Rob Burton, once and future non-existent entity.
@robertsburton.bsky.social
Occasional writer. Always a reader. Sometime musician and voice actor, more often sound engineer. Cement-punk overtones with a philosophical subtext, served amidst the aroma of the world's end.
He/Him/His.
He/Him/His.
THis is a lovely thread
I was invited to a con in Puerto Rico soon after the hurricane. They were rebuilding everywhere, parts of the island were still without power. Trump was of course screwing them over.
I didn't feel it was right to go, but I was told repeatedly to please come, they needed tourism back.
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I didn't feel it was right to go, but I was told repeatedly to please come, they needed tourism back.
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February 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
THis is a lovely thread
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Just Fancy That! Sam Altman on ads in ChatGPT.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
February 10, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Just Fancy That! Sam Altman on ads in ChatGPT.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Chappell Roan is leaving her talent agency led by Casey Wasserman after he appeared in the Epstein files.
February 10, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Chappell Roan is leaving her talent agency led by Casey Wasserman after he appeared in the Epstein files.
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Bangor University’s 2026/7 marketing campaign has been finalised. It might prove to be their best recruitment campaign ever.
February 10, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Bangor University’s 2026/7 marketing campaign has been finalised. It might prove to be their best recruitment campaign ever.
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I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.
February 10, 2026 at 6:10 AM
I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.
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Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
February 10, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
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This is pretty menacing.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
February 10, 2026 at 8:53 AM
This is pretty menacing.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
Well, so much for 'final arrow'. Starmer's going down like the multiverse's more boring Boromir.
Although Scottish friends assure me that Anas Sarwar failing to get a job done that he's fully committed to is about typical.
Although Scottish friends assure me that Anas Sarwar failing to get a job done that he's fully committed to is about typical.
So it's Anas Sarwar who will shoot the final arrow, then.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...
Scottish Labour leader expected to call for Starmer to step down as pressure mounts on PM
Anas Sarwar's intervention - expected in a news conference at 14:30 GMT - comes after Starmer's director of communications and chief of staff both quit.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Well, so much for 'final arrow'. Starmer's going down like the multiverse's more boring Boromir.
Although Scottish friends assure me that Anas Sarwar failing to get a job done that he's fully committed to is about typical.
Although Scottish friends assure me that Anas Sarwar failing to get a job done that he's fully committed to is about typical.
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EXC: Nigel Farage has been accused of having no solution to Britain's problems by his own candidate. Matt Goodwin repeatedly attacked the Farage in historic posts, as well as the Reform party as a whole
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Farage accused of having no answer to UK's problems by his own candidate
In posts from just last year, Matt Goodwin, the Reform UK candidate, claimed if Mr Farage became Prime Minister support for him would 'collapse quickly' due to him being 'fairly divisiv...
www.mirror.co.uk
February 9, 2026 at 5:23 PM
EXC: Nigel Farage has been accused of having no solution to Britain's problems by his own candidate. Matt Goodwin repeatedly attacked the Farage in historic posts, as well as the Reform party as a whole
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
So it's Anas Sarwar who will shoot the final arrow, then.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...
Scottish Labour leader expected to call for Starmer to step down as pressure mounts on PM
Anas Sarwar's intervention - expected in a news conference at 14:30 GMT - comes after Starmer's director of communications and chief of staff both quit.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 9, 2026 at 2:05 PM
So it's Anas Sarwar who will shoot the final arrow, then.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...
Oh FFS
I have today been informed that, despite personal assurances to the contrary, the Green party have once again used my image and misrepresented my words on a second leaflet circulated in Gorton and Denton ahead of the by-election. I have now lodged an official complaint with the returning officer.
February 9, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Oh FFS
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NARRATOR: "Tim did not, in fact, wish the PM and his team every success."
Tim Allan, Keir Starmer’s director of communications, has just quit his Downing Street role:
“I have decided to stand down to allow a new No 10 team to be built. I wish the PM and his team every success."
“I have decided to stand down to allow a new No 10 team to be built. I wish the PM and his team every success."
