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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 7h

My view this morning back home is a little different. Darker. Colder. More rain and clouds. No yachts or palm trees.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

If anyone sees this in their local Starbucks…. 🙏 I have been in three so far, with no luck.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

The second of my recent podcast interviews - yes, there’s still one more to come! Sorry.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Last day today - flying home this evening. Almost time to leave all this behind. 😔

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Amy @thecraftycailleach @thecraftycailleach.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

It would be really great if, instead of trying to make an alternative to Wikipedia, the people complaining about the representation issues actually got engaged with Wikipedia communities and what's actually being done on the ground, and uplift that work being done by thousands of women globally.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Personally, when I’ve been in hospital, I couldn’t care less about the gender of the person in the bed next to me. I’m more preoccupied with other things - like being in hospital. Not in my own bed. The noise. Other people in general. And you know, the being sick enough to require being in hospital…

bbc.co.uk

Trans people should use hospital spaces according to biological sex, NHS England says

New guidance says trans patients should be cared for on single-sex hospital wards or bays that align with their biological sex.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

There are good people in the world still! I left my wallet at a petrol station a while back and it was barely an hour before a chap turned up at my door with it!

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Yeah, just a few bruises. But she was beating herself up for losing it, so this is a real weight off her mind. We were just thankful she had her phone and passport in a smaller bag separately.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Sunset at the beach last night. How’s that for a picture-perfect postcard view?

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

My almost-mother-in-law had a fall on the Underground on the way to the airport a few weeks ago, and somehow lost her bag with $500 cash and nearly £4k in jewellery in it. Heard today from TFL it had been handed in, all contents intact. Miracle! Restores your faith in people a little bit!

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Got the bartender to make me a new cocktail we’re calling the Sweet Caroline. Rum, amaretto, cream, nutmeg, and cinnamon, with banana and a cherry to garnish.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

False advertising, the food was pretty good. And the rum punch was *hic* excellent!

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Ad on Instagram. I thought it was a colourful Death Star at first as I scrolled past…

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Not sure it’s *quite* the same…

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Yesterday was a ‘pinch me’ bucket-list type moment - cocktails in a swim-up bar right on a dock overlooking the sea. Which is incredible - the colours!

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

Tiny little crab! Straight out of a Pixar short.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
10:53 PM • 10/4/26 • 1.3M Views

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Currently vacant - I could quite happily live here!

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

It was pretty good! Plenty of leg room (that’s less of an issue for me but was the main reason for Alex, he’s 6”4), seats were only a little wider though. Real glassware and cutlery, food was average, but snacks and drinks whenever you want. Ice cream midway through too!

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

We nicked these cute little airplane salt and pepper shakes from the plane - they have ‘pinched from Virgin Atlantic’ printed on the feet, so we felt practically obliged to.

Two small chrome salt and pepper shakers shaped like cartoon aeroplanes, standing side by side on a white paper napkin. Each has stubby wings, a rounded propeller nose, and a little loop on top. The left one has a perforated, multi-holed nose; the right one has a single small hole.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

And a rainbow, just for me on our first day… 🌈 🏝️

A faint rainbow over Port St Charles marina, Barbados, with moored yachts, palm trees and peach waterfront buildings beneath a stormy sky.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

How’s that for a view from your kitchen window?

Marina canal at Port St Charles in Barbados seen through open white shutters, with a moored sailing yacht in the foreground and ochre waterside houses, palm trees and bougainvillea beyond, under a cloudy sky.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

First time flying Premium - I could (unfortunately) get used to this! Glass of Prosecco on boarding the plane - just a shame that a) it’s 11am, and b) I don’t like Prosecco. But the seats are comfy and large and so much legroom! Not that teeny 5”2 (and a bit) me really needs it.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Flight to Barbados this morning has been delayed by 75 minutes, so we could have stayed in bed longer, as opposed to the 5am alarm we had instead! But almost time to board and be away on my holidays!

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Today has been spent unpacking yesterday's suitcase from my trip to Austria for #OAT26 & repacking for my holiday to Barbados tomorrow. I am not complaining, I swear - I know how lucky I am to be able to travel for work & to have such an amazing holiday lined up - but HOLY SHIT, do I hate packing.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Nearly at 100 registrations already - with folks from the UK, US, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Greece, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Italy! Clearly a lot of interest in this, so why not come along too? #OpenAccess

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s the simplicity that makes it - because it really is that simple. People can say no to tea! Some people don’t like tea at all! Some people wanted tea but then changed their minds! Unconscious people don’t want tea!

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

My partner had never seen the work of genius that is the ‘tea consent’ video, so now I’m sharing it here again, because consent explained through the vehicle of tea is the most British thing ever. And also really fucking important.

youtu.be

Tea and Consent

YouTube video by Thames Valley Police

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our annual report for May 25-April 26 is now out! It’s been a year of steady growth, with new library supporters, new publishers, and new faces. Between them our members published 326 OA books in this time, an impressive output that rivals many commercial publishers! obc.copim.pub/six-years-in...

obc.copim.pub

Six years in the making: our 2025–26 Annual Report is here

Our 2025–26 Annual Report: 98 supporting libraries, 326 open access books from our members, new Diamond OA funding, and the OBC's move to independence.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s baffling. It’s so rude! I’m totally paranoid about my music being loud enough to hear outside of my earbuds, let alone just listening to anything on speaker!

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

You do not know how much resolve and willpower it took not to buy one. Or two. A pilot always needs a co-pilot, after all.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

It definitely isn’t cheaper - but there is stuff you don’t find at home! Like yodelling beavers in lederhosen… 😂

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