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BoxOfRain

@aboxofrain.bsky.social
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Cyclist, meadow walker, music enthusiast. Deadhead.
Interested in the environments we make for ourselves.
Drinker of coffee & sometimes beer. Often tired these days. 
 Work involves identity, assurance & distributed scientific computing.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Building a distributed, privacy-preserving way of doing this - stewarded by an internal team, not defaulting to single massive suppliers - would be hard but not impossible and super interesting. It would be amazing if Burnham could invest a bit of bravery in this.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I suspect the problem here is a strategic one not a technology one, and that (bear with me) Burnham doesn't want to *replace* Palantir but find a different way to solve the same problems giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Andy Burnham searches for UK alternative to Palantir
Prime minister’s ‘Buy British’ push triggers hunt to find replacement for controversial US tech group awarded health service and defence contracts
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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Careful is the word for it! It wasn’t easy in any way, but we’re pleased to show the proof that it is possible.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 22h
Adorable 🥰 Gorilla 🦍 Family
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's been 7 months since I gave evidence at the UKGov select committee hearing, on the policy changes at UKRI which have had a catastrophic impact on funding for UK astronomy and particle physics. When asked if we thought we were the "canary in the coal mine", we said yes..... we weren't wrong. 🧪🔭⚛️
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BoxOfRain @aboxofrain.bsky.social · 23h
#ToTheEndsOfTheEarthForCheese
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 02/10/2026
#OtD 2 Oct 1766 the Nottingham Great Cheese Riot began. Angry at the excessive price of cheese, a mob formed who seized it and began wheeling or carrying the cheeses away, bowling over the mayor with a cheese. The army put down rioting 2 days later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9225...
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 23h
Back in 2005, a group of restorers established a hidden workshop in Paris’s Panthéon and snuck into the building for a whole year to repair an antique clock. “The group managed to connect the hideaway to the electricity grid and install a computer…” Wild! [theguardian.com]
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Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock
'Cultural guerrillas' cleared of lawbreaking over secret workshop in Pantheon
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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 01/10/2026
ElevationLab has released a product for killing the speaker in an AirTag. They should recall and discontinue it immediately. The intent is to improve theft tracking, but their precision tool also allows stalkers to more easily track people silently.
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Silencing AirTags enables stalkers and domestic violence
ElevationLab has released an AirTag product I find appalling, and I strongly urge they immediately withdraw it from sale and recall all inventory. The AirTag Silencer is a simple device: remove the…
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IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 02/10/2026
People are expressing their desire for #privacy with adversarial clothing designed to fool computer vision systems. It might not work against all surveillance methods, but wearing the clothing sends a direct message. buff.ly/ZwGqdaj
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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This does indeed smell desperate, but that's not why I'm sharing it. No, the bit that leapt out to me was the @financialtimes.com use of the phrase "Seattle-based cloud giant" to describe Amazon, which sounds beautifully fairytale and captures the nature of this whole industry: magic beans.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I still remember Esther Rantzen on That’s Life holding up a small ad from a Local Authority in the early 70s advertising for an Equal Pay Officer but offering a lower wage for women. I’m part of generation of teenagers mildly radicalised by amusing trivia.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
MEN: if none of the women around you have told you anything about their experiences of harassment or assault, it's not because they didn't happen. It's because they don't trust you. Think on.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Will never not click on this video.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The man who boasts that his editor son (who works for him) watched LAWRENCE OF ARABIA on a phone, and who designs his company product to be background noise, doesn’t understand what people like about movies.
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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chris Dixon posted this on LI and I had to share it here. It’s just too good, the @jonronson.bsky.social twist is superb…
The image shows a film poster “The men who stare at Boats” featuring, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Danny Tommo, Ruper Lowe and Angry Balaclava man.
