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Thomas Swales

@thomasswales.bsky.social

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Increasingly bitter disappointment. Makes up stories

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Thomas Swales @thomasswales.bsky.social · 7h

Gee whizz good job ‘whoever’ organised this escapade wasn't trying to set this up. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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US Removes All Bombers From RAF Fairford

The US has withdrawn all of its bombers from RAF Fairford, the British military base at the centre of an incident being investigated by counter terror police.

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Thomas Swales @thomasswales.bsky.social · 7h

What loving parenting in a grown up country looks like. Bravo.

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Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 8h

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/10/2026

The chart explains AI hype more than any chart that's ever been charted.

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Thomas Swales @thomasswales.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

FML. Random Spotify playlist just served up a wild banger of a tune with the ugliest greatest crunchy harmonics -saturated bass thing ever so i bought the track on mp3. And it turns out it is a compression artefact. Sod. open.spotify.com/track/124qDH...

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Destroy Dem Soundboy VIP

Dr. Colossus · Destroy Oh Boy Presents... Vol. 2 · Song · 2019

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Thomas Swales @thomasswales.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@grievousangel.net sorry to be so lame but totally delighted to find you on bluesky. still rocking a couple of those blogariddim mix mp3s all these years later - the grime / dancehall one never gets old - thank you for a ton of good times listening!

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Millions of Chopped Landlord Pieces @thirteentwelve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Charlotte Church roasting Ed Sheeran over a Dead Kennedy's cover

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Thomas Swales @thomasswales.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reading up] She has a degree in… English, Drama and Theatre. And as it happens, so do I. So I suppose the difference is that on my course, we didn‘t really go much into earth systems, cryospheric science, geophysics, oceanography, or palaeoclimatology

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Werner Herzog giving the clearest response to AI I've ever read.

t’s so standardized that AI can step in because there’s not real storytelling. It’s mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome AI to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it’s ad nauseam. When it’s ad nauseam, please, please, please let AI step in and do the job.

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Thomas Swales @thomasswales.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

An aging Gen X-er writes: I miss album art.

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Thomas Swales @thomasswales.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

No wars. No hate. No masters.

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