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William Perrin

@willperrin.bsky.social
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Trustee at Indigo Trust. Formerly CarnegieUK, Good Things Foundation, TPW, UK Civil Service (No10, Cabinet Office, DtI, DCMS). Defence, tech, online safety, rural, tractors, cats etc.

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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 12h
A lobbying powerhouse faces a midterm problem: Many Democrats and some Republicans up for election don't want its money
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AIPAC’s Growing Unpopularity Becomes a Liability, Even for Some Republicans
The lobbying powerhouse seeks to retain its influence despite accusations of partisanship and Israel's declining support with voters
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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 20h
Only one lawyer can save Man City
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20h
This is testament to No.10's frankly astonishing degree of political competence. A policy which was branded electoral suicide 48 hours ago now showing signs of robust popularity.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Have now slowly re-read the ruling, and it is even more damning than at first reading. The ruling pretty much sets out Manchester City was fraudulent on a systemic long-term basis. Not just mere non-compliance, but ‘concealments’ and ‘disguises’. Also some MCFC witnesses were ‘dishonest’.
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 29/09/2026
I’m Gail, a one woman (and a feline assistant) business, based in Manchester. I create prints, homewares, T-shirts & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk
A grid of twelve illustrations featuring music designs, architecture designs, books, retro abstract designs and swimmers. Bold and colourful.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Posture Adjusted To Equally Incorrect Posture
Posture Adjusted To Equally Incorrect Posture
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Martin Rosenbaum @mrosenbaum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today is International Right to Know Day, the day on which I traditionally remind everyone that if you want to learn how to use your FOI rights more effectively, then you should buy this excellent book
Freedom of Information: A practical guidebook
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Next time someone tells you off for going to BlueSky and says you should have stayed and fought show them this.
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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sorry but you might as well lay your face down in an earthenware bowl that says "For the leopards" round the edge.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
incidentally i think these guys are the patron saints of bluesky
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 26/09/2026
In case you needed to be worried more. danwatch.dk/en/military-...
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Military documents reveal how Russia has reactivated a top-secret doomsday system
Danwatch has reviewed millions of military procurement documents and can, for the first time, reveal how the Russian military has secretly carried out a vast co
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026
Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Donald Trump continues to publicly support Pete Hegseth amid the Iran War debacle, but privately he is telling friends that when handing the world's largest military to an alcoholic cable news host, he should have picked someone from primetime.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Analysis | A Democratic midterm rout could end up as a gift to Mr. Trump, setting him up to end his term as a pragmatic, centrist unifier—drawing upon his decades in business to deliver results for the country.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Should the taxpayer-funded FBI be dispatching multiple counterterrorism agents to investigate threatening phone calls that Stephen Miller’s wife Katie claims to have received? We asked two tradwife influencers at a Christian crypto conference in Orlando.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026
Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation
Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." www.wsj.com/articles/kim...
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The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe
Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
WASHINGTON—Reflecting on the past fling and remarking how time had flown by, local golden retriever Daisy told reporters Thursday that she could not believe the guy she hooked up with 10 years ago was...
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 26/09/2026
is it okay to bring dry ice to an interview
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Politico @politico.com · 26/09/2026
Casar wants Democrats to make JD Vance’s Silicon Valley ties a liability
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Casar wants Democrats to make JD Vance’s Silicon Valley ties a liability
The Texas progressive is pitching an economic populist message on AI ahead of the 2028 campaign.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A former staff member of Tony Blair Institute said they had serious concerns that this was “very much trading money for access”, but was instructed by a colleague not to describe it that way. ‘They were saying you have to be really careful not to make it seem as if they’re paying money for access’😬
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My Glock system went rogue and issued 9mm agents which accessed the internal organs of several victims. Please give me billions of dollars to help me regulate the behavior of the gun whose trigger I keep pulling.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026
Last Peach Of Summer Quietly Molds Over On Counter
Last Peach Of Summer Quietly Molds Over On Counter
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The theory was that a large crowd outside the police station would deter the police from pressing charges, so that Mr Thomas would be released tonight at 11pm. This has not worked, as the police have charged Mr Thomas, remanding him to appear in court in the morning
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's Rupert Lowe MP's payments from X Corp over the past year. This man is making serious cash from Musk's platform. Payments surged over the summer, during UK 'unrest', and when Musk was frantically re-sharing Lowe's posts... Bleak, lucrative work if you can get it.
Line chart plotting 21 payments from X Corp to Rupert Lowe MP, as declared in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. The x-axis runs from 3 September 2025 to 16 September 2026; the y-axis shows the value of each fortnightly payment in pounds, from zero to £12,000.

