Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18hStories is such a good way of putting this. Can a novel be full of pain and suffering? Clearly yes. Does a fictional character suffer in the real world? They're fictional don't be a dumbass. 635991
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialIan Ford 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ianford.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It's a mutually-beneficial arrangement for both Putin and Trump. Putin will blame Ukraine for his failure to supply the fuel and Trump will blame Ukraine for the failure for prices to fall and any mid-term disaster. It's a cynical ploy designed to squeeze Ukraine. 17017
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Just imagine if the UK had some sort of national broadcaster that had a duty to act in the public interest. 7355128
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris. 18868121922
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialAstronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026NASA has released onboard video of Artemis II's reentry through Earth's atmosphere 🤩 Top speed: about 25,000 mph 301190390
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialJoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think the BBC should close its television news channel to save money It’s so poor now anyway Fund proper journalism, make decent news programmes, maintain Radio 4 Rolling news is awful too 812617
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialGroucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026how the FUCK is Wes Streeting still a thing when the one issue that unites the country is that nobody wants Wes Streeting to be a thing 112518
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialAndy Birss @andybirss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026When Spectator journalists are invited to speak on #r4today they know they won't be questioned on awkward stuff about the rank hypocrisy around their coverage of the Arday/Orr affairs. It is isn't just privilege but also the very close association between presenters and that publication. 0165
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialBethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 09/10/2026i always wanted to be a professor of tree nuts, and work in macademia 050488
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialPatrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Reminder that Wes Streeting has a Bachelor’s degree in history. That’s it. Not a doctor. Not any health experience. Just a career politician, hollow as a gourd. 722171
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialMagdalena Miedl aka espressozitron @mmiedl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"There is something revealing in the gap between the masculine fantasy of protection and its reality: the fantasy requires a stranger, an obvious villain, a moment of uncomplicated heroism. Reality asks a man to believe a woman over his friend." 219771
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it 96114612661
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026There is a rather wider minority for abolishing the Monarchy (about 1 in 5 to 1 in 4) than for the controversy of whether only white people can be English (1 in 10). It is weird the media classes are so rarely across how niche this 'controversy' is - about 1/4 Reform voters, but few others 1028085
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialBen @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026stop: could you be using the time you're spending writing a handwringing article about the death of literacy to read a book instead? 13511
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Long tribute from Kemi Badenoch in her conference speech to Jeffrey Archer, complete with round of applause. The world is a "less colourful" place without him, she says, which is one way to describe a serial fraudster, fantasist and liar who wrecked several lives in the process. 27746210
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialÉibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 05/10/2026Pleeeeeeeaaaaaaase tell me that all those "you should need a government ID to access the internet" people are rethinking this position now. [We know they aren't. Ed.] 7535344
yarnofmoo.bsky.social @yarnofmoo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I don't know about you but I'm British so I say sorry every time. 010
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialJack Churchill's Arrow @churchillsarrow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026They whine about the essence of the country being altered by immigration while cheering on its destruction by monied interests. Set of lying bastards who should be ashamed to be seen in public. 214016
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialPhil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image. 5428471093
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve 405115700
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...nytimes.comLucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south. 131706504
yarnofmoo.bsky.social @yarnofmoo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Ass kumquat is entirely self explanatory 010
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialAnn Leckie @annleckie.com · 02/10/2026This! Which tells me, personally, that if they truly believe that its OK to make a sentient being that they enslave, well, they probably think it's ok to do that to humans. 1234276
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You may sneer at the term “Super Intelligence“ for AI, but many said “Information Super Highway” would never catch on. 1211916
yarnofmoo.bsky.social @yarnofmoo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The resonance triggering more farts, forming a fart laser. Your body found dead as the first expedition reaches the epicentre of the destruction 010
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied. 361376619
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 119115972877
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialjon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comPeople Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-AllUrine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine. 1602570651
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialTheo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026Every AI CEO sounds like this. 81067305
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialBaby octopus @mancalled.horse · 29/09/2026I once got 0% on a final year thermodynamics exam but that's because I had a panic after the first question and crossed it out then decided that learning physics in the first place had been a terrible idea and my life was ruined so got up and left the room. Maybe a poor exam strategy with hindsight. 3163
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once. 561633528
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...democracyforsale.substack.comBREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates. 77895436
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialSarah, manic pixie dream MILF @goatsarah.org · 28/09/2026“Those guys sure talk a lot of sense. Don’t vote for them” 16419
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map. 9653123277
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialiucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My local Nextdoor group is currently 90% people chuntering about the Green Party’s leaflet campaign, the complaint being that there are too many leaflets and on glossy paper, ‘which isn’t very green’. This is something I’ve seen with Greta Thunberg: people don’t actually listen to environmentalists 26611
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialMaya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Honestly, at this point using one of those plagiarism chatbots and especially feeding it any kind of private, personal or classified information is indefensible. Social Media was already set up to harvest personal info, now 'AI' cranked that up to 11. 043
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialEric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Muse: oh wow it looks like you got shot and robbed. here’s what happened: after giving up your home address i told that dude “what are you gonna do, shoot me?” and that’s on me 329193
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialBruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment. 171475490
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 27/09/2026Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit theonion.comXi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last VisitWASHINGTON—Marveling at how his American counterpart’s grasp of the difficult language had progressed, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told reporters Thursday that he was deeply impressed with how much Pres... 102094272
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Oh look, it is brainlike! Must be intelligent 🤔 722246
yarnofmoo.bsky.social @yarnofmoo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026He's about to rip away the mask mission impossible style, and underneath will be Andy Burnham, somehow still wearing glasses. It's Andy Burnham all the way down for the rest of time. 000
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialAndrew Sharpe 🏴|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 26/09/2026The BBC is part of the problem... 24699260
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comOpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogueDecision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways 20820327
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Me: Bluesky is less annoying today Wife: Are you posting less 241658108
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialSebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Absolutely wild to hear "is computer human" from dickheads who treat large groups of people as if they're not 81120310
Reposted by @yarnofmoo.bsky.socialThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It takes a loading error to produce such candour. 3958172
yarnofmoo.bsky.social @yarnofmoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Oh gods, thanks for reminding me of the time I read "pheasant" as "peanut" for the entirety of "Danny, Champion of the World." 000
yarnofmoo.bsky.social @yarnofmoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Although, to be fair, it's a logical progression of the pitiful bullshit produced by Peston and Kuenssberg. Probably due to changing the selection of political journalists from judging talent to merely access. 000