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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I got given the job of blowing bubbles for preschoolers at music club this morning & folks, 5 stars, would recommend. If you are feeling a bit blue, you gotta blow some bubbles for toddlers. Most appreciative audience ever
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Still putting ‘bomb plot’ in headlines in the glaring absence of any bombs. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford bomb plot
The US secretary of state offered no evidence for his claims, and also said many people were ‘disturbed’ that the five suspects had been released on bail
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don’t believe anyone should force other people to engage in the practice of their religion, but it’s not as weird as forcing other people to engage in the practice of someone else’s religion, especially when it makes truth claims completely incompatible with your own.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I continue to find this bizarre as well as deeply dubious given that Suella Braverman is not a Christian. (That’s not a No True Scotsman, she’s a Buddhist).
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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah because nothing says “I’m not a creepy voyeur weirdo, honest” like a middle aged man loitering around young women with a cuddly toy round his neck
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BoxOfRain @aboxofrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Capri looking atmospheric from Naples this morning
Blue sky fading to haze and slightly misty silhouette of a cute looking island. Blue sea in the foreground.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every stitch tells a story of love, community, and remembrance. Volunteers across MN created the "Stolen Neighbors Quilt" with 11,000 squares to honor Minnesotans detained by ICE. Each fabric square represents a neighbor, a family member, and a life impacted by deportation. We stand for Justice!
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David Gans @dgans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPzn...
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David Gans 9/26/26 live from Oakland
YouTube video by David Gans
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Live Tapes @livetapes.heads.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Newport Folk Festival, Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI, 8-2-2008 - The Cowboy Junkies albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/…
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Newport Folk Festival, Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI, 8-2-2008 - The Cowboy Junkies
Here's another album from the 2008 Newport Folk Festival. This time, it's a set by the Cowboy Junkies. As I said in my previous write-up, I'm going to try to keep these write-ups short for the festival. But since I haven't posted anything from this band before, here's their Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_Junkies I have to say I'd thought this band was a one-trick pony, playing all their songs in a slow, sleepy style. But I was pleasantly surprised that there was a good amount of musical variety here, and even some rocking at times. This album is 53 minutes long. 01 Miles from Our Home (Cowboy Junkies) 02 I Don't Get It (Cowboy Junkies) 03 talk (Cowboy Junkies) 04 Follower 2 (Cowboy Junkies) 05 My Little Basquait (Cowboy Junkies) 06 Those Final Feet (Cowboy Junkies) 07 Just Want to See (Cowboy Junkies) 08 Working on a Building (Cowboy Junkies) 09 Good Friday (Cowboy Junkies) 10 talk (Cowboy Junkies) 11 Murder Tonight in the Trailer Park (Cowboy Junkies) https://pixeldrain.com/u/ZhpULCm2 alternate: https://bestfile.io/en/ex58qcldyrBjXdA/file The cover photo of the band's lead singer Margo Timmins is from this exact concert.
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Sodslawyer @sodslawyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you get the chance to see Juliet and Romeo, grab it. The star-crossed lovers are in their 40s, tired and out of love. They re-stage the events of Shakespeare’s play (distorted they say) to find out where it all went wrong. Starts off funny, ends up heartbreaking.
Flyer for Juliet and Romeo, a play/dance by Lost Dog theatre company
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"iconic meaty morsels" you may be interested in this @secondmentions.com
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why not both? Absolutely he should be arrested & he will get leverage from it. We need to be honest that arresting him/ jailing him won't solve the problem. Also, I still want to know where Burnham is. Hampshire police have arrested someone, done their job. Burnham's job is to deal wth fascism
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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New phrase I learned this week: Slop Grenade. A big ol' piece of AI generated shite that someone drops into a project that takes more time to interpret/fix than would have been needed to just do the thing the old-fashioned way.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In this sense, Al-Qaeda, operating as a provocateur without sanction of any nation-state save, perhaps, for their permitted haven in Afghanistan, fails your ridiculous analogy by an extraordinary level of bloodshed. Perhaps a better analogy is that Bin Laden achieved an attack comparable to...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Did not think I would -- or my children would -- ever hear an American leader go to the United Nations and muse aloud on whether or not to annihiliate another country. But then, I didn't think I would hear and see so many things over the last decade. We will never remove the stain.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Science fiction writers often call humanity a “carbon-based life form” & we are… but it’s not just our anatomy that’s based on carbon. It’s the whole of our life support system. My Gresham Lecture tmrw will be all about where Earth's carbon is & what it's up to. Listen in at 6pm (free online)!
