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Airline pilot ✈️, occasional photographer, geek.
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John Bull
5 days ago
Nothing has highlighted just how technically illiterate the senior business management and political classes are right now as the whole AI thing. Just an entire generation of "leaders" incapable of spotting a bad sales pitch because of some woo woo tech words that sound cool.
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danniemcq
15 days ago
Cat wandered in front of the camera during the
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John Bull
17 days ago
Yeah sure why not. Nothing can go wrong with this plan.
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Matthew Turner
19 days ago
If I were a politician planning to defect to another party, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t do it while The Traitors was on.
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Jack Stilgoe
22 days ago
Ban cities
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Confidently Paranoid
about 1 month ago
Guys guys guys, I found the archive of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (it's not an achievement, they've not hidden them) - you can watch every single one since they started televising them in the 60s:
www.rigb.org/christmas-le...
I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!
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Watch the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES archive
Watch all the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES back to 1966, when the lectures were first televised.
https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch-royal-institution-christmas-lectures-archive
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I once facilitated Eric Knowles filming a piece to camera for some BBC antique programme or other, which involved starting and taxiing a light aircraft.
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John Bull
about 1 month ago
I see the Brexit-backing owner of Dyson, who offshored himself and the firm for tax reasons, is moaning about having to pay tax on the extensive farmland that he bought here as a way to avoid inheritance tax. Hang on. I'll find my violin.
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Dreadnought Holiday
about 1 month ago
The manager of Hilbert's Grand Hotel, hearing the Christmas story and thinking "Fucksake - it's easy. You move the guest from room one..."
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John Rogers
about 1 month ago
Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
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John Bull
about 1 month ago
FAQ for torties: Q: What is this?! A: A tail Q: When did I get a tail? A: You've always had one Q: Why does my tail taste of porridge? A: Because you left it resting in my breakfast Q: OMG SHINY! What is THAT?! A: The Xmas tree. Same as yesterday Q: OMG A SNEK! A: No, that's your tail again
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Dreadnought Holiday
about 2 months ago
Today marks the anniversary of Graf Spee being scuttled, and a unique victory for the British diplomatic service
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@catboycdr.bsky.social
any weird system failures recently?
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dag
2 months ago
Streeting to next launch inquiry into “over-diagnosis” of left-handedness. “Never used to be like this,” he insists.
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John Bull
2 months ago
Happy "Cloudflare is fucked again" day to all who celebrate. Seems to come round earlier every month these days.
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John Bull
2 months ago
🌲 THE BIG CHRISTMAS GIFT THREAD! 🌲 If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with: - pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!) - a link or details on how people can buy I will boost you! Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄
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Ro
2 months ago
Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.
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Morse
2 months ago
A friend asked for book suggestions, and honestly I'll concede on this one... Anyway, check out The Atrocity Archives by
@cstross.bsky.social
if you somehow haven't read it and James Bond the IT guy fights Eldritch horrors sounds up your alley.
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dag
2 months ago
Gosh.
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rahaeli
2 months ago
I'm not the first to say it, but I think we should absolutely start a campaign to convince all the worst people that K2 is a *much* more impressive mountain to climb than Everest and we would all be much more impressed by that achievement
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Dreadnought Holiday
about 1 year ago
So apparently the correct response to shopping centre Santa ringing his bell is not to shout "bring out your dead!" No sense of humour, some people...
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The Up Front
2 months ago
JA BITTE. Lufthansa's fantastic 100th anniversary livery will be painted on SIX aircraft types — the 787, 747-8, A380, A350-1000, A350-900 and A320neo. More of this please.
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Chris Addison
2 months ago
Absolutely thrilled by how successful Bazball has become. We should totally continue with this. Just wonderful stuff. The ability to adapt and learn lessons is second to none. Greatest thing to happen to English cricket of all time. Long may it continue.
