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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 1m

Who could have foreseen that a combination of "drill baby drill" and the AI boom could have led to this.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 10m

Water shortages in South Texas are posing major risks to a fast-growing industrial hub that’s crucial to Trump’s twin goals of dominating global energy markets and slashing trade deficits.

Texas Water Crisis Threatens Booming Industrial Hotspot for Exxon, Koch

Water shortages in South Texas are posing major risks to a fast-growing industrial hub that’s crucial to President Donald Trump’s twin goals of dominating global energy markets and slashing trade deficits.

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 36m

I also read that piece while watching! Obv, everyone has an agenda of some sort so who knows...

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 40m

Having read the book previously, there's a fair amount of evidence for it, and both Harper Collins & Disney don't run that without being sure (ditto the Gerry A stuff). Interesting pod here with Allison Morris from last episode who is also sure ending is correct. podcasts.apple.com/hu/podcast/s...

‘Say Nothing’: Allison Morris on what really happened when she met Dolours Price

Podcast Episode · The BelTel · 25/11/2024 · 32m

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING:
President Trump Admits He'll Spend Eternity In Hell

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1h

Doocy: Does this help get you into heaven?

Trump: I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven. I think I’m not heaven bound.

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 5h

www.reddit.com/r/tomwaits/c... FUCK OFF, HISLOP

From the tomwaits community on Reddit: Tom Waits stares down Ian Hislop, after being told to talk louder. “I’ll plug it my own damn way, you know.”

Explore this post and more from the tomwaits community

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 5h

I have not...

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 5h

You won't find a better five minutes of chat show performance than this. youtu.be/x0UcIXsQgG4?...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6h

This is a truly remarkable programme from the BBC archives.

A 1971 interview/interrogation of Albert Speer the leading Nazi who apologised and as a result survived - by Michael Charlton, Hugh Trevor-Roper and George Ball whom he had last met at the Nuremberg trials.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Four - Albert Speer, The Unseen Interrogation

Hitler's architect Albert Speer is cross-examined in an interview conducted in 1971.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 6h

Ford too, of course

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 6h

Carnegie, Rockefeller, JP Morgan were at the very least "eccentric". Hearst and Hughes absolutely batshit.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 7h

My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social really needs some work.
AI has had a very detrimental effect on his earnings this year.
ChatGTP doesn’t have bills to pay and doesn’t have to worry constantly.
Please repost far and wide because I don’t like to see ‘Sad Matt’

Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 7h

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk

Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer

I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!

www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 7h

Although I don't think the NYT portrayal of him does him any favours, it still shows (not tells) him as being absolutely awful.

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 7h

One of the more depressing articles I've read this year, which is saying something.

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 8h

I was trying to put my finger on what bothered me about this portrayal and I think it’s that it just takes the guy’s words at face value, like he was a nice guy and reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death just pushed him over the edge www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

www.nytimes.com

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Michel Lacombe @michellacombe.bsky.social · 9h

Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in 51 BC and died in 44 BC, therefore all of Asterix's adventures took place over the course of less than seven years, probably much less since Asterix's chieftain was at the battle of Alesia, were it is probable Asterix and Obelix's fathers died. In this essay, I will

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 9h

When you've just divorced Dave

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 10h

Did they get them to rank how likely they thought either event was? Was it like the polls where men think they could beat an ostrich in a fight?

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 15h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

Not as good a dancer

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

if you think The One Show is batshit, then consider In Town Tonight from 1955, where the guests were the leader of a Trinidadian steel band followed by an SS officer who was Hitler's personal valet. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...