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Carbon: Our Flexible Friend that Built the Natural World
Carbon used to be something that was only mentioned in school chemistry classes, but now it seems to be everywhere: on the news, in political debate, in discussions on health, and as a framework for t...
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 23/09/2026
If you need to post a Fisher Price kid's toolbox by all means get it out of your system but serious suggestions also welcome.
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FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is a very good guide for organisations on practically managing their inclusive toilet provision post FWS v Ministers 2025 & EHRC 2026 guidelines. From Third Sector Against Transphobia drive.google.com/file/d/18Iw5...
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Behind Closed Doors A Practical Guide to creating Trans inclusive toilets V1.8.pdf
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Day 20 #SciArtSeptember prompt is meander so I am sharing geologist & paleontogist Alice Wilson (1881-1964) with the Ottawa River. 🧪👩🏼‍🔬⚒️ #histsci ⁠ A job in the Mineralogy Division of the U of Toronto Museum was her entry into #geology. In 1909 as a museum assistant with Geological Survey of Canada
Linocut portrait of a young Alice Wilson with her hands under her chin printed in gold ink. Behind her is her own geological map of the Ottawa Valley with the different features on collaged translucent Japanese papers in raspberry, purple, yellow, pale blue, and beige in inks of similar but darker hues. “OTTAWA RIVER” is marked but the final R is obscured by her head.
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BoxOfRain @aboxofrain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We were in Bomerano and Furore in Campania today and found the Giro di Campania was coming through. We found a cafe to wait & watch. The road from Furore is basically a bunch of switchbacks. They rode like it was normal day at work. At 24° I guess much more clement than the rest of the season.
A bunch of pro cyclists riding up a moderate slope with a stone wall behind them and a slightly clouded sky.
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 20/09/2026
It is incredibly well evidenced that Reform are a threat to democracy and yet they continue to be covered in most mainstream media as if they are a legitimate democratic actor plagued by blunders Mainstream coverage is where their strength comes from bylinetimes.com/2026/09/16/t...
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The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain’s Masked 'Patriot' Anti-Migrant Network
A Reform councillor and campaign co-ordinater urged his followers to join and support the masked group
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Akin to writing fiction, for some of us
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NINETY programmes, fucking hell
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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Always enjoy a good deployment of Danse Macabre
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Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Lists are good, actually
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The assessment did not consider the crocodiles but instead looked at "how the course would perform under a range of conditions, weather patterns, water levels and flood risk at both Games time and throughout the period leading into the Games". WHY DID IT NOT CONSIDER THE CROCODILES GUYS
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Ygritte to Jon Snow: You Know Nothing
Alt: Ygritte to Jon Snow: You Know Nothing
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I'm not going to share a link to give it clicks, but the Guardian's interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg is a sick inducing attempt to rehabilitate the former MP. But, hidden in there are some shockingly outdated views on abortion and same sex marriage.
Text of interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg. 
One of his most controversial positions is on abortion, which he has called “morally indefensible”. His opposition to it even applies for pregnancies as a result of rape or incest. “I accept the teaching of the church,” he says. “At the point of which life begins, and the question is whether it’s right to take life, and it’s the importance of the second life. There are two lives, not one to be considered.” He is also vehemently opposed to gay marriage. When asked about it previously, he said: “I take the teaching of the Catholic church seriously. Marriage is a sacrament and the view of what marriage is is taken by the church, not parliament.” Another Roman Catholic view is that sex should wait until after marriage. Can I ask a personal question, I say? “You can ask any question – I may not answer it!’
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