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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.
Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026
If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
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Screenshot from the Trump Administration’s new AI Chatbot:

Can the president rename
Artificial Intelligence?

No. Official sources do not show that a president can rename the term "artificial intelligence" itself.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
They are shutting this down by the end of the day.
Can the president build a giant triumphal arch in Washington
DC without congressional authorization?

No. Not on federal park or public grounds in the District of Columbia without express authority of Congress. I
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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
EXACTLYYYY
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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jet fuel (basically paraffin / kerosene) doesn’t “explode”. Something pretty energetic is needed to set it off
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You could show more confidence as a country by putting AI nowhere near centre stage, and shouting that you won’t be taken in. That’s a confident move. Just like you would magic beans, or a perpetual motion machine, or Bagpuss’ Mouse Mill with the chocolate biscuits.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Those who think AI is going to largely automate white collar jobs in the next couple of years don’t understand the nature of work - @sarahoconnorft.ft.com nails it www.ft.com/content/4aad...
It is not obvious that AI agents could eliminate the need for this type of work, since it involves persuasion, contestation and the exchange of tacit knowledge and experience that is spread across different departments, and often exists inside people's heads rather than in a neatly codified handbook on the intranet.
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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Now seems as good a time as any to post the plasticine Frank Muir that I built for the ‘Amateur Frank Muir Modeller’ Viz ad back in 2006.
A plasticine model of Frank Muir.
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 29/09/2026
golden catio
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Based on my own reporting on OpenAI's audited financials from 2025, it appears that Anthropic was a worse business (at least in that year), spending $2.75 make $1 versus OpenAI spending $2.60 to make $1. So many people told me this company was "more profitable"! www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...
OpenAl Lost $38.5 Billion In 2025
2025 — OpenAl Had $13.07 Billion In Revenue, $34 Billion In Costs and Expenses, and $20.92 Billion In Losses, with a net loss attributable to the company of $38.53 Billion
• Revenue: $13.07 billion
• Cost of Revenue: $7.5 billion
• Research and Development: $19.18 billion
• Sales and Marketing: $5.73 billion
• General and Administrative: $1.57 Billion
• Total Costs and Expenses: $34 billion
• Loss from Operations: $20.92 billionThe Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year, a threefold surge from 2024, accounting for more than half of its
$12.65 billion in total operating expenses.
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AppleInsider @appleinsider.com · 28/09/2026
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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Meta's new AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is important. Public domain photography paid for by the taxpayer being denied to the public because of obsessions with DRM and doing ostensibly fashionable things with useless and financially non-viable tech-bro start-ups
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
cuth pube
A sign that attempts to spell out "the Cube pub" by shifting the B in Cube down with the PU right before it and TH before the E.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thought at first the image was flopped, but no, the Ford badge on the nose does actually say Ford
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I had one of these back when I did a daily 90 minute each way rail commute in and out of London. This was ofc long before lightweight laptops and 3G mobile so you had to sync to your PC at each end. It was a superb piece of industrial design, and incredibly useful for its time
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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
let's buy Dorothy L Sayers' weird old motorbike which, surely, when started in JUST the right way will carry us off through the early-autumn mists into a 1920s Lord Peter Wimsey novel...
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
tech ceos are openly salivating about the idea of kids losing basic literacy and numeracy. this tells you pretty much all you need to know
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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is so lovely to see my Equinox image in today's national press. I don't earn a lot of money from it but it does all count and is also quite exciting if I am honest to see my work published. Glast day of Summer did make me laugh a bit though 😂
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
More options on this bus than I expected!
Screen display inside a bus: “Did you know? You can also tap off with the driver”
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This chart suggests yes! Hyperscalers ARE crowding out the US Treasury!
Hockey stick chart from JPM AM titled “Hyperscaler + NVIDIA 10 yr+ debt issuance (incl. SPVs) as a percent of Treasury bond issuance” (using 10yr UST equivalents).
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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Many years ago, when we all lived in York, I had a single enormous BranFlake that had filled the entire packet. I kept it in the fridge for a very long time, so I could look at it every day and show it to people, to expand their minds as to what was possible. The world of experience.
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hi-- My wife is selling off her dad's collection of cameras and camera accessories. Her dad kept them in excellent to excellent-to-mint condition. These are all for a vintage Nikon S2. If you're interested in buying anything, e-mail me at jjnevins@ix.netcom.com Thanks!
Nikon S2 camera body, serial number: 6158222, plus instruction booklet
Lens Nikkor-S.C 1:1.4 f=5cm Nippon Kogaku Japan No. 367079 with hood and original lens cap
Lens Nikkor-Q.C 1:3.5 f=13.5cm Nippon Kogaku Japan No. 261655 with hood and original leather case
Lens W-Nikkor-C 1:3.5 f=3.5cm Nippon Kogaku Tokyo No. 426869 with original cap and leather case
Lens Nikkor-P.C 1:2 f=8.5cm Nippon Kogaku Japan No. 404330 with hood, original cap, and original leather case
Nippon Kogaku Japan 13.5cm accessory viewfinder for Nikon S-series rangefinder in original leather case
Nippon Kogaku Japan 8.5cm accessory viewfinder for Nikon S-series rangefinder in original leather case
Nippon Kogaku Japan 3.5cm accessory viewfinder for Nikon S-series rangefinder in original leather case
Nikon Flash Unit Model BC-5, with instructions in original box
Bel-View filter set for Nikon: four filters in original leather case
Vivitar red filter 43mm
Three reusable 35mm metal film cassettes/magazines for Nikon rangefinder, two likely brass
Vintage Japanese shoe-mount selenium exposure light meter with hinged photocell cover, exposure calculator, maker/model unknown, with original leather case
Minori mechanical camera self-timer / delayed shutter release, made in Japan, PAT. 23650/DSG.9550 in original leather case
Voightlander VC Meter II, new light meter, probably used with Nikon S2, in original box
Pleasant Auto-Up I Super Nooky for Nikon S2, Nikkor F1.4
Tiffen All Purpose Series #5 Adapter Ring in original box
Beseler Camera bag
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The British right has now descended to the point where 'the England team are not English' is becoming the consensus position
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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 23/09/2026
She was named after a character on a US TV show. Could not get more English.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
hey everybody, welcome to my youtube channel! Please be sure to hit like and subscribe! In this video we'll talk about what you can do when there's a chainsaw wielding maniac hot on your tail! but first let's take a look at how chainsaws work
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film-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Screening at 9.05pm tonight on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social, Scandal is a 1989 political drama which reflects on the Profumo affair and the impact of his sex-scandal on the British establishment. It's a smart and underrated movie; 5 out of 5 #TPTVsubtitles #TPTV film-authority.com/2026/01/24/s...
film-authority.com
Scandal - film-authority.com
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Genuinely: this is pointless unless you're a constituent and his team should, rightly, hit delete immediately or simply tell you to email your MP. Do email your MP tho - particularly if theyre Labour
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Autumn poem just dropped.
[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:
 
