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Kristian van der Vliet

@vanders.bsky.social
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Join me as I continue my Social Media addiction.

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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 2h
Yesssss. It literally drives them insane, with a lot of undertones that apply to the modern AI bro'
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 3h
Any bets on the last time this blubbering baby actually attended church service?
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm exhausted and have been since last Friday. Not physically, but mentally, which is very unusual for me. Like I have brain fog and I'm sleepy but I'm also quite happy to do stuff that requires physical effort. Hopefully this is just travel lurgy and I'll feel my normal self soon.
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Using a cherry picker to reach the high ceiling and archways, a spokesperson from the cathedral said..." makes it sounds like the spokesperson was shouting down to the reporter from 70ft up in a cherry picker bucket. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Part of Bristol Cathedral cordoned off after ceiling damaged
Bristol Cathedral said investigation work into the cause of the damage could take weeks.
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"You'll never defeat us!" I shout at an empty room, everyone having gone down the pub half an hour ago.
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"You were right. Past tense. Obviously what's done is done now so, you know, not much we can do now. Let's all move on."
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Inventing all new forms of discourse on BSky.app
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why would anyone care what unionists want?
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great. Now seize & crush ever single car using them, with a lifetime driving ban for the registered owner. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Thousands of illegal ghost plates on cars revealed by new cameras
Illegal registration plates are far too easy to get hold of and are putting the public at risk, BBC is told.
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If I do listen to the radio and have a TV, do I need to listen to every single radio station and watch every single show on every single channel, or am I still in a bubble if I don't?
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Police & MI5 have been a bit busy dealing with pensioners making cardboard signs, but luckily some guy binging Netflix last night was there to spot three vans of explosives heading towards a US military base, so it all worked out in the end.
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thanks for the perks, Eurostar!
The Gravity Falls meme template. At the top a piece of paper that says "The flexibility to travel on the train before or after the one you booked (not available on routes to or from London)". The bottom panel is a cartoon boy in a baseball cap holding the paper, looking up and saying "This is worthless!"
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There already is a hub airport covering the south of England. It's called Amsterdam Schiphol.
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When you replace market research with hopes & memes.
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
omg you're so brave & strong
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Or hear me out: steel is a strategic industry and whether it is profitable is irrelevant l.
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here me out: a Theremin one-man-band. Just one guy covered in Theremin ariels. Just everywhere. If he sneezes it'd sound like an explosion in an accordion factory.
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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A very dear friend and antifascist comrade is facing serious charges resulting from defending migrants housed in hotels in Bristol from a far right march in 2025. He's a father, has £11k in legal fees up front, and may be facing prison time if he doesn't win. Please dobate below.
chuffed.org
Support a Bristol antifascist on trial
Support a Bristol antifascist facing charges for resisting far right attacks
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Proscribe Meta
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I propose "poliphobia": a fear of your fellow people.
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hahaha, couldn't happen soon enough. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
St George flag raisers could face fines under new council rules
Local authorities are looking at ways to crackdown on flags placed on public buildings and lamposts.
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Sahil Bajaj will BRB (for real this time) @sahilbajaj.dev · 19/09/2026
I regularly listen to this youtu.be/DNMPNAUN_Vg?...
youtu.be
Gorillaz - Flimsy Steve
YouTube video by DadScience
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Phoenixing should be illegal and staff should be the first creditors in line.
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Everyone Is Lying To You For Money" includes a scene where they're very clearly lying themselves because a guy is trying to talk to Ben McKenzie on the tube.
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Tilly Norwood will be opening for Ed Sheeran
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It'll be real neat if the BSky devs could slop up a way to automatically detect & label AI images. I mean that might create some sort of tension between their slop & the poster's slop, but I'd appreciate it so people would stop reposting slop with 5k likes into my timeline.
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good lord how did this happen
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Our Green Party is people powered. We have the energy and the momentum to win in Holborn & St Pancras. We're about to go up a gear. We'll be out every day and evening and we need you! 🫵🏽 Sign up here: linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP
Zack with lots of people with Vote Green signsZack with a group of women and a young man all smiling on the streetZack and Hannah with lots of people waving vote green signs
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When I lived in the Netherlands my effective tax rate was 47%. When I moved back to the UK that dropped to 42%. On the flip side my local council taxes in the Netherlands were a fraction of what I pay for just Band B council tax in the UK. Yet local services were significantly better!
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Feels like he's setting up JD for a big ol' excommunication.
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Spent my very first day leafletting with @southglosgreens.bsky.social in Kingswood this morning. Very nice it was too, and lovely to meet everybody!
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 20/09/2026
things can only get worse with a northern accent
NEW: Andy Burnham will shift his messaging away from "hope" to preparing the public for "challenging times" and "difficult decisions" with Labour officials increasingly concerned the budget will be gloomier than expected
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ah yes, that Liberalism/Libertarianism crossover we've all been waiting for.
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lots of weird quotes to this that seem to think that France is starting WW3 while giving Russia a pass despite Russia already being engaged.
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Clod, how has that historically worked out for the guys at the top?
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Labour needs to hear this.
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 18/09/2026
A version of the "Aella's birthday gangbang" Sankey diagram but it's about Bluesky posters thinking about posting Sankey diagram jokes, leading from "thought about Sankey diagram joke" through various iterations of workshopping and writing the joke (with various dead ends due to forgetting about it, losing interest, etc). Eventually at the end the joke is finally posted; some posters do numbers with it, some don't, some came in a fluffer
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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 25/03/2024
WORF: Captain, an unidentified vessel is on an intercept course.
PICARD: Send a hail, Mr. Data.
DATA: Yes sir.
DATA:
DATA: Sir, the vessel has left us on read.
PICARD: Hail them again.
DATA: The vessel has turned off read receipts, Captain. However, our sensors indicate they are still communicating with other vessels.
WORF: Outrageous! Arm photon torpedoes!
PICARD: Belay that order.
WORF: But Captain! This is a great dishonor! We can clearly see them posting but they do not respond to our hails!
PICARD: They do not owe us the emotional labor of a response, Mr. Worf.
RIKER: Mr. Data, can you check if they've made any wideband subspace vagueposts since we hailed them?
DATA: There has been one vaguepost, sir, referring to a "rando" vessel that is "obsessed" with them.
PICARD: Arm photon torpedoes.
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ms. Rachel just bodied Ed Sheeran.
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
pss pss pss pss pss
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Any sufficiently rigidly defined spec IS code, and requires just as much effort as code to maintain. See: EBNF, Swagger, etc.
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh. Oh no. No no no. The countryside (and especially, farms) are awful places. It sometimes *looks* pretty but it's an industrial landscape, you just don't recognise it!
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fuck off. You did not accidentally join the Reform party only to suddenly realise you'd made a mistake. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Senedd member who quit Reform voted Remain in Brexit referendum
Sarah Cooper-Lesadd has defected to Plaid and says her former party is "falling apart at the seams".
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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Piddington Community Choir are supporting Ed Sheeran on tour x
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Step 1. Leave the UK to stop a migrant camp being built near you. Step 2. You are now no longer a part of the UK and have no representation in Parliament. Step 3. The UK builds a migrant camp near you.
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onlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
all my acts gone
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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The one thing everyone agreed on about the Stanford Prison Experiment is that we shouldn't do the Stanford Prison Experiment again. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
variety.com
Netflix Sets ‘New Stanford Prison Experiment’ Unscripted Series for October Release (EXCLUSIVE)
Netflix has commissioned an unscripted series based on the notorious Stanford Prison Experiment, Variety has learned exclusively.
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