Adam
@adamcobb.bsky.social
Digital marketing type, European politics bore, language enthusiast, one of those gays you hear about, Eurovision nerd, that guy in the window seat. Next trip: 🇪🇸
(and I'd hope but don't expect that we don't screw it up as much this time).
February 12, 2026 at 7:05 PM
(and I'd hope but don't expect that we don't screw it up as much this time).
I'm kinda here. My assumption is that we'll come up with something for people will do but as with the 80s (both in terms of the end of a lot of secretarial work and mass-employment manufacturing) there will be groups of people and places that are hit very hard.
February 12, 2026 at 7:05 PM
I'm kinda here. My assumption is that we'll come up with something for people will do but as with the 80s (both in terms of the end of a lot of secretarial work and mass-employment manufacturing) there will be groups of people and places that are hit very hard.
I love that you get a 1/10,000th of a cent discount after 600kwh.
February 12, 2026 at 4:09 PM
I love that you get a 1/10,000th of a cent discount after 600kwh.
I’m not for a moment claiming the Scottish referendum was perfect in terms of engagement and that there weren’t some arseholes around but there was a lot more genuine engagement from voters than I saw during Brexit and I think the way the two are now just lumped together isn’t really accurate.
February 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
I’m not for a moment claiming the Scottish referendum was perfect in terms of engagement and that there weren’t some arseholes around but there was a lot more genuine engagement from voters than I saw during Brexit and I think the way the two are now just lumped together isn’t really accurate.
I think it was also just natural that more thinking had been done about a proposition the government putting it actually backed. The bizarre thing about Brexit was that the government didn’t want it and refused to do any work on the consequences for exactly that reason.
February 12, 2026 at 4:01 PM
I think it was also just natural that more thinking had been done about a proposition the government putting it actually backed. The bizarre thing about Brexit was that the government didn’t want it and refused to do any work on the consequences for exactly that reason.
Also I never knew anyone that could reliably get a VCR to record on a timer. In theory there was a solution but it just didn’t work!
February 12, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Also I never knew anyone that could reliably get a VCR to record on a timer. In theory there was a solution but it just didn’t work!
Probably not because that it very human content. My concern isn’t that everything written by people ever disappears, my concern is the ladder in a lot of professional sectors (accounting, legal, software, marketing and yes, journalism) disappearing.
February 12, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Probably not because that it very human content. My concern isn’t that everything written by people ever disappears, my concern is the ladder in a lot of professional sectors (accounting, legal, software, marketing and yes, journalism) disappearing.
Sorry, by people I meant companies, rather than readers.
February 12, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Sorry, by people I meant companies, rather than readers.
Basically, you miss being a child and don’t like having to think about water bills and loft insulation. That’s fine, but it’s also life! Stop pretending it’s some great societal scam!
February 12, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Basically, you miss being a child and don’t like having to think about water bills and loft insulation. That’s fine, but it’s also life! Stop pretending it’s some great societal scam!
Will people pay for it though? I’m not suggesting the standard results story is the most thrilling experience but it’s some content the newspaper needed to exist so someone had to write it. If the bot can do it, do they just not hire that role?
February 12, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Will people pay for it though? I’m not suggesting the standard results story is the most thrilling experience but it’s some content the newspaper needed to exist so someone had to write it. If the bot can do it, do they just not hire that role?
My favourite bit about this is, apart from the possibility of your grandparents no longer being around, you could do all of these things now! We’re not struggling for chip shops and all those shows are on Disney+
February 12, 2026 at 3:37 PM
My favourite bit about this is, apart from the possibility of your grandparents no longer being around, you could do all of these things now! We’re not struggling for chip shops and all those shows are on Disney+
And I guess the worry there is, how does a 21 year old graduate get good enough to write a Wirecard story without cutting their teeth on the basic mechanics by doing the Tesco quarterly numbers story?
February 12, 2026 at 3:30 PM
And I guess the worry there is, how does a 21 year old graduate get good enough to write a Wirecard story without cutting their teeth on the basic mechanics by doing the Tesco quarterly numbers story?