  comm   n pr  ble    whe    writin    p   ems
in the shape of decid o   s trees
is t  at once t   ere ar   ives
the fir   t sti   rings of    he new aut   mn breeze,  
  he       oems will begi    to shake    hemselves ge   tly  
  ntil their letters loos   n like leaves,
an they d start to float down
then
 
[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]

turntomushuponthegroun

[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I really am rather fond of Corydon Bell’s cover for a 1937 edition of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”.
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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
20 seconds of Dave the robin relaxing near the bird café-he knows he’s well hidden from cats & sparrow hawks & is *very* well fed and watered. He’s basically at a birdy spa day rn…🪶 Also v relaxing for your brain, as footage of appealing animals & birds alleviates anxiety in humans…
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
bear with me but... wouldn't it be wild... if the head of the British Library had ever been... a librarian??
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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
True, and add to the list of unsupported growth engines: UK creative industries
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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh, Viz.
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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s taken a long time for the WH press corps to discover its spine, but at last it has, and this is a very welcome pushback
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.
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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good morning to you, my little…
Package saying “16 Twisted Firestarters, 100% Natural
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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm a 99p Kindle weekly deal. Tell all your non dead friends! www.amazon.co.uk/Get-Ahead-Be...
Red background. Kindle with Get Ahead of Being Dead on the screen. Only 99p on Kindle. 14-20 Sept.
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Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is ROARING ahead on views, biggest opening couple of hours we have had for ages! Check it out, before YouTube runs out of electrons
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 18/09/2026
Worried about AI Robots? All you need is more ram, and a dogged determination to overcome.
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