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Chris Emerson @chris.emerson.social · 4h

I would get it myself but I've sent the link to relatives hinting at what a good gift it'll be... so hopefully they get the hint!

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 4h

The new episode of Map Men is coming in the next few minutes….

Which is how long it takes to preorder the MAP MEN BOOK! 🗺️ 📕

lnk.to/mapmen

(Go on! If not for yourself, then for Uncle Colin’s Christmas present. One less thing to worry about.)

THIS WAY UP

Go to THIS WAY UP.

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 5h

Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 1d

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 1d

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 1d

Excited to be partnering with Lou Bega to produce the hotly anicipated Mambo No. 6, exclusively for mobile, featuring:
• AI chat with Pamela, Monica and Sandra
• Upgrade your girls with Mambo Gems®
• Time-limited Legendary girls from our brand partners
• Mambo Pass starting from $14.99/mo
• Trumpet!

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Notts Techfast @notts.techfa.st · 1d

1 week today, Techfast returns with a talk from @rizwanakhan.com, who comes to talk about The Ripples From Pebbles

Join us at 7:30am for a before-work talk, chat and breakfast event right in the heart of Nottingham at the CGI offices.

www.meetup.com/notts-techfa...

The Ripples From Pebbles, Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 7:30 AM | Meetup

**Techfast October is here** Again a week later than our usual 3rd Wednesday, we are back on Wednesday 22nd October with an early morning '*before work'* shot of talk and

www.meetup.com

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Chris Emerson @chris.emerson.social · 2d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Fa...

'Diamond Shreddies' - The Intangible Value of Advertising

YouTube video by Anthony Kalamut (Southside AdGuy)

www.youtube.com

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 4d

This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 4d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Chris Emerson @chris.emerson.social · 6d

This might make me get a nectar card again

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 8d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 9d

2004: wow social media keep in touch with your friends online

2026: you are about to be held accountable by a 14 year old for a passive aggressive email you sent in 1991. overhead, vultures drift in lazy circles

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 10d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 14d

Trump Asks JD Vance To Research Whether President Allowed To Kill Vice President https://theonion.com/trump-asks-jd-vance-to-research-whether-president-allowed-to-kill-vice-president/

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 14d

And why call it 'golden ticket'?

Disgraceful language. These people have lost everything. Should they also lose their spouses and children?

A reminder that last year 4,671 family reunion visas were granted.

4,671.

Does anyone think this number is a major problem for the UK economy and society?

Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 14d

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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Ben Davis @bendavisauthor.bsky.social · 15d

Just received an email:

Read your book. 1/10

Nice of them to let me know, but why put the date on it?

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Halloween name @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 15d

"i just use it to generate ideas"

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15d

Just having a moment reflecting on what a ridiculous state we're in, where the president is making "deals" with private universities by personally meddling in federally allocated education and research funding and this is being treated as just ordinary politics.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 15d

If Harvard bows down to this lawless president, it will cover itself in shame and betray its motto “Veritas.”

Don’t pretend to stand for truth if you’re going to surrender to this bully. Appeasement only feeds the beast and puts us all at greater risk.

Trump Says a Deal With Harvard Is Close

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Emerson @chris.emerson.social · 15d

This time, an incredibly rude lady from Churchill insurance talked over me when I tried to explain why I wouldn't give my personal info out to people who phone me, then hung up.

Really, this is how real hacks and security incidents have happened.

Chris Emerson @chris.emerson.social · 22d

Hello companies - if YOU ring ME, you should NOT be asking me for personal details to "go through security". This is an awful practice just training people to give away their details to anyone who asks and needs to stop.

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 16d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Chris Emerson @chris.emerson.social · 16d

Look forward to hearing this one!

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 16d

Stop amputee benefit claimants having to be assessed every two years, if their limb grows back, they will tell us, believe me!

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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 16d

In 2008, West Yorkshire authorities renamed Tickle Cock Bridge, Tittle Cott. The original name was reinstated after a group of elderly residents protested. One said ‘I feel we should never alter names and Tickle Cock has a very clear message behind it’.

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Chris Emerson @chris.emerson.social · 17d

Where's that? It's strangely modern looking for such an old building!

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 17d

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?

Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.

It undermines police and the law.

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