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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 54m

Yorkshire edition

Slaithwaite
Dodworth
Cudworth

And of course my home Penistone.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 13h

Just seen an FB post saying Mike Ashley is interested in buying Sheffield Wednesday and the first reply said that’s like swapping Jimmy Savile for Jeffrey Epstein.

Ain’t that the truth.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 19h

My beloved pup Zeke has found a new game. Its called trapping himself in the bathroom.

And in this game he… traps himself in the bathroom.

Then starts barking.

He’s done this about ten times today. And twenty yesterday. Including during teams meetings.

Well this time he can stay in there!

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 21h

Honestly today has been a day where the UK’s collective IQ has seemed to drop 10 points.

Historians truly will come to name this political era the enthickenment.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 21h

And to prove I’m agnostic in my criticism of our politics, Starmer saying we don’t want high value Indian migrants coming here is also just so face-thumpingly stupid.

The US tech industry is built on the backs of the Indian tech PhD’s who we’re telling we absolutely don’t want to come here instead.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 21h

Still if the current cuts to the sector continue, there won’t be 100000 places at UK Universities left to cut by the time to Tories make it back to government.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 21h

So, so tired of politicians who only seem to think…

“hmm. What things is the UK really, really good at, and what can we do to absolutely wreck our ability to do these things?”

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 21h

We have a knowledge economy in desperate need of highly skilled and educated workers

I know. Lets reduce the number of University places by 100000 places.

That’ll fix things.

From the party that brought you that other example of massive economic and social self harm, Brexit.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 1d

My god. You’ve found him. The Ackshually meme in human form.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch might have laughed reading them but she didn’t learn anything from them did she.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 2d

So apparently GW are releasing these new alternate Space Marine heads and all the worst people in the hobby are already losing their shit about it.

It does almost make me want to go back on X to watch the meltdown in real time.

Andy Claaaaaarrrghhhhk, Nerdling Herder @andycruns.bsky.social · 2d

Errrrr

#Nerdlings #TheEmperorExpects

A pair of new space marine heads that feel like they skew female

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 2d

Badenoch’s version of Sisyphus would be if the boulder flattened her every time it rolled down.

Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 3d

Given Musk’s statements about the UK, flooding Silicon Valley would probably be Bond’s mission now.

(Btw The fact Musk is now in Texas isn’t lost on me - our IT systems are so shocking I’d just assume MI6 probably hasn’t updated it’s records)

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 3d

This week’s free poll. The US government believes infectious diseases are caused by
A) viruses and bacteria.
B) an imbalance of the humours.
C) Divine punishment from God.

Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 4d

The dismantling of US science continues. RFKJr fired the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, basically for believing in the germ theory of disease.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

www.nytimes.com

Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 3d

By the next election they’ll both be pledging to deport 70 million to the Chagos Islands.

Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 3d

The voters outside looked from Tories to Reform, and from Reform to Tories, and from Tories to Reform again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 6d

I mean Khorne being a patron of the Red Cross kinda makes sense I suppose.

He just watches them backwards. If you watch the Red Cross backwards they’re basically World Eaters.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 7d

“You don’t make friends with salad” is basically the story of my life.

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 7d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

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georgerook @georgerook.bsky.social · 8d

georgerook51.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/t...

The devastating hyperbole of dementia

Here’s another go at dementia numbers, and the devastation that surrounds dementia. One or two of us (with dementia) have become increasingly upset about the way numbers and predictions are being t…

georgerook51.wordpress.com

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Martin Heneghan @martinheneghan.bsky.social · 10d

I think it’s revealing of the current trajectory of the UK political economy that universities are told they will be allowed to go bust despite employing significantly more people than JLR, and being the engine of many local economies.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 10d

‘Moral hazard’ warning after £1.5bn government loan guarantee for JLR on.ft.com/42iBMHf

‘Moral hazard’ warning after £1.5bn government loan guarantee for JLR

Carmaker receives official backing after cyber attack that has halted production

on.ft.com

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 10d

Larry here has just invented modern day China.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

fortune.com

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 11d

What are the odds on Trump deporting the US Ryder Cup team?

Or slapping punitive sanctions on Europe after his inevitable hissy fit?

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 11d

Slightly different point but this always reminds me of Futurama’s “don’t date robots” scene.

What was comedy increasingly seems like prophecy.

This is basically the same.

youtu.be/4uE96qUlJ_4?...

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 11d

Abominable intelligence. I’m increasingly of the view character AI’s like this should be banned outright.

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 13d

(Sadly not my joke - just heard that on the Prof G Markets podcast)

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Grant Gibson @drgrantgibson.bsky.social · 13d

Just learned that Nigel Farage made £180k last year from Cameo.

Proving what we all already know. He’ll say absolutely anything for money.

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