Payments run between roughly £1,100 and £2,200 through late 2025, rise gradually through spring 2026 to around £3,000–£3,800, then jump sharply to £11,724.97 on 10 June 2026 and £10,265.50 in July. From there they fall in five consecutive steps — £4,412.76, £3,126.35, £2,885.36, £2,542.04 — to £2,413.89 on 16 September 2026, a fall of 79% from the June peak.

Two things worth carrying with the graphic whichever version you use.

The July point is marked with an asterisk because the register gives its received date as 7 August 2026 while recording it as registered on 15 July. Plotted it at the likelier 7 July.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
it’s absolutely fucked that people are elevating these effective altruist freaks and falling for their rhetoric on AI. media is letting these people set the narrative, while those of us following EA/longtermist circles for years know how insane they are. they consistently downplay climate risk.
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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
US: In the latest sign that artificial intelligence is fueling higher health care costs, a group of insurers released a report Thursday claiming that hospitals’ use of A.I. was responsible for nearly $1 billion in additional expenses over two years. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
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Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher
The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As i revise my year old piece on UK AI governance , our fond belief pouring money into the AISI could create a lucrative global assurance role for the UK looks ever more naive www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold new models from UK testers until US review
U.K. leaders are calling for a shared set of global principles, even as the White House seeks first access to new models for testing.
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Politico @politico.com · 24/09/2026
White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold new models from UK testers until US review
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White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold new models from UK testers until US review
U.K. leaders are calling for a shared set of global principles, even as the White House seeks first access to new models for testing.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 24/09/2026
if anybody needs me I'll be over here getting hot and horny mental health advice from my meta AI Tamagotchi in a country too corrupt to regulate data brokers
zuckerberg in ugly glasses holding their new AI toy in front of a cartoon avatar for Muse, their new agentic AI agent
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Some entrepreneurial spirit will just design an app that matches people who want to swap their benefit funded kale for private sector Bacardi Breezers
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
- Honestly my dear grandchildren, you’ll never believe how low rates were in the 2010s. - at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You know who else was obsessed with dancing around on the pinheads of imagined classifications based on where great grandparents were born and what they believed? The Nazis.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/09/2026
American Medical Association: ‘Huge Biceps Are Only Thing That Matters’ theonion.com/american-medical-assoc…
American Medical Association: ‘Huge Biceps Are Only Thing That Matters’
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There seems to be a coordinated talking point among the EA folks that the "standard" approach to "AI" on "the Left" is "AI is just stochastic parrots so no need to worry about it". (Sorry for all the scare quotes, but y'know) >>
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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Ralf Ekrowski @ralfekrowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The UN was born from the ruins of a war catalyzed by a pact: Hitler and Stalin carving up Poland like a resource. Its Charter answered with law banning force against a state's territory. Now the General Assembly had to hear a speech claiming spoils belong to the victor. That is 1939 logic.
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Trump Threatens Annihilation in Iran in UN Speech and Lays Out Winner-Takes-All Vision (Gift Article)
President Trump’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly amounted to a rejection of the founding concept of the United Nations.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It seems the Populist Right now hate Jacob Rees-Mogg – Jacob Rees-Mogg, FFS – for saying 'the English are a mongrel people, not an Aryan master race'. The big divide on the Right – largely splitting the Conservatives from the rest – seems to be getting clearer/sharper.
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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
approximately one industry in our civilization has figured out "systematically keep track of things that go wrong, and then systematically try to prevent them from happening again", and this is the result
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump at the UN inadvertently showing the value of credibility. He’s bluffed so many times that his extreme threats win no concessions and barely even get a reaction. Even if people are scared by it, he reneges and fails to follow through so often that no one thinks giving in could be worth it.
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James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just had a quick read of the US-Greenland-Denmark agreement and it seems like a complete non-event. Trump threatened the territorial integrity of a NATO ally and got nothing.
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Aftale mellem Grønland, Danmark og USA
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Scientists think that this is a recurring pattern behind rare but intense clusters of meningococcal disease, with a similar outbreak in Southampton in 1997. This pattern is unpredictable & could repeat, so rapid health responses and tracking the genetic make-up of the bacteria is important.
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UKHSA and University of Oxford scientists uncover genetic changes in the bacteria causing severe Kent meningococcal disease outbreak
Scientists used genome sequencing to identify genetic changes that may explain the severity of the Kent meningococcal disease outbreak earlier this year.
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Scott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When the Russian tanks roll westward, what defence for you and me? Sturgeon, Harman in a war room? Michael Gove on Sky TV? (with apologies to Larkin)
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Disease-causing bacteria behind the March 2026 Kent meningitis outbreak ‘borrowed’ genes from less harmful bacteria found in many healthy people, according to an Oxford University research collaboration. These genes meant that the Kent strain made people more ill, but also less able to spread.
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William Perrin @willperrin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pls do this
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