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Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just 10 miles from the stage of the World Cup Final, hundreds of people are being held captive at Delaney Hall. This is the story of ICE brutality built off of the prison-industrial complex - and the fight against it.

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Hello, it's Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Dear me Google. You really do delight in making things worse. @killedbygoogle.com

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We are writing to inform you that the option to back up photos and videos to Google Photos using Google Drive for desktop is being discontinued. To continue automatically backing up photos and videos from your computer, you can use 'Back up folders' in Google Photos.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

If you step back, it is truly extraordinary that so many people went to such great lengths and broke so many conventions and risked their political careers and the only outcome of all these efforts and risks was appointing a washed-up old spinner to an ambassadorial post

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

How far @monzo.com have fallen. Once the disrupter, now telling you that you can have the full exciting experience by them selling your data to advertisers.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

We did it. We defeated Mandelbrot

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

A warm welcome in freezing conditions at Hilly Fields parkrun this morning. Happy new year.

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Hi, I asked some lovely developers for their favourite Christmas gaming memories. Please have a read and add your own in the comments section. Also, if you celebrate this season or not, all the very best wishes to you from the Guardian games team xx www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...

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‘I plugged in Zelda and everything changed’: developers share their fondest Christmas gaming memories

From a family showdown on Guitar Hero III to the winter levels in Diddy Kong Racing, the designers of some of today’s top titles recall the gifts and moments that lit up their childhoods

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

With the Redford news please do go and watch Sneakers. Few films in which he seems to be having more fun.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

That Melanie Phillips is a lunatic conspiracist bigot and racist is not remotely shocking. But the fact that the Times continues to employ her should be.

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The response from Israel to the fairly meek Starmer plan on recognising Palestine if Israel sort of behaves shows just how fucking horrific the state of Israel has become. Apparently taking a stand against Israel starving an entire people is "rewarding Hamas". They are not our ally.

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

With a authoritarian regime starving a people, the UK and US flew 250,000 flights in 1948-49 to air drop aid to Berlin, a city we had been at war with just three years earlier. Where the hell are we in Gaza, and why aren't we calling out the aggressor in the language we used against the Soviets.

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

We should all denounce and be appalled by Israel, a country hell bent on genocide and without even the most basic shred of decency

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

This is the most incredible bit of writing I have read this year.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

The top image: The Guardian, July 2016 The article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The bottom image: The Guardian, May 2025 The article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Top half of image: July 2016 Guardian article by Simon Jenkins titled: “ignore the prophets of doom: Brexit will be good for Britain”. Bottom half of image: May 2026 Guardian article by Simon Jenkins titled “From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort”

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

This is what happens when you only view things through the lens of "political benefit" rather than actually improving people's lives. Scrapping the two child limit would lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty. That's the benefit!

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

There's a lot for us to learn about LLMs. Claude 4's prompt guide notes that when you really want a good output it might help to encourage the model, and provides the example "Don't hold back. Give it your all." We don't really understand how they work, do we. docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/buil...

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Claude 4 prompt engineering best practices - Anthropic

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/05/2025

1 year on. Doesn't time fly.

Rishi Sunak walking into Downing Street. Soaked.

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

You have to give him credit: Starmer is tough on Labour support *and* tough on the causes of Labour support.

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ollie masters @olliemastersbskys.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

@jonnelledge.bsky.social ‘s newsletter is always worth reading, but this one in particular is very good

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

every now and again I remember that thirty years ago britain and france built the longest underwater tunnel in the world, still not beaten, and the thing that limits how many people we can shove through it is the tiny cellar underneath the train station that we use for security theatre

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Great weekend of train testing completed, all moving us closer to introducing the new trains this year. Here's a photo of one from the depot this morning. They're amazing!

A new DLR train on a road in the depot at Beckton

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

"addicted to hiring cheap Labour" okay great looking forward to the white paper about reforming the funding of social care, and the tax rises necessary to pay for it

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I'm sure that Labour talking "tough" on migration and making life more miserable for those who do jobs people in the UK don't want to do will result in more Labour votes because Reform will pack their bags and go home and not at all just take a more extreme position

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I was in Ottawa last week. I love Canada; a fascinating, beautiful country which always comes across so friendly. Jean Chrétien addressed our meeting and spoke of optimism, resolve and hard work in the future. Looking forward to the results of today's election. 🇨🇦

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Post a photo of a bus from your camera roll

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Thomas Ableman @freewheeling.info · 25/04/2025

The Economist cover today is a huge photo of Farage labelled "The Man Britain Cannot Ignore". He's got here because we've not learned the lesson that the more we pander to him, the stronger he gets. Brexit has been an utter disaster but no one says so. So of course he looks like a winner.

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I would prefer it if people were kind on BlueSky. If that's not why we came here then why did we? I'm with you. You criticised the issue without tearing into the human.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 20/04/2025

"Gen AI is early 1900s spiritualism for digital moderns" prediction stays winning

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

That's fair, and good luck to them. I just can't see any way it's scalable. Any relying on a tool that bad actors can abuse or just not bother to use seems a very fragile and unreliable choice. I hope everyone gets what they want out of BlueSky and it can save from become what Twitter ended up being

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I don't think it's a meaningful sign of an author's strength of argument or moral conviction if they haven't used alt text. Let's fight for tools to make everything more acceptable rather than criticising users who want to share a funny photo of a cat, or an image that moved them

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I mean that's nice, but if we truly want a widely used social network (I appreciate there are arguments against wider adoption, but I think the benefits outweigh these arguments) then we're just not going to get people to do this. And that's saying nothing of often useless alt text.

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Surely alt text is exactly the sort of problem that we're not going to get people to diligently add to every photo so need to look at automation and, yes, machine learning. In the same way the semantic web failed or at least was very different than imagined.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Israel murdered this beautiful soul. Remember Fatima Hassona. Watch and spread the film "Put your soul on your hand and walk". And never stop fighting the mass murdering death machine that is the Israeli state. She was 25.

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Katy @theblueulysses.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

"austerity for all except drivers"

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

when people say this they imagine, like, artisanal carpentry or baking, not eight hours on the manufacturing line adjusting a thousand widgets because you're marginally cheaper than a machine

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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 02/04/2025

Serious mistake by the Economist here. Le pen herself called for a law to ban politicians convicted of embezzlement from public office.

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This is amusing timing as I was there, speaking with Nexus and riding on a new train... yesterday!

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The old classic UTC Vs local time bug! It happens to the best of us! Thanks for checking, Callum!

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

And boy did we do that with Beckton! It definitely wasn't a source of mass demand on day one! I remember it very well.

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

@freewheeling.info makes this point too and although I'm not quite as carefree about where public investment should be made it is fair to say it's very hard to predict so providing good connections to places that don't currently have them is a fairly solid investment

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Tom Page @tompagenet.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

It's taken many years for some stations on the route to come into their own (e.g. Gallions Reach which now has tonnes of housing), but this extension laid the groundwork for all future DLR extensions.

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