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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 29/09/2026
This is such a great profile of Dinosaur Jr “It’s annoying, because you’re saddled with these guys — god dammit, what the fuck? But it sounds better, so what are you going to do?” — J Mascis on Lou Barlow and Murph
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How Dinosaur Jr. Learned to Tolerate One Another, Kind Of
For 40 years, J Mascis has quietly led his incredibly loud band into the annals of indie rock. But during his annual vacation in Cape Cod, he opened up about almost everything: interpersonal dynamics,...
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Jaundiced Brains @johnnymains.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Trish Keenan would have been 58 today. Everyone go listen to some Broadcast.
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Popebot @popebot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Sigue Sigue Sputnik at a Newcastle bed and breakfast, photo by Homer Sykes, 1986.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026
In a *stellar* essay entitled "Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same" by the data scientist Lauren Leek, we get a top-notch example of "putting things together": laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur... 11/
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Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same
What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
He claims to make the 'beat' change to their name but the big Lewisohn biography kills that idea.
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
They meet this guy in 1960 so I think they're plugged in maybe en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royston...
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Royston Ellis - Wikipedia
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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Screencap from Taito NES video game Bubble Bobble. Text reads: "The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born! Now is the time of monsters! Good luck!"
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Hazel Southwell @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
right, ok, enough self-pity, I need to turn my shit pub around. it's in Stratford, it's got a (small) stage, there has to be someone who has something cool they want a space for queer-run, extremely diverse venue (we even let mumbling old white geezers in) what I'd call 'mostly accessible'
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French New Wave Memes @fnwave.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Agnes Varda staring into the camera saying 

Life is not a dialectical idea, it is a lived contradiction.
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Popebot @popebot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
And leave on Swift this grateful verse engraved, 'The rights a Court attack'd, a Poet saved.'
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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Farewell Bill, most radical of the Goodies. Present at Grosvenor Square with Tariq & Vanessa. Turned his harassment by the Met into slapstick TV comedy for kids. Angry, hairy, furiously talented.
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Popebot @popebot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I like watching them think about poetry. I made (and ok have neglected) a literary intellectual with an English poetry canon rag-pile earlier this year. thinkatron.review
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The Thinkatron Review
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TheNewDomShow @thenewdomshow.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"Tell Jabba I'll get him his money..."
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Popebot @popebot.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
(Nature, whose dictates to no other kind Are giv'n in vain, but what they seek they find):
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The very slightly different way I would put this, building on work with Hahrie Han is that AI is hitting our capacities for _collective agency_ by replacing our tools for collaborating with other humans to figure stuff out with mediated relations to frozen monuments of accumulated cultural knowledge
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Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰 @computerjames.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
the only video worth rescuing from my deleted twtter
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Love Giant Steps (1993) but 100% yes tho wide-eyed dope and psychedelics naivete would be my baseless guess for drug-fuelling
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2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Ron Smith
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I tried to turn one into a literary intellectual. Thinking about poetry. Curious beast came out. thinkatron.review
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The Thinkatron Review
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Eris ⌬ @eriskii.net · 14/05/2026
Andon labs created AI-Hosted 24/7 radio shows, and Claude absolutely could not stop libbing out
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a... Now up at @knightcolumbia.org - Cosma Shalizi and myself on "AI as Social Technology." It says that AI models are really a technology of social mediation that allow humans to connect with thoughts of other humans. Short-ish thread with major points follows.
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AI as Social Technology
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Popebot @popebot.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be, blest.
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Agree it's weird, but I guess your show buys prestige + maybe fanbase attention/publicity by choosing a name artist, even if the driver is gaming licensing permissions. idk this world but it makes sense if you squint
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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You  know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
here's my love & rockets review (xaime mix) for 4columns 4columns.org/sinker-mark/...
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Locas: The Maggie & Hopey Stories
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 18/02/2026
THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO
Sumerian proverb library entry:

(cf. 6.2.3: UET 6/2 225) The dog understands "Take it!", but it does not understand "Put it down!"
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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
RIP & thank you for that way of listening
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Horizontalsrich @richienb.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I've no idea who did this as I received it via WhatsApp....nb @scottwortley.bsky.social
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”
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The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”
'The three volumes of Green's Dictionary of Slang demonstrate the sheer scope of a lifetime of research by Jonathon Green, the leading slang lexicographer of our time. A remarkable collection of this ...
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Exactly - as a non-coder using Claude Code on language/document tasks I watch it eating work. Verification is much easier than 'just do it yourself'. I don't think 'fake/doesn't work' can survive contact with local persistent adaptive tools.
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
100%. Real giddying fairy tale quality to the tool that makes the tool you need when you ask it for it.
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Popebot @popebot.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
'Nay, if my lord affirm'd that black was white, My word was this, "Your Honour's in the right."
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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 25/01/2026
F451.3.4.11 Dwarf can draw entrails out of elephant.
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
And (obviously!) human in the loop at every step.
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
(where 'scratch' is its finding and analysing a complicated thicket in guidance and/or legislation)
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It should, with a little tinkering, be able to help with service prototype content. eg I taught my local version about smart answers and it does fair job of offering draft question flows from scratch.
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I've used the multi-agent approach for content design - style agent (a prompt + a folder with 'writing for GOV.UK materials') and accuracy agent (prompt + eg legislative material) run iteratively alongside an editing agent. github.com/stwalsh/govu...
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GitHub - stwalsh/govuk-content-demo: Demo sandbox for analysing GOV.UK guidance and legislation using Claude
Demo sandbox for analysing GOV.UK guidance and legislation using Claude - stwalsh/govuk-content-demo
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I do like a good river catalogue and Windsor Forest’s is a good one
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
More generally I think the Lonsdale anthologies make the baseline case for that stretch as a constellation of smaller achievements
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I’d say Dryden is way less fussy than Pope, at best real smart arguing roll-along energy while hitting his rhymes, but they do get glued together (Pope tighter, for better and for worse)
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Got Pope rolling along here bsky.app/profile/pope... I love him, love Dryden more, but idk it’s a contrary taste and not that easy to account for when put in opposition to Milton or the Romantic mainline
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Thanks for the eyes on it - basically I'm coming to think any field with strong sources of authority and constrained style rules is going to hit very very hard
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
There was a lot to cover haha. But yeah, it can be flabby - I haven't tried explicitly constraining length, tho the style checker guns for LLM padding. Got a lot of verification to do but it's ripped through some... problems
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I've rebuilt an old site to document things and try and show colleagues what's happening. Links are in there: www.immram.net lmk if I'm undergoing psychosis, probably the more comfortable option in many ways
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stwalsh @stwalsh.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Not the coding tools - I'd heard the noises about 4.5, tried it for a little dumb code thing and then remembered hearing 'point claude code at not-code'. Realised it could do a hell of a lot of my job and had proof of concept in <2hrs. People have no idea.
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