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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 9h

They self-describe as a "well-known Gloucestershire landmark"!

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 10h

I was sure the round building was a synchrotron...

Altnaharra @altnaharra.bsky.social · 10h

'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 20h

TIL Claude's new code interpreter mode has a /mnt/skills/public/ folder full of prompt instructions and Python utilities for creating and manipulating pdf, docx, pptx, xlsx files - and you can ask Claude for a copy and learn a TON about working with those formats

simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/10/...

simonw/claude-skills

One of the tips I picked up from Jesse Vincent's Claude Code Superpowers post (previously) was this: Skills are what give your agents Superpowers. The first time they really popped …

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 2d

Trump probably won't get the Nobel Peace Prize this year but I'm betting on him for next. Kissinger sets a precedent here, Tom Lehrer said "When Kissinger won the [1973] Nobel peace prize, satire died"

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 3d

Hurray for being alive!

Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 3d

Oh no! Hope you are feeling better soon

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote this in my review of "Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race" by Reni Eddo-Lodge. This was in 2021, now Labour are talking about "white working class".

But there is a new game in town, it is now seen as entirely acceptable for politicians to talk about helping the "white working class" – language that came out of the British National Party and the English Defence League but is now mainstream. This seems to imply that our efforts helping the black working class have been entirely successful and that the white working class are now "left behind" and need special support. In truth black, Pakistani and Bangladeshi working class remain more disadvantaged.

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 3d

Sort of expected to see you surfing this van! :-)

Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 3d

One of the joys of Chester is groups of children carrying shields and swords marching through the town in groups shouting "Sin-dex-sin-dex-sin!" (We're a very Roman town)

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 4d

Tory party conference got you down?

Far-right rhetoric left you feeling scared for the future?

Then why not take a minute to enjoy eighteen (18) pictures of Ed Davey on a pumpkin farm with young carers 🎃🚜

www.gettyimages.co.uk/editorial-im...

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 3d

Book review: Science and Islam – A History by Ehsan Masood ( @ehsanmasood.bsky.social ) - a readable guide to the Islamic Empire in the 8th-13th centuries and science's place in it ianhopkinson.org.uk/2025/10/book...

#bookreviews #HistoryOfScience #MedievalPeriod

Book review: Science and Islam – A History by Ehsan Masood

My next review is of Science and Islam: A History by Ehsan Masood. It follows on from a lot of reading I’ve done around the history of science in Western Europe and the US. It also fills a ga…

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 4d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 4d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 4d

"We all know that only 1 protest was needed to stop the Vietnam War"

Said nobody ever

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 6d

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 4d

"What do you mean by Palestinian hostages?"

Hadash Israeli MP Aida Touma-Suleiman "There are thousands of Palestinians who are kidnapped from their houses.. with no trial, no possibility to know what they are charged of & they are kept in prison. What can you call such a thing?"

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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, I was about to say the same:

hyphenonline.com/2022/06/13/h...

How the UK’s ‘Warm Welcome’ to displaced Afghans turned cold

Thousands of refugees remain trapped in temporary accommodation, unable to rebuild their lives

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

So to summarise, this is a white politician blaming a black journalist for the racism he is now actively helping to promote, after receiving the full endorsement of his own party leader

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 4d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Jeremy Rodell @jeremyr1.bsky.social · 5d

Violence a red line in UK society - Jewish friends/communities must be able to live/practise w/out fear. British Jews not responsible for actions of IDF.
Yet @chiefrabbi.bsky.social blurs distinction. Fuel for anti-Semites. Daft. www.jewishnews.co.uk/mirvis-if-yo...
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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 5d

Given the revelations from Charing Cross, and leadership response to them, you get the impression that police officers might have considerable enthusiasm for arresting Palestine Action campaigners.

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Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 5d

I would never have anticipated a friendship between Jilly Cooper and Terry Pratchett what books they could have written together!

Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 5d

GNU Jilly Cooper. Jilly and dad were friends and the only person I’ve known to call him ‘Tel’. Hope they’re both having a big drink somewhere.

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 5d

perfect detail

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 5d

GNU Jilly Cooper. Jilly and dad were friends and the only person I’ve known to call him ‘Tel’. Hope they’re both having a big drink somewhere.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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