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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 17h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 12h

This is what peak performance looks like…

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 15h

As all #DoctorWho fans know, Deadly Assassins are the Worst Kind of Assassins.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 15h

Jesus wept, as my mother used to say.

Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 16h

The planet is on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster, but we’ve run out of time to discuss that I’m afraid.

#bbcqt @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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Nick Wise @nhwise.bsky.social · 19h

Do you like sitting in the middle of your loving room and staring at the walls? Have a lot of visitors who you don't want to look at? Bid now!

ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 20h

If you are of reasonably financial means but also gifted with an awfully large room, the National Gallery is selling off some of its large sofas and wooden benches

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/art...

Arty bums for sale! National Gallery auctions off its famously well-sat sofas

If you are of reasonably financial means but also gifted with an awfully large room, the National Gallery is selling off some of its large sofas and wooden benches

www.ianvisits.co.uk

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 19h

oh boy, i hope ukgov isn't betting the farm on AI

(handed paper from offscreen)

my APES

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 20h

Movie idea: The Incredible Journey but in this one, the animals hijack a plane to get home.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 20h

‘We spent £2,000 flying our cat to America - she wasn't grateful’

Chris Morris, reading tomorrow’s newspaper headlines.

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks for the update! Is this where the word dispepysia comes from, I wonder? 😂

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 1d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @ladyliminal.bsky.social · 21h

😂😂😂

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 21h

Nothing could possibly go wrong with this. Creating a lifelike digital avatar on a third party platform will definitely not open teaching staff up to career destroying issues in the event of that platform being hacked.

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 1d

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-trus...

'Deepfake' teacher avatars to help pupils catch up

Academy trust staff to use AI generator to introduce resources for pupils returning to school

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 1d

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 1d

“The results were surprising, even for me,” says Llavero Pasquina. “I knew they were playing a very little role in the energy transition. I knew it was only for show. It was only for dressing their narrative. But I didn’t expect this low number.”

www.newscientist.com/article/2499...

Top 250 oil and gas firms own just 1.5% of the world's renewable power

Despite public promises by many fossil fuel firms that they are investing in the green transition, it turns out that they have made little contribution to the growth of renewable energy

www.newscientist.com

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues.

Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 1d

It's always lurking in the background and should surprise no one when the old scourge breaks cover.

Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 1d

The antisemitic portion of RFK Jr’s conspiracism has made its entrance.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 1d

Coincidentally I've just been watching "Green for Danger" (1946) for the first time - it's extraordinary how his somewhat louche, saturnine Inspector Cockrill lights up the whole movie when he arrives.

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 1d

Happy Alastair Sim's birthday!

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 1d

And then go Fash...

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 1d

Just extraordinary to witness this nature-hating government sabotaging Labour’s own legacy. And for absolutely no reason: nature protection isn’t blocking development - it’s a necessary prerequisite for it (& for everything else, come to that…)

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

www.theguardian.com

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah kind of feels like that should be an acid test of these things?

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 1d

damn should have checked the previous replies. I see at least a couple of people have the same thought...

Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 1d

In the "When questioned under caution..." sense, for at least a couple I reckon.

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 1d

... or, indeed, a Statue of Queen Victoria.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 1d

Congress had to swoop in and save a mission that could literally help save humanity, which of course Trump wants to cancel

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

One NASA science mission saved from Trump’s cuts, but others still in limbo arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

One NASA science mission saved from Trump’s cuts, but others still in limbo

“Damage is being done already. Even if funding is reinstated, we have already lost people.”…

arstechnica.com

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Giles Sparrow @gswrites.bsky.social · 1d

Hold yer horses - judging by his past GB News appearances, this guy is even dodgier than my time-travelling adulterer near-namesake

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