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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 10h

Pascal’s wager (updated, 2026 version)

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Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com · 10/10/2026

That you're a disgusting old man

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

@tomgauld.bsky.social is always witty, almost always funny and, occasionally, cutting. But this one is really painful to me. Too much truth Tom 😪

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I now expect someone more knowledgeable of television history to appear and list all the TV programs that have already tried this

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Don’t give them ideas! (Your post sounds too much like something they will try 🤦‍♂️. You should save it and trot it out when the first program rebooted that way comes out)

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I do think basically being mean or inconsiderate to AI tools is bad just because it makes you more likely to behave that way to real people and that in and of itself is enough. It's the same as when people come back from Dubai.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I always turn You and Yours off the moment it comes on, but it is EXACTLY the sort of show that a public broadcaster should be making. Because, guess what, none of Global or Netflix or Disney or Sky are going to pick up a consumer rights programme like that, despite its obvious public good.

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

😱 I hate that you are going to be right

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ECIU @eciu.net · 06/10/2026

New: UK already generates enough scrap steel to support a major expansion in domestic steelmaking Every year we export around 8M tonnes of scrap steel while importing higher-value steel products from overseas Why does UK face ticking clock to capture Britain's green steel boom? 🧵

Bar graph showing UK crude steel output from 2014 to 2025, detailing BOF and EAF production in million tonnes annually.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There are apparently fig trees(!) in Sheffield & here's the Sheffield Tribune's explanation of how they got there: There really is no place called "Away"... everything comes from somewhere and everything goes somewhere.

"They owe their existence to Sheffielders of the past’s fondness for fig biscuits, with the seeds that passed through their digestive system finding their way to Meadowhall. There, germinated by the regular hot discharges from the area’s steel mills, they grew into the forest of urban figs you see today."

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Tory Bayeux Tapestry is very funny and a great skewering of most of the main characters, apart from Angela Rayner who looks absolutely iconic in every image

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

From a personal perspective, there is a current issue with the state, but it isn’t overreach - which would be the Thatcherite claim. It is that doesn’t work: water regulation, HS2 overspend, NHS waiting lists and far too many potholes in the roads. I don’t want less/more state; I want a better state

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

About 30 years ago I remember someone describing Cambridgeshire’s traffic policy, particularly as applied to Cambridge, as being designed to get the Tory Councillors’ 4x4s from their house in the country to Lion Yard as quickly as possible. It sounds like Hampshire’s might still be of that sort.

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Andy Flan @andrewflan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes new houses will be 50 grand cheaper because savings from deregulation famously get passed on to customers.

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What I remember about it is, when watching on the TV for the first time, how unfunny it was, but talking about it the playground the following morning it became funnier and funnier, as people quoted, misremembered and played with the jokes in it

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Someone wishes for the good old days and the monkeys paw has decided we should do: (1) a 1970s oil crisis (2) a 1990s tech cycle (3) a 2010s eurozone debt crisis All at once.

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Hugo von der Thüsen @hugovdthusen.com · 29/09/2026

The future Grand Paris Express station Villejuif - Gustave Roussy is a masterpiece. It connects metro line 14 (already operating) to the future line 15 in this massive station. I counted a total of 24 escalators. It was eerily quiet since it’s not yet an interchange station.

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I work in safety-critical software/systems. I spend time thinking about the application of AI to this area. Personally, I think it can make such systems better and safer, but the key, for me, is doing it in such a way that we maintain accountability to identifiable people.

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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today it’s 50 years since I first presented Playschool wearing my blue beads and silver heart. I adore bringing joy into the lives of my Playschool Babies during the 12 years I was on the programme. ❤️

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As the manager of a software development department, we had a project manager who had a terrible record of overruns, overspends and unhappy clients. He was the guy put into sort out the shit. (I have no idea about the filmmaker, but sometimes, as you say, a bad record isn’t necessarily indicative)

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Inhalable stimulants that doubled as a fidget toy and an excuse to take micro breaks!

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A film that had the budget were a green screen fell over *and they had to leave it in* might have led to a creativity explosion and a great film. (Not really a comment on your joke; just back to the too much money can damage creativity trope)

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fundamentally, the median voter has had a tax cut since 2010 and the result is that nothing works.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing about The Men from the Ministry is that The Men from the Ministry were, in ,fact functionally god for many people

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Being in the water is bad. You will not be saved by a life-jacket. And it doesn’t take long in the briny to get you to a dangerous point.

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We get canvassed quite regularly in our current location, but only council elections, as our ward is competitive, but not for general elections, as the constituency is currently, pretty-solid Labour

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I saw it at 15 on its original, cinematic release. It was amazing. Old Buster Crabbe series writ large

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

She is sweet. But all I can think as I look at it is how evil war is!

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sometimes we do need to restate the obvious

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Joshua Tait @joshuatait.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Such an assumption speaks to a deep paranoia that permeates the right, unable to believe in artistic choices, seeing only cultural-political plots. But if either Christianity or the West rests on the film adaptation of a prequel book from a 75-year-old children’s series, we have bigger problems.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Well we weren't coxless when we started."

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Interestingly, the opposite can happen. I recently went to look at the Impressionists in the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge, and they had rearranged it from my last visit. I first felt a little lost, but, after a while sat reading, became aware of a beautiful, new painting. I will be visiting it again

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

An RNLI lifeboatman is taking part in the Great North Run tomorrow, wearing his full kit. Please donate here if you can: fundraise.rnli.org/fundraisers/...

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I'm taking on Great North Run 2026 - please help me reach my fundraising goal of £1000!

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I expect you know more about this than me, so I will feel less optimistic. (Not that I was that optimistic, as I feel the wrong side is the one with the money to fight cases)

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My point is that the ruling is *legally* narrow (practically, is a different matter). As such, it leaves plenty of things open (with some, in my view, hints, cf the Court’s comments on trans-rights) It is these open issues that further cases could resolve, not its “original sin”

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We are down to disagreeing on language. I am not trying to say the judgement doesn’t lead to issues, that I, and, I take from your responses, you would wish wouldn’t happen. I am saying that the judgement is not incoherent

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A problem is that one side has money and the other doesn’t. We need some cases to taken to the Supreme Court to tidy this all up, but the good guys don’t have the money. Or better would be for Parliament to sort it

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It may be immoral and cruel, but I don’t think it’s incoherent. I can also accept that it left issues unresolved, but I think it was clearer on these than most people, including yourself believe; see the Court’s comments on trans-rights which my original comment referred to

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I agree that Parliament needs to deal with this. The current set of legislation does not achieve an equitable and consistent outcome

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is where I don’t agree. A lot of interpretations of the judgement are inconsistent with the judgment itself, eg the latest guidance, the judgement is incoherent with respect to other legislation, eg GRA, and it doesn’t address any of the practicalities, but it is coherent.

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m not lawyer, so I may be over interpreting but I read some of the language used by the Supreme Court in its judgment about trans still being one of the protected characteristics as an warning not to do stuff like this

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."

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Tenison Blue @tenisonblue.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Anyone who thinks that young English women in hijabs aren’t just young English women with the sense of humour of young English women are arses. The outfit says less than a lot of people think. (This may or may not - but probably does - to other home nations)

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