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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 13h

Of all the ‘Tism’s posts this might come closest to my heart.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 13h

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

Gloria Holden in the surprisingly good Dracula’s Daughter (1936). A pale-faced woman wearing a black hood stands by a tree trunk, looking gloomy or possibly bored. I can’t say which, I think I last saw the film when I was about 17 and into classic horror.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 14h

Suppose I’d better watch Burnham’s speech after all, then.

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 23h

Humans are messy and imperfect and emotional and funny and they pour that into their art. Why would anyone want to outsource that to the planet-killing plagarism machine?

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026

Either this is true, in which case *what are we doing here*? Shut it down. Or it's bullshit, in which case these are truly silly people unworthy of our money

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think the literal truth of it is that, even if Anthropic had been able to work out how to annihilate humanity, the compute would cost too much to actually do it bsky.app/profile/pick...

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 28/09/2026

... how fragile is human knowledge: there's no documentation anwhere to one of the chips in the iPod, 'Mikey' (it decodes the iPod earphone remote), bar a 16year old blog post. The blog no longer exists, just a wiki mirror of it.

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 28/09/2026

There is a whole vibrant cottage industry at moment of people resurrecting ipods - the simplicty appeals, just bringing Bluetooth and a few other things to their previously locked down Apple systems. Like this one: terminalbytes.com/reverse-engi...

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Reverse Engineering the iPod Classic's Undocumented Mikey Chip | TerminalBytes

How I reverse engineered the iPod Classic's undocumented Mikey chip to get Apple's inline earphone remote working in Rockbox, 15 years into the port.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m not usually up at this time, but sometimes your brain wakes up before your body, y’know?

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Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t understand why anyone would enable an AI agent to act on their behalf independently. I’m not an AI doomer and use it myself, but never like this.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ve played with her, she’s good fun. We lost, but that’s partly because a bloke on the team decided to run off on his own. Typical man. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Gamer granny is oldest female Fortnite streamer in world record book

Cath Bowie, from Moray, began playing the online shooter in 2017 and now has an audience of around 24,000 followers.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Shakespeare f-bomb thing was perfected decades ago by Richard Curtis in his ‘Skinhead Hamlet’.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Full credit to the Royal Festival Hall who, since my last visit, seem to have made their toilets gender-neutral.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can't help thinking that EU relations is just one of many issues where Labour is stuck without good choices but reluctant to make a case for bold actions. Perhaps the next days will say different, but I suspect caution will win out.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A leopard. That way they remember me, and I have a fallback if I think things are going badly.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m 58. I expect to live at least into my eighties. Sadly I do not think we will rejoin the EU in my lifetime. It’s worth also wondering what the EU will look like at the end of that time. Particularly if Le Pen and the AfD win power.

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When was the last time our Secretary of State for Culture displayed anything approaching this degree of public enthusiasm for our world-class arts industry? Has she been seen anywhere? Given impending charter renewal... did she even bother to visit a single prom?

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How I feel right now about the British/ 🇬🇧English( whatever) political landscape is that some one wrapped in a Union Jack could whack me over the head with a flag pole & the BBC would shove a microphone in my face asking why I provoked the attacker & the Home Sec would invite the attacker for tea .

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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 24/09/2026

Samsung have a design flaw with their smart fridges: if the software stops working, then the fridge stops working. A recent OTA update to the fridges left them bricked - and food spoiled. www.androidauthority.com/samsung-acci...

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Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update

Some Samsung smart fridge owners in Korea have reported that their fridges stopped working after a SmartThings update.

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Jake Kanter @jakekanter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New: The BBC is expected to announce the closure of TV and radio services early next week. Speculation is rife that BBC Three is at risk of being unplugged for a second time in a decade. Nothing is confirmed at this stage. deadline.com/2026/09/bbc-...

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BBC Expected To Announce TV & Radio Network Closures Next Week

The BBC is gearing up to announce the closure of TV and radio services early next week, with speculation internally that BBC Three is at risk.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And still no comment from him on the far right. Also, that’s a really clumsily written headline.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

FINALLY. Still not the top story, but it’s there and with more or less the correct focus. (Bad: still being referred to as an ‘activist’. No mention of the risk to human life. Good: indicating police are involved. Actual photo of the incident.)

BBC News website headline: “Police examine video of anti-migrant activist slashing dinghy with knife.”

Above is a photo of a bearded man in sunglasses who appears to be slashing a dinghy with a knife. That’s because he IS slashing a dinghy with a knife.