February 9, 2026 at 11:10 AM
NARRATOR: "Tim did not, in fact, wish the PM and his team every success."
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I wrote for the @theobserveruk.bsky.social on the economic problems that will flow from yet more immigration crackdowns.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Spooked by Reform, Labour may have cut net migration too far
With numbers already falling the government made it even harder to come to the UK – and it could cost us billions
observer.co.uk
February 9, 2026 at 11:12 AM
I wrote for the @theobserveruk.bsky.social on the economic problems that will flow from yet more immigration crackdowns.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Kid Rock is when they give you an uncooked Filet O'Fish and try to tell you it's lobster.
February 9, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Kid Rock is when they give you an uncooked Filet O'Fish and try to tell you it's lobster.
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BASH: Is this measles outbreak a consequence of the administration undermining support for vaccines?
DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines
BASH: Oh, come on
DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines
BASH: Oh, come on
February 8, 2026 at 2:29 PM
BASH: Is this measles outbreak a consequence of the administration undermining support for vaccines?
DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines
BASH: Oh, come on
DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines
BASH: Oh, come on
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Look, I ran out of Cyclops memes so I had to sift through my son's lego, okay?
Anyway, please buy our book this week. We all worked really hard on it and we think it's really good.
Anyway, please buy our book this week. We all worked really hard on it and we think it's really good.
February 9, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Look, I ran out of Cyclops memes so I had to sift through my son's lego, okay?
Anyway, please buy our book this week. We all worked really hard on it and we think it's really good.
Anyway, please buy our book this week. We all worked really hard on it and we think it's really good.
Whilst I think it's far too early to be speculating about the next GE, in the specific case of the Gorton and Denton by-election, given the current news cycle and the blocking of Burham, it's now most probably the case that anyone to the left of Benito Mussolini should vote Green.
Lower bills.
Defend the NHS.
Rebuild our public services.
Only the Green Party can stop Reform.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Defend the NHS.
Rebuild our public services.
Only the Green Party can stop Reform.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Polanski says Gorton and Denton by-election a choice between ‘hate and hope’
Leader Zack Polanski believes the Gorton and Denton by-election will be a race between the Greens and Reform
www.independent.co.uk
February 9, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Whilst I think it's far too early to be speculating about the next GE, in the specific case of the Gorton and Denton by-election, given the current news cycle and the blocking of Burham, it's now most probably the case that anyone to the left of Benito Mussolini should vote Green.
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Re-upping this for the Monday crowd... I think my favourite, most revealing detail is that the guy seems to not realise he's in trouble because London Centric's reporting didn't hit anything like his view counts, so therefore it can't really matter.
Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
February 9, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Re-upping this for the Monday crowd... I think my favourite, most revealing detail is that the guy seems to not realise he's in trouble because London Centric's reporting didn't hit anything like his view counts, so therefore it can't really matter.
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90% sure she's the woman whose ads I got on Instagram a year or so ago promising a hack to produce lots of books in a short time period and make lots of money.
To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
February 8, 2026 at 10:51 PM
90% sure she's the woman whose ads I got on Instagram a year or so ago promising a hack to produce lots of books in a short time period and make lots of money.
I feel this will prove to be a very insightful comparison.
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 8, 2026 at 10:51 PM
I feel this will prove to be a very insightful comparison.
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Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.
May 9, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.
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only because i keep seeing this on my tl from multiple sources: the image on the right looks like it's the exact same photo, but edited to remove the reform banners. the door looks very strange, and they also apparently forgot to remove what looks like a small reform sticker in the window
February 8, 2026 at 10:26 PM
only because i keep seeing this on my tl from multiple sources: the image on the right looks like it's the exact same photo, but edited to remove the reform banners. the door looks very strange, and they also apparently forgot to remove what looks like a small reform sticker in the window
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AI is democratizing the art process in the same way bolt cutters democratize bicycle ownership.
February 8, 2026 at 9:34 PM
AI is democratizing the art process in the same way bolt cutters democratize bicycle ownership.