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Gatimo @gatimo.bsky.social · 7h

Murderbot | tv Cast added to season 2 Steve Buscemi Tramell Tillman Katy O’Brian Nicholas Braun

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 16h

What a sentence. What. A. Sentence.

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 17h

I am reading On The Calculation of Volume. I am on part two. It is written in a distinctive contemporary literary style where small details of journeys, purchases, and food (in particular) are meticulously reported. I think the SF trope (a time loop) was chosen to provide a context for the style.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 27/09/2026

A good point made in Carissa Véliz’s Prophecy is how this kind of “consensual non-consent” is justified as a consequence of the warped utilitarian philosophy underlying Effective Altruism, and this carries over into the way that AI products are being forced on to the rest of society.

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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 27/09/2026

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: if you pardon, we will mend; And, as I am an honest Puck, Show is over, off you fuck.

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Gatimo @gatimo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Small Prophets | tv Looking forward to the British BBC series — Apple with the quality IMDb 8.2 Rotten Tomatoes 100%

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am not sure it's healthy but I have been glued to the unfolding AI doomer/ HP fanfic/ polyamorous sex cult/ Aella orgy / Effective Altruism train wreck. Man. Wish they weren't in charge of the world right now.

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have noticed this comes as shocking news to a lot of 'non-young' people: the youth don't like AI, It gives them the ick. Olders think because they have learned a new thing they must be aligning with the young, but it doesn't work like that.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In children's publishing, this has been like VE Day.

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A morality metric based on (happiness * number of future humans) can't be right. We are an apex predator. I don't think there should be uncountable billions of us, any more than billions of lions, or billions of orcas, or billions of condors.

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

> future generations unavailable for comment

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Running a webinar from 8am today, so I've got an hour to get this hair into some kind of order

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Rhea Seehorn finally gets an Emmy - so overdue

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If the rationalist dweebs developing Ai think there's a good chance that it's going to wipe out humanity then basic game theory dictates that the logical course of action for the rest of us would be to [manuscript breaks off]

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Home river - The Blythe - I thought it went into the Avon, but wikipedia says the Trent, it must be right on the watershed

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

reposting with actor's name: A central character in Furious is disabled. He is played by an actor called Steve Way who is amazing. Possibly they wrote the part for him. A real masterclass iin both the writing and acting of the role.

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I strongly recommend Furious (which is on Disney in the UK), though be aware it deals with traumatic issues. It is about a woman who was trafficked as a child, and is taking bloody revenge on the men previously involved in the abusive situation. And the female FBI agent who is assigned the case.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Fabulous Ice Age spear thrower handle carved in the form of an animal. Known as the ‘Creeping Hyena’ it was carved from mammoth ivory around 15,000 years ago. The shaft is missing, but the hook to propel the spear is still visible. From La Madeleine rock shelter, France. 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Starting my read-along of EMMA with (well, trailing behind) @trungles.com this fine Sunday morning! Here’s what I know going in: * CLUELESS * Austen called Emma a heroine whom no-one but her would much like * Margaret Morgenroth Gullette thinks Mr Woodhouse has dementia

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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time

a picture from the NY Post titled " today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My friend who was arrested spent several weeks in remand for 'walking slowly in the road for 15 minutes'. He said that every official person he had to interact with said 'you shouldn't be here' (ie in solitary confinement 23 hours a day with no books, paper, contact with outside world).

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Worth reading whole thread. By 'payola' Cory means payments from suppliers to be placed at the top of Amazon search. Makes Amazon more money than AWS!

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

All the dry hot summer I have been assuming our August barbecue would be pouring with rain all day, due to the irony law, but it was almost entirely sunny! Thanks to @jarriere.bsky.social for coming down, lovely to see you. Now eating leftovers and tidying.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Today the last Plague Plays are carried out in the county. I wish I could get to performance at Long Croxley where it's the Faery King and not The Devil who is making the 'plague pact'.

Several villages enact plague plays on Sundays throughout the summer. It is well known that the ‘Great Mortality’ of the plague was brutal in Hookland. Many local ‘plague pacts’ were made in villages where their priests had fled to escape the disease in which promises were made to God, saints, the Devil or even older things in the hopes of being spared the pestilence. Many of these pacts are still commemorated to this day by the putting on of plague plays – quirky folk plays populated with a cast of odd characters. Most of the ones involving a pact between a village and God or a saint are frankly quite dull, while the those involving the Devil, the bone angel or echoes of truly ancient gods glimpsed in faeryland are much more
flamboyant and fun.

