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Oliver Burkeman (@oliverburkeman)

June 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM

LL Grün-Weißwein

@primihengst.eurosky.social

💯 % richtig. Er ist eine absolute Bank für Mannschaft UND Fans.
#werder
#Burke
#OliverBurke
#DerSchottemitdemBart

April 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM

mrd13.bsky.social

@mrd13.bsky.social

I watched the game a day late, but @unionberlin.bsky.social pulled out all the stops to win at home. It seems like #dieeiserne seem to save their best play for the best clubs. As an added bonus for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, #oliverburke got the first goal. #aufeiseene!

December 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM

Doug Belshaw

@dougbelshaw.com

I'm bored with Bluesky. No matter what I try it's just endless politics 😕

Politics, as Oliver Burkeman points out, is *not* the base layer of reality:

substack.com/@oliverburke...

There’s an idea I keep circling back to because I can’t figure out exactly how to express it, but iI think it’s really important, and it’s something like this: politics isn’t the base layer of reality...

February 5, 2026 at 9:16 PM

Buzz Andersen

@andersen.buzz

Reminds me of this discussion I saw on Substack recently. substack.com/@oliverburke...

I’ve seen a bunch of “anti-anti-AI” writing in recent days – that is, commentary by enthusiastically pro-AI people – that basically takes the form of asking “what can we do to get people past the psyc...

June 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM

Mike Hobbiss

@mikehobbiss.bsky.social

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I’m continually amazed at the delight and even pride with which I see people admitting they can outsource their apparent professional expertise

substack.com/@oliverburke...

June 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM

ȷď𝐛𝐛🌳

@jdbb.bsky.social

It’d be interesting to try to get a norm established for footnotes on newsletters explaining whether AI was used for research, drafting, fact-checking

Megan Mckenna and Oliver Burke enjoy lavish stay at £930 a night Claridges Hotel in London

May 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM

Distinct Post.

@distinctpost.bsky.social

Megan Mckenna and Oliver Burke enjoy lavish stay at £930 a night Claridges Hotel in London
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#meganmckenna #oliverburke #enjoy #lavish #night #claridgeshotel #london

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February 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM

halfordslane79.bsky.social

@halfordslane79.bsky.social

#WBA wasted some money on shit 💩 players over the years. #BrownIdeye 🇳🇬 #OliverBurke #VictorAnichebe 🇳🇬 😔 😟

August 16, 2026 at 2:49 PM

Ken Lewis

@lewis57.bsky.social

substack.com/@oliverburke...

Exactly what Henry Ford thought …

I’m no economist, but I feel like this post is partial vindication of my half-formed thought “Hold on, if AI takes all the jobs, who buys the goods and services that the jobs were previously spent cre...

July 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM

Ken Lewis

@lewis57.bsky.social

US politics is going to look like mainland Europe parliamentary systems soon – the far-right-weirdo Musk party, the MAGA populist party, the centre/centre-right Democrats, the Zohran Mamdani democrati...

July 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM

Daniel Grant

@djgrant.bsky.social

Oliver Burkeman (@oliverburkeman)

This is a good point. Personally, I think that viral AI hype essay was overwhelmingly bollocks. But even taking it on its own terms: if AI is going to get better and better, faster and faster, at elim...