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alpha seven (Pete Roberts)
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Sporadic releases of electronic music. MUST NOT BUY MORE SYNTHS.

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mortenmorland.bsky.social
Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/peter-brooke...
December 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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brownecfm.bsky.social
Read the study and think about population level implications, remembering that the vast majority of people have been infected multiple times.

What are the possible long-term neurological sequelae?

What are the implications for societies now?

news.griffith.edu.au/2025/12/16/c...
COVID-19 leaves a lasting mark on the human brain - Griffith News
COVID-19 does not just affect the respiratory system, but also significantly alters the brain in people who have fully recovered from the infectious
news.griffith.edu.au
December 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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sonicstate.bsky.social
Massive MIDI Slapophone : Mechanical behemoth built from scratch
Mechanical behemoth built from scratch
Massive MIDI Slapophone : Mechanical behemoth built from scratch
sonicstate.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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dermotlynott.bsky.social
Microsoft word now automatically suggesting I paste in some random alphanumeric codes in comments. Just great AI integration here. Really, well done 👍
A comment box in MS Word, with an AI prompt to automatically fill in some random alphanumeric code from Mail. Totally unclear where this code comes from
December 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
A Christmas cartoon from my new book of science cartoons PHYSICS FOR CATS. In good bookshops and online now: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
Title: Wenceslas Variations 1. Good King Wenceslas: King bestows gifts on peasant. 2. Bad things Wenceslas: King steals gifts from peasant. 3. Indifferent King Wenceslas: No gifts 4. Two Kings Wenceslas: Kings exchange gifts. 5. No King Wenceslas: Gifts divided between peasants. 6. Philosopher King Wenceslas: King and Peasant discuss gift-giving. 7. Quantum King Wenceslas: Gifts given and simultaneously not given. 8. Apex Predator King Wenceslas: King devours gifts and peasant.
December 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
Excellent thread.
December 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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alextobin.com
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December 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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lccmunicipal.bsky.social
Thamesmead - The First Areas. This is undated, but appears to be from around 1976: A GLC brochure outlining the work done on the initial Thamesmead areas (I, II ,IIA and IIID). This first phase of work produced nearly 4,200 dwellings.
TH cover is black and white with three narrow portrait photos of elements of the Thamesmead development. The title is GLC Thamesmead, The First Areas. The images are uncredited. A black and white photo of Southmere, with low rise housing to the left and, on the right and in the distance, a number of point blocks. A child looks out across the lake. The image is uncredited. Linear blocks in Area 1, looking on to Harrow Manorway. The angular blocks rise to about 4 storeys. The image is uncredited. A view across Southmere Lake to point blocks and linear housing in Area 1. The image is uncredited.
December 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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explodingheads.bsky.social
"They've made the school nativity play WOKE 😡😡"
Colin from Portsmouth.
December 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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vornietom.bsky.social
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
komaniecki.bsky.social Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 2d
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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amynmerchant.bsky.social
Those familiar will know that @mrhenrymorris.substack.com rarely misses his mark.

But this is a nine-dart finish in the local Conservative Working Man’s Club on a busy Saturday night.
December 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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wendyo.bsky.social
Tabletop Christmas Trees, Better Homes and Gardens, December 1963 #DIY
DIY holiday decor made from felt, styrofoam balls/cones, colored glass-headed pins, flower sequins, and yarn held by different sized dowels.
December 18, 2024 at 12:15 AM
alphaseven.bsky.social
AI - another reason to oppose it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
YouTube channels spreading fake, anti-Labour videos viewed 1.2bn times in 2025
Exclusive: More than 150 anonymous channels using cheap AI tools to spread false stories about Keir Starmer, study finds
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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mrchrisaddison.bsky.social
For the record, Robin Ince is a superb comedian, an absolute mensch, a remarkable thinker and the kindest human you’ll ever meet. And the BBC is a genuinely great and globally unique institution that needs to stop being afraid. I think that’s where most of its faults and issues stem from.
December 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
GB News grilled me apparently?

Only problem with this is I've never been on their nonsense channel.

They lie - obsessively.

Help us grow an alternative to all the bollocks:

Join.greenparty.org.uk
Zack Polanski grilled over Calais trip
December 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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oisinmcgann.bsky.social
AI’ is becoming shorthand for ’We don’t care if it works, we just don’t want to pay people to do it properly.’

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Amazon pulls AI recap from Fallout TV show after it made several mistakes
The errors included getting dialogue wrong and incorrectly claiming a scene was set 100 years earlier than it was.
www.bbc.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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johnnymains.co.uk
I'm privileged to call Robin a friend, and as such, have seen behind the curtains with what went on with Monkey Cage. When BBC bosses say they don't recognise his version of events, I was being told of them by Robin in real time. This stuff has been going on for YEARS.
I'm heartbroken for him.
December 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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duncanrobertson.bsky.social
Always nice to hear the review of the year from Laura Kuenssberg.

Trump:
- moved into the White House
- asked Europe to increase defence spending
- moved to create a ceasefire in Gaza
- didn't create a global trade war

Hmm. I sort of thought he did more than that.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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mandeville24.bsky.social
Quote from Bears excellent article. Because if your health system cannot survive five days of industrial action, that isn’t evidence that striking resident doctors are immoral villains out to destroy the NHS - it’s evidence that you’re running a health system with the resilience of wet tissue paper.
bearlypolitics.co.uk The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4d
A winter flu surge.
A looming doctors’ strike.
A health system with no slack left.

This is neither bad luck nor a “perfect storm” - it’s exactly what will happen when resilience is treated as optional and difficult decisions are used to excuse incompetent ones.

A Saturday long read.
Saturday Long Read: The NHS is Collapsing and Labour is Running out of Excuses
A system shaved to the bone, a winter crisis already unfolding, and a government furious because the arithmetic no longer works.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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scribblerrob.bsky.social
Hollow Earth Radio playing Neu! Hallo Gallo. All I ever wanted to be in was a band that could play like that. Music that moves along a straight horizon line and get there. Music that sounds like it had been going for ages before you got there and will carry on for ages after you've gone.
December 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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groomb.bsky.social
Mulberry Street, Manchester, painting by Jane Braithwaite.
December 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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groomb.bsky.social
Ian Curtis with Joy Division at The New Osborne Club, Manchester, 7 February 1980. Photo by Daniel Meadows.
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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electronicsound.bsky.social
It’s the first weekend in UK shops for the new Electronic Sound, which marks 50 years of KRAFTWERK’s ‘Radio-Activity’. You can also buy the mag directly from us, bundled with a seven-inch of THE DIVINE COMEDY’s dazzling cover of the album’s title track. electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine
December 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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trouteyes.bsky.social
Potatoman's secret HQ. Where he keeps the Potatomobile, the Potatoboat, and the Potatocopter
Place on a map called Potato Cave
December 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM