Lots of good stuff in this thread

@bsky.app I don’t understand why the Discover tab shows many of the same posts as the Following tab. Surely the word “Discover” implies it would show me posts and accounts that I don’t already see? Or maybe it’s just me 🤷‍♂️

Officials are normally presented with ceremonial swords or paintings or whatever. But these guys are so fucking stupid that foreign intelligence agencies can literally give them an "Honorary Electronic Communications Device for a Very Special Boi" and they fall for it every time.

Very sad to hear of the untimely demise of genius engineer/producer Bob Power. The man behind the desk for so many great records, notably including Tribe's Low End Theory, the album that changed the sound of hip hop. RIEP Bob, sorry I never met you bobpower.com

We’re all just fucking mugs really, aren’t we?

Grok insists my dissertation adviser was a man I've never met and says my first book won several prizes that don't even exist but I'm sure it'll work out fine to give it access to classified defense systems.

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist.

Truly cold and deeply immoral response by Grok HQ to monetise it's ability to produce deep fake and child porn

Just been listening to Grace Jones’ Nightclubbing and now Murder She Wrote - I mean, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, how ridiculously effing brillliant are they? #slyandrobbie

NW London - I'm looking for a collection point for 2 bags of good quality clothes that my family would like to send to Jamaica but struggling to find any information online. Can anyone point me in the right direction? #melissa #jamaica @dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social

I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Devil’s advocate from a UK perspective - now that Tangerine Shitbox has changed his position on the Epstein files, might it be that all this time he’s been using them as a distraction from violent, racist immigration raids, the state of the US economy, his personal enrichment etc etc?

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

I do miss Twitter for the facility to get an immediate response to complaining about bad customer experience (except effing Virgin Media of course). Feels pointless to complain here about the bag of mostly rotten potatoes that Tesco sold me the other day

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

Approximately one third of Spotify’s revenue is gross profit, so up to £4 a month of your subscription goes into Ek’s huge investments into AI weapons development. Cancel that sub or you are directly contributing to god knows what future human misery

Please. #Jamaica needs help. People are lost, homeless and pretty desperate. Most of the island has no power and very little telecoms. Some places, especially where #HurricaneMelissa made landfall (as the strongest Atlantic storm ever to do so) look like war zones.

Gutted. One of one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nzk...

Dear journalists - can we please get on record an answer from 47 or senior MAGA how they reconcile advocating free speech with this? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Political theater.

According to Oxfam the wealth of the richest 1% has surged by $33.9 trillion since 2015, enough to eliminate annual global poverty 22 times over

Tldr: Ek is investing the enormous profits he makes from exploiting the work of musicians into AI-driven autonomous weapons systems. IMHO this is beyond unacceptable and I suspect an anathema to the vast majority of musicians, certainly those that I know www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Absolutely gutted that O2 mobile support has been been rebranded as Virgin Media. Presuming this will come with BM’s attitude to customer “service” 1. spending hours on hold 2. action promised but not taken 3. money taken 4. go to step 1 Tempted to return to Twitter to bitch where they can see it😡

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

“Big tech firms have no values” says @bazzacollins.bsky.social in a blistering and heartfelt condemnation of the hypocrisy of Silicon Valley’s craven CEOs (@pcpro.bsky.social March 2025 edition). I could not agree more, it’s shocking how decades of progress can be discarded in a heartbeat. Parasites

What sort of world do corporate interests want to see? An urban landscape so devoid of culture and colour that no one wants to live or work there? Is that even good for property prices? Let's try and make sure @princecharlescinema.com is still there this time next year

Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring incredible story really well told. Sergei asks at one point “where were those supposed to guard Britain in all this?” The blatant info warfare, oiled by dirty Russian money with the blessing of the Cameron government beggars belief podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Here v there: I just searched here for #MissingYou expecting to see some discussion of the new Netflix Harlan Coben story, but there's not a lot. My quick 2¢: starts off great but deteriorates and very disappointing ending. Enjoyed the first 3 or 4 episodes though. Can't be arsed cranking up x

Some blue skies for BlueSky with a little cloud on the horizon as a reality check - Happy New Year! Focus on the positive, those clouds always go away

I personally would like to thank Drake and J Cole for pissing Kendrick off fr. Have had him in rare form all year and it’s continuing into 2025

For me it’s Word damn

Agree 💯 but liking it here otherwise

I just want to say @bsky.app @jay.bsky.team #thewholeteamsorryidontknowallyournames 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 reliable, smooth, responsive, great work 🙏 barely check T*****r now and feel lighter for it

@bsky.app a suggestion if I might, the Discover tab would be more useful if it didn’t contain all the same content I’ve already read on the Following tab. Otherwise 👏👏👏👏👏

Good thinking