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Berks of DeFrights...or Something. @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 5h

Just once. Just fucking once, I’d love a detective in a TV show to ask “can you enhance that?” about a pixellated CCTV screencap and for the guy sat at the computer to turn around and mutter “are you mental?”

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Todd Lunch @toddlunch.bsky.social · 2h

Disgusting. Why has he not been arrested?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 3h

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2h

Hmm, seems like the kind of thing Head of Money would say

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 3h

Adam Boulton told Times Radio re: Jeffrey Archer: “You really couldn’t make it up…” He famously did, Adam.

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 3h

Iain Sinclair on Jeffrey Archer's thrillers.

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 5h

Krishnan:Death is a certainty, an inevitable realization, the only thing that we know will befall us. There are no exceptions, no surprises: all paths lead to it. Everything we do is a preparation for it, a preparation that we begin at birth, whimpering with our foreheads against the ground. Kieran.

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 6h

First poster for Luca Guadagnino’s ‘ARTIFICIAL’, starring Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman. The film follows the story of when OpenAI fired and rehired their CEO Sam Altman within 1 week.

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 7h

There's an advert for something called Fat Freezer on Ideal just now which seems to violate at least 350 ASA codes.

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 7h

It's #JamesBondDay, you say? LOOK at what I've unearthed in the Eon archive! The award-winning, Neversaythespywholovedoctopussyrakerneveragain, please! By Neil Martin, aged 16 3/4.

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 7h

Is there an echo...echo...echo...?

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

All the usual subjects are banging on about the relative besting by JRM or by Carlson in that interview but neither came across as intellectual Titans did they? I just saw two hopeless, whiffy nobodies exchanging banalities.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Love it 👇

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Billy Hurley @billyhurls.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is no McTry. There is only:

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Zak, returning from a hard day's campaigning, opening pack of custard creams: "Well, that was grand. Such a super group of people who really get what I and the party and really all about. " *Turns on the telly* "-------------------------"

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Nice advert for Reform masquerading as analysis there. Top work @news.sky.com

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The short film on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social right now about the Festival of Britain at the Southbank shows what glorious permanent attraction this would have been compared with the grim horror that currently squats next to the Thames.

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today marks the 25th anniversary (😯) of our publication on discovery of FOXP2. To commemorate, I’ll repost a few prior threads about the gene. Here’s my explainer of how we tracked down FOXP2 & implicated it in speech/language deficits, in the days before completion of the human genome project.🗣️🧬🧪👇

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why do they all look like they’re at a Basic Instinct disco?

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Afternoon. I'm spoiling you. Funky Bond: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCij...

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YouTube video by O.T. Zehn - Topic

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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳

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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We are - as you may know - planning to do an ALL-NEW Lost Films of Hollywood calendar for 2027 if we get enough interest. There’s a button on lostfilmsbook.store that you can hit to get notified if we get enough interest. I think we need to get about 100 people on there so if you want it to happen…

Lost films of Hollywood 2027 calendar spoiler free image listing some of the movies we are planning to feature if there’s enough interest.. The Odyssey, Marty Supreme, Basic Instinct, The Exorcist, Speed, The Breakfast Club, Parasite, The Cars That Ate Paris, Dumbo…

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hammering it into an open goal like Jude Bellingham against a team of 12-year-olds.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 04/10/2026

This is very good. “Over 2.2 million cancer deaths can be attributed to Costco; that’s more than 20% of all cancer deaths between 2000 and 2018.”

Ridiculous things you can “prove” caused cancer mortality

Everything causes cancer. Sounds cliché; maybe those California warning tags were right all along. But thanks to the methodology created by Alwadi et al., we can now prove that anything and everything causes cancer. Oh, sorry, that is too strong of an assertion. To use the authors’ words, since they have claimed their papers don’t prove causality, we can create an association between any physical landmark and cancer and, from that association, figure out how much cancer is attributable to that thing. Which is totally not the same as saying “that thing causes cancer.”

For instance, living near a private four-year university is associated with a 15-fold increase in cancer mortality when compared

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Given what regularly appears on this site, I genuinely thought for one moment that this was an interview with an AI Minister not the AI Minister.

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

*taps the sign, Cambridge student newspaper* Not a Professor.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Cambridge student newspaper Varsity is reporting that James Orr (or, as they call him, "Disgraced theology professor James Orr") hasn't been turning up to his own lectures.

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Sam Schwarzkopf @sampendu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you can spare ~20 min on an online study on perception & #mentalimagery please consider participating: #visionscience #psychscisky #neuroskyence tstbl.co/131-782

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 02/10/2026

Always happy to help with costume ideas for your #cats.

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Victoria Coren Mitchell @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dangerous yes, but WHAT a holiday you’ve had!

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Ian Shaw @quantockian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Strait of houmous?

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is Very Close To The Bone re: concept but is an excellent new addition to the visual story-telling cannon. The parody of Chandler, I mean cough, unlikeable sit-com character, is spot on.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“A rare audience”

Kim Kardashian: ‘I was single for five years. I needed to heal’
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She’s one of the most famous women in the world — worth £1.9bn and with 344m Instagram followers. Gavanndra Hodge is granted a rare audience

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Paul's inviting us to his! I may have misunderstood. In any event, NEW PLAY! BRIGHTON!

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is in the Bad Place, true, but is far too good to pass up. Here's a brilliant set of Turing tests involving the most passive-aggressive AI avatar know to those casually-dressed micro-Herberts in air-conditioned pens. Live, love, laugh. x.com/DSDOConnor/s...

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