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cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 14h
As Halloween approaches I remember as a child being in my neighbours shed with a sharp knife and a seemingly endless supply of turnips. Those were the days
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cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Its a blessing not to be rich, can you imagine being as terrified of taxation as these billionaires are
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cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Isnt it comforting that the UK is full of US bases all commanded by an idiot who's obviously in Putin's pocket
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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Meanwhile in the UK. Was. "Let's make our universities financially dependent on overseas students." Then. "Let's make overseas students feel increasingly unwelcome." Now. "Screw that, let's just withdraw our offers so they don't come in the first place." Next. "Who needs universities anyway?"
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UK universities withdraw offers from international students to avoid blanket ban
Pullback comes in response to doubling in number of study visas being refused by the Home Office in the first six months of 2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump wants the US to fund Putin’s evil regime.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Why parents make great scientists: Because they recognize that "Lauren errors" happen all the time.
There was the incident that became known as “the Lauren error”: One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight — which crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight. 

She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that’s exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program. This was an early example of “defensive” programming, the practice of building software that could anticipate or fix errors on its own.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We're back, baby - this month's free newsletter features a reminder to get to the blackberries before the púca does, why black cats are useful for fungal infections, and Dublin's 17th century "bisexual witch" - for more of the nonsense below, sign up for the next one: www.ciaraioch.com/newsletter
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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW: Liberty Investigates and The Guardian discover British Transport Police’s initial six-month trial of live facial recognition tech in London’s railway stations: - cost more than £320,000 - took nearly 100 hours of police time - resulted in no arrests www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Trial of live facial recognition in London stations ends with a false positive and no arrests
Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert
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Peter Ritchie @peterritchie.com · 24/09/2026
TIL there is a Trump Ave in Ottawa Canada, named after donald trump about 20 years ago. And yesterday the city decided to rename it after residents of the street decided they didn't want to live on a street by that name.
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Totally true
a social post from @kyleplanemoji

"But what if they don't deserve that money?" is only ever a question asked of poor people
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cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Reform storm out of the Scottish Parliament because they couldnt find any brown people to blame the independence debate on
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Precisely this—the power attributed to technology makes it incredibly useful for laundering responsibility
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Reform UK MSP David Smith asks the First Minister about whether the Scottish Government would consider imposing restrictions on Muslim women wearing the burqa in Scotland. John Swinney's response is spot on. #FMQs
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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I set up a donation a couple of years ago out of pure spite. Do it.
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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Picking on the RNLI and thinking you are the good guys is such a great example of what is presumably an irreversible brain rot, like if you opened up the bonnet on those heads it would be like when a peach has gone too mushy to be saved
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
These snivelling cowards. Canadians will not forget that America treated Putin's Russia like its best friend and us like an enemy. Ever.
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cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
So the lesson from events in Dover to all the Climate Change activists and Palestine solidarity protesters labelled as terrorists or arrested - you should have cosplayed as paramilitaries
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
carbonbrief.org
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Red card issued to fans at the 1988 Scottish Cup final.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Nigel Farage resigns when he shouldn't, but doesn't resign when he should.
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cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So Starmer was just in the commons as a tourist after all
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Susan🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦🥊🐶 @bellwhitworth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Even better with Alt Text! 👍🏼
TRUMP: Canada's unemployment rate is 10% and rapidly rising
FACT: Canada's unemployment rate is 6.4% and has been declining for 3 straight months
TRUMP: Canada does 95% of its business with the US
FACT: The real figure is 72% and decreasing with new trade partnerships
TRUMP: Blames Canadian tariffs on US agricultural exports for the trade deficit
FACT: 97% of US agricultural exports to Canada are already tariff free.
Actual deficit is mainly from cheap Canadian crude oil imports that benefit US consumers.
TRUMP: Canada doesn't buy US agricultural products
FACT: Canada is the 2nd largest buyer of US agricultural products
TRUMP: Canada is among the world's highest-tariff nations
FACT: WTO ranks Canada near the bottom
TRUMP: Canada essentially doesn't have a military
FACT: Canadian Forces have fought alongside US troops in multiple wars for decades (ie: Afghanistan) and rank in the upper half of NATO by force size.
TRUMP: The US trade deficit with Canada is $200 billion
FACT: Extremely inflated. It was $27 billion in 2025. NOT EVEN CLOSE!
