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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Is it the incredibly insincere smile or the incomprehensible buzzword lying?

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If only Martha was as enthusiastic about constantly interrupting her GOP guests.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The reality is that badly designed floating bus stops are a problem, but in general they save the lives of countless cyclists with no other ill effects. We’ve had them in England since the 1930s.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Decency used to be a thing in the USA. But not with these degenerate scum in charge.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I love the stern warning at the end - “do not attempt to damage the White House”.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nothing bad only good can happen. bsky.app/profile/head...

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They’ve tweaked it already - “I do not recap elections, electoral counts, or other political events.”

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“They point to its extraordinary growth rate” - yes, Anthropic’s annual losses have grown from $2.9bn in 2024 to $8bn in 2025! A real American success story.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What a giveaway- even most Christians don’t read the Bible.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m willing to bet Oz has life insurance. Yet he’s still alive so he should be kicked off that plan for fraud.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The goose laid an egg, but it wasn’t a gold egg. It was a shit egg.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He’s a Republican so naturally he’s lying. The USGA estimates the average annual golf course usage at 78 million gallons. An average 100MW AI data centre uses 500 million gallons. Stargate Abilene (if it ever gets finished) is targetting 1.2GW.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

But no pushback from Bash on the lie that there were 30,000 illegal voters in New Jersey. Only 400 voted, and they were mistakenly issued with ballots by a buggy driving license system.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

But no statement from Reform. How unsurprising.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There is a sick conspiracy going on against his donors, that’s the only reason for the post.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yep you’re super smart.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You do realise you are posting this on a platform that is packed to the rafters with disgruntled ex-Twitter users who deleted their accounts so can’t “pop over” even if they could he bothered to do so?

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Imagine not knowing who pissvortex is on a platform you never use.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yeah, you’re missing the very obvious reason for that - on Twitter if you’re not sure you can look at the poster’s profile and quickly work out if it is serious or not. Here it is totally out of context.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It’s a small thing, but so illustrative of enshittification in general and Apple’s declining standards in particular. A simple alert box that was perfectly formatted in the previous iOS release but now mixes left justified text with a centralised button and an image that aligns with neither. Ugh.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I’m not big on original posts, nor do I follow many people (and therefore get followed back), I mainly use these platforms to read curated news and sometimes post replies. Engagement with some of those replies is many many times greater than I ever saw on Twitter. With a much smaller user base.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Total bollocks. Not only are these data centres being built specifically to run AI and not to store user data, they cannot even be used for the usual cloud tasks. It is basically useless for anything else - you can’t run a website on a frigging GPU.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Oooh Jeffries gonna be mad.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We have been exhorting the Labour government here in the UK to do the same. Some small successes so far, with a handful of high level govt officials officially abandoning X.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

You’re smart, ya know, like a smart guy. And you’re gullible, like.. a not smart guy. So it’s confusing.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

He actually is the same person originally. When he switched from being Buckethead to Binface, some other guy stood in the election against him as Buckethead. Ludicrously enough.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I had no idea this was happening, and yet last night I dreamed I was at a crazy party hosted by Tom Stoppard. He drank vast amounts of beer (in the dream, I imagine him as having been more of a fine wine man in real life). Anyway, a giant of our times.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Hannity wishing he too had access to a mid-interview shitter.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Quite bold of Fetterman to conduct the interview from his outdoor bathroom. I suppose it saves time to produce shit from two orifices at once.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I bought $9 worth of lumber and I gotta tell you, you can’t get the same roughage from a pound of beef, my colon has been working overtime.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Trunch in Norfolk. Tiny pretty village, one decent pub. Nearby country pubs include the Gunton Arms, in a deer park, owned by a rich art dealer who needed somewhere to hang his collection, great food.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

As corrupt, crooked and dishonest as these guys are, from Lutnick, Hassett, Bessent and Johnson to some of the not so bright GOP Reps, in the end it may be the unbearable smugness of being that does for them.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Actually I think it’s fake. I’ll take it down.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Microsoft probably used AI to write the billing comparison code.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I don’t doubt that France has the ability. I do doubt that Softbank’s “pledge” is worth the paper it isn’t written on.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

That’s really not the point. Regardless of government intent, building these things is insanely difficult and expensive and a pledge from Softbank to spend some imaginary cash does not bring it any closer to happening. Check out how Stargate’s going.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

There’s a lot of appetite in the US too, and data center builds are still failing there.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Nothing to do with France’s nuclear capability. These data center announcements have proven to be smoke and mirrors over and over. It’s even in the FT piece, that refers to this “to an extent, replacing Softbank’s commitment to spend $50bn on Stargate”. Because that was a pledge too.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

But Ed, they made a pledge! Do pledges mean nothing in business any more?

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I’m sure that sounded good while you were typing it bit unfortunately it makes no sense.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Too true, Paxton looks like a drag queen on his day off.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

satisfaction and that is now the modus operandi for every large US corporation. The question is, will other countries do anything concrete to protect their own industries and consumers from this continual race to the bottom? On current evidence, the outlook is not hopeful.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

a US company that already had a similar but much less effective product line, and has just kept the existing (probably cheaper to manufacture) product. Capturing the global market through endless corporate takeovers and mergers means you don’t have to worry about product quality or customer /3

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

quality crossover products that nobody asked for, blending the new awful tasting Cadbury chocolate with previously foreign stuff like Oreos. It also happens in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals - every time a product I use suddenly becomes discontinued, it turns out the manufacturer was taken over by /2

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Enshittification is not simply a technology-based phenomenon. I would argue that it is a US business corporation that cuts across all sorts of industries. When Kraft took over UK chocolate maker Cadbury, they immediately set about reducing the quality of the product, and introducing a lot of low /1

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Lachlan Murdoch is going to love his Sydney Australia to Fox HQ connecting flights via West Virginia.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Minor correction: Anthropic is only saying it will be profitable next quarter, with a very specific get-out that costs will not remain as low later in the year. They have a temporary discount with SpaceX which does not change their overall position of having costs that increase with revenue.

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Tim Bick @timbickvo.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Worried that I haven’t achieved my hour in the Metaverse today

Gartner Research showing that by 2026, 25% of people will spend at least one hour a day in the metaverse

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