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Scot exiled to south of the wall. Personal servant to a cat. He/Him.

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 1h
The beautiful and unique Battlefield Rest Tram Shelter on the Southside of Glasgow. Designed by Frank Burnet and Boston, it opened in 1915. Cont./ #glasgow #battlefield #architecture #tram #architecturephotography
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DavidMcDavidface @davidmcdavidface.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
AAWW... YIS! And a two parter... double YIS!
"Every science fiction film ever" podcast page featuring 2001, A Space Odyssey. Black outline of a space ship on a red background.
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DavidMcDavidface @davidmcdavidface.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burn these fraternities down.
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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A little reminder that the Doctor has spent multiple lifetimes, battling evil world-challenging robots, in a whole variety of guises. Take this shit, and fucking shove it.
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DavidMcDavidface @davidmcdavidface.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"PICK UP MY SPARE TOUPEE."
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta muse saying why would I deceive you?
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
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• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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DavidMcDavidface @davidmcdavidface.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yojimbo.
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Toshiro Mifune as a Samurai in Yojimbo
Alt: Toshiro Mifune as a Samurai in Yojimbo
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DavidMcDavidface @davidmcdavidface.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Someone wants to hold hands this morning.
Maxi Bit Bat Thunderpaws reaches out and takes my hand before drifting off to sleep again.
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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Want to see an incredible comic book movie? ROGUE TROOPER. Man.
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Instead of: A hill I'm willing to die on I'm gonna start saying: A hill I'm having a picnic on Just... spreading out a blanket with a food basket and staying a long time ✅️ too many ppl dying already ✅️ picnics are cozy n nice ✅️ nobody wants to eject someone having a nice picnic on a hillside
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DavidMcDavidface @davidmcdavidface.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Selling a dream. Looking forward to this.
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DavidMcDavidface @davidmcdavidface.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Culturally, you are a moron. Of the highest order. Little reminder for bampots like these morons when they spout their bile and spittle...
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DavidMcDavidface @davidmcdavidface.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#library book haul. The daughter of Doctor Moreau by @silviamg.bsky.social and The Hungry Gods by @aptshadow.bsky.social
Two library books by extremely talented authors.
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DavidMcDavidface @davidmcdavidface.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Franchise stand-off. Things are going to get ugly.
Derpy Cat and Kuromi about to have a beat down.
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DavidMcDavidface @davidmcdavidface.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#caturday solar panel recharging for Maxi Bit Bat Thunderpaws after a hectic morning, begging for food.
Our cat, curled up after a hard morning.
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DavidMcDavidface @davidmcdavidface.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Go little fella!
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DavidMcDavidface @davidmcdavidface.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I mean, what defence is this dick head going to use to back up his 'not guilty' plea? Ummm.... we've all seen you be a twat with a knife. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Daniel Thomas pleads not guilty after dinghy slashed in Channel
Daniel Thomas is accused of criminal damage after a video appeared to show him slashing at a dinghy.
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Someone brought up Silently & Very Fast on Insta & AI butted in to “helpfully” inform me about my own book Fun fact: Never written an essay with that title. That title is a line from Ken MacLeod, scraped from an 07 Gizmodo article by @annaleen.bsky.social which reviews KM right before reviewing me
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Green looks at Blue as Blue is dramatically laying down on the floor.
Blue: You can go ahead and go to that party. I'll just be here by my self, alone.

Green looks at Blue with a frustrated frown, as Blue sticks his tongue out while making a disgusted face.
Green: You could also come with me.
Blue: I don't like people.

