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Yeah they just crunched everything down until it became meaningless. Like, Dany's final mental break is supposed to be when Missandei is executed. Which, sure, but I feel that might have landed slightly harder if those characters had actually spoken to each other in the previous two seasons.

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you've got to have something in reserve for the second round

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bringing in an iced coffee is loser behaviour. The true job interview power move is to plug in a coffee grinder and a swan-neck kettle before you even introduce yourself, open a bag of single origin heirloom Ethiopian beans - with notes of strawberry, blueberry and vanilla - and slowly, laboriously,

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Others will have their say about this, but I think it’s worth pointing out that this - or laundered versions of it - are accepted wisdom amongst a big chunk of our political and media classes and it is simply bad for society when the elites have little or no understanding of *the systems they run*

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Parades Commission decision on the Drumcree parade rests in large part on the police assessment of disorder. This is a huge call by the police and I can only think how awful this renewed attention must feel for the Quinn, O'Reilly and Nelson families: www.paradescommission.org/viewparade.a...

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In retrospect, it was probably a bad strategy to have a Director of Strategy who has no knowledge of policy and who hates what the Labour Party has traditionally stood for.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"rapidly medicalised layabouts" If you want to know what the current push to delegitimise ADHD and autism diagnoses is about, it's coming from shitheads like this.

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yeah I think it's not quite immediately satisfying because it negates so much of the story you've been invested in, but like... they did have the main character say "wir sind falsch" rather a lot

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Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann

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I remember being annoyed at the bit where you saw [character] as an old man, because they'd done such a good job of casting up to then that sticking the main actor in old guy prosthetics seemed like a cheat. Then the credits rolled and it wasn't him.

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I did in fact write and delete the word "perfect" there because yeah, it doesn't entirely land the plane but man it gets so, so close and is basically flawless up to then

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Dark in particular, if for nothing else just for being the best at casting characters at different ages, something that almost nobody else has ever got right but that they nailed in ways that made you gasp

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

yeah, there are an awful lot of people who share responsibility for the deaths they directly enabled and the rise of anti-reality politics they promoted

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Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got

Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 20/09/2026

now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational triumphal arch

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 19/09/2026

frankly if I was an LLM I'd be very confused trying to understand it

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 19/09/2026

and it's not that anybody in particular is right or wrong, it's just that it's very clear that when one person says "reasoning" or something like that, they're often not talking about the same thing as another person

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 19/09/2026

one thing so many of these conversations reveal is that lots of people have very different, uh, understandings of a lot of very fundamental words about brain stuff

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 18/09/2026

like obviously it's deranged, don't get me wrong, but it also might be good

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 18/09/2026

I've done this occasionally, it's actually not bad, fixes it in your mind a bit better than either mode alone

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Feel like it should be a bigger priority for the government that higher education is collapsing.

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Delighted to learn that AZ Alkmaar have a player called Jizz Hornkamp.

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"We don't comment on books. Authors, on the other hand—"

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

yeah not just that they value power above wealth accumulation (always been a strategy), but that they really value the feeling of power above both actual power and wealth accumulation

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If you're around Chelmsford on the 3rd November, why not spend an evening with two blokes who are clearly *very* proficient at peering over or through black rimmed spectacles, discussing Francis' new book Nonesuch in particular and (I would imagine) alt history and London based fantasy in general.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Look, I think we need to understand and empathise with the villagers' concerns. Yes, they've declared themselves in open rebellion against His Majesty the King, but it's important that the army put down the revolt with a minimum of bloodshed, and we should limit executions to only the ringleaders.

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but I can’t believe we’ve now got to the point of feminism which explicitly says “only women can do childcare”, well done everyone

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 15/09/2026

(but seriously I remember someone saying ages ago that we could be living, in effect, at the beginning of history, given the ~theoretical~ possibility of mass preservation of vastly more info than any previous age, and it does annoy me that, a few noble efforts aside, we basically didn't even try)

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 15/09/2026

"we believe the phrase 'Gary Sambrook eats big dinners' had ritual significance"

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 15/09/2026

Welsh Reform leaders on an incredible run of form lately

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 14/09/2026

I kinda suspect, as Jo suggests, there's maybe space for a bit of an Adams revival because that specific aspect of his satire feels increasingly acute. (And I think his prose is strong enough to survive the way it became a default style for a thousand less funny knockoffs, hence the cringe factor.)

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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Man spends one day in Ireland and he’s suddenly “Donal”

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yeah like 1) they will immediately spend it on easily detectable crimes 2) it will lead to even more infighting about who's got a yacht and who hasn't 3) it will draw every grifter in the country into their orbit, as opposed to the current situation of only half the country's grifters

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This touches on an important point: there's a decent chance that 72 million quid is an absolutely ruinous amount of money for Reform, I can't think of an institution in the country less well suited to handle that amount of money, it will be like one of those cautionary tales about lottery winners.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I like the detail that his chair is encased in ice

Detail of AI slop image of Charlie Kirk debating historical figures in the afterlife, the chair he's sitting in appears to be surrounded by a flat reflective surface that I can only interpret as ice. Where it meets his chair it appears to be steaming.

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Unusual remark for an orange man

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tbh the lift situation sounds like it would be super annoying at basically any price point

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yeah there aren't really enough nukes in the world, disarmament actually made a difference (and engineering a war, as opposed to somehow seizing control of all nukes, would mean a lot of them get taken up with the nuclear sponge)

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I don't want to sound complacent but I feel like there might be a stage during the AI's invention, prototyping and construction of the Oxy-Gone 3000 that we could intervene in some way

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It is weird that this is something I find myself saying a lot these days, but: killing all of humanity is actually quite hard! There isn't a button!

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The example quoted in the article is someone using Claude to help write a grant application.

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especially as she's already noted how factors around trust in the system can influence uptake

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