Kiven

Kiven

@boldslugger.com

I own a bookstore in Bristol, UK. Mostly here for the sports, though.

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I love Belgium, and Brussels stinks.

Barry Petchesky@barryp.bsky.social

Tourist attractions that disappointed in person: St. Louis Arch Plymouth Rock (awful) Mona Lisa Prague Castle Liberty Bell Brussels, all of it

This is pure hating. You try tattooing your own back and see if it looks any better smh

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I interviewed for a growth position at Revolut a couple of years ago. They asked if I had questions for them, I said yes. The HR person sighed deeply and said “so you’ve heard about us,” and that was a big enough 🚩 for me to decline the next interview.

Tony Tassell@tonytassell.bsky.social

the Revolut hack story is quite something www.ft.com/content/97f3...

Bought a bookstore

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social

What are you doing with your midlife existential crisis? No wrong answers. Just trying to see something, as the kids say.

lol 30s before the second, this one might end 4-0 and Morocco is really good smh

Kiven@boldslugger.com

Trying to defend France with the bus in any state other than Firmly Parked is terrifying

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OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

If you guys think this Geese story is scandalous (I don’t), wait until you find out how much AI UGC populates the algorithms. Yes that’s a dystopian concept, and yes it’s a big reason I’m leaving tech marketing.

@netw3rk.bsky.social re: the pod Everest story: I saw at least 5 guys have meltdowns because a porter in flip flops asked them to step aside so they could go past. They were furious that a poor kid in sandals could hike faster than them while carrying gear.

He’s basically calling himself the dumbest man alive, which tracks

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Markwayne Mullin: I'm not gonna be the smartest guy in any room I walk into

“Thousands of people telling me I suck made me $1,500” isn’t a brag (and probably explains social media brain)

The Woke Ginger@thewokeginger.bsky.social

With the IL-09 primary in its final hours, I’ve chose not to feed false narratives these past few days and instead enjoyed the engagement from Kat’s fans on my platform. Engagement is where my income comes from—so those comments coincidentally generated about $1,500.

“We’re not the kind of stupid that you say, we’re a different, bigger kind of stupid. Checkmate!”

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The Planeteers have aged TERRIBLY

Jesse O'Lantern, LGPC@jesseberney.com

National Guard units are still wandering around DC, and as far as I can tell they do... nothing. But this morning I saw a group of four CamoKids walking down the street, and when they got to the corner they did a little formation, and I just thought it was the funniest thing.

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I care about ballet and opera a lot more than I care about Timothee Chalamet, but I will always maintain a baseline level of respect for a man who convinced the world for like three straight years that the height of glamor is to look like a pixie that's six months late on its Mustang payments

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When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

Hunter Walker@hunterw.bsky.social

I was just watching some of the Bill and Hillary deposition footage and its really striking/disturbing how much the Clintons clearly come off younger and in better shape than either of our two recent presidents.

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From the French equivalent of The Onion Seeking revenge, Dubai parachutes 3000 influencers on Tehran.

Le Gorafi@legorafi.bsky.social

En guise de représailles, Dubaï parachute 3000 influenceurs sur Téhéran https://www.legorafi.fr/2026/03/03/en-guise-de-represailles-dubai-parachute-3000-influenceurs-sur-teheran/

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Since the troll column seems to have worked: The very very very very very very very obvious question is not "why hasn't the left embraced AI" but "why has the right so eagerly embraced a tech product built on theft, sold by fraud, and optimized for abuse and misinformation"

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Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

It wasn’t good, but after the first 2.5 quarters the weather gods decided we needed something different and I don’t fault them for trying

Mina Kimes@minakimes.bsky.social

Yeah anyone who says this weather makes for enjoyable football is lying. Ooooh you like watching dudes slip and throws fall short? BE FOR REAL

Quote with a gif that shows where you’re from (not a lot of options for this)

Greg@gwiss.bsky.social

quite with a gif that shows where you’re from

A fun game to play on the timeline right now is “wait, did Terry Pegula or Donald Trump say that bullshit?”

Don’t laugh, Ted Cruzs only only do this when they’re cowardly and pathetic

Shea Jordan Smith@sheajordansmith.bsky.social

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was spotted earlier today, January 20, 2026, on a plane heading to Laguna Beach as the state of Texas braces for a rare ice threat and arctic cold front.

Keir Starmer isn’t polling well because he’s governing like Sunak and BoJo. It’s not hard, Matt!

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

Keir Starmer was the model for centrists and popularists who insisted that moving right on issues, especially immigration, is how you win at politics. Wonder if there will ever be any self-reflection here! Ah well nevertheless

Not totally the point, but Matt saying “I advocate for modern dems doing what they’re already doing because they’re doing it” is some circular, sycophantic nonsense.

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com

matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong. at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...

I read a while back that no country had gone from majority white to plurality white without heavy state violence, and I think about that a lot.

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Putting together an outreach list for a client and the saddest shit imaginable is the SF tech bro on X with a Studio Ghibli avi, 2k posts about AI, and 60 followers. Even the bots don't like you, my guy.