Simon HB
@norock.bsky.social
I'm gonna try hard this time not to touch the ground
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Amazing coda here.
February 2, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Amazing coda here.
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this weekend i visited a beloved local cafe/record store and they had a bathroom labeled "Gay Bathroom". when we complimented the sign the barista said sometimes shitty people ask if there's a different bathroom they can use, so they have a second one in the other room labeled "Super Gay Bathroom"
February 1, 2026 at 11:52 PM
this weekend i visited a beloved local cafe/record store and they had a bathroom labeled "Gay Bathroom". when we complimented the sign the barista said sometimes shitty people ask if there's a different bathroom they can use, so they have a second one in the other room labeled "Super Gay Bathroom"
If only I had a kid with a college fund to raid www.ebay.co.uk/itm/31597174...
McDonalds Nike Chip | eBay UK
McDonald’s flat chip
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February 2, 2026 at 2:21 PM
If only I had a kid with a college fund to raid www.ebay.co.uk/itm/31597174...
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Microsoft spends billions on AI, converts just 3.3% of Copilot Chat users
Microsoft spends billions on AI, converts just 3.3% of Copilot Chat users
CEO talks momentum while paid uptake remains minimal
Only 3.3 percent of Microsoft 365 and Office 365 users who touch Copilot Chat actually pay for it, an awkward figure that landed alongside Microsoft's $37.5 billion quarterly AI splurge and its insistence that the payoff is coming.…
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February 2, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Microsoft spends billions on AI, converts just 3.3% of Copilot Chat users
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trending checks out
February 2, 2026 at 1:40 PM
trending checks out
I wish I'd seen this sooner; I've just donated my last ten bucks to a campaign to surround Garfield's house with No Cat signs
February 2, 2026 at 1:50 PM
I wish I'd seen this sooner; I've just donated my last ten bucks to a campaign to surround Garfield's house with No Cat signs
Doctor: The solution is simple. The famous band Suede are in town tonight promoting their new album. Go and see them. That will pick you up.
Patient: But I thought you were going to prescribe me antidepressants?
Doctor:
Patient: But I thought you were going to prescribe me antidepressants?
Doctor:
February 2, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Doctor: The solution is simple. The famous band Suede are in town tonight promoting their new album. Go and see them. That will pick you up.
Patient: But I thought you were going to prescribe me antidepressants?
Doctor:
Patient: But I thought you were going to prescribe me antidepressants?
Doctor:
I wonder if she sent a note along with the invite? "Dear Jeffrey, I know you have an interest in cursed children and so..."
February 2, 2026 at 11:04 AM
I wonder if she sent a note along with the invite? "Dear Jeffrey, I know you have an interest in cursed children and so..."
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The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters.
#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history
#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history
February 1, 2026 at 3:19 PM
The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters.
#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history
#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history
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March 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Alt text for image: a bunch of Suede fans looking delighted during Brett doing an incursion into the audience
February 1, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Alt text for image: a bunch of Suede fans looking delighted during Brett doing an incursion into the audience
If you can’t be in the crowd when Brett Anderson plunges into them, the next best place to be is watching the reaction of @suedehq.bsky.social fans when it happens
February 1, 2026 at 2:45 PM
If you can’t be in the crowd when Brett Anderson plunges into them, the next best place to be is watching the reaction of @suedehq.bsky.social fans when it happens
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My only argument with Heaven 17 is that I do not believe fascism capable of having any sort of “groove thang”.
February 1, 2026 at 11:35 AM
My only argument with Heaven 17 is that I do not believe fascism capable of having any sort of “groove thang”.
Sam Fox here, calling Paul McCartney “good for his age”. That age being 42.
1986:
smash hits 16 29 july 1986, page 58
Full mag --> https://archive.org/stream/smash-hits-16-29-july-1986#page/n57
smash hits 16 29 july 1986, page 58
Full mag --> https://archive.org/stream/smash-hits-16-29-july-1986#page/n57
February 1, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Sam Fox here, calling Paul McCartney “good for his age”. That age being 42.
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we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.”
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
January 31, 2026 at 8:31 PM
we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
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I love that Prince Andrew had a codename email address to avoid suspicion and all the emails are like 'Had to spend the weekend at Balmoral, Mother wants me to look after the corgis, my brother's here too - not Edward, but Charles, you know the heir apparent.'