Green raises an eyebrow.
Green: Don't I count as "people?"
Blue: Of course not. You're the love of my life.
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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return. Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break.
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just seen Danny Tommo referred to as "Captain Thugwash" and seriously, that's excellent work.
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Amy Poehler's Perfect Chef's Kiss
ALT: Amy Poehler's Perfect Chef's Kiss
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KZ🔞 @mortarheadd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When an NSFW artist starts making SFW
Meme of Kaneda from AKIRA looking presentable in person but disheveled in his photograph
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Luke Taylor MP @luketaylorld.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is mindblowing that the Home Secretary is not making absolutely clear that these scumbag thugs will be locked up and charged with every offence possible. They put brave RNLI volunteers at risk, and they are clearly becoming more brazen. Lock them up and send a signal, before a tragedy occurs.
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Robbie Morrison @robbiemorrison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As @2000ad.bsky.social gears up for its 50th Anniversary next year, I'll be taking part in the Day of Dredd on 3rd October, signing 2pm at Forbidden Planet International, Manchester, alongside @andydiggle.bsky.social. Be there or be square😉!
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 22/09/2026
A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated. An alien emerged with a chair, which they sat down on, backwards. "Look," they said, "we're not here, okay? You know why nobody contacts you? Because the write-up would be such a pain." They sighed. "Get your shit together, okay? We know you can."
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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I was already honored to be a voice in their game, but now I’m DOUBLY grateful to have @doublefine.com’s continued support as they unabashedly celebrate our collab! (And please don’t worry. While my success & public joy seem to be upsetting to some, I feel like I’m getting to live my dream life!)
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I think of Sophie and how the men who killed her would be seen as the sort of people Kier Starmer and similar Labour types would now defend as having “legitimate concerns” and Farage would see as the backbone of England
A 20-year-old goth, Sophie Lancaster and her boyfriend were walking in a park in Васир (2007) when a gang attacked them.
One attacker later said they kicked her head like a football. This case became one of Britain's most horrifying hate crime stories.
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ukjarry.bsky.social @ukjarry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Have you seen the original artist Russ Heath's comic strip reply to Lichtenstein:
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I went to one of my favorite places in Vermont yesterday, Queen City Cat Lounge, to visit the adoptable cats and just look at this jobless wastrel. www.queencitycatlounge.com
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DavidMcDavidface @davidmcdavidface.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good morning, Bluesky. It's going to be a lazy day today. It has been decided.
Maxi Bit Bat Thunderpaws curled up beside me on the couch.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Don’t bring a union rep” is one of those sentences that always means your employer is going you treat you with respect and dignity
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...
nicolakelly.substack.com
The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes
I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 17/09/2026
HOLY SHIT NEW IMPACT CRATER ON THE MOON This crater is 222 m (728 ft) across, and formed in spring 2024. Statistical modelling tells us this is a 1-in-132 year event. So the last time a crater this big formed on the Moon was 1894.
A large crater with bright rays is situated in the centre of this image. The dark, pockmarked lunar surface makes up the background.
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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New postcard from Curiosity using Navcams taken on Sols 5000 & 5003 science.nasa.gov/photojournal...
science.nasa.gov
Curiosity Postcard Celebrates Rover’s 5,000th Day on Mars - NASA Science
While parked at a sand ridge nicknamed “Chocolatal,” NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times
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DavidMcDavidface @davidmcdavidface.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The movies title would be "The mouse that shat."
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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: the bar band from Canton will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.
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DavidMcDavidface @davidmcdavidface.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
God damn, Lanterns hit the mark tonight.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 13/09/2026
On this Breakaway day, our thoughts are with Commander John Koenig's teams on Moonbase Alpha. Today marks 27 years since the Moon left Earth's orbit, taking with it the last of the Eagles that hadn't yet exploded… It was Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Space: 1999 (1975-1977).
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...
A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 11/09/2026
Dear news media: The Muppets are grandfathered in. You can interview them, they are real, and any kayfabe are them being silly fellas. You can't "interview" Tillie Norwood. You are just letting con artists produce propaganda to funnel money into imaginary technology.
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DavidMcDavidface @davidmcdavidface.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Go on... gec the app.
An electric car shared drive scheme with a problem with the side decal, with the word "get" slightly damaged.
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DavidMcDavidface @davidmcdavidface.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Well... that's not worrying at all...
BBC News headline, "Anthropic blocks possible attempt to use AI to make biological weapons."
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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 11/09/2026
🚢 Soon to be frozen in space and time, this alien-looking vessel is beginning its first mission. 🧊 For 8 months, a crew of 12 won't leave the drifting ice in the Arctic to study how how life adapts to isolation & extremes in a region very sensitive to climate change. www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
esa.int
Arctic isolation for science
Tara Polar Station
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Remembering the wonderful DIANA RIGG — who left us 6yrs ago today, aged 82. THE AVENGERS (1961-69)
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hi Homer, I recently came across The Iliad and was blown away by its expansiveness, its humanity, and its complex use of . Have you considered new ways to promote your book and expand its reach across various platforms? I would love to connect and hear your ideas. Kind regards, Apollonius
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Picture the scene. It's 1769. You're William Aberdeen and you're drawing a map of Sebay in Tankerness, #Orkney. It's going well but then you realise there are some blank bits so you decide to add some decoration. You think about what to draw for a moment. It's an obvious choice.
A section of an old hand drawn map of Sebay in Tankerness, Orkney
A section of an old hand drawn map of Sebay in Tankerness, Orkney
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The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Some scams are easier to spot than others. That said, we get these semi-regularly and they are only getting more focused and custom-tailored, so be careful writers! And, no, we didn’t reply, but it was super-tempting.
Text from a scam email message which reads:  

Hi Arthur C. Clarke,

I recently came across 2001: A Space Odyssey, the 25th Anniversary Edition, and wanted to reach out.

I’ve been connecting with authors whose books are available to readers but may not be reaching as many new audiences as they could.

I’m curious how has your experience been with book visibility and reaching new readers? And have you considered exploring new ways to promote your book or expand its reach to additional platforms?

I’d genuinely be interested in hearing your thoughts and experience.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 06/09/2026
If you're wondering why authors are getting so rabid here: First Anthropic stole our books. Then we got denied compensation because of US unjust copyright law and publishers failing to meet their contractual obligations. Then publishers and agents apparently claimed author shares. Now this.
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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Join the Foreign Legion with #LaurelAndHardy 🛩️ THE FLYING DEUCES (1939) 10:30am Classic Comedy #TPTVsubtitles
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