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Eddie Cochrane

@cobrabay.bsky.social
1.1K followers 866 following 1.2K posts

Science Fiction fan, SF con-runner, CAMRA member, gaffer-taping new code onto obsolescent platforms for a living. Cis (he/him), Human (DBDG)

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 3h
The thing that pisses me off about about this is that loads of the people employed in the arts and entertainment and crucial to its success are unseen workers in jobs that are considered trade when they're not in services of the arts
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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @parallax2112.bsky.social · 2h
This Iike Teller speaking. Wrong. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...
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Gromit finally gets a voice … and it’s Martin Freeman
After 37 years, the staunchly silent dog will speak for the first time in the audiobook of his autobiography – and it turns out he sounds like a hobbit
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Reading Museum @readingmuseum.bsky.social · 6h
Want to see behind the scenes at the museum store? Sign up for an expert led guided tours. See collection highlights and handle some objects. Wed 28 October, 2pm and Wed 25 November, 11am Book via our website #FridayFinds
two people in Reading Museum store looking at a modern sculpture with other objects on shelving behind
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 22h
Latest forensic debunk from the indefatigable @monkemma.bsky.social
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 7h
Given that workers’ education has always been a core goal of the Labour movement this would be a profoundly stupid and cowardly move.
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Andrew-Mark Thompson @andydrewz.bsky.social · 8h
Official Gene Roddenberry™ and Lucille Ball™ action figures are really, honestly going to be released. WANT!! 🤪
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 7h
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error. Same error amplified by right-wing think-tanks, press It suited their ideological leanings. Future historians might say - planet earth and human life was shattered by a spreadsheet error.
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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Jennifer 📚🎧❣️ @jdawson001.bsky.social · 19h
Follow this through to the article at www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-h...
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The Hidden Heroines of Chaos
Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory. Their previously untold story illustrates the changing status of computation in science.
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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 19h
What we got live, subject to bandwidth issues and inevitable LOS, was pretty darn amazing at the time but this is also great!
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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 22h
Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn Williams sat in silence during Carole's interview. Facebook sued her anyway. EVEN THOUGH SHE DIDN'T SAY A WORD. It's taken Hollywood a DECADE to tackle Silicon Valley. The Social Reckoning is long overdue & a chilling reminder of why we HAVE to regulate these bros.
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‘We have a $1tn company acting desperate’: Frances Haugen on The Social Reckoning, Zuckerberg, and Facebook's growing fragility
The whistleblower whose explosive revelations about her employer inspired Aaron Sorkin’s new film tells Carole Cadwalladr that, despite Silicon Valley’s power, ‘we have the ability to change a lot of ...
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 08/10/2026
Took me 10s…
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18h
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
To follow-up — I just read @donatoarts.bsky.social's Facebook write-up, the details of which are extremely depressing. I'm sharing the link here, because it appears he's left it unlocked in order to spread the word and warn other professionals. This saddens me. www.facebook.com/donato.gianc...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 20h
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wasn’t able to secure any review code for HELLRAISER unfortunately. But I found this amazing FB clip of Doug Bradley doing a Scouse Pinhead and now I’m crying from laughter. He’s amazing. (Source: YMH Podcast.)
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 08/10/2026
Seeing people joke about software engineering in the wake of Margaret Hamilton's death. Obviously there's a difference between what's largely euphemised as software engineering presently and the discipline she strove to create.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Enjoyed this thread. Have always wanted a duffle coat but have never gotten around to buying one. Gloverall makes a model called the Monty that I've long admired.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 08/10/2026
Ode on the Greggs’ Ta’Pastry Poem by Suzanne Fairless-Aitken northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/poet...
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Ode on the Greggs’ Ta’Pastry
Poem by Suzanne Fairless-Aitken
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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been searching my digital files for this photo of Malcolm Edwards at the 2019 Dublin Worldcon ever since his passing. I captured him at a Gollancz party as George R. R. Martin praised his editorial talents before handing the microphone to Robert Silverberg to do the same. He will be missed.
George R. R. Martin, Robert Silverberg, and Malcolm Edwards at a party thrown by Gollancz during the 2019 Dublin Worldcon. Martin is speaking into a microphone.
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Boothby Graffoe @boothbygraffoe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Badenoch expected to announce plan to tax homeless people, drag-acts & squirrels to fund free silk underwear for anyone earning over £500,00 a year.
The current leader of the Conservative Party bravely walking downstairs, something which if considered very brave considering the heightened reports of squirrel activity in the UK which is now at "Level Walnut" for the first time since records began.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe
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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just learned some shocking and destabilizing information about Roy Orbison
The five musicians also bonded over a shared appreciation of the English comedy troupe Monty Python.[22] Harrison, who had worked with the members of Monty Python on various productions by his company HandMade Films since the late 1970s, particularly appreciated Orbison's gift for impersonation and his ability to recite entire sketches by the troupe.[23][24]
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 07/10/2026
According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.
Margaret Hamilton, but the famous 1969 photo that inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison is in the quoted post.
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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A life-changing event took place 54 years ago today, though I had no idea at the time, for it was on that day Mighty World of Marvel #1 was published, which launched a line of weekly UK Marvel reprints — a line I was eventually hired to edit on June 24, 1974. Without that, no me as you know him.
The front cover to The Mighty World of Marvel #1, which is dated October 7, 1972 and cost 5p. Pictured are The Hulk, The Thing, Spider-Man, The Human Torch, Mister Fantastic, and the Invisible Woman.

