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Full Circle Fibres

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Textile Scientist. Circularity Champion, Churchill Fellow

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.
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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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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pretty Awesome 👍
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 07/10/2026
A 10,000-year-old glacier in Slovenia is possibly days away from melting entirely.
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Carole with an e @crwright.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Voyager 1 is running on less memory than a single photo in your camera roll—69 KB. Its data is saved to an 8-track tape & software was developed when "the cloud" was in the sky. NASA sends commands and the old thing answers. And yet your brand new laptop freezes because you opened too many tabs.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So a telescope deep in the South Pole's icy heart that looks for light only as a way of detecting the ghostly particles that are streaming through us all the time, some arriving from vast interstellar distances. If I were telling the story of humanity, I'd focus on this bit & less on the politics.
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Tiny Cosmic Particle Delivers Major Breakthrough in Astronomy
For the first time, astronomers have traced a neutrino back to its birthplace, billions of light-years across the universe.
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Full Circle Fibres @fullcirclefibres.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
vote on saturday, everyone joins in, community fundraisers / democracy sausage at polling booths , preferential voting, early voting in person, for a few weeks b4 &. postal voting…. #auspol
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Great question 👇
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 05/10/2026
Standing up to the balaclava nonces. Inspiring.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Letter printed in The Times today
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fifteen billion miles from home, the farthest machine humans have ever built is still doing science on less memory than a blank Word document and a data recorder that is, quite literally, an 8-track tape. Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is roughly 15.9 billion miles out—closing in on one light-day
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being
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Thaddeus is a girl's name 🏳️‍⚧️ @thaddeus.zone · 30/10/2025
tech bros keep promising self-aware ai when they haven't even cracked making self-aware tech bros
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔥This is how it’s done. Imagine if every anti-immigrant fearmongering liar was grilled like this. #ShowMeTheStats #GetYourPhoneOut 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (h/t @ukcameraman.bsky.social )
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Full Circle Fibres @fullcirclefibres.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the way we treat older poor women, especially if separated & barely any superannuation . destitute after a lifetime of parenting, sharing & supporting others. … add that to a family life of struggle/juggle - where’s the appeal to young people? it’s just slavery & risk, no social contract anymore
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Barbara Dylla 🇨🇦 @walkbikebus.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-gra...
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The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most ...
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Scientists warned for years: if we clear 20-25% of the Amazon, we cross the point of no return. We've already cleared 17%. We are right on the edge.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Full Circle Fibres @fullcirclefibres.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
it’s not about the jobs , it’s about physical material capability to make metal for critical uses, civilian & defence from scratch, isn’t it?
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise. Imagine if we had listened to him them.😒😒😒😪
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Full Circle Fibres @fullcirclefibres.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
medieval aristocracy did the same thing
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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/clim... #Oscillations #ENSO #ElNiño #OceanHeat #ExtremeHeat
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Dark Matter Zine @darkmatterzine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#auspol You don’t even need to read the subtitles to know what’s happening here. Australia’s medical system, public transport, hospitality industry, and more would also collapse without all our migrant neighbours. ALP, LNP and PHON are undermining our society with dangerous populist crap.
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Cazneaux Tree late yesterday - and a raven - can you see it? This tree was made famous by Harold Cazneaux who took a photo of it in 1937 that he titled 'The Spirit of Endurance'. It is a river red gum and is estimated to be 500 years old.
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 07/09/2026
This is @mrjamesob.bsky.social's London.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026
"If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, 'What would I do if I were a horse?'" -Ely Devons
A fake Harvard Business Review cover, dated September-October 2026. It features a large Roach Motel under the headline 'THE NEW CUSTOMER RETENTION' with the subhead 'Why acquire customers when you can take hostages?'A fake Harvard Business Review cover, dated September-October 2026. It features a large Roach Motel under the headline 'THE NEW CUSTOMER RETENTION' with the subhead 'Why acquire customers when you can take hostages?'
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/09/2026
The latest Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature (preliminary) is 2.78°C above the 1991-2020 baseline, marking the 99th consecutive daily record, a full 0.79°C higher than the previous daily record set in 1997. The Climate Casino is taking the OVER on 3.0°C by the end of September.
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Full Circle Fibres @fullcirclefibres.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
phev will stay around a while until it’s easier to charge if you live in apartments or with street parking only , people like contingency
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Mamabird @jaybirdnest.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Humans need water for survival NOT data centers!
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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. — Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan sitting on a wooden garden bench, smiling at the camera with hands clasped, wearing a dark overcoat, light trousers and black shoes, against a stone wall with flowers.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Farage should attend a park run, a game of football, a Primary School in Clacton, a Prom concert before he goes all "Broken Britain" The country is NOT broken. It's millions of people, born without Farage's privilege, trying cheerfully trying their best for their families and communities.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rest in peace, Wendell Berry.
The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

from Openings: Poems (1968)
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Full Circle Fibres @fullcirclefibres.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
they ate the apple …..,
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A valediction. My @smh @theage cartoon.
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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
On Saturday, the world’s oceans were hotter than ever previously recorded www.theguardian.com/... "The new ocean heat record being set in August is especially remarkable as global sea temperatures are typically highest in March and April"
Daily global sea surface temperature records broken.
Previous record: 1 Mar 2024 21.09C
22 Aug 2026  21.1C
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026
Any frank assessment of your achievements starts with an equally frank assessment of the world-historic forces that attended those achievements. For example, I often tell people who want to get into tech, "If you lack the foresight and work ethic to be born in 1971, I can't really help you." 1/
An old-timey baseball player sliding into base in a great dust-cloud. The background is a high-magnification multicore CPU.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/08/2026
AI is alarming for many reasons: it's a dangerous financial bubble, an environmental catastrophe, and a tool for eroding wages and labor power. But in addition to all that, AI is an epistemic disaster. 1/
The North Pole at night, hand-tinted in blues and purples so it looks more like a moonscape. Protruding from the ice is the cross-sectioned head and neck of a man, his brains on display. Stepping over the leftmost mountains is a killer pulp robot, about to crush the head. Leaning against the rightmost mountains is a sneering, princely toff in a red frock coat, holding a cane that has penetrated the decapitated skull and lodged in the brains.
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Full Circle Fibres @fullcirclefibres.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
we are going see a mess in 15 yrs when this generation of grad students didn’t cut their teeth on this & won’t know what to ask these models at the moment these are powerful tools in the hands of people with decades of deep fundamental understanding to apply them & know of something looks ‘off’
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Carl Sagan’s prediction about America, made 31 years ago.
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Full Circle Fibres @fullcirclefibres.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is so so sad, a lovely little part of the world normally boggy & wet even on a sunny day, dry to tinder after an extraordinary set of heat waves & now burning underground…. 🥲 #wales #wildfire this is climate change impact, today not in decades time.
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Full Circle Fibres @fullcirclefibres.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
they could promise the fastest project delivery ever & still have nothing more than go/no go blueprints in 3 yrs time.
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