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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 13/10/2026

Ah yes, perhaps the most beloved literary trope of all: the classic McMuffin

A screenshot that reads: Moore throws in a Hitchcock-style McMuffin in the shape of a secret tape recording which will reveal just who has been betraying the gangsters.
The problem is that no-one has a machine on which to play it.

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i mean, that's clearly not what Polanski meant, is it

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

but that's not Israel's fault, is it

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

But Polanski was claiming that they don't have a vote because of the racism of Israel; i'm sure you can now see how that is just wrong

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

if you cared to educate yourself, you would know that the fact they haven't had any elections since is entirely the fault of the guys they elected back then

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thinking Allowed is, along with In Our Time, one of the two most purely Reithian shows the BBC produces; i can't believe sacking Chris Mason wouldn't have saved more money

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

re "Zionism is racism" - it's a cornerstone of British equality law that discrimination need not be intentional for it to be discriminatory I'm not making *legal* claims about the Green Party motion - but a policy that would render the vast majority of Jews as personae non gratae is flatly racist

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

cp the general attitude of the authorities to the NSDAP in the late 1920s

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BBC Radio 3 Unwind Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio3ubot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: A soundtrack for peaceful nights Now Playing Steven Poole Rue Cortot

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

to be fair this part is accurate: it's called the accelerator pedal

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not wanting to rain on the current Marr love-in parade, but... substack.com/home/post/p-...

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The meaning of Johnny Marr

And of not talking about Morrissey

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

whoever would have guessed that the AI doom/EA cult is exactly like all other cults in history inasmuch as its members' primary motivation is to gaslight women into having sex with them

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sapphire and Steel The Professionals Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) Knight Rider The A-Team The Prisoner Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Bergerac Manimal Airwolf

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hat tip to @emexastris.bsky.social for pointing this out, but if you notice, the two people whose knowledge Huang appeals to are, y'know, 1) people and 2) of course women. One is his wife (Lori = Lori Huang) and the other ('Janine') is, I think, Janine Paul who I *think* is his personal assistant?

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1. they didn’t secure the sandbox 2. they didn’t monitor the llms 3. in every way possible, they set it up for this to happen 4. an llm did not go “rogue” 5. an llm especially did not “escape” (move itself - the executable - to another computer) 6. automated hacking tools already existed

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it's quite amazing to me that intelligent people are parsing any "news" coming out of the "frontier" AI labs (including the Huggingface story) as anything other than pre-IPO marketing

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BBC Radio 3 Unwind Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio3ubot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

BBC Radio 3 Unwind Piano Focus: Delicate piano music for deep concentration Now Playing Steven Poole All These Years

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

don't think much of your new translation of the Inferno tbh

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Britain has to stand for something This is something Therefore Britain will stand for it

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

there are very few writers better placed than Philip to correctly gauge his scientific achievements

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

that seems like a productive way to conduct a conversation

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster

Daniel Thomas and his Black Shorts in London today.

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

this is excellent as usual from Philip

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Saddam Hussein has not developed any significant capability with respect to WMD" — Colin Powell, February 2001

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

why are you still on twitter asking people why they are still on twitter

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

here i am in the Torygraph on the exciting fashion for REWILDING everything www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Apparently in China, they have a system which measures your labour input and social position and then determines what kind of house you can live in, what education your kids experience and even whether you can get on a plane or not. It's called "money".

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

at a party some years ago when one of Hari's post-disgrace books was coming out, a pleasant publicity person who worked for his publisher asked me what it would take to persuade me to give Hari another chance. I replied "Absolutely nothing would"

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I am a Guardian reader and writer and feel it is a vital institution in the media landscape but the about turn on #wildswimming over recent months is quite funny. NEXT: POLYAMORY GIVES YOU GENITAL WARTS www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Wild swimming linked to higher risk of stomach bugs and skin rashes

Findings from research into illnesses associated with bathing in lakes and rivers come amid boom in hobby

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

why would the University of Ghent have believed that the racist monomaniac Cofnas would ever produce worthwhile research on "the future of liberalism"; surely an inquiry as to their hiring standards is in order

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

you don't any more see as much outright global-warming denialism or evolution denialism, because they were energetically engaged with and refuted in the public sphere in the last few decades; so perhaps we just need a new wave of genetics explainers (following Adam Rutherford et al)?

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BBC Radio 3 Unwind Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio3ubot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: Wrap up, settle down Now Playing Steven Poole Hymn

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ceej @ceej.online · 20/08/2026

they put up a dada center just outside of town and life has been unbearable ever since. thing looks like a fucking fish

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

this whole Natalie Imbroglio is epiphenomenal

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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

yes, though perhaps only until the point where a major trade publisher is going to put out your autobiography?

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