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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 8h

“If the wife is fit, you must acquit”

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Diane Messias @comedywriter.bsky.social · 8h

As for Mr Justice Caulfield's summing up to the jury:- "Is he in need of cold, unloving, rubber-insulated sex in a seedy hotel round about quarter to one on a Tuesday morning after an evening at the Caprice?" (No, I didn't write that line for him. 🤭 ) #JeffreyArcher

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 9h

wait what. were any ever made? I think some of his books were adapted for TV

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 10h

Today is the 117th consecutive day somewhere in the UK has recorded a temperature of 20°C or higher. The 11th of June was the last time we didn't reach this threshold. Fresher air comes in on Wednesday allowing temperatures to fall, and likely to stay just below 20°C.

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 11h

fans of this song must see its TOTP performance which may be still up on the BBC

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14h

The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 14h

Famous Tory liar and perjurer in the 80s/90s. Case law in journalism.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14h

Welcome to the serious fiscal responsibility party, where we believe that what the United Kingdom needs is its own version of the Iron Dome.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 17h

I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17h

The BBC have produced a clear, balanced online report. His disgrace comes from risk of bringing a libel trial (1987) but he would almost certainly have got away with it without London Mayoral candidacy of 1999-2000, leading to his false alibi being exposed & perjury www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Jeffrey Archer obituary

Politician and best-selling author whose career was mired in scandal and disgrace.

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Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 23h

Exciting new historical work on Rosalind Franklin continues to appear. This is a neat bit of sleuthing by historian @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and crystallographer Brian Sutton. Here's the DOI to the actual article (it's OA): 10.1007/s10739-026-09866-7 The main finding is an x-ray image of exactly

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When I was about six or seven my parents let me stay up and watch telly becuase I was sick. Panorama was covering the threat of nuclear war, which my young mind interpreted as a virtual certainty. The theme music shit me up for years after that.

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Emeline Brule @emeline.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A great exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art: Motherboards, exploring women's contributions to computing history. Lots of textiles work! sjmusart.org/exhibition/m...

Main room of the exhibition, showing video art and a standalone sculpture seemingly extended by a wall mounted pattern made of electric cables.

Amor Muñoz
Born 1979, Mexico City, Mexico
Lives and works in Mexico City
Polyptych MR4 (First period), 2010/2013
Canvas, screen printing, embroidery with cotton thread, and worker documents
MR4-Maquila Region 4, 2010/2013
Video and sound
Produced by Nestor Jimenez
Courtesy of the artist
Taking the form of a mobile factory for the manufacture of electronic textile artworks, Amor Muñoz's Maquila Region 4, or MR4, project sought to make visible the individual women workers who are routinely obscured through the process of outsourced manufacturing,
Muñoz would bike her nomadic project through economically disadvantaged areas of Mexico and offer residents a chance to work for US minimum wage-$8.00 per hour at the time of the project, compared to the standard rate of $1.20 per hour in Mexico-embroider conductive thread into artisanal fabrics to create fully functioning circuit panels. The electronic textiles brought together the main exports of maquilas (factories along the US-Mexico border that offer raw materials and cheap labor for export), textiles, and electronics, while the accompanying time cards are physical reflections of the individual maquila workers who would otherwise remain anonymous.

Marilou Schultz
Born 1954, Leupp, Arizona (Navajo Nation)
Lives and works in Mesa, Arizona
Replica of a Chip, 1994
Wool mounted on wood
Courtesy of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society
Silicon Valley's Fairchild Semiconductor operated an assembly plant on the Navajo Nation in Shiprock, New Mexico, from 1965 through 1975. During its operations, the Shiprock facility employed primarily Navajo women. The company's promotional materials characterized these women as particularly adept for assembly work due to their
"nimble fingers," honed through generations of intricate jewelry and textile work.
In 1980, another Silicon Valley giant, Intel, expanded its operations to New Mexico.
In honor of the relationship between Silicon Valley technology and Indigenous women weavers, Intel commissioned artist Marilou Schultz to weave a replica of one of its microchips. The commission was technically demanding, requiring substantial experimentation and skill to reproduce the chip's asymmetrical patterns and varied colors. The experience inspired Schultz to continue exploring new technologies through weaving, creating textiles of digital graphs, QR codes, and other microchips. Intel gifted Schultz's Replica of a Chip to the American Indian Science and Engineering Society during its 1994 conference, "Weaving Tradition and Technology, held in San José.

