Reposted by John SandyRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026100% perfect 5 star rating on Amazon ⭐ “One part Bill Bryson, one part Terry Pratchett and one part Chris Packham” ⭐ “Puts me very much in mind of the late, great Douglas Adams” ⭐ “Simultaneously fascinating and hilarious. I cannot recommend it enough” Get 25% off www.russelljonesauthor.comrusselljonesauthor.comThe Wolf That Chews Rocks by Russell JonesDogs, science and chaos. Buy the illustrated hardback direct for £18.99. 37715
Reposted by John SandyAidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 8h🇮🇪: Watching Americans have a conversation about red diesel 19618
John Sandy @shand.bsky.social · 7hstatic.klipy.comSeven Of Nine Says Well DoneAlt: Seven Of Nine Says Well Done 000
Reposted by John SandyChokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 10hThis is one reason why you shouldn’t upload work into LLMs during the peer review and grading processes. That work is confidential, and you have no right to share it without permission. You are taking someone’s intellectual property and giving it to the entire world without their consent. 7534202
Reposted by John SandyIdil @idilsukan.bsky.social · 10hThis is the problem I've been yelling about from the beginning. If you eliminate junior or early career tasks, work, research... you eliminate everything. The entire field comes down. There is no path to becoming middleweight, and definitely none to anyone becoming an expert ever again 24417
Reposted by John SandyTokyo Sexwhale @tokyosexwhale.bsky.social · 09/10/2026If you use REALART10 you’ll get 10% OFF (if you’ve been looking at buying a calendar)bsky.app 048
Reposted by John SandyVerypete Lambert @quiteamess.bsky.social · 08/10/2026People who've never made a television or radio programme and don't seem to even grasp what broadcasting is are in charge of winding down the BBC. Let's have an AI that tells you to watch another quiz! There'll be another teal-core cop show where half the characters never meet in a few months! 04414
Reposted by John SandySouth-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026From Aberdeen to Lambeth, Newcastle-under-Lyme to Holborn & St Pancras, Reform contested five by-elections yesterday. 💪 They lost all five… 😬 Five contests. Five defeats. That’s eleven out of eleven lost in a fortnight. Reform are not inevitable. 😉 Have a great weekend! #ReformLose 21467170
Reposted by John SandyThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026There’s always a tweet 242085607
Reposted by John SandyMei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence. 33114053888
Reposted by John SandyHigh Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 09/10/2026by all means, AI evangelists: leave me behind, off with you, godspeed, don’t let the door hit you news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...news.berkeley.eduUsing AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley NewsA UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life. 171337442
John Sandy @shand.bsky.social · 16hwww.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comZelenskyy furious as Trump announces deal to buy Russian dieselPresident says deal essential to lower US fuel prices but move set to create fresh crisis with Ukraine and Nato allies 000
Reposted by John SandyOlivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 09/10/2026Now’s probably a good time to say that a couple years back I turned down a five-figure offer from HarperCollins because they refused to put in a clause prohibiting AI from touching any of my books at any point in the process. I was lucky to be able to walk away, and it was the right thing to do. 429472
John Sandy @shand.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is a reminder that there are plenty of parties like an S Club Party. #totp 020
Reposted by John SandySathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played 10949641099
Reposted by John SandyLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books 4083482510497
John Sandy @shand.bsky.social · 09/10/2026My man looks like Edgar the Bug from ‘Men in Black’ but if he only drank Huel. 080
Reposted by John SandyGrumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 09/10/2026It looks startlingly like any pretence of having principles & values disappeared the moment someone offered Watson a fat paycheque. 181
Reposted by John SandyRobin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I am coming to Brighton next Sunday brightondome.org/whats-on/LEq... #comedy #poetry #performance #creativitybrightondome.orgRobin Ince & Joanna Neary / Comedy / What's On - Brighton DomeRobin is best known as presenter of The Infinite Monkey Cage for over 200 episodes as well as author of many books; most recently Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal about neurodivergence and his first ... 0335
Reposted by John SandyGirl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This confession is hard-won: the sins took work. There’ll be no fun in offering the full story quite so easily. She wants him to beat it out of her. www.girlonthenet.com/blog/confess... NEW #AudioPorn by me, feel free to click around for the other parts of the story.girlonthenet.com 062
