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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 10h

I live in Warrington. My friend supports Wakefield. I'm listening to the live radio coverage and I'm not sure I can take this stress for another 50 odd minutes!

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 20h

Hey, remember that time I did chapter-opening illustrations for a book? It didn't go exactly like this, but: You want me to draw a dead horse floating in a pond staring lifelessly at the reader, but like, in a tasteful way? No problem mate! 😄

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 21h

WOODPECKER! Great spotted. Checking out some old trees across the street.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

in relation to our panel on comics for blind readers today, the comic @emilybeitiks.bsky.social & I made for @technologyreview.com - we explored the challenges and potential of making comics accessible. Can see/listen to it here spinweaveandcut.com/mitcomic/

This is page one of our comic on accessible comics. There is an entire alt-text file and audio version of the comic linked to on this page, so please check that out as it is more complete than I can be here.
https://spinweaveandcut.com/mitcomic/

This is page two of our comic on accessible comics. There is an entire alt-text file and audio version of the comic linked to on this page, so please check that out as it is more complete than I can be here. https://spinweaveandcut.com/mitcomic/

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Look, I don't know many local people on here, but if you're in the Warrington-area and have ever fancied giving samba drumming a go, our band is holding a beginner's workshop! Joining was the best thing I've done in recent years. linktr.ee/batidario

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Batida Rio Official: Instagram, Facebook | Linktree

Community carnival arts group in Warrington UK. Join us, book us, work with us!

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is incredible that some people are still impossible to find, having seemingly no internet presence. Massive props. I'm trying to contact someone who did a History MA at Open University. I can read their entire dissertation online, but cannot find a contact/e-mail/profile for them anywhere online!

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Incredibly proud of my youngest brother who exemplifies what people living with disabilities can accomplish with appropriate support. He’s been very lucky and I wish we could make sure all people got what they need to flourish. Here he is talking about his hobby as a DJ

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Shalim Ali: music and arts give us all a chance to express ourselves

Sharing music through being a DJ brings people together, allows me to enjoy myself and recharge, and gives me a break from the serious demands of work

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

linktr.ee

Batida Rio Official: Instagram, Facebook | Linktree

Community carnival arts group in Warrington UK. Join us, book us, work with us!

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sometimes progress means slowing down, doing less, making less. Progress doesn't always mean MORE.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 30/09/2026

We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.

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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s coming… 🎃

A marker drawing of the “Dancing Pumpkin Guy” in a small Moleskine sketchbook. To the right are two Copic markers.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm dragging from the depths of my brain here, but I think @carlbergstrom.com was involved with an online lesson system, in the early days (2 years ago, 2 months ago, things move so fast): thebullshitmachines.com You may find it helpful as a primer?

thebullshitmachines.com

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Introduction

A free online humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'd like to read a book about how AI works on a technical level - not about the business/ethical side as I have plenty to read on that. Aimed at a lay person who doesn't a tech background. Any recs? #Booksky

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Jasper Vis @jaspervis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dit filmpje heeft Meta dus gecensureerd. Ik weet niet of ik moet huilen of lachen…

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In light of the headlines like those again this morning, I feel like I keep coming back to the same point and I don't know why governments and legal systems don't: hold humans responsible. Humans built that AI system, they programmed it, they allowed it to run without constant oversight. Blame them.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I saw a FASCINATING Instagram post about the nuance of getting social media right which used as an example — stick with me — Julia Stiles on this season of “Dancing With the Stars”

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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You can photograph the shit out of the Bayeux Tapestry copy in Reading

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 21/09/2026

Today is your monthly reminder! Back. Up. Your. Stuff. 💻💽💾 Art, writing, personal photos, etc etc... Back it up back it up! Repost to remind a friend and save a life

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Museum, archaeology, & heritage friends! This is not a casting call, funding opp, or CFP - this is an academic researcher looking for examples.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/09/2026

Summer xkcd.com/3299/

4-panel comic. (1) [Person swings from tree over water.] (2) [In the middle of the swing, the tree’s leaves have turned brown.] (3) [When the person lets go, the tree is bare of leaves and everywhere is covered in ice or snow.] (4) [The person landed on the ice looks behind at Person 2 with shoulder-length hair standing on the snow.] PERSON 2: Summer over already, huh? PERSON 1: It seemed extra quick this year.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Really sinking feeling that we've lost (without really fighting) the battle to make people say WHAT SORT OF AI they are talking about. Now we just get inane headlines saying "air traffic control are investing in AI" like that's a single technology and our only option is to choose our tribe: yay/boo