I tend to agree (also I’m in the tech scale up world and probably over index on it).
February 12, 2026 at 2:15 PM
I tend to agree (also I’m in the tech scale up world and probably over index on it).
It’s also just a very difficult issue to solve given the way everyone is incentivised. Nobody in a business leadership position now has any reason to care about how they’re going to resource things in 20 years but it really needs to be considered.
February 12, 2026 at 2:06 PM
It’s also just a very difficult issue to solve given the way everyone is incentivised. Nobody in a business leadership position now has any reason to care about how they’re going to resource things in 20 years but it really needs to be considered.
I think because the damage is starting among people in their early 20s, it’s pretty much a perfect crisis for governments and media elites to ignore. I’m in my mid-thirties and probably just about old/senior enough to get away with this but I have no idea where the me of 10 years from now comes from
February 12, 2026 at 2:04 PM
I think because the damage is starting among people in their early 20s, it’s pretty much a perfect crisis for governments and media elites to ignore. I’m in my mid-thirties and probably just about old/senior enough to get away with this but I have no idea where the me of 10 years from now comes from
To be fair, it probably has a better married a billionaire per pupil count than some Swiss finishing schools.
February 12, 2026 at 10:34 AM
To be fair, it probably has a better married a billionaire per pupil count than some Swiss finishing schools.
Absolutely no way I could order fish and chips and sit and watch Dinosaurs tonight, bloody woke.
February 12, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Absolutely no way I could order fish and chips and sit and watch Dinosaurs tonight, bloody woke.
Was Dinosaurs that big in the UK? I’m a huge fan but have barely met anyone who even remembers it.
February 12, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Was Dinosaurs that big in the UK? I’m a huge fan but have barely met anyone who even remembers it.
The year is 2049. Bloomberg is reporting that Apple has hit some unexpected snags and Siri still can’t reliably give you the weather. Google added direct to brain search results (with ads!) to Android in 2042.
APPLE HAS HIT DEVELOPMENT SNAGS WITH ITS NEXT-GENERATION SIRI, POTENTIALLY DELAYING THE RELEASE TO LATER IN 2026 AS NEW FEATURES ARE PUSHED TO FUTURE IOS VERSIONS.
February 11, 2026 at 7:54 PM
The year is 2049. Bloomberg is reporting that Apple has hit some unexpected snags and Siri still can’t reliably give you the weather. Google added direct to brain search results (with ads!) to Android in 2042.
Also I wonder if the whiny noise they make is off putting
February 11, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Also I wonder if the whiny noise they make is off putting
Yes. They’re terrifying. I’d never quite internalised quite how fast downhill skiing is.
February 11, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Yes. They’re terrifying. I’d never quite internalised quite how fast downhill skiing is.
Sadly preventing alien abductions isn’t a statutory duty and the budgets have been slashed since 2010.
February 11, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Sadly preventing alien abductions isn’t a statutory duty and the budgets have been slashed since 2010.
Have they subcontracted this to the ONS?
February 11, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Have they subcontracted this to the ONS?
Reposted by Adam
This sounds like the Italian version of Lieut-Commander Thomas Woodrooffe * www.dw.com/en/italy-rai...
*Look him up kids, all the most contemporary references are here on the Blue Sky website.
*Look him up kids, all the most contemporary references are here on the Blue Sky website.
Italy: Rai sports staff to strike over Olympic opening farce
RaiSport's director gave himself the announcer's job for the Winter Olympics opening ceremony, and then proceeded to botch it. Staff have announced a strike in protest, to begin once the Games are fin...
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February 10, 2026 at 7:43 PM
This sounds like the Italian version of Lieut-Commander Thomas Woodrooffe * www.dw.com/en/italy-rai...
*Look him up kids, all the most contemporary references are here on the Blue Sky website.
*Look him up kids, all the most contemporary references are here on the Blue Sky website.