TRUMP: Canada bans American banks.
FACT: More than a dozen US banks operate in Canada
TRUMP: Canada is constantly surrounded by Chinese and Russian ships.
FACT: WHAT????????
TRUMP: Canadians support becoming the 51st State
FACT: Overwhelmingly, NO!
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Lake Ontario's name comes from the Wyandot word Ontarí'io, which is typically translated as "beautiful lake". The Kanienʼkéha called it Katarokwi. Samuel de Champlain called it Lac de St. Louis. The name Lacus Ontario was first recorded in 1660 by Francis Creuxius.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today
Margaret McGirr’s letter (“AI can lend a hand, but it will struggle to replace one”, July 21) and Chine McDonald’s guest column (“This retro revival is more than a longing for the past”, Opinion, August 7) both touch (sic) on something that should be obvious, but is carefully ignored by almost everyone in the tech world. Namely that our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies.
The brain’s job is to control the body in the world; it is the last organ to develop.
Every square centimetre of our hands (and of the rest of our skin) contains about a 170 touch sensors or nerve endings, sensitive to different kinds of touch: a slap, a burn, a caress, a hug — each of which travels to different parts of the midbrain, prompting the appropriate response. Quickly to the autonomic nervous system for something dangerous; more slowly via a different channel for something carrying meaning.
In addition to the hand’s limitless versatility, it is self-repairing, regulates its own temperature, knows without being programmed how much pressure to exert on an egg, a tennis ball or a day-old chick, and can fuse neurologically to whatever it holds.
So when we put a glass down on the table or slide a knife through an apple, we feel the table, or the apple, not the glass or handle in our hand (try it!).
Finally, and most urgently, the entire human body — including the hands — does everything on 25 or so watts of completely renewable energy: a tiny fraction of what a humanoid robot, even one of the current primitive iteration of robots, needs.
The “retro revival” is thus not cultural nostalgia.
It’s millions of years of evolution crying out to be heard, before we suppress it totally in the service of an automated — and dead — planet.
Sheila Hayman
Member of the Advisory Board, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, London NW1, UK
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Battersea Power Station in 1936 by Bill Brandt, from his famous series of night photographs of London which were inspired by Brassaï's night photos of Paris. This is a masterpiece.
Silhouette of the chimneys and gasometer at Battersea Power Station at night
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
100% #BookSky
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JC Darcy @jcdarcy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
White folk don't appreciate how pervasive and insidious comments like these are. We're able to 'forget' about racism, only deal with it when we feel like it. POC don't have that luxury.
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This, alone, tells you everything you need to know about Nigel Farage's incompetence.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...
newrepublic.com
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Monsters
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We've survived the entirety of human history without data centres. We can't survive more than a few days without clean drinking water.
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Green Eggs and Ham: I Told You So
Alt: Green Eggs and Ham: I Told You So
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Me earlier today: One of the things I hate the most about AI is how it makes people think that laws, rules, standards and common courtesy don’t apply to them anymore. They are shameless. Literally. They feel no shame for the absolute crap they produce. They shrug their shitty work off.
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Just saw someone post re: Emily Wilson "is this the most discourse ever caused by a translator?", and felt the misty ghost of James "Ossian" Macpherson rise enraged from a pool in Morvern
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orbette @orbette.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Yes. But that doesn't mean we're wrong.
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cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Burnham's appointment of Anas Sarwar is interesting. Why does he need a consultant on how to lose elections?
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Máirtin Ó’Caoiṁ (O’Keeffe) @mokeeffee.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Someone at a senior level in UK government needs to very publicly tell the US it is none of their business who the UK PM appoints.
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
His mother, María Arthuer, crossed the Sahara Desert barefoot in 1994. She climbed over Melilla’s border fence penniless and pregnant with Iñaki. Today, her son is a world champion. #respect
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cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Does anyone at FIFA actually like football? They seem to do everything in their power to change it into something else
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cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A former boss of mine once confessed that attending a reception in company with some West Indian cricketers she tried to start a conversation with a man she met with "And are you involved with cricket too?" The man was Sir Garfield Sobers
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cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Data Centers are they worth fouling up the climate and smashing local communities so that some overrated software can recommend things I've no interest in to me?
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cscaim.bsky.social @cscaim.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
We can ignore the North American circus. There's an afternoon packed with Scottish League Cup fixtures - real footbll
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