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Sarah Brand @drsarahbrand.bsky.social · 3h

Would love to write a book for children but I don’t think I have what it takes to be an actor.

Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 3h

Oh yeah, we were getting flooring delivered once and I had to pay a significant sum to guarantee delivery on a certain day. They didn’t turn up and were like “oh, it’s fine, we’ll just come tomorrow” - when I had to leave at 11:30 to catch a train!

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 4h

I hate this. The amount of times I get a “it’s coming today” notification at 11am when I’m already in the office, and I try to change it to “leave with a neighbour” and it goes “sorry, it’s too late for that! ☺️”

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paul @ptfen.bsky.social · 4h

in a rational world, the second paragraph here would be about how Dave was dismissed, and development was focussed on expanding the platform's robustness and capacity for 4K content, but here we are

Dave’s vision for iPlayer included an AI agent called Iggy, which helps recommend and summarize iPlayer content, and can speak to audiences in different languages. Other ideas Dave presented to staff included a personalized “hero” picture at the top of iPlayer’s home screen, which picks out algorithm-led content recommendations based on past viewing habits. He also demonstrated “Vegas mode,” allowing viewers to “roll the dice” and see what iPlayer selects for them.

Brittin said Dave — who at one point during his presentation referred to the director-general as “my big homie” — had captured a “pioneering mindset” that he wants to see more of at the BBC. Brittin added that the BBC plans to begin testing some of Dave’s ideas with audiences “in the coming weeks.”

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Miss Havishambles @misshavishambles.bsky.social · 17h

Just ate one piece of broccolus

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 5h

we haven’t travelled very far since then have we

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 5h

just learned on a podcast that Richard Nixon’s Senate campaign in 1950 invented an organisation called “the Communist League of Negro Women” that allegedly endorsed his opponent (Helen Gahagan Douglas) because this was the perfect combination of words to terrify white homeowners into supporting him

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Scuzzy Mortspider 🕷️ 🎃 @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 6h

This must be that age of national renewal we were promised.

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 6h

I was going to say I think it’s nice that The Guardian is letting three-year-olds get a foot in the door at editorial cartooning, but I think three-year-olds are more politically switched on than this

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 7h

Absolutely incredible to use “these kids are spoiled” as a defence of the parents, like who exactly is supposed to have done the spoiling here

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I get the appeal of nostalgia, I really do, but I find it specifically funny to get a leaflet from Reform's candidate talking about how when he was in the Met 31 years ago, he would never have dreamed of lawlessness like the kind we now see in Kings Cross.

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 18h

(I kid, I kid, I just couldn’t resist doing the meme)

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 19h

Well done to the person in charge of Surface for doing a presentation where Surface wasn’t spelled correctly.

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 19h

“Sure, I can name 16 iconic figures from history. Wait, whaddaya mean I don’t get to choose which ones?”

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20h

gregor samsa awoke one morning to discover he had been transformed into a sickass beetle. fuck yeah he said scuttling all over the walls and ceiling like no dumbfuck traveling salesman could ever do. this is the best day of my life he said

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Lynne! the Frog (Comms Open) @lynnearts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Keeping it in one post.

When I was little, I had my heart set on owning a rat terrier and, after some searching, my parents found a kennel that had one.

Her name was Cookie and the worker warned she didn’t like little boys but we bonded instantly. She never cared for my younger brothers.

It’d be decades before I realized the significance.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 23h

oh you’re *cooked* cooked, got it

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 23h

sorry, which part of this is meant to back up your incorrect assertion from before

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 23h

chatbots absolutely did exist decades ago, what are you talking about

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 23h

was once framed for a crime by Hugh Grant?

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Almost forgot: happy That Tom Hollander Interview Day to all who celebrate

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Agreed, I’ve always been more of a Take a Break man myself

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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There's some excellent "hoist them by their own petard" writing in this article but

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

everyone re-arguing the result of 2022 in the chat in the meantime

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

just had an invite to “The AI Movie Awards” 🫠

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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

something very funny about the Bayeux Tapestry getting 5 stars after 940 years, as if Bishop Odo of Bayeux has been sat at home all this time waiting for the review, absolutely raging - "I gave that Guardian journalist a press comp on OPENING NIGHT for god's sake"

Poster of The Bayeux Tapestry with a bunch of 5 star reviews

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Handy Devine 🇵🇸🏴 @almightybob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hemingway eat your heart out

r/legaladvice 1d ago u/Mooselet211
Toilet exploded

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“I’m politically homeless!!!!” (*joins the Tories*)

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

wait, am I supposed to cancel all my plans so that I can binge all 6 episodes of Channel 4’s ‘devastating’ crime drama, or am I being warned to cancel any plans I may have been making to binge all 6 episodes of Channel 4’s ‘devastating’ crime drama

Picture of David Harewood in C4 drama Pierre with the headline “Cancel your plans to binge all 6 episodes of Channel 4's 'devastating' crime drama”

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

thanks for the warning, I’ll be sure not to go anywhere near this obviously unhinged podcast

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VOID VOID VOID @burnyourbones.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Labour were running a van round my constituency on by-election day telling voters the Greens were going to sell all our children into sex work for drugs

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

woman on the train doing a call on loudspeaker, constantly moving her phone from her mouth to her ear and back again so she can both speak and listen, creating a problem for herself that was solved by the design of modern telephones about a century ago

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

stood back to let people off the tube before I got on and some absolute choad behind me tried to walk around me and board the train ffs I am not a violent man but elbows were thrown

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Andrew Nguyen @anguyen8796.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Even though this is confirming the reports, it still sucks to see a public broadcaster like ČT effectively be gutted by the country’s government and the ongoing attacks on public broadcasting. If the EBU’s over-arching goal is to be there for public broadcasters…they failed ČT miserably #Eurovision

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gav @gavinmit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

'tony blair worried greens are ruining things for palestinians' is an onion headline

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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's been kind of interesting watching the billionaire class decide that they don't need to provide bread or circuses any more. I mean, I'd rather not be one of the ones who needs both bread and circuses in this situation, but, still.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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