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Yeah, round here there were v mild protests with signs, and student spokespeople saying "Our Lycee is good and we're happy, we're protesting in solidarity with students w/o same facilities." But then 40-50 out of towners arrived and tried kicking off — so real protestors just went back into Lycee

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 15h

Yeah, so these are just data for hospital tests, only catching people who are seriously ill with it — and is seen as just hinting at the scale of infection in wider population. In France they also do wastewater testing and it shows a big wave right now, and is likely similar in UK.

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 16h

It's the next covid wave, predictably after return to school/work from hols as happens every year. Yet the gov still treats it as a seasonal winter virus like flu when scheduling vaccinations. Drives me spare. ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/respiratory-... ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/respiratory-...

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 04/10/2026

Met a bloke named Theophile. So if anyone here is called Theo, I'm sure he'd love to meet you.

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 04/10/2026

I guess it's one way of admitting they're history?

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 03/10/2026

The Byker Tapestry. Way Aye Harry !

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 03/10/2026

Well, the Sunday Times is a business but has been loss-making for decades — so seems a prime place to slash costs by firing second-rate columnists, to awaken capitalism from its slumber

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 03/10/2026

Just finished Thérèse Raquin as part of immersing myself a bit more into French culture. Blimey. Zola's probably not the godfather of cosy crime.

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 02/10/2026

JAM defined radio branding for the formative years of my life. So many amazing jingles that still stay with me now. And now I'm remembering Bill Mitchell!

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 02/10/2026

I can't imagine what it must have been like to live through it. I recently went to Saint Nazaire to follow through the steps of the St Nazaire raid, operation chariot. Astounding, the things people did in these terrible circumstances.

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 02/10/2026

looks like the set for "Wicked" !

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 02/10/2026

I'm finding more now than there were over the summer. I guess it was too hot back then, and not damp enough

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 02/10/2026

Most people get taken in so easily by all the dirty tricks of these terrible industries and their PRs and lobbyists

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 02/10/2026

I binned the press release and didn't feature the story on our programme - but I heard them being interviewed all over other BBC news progs the same day

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 02/10/2026

I remember back in the day when I was a journalist, receiving a press release from 'Consumers for Health Choice' purporting to be a grassroots campaign against moves to regulate vitamin companies. I checked out the group and it shared an office with a PR co for vitamin co's.

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 02/10/2026

I'll see you down at the tabac for a glass later then!

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 02/10/2026

There's a nice hybrid available now - Statamic - which gives you the performance of a static site, and having the content in markdown files in git, but with the power of a CMS so non-techy people can update it.

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Anna Hirschfeld @annahirschfeld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is very cool!

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Jonesy Cartoons @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Finally, some honesty about the shitshow that is #Brexit

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 30/09/2026

By co-incidence I'm reviewing a set of published accounts today that are much much smaller scale, but the audit firm has waved them through despite containing basic errors and absolute bullshit that I was able to prove wrong with a simple check despite no letters after my name

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 30/09/2026

"We're reviewing the matter and will be issuing some subtly worded letters before they take us out for an extremely good lunch."

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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 · 28/09/2026

I've seen a few examples of techbro marketing recently where I'm pretty sure typos were inserted deliberately, in simple words early on in the post — with the intention of suggesting the post was not AI, when it clearly was.

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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...

ft.com

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

Because governments have certainly been tough on teenage hackers, who also claimed they were just 'playing around' not realising the power of their tools and the responsibility they had... techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/u... www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicest...

techcrunch.com

US government charges British teenager accused of at least 120 ‘Scattered Spider’ hacks | TechCrunch

Thalha Jubair, 19, was arrested in London on Thursday and accused by U.K. and U.S. authorities of involvement in dozens of hacks, including London's transit system and the U.S. Courts.

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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...

ft.com

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

Nantes is a great city. Make sure to hop on the ferry to little atlantique brewery too. And for restaurants, try Pickles and chat to the chef. (and pop across to Pornic as well ! This weekend is the beach bar closing party, which will be great)

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 25/09/2026

The 2026 version of "I throw half the applications in the bin, because I only want the lucky people"

static.klipy.com

Ricky Gervais as David Brent: Shocked Reaction

ALT: Ricky Gervais as David Brent: Shocked Reaction

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 25/09/2026

I love when Bluesky is more like early Twitter than early X. Keep up the good work! (and have a fun day)

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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.

apnews.com

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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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 23/09/2026

Yes, can confirm is with clear attribution nice and high up the page. FT are good folk 👍

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 23/09/2026

Unfortunately, the Press Gazette itself has also tumbled to such levels and, bar a few exceptions, the rest of the UK press is no stranger to brown-nosing or simply sane-washing Trump and the far right.

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 23/09/2026

Yes, and also that the Murdochs' empire owned the production company for a while, having bought it to hold the BBC to ransom over renewing its success — and of course to then take it away. But they no longer own it, so the cleansing can begin in style with Nigella!

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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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