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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 20h

“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Reading a book about Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs, and the wild characters who swirled around them. Fascinating stuff, but somehow, and despite a cameo by Kinsey, the author can't get his head around the concept of bisexuality.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is why I told the transphobe on Piccadilly Gardens to fuck off, and why this year's Pride parade felt more emotional. I want to do more to help. I will do more to help. I just don't know what that will be yet.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I would spend far too much time, and possibly money, in the Old Shit shop.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Creepy flat cap transphobe was on Piccadilly Gardens again. So I told him to fuck off again.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'd rather Google didn't stalk me through my phone, but the monthly round up of what they've watched me do is fascinating. Apparently, last month I went skiing for 4 miles. I'd love to know where and when they think I did that, because I don't remember it.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's October 1st, and one of my tomato plants finally decided to flower.

Flowers on a tomato plant, which offers the possibility of fruit. But it's October 1st.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think most of these are new since the last time I rode along the Fallowfield Loop. #graffiti

Two pieces of graffiti, side by side. One says 'Dances with the daffodils' around cartoon animals. The other, 'Quit your job!', in a speech ballot over a pink cat(?).

Graffiti on the Fallowfield loop- "NO RAIN NO GAIN".
Obviously done during one of the heatwaves.

Graffiti on the Fallowfield Loop of a skull, blue against a colourful background.

Graffiti on the Fallowfield Loop. "DAVE"

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

god wants you to back my kickstarter 💦 kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How do we incentivize people to paint wizards on their vans again I haven’t seen a wizard van in a decade and it feels like we lost something precious Can we offer up a tax credit? Little bags of shrooms? Start a wizard van painting program at vocational schools?

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Beetle Battle- Best of 1:32 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQHr... Which is the best 1:32 Volkswagen Beetle kit? The results surprised me. You can buy original models and more from Spinneyworld at - ift.tt/QGHcVIw Support Spinneyworld on Patreon - ift.tt/mQfuA24 And don't fo…

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can be around sucker for quirky packaging.

Engine organic gin, which comes in a tiny that looks like a vintage oil can. Don't ask me if it's any good. I don't drink gin. I've been meaning to try it, to see if I like it, and this pushed me over the edge into buying some.

Autumn squash, which is shaped like a video game mushroom. I could get a plumber to jump on it and see what happens, but I'd rather eat it.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I just realised that I have taken Ike A Rat to New York, London, and Paris*, and must now take him on a trip to Munich so he can talk about pop music. *and Budapest and Tokyo, and other places I've currently forgotten.

Ike A Rat, stuffed toy and sometime mascot.

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have been sent further shed roof images, so you can all stay up to date with progress.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 22/09/2026

Making Tax Digital is really just Making Self-Employed People Do More Work and Pay More Money.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sunday in Manchester www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdYz... Some of the things I saw around town before the Police turned up.

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Sunday in Manchester

Some of the things I saw around town before the Police turned up.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Massive Police presence for an arrest on Newton Street www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWEd... Sunday always was the day for Police dramas. The Manchester Evening News are covering it live-

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Live: Cordon in place on Manchester city centre street

A cordon is in place this afternoon - updates as we get them

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 20/09/2026

Elite was released 42 years ago. This space trading open world game is considered to be the forerunner of many modern games, as well as being an important milestone in the history of space sci-fi. Art by Philip Castle🔽

Box art by Philip Castle.

The image is dominated by the game's title, "ELITE," rendered in a bold, golden 3D font with large, stylized wings, resembling a prestigious pilot's insignia. The scene depicts key elements from the game:

The Cobra Mk III: The sleek, saucer-shaped ship in the foreground is the player's starting vessel, the legendary Cobra Mk III.

Coriolis Station: The massive, geometric structure is a Coriolis space station, the rotating hubs of trade and commerce where players would dock.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Day 6. With that,I leave this project, and will be doing a more urban job next week. I've been promised updates, and will post them as I get them.

Shed at the start of the day, looking glorious after yesterday's work.

Shed at noon, with face plate and some more bracing.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's vastly more comforting to believe in an imminent robot apocalypse than the truth: the things that will destroy us are extensions of the unsexy but obvious problems all around us. We are not doomed in one grand way, but a thousand petty small ways.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Day 5 youtube.com/shorts/np7b4...

The shed at the end of the day, now with a new ridge and lots of rafters.

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Day 4 youtube.com/shorts/WOGoj...

Rear wall of the shed. Check out the gap under the wall plate.

Rear wall of the shed, after the gap had been filled with stones and mortar. (I had nothing to do with this, it takes months, at least, to learn how to mortar this well.)

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Day 3 youtube.com/shorts/q0PI0...

Stone built shed without a roof, waiting for another day's work.

Pile of timber, ends cut at an angle, which will become rafters.

Stone built shed after another day's work. It doesn't look like much, but there has been progress here, as well as in the lumber pile.

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Lenna @lennalenna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I want being trans to be boring and normal I want getting HRT to be as mundane as getting glasses or some shit I want to be able to be myself, day to day, enjoying the calming sublime nature of simply existing Why must I argue in need to defend my existence and dumb shit like that?

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Day 2 youtube.com/shorts/m_-6V...

End of day two working on the shed. It doesn't look like much, but there is now a face plate in and levelled, that everything that follows can be aligned to.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026

Free newsletter: The idea that we're nearing the creation of AI systems that we can't control and that pose an existential threat to humanity is a lie and a distraction from the tangible harms and problems caused by LLMs and AI labs' near-unlimited resources. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...

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Ian Pattinson @spinneyhead.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Day 1. youtube.com/shorts/CvYft...

Stone built shed with corrugated metal roof.

Stone shed, now with its roofing removed, awaiting new spars etc., and replacement roof sheets.

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