Reposted by John SandyPatrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Reminder that Wes Streeting has a Bachelor’s degree in history. That’s it. Not a doctor. Not any health experience. Just a career politician, hollow as a gourd. 722171
John Sandy @shand.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You have to wonder though, what monumental fuck up he’s caused to warrant this diversion? 000
Reposted by John SandyNewsThump @newsthump.com · 09/10/2026NEWS! Coldplay to play halftime show of Pete Hegseths’ live-streamed firing squad execution newsthump.com/2026/10/09/c...newsthump.comColdplay to play halftime show of Pete Hegseths’ live-streamed firing squad executionUS Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced the execution of a former US Army major by firing squad will be live-streamed, with Coldplay set to play the halftime show. 39453119
Reposted by John SandyMicah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it 96114562660
Reposted by John SandyGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukPeter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHSA decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds... 18534421859
John Sandy @shand.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It’s, obviously, unconscionable that the US SecDef has declared an execution by firing squad will be live-streamed. But the way things are going, especially under his watch, they’ll miss. 100
Reposted by John SandyEric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating. 17966791944
Reposted by John SandyGeorge Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: Two EXTRAORDINARILY DRAMATIC huskies are singing the song of their people. Their heads poking out the side of an electrician's van that's driving down a busy street. People laughing as they go. AWOOOOO! 430744
Reposted by John SandyAngus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I can find any number of AI agents to recommend a film. But the BBC could be getting Mark Kermode to curate a list of the best British horror films, and that would be infinitely preferable. Or Bob Mortimer’s favourite comedies. Or Nigella’s cooking shows, or whatever. 43515
John Sandy @shand.bsky.social · 08/10/2026static.klipy.comAnimaniacs Wakko Warner: Tragic Story ThereAlt: Animaniacs Wakko Warner: Tragic Story There 020
Reposted by John SandyGeorgeous McGeorgeface 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇩🇪🏳️🌈🇪🇸🇮🇨🇳🇴 @georgeous.one · 08/10/2026Given the BBC has basically said the whole thing was incorrect from top to bottom, the editorial team behind this should be held accountable. They get to effectively walk away with their integrity intact. 141
John Sandy @shand.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Not parenting.static.klipy.comD'Arcy Carden as Janet SmilingAlt: D'Arcy Carden as Janet from The Good Place. 0120
Reposted by John SandyRen Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026ReformUK has been caught out several times staging videos - using friends, members or relatives masquerading as ‘members of the public’ or passing off film of events elsewhere or even Hollywood film clips, as real events happening in the U.K. Check everything, or you can assume it’s FAKE, FAKE FAKE. 075
Reposted by John SandyChortle @chortle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Suzi Ruffell wins Attitude magazine's comedy awarddlvr.itSuzi Ruffell wins Attitude magazine's comedy award'Comedy is my armour' 022
Reposted by John SandyMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 08/10/2026Stratford is one of Europe’s great regeneration success stories. It’s ready for its next chapter - European rail links. I’m proud to say I’m working with the government to deliver new cross-Channel trains from East London. The benefits would be felt far beyond our city.cityam.comSadiq Khan: Run international trains from Stratford instead of expanding HeathrowWith more Brits supporting increasing international rail over expanding airports, connecting Stratford to Europe is a no-brainer, writes Sadiq Khan. 1236878
Reposted by John SandyAlona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Excellent front page here 21807146
Reposted by John SandyJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is one of the most terrifying interviews I’ve ever seen. The slow reveal of the mental landscape at work here. If you don’t end up thinking we should stop these people with as much force as we can muster, I’d be very surprised. youtu.be/lnLDjXy2kRA?...youtu.beJacob Coxon On Witnessing the Existential Threat of AI from the Inside | The Daily ShowYouTube video by The Daily Show 1915664
Reposted by John SandyTauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Wasn’t able to secure any review code for HELLRAISER unfortunately. But I found this amazing FB clip of Doug Bradley doing a Scouse Pinhead and now I’m crying from laughter. He’s amazing. (Source: YMH Podcast.) 15833345
Reposted by John SandyEmily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Holy shit you guys there are so many things to see in this video. My favorite detail is one I recognize from studying Curiosity’s landing sequence. The vehicle rolls alternately left and right to control its lift as it enters the atmosphere in order to target its landing range 721351