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@hern.bsky.social

AI writer at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.

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there's an optimal amount to blow on a single day's partying isn't there. if you give me £100 and tell me to have a good time I'll have more fun than if you give me £50 but if you give me £1000 I'd feel a lot of pressure to spend it all. Give me £10,000 and I'm drinking champagne with gold flakes

07.10.2025 15:14 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

you had high hopes for the french government too huh

06.10.2025 13:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The French government lasted 13 hours and 47 minutes. We are ruled by children and we probably deserve it. I am disgusted.

06.10.2025 07:51 — 👍 73    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 4
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Drone sighting temporarily disrupt flights at Norway's Oslo airport, NTB reports Norway's Oslo airport temporarily paused landings early on Monday after a report of a drone sighting near the airport, news agency NTB reported. Several arriving flights were delayed or diverted after...

Guess this is just a thing Russia does now www.yahoo.com/news/article...

06.10.2025 07:21 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

A whole evening of people posting takes about “Ange” and I’ve just now realised they’re not talking about Rayner

05.10.2025 19:05 — 👍 34    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 1

I actually haven’t experienced this because I killed him so fast that I never had time to play with the sound on

05.10.2025 12:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’m sorry we’re banning the protests in support of the banned group? weren’t they already banned

05.10.2025 08:27 — 👍 55    🔁 13    💬 6    📌 3

Thank you!

04.10.2025 18:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is there a version of this by capacity or actual generation in 24/25?

04.10.2025 18:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh captain my captain

04.10.2025 16:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Which is to say, ebay.us/m/eJnXOW

04.10.2025 10:12 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Unzoomed Identify cities using satellite images in this daily puzzle game, where each guess zooms out for enhanced clues.

Unzoomed #624 3/6 🟡🔴🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️
unzoomed.com :)

03.10.2025 13:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

it's so funny how instantly i gave up buying new lego sets when i stopped being depressed

03.10.2025 11:33 — 👍 46    🔁 0    💬 7    📌 0

correct! so one instance, then she idk gets dressed and they go out for brunch, then the second instance

03.10.2025 11:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

clearly the act of "seeing someone" is a continuous event not broken by short moments of them breaking your eyeline. it would be mad were i to say "I've seen thom seventy times today" if we went for lunch together and I was just glancing around the room

03.10.2025 11:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

she only briefly got dressed once in the four day period, come on thom this is trivial stuff

03.10.2025 11:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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lotta animal fans online today huh.

also people who are at least twenty short of a good tiem

03.10.2025 11:14 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

you saw it

03.10.2025 09:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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All the most fun Gemini AI photo prompts behind the viral trends you can't avoid on TikTok My selfies have never looked so good

thetab.com/2025/10/01/a... doomed. at least gen alpha's parents are just going butlerian jihad

03.10.2025 09:26 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 3

discourse

03.10.2025 09:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My big question for this is the extent to which it’s demand vs supply driven. My hunch is that people’s preference for keeping up with their friends is undiminished, but we’ve seen a boom-bust cycle in people’s desire to see the more easily-monetised churn of influencer content and now pure slop

03.10.2025 07:37 — 👍 189    🔁 24    💬 13    📌 3

Annoying that Tay is so cautious about leaks that the vinyl doesn’t get shipped until release day so I’m not listening to it for the first time on a turntable like a true Swift Dad

03.10.2025 07:33 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Six years ago, almost to the day, Apple removing a similar app from the Hong Kong App Store was seen as such a breach that Tim Cook wrote an all staff email to defend it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

03.10.2025 05:52 — 👍 356    🔁 165    💬 9    📌 10

it's a bad bank for the arseholes of britain

02.10.2025 19:35 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Eyyyyyyyyyy

02.10.2025 17:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

unicode needs to support the "put the apostrophe above the s for ambiguity" punctuation mark

02.10.2025 11:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

SKSKC has found his lamp

02.10.2025 11:05 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

has anyone done any reporting on the policy change at sevenrooms that means you now get spam every time you eat somewhere. what's up

02.10.2025 10:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

what do i do if someone says i'm a biological female and should go to the other toilet?

02.10.2025 09:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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