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Opinions about Assistive Technology, music, outdoors and random other stuff.
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about 18 hours ago
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Natalie Bennett
about 21 hours ago
#Gambling
- an industry out of control doing enormous damage to individuals and communities. "Betfair may have made £200,000 commission on bets that Morford lost between 2018 and 2024, overlapping significantly with the period of his fraud."
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Betfair urged to hand tens of thousands to victim of gambling fraudster
Betting exchange appeared to miss multiple opportunities to stop āVIPā customer betting with stolen money
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/17/betfair-gambling-betting-exchange-vip-customer
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Paul Haine
about 20 hours ago
It's simple. Just take a photo of everyone who does want pizza but not anybody who doesn't want pizza. If the photographer wants pizza make sure they're in shot, or if that's too hard, ask someone who doesn't want pizza to stand in. If everyone wants pizza and the photographer can't fit in shot, ask
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Cethan Leahy
about 21 hours ago
Help! I can't stop thinking of someone taking a photo of the group rather than counting how many people want pizza.
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Private Eye Magazine
7 days ago
Some *free* weekend reading: our special report on the Teesside regeneration scandal ⤵ļø
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Alan Stedman
about 22 hours ago
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo
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Amanda
about 20 hours ago
I honestly canāt work out how weāve still got another two weeks of January to go but yet Christmas was about 4 months ago.
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Green Party calls for under-22s to get free bus passes
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Green Party calls for free bus passes for under-22s
Green Party calls for free bus passes for under-22s
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpv709w9j1xo
about 23 hours ago
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Bryan Blessed
2 days ago
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Typo of the day "...moist welcome to join..." Is it the weekend yet?
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Alt text for image: Bob Mortimer reading from a card with "would I lie to you?" printed on the back.
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Luke
2 days ago
Essential services should not be run for profit.
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Lewis Goodall
2 days ago
Flying to Minneapolis tomorrow to cover the ICE raids for News Agents, what is unfolding and the politics which flows from it. If youāre there or know the city and know people/organisations we should be speaking to, please get in touch. DMs open.
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Pete Fraser
3 days ago
BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.
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3 days ago
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Duncan Mackay
3 days ago
The Norfolk Carnyx: a Playmobil story in 4 parts. š§µ
#DiggingForBritain
#DrawingDiggingForBritain
#PlaymobilInfestation
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social
@pcaarchaeology.bsky.social
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The Royal National College for the Blind
4 days ago
RNC student Oscar will be on BBC Radio 4's In Touch tonight at 20:40, chatting with Sound Without Sight and
@lachimusic.bsky.social
about breaking barriers for V.I. creators in the music industry. Listen here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
or catch up on BBC Sounds!
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Mark Watson
5 days ago
And thanks for spreading word of what I'm doing; I'm doing the same for others. No regrets about bailing from Twitter but anyone in my area will tell you, there *was* a time it was incredibly helpful for finding your audience. Bluesky isn't quite like that yet, but no real reason it can't get there.
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Mark OāNeill š»
5 days ago
The UK National Health Service has very clear information on all major medical conditions. It is browsable by all Never EVER rely on an LLM for health advice
www.nhs.uk/conditions/
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Zoƫ Crowther
5 days ago
There are now at least 365 UK MPs with accounts on Bluesky ā more than half (56%) of all MPs š“ This includes nearly 70% of Labour MPs š¶ Nearly 90% of Lib Dem MPs š¢ All the 4 Green MPs šµ But only 5% of Conservative MPs ā”ļø No Reform MPs
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Check out this outstanding
#Tortoise
quilt, made by my mate Dave. Modelled by the actual Doug McCombs, seemingly in his driveway.
www.instagram.com/p/DTYuJA_kgI...
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trts on Instagram: "Thanks to @thebeardedsewchologist for this amazing Oganesson quilt! It's amazing, be sure to check his stuff out! šāØView all 13 coā¦"
Thanks to @thebeardedsewchologist for this amazing Oganesson quilt! It's amazing, be sure to check his stuff out! šāØ
https://www.instagram.com/p/DTYuJA_kgIV/?igsh=MXB4dmg3eXg3c2VyZw==
5 days ago
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George Monbiot
6 days ago
In the spirit of brotherly love, could I gently enquire why the almighty **** are government departments, government ministers and Labour MPs *STILL* using X?
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Hamnet is devastatingly good. If you're not a fan of crying, don't see it.
7 days ago
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
7 days ago
The Daily Telegraph really is the gift that keeps on giving
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Futurism
7 days ago
The sheer irony.
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Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized
A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.
https://trib.al/zDN4nU1
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Well that's
#StrangerThings
done and dusted. Mildly disappointed in the final episode like everyone else. However, overriding feeling is relief at finally getting to the end of the whole thing and not having another series. Ever.
8 days ago
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the mangosphere
9 days ago
I went to a toddler class today and there was a toddler called Keith
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There's already a fully developed product for facial gesture and head-movement input using a standard webcam. It's called SensePilot
sensepilot.tech
#AssistiveTechnology
#disabilities
@disabilityscoop.bsky.social
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9 days ago
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James Ball
9 days ago
āPay me $8 a month and you can use my tech to create child sexual abuse imageryā might not be the PR win Elon Musk imagines it to be, yāknow.
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Louise Haigh
10 days ago
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
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Harriet Cannon
10 days ago
The start of this academic year has been the busiest in my 25 year career. The number of students who tell their university they are disabled continues to increase exponentially. That's a good thing, but also a bad thing...š§µ
wonkhe.com/blogs/disabi...
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Disability in universities is both everywhere and nowhere
Despite rising disclosure rates, disability remains an āabsent presenceā in university culture. Holly Parrott examines why inclusion often ends up as an afterthought, and how the sector can do better ...
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/disability-in-universities-is-both-everywhere-and-nowhere/
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Greg Jenner (Historian)
10 days ago
Good š
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Commons women and equalities committee to stop using X amid AI-altered images row
Exclusive: Move follows outcry over use of Grok to digitally remove clothing from images of women and children
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/07/commons-women-equalities-committee-stop-using-x-ai-altered-grok-images?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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What could possibly go wrong..?
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11 days ago
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Possibly the most ominous Frog and Toad bot line ever.
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12 days ago
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āI inexplicably detest Mr Brightsideā. That's not inexplicable.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
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āI inexplicably detest Mr Brightsideā: John Simmās honest playlist
The actor first realised what music was when he heard Yellow Submarine and knows a lot of Paul Simon lyrics, but what would he put on at a party?
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/04/john-simm-honest-playlist-the-beatles-paul-simon
12 days ago
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Broke my toe while running across the room to turn off The Archers.
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12 days ago
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Angry People in Local Newspapers
14 days ago
No.
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Has retired Fife head teacher located the 'lost' sword-arm of William Wallace in Stirlingshire?
Through psychic research, Archie Lawrie believes he knows where the Scots hero's relics were secretly buried near Stirling - and he's urging archaeologists to investigate.
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-times/5380712/william-wallace-sword-arm-stirlingshire/
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Arthur Snell
14 days ago
Trump is probably focused on the money he wrongly thinks he'll make from Venezuelan oil. But he's not a details guy and nobody has thought through the details. Essentially, the US has taken over Venezuela by mistake. Stranger things have happened, but not many.
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Stranger Things
The 1980s Nostalgia of Trump's Foreign Policy is probably going to end up, like Stranger Things, as a horror show.
https://open.substack.com/pub/arthursnell/p/stranger-things?r=8jnwf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Charlotte Nichols MP
15 days ago
There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.
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Sarah Owen MP
16 days ago
X/grok creating and platforming sexually explicit material of children isnāt just a lapse, itās criminal. Elon Musk and his companies should be held to account. Itās been over a year since I dumped X. It was the right decision then and even more so now.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Grok Posts Sexual Images of Minors After āLapses in Safeguardsā
Elon Muskās artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said ālapses in safeguardsā led to the generation of sexualized images of minors that it posted to social media site X.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-02/grok-posts-sexual-images-of-minors-after-lapses-in-safeguards?embedded-checkout=true
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RR
18 days ago
Itās also misleading because a formal diagnosis is not needed in law for a child to have SEND - needing provision which is additional to/different from.
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RR
18 days ago
Iām really surprised by this headline from The Sutton Trust. Children donāt get diagnosed with SEND. SEND is about provision. Children get diagnosed with ASD/ADHD/dyslexia/DLD etc which MAY lead to them having SEND.
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Sgurr an Airgid. Catching the sun on the way up, losing it on the way down.
19 days ago
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Anna E. Cook
21 days ago
Hark! The gods smile upon us again by giving us tactile buttons! Blessed be
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James Vincent
21 days ago
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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The Quietus
22 days ago
'Is there a more consistent singer-songwriter operating today than Bill Callahan? 'Lonely Cityā is yet another melancholy masterpiece.'
#BillCallahan
- Lonely City is a Quietus Track of the Month for Nov/Dec
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"While it wasn't his first climbing experience, with Nathan previously completing the three peaks challenge in Yorkshire". Yorkshire 3 peaks ain't climbing. It's a long walk.
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23 days ago
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Natalie Bennett
23 days ago
One reason why UK
#AidCuts
are incredibly shortsighted. Security is about a lot more than military spending, and diplomacy is also being cut
www.ft.com/content/f388...
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Christmas Day sausage sizzle
24 days ago
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If you're wrapping presents and NOT listening to Christmas Cookin' by Jimmy Smith can you possibly even be entering into the spirit of the thing?
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