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The Angel of death strikes again “His death came less than 24 hours after Archer had met and signed books for hundreds of fans at a sold-out event with broadcaster Gyles Brandreth”

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 3h

In which Turing devises a method to determine whether women are conscious

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18h

RIP to everyone's party infiltrated by the Trots but I'm different. Maybe even better organised than the Trots.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

adding '5 British doggers' to the list of surprising defeats for the US military, alongside the IRGC, Viet Cong, and geography

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Found out yesterday that one of the first pet cats whose name we know belonged to Crown Prince Thutmose of the 18th dynasty pf Egypt. She was named Ta-Miu, which translates, roughly, as "Miaow Girl".

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 04/10/2026

So basically five muppets with a couple of vans is enough to see the US withdraw bombers from Europe? If the USSR had known that, the Cold War might have turned out quite differently. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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US removes all bombers from RAF Fairford back to home stations

A statement says all bombers deployed to RAF Fairford have been "re-deployed to their home stations" in the US.

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think it’s actually really important for the Greens to lose that by-election now, cause if they win it will be used to brush away all objections to what they did today

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He's bad in many many ways but he's not a traitor or a Nazi

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This was a two act play by the Russians. It’s both a tragedy and a comedy.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Very dapper for someone whose mother (Anna Magdalena) became homeless, died destitute and was buried in a pauper's grave.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The London Bach: composer Johann Christian Bach with sheet of music; painted in 1776, by his friend Gainsborough: with sparkle of silver tassels on brown coat, blue & silver silk waistcoat, & diamond ring; ruffled white lace cravat & cuffs loosely brushed in impasto. National Portrait Gallery London

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thought the Unabomber film was pretty good. Strong performances from all the leads.

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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The fact that there are multiple Tolkien, Star Wars, and Star Trek properties out there that I have no interest in and I’m taking the side of the Pope against the AI geeks is strong circumstantial evidence that we’re living in an ironic hell built specifically for 14-year-old me.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There is a book about programmers during the dot com era called "The Nudist on the Late Shift"

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He's not offering to only pay Republican voters, he's offering to pay everyone. It's stupid but legal.

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jamie powell @ajbpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

<whispers> the uk is 10-year is the best performing in developed mkts over the past year

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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Terry Pratchett (Right)

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If as a Green Party your number one priority is dictating what synagogue Jews can and can't go to, you've lost the fucking plot.

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

On this front, I think JEV is very exciting

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 01/10/2026

I figured out what happened: all the lesswrong space cadets doing their bayesian math on RSI and ASI and so on had the signs flipped. what happens is that as soon as AI exists EVERYTHING ELSE gets STUPIDER at an accelerating rate. Easy mistake to make.

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Steve Reich was born otd, 3 October 1936 - he turns 90 today. What a remarkable artist he is. He is one of the most influential American composers of the last 60 years, and I struggled to choose just one work. In the end, I have decided to share Different Trains - one of his most important works.

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thebelovedaunt.bsky.social @thebelovedaunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jerry, you lay next to a near-cadaver for years. #CelebrityTraitors

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not as much of a cunt as the guy that presented The Apprentice in the US

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026

I keep seeing this Semafor graph that seems to show the Trump administration’s effect on international visits is comparable to the pandemic. My first thought was “that can’t be true” and indeed it is not. This is monthly data. We only have to Jun/Aug 2026. The lines are over-fitted to the months.

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Emma Haworth • Night Swimmers • night Venticelli •

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Congratulations to Elon Musk, who successfully made it to Mars by 2026.

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thousand-year-old decadent orange emperor that destroys the universe's sole source of transport fuel in pursuit of a new paradigm where it's no longer necessary. Leto II Atreides, or Donald John Trump?

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gork I started a war with Iran and it’s not going well. Do a breakthrough

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What a fantastic thing to chant as well

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

PSA: The Wine Society's Ukrainian chardonnay is pretty gluggable

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Helpful diagram of Man City’s finances. Not entirely sure it’s helpful to the transparency argument

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The only alcoholic drink I couldn't drink neat, couldn't make into a palatable cocktail, and had to give away

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:

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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Someone at work once asked me what my guilty pleasure was and I immediately shot back “pleasure never makes me feel guilty.” I’ve seldom felt cooler than I did in that moment. Literally one minute later I tripped on an extension cord and hit my head on a whiteboard in front of the entire office

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah it’s a real mystery

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