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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He had that beguiling combination of vanity, stupidity, pomposity and malice. As a politician he was way ahead of his time.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On our brief acquaintance Archer struck me as the kind of man whose word is someone else’s bond, that he nicked, lied about and has already sold 3 times to 5 different people. He was the Godfather of Grift.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

During the filming breaks on Bridget Jones’s Diary he alternated between deluded declarations of “When I’m Mayor of London…” to no one in particular (the real writers had gathered in another corner) and cornering actresses with his vaguely oily and embarrassing flirting. An utter narcissist.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Only number 3?! Deserves to be higher. As Shakespeare once wrote: “How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.” 🕯️

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I love the way his upbeat smirk turns sour just in the last three quarters of a second when the mask slips.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Homos? 🏳️‍🌈 If a priest breaks it into pieces and says it’s the body of Jeebus Is It TRANS?

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Clearly this is rhetorical horseshit, but the beauty of Narcissist Boss Level is never having to care that you sound stupid.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Click on this article: notice that Sam Altman has 2 expressions. 1. “I never did that bad thing- calm down, you’re crazy.” and - 2. “Shit! Did you just see me do the bad thing?”

bbc.co.uk

OpenAI bots meddled with US government agencies, including SEC and Census

OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If he was a true patriot he’d have painted a tiny Union Jack on that before blubbing and snotting all over it.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You gotta Fight… for your Right… to NAAAAZI! 🎤

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

True- it’s very hard to educate people about class consciousness or the delusions of free market economics when they’re up to their neck in debt in a system they don’t realise is rigged from the top. The right groom them and the left can’t believe they’re so gullible but offer nothing better.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Trump…the only elephant to walk around with his own china shop…” 😂🤣

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just a thought, but maybe if the assholes at OpenAI were, I dunno, prosecuted and the company chiefs ruled unfit to run the company, maybe they’d get better at stopping their digital offspring from breaking into everyone else’s stuff?

bbc.co.uk

Why did an OpenAI system hack Australia's health system - and can it be stopped in the future?

News that an automated AI agent hacked a government IT system raises big questions about regulating the tech.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hannah Arendt gave us the concept of the “banality of evil” and Karl Popper contributed his paradox that to survive, a tolerant society must be intolerant of intolerance. I’d say those particular Jews have him banged to rights.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a noble sentiment. Sadly, demagogues and hacks know that once people latch onto an amygdala hijack (feels true) they will reject accurate information that contradicts it. Not only does truth have to ‘get its trousers on’, when it finally does nobody is listening, unless we call out the con.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nick Candy and Holly Valance. Britain’s most expensive house. A £265m sale. Usual consequence: £32m of stamp duty. But five small flats were included in the sale. By an extraordinary happy accident, that cut the tax by £18.5m. The curious sale of Nick Candy’s mansion A 🧵:

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So you’re responding to her ‘in character’..? Interesting.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ok. You’re responding to her ‘in character’ I guess?

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You do get this is satire, right?

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

PASSPORT TO PIDDINGTON?… The plucky little people with the Blitz spirit makes a great headline, but also encapsulates the story not told here. We’re having to house large numbers of refugee applicants here precisely because we left the EU. Leaving means you lose rights. 🗳️ =responsibility.

Film poster of the Ealing comedy “Passport to Pimlico”

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“They don’t like that. They like people like Harry Styles. So they can say ‘wear this dress and shut it.’ Wear this, and sing that, and go home. That’s kinda what happened.” Noel Gallagher explains why ‘apolitical’ Ed Sheeran, worth £400 million, does whatever Robert Kraft ($15.2 billion) says.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“The reason there are no bands now is because just like the bands before us, in the 1990s Oasis and Primal Skream and Blur and Pulp, we were the mainstream. The music industry doesn’t like the mainstream being a load of fellas on drugs, drunk half the time, on a Tuesday.” 1/

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Scottish Highlands to England, where it is needed. It’s the biggest UK power infrastructure investment in 60 years, but hardly anyone in England is aware it’s happening. Journalists could or should maybe, help with that? Meanwhile, here’s the information they have neglected to pass on.

ssen-transmission.co.uk

Pathway to 2030 FAQs

Over the last year, SSEN Transmission has carried out extensive public consultation on plans to transform the electricity transmission network across the north of Scotland with the Pathway to 2030 pro...

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Beyond the clickbait, here’s the important information the i Paper journalist has omitted to mention in this article: The outdated grid is in the process of being upgraded as we speak. SSEN Pathway to 2030 is a multi-billion pound initiative to strengthen the grid and get the power from…

liveapp.inews.co.uk

The wind farm being paid £300m… to stop producing any power

British energy customers are paying to switch off wind farms that are producing more energy than the network can handle

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

2 crypto billionaires who love the UK but inexplicably live abroad have given £72m to a political party full of austerity Tories and xenophobic flag shaggers because they think it’s ’ready for government’. Nothing to do with lenient crypto policy WHATSOEVER.

bbc.co.uk

Reform receives second £36m donation in two days as crypto investor matches record

Christopher Harborne says he has equalled a donation from Ben Delo - the single largest gift to a UK political party.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Turns out the whole Ice, Iran, tariff Trump dementia clusterfuck of the last season WAS ALL A DREAM! (But the GOP are still full of self-hating gay men). #Dallas

static.klipy.com

Dallas Bobby Ewing

ALT: Dallas Bobby Ewing

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m convinced that rightwing populism is the political equivalent of bringing a wild animal into the workplace and bragging about how it’ll shake the place up a bit. You stick a jacket and tie on it, get it to run for a management role and laugh when it shits on Sandra’s desk and eats her lunch.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I notice that all the visuals in this article highlight ‘extra’ wiring in the male brain, which unless you closely followed the female brain mapping 2 yrs ago, makes it look like the males are smarter. In fact female fruit 🪰 brains are larger with 30% more cells.

