Ed Martin
@edmartin.bsky.social
Proudly using the same phone since 2018. It's Huawei too, you can't even get them any more.
"device hoarding" also known as: When someone hasn't replaced the one phone that they have in a few years because they had no reason to. Words used to mean things.
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Proudly using the same phone since 2018. It's Huawei too, you can't even get them any more.
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The modern world is just pro wrestling and a gambling addiction standing on top of a mechanical Turk.
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The modern world is just pro wrestling and a gambling addiction standing on top of a mechanical Turk.
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
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But the wet bandits are also gods. They take fatal injury after fatal injury and they just dust themselves off and continue their relentless pursuit of Kevin. It should be horrifying, but
Kevin’s innocence obscures this.
Kevin’s innocence obscures this.
November 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
But the wet bandits are also gods. They take fatal injury after fatal injury and they just dust themselves off and continue their relentless pursuit of Kevin. It should be horrifying, but
Kevin’s innocence obscures this.
Kevin’s innocence obscures this.
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It makes a loot of sense.
The right wing grifter "voice" is easy to replicate and requires no credentials or skills beyond time, shamelessness, and cruelty.
Twitter payouts for a modestly successful account aren't enough to live off in California, but will feed a family of four in Rajasthan.
The right wing grifter "voice" is easy to replicate and requires no credentials or skills beyond time, shamelessness, and cruelty.
Twitter payouts for a modestly successful account aren't enough to live off in California, but will feed a family of four in Rajasthan.
I see a lot of Paidchecks on X didn’t realize that a whole lot of people on social media lie about their location to grift off the naïveté of the rage-addled American right.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
It makes a loot of sense.
The right wing grifter "voice" is easy to replicate and requires no credentials or skills beyond time, shamelessness, and cruelty.
Twitter payouts for a modestly successful account aren't enough to live off in California, but will feed a family of four in Rajasthan.
The right wing grifter "voice" is easy to replicate and requires no credentials or skills beyond time, shamelessness, and cruelty.
Twitter payouts for a modestly successful account aren't enough to live off in California, but will feed a family of four in Rajasthan.
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Sorry to keep banging on about it but it's literally *they are on Twitter and think it's the majority view*
This is pretty striking and makes me wonder exactly what Labour have been up to in making policy seemingly in response to / fear of the former rather than the middle group.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Sorry to keep banging on about it but it's literally *they are on Twitter and think it's the majority view*
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The Cozy Coupe by Little Tikes has a claim to being the world's bestselling make and model of car.
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The Cozy Coupe by Little Tikes has a claim to being the world's bestselling make and model of car.
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saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away
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It’s not just that people don’t know there are simpler ways to do things. It’s that they’re being TOLD to integrate Ai into everything. I’m reminded, again, of the radium craze. Radium is not magic and nor is Ai. Both are, unfortunately, harmful.
Original from @mariyadelano.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Original from @mariyadelano.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
It’s not just that people don’t know there are simpler ways to do things. It’s that they’re being TOLD to integrate Ai into everything. I’m reminded, again, of the radium craze. Radium is not magic and nor is Ai. Both are, unfortunately, harmful.
Original from @mariyadelano.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Original from @mariyadelano.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
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(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
I don't know how to explain to Shabana Mahmood that the people she's empowering do not observe this distinction. She's oiling up the slippery slope not realising that at the bottom of it is a secret police squad waiting for her.
November 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I don't know how to explain to Shabana Mahmood that the people she's empowering do not observe this distinction. She's oiling up the slippery slope not realising that at the bottom of it is a secret police squad waiting for her.
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Note, the far right guys aren’t going ‘we can vote Labour now they’re speaking our language’, they’re going ‘look, these idiots are smoothing the way for the extremist parties we have very openly said we’ve going to vote for for several years now.’
November 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Note, the far right guys aren’t going ‘we can vote Labour now they’re speaking our language’, they’re going ‘look, these idiots are smoothing the way for the extremist parties we have very openly said we’ve going to vote for for several years now.’
