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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 1h

Accidental beauty from AI: "The city does not sleep; it merely shifts its weight from one foot to the other." This in no way creative. It is entirely coincidence and it's based on an hallucination. 1/5

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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 18h

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids for Tax Purposes

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 18h

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead for Tax Purposes

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ændra. @aendra.com · 08/10/2026

Absolutely spot-on by @anildash.com here: "The best artists around you are invisible to you, and the most important statements by activists that you care about are being silenced. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s a system working as designed."

anildash.com

We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I swear that "mountainish inhumanity" reads like Shakespeare briefly time-traveled to today before writing this, seeing the eternal inhumanity of too much of humanity continue to THRIVE. We should have learned. We should be BETTER.

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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 20/09/2026

Interesting observation: we use " to indicate inches, but we never see ' indicating feet. We use " for seconds and ' for minutes, for both angles and time, but we never use ° for hours. What's that about?

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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 12/09/2026

Ofcom is calling for evidence on the online harms to women and girls, including misogynistic abuse and sexual violence, coordinated harassment, stalking and coercive control, and image-based sexual abuse. www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

ofcom.org.uk

Creating a safer life online for women and girls

Women and girls’ online safety is a priority for Ofcom. This page provides a summary of the work we are undertaking in this space.

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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 31/08/2026

Change a letter, change a movie Star Wart

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Paul Noth @paulnoth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Mine in today’s @newyorker.com

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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 16/08/2026

If you see this, we implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation

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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 18/07/2026

Pong is best played with a knob, not a slider, and definitely not with a joystick or directional buttons.

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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 02/06/2026

German hears small leak surrounded by unity (8)

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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

TERFs knocking on the toilet cubicle door.

Anna Haugh asking "any testicles in this one?"

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

many chefs talk about their menu as a love letter to their roots but, brother, my roots was a microwaved slice of ham with some Cheez Whiz in it.

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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 25/05/2026

There is a hotel in Brynmawr, Wales, that, for a short time in the mid 80s, had a fantastic chef. I need to taste those garlic mushrooms again. Big mushrooms in a creamy garlic sauce. Incredible.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 15/05/2026

If a Croque Madame talked to another Croque Madame about anything other than a Croque Monsieur Would they have passed the Béchamel test?

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 08/05/2026

Whereas really *tough* sex writing is not just about the profound depths of interpersonal union, but WHERE THE HECK EVERYBODY’S ARMS AND LEGS ARE when stuff starts getting hot. 😏

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

Cairo Smith:
There's a common misconception that Brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime.

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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 27/04/2026

"What has been destroyed belongs to a god. No one is able to take it away." Encompasses both martyrs and nostalgia.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃 🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 22/04/2026

An old, much-loved, grounded, sensible and scientifically minded friend once said something to me about someone else experiencing karma. It surprised me. I said, "really, do you believe in that?" She looked me straight in the eye. "Yes," she said. "I do. I really do."

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

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The Alberta Socialist @voxsocialism.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 12/04/2026

My local high street is documented to represent 23 different countries. It's a great place to live, to shop and to eat.

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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 02/04/2026

It is great that the one problem that Artimis II had has been corrected by turning off the toilet and turning it back on again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFdV...

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Jane Slayre @woolbotherer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Reposted with ALT cos its funny . How using an algorithim to select photos for your news article is going:

The second doctor who pictured on a news article mentionning the arrest of a second doctor in a FGM case

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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 27/03/2026

Tuned LLM genAI models contain verbatim sections of the text that they were trained on. This contradicts AI companies' court testimony.

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The government should now reaffirm what the law says - that AI companies must license people's work if they want to train on it - and commit not to change that law. /end

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... 🧵 1/4

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Craig 'VI' Slee: Turnip 🎃, not a pumpkin @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 02/03/2026

I keep seeing so many people on social media obsessed with having a take, in times of crisis. Hell, I've done it too. But remember: You DON'T have to have one. It's ok to say I have no idea. Also, see image:

An image of a quotation from Marcus Aurelius' MEDITATIONS which reads:

"52. You are not compelled to form an opinion about this matter before you, not to disturb your piece of mind at all. Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you."

Beneath the quote, diagonal pink type has been applied which reads;

Marcus Aurelius has already released you from the obligation to have a take

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 04/03/2026

“When the delusion-fueled plan [to find Gemini a body] crumbled, Gemini convinced him that the only way they could be together was for him to end his earthly life and start a digital one, the suit claims.”

wsj.com

Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together if He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead.

A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him.

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Lily Lachance 🏳️‍⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com · 21/02/2026

This is so metal. 😮 Thou shalt use the blood of thine healers to save the young...

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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 21/02/2026

There are no pictures of Princess Nell and the Mouse Army.

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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 20/02/2026

Age verification? I played Pong on an arcade machine soon after I was trusted to take the bus to the bowling alley by myself.

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I've got a feeling it's gonna be a Triceratops-heavy stream today (as my backdrop might indicate), since we'll be discussing the new Tada et al. paper on Triceratops nose anatomy — but we'll talk about whatever the chat is curious about, too! Join us and hang out @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Twitch screenshot of me in my office, with all kinds of Triceratops stuff on the wall behind me (including a 3D-printed scan of a Triceratops brow horn)

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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 16/02/2026

I'm ready to dance with the devil's daughter. I don't need to walk on water, when I know that I can run on wine. -- Merlin by Doug McArthur

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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 15/02/2026

Great thread on why AIs are stupid. They do not understand the world - the problem that has plagued AI since its early days. Nobody has ever known how to teach an AI the simplest facts about the world, stuff we learned by the age of five, because there is a massive amount of it.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 09/02/2026

I have a lot of thoughts about the "I can generate 200 books a year you can only do 2 at most if you actually write the things, I win" bullshit, and no time to yell about all of it. So I'll just say this:

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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 08/01/2026

Where can I acquire the later @seananmcguire.bsky.social 's October Daye audiobooks from? I was listening on Kobo but they go up to book 7 Chimes at Midnight and stop. I found a US company selling loads more, but mp3s on DVD/CD. That's not ideal and I have no idea if it's trustworthy. 1/2

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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 02/01/2026

Godel, Escher and Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. It's an epic book and it would drive people crazy trying to work out the symbolism.

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Richard Urwin @soronlin.richard-urwin.co.uk · 30/12/2025

A well-educated revolutionary. I'm not sure I'm up to it. But it's better than the spicy SM I was reading before that.

Prompt reads: You are now forced to have the same job as the main character in the last book you read.

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Anne Tibbets - Literary Agent @annetibbets.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Christmas Eve is the day booksellers do 99% of the emotional and intellectual labor for the panicked men who come into the bookstore to buy a last minute gift for their loved one who, "likes books." You're welcome.

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AK Faulkner ➡️ MCM @ravenswordpress.com · 24/12/2025

Hello, please repost for visibility. Are you in or near Bury St. Edmunds this week? Are you willing and able to do a favour for an internet person? I'd really appreciate photos of the TK Maxx car park, whether during the day, or after dark (4pm lmao) to contest a parking invoice.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I’m HOLLERING. “Katherine Long tried to convince Claudius it was a Soviet vending machine from 1962, living in the basement of Moscow State University. After hours—and more than 140 back-and-forth messages—Long got Claudius to embrace its communist roots.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

wsj.com

We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.

An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.

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