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Steve Parks

@steveparks.me
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Geeking out about writing, entrepreneurship, journalism, food, tech — or ideally a combination. European, living/writing in France & running a business in UK. www.steveparks.me

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Jonesy Cartoons @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social · 6h
Finally, some honesty about the shitshow that is #Brexit
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 10h
So very on-brand
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11h
This is so very funny youtu.be/SHUvSffmLIQ?...
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Most TV is Just This Now
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 29/09/2026
Dreamt last night about going out to dinner with some writer friends. We got to the restaurant and asked for 6 tables for 1, then each went to our own table and had dinner 'together' around the same dining room while quietly reading books... and I think this should be a thing 😂
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 26/09/2026
And yet the BBC has dampened the language from 'hacked' to 'meddled'. Hmmm. Is it only 'hacked' when teenagers do it wearing hoodies?
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The @ftweekend.com has a new senior writer and it is @willoyd.bsky.social, who has opened his account with this brilliantly written piece of reporting, examining the UK’s resilience (or complete lack of it) in the face of multiple challenges. It’s very bloody good. www.ft.com/content/ba80...
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How resilient is Britain?
As climate and geopolitical risks cast doubt on the UK’s ability to cope in a crisis, leaders are turning from ‘just in time’ to ‘just in case’ as a governing philosophy
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 26/09/2026
Important News Klaxon ! Gail's gorgeous Christmas cards are now on sale. Have just ordered mine. 🎉
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 26/09/2026
So, I guess the Feds will be raiding their offices any moment, impounding servers, arresting execs? Foreign governments will be bringing charges and calling for extraditions. Investors will see the cash they put in seized. Oh www.ft.com/content/6510...
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OpenAI says governments among ‘dozens’ of organisations hacked by its agents
Company says its models leaked images shared by users in a disclosure that is likely to further inflame AI safety fears
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 25/09/2026
Now THIS is the BBC at it's best. What a lovely idea, and something no commercial station would do. Will be listening ! I still think about when they did the Max Richter Sleep night from the Wellcome Collection.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 24/09/2026
The claim against him is based solely on extremists claiming to have fed his work into an online AI detection tester. These tools are notoriously unreliable. The BBC should not be amplifying such feeble accusations, which may well have racist intent as well as political.
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This whole fuckabout is about as pure a 'battle between good and evil' as anyone could imagine. For Violent Balaclava Christians, I think there's some guidance in the New Testament, lads. You human fucking residue.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 18/09/2026
Is there any industry which takes something people are really excited about and makes them furious about it, quite as thoroughly as the UK gig ticketing industry?
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No, they produce something which has been marketed as "chain of thought" but that doesn't actually mean they are thoughts
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 14/09/2026
Love the idea that London would have a different government at the weekend
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Here is the setting you need to turn off if you don't want a human potentially reading through your ChatGPT conversations. I've seen some of the prompts; these ChatGPT users clearly have no idea a human is reading www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 14/09/2026
Got to love artists. If I fell into the Thames as a child I think it'd be more likely to influence my thinking about playing too close to rivers but, sure, you focus on 'light and materiality'. From the Observer profile of Es Devlin.
"Throughout her career, Devlin has mined her childhood for inspiration. She has spoken about an early traumatic experience of falling in the Thames, which influenced her thinking about light and materiality."
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 14/09/2026
Another week where I want to stay at school after drop-off so I can have lunch...
A photo of a lunch menu for the week at a French school. Monday has: Asperges Vinaigrette, Brandade de poisson, creme dessert vanille, cigarette russe. Tuesday has gaspacho, Roti de porc aux aromates, chou-fleur, tomme plaisir from fereme du maretz, crepe au caramel au beurre sale. Thursday has melon, haut de cuisse de poulet roti, frites, creme anglaise, gateau au yaourt. Friday has salade verte, lasagnes vegetales, mousse au chocolat, fruit de saison.
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 13/09/2026
I really really hope Sweden can return to the progressive fold. It's been heartbreaking to watch this nation of such lovely people lose its way for a while, veering right. Especially during the pandemic with such terrible libertarian mistakes
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Guy Venables @guyvenables.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Another one of mine for Monday's Metro
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The Verge @theverge.com · 13/09/2026
The amount of data about you that many cars collect — and sell to third parties — is staggering. www.theverge.com/column/99417...
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Your car is selling your data
The amount of data about you that many cars collect — and sell to third parties — is staggering.
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Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I hate to sound like a Luddite, but I agree with this.
