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Andrew C.A. Elliott

@acaelliott.bsky.social
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Writing, Softwaring, Figuring, Photo-ing, Listening. Some sax playing. Trying to make sense of the time I've spent on this planet. Writer: "Is that a Big Number?" & "What are the Chances of That?" - how we understand numbers and probability, respectively.

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Classic Album Art @classicalbumart.bsky.social · 4h
Albums that inspire Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 16h
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller was first published #OTD 1961 by Simon & Schuster. #BookSky
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h
I love taking the train between San Diego and Los Angeles since it's such a gorgeous view but there's just no way it'll still exist on the same track a generation from now. www.instagram.com/reels/DeSCAh...
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 11h
https://www.instagram.com/rustycartoons?srtk=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11h
'The Pond' by Dee Nickerson contemporary English painter who explores themes of living in the countryside #Womensart
Painting featuring a woman and her cat standing next to a pond surrounded by trees as birds fly overhead
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Jaime Corum, The Red Tapestry
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK aged 7 having fled the war in Somalia with her family. She has thrived. Leader of Camden council and now the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. A narrative that runs counter to all we are told about refugees. Congratulations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelection
Victory by Sagal Abdi-Wali in north London seat will be a relief for Andy Burnham in high-stakes battle for the left of British politics
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Jacek Yerka (b.1952, Poland) Tectonics, 2005. oil on canvas. #Surrealism
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Octopus Mosaic in Pompeii, Italy
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sniffer Dog, Simon Drew. 1981.
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Jo 🦇🕸🕷 @notquiteadelight.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Stop overthinking"

I used to count how many kids were ahead of me so i could figure out exactly which paragraph I'd have to read out loud.

