Reposted by DanKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15/10/2026I would take more seriously the people promoting the idea of AI consciousness if they first materially grappled with the (much more obvious) consciousness of animals and how that affects our moral obligations to them. 53946633
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 15/10/2026@esqueer.net We’re not going to get to a sentient or conscious AI. Unfortunately, we may well get to a stage where people believe this, and accord it rights which then come into conflict with the rights of humans and animals. @astrokatie.com 000
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Comedy might be a good way start to get to how AI is not thinking or responding in any way that resembles a human. 000
Reposted by DanJasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the recent jwst images have been insane 20504103
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Micheal Psellus’s daemons seem quite similar to the tulpa’s in Twin Peaks. (from Fairies: A History by @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social) cc. @markfrost.bsky.social 030
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Slow Horses is so orange-and-tealed, it looks like a photographic negative. 010
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 16/08/2026When Elizabeth Alker on Radio 3 said regular listeners would know she's a fan of the Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, I assumed she meant the actual 1960s plans for Warrington and Runcorn, and I was very impressed. They're a band. (But I'm still impressed.) 000
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Don’t invoke those who fought in world wars. They were fighting against people like you, and most of them wouldn’t like you. (Not you. I’m talking about a speech I had the misfortune to see on BBC News.) 000
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Count Binface on being told he’s speaking to a global audience says the globe a bit parochial for him, but he’ll answer the question. 020
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Having worked at election counts, those 34 candidate ballot papers look very unwieldy. You can’t just flick through a set of 100 to check them, bound to slow things down. Could have attracted a lot of tourism, but not going to happen by the look of it. 010
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Why do some people expect a respected scholar to just jettison their integrity and pretend there’s nothing to criticize in a major film version of their area of expertise? (It’s not about accuracy by the way.) Nolan will be fine. The rest of us have gotten a brilliant article out of it. 000
Reposted by DanPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 26/07/2026A solar eclipse. On Saturn. By Titan. Photographed from Earth. 📷: AJ Smadi (StardustAstro/Correct_Presence_936) 473131543
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026The Monster Raving Loony Party should put all their resources behind Count Binface. If every anti-Reform vote goes to him, Binface wins. 🎶 To dream…. 🎶 the impossible dream…. 030
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I think people are forgetting the council election results, which meant that Starmer had to go. I really wish Burnham well, not least because he’s from the same neck of the woods as me, similar background, age. He’s not the same as any other politician, but yeah there’s a lot to do. 100
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 09/06/2026A pogrom in Belfast, encouraged by the richest man in the world. I feel a bit sick. 011
Reposted by DanKatie Mather @katiematherkm.bsky.social · 27/05/2026I don't love podcasts, but a Don Quixote radio play starring Mackenzie Crook?? With original music played on Medieval instruments?? That I can get behind. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Don Quixote, Episode 1Jason Watkins and Mackenzie Crook star in Cervantes’ classic story dramatised for radio. 1105
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 08/06/2026How dare the Reform person on #newsnight claim that Farage was speaking for all of us when he called for “cold rage” in response to the police response in that case. 0121
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Container Drivers –The Fall Love in Vain – Robert Johnson One of Us Must Know – Dylan Sunday Morning – Velvet Underground Wichita Lineman – Glen Campbell Ashes to Ashes – Bowie Ruby Tuesday – The Stones Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben – Bach Lost Highway – Hank Williams New Dawn Fades – Joy Division 110
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 01/05/2026The Cage (BBC) setting a very high bar for next years BAFTAs. I think This City is Ours will win this year - another one set in the great city of Liverpool. 100
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 30/04/2026This thread covers what I think about most “creative” uses of AI. 010
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Got hit in the head by a chaotic pendulum today, which was unexpected inside the fairest, goodliest and most famous parish church in England. (Got a bit too close trying to get a good photo.) 240
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 11/04/2026The BBC coverage of the Moon mission just asked how we get such crisp images from there. “There’s no WiFi in space.” And I thought, have you seen the photos from the Voyager missions. I know it’s just presentation, but have they heard of radio waves? 100
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The Artemis II crew are saying the sight of the solar eclipse from behind the Moon is so incredible that they think humans might not have evolved to see it and they’re struggling to process what they’re seeing. (Unlike eclipses on Earth the Moon is much larger than the Sun from their perspective.) 020
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 03/04/202660s Dalek episodes re-surfacing, flights to the Moon. Space is coming back in, folks. 000
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/grea...indexoncensorship.orgGreater Manchester school library censorship: who is accountable? - Index on CensorshipNow that Lowry Academy has been publicly named, Index has written a follow-up to last week's book banning story 000
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Just checked a @ladbible.bsky.social article for a recap of the last season of Peaky Blinders in prep for the movie, which linked directly to a spoiler-warning free post of theirs giving away the end of the movie. Thanks a bunch “Ladbible”! 000
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 26/03/2026@ladbible.bsky.social Why would you give away the ending of this film here? No spoiler warning? It wasn’t even online when this went out. What’s wrong with you? www.ladbible.com/entertainmen...ladbible.comShelby brother absent from Peaky Blinders movie could play major role in sequel seriesHere is how Finn Shelby could return in the upcoming spin off series after his banishment meant he was missing from Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. 000
Reposted by DanDan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Having to sell a couple of things. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18806912... (1st US ed of Tarantula 2nd printing) www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18806919... (magazine with Smiths flex-disc) There's a couple of other things. 011
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Having to sell a couple of things. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18806912... (1st US ed of Tarantula 2nd printing) www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18806919... (magazine with Smiths flex-disc) There's a couple of other things. 011
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Hard to think of two better people to listen to about this (mainly from the UK news perspective, and the programme is about the use language in politics). www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukStrong Message Here - You've Let Your Country Down (with Emily Maitlis) - BBC SoundsEmily Maitlis joins Armando to pore through the language of the Epstein Files. 010
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 10/12/2025I read that someone is about to become a trillionaire. I think money changes its nature in that kind of quantity, like space and time near a black hole. What’s the point? It’s not so you don’t have to worry about restaurant bills. 000
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Someone just commented they found Waiting for Godot sometimes boring. I never found it boring. But I just tried to watch my second Bergman film this week, and realised it’s very mannered and the existentialism is right up front. I might be in the wrong mood for it. 140
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Wordle 1,630 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Don’t think I’ve had a pure anagram before. And still couldn’t get the word first time. 000
Reposted by DanDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 19/11/2025PSA: me not commenting on something does not mean I am "complicit." First of all, you need to log off and touch grass. Secondly we are total strangers so call your therapist. Thirdly there are 1,000 things happening every day and I am busy. Finally what exactly do you want me to do about it? 633962
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Two guesses is my best yet. 🐹 Animal #814 🦮 🟥🟩 🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 9.5 metazooa.com #metazooametazooa.comMetazooaBecome an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal! 000
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 21/10/2025My complaint to Bristol City Council about flags - it's the third time they'e gone up on my street. Not sure the solution to that, but I mentioned a street in Wigan that has council-installed flags above the shop fronts with other countries mixed in. Very different effect. 000
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Dreamt President Trump came to my workplace where I ended up sitting in a room on my own with him. I tried to interview him, confident I’d be able to do this in my own way. His responses were desultory however, he wasn’t really interested in talking to me. 000
Dan @jamgyal.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Cover of a Kindle edition of Ulysses which for some reason is classed under "science fiction/alternative history" on Amazon. Although this scene would have been science fiction at the time the book is set. 020
Reposted by DanItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 10/09/2024(Henry VIII finishes playing his song) "So... what do you think?" "Honestly?... I really want ice cream." 310729