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Jay @mrjblade.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know jazz isn't for everyone but bringing even a tiny bit of music theory to it shows how ahead of their time these guys were and no one more than Coltrane. As OP points out, the fact he practically reinvented a whole system & never shared it, even with his sidemen, made him a musical polyglot.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Two new generic ballot polls. Marist D+12, CNN D+8

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I rarely write to my MP but I’ve just asked mine to encourage the PM to openly condemn the far right. My MP’s a minister so I don’t expect a reply which diverts from the party line, but maybe it’ll have an effect behind the scenes.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My assumption is they’re all scared that they’ll be knifed too. It’s the very definition of terrorism. They’re too frightened.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A century 🎂

John Coltrane, holding a tenor saxophone

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

Fifteen journalists led the Arday coverage. Between them they wrote 93 articles about a Black Cambridge professor accused of copying other people's work. Not one of them wrote a sentence about a Cambridge academic under police investigation for how a political party was funded.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

britmap · 22 SEPTEMBER 2026 ● 89 ● 87 ● 94 ◐ 59 ● 85 Total: 796/1000 · www.britm.app Literally never heard of one of them. Got lucky that some of the others were Wales/West Country.

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britmap

The daily British history map puzzle.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Now that I've figured out how Claude can write code for me I need AI to suggest things that I might actually need code for.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If anyone wanted a follow-up on the Reddit thread about the trans man denied bathroom access at work, it’s here. www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdvic...

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From the LegalAdviceUK community on Reddit: UPDATE - FtM transgender facing two different issues at work?

Posted by Dijstraanon - 1,611 votes and 0 comments

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

britmap · 20 SEPTEMBER 2026 ● 87 ● 85 ● 96 ● 84 ◐ 54 Total: 778/1000 · www.britm.app · Day 2 I got lucky with Scotland.

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britmap

The daily British history map puzzle.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Probably the Civ series. It’s the first game that I literally struggled to walk away from, regardless of hunger, bladder or wife.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Well, the youngest is now ensconced in his uni hall and I’m on my way back to London. I worry about him of course, but he seemed quite happy to be there. I don’t think I could be a student nowadays, for a multitude of reasons.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

britmap · 19 SEPTEMBER 2026 ● 99 ● 100 ● 95 ● 100 ○ 36 Total: 797/1000 · www.britm.app It was going fine until I got the wrong country for the last one. Still, proud of getting No 4 - a building I’ve never been to, in a city I’ve visited only twice.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Today I have to get on a train at lunchtime with a suitcase that must weigh over 20kg. Why? Because my son is starting uni and there isn’t room in the car for me and his clothes. Yes, I know what you’re going to say.

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Paul Carey Jones @paulcareyjones.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The most important article on opera I’ve read for many years, from @andrewpotterbass.bsky.social. Singers accept that the career comes with the risk of being out of work at times. But when they can’t afford to be in work, it has to be a wake-up call for the industry. operawire.com/editorial-wh...

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Why I'm Retiring from Staged Opera at 43 - OperaWire

I am 43-years-old.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just had a look to see if BBC News had anything to say about Portsmouth today. Lol. As if.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Both, in equal measure. And, thinking about it, for the same reason.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My son’s a rower, he says this is NBD on the grounds that this is a flowing river which is regularly used for training anyway.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think my word would be “inoffensive”, which is a double-edged sword. (I acknowledge that there are people who find him offensive for very good reasons, but I’m trying to take a more distanced view.)

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Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The "should I use AI for this?" test might well be "Could I do it without, much more slowly?"

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I worked in a charity shop for four years, and 9 times out of 10, the shoplifters were bored retirees stealing completely random items for the thrill. They didn't like having the concept of charity explained to them by the massive Turkish security guard. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Peterborough charity shop loses money to shoplifting every day

Manager Marina Staudze says thefts are a "major problem" for her city centre shop.

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Richmond CVS @richmondcvs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

London Voter Registration Week 2026 Take a few minutes to make sure you're on the electoral register #RegistertoVote today 👉 gov.uk/register-to-... Together, let's make this the biggest London Voter Registration Week yet #LVRW2026 #NoVoteNoVoice

Illustration of three people talking in a London park with the text: "I've registered to vote, have you?" and "London Voter Registration Week 14 to 20 September 2026". Includes a link to registertovote.london. Digital imprint states: Supported by the Greater London Authority, City Hall, Kamal Chunchie Way, London E16 1ZE. Printed and promoted by Shout Out UK, 240 Portobello Road, London W11 1LL.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mark Thomas had a good routine about racism, in which a racist decides to leave every part of the UK he’s still in until eventually he decides the only place that’s acceptable is his own flat.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Morning. I see we’re all talking about the thing I knew we’d be talking about, because it’s red meat for British Bluesky. As I commented yesterday, the vote is purely symbolic, nothing will change except a bunch of racists get to feel good about themselves.

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Stephen JC @stephenjcol.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Reinforces my belief that the majority of the public are firmly anti-Reform, and will purposely vote to keep them out.

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bossk baby @bonnnt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It is so mentally corrosive to try to ascertain, every day, whether the images I am seeing or the texts I am getting or the phone calls I am receiving are real - produced by a human who is trying to communicate something with me, even indirectly. It makes me feel insane and paranoid all the time

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