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Stephen Oakman

@stephenoakman.bsky.social
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Software developer. Board game addict. He/him. Black Lives Matter. ❤️🇺🇦. Atheist. Fuck the tories. 🏳️‍⚧️Trans rights are human rights. 🇵🇸Free Palestine.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 8h
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 11h
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 8h
‘If AI doesn’t deliver on its promise then we face a double blow to growth: because AI didn’t expand our productive capacity as hoped, and because other investments which might have didn’t take place.’ www.ft.com/content/bf40...
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Pirate Redux @pirateredux.bsky.social · 14h
If he does this and gets us back into the EU, he'll go down in history as the prime minister who did more to reform the UK for good than any since the post-war Labour government.
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East Surrey News @leatherheadliving.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kingston Council statement on market fire 6 October Statement on the fire at Kingston Market Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames statement Read our statement on the fire at Kingston Market. Updated 6 October 2026, 8.20pm London Fire Brigade attended a fire at Kingston Market Place in the early…
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Kingston Council statement on market fire 6 October
Statement on the fire at Kingston Market Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames statement Read our statement on the fire at Kingston Market. Updated 6 October 2026, 8.20pm London Fire Brigade attended a fire at Kingston Market Place in the early hours of Tuesday 6 October. There were no injuries but the fire damaged several market stalls and businesses. Due to the incident, the Market Place was cordoned off.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Autumn Nash 🎃👻💀🖤 @withenoughcoffee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We’ve gotta make being a bad person shameful again.
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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Musk murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and has an active Nazi CSAM machine running at all times, and that's just one facet of the insanity that has become our lives.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
they have no idea what they're doing. and it would be kind to say they do not care. they care a lot! they are spinning the cylinder and pulling that trigger and hoping with every fiber of their being that they blow the head off society. it's wild
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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BARTENDER: another round JIMMY OLSEN: no we’re done thanks BARTENDER: *removes glasses from bar* LOIS LANE: omg it’s superbar
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Claire Munk @munkc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Awful fire in the Fruit and Veg Stalls(?), in the historic Market Place, in Kingston upon Thames. I used to work in a shop on the opposite side of the square.
3 Police officers in the foreground of a photo, looking towards fire scorched shop fronts. (Lush and Bureau de Change visible signs).Photo from  the opposite end of the market, showing the devastated market stalls. With twisted metal bars, and emergency-danger tapes, in front of and behind the fire damaged area. Row of damaged shop fronts, to the left.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That’s a warm radiator under Wheezy’s corrugated cat-throne, and the heat rising through it induces quite the luxurious recline
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Lynn Zero | PlayNeoNeuro.neocities.org @lynnlandra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I can't express how much I love the fact that the author who created my genre spends a lot of his social media time just posting about his cat being spoiled and happy.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Anyone still supporting Pedolf Shitler at this point is a piece of shit, garbage human. I don’t want you in my home, around my family, or even in my online contacts. I don’t hang out with Nazis, pedophiles, or their sympathizers. Get fucked.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think we missed a huge opportunity to normalize masking as a public health tool. We eradicated an entire strain of the flu with Covid prevention measures. Masking shows respect for those around you. It shows solidarity with the disability community. It shows you value long term health.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We fucking loved the Internet when it first appeared! That's how it became great! And you know that's how it became great because ghouls immediately appeared to try and sell what we created back to us at a premium rate
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I also find it fucking hilarious that the AI stans are like "your kids will be left behind if they don't use it" as if it's harder to type a prompt into a text box to ask someone else to do your work than it is to read and understand a book or learn mathematics on your own. Foh.
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Stephen Oakman @stephenoakman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Bloody hell I feel tired. Not sure these words are making sense
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Stephen Oakman @stephenoakman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My mum worked at aunties tea shop in Cambridge, where she baked the lemon drizzle cake
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Stephen Oakman @stephenoakman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Got my mums lemons drizzle cake recipe. Will try and bake it sometime soon. Also got her chocolate steam sponge pudding recipe. Nom nom
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
looks like a still shot from a movie about world war II ending ... differently.
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Stephen Oakman @stephenoakman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Homemade pizza time
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Kodiak149 @kodiak149.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“The fact that MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezo’s ex-wife & one of the single biggest donors in history, has given over $26 BILLION to charity and NOT run out of money really puts into perspective how the arguments against a billionaire wealth tax are just bullshit." (@afghanmounatingoat) TAX THE WEALTHY!
A color photo of MacKenzie Scott.
“The fact that MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezo’s ex-wife and one of the single biggest donors in history, has given over $26 BILLION to charity and NOT run out of money really puts into perspective how the arguments against a billionaire wealth tax are just bullshit."
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Stephen Oakman @stephenoakman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why is oracle stuff so shit
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Fozzie Bear's Classic Face Palm
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy Saturday! Test my Moria?
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Naqbu
An old-school ASCII roguelike. Every level down, the screen jumps a generation of graphics, from green phosphor to light bending around Enki, lord of the waters under the earth.
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Dennis Furia @furiagames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tickled with my contribution to a discussion about life lessons learned from XCOM 2.
Image of Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/1ww3hxx/comment/pdjnia4/
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With the rise of the Far Right, we’re in a situation where every election could potentially be the last one. No excuse not to vote with rigour.
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Stephen Oakman @stephenoakman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I really hope so
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"It is hard enough to be a carer for your own loved ones. The tenderness I dispensed to my mother, came from a battery she had charged with five decades of love. Being able to muster the energy and patience it takes to care for a complete stranger... Well, it's magical. It's a sort of superpower."
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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I bought a six-pack of donuts when a guy next to me said, "You shouldn't eat donuts." I replied, "My grandparents parents lived to be 100." He asked, "Did they eat donuts?" I shot back, "No, they minded their own fkn business."
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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼​👻🥦💥🏠♫ @vegetablegremlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
look, if you want the good art youre gonna have to get real cool with gay n trans people real quick
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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026
just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 03/10/2026
Contagion popped up on my recs so I turned it on and I forgot that in this movie, people want the vaccine for the pandemic so badly that they're like, kidnapping the family of CDC members and holding them hostage to get doses. 2011 had a lot more faith in us than we deserved.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake".
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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today's video is Horror on the Orient Express. A new board game based on a classic Call of Cthulhu campaign of the same name. This game has a lot, a train, secrets, rituals, monsters, passengers, a vampire and a parrot! Find out how it all fits together here. youtu.be/TWfwRHtOkHU
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Horror on the orient express in about 3 minutes
YouTube video by 3 Minute Board Games
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Stephen Oakman @stephenoakman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m trying!
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Stephen Oakman @stephenoakman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In this economy as well!
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Stephen Oakman @stephenoakman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Too much driving past 3 days
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Stephen Oakman @stephenoakman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Emperor Palpatine's Menacing Gaze
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.
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