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David Wilding @drwilding.bsky.social · 2d

All sorts of Chimney Sweep drama playing out in my emails.

Another reason why I exclusively use Dick Van Dyke.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 6d

All my comics have happy endings!

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 26d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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David Wilding @drwilding.bsky.social · 29d

“Yeah we definitely need the big tech bosses”

“And the media moguls”

“Politicians, royalty, ok. So anyone else we’re missing?”

“The winner of the US PGA tournament in 1992”

“Of course, can’t believe we nearly forgot him”

David Wilding @drwilding.bsky.social · 29d

Nick Faldo?! Hahahaha, fabulous.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 29d

Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos

X post by Milo Yiannopoulos: "28 pilots have been suspended or fired so far after I made their airlines aware of gruesome remarks made about Charlie Kirk’s death. Of the big three, Delta has the biggest problem by far; United the smallest."

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David Wilding @drwilding.bsky.social · Sep 16

Wow. Has nobody got any backbone anymore?

Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · Sep 16

Kemi Badenoch refusing to acknowledge that Tommy Robinson is "far-right", now on LBC, and refusing to condemn Elon Musk's words. In fact she says what Musk said *isn't* incitement. So what would be incitement then? How violent would his words have to be before he was deemed a threat to this country?

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David Wilding @drwilding.bsky.social · Sep 11

Fouls and handballs in the box should result in an indirect free kick from where the incident happened - not a penalty. Penalties are too big a punishment for a lot of minor offences especially given how specialist a lot of takers are these days.

Also Brighton are just really annoying, sorry.

Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · Sep 11

Everybody should absolutely view this as an invitation to drop your spiciest soccer takes.

Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · Sep 11

lol I’m gonna need bluesky’s biggest soccer post ever to balance out all the politics engagement im burying myself under.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Sep 10

Gary Lineker on winning the National TV Award,

"It's not lost on me why I might have won this award"

"Aside from presenting Match of the Day.."

"Also, I think it demonstrates that perhaps it's ok sometimes to use our platform to speak up on behalf of those who have no voice"

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Sep 10

I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

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David Wilding @drwilding.bsky.social · Sep 9

Well either way I’m not renaming the cat :)

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David Wilding @drwilding.bsky.social · Sep 9

Won’t accept any Nuno slander!

A great manager and a great man (see example below + how he conducted himself around Jota’s tragic death).

Also our cat is called Nuno (he’s about 5 years old) and he’s a great lad too.

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David Wilding @drwilding.bsky.social · Sep 8

The problem for Meta is that when you read stuff like this very few people’s reaction is “well that doesn’t sound like the sort of thing they’d do”

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · Sep 8

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform.

Meta deleted the evidence.

New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say

The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Adrie van der Luijt @traumainformedcontent.com · Sep 7

My mum keeps this in the kitchen, but I decided to move it. So far, she hasn’t noticed.

A tile stands on a shelf above a toilet. It reads: "You only live once. Lick the bowl."

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Sep 6

Let's be clear: The flood of hatred sloshing across Britain right now is 100% a product of the political and media elite scapegoating minorities for the harms that those elites have visited upon the country.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Sep 5

Tonight, my 77-year-old mother ripped this flag off a dual carriageway bridge near Birmingham. Note the swastika. My dad's dad died fighting the Nazis.

A St George flag, on which is written the words "Stop the Muslim Paki boats" and "Get out of our cuntry oi oi". In the centre of the flag, a swastika is drawn.

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David Wilding @drwilding.bsky.social · Sep 5

not to mention the social media haters

David Wilding @drwilding.bsky.social · Sep 5

Some of the worst public figures we have are cock a hoop that Rayner’s resigned and that makes me sad.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · Sep 4

Just for a second, take a step back, and remember that these are the actions of a 56 year old man towards a 17 year old girl.

He and Brooks met at a Battle of Ideas conference on 19 October when the scriptwriter “approached her with his phone, recording her and calling her a groomer, and asking how many she had groomed”, the prosecution said.

Brooks subsequently called out to Linehan outside the venue and asked him why he had called her a “domestic terrorist”.

Julia Faure Walker, for the prosecution, said: “At this point Mr Linehan could’ve explained why he had called her a domestic terrorist, if indeed he had an explanation, or even ignored her … rather he responded in a way which is indicative of his extreme personal animosity towards her.

“He said ‘go away groomer’, ‘go away you disgusting incel’. He called her a ‘sissy porn-watching scumbag’… He deliberately whacked the phone out of Ms Brooks’s hand.”

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David Wilding @drwilding.bsky.social · Sep 1

Refreshing to hear some Isak perspectives I’d not heard before.

@larssivertsen.bsky.social’s point about planning for Salah leaving was very well made (and his mic set up is world class).

Excellent pod today, thank you @maxrushden.bsky.social @philippeauclair.bsky.social @beardedgenius.bsky.social

David Wilding @drwilding.bsky.social · Aug 29

“Hateful, spiteful, pointless and embarrassing. Something meant to intimidate, to incite and to exclude an imagined “evil force” that does not exist.

This is brilliant from @roisinlanigan.bsky.social for @theobserveruk.bsky.social (and very funny on her experience working in Belfast in 2012)

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David Wilding @drwilding.bsky.social · Aug 29

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Watch out, England – you’re being Ulsterised | The Observer

Flag-waving, patriotic spray-painting and men shimmying up lamp-posts. Why do I feel like I’ve been here before?

observer.co.uk

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David Wilding @drwilding.bsky.social · Aug 28

The existence of Barney Walsh makes this entirely plausible.

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Andrej @tepid.meme · Aug 27

Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire...

Greetings cards labelled "Nan, Nanna, Nanny, Nana and Nannie"

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David Wilding @drwilding.bsky.social · Aug 24

Yes, all very odd.

I heard someone on The Guardian football weekly this week describe his as looking like “a baddie from Emmerdale”.

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