You think I developed this personality last week?
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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ㅤ Ancient intaglio depicting a grasshopper driving a chariot being pulled by two butterflies — Roman, 1st c. bce - 1st c. ce, carnelian ㅤ
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I feel ya 😪
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This has got to be on top of every girl's Christmas Wish List, surely? #BookSky
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Marsh/Mike P. @marsh-p.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thinking about _when_ the Tories became an electoral irrelevance/joke party. It's tempting to think it was at #LizTruss. But she was a symptom. It was when they chose Boris Johnson. That's I think when the nation said, meh if you're not taking this seriously, why should we? #toryconference
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Jarvis Googoo @jarvisgoogoo.com · 03/10/2026
Amazing editorial cartoon re artificial intelligence by @mackinnonart.bsky.social
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Tony Borroz @nemounruhe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cadillac Coupe Deville Custom 1960. - source Amazing Classic Cars.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
From a Jewish lady, thank you, Mr Pope 💙
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Walter Alvarez @walter2864.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#BlazingSaddles
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Andrew C.A. Elliott @acaelliott.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Surely you mean decreasingly numbered....
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Andrew C.A. Elliott @acaelliott.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Huge impact on me
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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kim Tschang Yeul (S. Korea, b. 1929) : Water Drops, 1979 Oil on hemp cloth 27 × 22 cm | 11 × 9 in Known for his paintings of water droplets.
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Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter) @nathanhallwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You ever think, what I want isn't to be a successful author. That would be cool, but no. What I want is a UBI that lets me write full-time. I'd be unstoppable.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Laurie Anderson, US avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects #womensart
Monochrome photograph featuring a standing white woman with short hair wearing black in front of an image of a giant clock face
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rprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Facts, plain and straightforward 💯🎯
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"If this guy isn't impeached and removed, what's the purpose of the whole Constitution?" - George Conway #FlipCongressBlue
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We can be absolutely certain that Mr. Smith is not in the #EpsteinFiles like Trump is...
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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Grasshopper Figure carved hematite c. 1800-1700 BC Old Babylonian culture Babylon #handmade #carved #hematite #grasshopper #art #sculpture #ancientsculpture #ancientart #Babylonia #culture #Babylon #EuphratesRiver #nature #beauty #ancientBabylonia #fertility #omen #astrology #locusts #foodsource
In ancient Babylonia and the broader Mesopotamian culture, grasshoppers (and their swarming phase, locusts) held a multi-layered, dual meaning. They represented both a positive symbol of fertility and abundance and a destructive force of nature used in divination and dietary sustenance.
In their solitary, non-destructive form, grasshoppers were viewed by Babylonians as symbols of the natural cycle, fertility, and abundance. Because they appeared in large numbers during agricultural cycles, they were tied to the life-giving forces of the earth.
This famous example is a beautifully detailed, nearly 4,000-year-old Babylonian stone weight carved from hematite in the shape of a grasshopper (c. 1800–1700 BCE). Used in markets for fair trade transactions, the grasshopper shape on the weight likely invoked blessings of agricultural prosperity and nature.
When solitary grasshoppers crowded together and transformed into swarming locusts, their meaning shifted drastically. To the Babylonians, a locust swarm was a catastrophic event that could strip fields bare and cause widespread famine.
Babylonians were deeply invested in astrology and divination. Grasshopper and locust behavior was carefully documented in cuneiform omen series (such as the Šumma Ālu). A swarm of grasshoppers appearing in a specific city or flying in a particular direction was interpreted as a direct message or warning from the gods, usually predicting economic ruin, military invasion, or divine displeasure.
Despite the threat they posed to crops, grasshoppers were heavily utilized by Babylonians in daily practical life.
Babylonians actively harvested locusts and grasshoppers for food. Cuneiform records show that mass amounts of these insects were caught, preserved in brine, and transported over hundreds of kilometers to be eaten as a protein-rich delicacy or everyday staple.
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Andrew C.A. Elliott @acaelliott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Am I wrong are are your demands gradually escalating? I mean, there's nothing on your list that I disagree with, but I have a feeling that a month or two ago, just four of those would have sufficed. Am I wrong?
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Andrew C.A. Elliott @acaelliott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I regretted that the time frame of the previous book could not include him, so he has been waiting for this... It's very early days. I have done a fair bit of reading. I have a rough chronology and plot outline. I have thought, probably too much, about themes and motifs. I need this. More, soon.
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Andrew C.A. Elliott @acaelliott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This one is set in Venice, around 1500 and the (then) brand new world of printing and publishing. That much has been living in my head for a long time. The seed idea (which may in the end not be central to the book) is that Dürer visited Venice around then, and I found him fascinating. more ...👇
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Andrew C.A. Elliott @acaelliott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
... and an old-school science fiction novel, the kind that young me might have enjoyed. Both have been rewarding to write and kind people who have read them have said kind things about my writing. The piece I am now starting connects to the historical novel, but is not really a sequel more ...👇
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Andrew C.A. Elliott @acaelliott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have had two books published and I have two and a half unpublished. I have no representation at the moment, my agent suddenly became unwell, and I haven't yet found another. The two finished but unpublished books are: a novel set in 15th-century Florence (mathematician become spy), and more ...👇
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Andrew C.A. Elliott @acaelliott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#IAmWriting I'm writing again. It's early days with this piece, and I thought it might be interesting to be public about the process, because it's something I think about a lot when I am doing it. I'm writing because it's too hard not to be writing. more ...👇
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
By Will McPhail
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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The Canadian Border 🇨🇦 @canadianborder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Canadian automakers have developed an EV car that can travel 500+ km on a single charge, shows snow covered lane lines on your windshield on snowy highways, and heatmaps animals on the side of the road so you have a warning about deer and moose at night. This is for us. BRING IT TO MARKET!! 😍❤️🍁
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
💥 HUGE NEWS 💥 “Ministers say it is ‘not if but how’ the prime minister puts rejoin in the next election manifesto” Exclusive for The Independent.
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Burnham edges Labour closer to rejoining EU
Exclusive: After Ed Miliband told the Labour conference in Liverpool that Britain’s future is at the heart of Europe, ministers say it is ‘not if but how’ the prime minister puts rejoin in the next el...
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Andrew C.A. Elliott @acaelliott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hmmm.... Thinking about my own usage, I definitely "take" decisions in English more than I "make" them.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wind and solar supplied 33% of EU electricity in the 12 months to August 2026, against 29% from fossil. In 2016 it was 13% and 43%.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Textile embroidered art by Sophie Standing, British born textile artist #womensart
Pictorial textile artwork featuring an elephant facing forwards
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
40th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, from Salmon Tower 11 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, 1935 by US photographer Berenice Abbott #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a New York cityscape with skyscrapers
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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
René Magritte (1898-1967) The Princess of Autumn, 1963. Oil on canvas
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Absolutely.... #BookSky #WritingCommunity
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ed Milliband - I am a proud European because of the values of the European Union.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ed Milliband - Brexit has not delivered what was promised to my constituents. The blame lies with those that lied to them! Names Gove, Johnson Rees-Mogg and Farage! #BrexitFail
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