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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 7h

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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 1d

It's a reasonable Tuesday morning so it's time to push the b3ta starter pack again! A mishmash of amusing, creative and mostly affable people to follow.

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Nigel Auchterlounie @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social · 2d

"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"

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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 2d

Coming up at 3. Includes @cassetteboy.bsky.social and any many more...

The Daily Reckless with Tommy Mackay - Indy Live Radio

“The man who’s become a cult hero with his daily dose of musical satire” – Total Politics The Daily Reckless is run by Tommy Mackay (“a national treasure” – James Millar, Political Yeti) who used to p...

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Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 2d

It could have been set up better, but it's a reference to the government taking away old people's winter fuel payments.

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ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ Milla Lorelei Mélomane 💙 ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ @britpoptarts.bsky.social · 2d

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2d

Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”

“But we can open the box,” said Toad.

“That is true,” said Frog.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Effectively Weird @effectivelyweird.bsky.social · 5d

Wake up babes, new Cassetteboy has dropped

Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 8d

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 4d

This amazing article from @vic-parsons.bsky.social via @wearequeeraf.com shows the absolute criminal state of trans healthcare in the UK.

Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right.

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Latest waiting times for gender identity clinics in the UK

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Rufus jones @rufeydoof.bsky.social · 5d

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 5d

[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking]

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SOCRATES:
Plato..

PLATO:
Yes Socrates?

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SOCRATES:
Can you tell me, are you human?

PLATO:
Why… yes, Socrates

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SOCRATES:
And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is?

PLATO:
Um, yep

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SOCRATES:
So you can tell me, then

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[Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel]

SOCRATES:
*Is that a chariot*?

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PLATO:
Well
that’s more just a bit of wheel

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SOCRATES:
So not a *chariot*.

PLATO:
No.

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SOCRATES:
[Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes]

So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*?

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PLATO:
Well you can’t tap any of them really

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SOCRATES:
So are we not human?

PLATO:
‘Spose not.

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[Bleak pause]

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PLATO:
I’ll get the hemlock

SOCRATES:
Yeah

[ends]

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 5d

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 5d

There's a @b3ta.com newsletter coming, just working on it now and it's always a bit random how strong the 'b3ta people' section is going to be but it's weirdly strong this week. So much of it too. So subscribe now, to read the newsletter coming up to its 25th birthday b3ta.com/subscribe

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Touretteshero @touretteshero.bsky.social · 6d

We're planning to reprint our welcome pack for children with #Tourettes & are adding a letter for siblings. If you're a person with tics, their sibling, or parent/carer please complete a short survey & help us make the letter as useful as possible: www.touretteshero.com/safe/2025/10...

Siblings Letter – Your Help Needed

Last year we launched the Touretteshero Welcome Pack, a set of artist designed letters that we provide free to children who are newly diagnosed with tics or Tourettes, and their families. The welcome ...

www.touretteshero.com

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 6d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 6d

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 7d

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Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, that could be good. The editing on Taskmaster doesn't get enough credit, that whole show depends on the structure and pacing that the editors give the task footage. That would be a dream job!

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Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 7d

They are 10 years old, so probably a bit dated, but i remember there being some good stuff in there. Some definitely better than others though

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Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 7d

Though The Shed Show was never "a tight couple of minutes", they should all be quite a lot shorter probably

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Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 7d

The closest was editing an improv comedy series called The Shed Show. It was a lot more fun than watching political speeches! We'd love to do more of that sort of thing, using footage that's meant to be funny in the first place, and just structuring and tightening it www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA6L...

The Shed Show - UKIP Candidate

YouTube video by Shed Show

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Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 7d

Ha, no we weren't involved in the elephant cut up, but it defintely made an impression on us.
We just nick all the footage from YouTube, and use the subtitles to find specific words. It's a long and boring process - the latest video took 3 or 4 weeks

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Dave Brockman 💙💛 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 7d

Oh this is magnificent from @cassetteboy.bsky.social

Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 8d

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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Louisa Vuitton @f-o-r-t-i-t-e-r.bsky.social · 7d

great piece btw, almost as much as youtu.be/q2MoQJP-PhA?...

Kate Nash - GERM (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Kate Nash

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