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I get it, yes, we need way more regulation and oversight (and no, I haven't read the report, just this article). But humans are making the AI. Humans are doing/using the AI. Humans are breaking these laws (which already exist). Hold humans accountable for their actions. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

MPs and Lords call for new law to address AI threat to human rights

Existing laws are not equipped to address the risks to human rights being posed by artificial intelligence, UK politicians say.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/01/2026

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We recently went to Edinburgh Zoo (visiting as members of Chester Zoo) and went past the lower level of the penguin enclosure as a staff door into the utility room was open (large tanks, filters, pipes, etc) and it made me think, you know how zoos offer keepers or even gardeners for a day things?

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

updating this sign to include: also, stop reading the responses to rage bait you come across

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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ anything 🕯️ good 🕯️ at all 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️

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Matt Zucker @mattz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This fall I am co-teaching a brand-new class – ENGR 009: Fabricating Tessellations and Tilings. It's roughly equal parts math and design, filtered thru an engineering perspective. The syllabus and all assignments are freely available to the public at mzucker.github.io/e9_f2026/

A hexagonal tile with a chamfered edge and an interacting sawtooth pattern.

A 9-triangle polyiamond shown tiling with symmetries *x, 22x, 632, 22x (again), and 2222.

A snippet of decorative tiles from the Alhambra.

GRT Architects "flutes and reeds" tile system

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You said, "Sadly as I am not as creative as others, I used chat GBT to help me figure out how to do it and what I needed." I am one of your creative friends. I would have been delighted if you had asked me. If I could have shared what I know, with you. If we could have done this craft together.

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Skinnie Talls @skinnietalls.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I'm more interested in the random acts of squirrels than in the deliberate actions of celebrities.

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I really love Halloween and I'm trying to go a bit bigger every year and build on my previous efforts. So on Nov 1 I make notes on what I'd do differently for the next year and save it with a reminder to pop up in Sept. Anyone want to help me decipher this item? - Cauldrons/clear (candy for ghosts)

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is such an obvious and good idea I’m ashamed I’ve never done it! Modelling learning with new classes as you try to remember their names:

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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Why are so many rugs cream/white?! Who are these people who live in such a way where this is a sensible choice?

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Rest in peace, Wendell Berry.

The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

from Openings: Poems (1968)

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Fuck yeah

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Such a good film! So glad we made the time to catch it. I cannot believe there was a chance it never going to see the light of day. It would have genuinely been a crime against the art of film!

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

See this is my great fear looking after St Nicholas Church. She's grade one listed (but as a church it's managed under the faculty system... We'll get to that), and the churchyard and all the area surrounding is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, because it's built on Roman ruins.

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Our neighbours have a new puppy and we have a Venetian fence and it is great! Free live puppy entertainment!

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I have thoughts about why settlement and citizenship applications are up (speaking as someone who just submitted my own naturalisation application, after being eligible for the last 13 years). Also, a lot of Hong Kongers who arrived on visas just became eligible too, for ILR and/or naturalisation.

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Reading all these 'Dolly was kind to me stories' and I think that while she did pour money into things that needed it, truly, kindness costs nothing. And being kind makes everyone feel better. The recipient feels seen, and the kind person feels good about themselves too. Abundance.

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Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

[P] In honor of #NationalDogDay, and in the interest of posting something that’s not completely doom-filled, here a video of me getting buried under fourteen golden retriever puppies back in 2021. Genuinely one of the best memories of my life.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 24/08/2026

Niels made a cartoon especially for me and it's so good :) www.facebook.com/CouldBeWorse...

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is a related and expanded graphic which emphasizes an important point: Higher speeds reduce your visibility and reaction time, making it more likely you'll hit someone or something, and then when you *do* hit them, it's more likely to be fatal.

A graphic that says Why Speed Matters

Below that are two stats:

Drivers yield 75% of the time while traveling 20 mph
Drivers yield only 17% of the time when traveling 37 mph

The next line shows that drivers have a much wider field of vision at 15 mph as compared to 30 to 40 mph.

Finally, there are three stats:

9 out of 10 pedestrians survive when hit by a car traveling 20 mph
5 out of 10 survive at 30
1 out of 10 surive at 40

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I keep thinking about this Lion I saw this weekend.

A detailed marble sculpture of a lion resting its chin on its paws, next to a carved portrait on a stone wall monument.

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