A typical plague play will start with a priest deserting his flock out of fear of the coming pestilence, only for him to meet it head on as he runs away. The village will then send a knight out to fight death who is quickly dispatched as is the quack doctor next sent to battle it. Eventually the crow doctor or mayor will try to mediate with
death. Unfortunately, the reaper will accept no sacrifice except the death of everyone. At this point, the villagers summon the Devil or something equally as dubious, make a bargain with it and watch as the Devil and death battle each other until Old Clip wins the day, forcing death to retreat. All that is left is for the Devil or Faery King is to
collect their payment – usually a child or a much-loved maiden – before reminding the audience that he is still keeping his end of the pact and they should be mindful to keep their end of it. I am probably underplaying the bawdy humour, physical comedy, scary costumes and underlying sense of perpetual horror from making such a pact that
the these plays provide, so I suggest go and watch one yourself.

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Make your favourite movie sound as boring as possible... Employees of a mining company resist unsafe working conditions linked to pay increment

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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"The sun bursts what it has been saving so suddenly, so brilliantly, we are smiling. It is August still." ( A Crow, Edwin Morgan)

The summer grows late, cool, ragged, precious.
Clouds like ungaily brooms are sweeping showers
across the slates. On a dripping lamp-standard
a crow hunches, flaps, hunches. The young painter
with his tin of white sings as he hops in and
out of the rain. The sun bursts what it has been saving
so suddenly, so brilliantly, we are smiling.
It is August still. The leaves hang fast and glisten.
If there were no seasons, who would be singing?
If there was no weather, who would be painting?
If there was no earth turning, we darkly, partly
think, no crow would have a lawn to stamp on,
or Aristarchus any globe to dandle.
As not to be be born is worst - a crow will tell you,
a worm will tell you - not to be created
crosses galaxies like a shadow of horror.
But created they are; born, I and the painter;
really wet ruffled shiny black half-happy
the feathers of the raucous-hearted clatterer.

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Cult Edge @cultedge.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Available from Monday 31st August, a special tribute issue of #Blakes7 Magazine. Celebrating the life and career of Michael Keating, this 100+ page bookazine is a heartfelt tribute by fans, for fans. All proceeds going to Alzheimer’s Society UK. A full preview is available at www.cultedge.art

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It is a frightening video

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into her ken

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I went to see The Cherry Orchard at Stratford with @scifiemma.bsky.social. it stars Bill Pullman (a big fave) Helen Hunt and Kenneth Branagh. All wonderful. I hear reviews are not great but i really loved it. Lots to think about.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

William Blake: he knew the score.

I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's,
I will not Reason & Compare: my business is to Create.

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The technology has been launched with tragic ineptitude. None of this had to happen. It's all self-inflicted.

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If he was used by an anti-diversity faction then the users are to blame for his death, they exploited him

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

BLOODY HELL UK GOVERNMENT

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Did everyone else in uk just get a scary message from the govt about barbecues

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/08/2026

there is no fate but what we make for ourselves

sarah connor arrested for trying to stop a data centre

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A level results. Last year there were 8 U grades, this year only one. Progress of a sort. The area in which i teach is among the lowest achieving regions of the UK. I fight every year to motivate and enable my students, with mixed success.

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Simon Threadgold @sthreadgold.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I just wanted to say good luck, Clacton, we're all expecting you to fuck this up again, but hopefully by a slightly smaller margin.

Leslie Nielsen standing in cockpit doorway, from AIRPLANE!

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

An academic i had dinner with this week claimed that Jason Arday was deliberately appointed knowing he was going to be useless. As part of a strategy by a faction within Cambridge to discredit 'diversity'. I must confess i heard this with some scepticism. But they outlined a case...

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Now imagining a Star Trek reboot done in the style of The Pitt (Twelve episode season in which the Enterprise crew navigate a single 12-hour space crisis amid deaths, aliens, malfunctions, and personal crises) and I think it would totally work.

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My daughtrr grew a bunch of massive courgettes. This one weighs more than 5lb

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

3 hours in the end but home now

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I finally got my phone back from the left luggage office. Everyone I have had to deal with has been pleasant, but it has been a tortuous process. I would have written it off and bought a new one, but every day it was about to be sent to me... This dragged on for nearly two weeks.

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