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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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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4h
So…can AI play football?
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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 7h
This really feels like a significant “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” moment.
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 9h
My 2026 Christmas wrap designs are now available for pre-order. Have a look www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas
Four Christmas gift wrap designs featuring vinyl record Christmas puddings, baubles, fairy lights and crackers.
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BoxOfRain @aboxofrain.bsky.social · 9h
Someone has to do it, right? This was from my walk to work the other week. I sympathise 😀
Island on horizon with mist over the sea. Boats lined up in the foreground.
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BoxOfRain @aboxofrain.bsky.social · 15h
Well that looks nice. 😊
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BoxOfRain @aboxofrain.bsky.social · 15h
💕
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BoxOfRain @aboxofrain.bsky.social · 20h
Oh no. 🤞
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution
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Ailbhe @ailbhe.ossifrage.net · 10/10/2026
I absolutely love this paragraph.
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BoxOfRain @aboxofrain.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Haha!
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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You call him a Minotaur, I call him Half Man, Half Brisket x
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>
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BoxOfRain @aboxofrain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Fun. I really liked Matakana - although I didn’t spend long at the market. But also, handy to be able to add the extra range.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1937’s utterly gorgeous Penguin Books building in Harmondsworth, Middlesex. Several decades after Penguin moved to central London, this lovely, historic Art Deco gem was pulled down. Which was just wrong.
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BoxOfRain @aboxofrain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The plates are cool too!
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BoxOfRain @aboxofrain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yum!
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Itsmotherswork @itsmotherswork.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Great Replacement Theory. 🐢
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As expected, the Prime Minister's promise to sort out the mess of funding for Jodrell actually meant nothing - it seems the government would like it to be some sort of heritage theme park when you can go and see where we used to do science. 🔭
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BoxOfRain @aboxofrain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nice choice!
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Gavin Thomson @gavinthomson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Campaign from @cleancitiescampaign.org on #CarSpreading cleancitiescampaign.org/join-the-mov...
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Join the movement against carspreading.
Cars keep getting bigger. Our streets don’t.
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JT 👻 @jazztee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Worth reading from top to bottom. 💚
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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
damn yeah is there any kind of substantive reason for American kids to be less forward about their sexuality these days? hmmmmm
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is far better parenting than the tech guy getting an LLM to do the bedtime reading.
Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Calvin’s dad conjured a dark and violent new ending to Hamster Huey, the book his child wants read to him for the umpteenth time.
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Future idiots: but why are children alienated from their parents?
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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Queen Camilla & Kemi Badenoch were fans. Paul Foot on Jeffrey Archer from 1995 wp.me/p15p2Q-hN8
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Paul Foot on Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Archer who has died aged 86 was not a lovable rogue but a serial liar who ended up being sentenced to 4 years in prison for perjury. Even The Times lengthy obituary gives full details. Befo…
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.”
JULIET SAMUEL
Kemi Badenoch invites excellence back to the party
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Unapologetic embrace of dynamism and distinction shows the Tory leader is serious about moving on from mediocrity
Juliet Samuel
Wednesday October 07 2026, 6.50pm, The Times
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 06/10/2026
Magic: the union
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Inventing Pad Thai: "Some vendors served the dish on a piece of banana leaf and wrapped it in newspaper for easy transportation." daily.jstor.org/inventing-pa...
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Inventing Pad Thai - JSTOR Daily
A government campaign transformed a Chinese-inspired noodle dish into a symbol of Thailand's national identity.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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JEaN 🎃 CANnes 👻 NOUx @calypseaux.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Disregarding/Not considering consent as a business strategy is a statement. Worse when it’s national policy.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026
I can’t emphasize this enough — “AI” wasn’t born corrupt and toxic. For ~75 years, it was mathematicians and scientists doing interesting, thoughtful work and trying to solve problems, making only the usual human mistakes. What “AI” did to machine learning is as tragic as what it did to artists.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026
Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just one more week to the first ButCH lunchtime discussion "Does Heritage Really Matter" Oct 12th 1.15 - 2 GMT (link below and in alt text) >
ButCH/*

Bureau for the Contemporary & Historic

bureauites!

