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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 12h

I don't care about this at all, but my general opinion is that like Star Trek, a major part of Who's appeal is it's universality. Except I'd say that Doctor Who is made for children but is also appealing to adults. Either way, it's a mistake to cater for one but not the other in any spin-offs.

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 05/10/2026

This is the Cult of AI - specifically the longtermist variant - at work: “getting to AGI” is deemed so self-evidently important that no sacrifice is too great. The future will be better, so tomorrow doesn’t matter.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And yes I am aware it is a very bisexual light leak.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just got some film back from the lab and it's a roll where I had to open the back of the camera a couple of times to unjam the film, exposing it to the light. Lots of photos ruined and one massively improved.

A badly light-degraded Kodak Ultramax film fram of a cat looking into the camera with half lidded eyes. The light leak has caused the top part of the image to look very blue and the bottom part to look pink in a manner reminiscent of the bisexual pride flag.

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Mick Steward @micksteward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Andrew Pierce did the thing

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Employees having to quit or go part-time to take care of a loved one because the state won't or can't - bad for business! Employees being unproductive because they're chronically ill and on a years long waiting list for treatment - bad for business! Etc etc

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Always amazing how these big business brains never connect the dots between a state with well-funded and easy to access services and benefits *to their business*.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 04/10/2026

hard not to despair at the state of the world!!! if I had to pick between nice-but-flawed Lula and The Failson Of The Worst Man Bolsonaro I would find it easy! how do these decisions keep being a toss-up! they should not be a toss-up! ahhhh!

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026

Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News

A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not a novel observation by any means but the irony here, of course, is that it is precisely the UK’s successful approach to multiculturalism that has allowed us to generate a brown white nationalist.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know it's LLM generated but it's reflective of how these things are covered. Sweeping right wing reforms are just "reforms" while even modest slightly left-of-centre changes are "socialist reforms". Only one side of the spectrum gets the scary ideological prefix

Bluesky's trending topics panel with "Andy Burnham pushes socialist reforms" in the number one spot.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

History is written by the victors. Thatcher broke the power of trade unions by mass unemployment, industrial restructuring, frittered away N Sea Oil, laid the foundations for the current housing crisis, decimated local bus services, hollowed out local government and introduced the poll tax.

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Andy Burnham seems to remember a different 1970s to the rest of us. Britain in 1979 was utterly broken - ravaged by unaccountable trade union power, economically stagnant, the sick man of Europe.
The 1980s saw a remarkable national recovery based on free enterprise, the rule of law and championing Western values. And it is this that our Prime Minister rails against...

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The posture of a bloke with IBS after a meal at the Star of India in Dewsbury.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Spam bot usernames on Instagram really lacking the ol' razzle dazzle these days.

A notification from Instagram informing me that "giraffe.57361933" and "gazelle.4971627" liked one of my posts

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Liquid Bluesky

National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

taps sign again

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is horrifying and exactly what a lot of us have been warning against for years. So fucking frustrating. We could have had better—politically, technologically, socially, and economically. We need far better leadership in all fields, at all levels.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(Insincere Dennis Reynolds voice) oh no that's...god..that's...terrible

Residents in a Staffordshire Moorlands village say they are being hemmed in by towering trees that "block out the sky" and leave them feeling like they're "living in the woods".

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This news has made me feel like I need to go for a mental health walk and it's not even 9am.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why do so many big wigs in the creative industry hate the very concept of creativity? (Rhetorical question, it's because creatives expect to be paid and treated fairly, obviously)

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

not sure why I made this but now you have to see it

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 29/09/2026

Realities of Labour conference: you're attempting to listen to a Refugee Council-hosted panel on Labour's approach to asylum and it's drowned out by Steve Bray yammering on a microphone just outside the secure zone, to the Game of Thrones theme music.

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*gritted teeth* For God's sake, someone free Star Trek from Paramount

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Finn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

14.15.8 PATCH NOTES: fixed tourist infinite money glitch

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ro Laren can't wear her earring but if you're a lizard you can bare-butt around the ship

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Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tim Shipman Lucky the Bar for "Worst Shipman" Is Very High

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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Glastonbury has always had terrible fantasy art of the Tor. But at least that was made by humans terrible fantasy art.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Lieutenant, when did you find time between falling down and getting back up to give yourself a makeover?"

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pike in particular talks like Cumberbatch's Sherlock listing all the subtle things he's noticed when, again, her hair and uniform are completely different.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Like, when the Uhuras swapped places no one on either Enterprise is that bothered by how her clothes and hair just completely change in a split second. When Kirk, Chapel and Pike do figure it out they act as if they've unravelled a great mystery rather than just noticed the bleeding obvious.

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The finale of #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds was...fine. Better than last year's but not particularly memorable. I find the obvious backdoor pilot to be grating and hate it when the crew being dumb and superhumanly unobservant is load bearing to the plot.

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Love to pay for Lightroom, where I pay 2/3rds of what once would have been the one-off cost on a recurring basis to rent the privilege of using a slow and unstable application from Adobe who, instead of fixing these issues, just crams more generative AI features into an already bloated program

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For example, I have a friend who has been known to make a half a dozen restaurant reservations for a single night so he can then pick later which to use. This is obviously psychotic behaviour but AI agents will start doing it for loads of people automatically

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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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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes, because it helps you avoid being a mark and to place accountability in people making these tools. Hope that helps.

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