February 1, 2026 at 9:03 AM
I love that Prince Andrew had a codename email address to avoid suspicion and all the emails are like 'Had to spend the weekend at Balmoral, Mother wants me to look after the corgis, my brother's here too - not Edward, but Charles, you know the heir apparent.'
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the theater is screening DOS Boot
January 31, 2026 at 1:44 PM
the theater is screening DOS Boot
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As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”
![That which is for me through the medium of money - that for which I can pay (i.e., which money can buy) - that am I myself, the possessor of the money. The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power. Money's properties are my - the possessor's - properties and essential powers. Thus, what I am and am capable of is by no means determined by my individuality. I am ugly, but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women.
Therefore I am not ugly, for the effect of ugliness - its deterrent power - is nullified by money. I, according to my individual characteristics, am lame, but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.
Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest, unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor. Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good. Money, besides, saves me the trouble of being dishonest: I am therefore presumed honest. I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself, and is he who has [In the manuscript: is. - Ed.] power over the clever not more clever than the clever? Do not I, who thanks to money am capable of all that the human heart longs for, possess all human capacities? Does not my money, therefore, transform all my incapacities into their contrary?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:myqic77tkmdhmaufgkvj43hr/bafkreidpuxbx764xh7vobavcnvs3v2lo5fnfi6dukfrmk3ygxmseznkyxi@jpeg)
January 31, 2026 at 4:05 PM
As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”
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10 years since we lost the great Terry Wogan who, if you didn't know, was the first person to play reggae music on mainstream radio in the UK. I mentioned him in this piece about Dawn Penn's No No No for the @thequietus.com a couple of years back thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
January 31, 2026 at 10:33 AM
10 years since we lost the great Terry Wogan who, if you didn't know, was the first person to play reggae music on mainstream radio in the UK. I mentioned him in this piece about Dawn Penn's No No No for the @thequietus.com a couple of years back thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
oh, it looks like they've dropped the other games at some point
I know it's only an FOC, but I suspect done by someone who had fond memories of the original
I know it's only an FOC, but I suspect done by someone who had fond memories of the original
January 31, 2026 at 10:38 AM
oh, it looks like they've dropped the other games at some point
I know it's only an FOC, but I suspect done by someone who had fond memories of the original
I know it's only an FOC, but I suspect done by someone who had fond memories of the original
So the website... it hung around for a while, then fell off the net, then someone bought the URL and used it as a forwarding address for old-school slop. But now it's sort-of the original site, loosely - it brought back all the original games... seethru.co.uk
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All the latest gaming tips, tricks and news
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January 31, 2026 at 9:38 AM
So the website... it hung around for a while, then fell off the net, then someone bought the URL and used it as a forwarding address for old-school slop. But now it's sort-of the original site, loosely - it brought back all the original games... seethru.co.uk
Think rather than seeing shuttered shops as a result of a broad range of economic challenges and shifts in consumption patterns, it's easier to go 'this is broken Britain, like Nige keeps saying' and assume since he keeps talking about, think that he might have a fix. Most people don't look closely
January 31, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Think rather than seeing shuttered shops as a result of a broad range of economic challenges and shifts in consumption patterns, it's easier to go 'this is broken Britain, like Nige keeps saying' and assume since he keeps talking about, think that he might have a fix. Most people don't look closely
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On this day, 2 years ago. I sat in bed and said to myself, 'Why haven't you finally made that compilation of Jim McDonald from Coronation Street, absolutely battering people to Motörhead? So I did.'
Enjoy! It will forever be my greatest contribution to society.
Enjoy! It will forever be my greatest contribution to society.
January 31, 2026 at 9:06 AM
On this day, 2 years ago. I sat in bed and said to myself, 'Why haven't you finally made that compilation of Jim McDonald from Coronation Street, absolutely battering people to Motörhead? So I did.'
Enjoy! It will forever be my greatest contribution to society.
Enjoy! It will forever be my greatest contribution to society.
Guardian report on how people are supporting Reform because their local High Street is becoming an abandoned wasteland and they think Farage's gang will help
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Chronicle report on how Saints coffee shop in Northampton was forced to close by Reform hiking rents by 50%
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Chronicle report on how Saints coffee shop in Northampton was forced to close by Reform hiking rents by 50%
January 31, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Guardian report on how people are supporting Reform because their local High Street is becoming an abandoned wasteland and they think Farage's gang will help
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Chronicle report on how Saints coffee shop in Northampton was forced to close by Reform hiking rents by 50%
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Chronicle report on how Saints coffee shop in Northampton was forced to close by Reform hiking rents by 50%