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Free! Green-skinned monster T-shirt transfer
The World's Greatest Superheroes!
We've got a great mystery surprise for every reader!
See page 20!
Flame On!
3 big supernatural movie length adventures
The Amazing Spider-Man!
The Incredible Hulk!
The fabulous Fantastic Four!
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
GASPED
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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This. Done it a number of times. Mostly in the context of speaking with people about resistance to data centers as a local government elected.
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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ever since I first saw it, this scene has epitomised Amerlcan elegance for me. I wrote a short story about it for Radio 4 (never broadcast) and it's why I drink Gibsons even though nobody who works in a bar these days knows what they are. A perfect scene - RIP Eva Marie Saint.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 06/10/2026
“Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. ... Wikimedia’s volunteers have stayed resilient so far in tackling emerging challenges on our platforms, but we also want to say: it doesn’t need to be this way.”
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OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
Recently, multiple organisations have disclosed how clusters of so-called “rogue” AI agents attempted to break into websites and online services, sometimes successfully. Agents from OpenAI’s enviro…
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Andrew Ducker @andrewducker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Do you want a robot revolution? Because this is how you get a robot revolution
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F.02 Decommission
We love Figure 02. It is an incredible robot.
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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People! Book people, people who love books & people who talk about books! Here is a beautiful thing! Dunsany's stories are rich with ancient & undiluted wonder, & they deserve to be read again. And Thomas Brown's illustrations will carry them like music, deep into your heart.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 06/10/2026
While I was struggling with protecting my mom's site from the bot swarm I kept asking everyone who is still in the industry how small sites who don't have a kid with a computer science degree survive and the answer was pretty much "they don't" and that's so grim
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'Ghost particles' from space telescope wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics
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'Ghost particles' from space telescope wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics
Belgian physicist Prof Francis Halzen has won for his pioneering work on an observatory that detects particles from space.
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Very sorry to hear that Malcolm Edwards has died. A major figure at Gollancz SF, through much of my career, and part of the reason I have a career at all. A genuine SF fan for all his eminence, and a charming guy.
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David Gregory-Kumar @drdavidgk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Anyway. Please enjoy this DAZZLE CAMOUFLAGE NARROW BOAT!!!! (You probably can’t see* it, it’s centre frame) (*or at least accurately torpedo it)
A narrow boat in the distinctive abstract black and white WWI “dazzle” camouflage.
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
No lies detected
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Eddie Cochrane @cobrabay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As all I know about Hebden Bridge comes from Juno Dawson's "Her Majesty's Royal Coven" series, this is not at all surprising.
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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mitch Benn presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s DRACULA Lost for 120 years, restored, recreated and completely made up by MITCH BENN STRICTLY LIMITED RUN - FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY 24/25 October www.tickettailor.com/events/circl... #dracula #gilbertandsullivan #operetta #mitchbenn
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video. 
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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter
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Dave Meredith @davemeredith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A sample of my published photos and personal favourites over the past 50 years. Details in the alt text.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He  
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.
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LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#LunchtimeReading : always delighted to have new @eyedotter.bsky.social & @bryan-talbot.bsky.social to read: Lo! An Amazon, a graphic biography of Mary Wollstonecraft, pub by the fine @selfmadehero.bsky.social crew #books #livres #comics #BandeDessinee #BookSky
A page showing Mary Wollstonecraft arriving at an 18th century bookseller 's
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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 04/10/2026
This is really very good www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...
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‘It’s a deep soul connection’: Erasure on how 40 years of friendship got them through grief – and why Vince Clarke has quit touring
Returning for a 20th album of sumptuous synthpop, Andy Bell and Clarke open up about supporting one another through bereavement, being happily uncool and battling the resurgence of homophobia
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have never seen an animal so perfectly express the emotion of "holy SHIT" more than that owl
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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