Roland Bates
rolandbates.bsky.social
Roland Bates
@rolandbates.bsky.social
DJ of all that is the case. Not the only one!
Pinned
Look who I bumped into. Happy New Year!
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The internet never forgets.
January 3, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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Do you like beef? Do you like cocaine? You're going to love Barry's lozenges!
Advert, Cyclists’ Touring Club Gazette, May 1882: “Cyclists ride 100 miles ... without fatigue by the use of
BARRY'S BEEF & COCA LOZENGES,
Which are composed of the Finest Extract of English Beef, combined with the Concentrated Preparation of [cocaine].”
January 3, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Possibly just one for other Iris Murdoch obsessives - I've started reading through her again and doing some Thinking librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/b... #booksky 📚💙
January 3, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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“We need to stop being mean about death ray machines” says Death Ray 3000™️ CEO.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says people should move beyond calling AI 'slop'

"We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication and develop a new equilibrium ... that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools as we relate to each other"
January 3, 2026 at 7:49 PM
January 3, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Confining your interest in cinema to the time you’ve been alive and in the language that you speak is spiritual deprivation
January 3, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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December 24, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Niche
Marc Johnson’s Bass DeBLIRERs
January 2, 2026 at 11:47 PM
How to bugger up a friend's thread. Fortunately he usually turns a BLIRER eye to such misdemeanours
GREAT NEWS. THEY'RE EXPECTING TWINS.
January 2, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Weak. Shades of Kevin Eldon. Lol
TONY BLIRER
January 2, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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Paul BLIRER
Carla BLIRER
Sly and the Family Stone...
Wanna Take You BLIRER
If you know lager. You’re a BLIRER.
January 2, 2026 at 11:40 PM
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I’m a secret BLIRER drinker.
January 2, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)

#1: Reuters
January 2, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Here we go now: Palk's arrived
FOLLOW THE BLIRER
January 2, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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Take two BLIRERS into the shower?
January 2, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Captain fucking BLIRER
@wildobliquities.bsky.social Wake up and smell the BLIRER
Will it be mushrooms? Fried onion rings? You’ll have to wait and see…
We ‘ope it’s BLIRER! It’s BLIRER!
January 2, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Sly and the Family Stone...
Wanna Take You BLIRER
If you know lager. You’re a BLIRER.
January 2, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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FOLLOW THE BLIRER
January 2, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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Will it be mushrooms? Fried onion rings? You’ll have to wait and see…
We ‘ope it’s BLIRER! It’s BLIRER!
January 2, 2026 at 11:27 PM
@wildobliquities.bsky.social Wake up and smell the BLIRER
Will it be mushrooms? Fried onion rings? You’ll have to wait and see…
We ‘ope it’s BLIRER! It’s BLIRER!
January 2, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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If you know lager. You’re a BLIRER.
January 2, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Not now, BLIRERNARD.
Narrated by Richard BLIRERS
Music by Sacha and BLIRERS
January 2, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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Seek out the BLIRER of Lamot
January 2, 2026 at 11:22 PM
BILLY BLIRER
I’m only ere for the BLIRER
January 2, 2026 at 11:22 PM