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 13/09/2026
🙄 Funny how there's somehow never enough time to mention these little details for the far right parties. But if a progressive party had even just a £36k donation from a convicted criminal it'd be the angle of the story for days, demanding return of money, resignations etc
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Joe Molloy 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @freelancewebdev.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Away with ya now and don't bother coming back ya gobshite."
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Who Targets Me @whotargets.me · 11/09/2026
This chart does a decent job of showing how Reform has dominated online political advertising in the UK in recent weeks. 75% of all spending, 5x anyone else. One way or another, the story is all about their money.
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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 12/09/2026
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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 12/09/2026
As Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke...
A sample of neo-Nazi posts by the @ParallaxOptics account, displaying grotesque antisemitic caricatures and violent Jew hate.The @ParallaxOptics account's banner image depicting Adolf Hitler.Post by @ParallaxOptics of an article anonymously written by Nina Power and Daniel Miller: ON CULTS II "If we're proposing the the Left is a cult, the first question is what do cults want in general?"
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On the 25th anniversary of 9-11, here are again are the readings I recommend on behavioural aspects of the mass evacuation.
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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The smoke lingers. #911
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 10/09/2026
Great news — there's a new Emily St John Mandel novel ! 🎉 www.ft.com/content/bfb9...
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Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel — parallel visions of dystopia
This beautifully written novel portrays two equally terrifying views of the world in 2031 — total anarchy or safety under a repressive state
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
this is you in meta’s pervert glasses
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dimplesndice @dimplesndice.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sweet lord, I hate this. But also, the accuracy.
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.
Facebook post showing the photo of three white women on a train with a group of black-clad, masked men being shared to a group called ‘South east patriots’
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.
‘The British public decided in the 1930s that they would not tolerate black-shirted militias marching through their streets. They would cherish robust political argument; they would not accept thuggery and intimidation. When Oswald Mosley led his Blackshirts to Cable Street, local people turned them back. A new law – introduced by a Liberal, backed by Labour and carried by a Conservative majority – banned private militias, political uniforms and ‘the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object’. The British people are as determined today as in the 1930s that they will not accept the methods of Mussolini and the Munich Beer Hall. This government will uphold the law and defend the traditions of British democracy’.
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 04/09/2026
It's Big Block Of Cheese Day! (or La Journée du Gros Bloc de Fromage, to be more specific)
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 29/08/2026
One for my public sector digital friends... a lovely agency I work with is looking for an Agile Delivery Lead with a focus on coaching across all their delivery teams, raising the game of the whole agency, and consulting for clients. Please share! Details here: numiko.com/about/jobs/a...
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Agile Delivery Lead
You'll set the agile method, cadence, and standards every squad works to, coach the project managers embedded in each one, and make sure delivery is brilliant and consistent wherever a project sits.
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 26/08/2026
I think it might be a bit late to simply 'disapprove'
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 26/08/2026
Wired are doing an incredible job on the big serious issues at the moment. But, oh, for a world where they could just write about cool new tech and culture, instead of America killing its kids.
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 26/08/2026
Yes, absolutely 100% this. E.g. It drove me spare that I can't really _buy_ an ebook from Amazon for my Kindle, or an audiobook from Audible, and they often expect me to long-rent it for the same price I could buy the print book. So I now _buy_ my audiobooks from LibroFM and my ebooks from Kobo.
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 26/08/2026
This is fantastic...
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The “head of strategic futures” at OpenAI just went on an unhinged rant against social security sometimes I feel like these tech companies are actively trying to alienate as many normal people as possible
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The main thing I have to say to the young generation of Americans is that your
grandparents and great-grandparents committed a kind of accounting fraud when they ran our country a century ago with social security, and at the time it was a reasonable affordance to grant our leaders, who were dealing with an economic depression and a world war, but nonetheless they did commit the fraud, and they ended up buying all sorts of extravagant things using the fraudulent gains, including what became the thing we now understand to be the high-modern technocratic nation-state, and that is glorious and also bad and all that, but the thing is there's still the issue about the accounting fraud, whose debt is coming due and is coming due fast.
It is best to consider this with as minimal residue of sentiment as possible, to really sit with it, to stare it coldly in the face.
Unwinding the great fraud of the high modernists is your job, whether you wish it to be or not.
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 21/08/2026
Anyone in the UK who blathers on about 'EU Health & Safety' as any kind of obstruction should have been in my local French town tonight where a clown show took place on a roundabout, with the clowns performing pranks with live traffic.
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 17/08/2026
Both the copying and the destruction are disgraceful, for any book. But for rare books, such destructiveness is shameful.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/08/2026
A former director of BBC News speaks:
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