JOIN US AT THE BUREAU FOR A MONTHLY LUNCHTIME BITE

13.15-14.00

Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/353204848682706?p=kTQLxkqUay7odEGmUi

Meeting ID: 353 204 848 682 706

Passcode: 72My9df2

Start your week with us in the Bureau for our new series, Bureau Bites. These informal, 45min online gatherings are open to all, whether you're a postgraduate student, a heritage manager or a senior consultant. Keep an eye on our LinkedIn account where we'll post a link to a short text (30 min read) the week before we meet. We understand how dynamic, energetic and enterprising (ie busy) we all are so please join the conversation even you haven't been able to make time to read and reflect in advance. Readings will be a mix of websites, blogs, reports, excerpts from academic papers.

The aim is to reconnect us with our communities of practice and to create space for the kind of thinking we might not be able to do on the daily grind. We invite participants to start a light-touch reflective journal to help document these conversations, which you may find useful in your work.

These gatherings also mark the start of ButCH's journey towards being a business partnership and launch of our redesigned website https://37looestreet.org/home/butch/

Monday, 12 October: Does heritage really matter?

Monday, 9 November: When loss is more!

Monday, 7 December: Beyond engagement? Art, heritage and placemaking

Monday, 11 January: Strategies, frameworks and plans why have them?

Monday, 8 February: Nothing ages faster than the future

Monday, 8 March: Place, land and more-than-human interve

Monday, 5 April: 'No, I don't want to do workshops with NEETs! Beyond instrumentalising heritage 2

Monday, 10 May: Not another toolkit! Working with creative approaches to unblock cross-sector heritage research, management
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Man who purchased a farm as a tax dodge now complaining as it’s hard work. What a hypocrite.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The war on children's safety" continues at Tory conference
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is about #humanRights. It’s short and worth reading, including for #security arguments . I think similar arguments could be made about (other?) transnational essential infrastructure.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“An actual assault on an American air base in Britain would be a drastic escalation, officials said.” Yes, it would be. But that didn’t happen here. This is the bombs that didn’t got off because there were no bombs to begin with.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A week of reporting and “interviews with investigators, local officials and residents as well as security officials in Britain, Germany, Israel and the United States” gets you a lot of hand waving and speculation.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The New York Times has *four* people bylined on this piece — its chief UK correspondent, national security correspondent, another international correspondent based in London, and a ‘global security’ reporter based in London — and… it’s a soufflé of speculation puffed up through hyperventilating.
An Iranian Threat, 3 Vans and a Phone Call: Behind the Mystery at a U.K. Air Base
A mysterious call last Sunday near a military base used by the U.S. set in motion a huge counterterrorism response and days of uncertainty in Britain.
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BoxOfRain @aboxofrain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“A soufflé of speculation” is perfect on its own. Chapeau!
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Flowers as a means of catching light.
A row of white cosmos flowers and buds photographed from behind. The petals are lit with sun.The same white cosmos from farther away with pale peach colored cosmos in the foreground with lit blooms.
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BoxOfRain @aboxofrain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That sounds beyond dull. Wishing you a continued recovery.
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BoxOfRain @aboxofrain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I *loved* Star City. IIRC there were people involved in “Chernobyl” which did the same re accents, on the team
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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ninety years on, the lessons of the antifascist battle of Cable Street have never felt more relevant | Sarah Sackman
With sectarian forces increasingly seeking to divide us, we must come together to fight for security, fairness and tolerance, says Labour MP for Finchley and Golders Green Sarah Sackman
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Puffins. Amazing
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Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🚀 It's #WorldSpaceWeek! From tracking the earliest ventures beyond Earth to exploring the future of sustainable satellites through our exhibitions & collaborations with The University of Manchester researchers, Jodrell Bank remains connected to the past, present and future of space exploration
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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just as Thatcher’s mob did. They genuinely don’t care how many lives they end. Let the bodies pile high. Tories aren’t right in the head.
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