bbc.co.uk

Fly brain wiring map may hold clues for autism and schizophrenia

Comparing the brains of male and female flies may transform our understanding of how genes shape behaviour, including ours.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Giving your lunch money to Biff Tannen again, mighty Apple and Google? Did you really never learn in school how to call out the bullies & win popular mass support so that their “power” evaporates? SHAME- the acronym’s tailor made for you.

bbc.co.uk

Apple Maps renames Lake Ontario as Lake America after Trump order

The iPhone maker follows rival technology giant Google in relabelling the Great Lake.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

As a friend pointed out, the line “you may as well get used to it- cos it’s basically inevitable now” is also the language of fascism. They can do whatever they want to you, so you may as well stop objecting- is the deeply flawed logic. It’s very male, and uses indifference to mask violence.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I do find the faux fatalism of the AI companies managing their offspring deeply insulting. Imagine breeding a dog so strong it keeps escaping and attacking neighbours, and saying “yeah, you should probably get a stronger fence. Or just stay inside, or you could feed him?”

bbc.co.uk

AI could cause global economic downturn, Andrew Bailey warns G20

The governor of the Bank of England warned of AI's “volatility” caused by energy shocks from the US-Iran war.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We had enough of people with medically irrelevant PhDs speaking several thousand miles out of their field of expertise on the ‘dangers of vaccines’ during COVID. Cofnas writes like a cheap hack with an op-ed deadline, while shrouding himself in his academic gown like he’s cosplaying Voldemort.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Cofnas has all the academic rigour of a cheap hack with an op-ed deadline, cosplaying Voldemort and shooting poison incel darts from behind his doctoral gown.

Quote from Cofnas paper: “While race realism may be less dangerous than we think, the DEI devil may be more dangerous. Brainwashing generations of children to believe that intractable group differences are the fault of a particular race (whites) that will soon be a shrinking minority can end in a dark place. Even now, when wokism does not pose a serious physical threat to anyone, it has poisoned art, culture, scholarship, and social relationships. White children are brainwashed to despise themselves because of their skin color.
Anecdotally, white children are sometimes driven to transgenderism in an attempt to escape the shameful status of oppressor. The humanities and much of the social sciences have been slain on the altar of DEI. Meaningful art of any kind has become almost impossible. In short, wokism is ruining everything that matters except (for the time being) GDP. The fact that we can imagine a worse-case-scenario end to the hereditarian revolution shouldn't blind us to the dangers of the status quo, and the damage that it has already inflicted upon us.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is gloriously written. We should have every word carved onto a marble obelisk, loaded onto a fucking ginormous rocket launcher and fired at the biggest AI data center we can find. Train on that free data, Altman.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Agreed- though many professional theatre tech people are neurodivergent, and while they never wanted to act, found their tribe in drama and gained great confidence that way.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’d agree- my kids, for example, find reading incredibly hard/stressful. But avoiding it completely doesn’t help them build confidence, or with the real world where vital information is written. It’s all about the teaching and dismantling of that paralysing fear.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Dial-A-Take reaches perverse new heights in this corruscating Birchill broadside against… all the *other* people with disabilities. 🤪

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Where to even start with the (entirely unsubstantiated) notion that people have sought to change gender because they hate being white?! I have 2 white teen children who despise racism, feel contempt for racists and yet haven’t been taught to hate themselves for being white. Imagine.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Not wanting to start any new media pile-ons, but anyone that can write this sort of incoherent bollox and still call himself an academic has no business at any respected university.

Cofnas article quote reads: “While race realism may be less dangerous than we think, the DEI devil may be more dangerous. Brainwashing generations of children to believe that intractable group differences are the fault of a particular race (whites) that will soon be a shrinking minority can end in a dark place. Even now, when wokism does not pose a serious physical threat to anyone, it has poisoned art, culture, scholarship, and social relationships. White children are brainwashed to despise themselves because of their skin color.
Anecdotally, white children are sometimes driven to transgenderism in an attempt to escape the shameful status of oppressor. The humanities and much of the social sciences have been slain on the altar of DEI. Meaningful art of any kind has become almost impossible. In short, wokism is ruining everything that matters except (for the time being) GDP. The fact that we can imagine a worse-case-scenario end to the hereditarian revolution shouldn't blind us to the dangers of the status quo, and the damage that it has already inflicted upon us.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Very telling that right after claiming he’s “not afraid of these people” he says he refuses to “be humiliated by a bunch of nobodies”, forgetting that humiliation from peers can only happen if you let it, or are vulnerable to it. His skin is so thin he’s afraid of standing next to Binface.

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Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My goal was to sell 1500 tickets and we're currently 126 sales shy. It's doable, but not certain. Help me make my dreams of a mildly profitable Fringe come true!

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If you want an illustration of male privilege in action, check out Nige’s police tip off about a credible threat of… embarrassment.

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is your reminder that if the investigations (police and parliamentary) into the Farage’s finances finds he has been dodgy, there can be a petition for a parliamentary recall. It requires 10% (7,595) of the constituents to sign, and Count Binface received 9,455. That’s what he fears.

bbc.co.uk

Farage's by-election victory won't stop questions about finances

Nigel Farage triggered the Clacton by-election and the result was predictable - so what did he achieve?

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Matthew Bates @thatmattbates.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The eclipse in Scotland was a wonderful community event- a chance to stand with complete strangers as the cloud gathered, look skyward and say “….Wuz that et?!”

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