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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13h

Lower bills.

Fund our NHS.

Not their culture war nonsense.

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Zack Polanski HUMILIATES Piers Morgan LIVE On Air!

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 14h

I'm laughing out loud because, *twenty years ago*, a friend in robotics told me that showing off a dancing robot is what you do when your robot sucks, and a *group* of them even more so.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14h

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 14h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 9h

“ResearchFish isn’t a fish”

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 9h

a woman is sitting at a table with her hands folded in front of her .

ALT: a woman is sitting at a table with her hands folded in front of her .

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 17h

I got it but was distracted by memories of AFPhantom (IIRC) singing, “A kick in the head can be quite detrimental: karate is a girl’s best friend”

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 19h

Yes!

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Ecuador. Look at how happy he is. This is a chap who is just *thrilled* to be there. Also look at how tiny his feet look peeping out of those giant fluffy trousers.

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22h

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

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Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

when we talk about political theatre sometimes being Good, Actually™️, this is what we mean. the trads are the reason Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament came back in fashion in the youth ministry world (where I learned about it). they take it REALLY seriously. this priest weaponized that so adroitly

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 20h

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#JustTheScore : Victoria - Alma Redemptoris Mater - I Fagiolini (Score Video)

YouTube video by I Fagiolini

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 20h

More here from the Sing the Score podcast - this Victoria Alma Redemptoris is on my coma list [1] together with the Brahms Requiem, Elgar Cello Concerto (Du Pre) and Kindertotenlieder (Janet Baker).

[1] As in, if I’m hit by a bus, play this to me and it’ll find me wherever “I” am at that point

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 20h

Taster here:
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Shaping the Invisible / Tallis with Salvator mundi

YouTube video by I Fagiolini

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 20h

Oh, and @ifagiolini.bsky.social recordings are world beating. If you haven’t already, go and buy everything they’ve ever done, but particularly their Monteverdi albums and the Leonardo: Shaping the Invisible project

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 20h

FOR THE RECORD:

* iTunes no longer handles music at all, that’s now Apple Music
* iTunes handles podcasts and audiobooks
* Apple Music can’t rip CDs, iTunes can
* When iTunes rips a CD, it stores it in the Audiobooks subdirectory of your library, whence you can then import it to Apple Music

* FFS

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 22h

You wouldn't believe the number of morons on Twitter pretending that a temporary exhibition of vinyl stickers at Canterbury Cathedral is permanent graffiti, just so they can feel outraged. Then JD Vance joins in, because clearly this is an international crisis.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 1d

I understand and appreciate efforts to work with AI in teaching and research for well-specified reasons and purposes but only so long as it's acknowledged AI in education is also and mainly a public problem for the sector that still needs addressing
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AI in education is a public problem

Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash Over the past year or so, a narrative that AI will inevitably transform education has become widespread. You can find it in the pronouncements of investors, tech ind…

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

Hi hello did you know that Elon Musk's third Neuralink patient (previously nonverbal) is "getting help from Grok" to communicate

and I hope -- I REALLY HOPE -- he's not stuck in his own brain listening as a robot talks for him without his input because this, to me, would be worse than death

This patient’s Neuralink brain implant gets a boost from generative AI

A patient who types with his brain thanks to a Neuralink implant is using AI chatbots to speed things up.

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 1d

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The Cobra Effect - When Incentives Go Wrong - Historic UK

The Cobra Effect is a term which describes the unintended results when an incentive scheme goes wrong. The term originates from an anecdote dating from the days of the British Raj. when a bounty was o...

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Also glad that Zack backed that up with the point about NHS waiting times.

A common transphobic gotcha (a favourite of Ricky Gervais as I recall) is "why don't you get your dick off then?"

Because it's a multi-decade waiting list if I'm lucky or £27000 and extended sick leave last I checked.

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 1d

Hell YES Zack.

join.GreenParty.org.uk

#TransRightsAreHunanRights

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 1d

iTunes itself no longer plays music, and my computer denies it’s even installed - however re-running the installer program instead gives me the option to start the iTunes app.

Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 1d

Interestingly, I *have* four CDs but can’t work out how to listen to them through Apple Music as it doesn’t acknowledge my CD drive. iTunes sees the drive and will claim it’s importing the tracks to my library, but the files are then nowhere to be found.

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 2d

Like, before I knowingly met my first trans person (I'd met stealth ones before that, I later found out) I had what I suspect is the standard well-meaning ignoramus' attitude of "trans women are weird blokes, but they're doing no harm". But as soon as I met on it was just "oh OK, she's a woman. Duh"

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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