Shatner's bassoon

Shatner's bassoon

@whosthedadaist.bsky.social

Bearer of the mark of shame Material/reality

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Replying to @postoctobrist.bsky.social

Old boy has gone in with both barrels: what do you think about Brexit, what do you think about Scottish independence. Not really waiting for an answer before musing about whether ‘referendum’ is a gerund. “You’re a lawyer, you did Latin-“ and he is disappointed to learn otherwise

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Replying to @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social

imagine being the one person in the world who pays a thousand pounds to meet Amol Rajan, and taking him back to your house that is covered in Joe Orton-style collages of Amol Rajan and showing him the tattoo of his face on your upper thigh and how unfair it will be when you also go to prison

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The trade unions resisting a political donations cap in the UK are ragged-trousered philanthropists. Thanks to their delusion that a system allowing limitless donations enhances their power, they're in danger of handing the country to the far-right parties that billionaires support. Burnham must act

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I just misread Celebrity Traitors as Celebrity Trousers and was for 0.5 seconds, ooh, they're making TV for ME.

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Replying to @eliothiggins.bsky.social

I think policymakers fundamentally misunderstanding the problems we're facing with disordered information is much more of a risk than a failing Russian disinformation campaign.

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Replying to @robfordmancs.bsky.social

Everyone will treat this outcome as a surprise when it happens. But it is clearly visible right now.

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Find this sort of thing fascinating because if any of these things did exist it would violate all natural laws, The Standard Model, and everything we know scientifically about the nature of reality.

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It's embarrassing for Silicon Valley that this has to even be said. But it does. I'm also embarrassed for them that they can't grasp the human mind and its extension, human society, are indivisible. You can't separate intelligence from who and what we are.

Adam Becker@adambecker.bsky.social

Same thing goes for the AI utopia/accelerationist/singularity story, which is basically the same as the AI doom story. There are plenty of problems that don't yield to increased intelligence. A lack of intelligence is not why we have a climate crisis or no durable peace in the Middle East.

My personal western cultural canon starts with this. What's top of yours? youtu.be/18ifdidR8QA?...

youtu.beSexton Ming and Steady - “Girls Eat Worms” (Rare Video, 1997)YouTube video by That Scouse Dude
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social

Anyway, my personal Western cultural canon starts with this. What is the top of yours? youtu.be/7MBySz9Qxbc?...

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It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?

Edward@fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social

Anecdotally what seems to be happening is that the Home Office is refusing all student visa applications from certain countries. The Treasury should have told them to knock if off years ago but at this point the FCO needs to tell them to stop trying to cause an international incident.

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A new Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology has just been published, in which it is claimed that the human species is polytypic: not only is race biologically meaningful but the races are distinct enough to be considered subspecies. Published by Elgar. In 2026.

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On this day 20 years ago, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow, on Putin’s 54th birthday. She had spent years reporting on Putin’s Russia and exposing atrocities committed during Russia’s war in Chechnya. Dozens of journalists have been killed for their work under Putin.

If you see this we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

Matty@zagrebista.bsky.social

If you see this we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

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As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed.