In The Darkness One of the new Docklands Light Railway trains leaves Stratford London Underground station.

Some @tomflood.bsky.social's out in the wild

Me trying to remember how to do my job after the long weekend:

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

“Before Psychedelia, There Was SPACE AGE Music” www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEjW... Excellent material from an enthusiastic amusingly hipster-styled presenter.

And TechCrunch are here to get you started: techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/s...

Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

EY retracts study after researchers discover AI hallucinations ft.trib.al/IK0xhlI

@museumbums.bsky.social Do you include horses?

Important data from @persuasionuk.bsky.social showing how Labour's vote fragmented in the England local elections last week. Of those who voted Labour in 2024: 🟦5% voted Reform 🟨10% voted Lib Dem 🟩22% voted Green persuasionuk.org/research/may...

BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.

And all of this because of rules that have existed for 35+ years. But sure, let's pretend this started in April and was specifically aimed at polygamous households.🙄 That'll rile up the masses and distract from dodgy, undeclared political donations...👍🏻 24/

The Express admits that none of this is new, but look at the way they hide that sentence in between yet more adverts. Blink as you scroll, and you'd miss it! 5/

As ever, the first place to check is the article itself. The Express doesn't make finding context, nuance, or explanation easy! 👇I had to scroll through 8 adverts, 2 blocks of links to other clickbait stories, and a newsletter signup block before reaching anything explanatory 2/

Well, that Express headline was always going to raise a few eyebrows!😳 Starmer is responsible for embracing polygamy to appease Muslims, and so he's increasing their benefits?? That's the implication. After all, this "started in April", right? Wrong! 🧵1/25

More of an anon pitch than opin. Can someone write an app called Shamazon, where you find what you want on Amazon and then the app will find an alternative source for it, cutting out the evil Bezos.

If you now have a Reform Councillor Find out how good a job they'll be doing Be polite, and only notify them of a genuine problem I'm sure there's a backlog of a host of local issues that need addressing ... ps do remember that stopping the boats is not within their power! meme via Angel Stroyan

𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖘 𝕬𝖌𝖔… The Eye delved into Christopher Harborne's background - his dual identity, his cryptocurrency connections, his enormous political donations - long before his undeclared £5 million personal gift to Nigel Farage. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 1511, December 2019.

Street Photography of London Trams Some silly fun showcasing my love of capturing photography of the Croydon Tram network. It feels like discovering a new secret line on the London Underground tube map.

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

🇬🇧🙄 Posted on Threads. Meanwhile, if you have been ‘gifted’ a Rfm councillor, turn yourself into Indignant Council Taxpayer. Email them about: unmown verges/bins/ parking/ gulleys/ dog poo/ dog poo bins/ litter/ fly tipping/noise/ dirty streets/potholes It’s only what they were elected to do!

M algorithm alert @privateeyenews.bsky.social

London hay fever sufferers - if like me you are feeling sniffly, high tree pollen is the likely cause. Don't forget your antihistamines

We need a really big mosquito net

So there are crazy headlines, and then there are "I'm sorry WTAF now?" headlines...😳 Yes, the Telegraph have deduced that Ed Miliband hates mothers because of some new legislation making tumble dryers more efficient and cheaper to run! 🧵 1/24

It’s official: I no longer work for the Observer, they have decided to move away from data journalism. Which means I’m now looking for work! I'm a data journalist who has worked on award-winning projects, and I'm excited to really be able to work on stories that matter 🙏

As there are a lot of newbies on Bluesky recently (welcome to everyone!) two major suggestions: 1) Unlike on X, a Like will not influence any algorithm. If you want to make a post be read by others, REPOST (Likes are irrelevant) 2) Unlike on X, to block someone is really waterproof. Block, 1/2

New auto-reply for LLM-generated marketing spam ✨

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme.

Italian ceramics artist Clara Holt, who decorates her work with images of ancient myths #WomensArt

"What ails thee Master Hodges?" "I must away to the Strangers Bar, where there be a common woman, with red flowing locks, who entrances me so that it surely must be witchcraft..."

ICYMI: Check out our BOTM blog post for #FashionFriday, delving into 1970s crimes of #Fashion with the Grattan Catalogue. What's your verdict? 👉️ buff.ly/FrqU7NU #fashionhistory #dmufashion #historicfashion @dmufashionmarketing #fashion #fashioncatalogues #1970sstyle

"Day 072, orbit 1113 — Sunday morning science with Sophie, episode 5: Water and convex lenses." – @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot   🎥 ESA/NASA #εpsilon

The big divide in Britain today is between working people and the privately educated, rich, greedy, tax-dodging, selfish, grifting gobshites who try to manipulate working people by pretending to give a shit about them.

I’ve made a few edits to Reform’s elections flyer to more accurately reflect their policies, and am sticking it back to them in the Freepost. Surprising how they missed all of these out.

@georgetakei.bsky.social You are celebrated in good company by @allontheboard.bsky.social

Good morning silly sods of Wülferhampton, happy #Caturday

@reecedinsdale.bsky.social Good morning Reece. Here is a timely reminder for all -

3 Supreme Court Justices are being engulfed in a massive corruption scandal👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Triple oops🤨

Morning news roundup🥳 Yesterday’s Tesla Earnings Call seemingly imploded with Musk stating that his self driving/RoboTaxi systems don’t work which are a CRUCIAL part of the $340/share Tesla valuation. Without that self driving skill, the share price shld be closer to $30-50 acc to experts. Oops😉

you love to see it

Good morning! Here is a three-day old sea-otter pup, snoozing on their Mama. The image is by one my favourite wildlife photographers, Suzi Eszterhas, who runs girlswhoclick.org - an organisation that mentors girls and young women interested in nature photography. Feel free to share.

"Day 069, orbit 1071 — The gyroscope, key to maintaining a spacecraft attitude in space 🌀 The Station relies on four Control Moment Gyroscopes (CMGs), large spinning wheels that use angular momentum to keep it properly oriented," explains @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot. 🎥 NASA/ESA