Reposted by Dave Falconerbryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 102143564727
Reposted by Dave FalconerMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 08/02/2024Steve Reich walks into a bar and the barman says Why the long phase? 822663
Reposted by Dave FalconerRobert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 01/10/2026this is it. the difference between you and me and an llm is that an llm produces language in response to a prompt, and you and I *use language to make our lives worth living* 1112
Reposted by Dave FalconerLaura Moodie MSP @electlauramoodie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The proposals at Chapelcross will make it the largest data centre in the world. At its peak, it could be consuming the same amount of electricity as more than 2 million homes. Chapelcross cannot be built. The Government and Dumfries & Galloway Council must reject it. @scottishgreens.org 03321
Reposted by Dave FalconerUS Out Of Chicago @raucousdukakis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Add literally any song from All Hail West Texas 122
Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I do not believe Adrian Chiles has ever made anything better. On the list of reasons for cancelling my subscription to @theguardian.com he was number 2. Appropriately enough. Malcolm Reynolds FTW. 010
Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If they didn’t read the story, then no. But what if they are a bit of a sociopath and lack a capability for empathy? They genuinely feel nothing after reading the story, but know they can’t say that, so emulate an acceptable response, in an effort to understand “feeling”. Do they get a failing mark? 100
Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The phrase “fake it til you make it” comes to mind. 000
Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I’ve been staring at this for a while now, because whereas 8 is definitely the case, I’m not sure that 9 follows… 🤔 200
Reposted by Dave FalconerScotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“A glorious national victory simply means the wealthy rulers successfully convinced a million freezing, uneducated poor men to enthusiastically murder another million poor men for a piece of stolen dirt.” #CapitalismKills #MoreLoveLessWar — Eugene V. Debs 0186
Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Oh! Isle of Tweed is an actual chain? There’s one just opened up here 😆 011
Reposted by Dave FalconerWhite Cow in a Blizzard @mtdave.bsky.social · 12/09/2026French vampires can only be killed by a baguette to the heart, which requires painstaking effort. 5906
Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Never heard of Indiecrates, but it looks like a useful playlist curating thing 👀 000
Reposted by Dave Falconerthvtv.bsky.social @thvtv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Subvert: www.subvert.fm/thv Bandcamp: thvmusic1.bandcamp.com Soundcloud : soundcloud.com/thvtv/ #music #iTunes #bandcamp #soundcloud #independentartist 072
Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Doesn’t everyone do this? Many MANY texture photos on my phone. 110
Reposted by Dave FalconerPaul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Apparently, Meta are using Bowie's "Five Years" in an ad for AI and there goes another irony meter... *phut*wired.comMeta’s New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World EndingThe clip features the David Bowie track “Five Years,” which includes lyrics such as “Earth was really dying (dying).” 13314
Reposted by Dave FalconerThe Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026For a while there was total and deafening confusion and then, almost as quickly as they'd come, all the old sounds disappeared over the hill in search of their new freedom, and things were normal again. The people quickly went about their busy talkative business. 091
Reposted by Dave Falconerhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026To be tulled - a Hookland dialect phrase meaning to be caught between two worlds and at home in neither of them. Hookland is for the tulled. 1848070
Reposted by Dave FalconerThe Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn?" she inquired. "Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, 1132
Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I really liked that series (it showed in the UK earlier in the year). The whole “weird traditions” angle is great. Though I’m sure the people of the Peak District are DELIGHTED to be portrayed as a bunch of Wicker Man type villagers 😆 010
Reposted by Dave FalconerEmathion 📯 @emathion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from. 933831924
Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026One of the bands I play in occasionally does a cover of this acoustic version. Its great to sing, strangely uplifting 😎 010
Reposted by Dave Falconerpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/09/202625 years since I asked William Basinski to copy some tapes for me and he ruined them. I’m still mad about it. 545572
Reposted by Dave FalconerJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026You know, when you find out that the art you like is made by people you've learned hold views you find wholly repugnant, I don't think you need to disavow ever having enjoyed the art. It's okay to acknowledge you liked or loved that art, but are now putting it aside. That was then, this is now. 22673631386
Reposted by Dave FalconerRobert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 10/09/2026first full listen thru initial master of forthcoming whin record. I’m so incredibly proud of this music and so grateful I wound up in a position to be part of it. 1231
Reposted by Dave Falconerwestern jaguar (new song out now 🎶 ) @westernjaguar.bandcamp.com · 10/09/2026The best guitar is the one you're currently looking to buy. That's just the way it is. 031
Reposted by Dave FalconerJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Frankly as a classical liberal I don’t think any of this should be part of normal political discourse, but if they’re demanding it, fine: Even though it shouldn’t matter, right-wing US Evangelicalism is an unlettered perversion that ineptly projects bigotry into scripture where it doesn’t exist. 143968
Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026As well as not knowing there were two Warren Ellises, I also once went to an art exhibition showing Nick Cave’s work and was surprised then confused for quite a while that it was twirly and sparkly, rather than brooding and gothic. 030
Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026For a long time I only knew of the musician and was thus dismayed and confused by comments about sex pestery. 010
Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Went there for a couple of days a while back- would thoroughly recommend, although be warned there’s not a lot open in the off season. The hotel (The Manor House) was fantastic! 010
Reposted by Dave FalconerBrian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Today’s poem is called ‘Morrissey’s Fridge’. 437572
Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I shouldn’t speed read. I was curious as to what you’d got from Kylie Minogue… 🤦♂️ 111
Reposted by Dave Falconerphoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Charles Sheeler : Pertaining to Yachts and Yachting, 1922 Oil on canvas 20 × 24-1/16 in | 51.3 x 61.1 cm The Philadelphia Museum of Art houses the finished oil painting. The Whitney Museum of American Art holds a preliminary wax crayon and graphite pencil study. 011618
Reposted by Dave FalconerGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/202680 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing. 9533541382
Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026If any slogan deserved to go viral, it is this. 021