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Dave Falconer

@dmfalconer.bsky.social
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Musician, Philosopher, Geek. Player in the band Riggwelter - new album here: riggwelter.bandcamp.com All opinions are my own

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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
SUCH a good series 😆
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Steve Reich walks into a bar and the barman says Why the long phase?
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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 01/10/2026
this 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*
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Laura Moodie MSP @electlauramoodie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The 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
A graphic that reads “reject chapelcross data centre” “the world’s largest data centre must not be built in Scotland”. Below the text is the Scottish greens logo.
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US Out Of Chicago @raucousdukakis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Add literally any song from All Hail West Texas
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Came here to say just that- fantastic album.
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I 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.
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Post of the day.
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If 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?
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The phrase “fake it til you make it” comes to mind.
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’ve been staring at this for a while now, because whereas 8 is definitely the case, I’m not sure that 9 follows… 🤔
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
An interesting read.
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Scotland'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
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Oh! Isle of Tweed is an actual chain? There’s one just opened up here 😆
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Could it be a lie? It’s…
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White Cow in a Blizzard @mtdave.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
French vampires can only be killed by a baguette to the heart, which requires painstaking effort.
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very VERY much this! 😳
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Never heard of Indiecrates, but it looks like a useful playlist curating thing 👀
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thvtv.bsky.social @thvtv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Subvert: www.subvert.fm/thv Bandcamp: thvmusic1.bandcamp.com Soundcloud : soundcloud.com/thvtv/ #music #iTunes #bandcamp #soundcloud #independentartist
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Doesn’t everyone do this? Many MANY texture photos on my phone.
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Apparently, Meta are using Bowie's "Five Years" in an ad for AI and there goes another irony meter... *phut*
wired.com
Meta’s New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending
The clip features the David Bowie track “Five Years,” which includes lyrics such as “Earth was really dying (dying).”
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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For 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.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
To 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.
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yhatzeee!
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The 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,
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I 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 😆
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Very nice 😍
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Emathion 📯 @emathion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The 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.
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One of the bands I play in occasionally does a cover of this acoustic version. Its great to sing, strangely uplifting 😎
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Likely, and me too!
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years since I asked William Basinski to copy some tapes for me and he ruined them. I’m still mad about it.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026
You 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.
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Really looking forward to this!
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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 10/09/2026
first 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.
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western jaguar (new song out now 🎶 ) @westernjaguar.bandcamp.com · 10/09/2026
The best guitar is the one you're currently looking to buy. That's just the way it is.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Frankly 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.
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As 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.
A photo of Nic Cave the artist’s reflective kinetic sculptures
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For a long time I only knew of the musician and was thus dismayed and confused by comments about sex pestery.
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“Neither. I want it for my armpits.”
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Went 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!
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
😆 Nice…
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Essential reading @duvzo.bsky.social
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Today’s poem is called ‘Morrissey’s Fridge’.

Morrissey’s Fridge
 
Morrissey 
was filled
with sudden 
self-doubt,

as he shut 
his fridge door –
did the light 
never go out?


Brian Bilston
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I shouldn’t speed read. I was curious as to what you’d got from Kylie Minogue… 🤦‍♂️
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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Charles 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.
The work fragments sails, water, and hulls into overlapping, geometric planes, capturing the dynamic energy of modernism and industrial rhythm.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 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.
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If any slogan deserved to go viral, it is this.
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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Oh VERY good!! 👏👏👏😆
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