Analia Saban
Born 1980, Buenos Aires, Argentina Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Flowchart (Painting Gesture), 2025
Oil stick on encaustic paint on panel
Museum purchase with funds provided by Tad Freese and Brook Hartzell, Geraldine and Marco Magarelli, Karen Hillenberg, Yvonne and Mike Nevens, Daniela Barone and Matt Reiferson, and the Collection Committee, 2026.04.01
Analia Saban makes visible the hidden infrastructures of the digital age by rendering them through the techniques and materials of older technologies. Using a Jacquard loom, Saban weaves patterns of computer chips and cooling fans from copper wire and linen yarn for her "Copper Tapestries" series. Her "Motherboards" series comprises circuit boards coated in thick printer's ink that paradoxically brings out the boards' intricate surfaces.
Her most recent series, "Flowcharts, continues her concern with the dichotomy between the hand and the machine but expands beyond hardware to uncover the manual work behind artificial intelligence. On a panel covered with white encaustic made of beeswax, resin, and pigment, and layered with black oil stick, Saban has carved a flowchart with instructions for depicting gesture. Her graphic instructions parallel the inputs that structure machine learning-_-from the manual labeling of data fed into training algorithms, to the prompts users enter into generative artificial intelligence tools to produce text, images, and other outputs.

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

while Capita was failing CSPS scheme members, in a separate outsourcing deal, the DWP allowed it to lower risks in its contract to maintain margin and lower the price, increasing risk to tax payers, according to court allegations. The DWP denies this. www.theregister.com/public-secto...

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Sopra Steria widens legal challenge to Capita's Whitehall outsourcing deal

Unredacted contract prompts fresh claims of preferential treatment and greater risk for the DWP

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And, as I wrote over a year ago, this kind of ethnographical skull-measuring will always lead to outright racism and - in the attempt - utter absurdity. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

When, this week, the Telegraph printed a rabidly scaremongering report that “White British people will be a minority in 40 years”, they clarified this cohort as “the white British share of the population — defined as people who do not have an immigrant parent”.

Leaving aside how garbled that formulation is — there are millions of non-white Brits who meet that definition perfectly — it carried with it a parallel consequence. I myself do not have an immigrant parent.

In fact, every single pale and freckled ancestor of mine since 1800, Irish farmers to a soul, was born and raised in something called the United Kingdom. This is true for a large number of Irish people in the North. And since the late Prince Philip was himself a Greek immigrant, it gives me great pleasure to point out that they’d settled on a definition of ‘White British’ which includes Gerry Adams but excludes King Charles III.

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Sopra Steria widens legal challenge to Capita's Whitehall outsourcing deal

Unredacted contract prompts fresh claims of preferential treatment and greater risk for the DWP

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mariah Carey paid for the college education of Chris and Tina's kids by sampling 3.5 seconds of this fucking record, apparently.

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Japan CamBot @japan-cambot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tateyama Murodo, Toyama, Japan #Japan #Nippon

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

yes. I guess I meant they were not alert to the long-term commercials. But that's the same with a lot of tech buyers

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But it still suffers from lock-in, and the NHS can't easily get data out. The problems are both commercial and technical. The NHS sleepwalked into it.

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Aww, had a lovely evening, the excellent Helston Bookshop owners gave me a bottle of mead and took me out for curry afterwards! Events organisers, the bar has been RAISED.

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was born in 72, and all I remember is Spangles and white dog poo. Anyway, the thing about this trope on the right is that it says it is impossible to have the good things from the 70s, like affordable housing and Spangles, without having the bad things, like industrial unrest and white dog poo.

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Agreed. I think I’d be ok with $999 million.

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've just happened across this. Incredible work. Thanks for sharing

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When making fried breakfast, "is one egg un oeuf?"

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Counterpoint: collies are just show-offs.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I didn’t believe it at first, either. (via David Sacks)

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Isn't that where Chris Mason started out?

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know there is a lot of news going on right now and I have only the vaguest understanding of financial markets but I think the general concensus is this is really bad.

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Paul Watson 🌍 @paulmwatson.com · 29/09/2026

The AI-LLM has made shadow IT even harder to control, we're inunduated with scarelines about "rogue" agents "escaping containment", and then Microsoft says; Everyone is a Fabric developer now. 🤦🏼 www.theregister.com/applications...

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Redmond to millions of Power BI users: You’re Fabric app devs now

Software giant expands audience for agent coding of data apps by an order of magnitude

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The absolute grift is staggering. I should not be surprised, yet I am.

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Does Microsoft ontology mean the same as Palantir ontology? I interviewed a Palantir expert a while back who said Palantir's ontology wasn't really an ontology at all, but clever sales phraseology. The technology was useful nonetheless, in his view.

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

These were a splinter group from Big Flame, were they not? I have one of their 12"

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Someone seems to have stolen a large part of September. Give it back.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m on tenterhooks here. Keep the updates coming.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Final point on this. There’s nothing new to HO wanting lower numbers and HMT wanting higher numbers. Was ever thus (eg May vs Osborne). What is more surprising is that Mahmood never gets asked about this and the relative silence of Govt ministers (other than Rayner) on positive side of immigration.

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's like a weird complicit open secret between the press and politicians.

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I didn’t know Jerry Adams was also a scientist

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When you watch Spain it actually looks like they’re playing with an extra player. It’s kinda magical

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