It's a good job my tax refund came in just in time for my washing machine to break down.
November 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
It's a good job my tax refund came in just in time for my washing machine to break down.
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
@folkloresociety.bsky.social @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social @thefolkarchive.bsky.social
My Dad knows nothing about folk horror but he knows how to take atmospheric photos.
My Dad knows nothing about folk horror but he knows how to take atmospheric photos.
November 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
@folkloresociety.bsky.social @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social @thefolkarchive.bsky.social
My Dad knows nothing about folk horror but he knows how to take atmospheric photos.
My Dad knows nothing about folk horror but he knows how to take atmospheric photos.
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Seen a few of the epstein emails now, all with different people and it's not the main issue here but is everyone illiterate
November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Seen a few of the epstein emails now, all with different people and it's not the main issue here but is everyone illiterate
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This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
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the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.
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Be VERY clear, this WILL happen in the UK if Reform get anywhere near power after the next election.
This is a Gestapo & concentration camp system & there is NOTHING to stop Farage doing this here.
If you think it “couldn’t happen here” you are dangerously deluded. It can always happen anywhere.
This is a Gestapo & concentration camp system & there is NOTHING to stop Farage doing this here.
If you think it “couldn’t happen here” you are dangerously deluded. It can always happen anywhere.
A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanished. He tracked her phone there when the signal died. Police told him to “look up her name online.” He sat in the parking lot, weeping, with no answers.
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Be VERY clear, this WILL happen in the UK if Reform get anywhere near power after the next election.
This is a Gestapo & concentration camp system & there is NOTHING to stop Farage doing this here.
If you think it “couldn’t happen here” you are dangerously deluded. It can always happen anywhere.
This is a Gestapo & concentration camp system & there is NOTHING to stop Farage doing this here.
If you think it “couldn’t happen here” you are dangerously deluded. It can always happen anywhere.
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I was trying to do some research in prep for Nolan's Odyssey next year, but this profile of Ulysses was just 700 pages about the sublime agony of being, the inherent fallibility of perception, and the tyranny of the British.
Also my epub seems to be corrupted, a lot of punctuation is missing.
Also my epub seems to be corrupted, a lot of punctuation is missing.
August 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I was trying to do some research in prep for Nolan's Odyssey next year, but this profile of Ulysses was just 700 pages about the sublime agony of being, the inherent fallibility of perception, and the tyranny of the British.
Also my epub seems to be corrupted, a lot of punctuation is missing.
Also my epub seems to be corrupted, a lot of punctuation is missing.
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me: Ralph
Ralph Fiennes: no, Ralph
me: what did I say?
Ralph Fiennes: you said Ralph
me: and it's...?
Ralph Fiennes: Ralph
me: Ralph
Ralph Fiennes: no
Ralph Fiennes: no, Ralph
me: what did I say?
Ralph Fiennes: you said Ralph
me: and it's...?
Ralph Fiennes: Ralph
me: Ralph
Ralph Fiennes: no
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
me: Ralph
Ralph Fiennes: no, Ralph
me: what did I say?
Ralph Fiennes: you said Ralph
me: and it's...?
Ralph Fiennes: Ralph
me: Ralph
Ralph Fiennes: no
Ralph Fiennes: no, Ralph
me: what did I say?
Ralph Fiennes: you said Ralph
me: and it's...?
Ralph Fiennes: Ralph
me: Ralph
Ralph Fiennes: no
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Alan Moore knows the score
November 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Alan Moore knows the score
If you want to look like a zombie on Halloween you can dress up, or you can take a 7hr 40m coach journey to London from Newcastle. The effect is much the same, with the addition of a more authentic zombie walk afterwards.
November 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
If you want to look like a zombie on Halloween you can dress up, or you can take a 7hr 40m coach journey to London from Newcastle. The effect is much the same, with the addition of a more authentic zombie walk afterwards.
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
2
[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
3
NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
4
MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
5
NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
6
NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
7
NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
8
KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
9
[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
10
MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
11
[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
12
[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...