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Ed Morrish
2 months ago
if the telegraph can’t find a new buyer maybe it should just be towed out into the north sea and sunk
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Jim Waterson
3 months ago
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer… I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why.
www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
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London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork-london-kingston-upon-thames-axed?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=email
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Dr Jo Kershaw
3 months ago
This is just someone making “I remember the corned beef of my childhood” into a column (and approximately as accurate).
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Scott Gray
3 months ago
Zadie Smith.
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John Bull
3 months ago
Jesus christ people the UK government are not banning VPNs stop getting caught out by dogshit headlines on social media sharing cards.
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David Whitley
3 months ago
I think organisations should take unsolicited, murkily-funded 'reports' from people who used to work for a rival that has made your destruction a life's mission a little more sceptically.
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John Bull
3 months ago
Just one more hit. One more hit please man you know i'm good for it i'll pay later i swear
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John Bull
3 months ago
The number of people between 16 and 34 who died or were injured in a work-related incident increased by 76% between 1939 and 1946
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Jane Hill
3 months ago
There’s no screening for ovarian cancer and it’s really difficult to spot: you can’t squidge your ovaries in the shower to check for lumps. Also it’s very good at masquerading at other things, like IBS and diverticulitis. Please take a look at this list of symptoms - and share if you can.
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Helene von Bismarck
3 months ago
Excellent thread. There is a real honesty gap in British discourse. It destroys representative democracy and fuels populism. And it does not resolve any problems.
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WWN
4 months ago
Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software
https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/louvre-thieves-given-immunity-after-confirming-jewels-stolen-for-purpose-of-training-ai-software/
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Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software
FRENCH POLICE have immediately ended all efforts to recover priceless Napoleon-era jewellery from the Louvre taken in a daring heist after it emerged the jewels were merely stolen for the purposes of training AI software. When …
https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/louvre-thieves-given-immunity-after-confirming-jewels-stolen-for-purpose-of-training-ai-software/
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dag
4 months ago
Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament. But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside. Good night.
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Tom Clark
4 months ago
In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights —
@chrisgiles.ft.com
bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths
www.ft.com/content/ee67...
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Lacci
4 months ago
This is a really good discussion by a couple of people who dealt with releasing a book through Unbound as it collapsed.
@alicefraser.bsky.social
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@chrisskinner.bsky.social
are great, Alice's book is fantastic, and it's really unfair this happened to so many great people.
youtu.be/8l73x6t27U4?...
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We made a hit book, and saw none of the money! Chris and Alice Unleashed!!! B'Ankruptcy Edition
YouTube video by The Bugle
https://youtu.be/8l73x6t27U4?si=1DJmXlMXrNHZim43
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Helene von Bismarck
4 months ago
Don‘t threaten us with a good time.
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John Bull
4 months ago
A lot of people don't understand how pensions (or benefits) really work. They picture a national savings account in which their 'own' taxes are stored until they retire. Not that they were paying for the person before them, and now someone else is doing it for them, so inflation doesn't screw them
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Katie Mack
4 months ago
As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease. There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done." 1/🧵
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Liam Thorp
4 months ago
Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference. “One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception. “The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”
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Tanja Bueltmann
4 months ago
When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵
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Winning the Women's World Cup, and then Chris Robshaw opens Strictly. Headline: "In a mixed day for English Rugby..."?
#strictly
4 months ago
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Brian Bilston
4 months ago
LIMERICK It was the Medical Council’s belief, That as a form of effective relief, Paracetamol would Be next to no good From the pain of the Satsuma-in-Chief.
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Ed Morrish
4 months ago
you couldn't make father ted these days, because you'd be sued by hat trick productions for copyright infringement
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Ulrike Franke
5 months ago
Still the best explanation of Russian tactics and the difficulty of deterrence. From: Yes, Prime Minister.
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John Bull
5 months ago
I see Cargo Cult Thatcherism is back on the agenda. iT wOrKeD fOR tHe IrON LaDY
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Dan Whitehead
6 months ago
For comparison, Microsoft Office 365 has 345m paid subscribers worldwide. The idea that ChatGPT will conjure up five times that amount in just a few years isn't just hypothetical, it's fantasy. These people are delusional.
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