The Wrong Detail (@thewrongdetail.bsky.social)

@valerietyi.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 2:55 PMReposted by @thewrongdetail.bsky.social

@boothbygraffoe.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 9:49 AMReposted by @thewrongdetail.bsky.social

Interesting story on the front page of CityAM claiming polls show almost half of electorate back a “thid runway” at Heathrow. Who knew there were enough thids flying into warrant one? And since when did British voters start caring so much about thids that they felt the need to express an opinion?

@thewrongdetail.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 7:47 PM

Wonderful people the Rosenbergs.

@thewrongdetail.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 7:43 PM

Wow! The photo-journalism awards this is going to win!

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PS No2 is actually traffic moving away from the motorway.

#prestwich #badphotojournalism

@thewrongdetail.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 7:37 PM

Just one of the most wonderful accounts on bluesky. Always accompanied by marvellous alt-text.

@thewrongdetail.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 7:34 PM

Marmaduke realised that tonight wasn't the night to ask for Felicity's hand in marriage when her Ma and Pa turned to him and admonished his impertinance by telling him in unison "They are the right notes, just in the wrong order".

@thewrongdetail.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 12:45 PM

Yep

@glennyrodge.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 8:10 PMReposted by @thewrongdetail.bsky.social

Just read that thieves have stolen three crates of red bull from our local corner shop. I don’t how those people sleep at night.

@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:59 AMReposted by @thewrongdetail.bsky.social

@bsky.app Oct 9, 2026, 3:53 PMReposted by @thewrongdetail.bsky.social

a masterclass in alt text

Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 11:09 PM

Pen and watercolor

Cowboys again. This time one of our boys has lost his boots. Standing in a field of long grass the cowboy points towards the ground and shouts back to his colleague, “Lil bone people got muh boots.” This makes no sense to the other cowboy who sits atop his horse away from the action. He responds, “Lil wut?” Sure enough in the foreground we see a squad of little bone people scampering through the grass with the stolen cowboy boots. They’re thrilled. How the bone people got the boots off the cowboy is unclear.

Artist’s note: I tend to draw drawings from the same perspective (straight on) most of the time. This idea came about when I was goofin around trying to draw a character from a lower angle. I like that the story unfolds with the foreground, mid-ground, and background all working together. There’s a draft of this one included in the Spooky Pants book. Coming out next week!

@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 8:15 PMReposted by @thewrongdetail.bsky.social

wikipedia has been ANNIHILATED with AI bot traffic for a while now (because LLMs can't get enough of it) which puts a huge burden on its tech and server costs. and now it looks like bots are making unauthorized edits to pages and trying to hack community tools diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/o...

Wiki editing: We’ve identified edits to Wikimedia wikis that we believe are from AI agents operated by OpenAI. These edits were not published to pages with visibility to general readers; almost all of them were testing edits in “sandbox” areas of the wiki. It also included a few edits to the configuration for a citation tool, which we believe were potentially malicious edits that were intended to misuse this tool as a proxy for fetching data from remote services. While Wikipedia policies allow bots to edit when they are disclosed and approved by the community, none of those approvals were sought in these incidents.
Etherpad probing and use: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made some unsuccessful attempts to compromise our public Etherpad, a note-taking tool we host as a community service. Agents unsuccessfully tried to use it to fetch data from other websites as a proxy. Other agents also likely operated by OpenAI took notes about their tasks, though this did not appear to turn into coordination.
Excessive data downloading: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made millions of automated requests to our public APIs to access the knowledge on Wikimedia projects, crawled millions of pages (mainly from our projects Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons), and made hundreds of thousands of data queries to the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). This traffic may have contributed to a partial outage on WDQS in May.

Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. Rising bot traffic and agentic activity is showing a real impact on the Wikimedia projects and the infrastructure that makes it available for millions of users globally. In 2025, the Foundation reported that its bandwidth usage had increased by 50% due to the surge of bot activity on its websites since 2024. At the same time, 65% of the most resource-consuming traffic on its projects was coming from bots.

@thewrongdetail.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 8:29 PM

Now with added #my9albums hashtag!

@markreckons.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 1:52 PMReposted by @thewrongdetail.bsky.social

He literally set off a bomb in a UK street. If this had been the IRA Pierce would calling for them to be hung, drawn and quartered. This is domestic terrorism pure and simple. A bomb set off to terrorise with the aim of getting a government to change its policy. Literally a textbook definition.

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A retired engineer who destroyed @SadiqKhan ULEZ camera jailed for 15 years. A ridiculous sentence. No wonder our orisons are overcrowded

Readers added context they thought people might want to know

Kevin Rees was sentenced to 15 years for causing an explosion likely to endanger life after using a homemade bomb to destroy a ULEZ camera in a Sidcup residential street, damaging cars and property up to 100m away with shrapnel near a child's bedroom.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/...

news.met.police.uk/news/man-jaile...

cps.gov.uk/national-news/...

@sturdyalex.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 1:23 PMReposted by @thewrongdetail.bsky.social

Badenoch, last month: Why is PM obsessed with Thatcher? SO WEIRD! I was not even born. He wants to take us back to the 70s. Badenoch, this week: I'm like Thatcher, a new Thatcher, possibly possessed by Thatcher, LOVE Thatcher, Thatcher was right, and I'll take us back to the 80s. Tory Conference: