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ollie masters @olliemastersbskys.bsky.social · 2h

I am shocked as you are!

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ollie masters @olliemastersbskys.bsky.social · 2h

I reluctantly redirect my booing from Jamie to the socks instead

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ollie masters @olliemastersbskys.bsky.social · 2h

Boo Jamie boo

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 3h

Somehow taking the work of Iain Banks, Douglas Adams and Alan Moore and turning into a vicious ethnonationalist libertarianism...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 3h

Goes back to the argument I made in the Guardian earlier this year that the world is in danger because the techbros have completely misunderstood a bunch of sci-fi and fantasy...

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 3h

THE ELEPHANT MAN is a very pleasurable surprise. Though I had seen ERASERHEAD, which is the only other feature directed by David Lynch, and had thought him a true original, I wasn't prepared for the strength he would bring out of understatement. (1980)

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 4h

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www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 4h

Fucking French, man

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 6h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 6h

Fascinated by the people replying to this going “well, I can’t read it because of the paywall, so I have no choice but to argue with a version I made up”. I can’t read it because of the paywall either, so I do more productive things, like fretting about today’s Arsenal game.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 10h

WELL THEN IT'S NOT MEANINGFUL IS IT, NICK www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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ollie masters @olliemastersbskys.bsky.social · 9h

Just one more draft

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 13h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 13h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 9h

There was a deadly terror attack on a synagogue here just over a week ago; for many Jewish people it was what they had long feared. The next day, the Labour DPM was booed and heckled at the vigil. I’d be more surprised if a Labour DL candidate wasn’t asked for her views on the context tbh

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11h

BBC asking Bridget Phillipson at length about rising antisemitism in the UK (which actually fell last year according to new figures, albeit still very high) but not at all about rising Islamophobia, which is up by 19% year-on-year

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 10h

you know that critique of ai that says it’s like taking a forklift to the gym and expecting to get stronger? well this bit of that guardian article about people using chatgpt in dating apps kinda proves it correct

Which is why the man who greeted her inside the pub – polite, pleasant but oddly flat – felt like a stranger. Gone was the quickfire wit and playful rhythm she’d come to expect from their exchanges. Over pints he stumbled through small talk, checked his phone a little too often, and seemed to wilt under the pressure of her questions. “I felt like I was sitting opposite someone I’d never even spoken to,” she says. “I tried to have the same sort of conversation as we’d been having online, but it was like, ‘Knock, knock, is anyone home?’ – like he knew basically nothing about me. That’s when I suspected he’d been using AI.”

Rachel gave her date the benefit of the doubt. “I thought maybe he was nervous,” she says. But she’d been “Chatfished” before, so when the gap between his real and digital selves failed to close on their second date, she called it off. “I’d already been ChatGPT-ed into bed at least once. I didn’t want it to happen again.”

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 9h

I find it weird how people can acknowledge that UK politics is volatile to an unprecedented degree and yet talk very confidently about the shape of an election in 2029. Reform is depicted as a permanent and unstoppable force and Labour as utterly doomed. Doesn't add up to me

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 10h

It's almost exactly four years since Tim Shipman's notorious "Boris Johnson squats like a giant toad" tweet.

Seems like important context given how we often talk as though the next election – four years away – is a done deal.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 11h

I’m Gail, a one woman business, based in Manchester.
I create prints, homewares & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture.
Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk

A collage of some of my products: art prints with record players, books and brutalist architecture, a teal T-shirt with cassette tapes, 70s patterned cushion, orange patterned phone case, cassette mug, and a spiral design slipmat.

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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 12h

For the love of God, stop sharing your shitty AI videos of Trump being arrested, rats running around the Al-Jazeera studio and musicians doing stupid dances. You are impoverishing artists and creating an environment when anyone caught red handed can just claim the video is faked. #FuckAI

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Wendy Ly🎃n @wendylyon.bsky.social · 20h

Have just seen a post on X featuring a screenshot of a house share offer in Kerry, digitally altered to say “No Irish”. The actual ad can be found online easily and of course says no such thing, but the target audience hasn’t checked and is reacting predictably.

This will only get worse.

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 12h

Allies and soulmates of Trump may well become the next UK government. This why special needs parents plead with Labour ministers: do not take our hard-won rights away, from us or families who might face this in the future

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 22h

Oldie but a goodie, Spice Girls Dune.

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 22h

woke up from a nap in a frenzy

a few good men but make it a few small beers

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 22h

if you hear a creative or a creative-adjacent person say something along the lines of “whatever you think about AI, it’s here to stay” they probably just got pAId

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ollie masters @olliemastersbskys.bsky.social · 22h

My kitchen sponge is very disappointed in me

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ollie masters @olliemastersbskys.bsky.social · 22h

Three drinks is the exact right amount for me to drink on a night out.
Unfortunately three drinks is also the exact amount that make me go ‘well, might as well get fucked now’

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 23h

David Lynch
Gene Hackman
Robert Redford
Diane Keaton
Michael Madsen
Val Kilmer
Graham Greene
Claudia Cardinale
And more….

This is a massive slice of cinema history right here. Can 2025 just fuck off already please?!

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 23h

Diane Keaton by Annie Leibovitz, 1986

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