two innings for Yorkshire.

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A bold strategy from Rooney. 😆

I'd drop Jude ... ... ... ... ... alongside Rice and Anderson defensively to have an extra player there.

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

football's a cruel mistress, Clive. she's, she's more than a mistress. She's a wife, she's a mother, she's a daughter, she's ... an errant child. she's… she can make you laugh, she make you cry. She can bring tears to me eyes. She can bring blood to me shoulders.

the great, much-missed Alan Latchley, talking to Clive Anderson

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed ...... and we will deserve it" -- Lindsey Graham.

Tweet from Lindsey Graham, who passed suddenly at age 71.

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Erling Haaland vs Big Dan Burn is the heavyweight match-up that the people want to see. The universal appeal of Big Units clashing. Godzilla v Mothra.

Haaland and BDB clashing in the Premier League.

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

my first experiments with AI are ... not going well

I worry about this technology in the hands of senior managers.

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

🎶 there's a girl that's been on my mind 🎶 all the time. Su-Su-Subbuteo

Figure from the Lionesses Subbuteo Box Set, 2018.

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

tuned in too early for the football coverage, and was reacquainted once again with my old nemeses ...

The Test Card, featuring the stupidest game of noughts and crosses ever, and two intellectual titans with eldritch psychic powers mocking us all.

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Hard to adjust to being anointed a living saint in a home World Cup at age 22, only to watch the Seleção crash out 7-1.

David Luiz and Cesar at the World Cup semi-final, remembering in sorrow Neymar who so tragically suffered a minor injury.

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I'd love the new Doctor Who to be that James Bond Chord guy

Short back and sides and blow your f*ing head off

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

you may break the laws of physics, Mr Kirk, but in this class you *will* respect the rules of grammar

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

actually it was about their dream dinner-party guests, but a good guess I suppose

what do Fidel Castro, Osama Bin Laden, Daniel Ek, Ronnie Biggs and Olav V of Norway have in common?

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

These three examples of how you might use @attie.ai, and the responses generated, just leave me scratching my head as to why? what? and also why??

Builders working on agent infrastructure and open protocol design

- Been thinking about how append-only logs change the trust model for agents. Accountability comes for free.

Posts about folklore, mythology, and traditional music, especially Celtic traditions.

- The Morrigan keeps showing up in my research on sovereignity myths. There's something about how she shifts form.

Poetry, long-form fiction craft, and writing process from people I follow

- Revised the third section again. Cut twelve lines. The myth underneath needed more room.

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Sam @samdolan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

a sunny picture from the strike at the University of Sheffield, fighting against restructures and job losses in areas including Chemistry, Material Sciences, History, English, East Asian Studies, IT services ...