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Lucy Knight

@jargonautical.bsky.social
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Gamer, coder, author, nerd Books at www.laurie-mather.co.uk Nerdery at www.jargonautical.com

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Interview with Alex Craven, co-founder of thedatacity.bsky.social, which has apparently launched in the US: 'I want to build a tech unicorn from Leeds' businesscloud.co.uk/news/i-want-... (Tom Forth is namechecked as "Tom Ford")
"I did a proper business planning exercise: what is this problem? How big is it? And actually, it’s everywhere in the world,” says Alex. “Every industrial classification system is broken everywhere."

In the UK, there are 4.5 million active companies – but only 2.8m which actually do anything, and only 1.4m that employ more than one person.

The Data City has classified them all. "The real economy is around a million businesses," says Alex. "We match them to their websites, and then we classify them into the industries that they actually operate in."
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God @thegodshow.com · 18/09/2026
lol smite
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Harper Collins ‘knew’ [about David Walliams] - but they did nothing” HT @louiestowell.bsky.social millihill.substack.com/p/glass-wall...
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‘Glass-walled offices’ for ‘the mad king of the palace’: how David Walliams was enabled and protected
As Harper Collins drops the author completely, why was this problematic man allowed to reign so long?
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not to profit off Amazon's poor decisions or anything; but if you were considering switching allegiance to a different ecosystem then the EPUB version of Somewhere To Be is also available on Kobo Plus :) www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you like: * grown up protagonists * thrift shops and coffee shops * a sprinkling of data science * sweary fairies * mythology and vengeance then Somewhere To Be should be your next read! yorkbookshop.com/fantasy/758-...
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you like: * grown up protagonists * thrift shops and coffee shops * a sprinkling of data science * sweary fairies * mythology and vengeance then Somewhere To Be should be your next read! www.amazon.co.uk/Somewhere-Be...
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Faerie doors go both ways ... www.amazon.co.uk/Somewhere-Be...
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Somewhere To Be: Book 1 in the Queen's Rage series Just £2.99 on Kindle and Kobo! www.laurie-mather.co.uk/shop.html
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tenth Province: Book 2 in the Queen's Rage series - coming this Autumn! Join the mailing list for updates, bonus content, and sneak previews 😀 📩 mailchi.mp/241710dd33e9...
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What if ... the immortal has only lived this long by winging it? www.amazon.co.uk/Somewhere-Be...
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You'd think a man who's lived this long would have learned how to talk to girls by now. www.amazon.co.uk/Somewhere-Be...
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ageless, yes. Faultless ... not so much. Somewhere To Be: Book 1 in the Queen's Rage series www.amazon.co.uk/Somewhere-Be...
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Not to profit off Amazon's poor decisions or anything; but if you were considering switching allegiance to a different ecosystem then Somewhere To Be is also available on Kobo and BookFunnel :) www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... payhip.com/b/8zkBS
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The feedback is IN :D Time to get this book finished and ready for my editor ...
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I just checked the back, and we're completely out of shadow daddies. Could we interest you in a morally grey fairy god-uncle instead? www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Tenth Province: Book 2 in the Queen's Rage series - coming this Autumn! Join the mailing list for updates, bonus content, and sneak previews 😀 📩 mailchi.mp/241710dd33e9...
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What if ... the immortal has only lived this long by winging it? www.amazon.co.uk/Somewhere-Be...
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Somewhere To Be: Book 1 in the Queen's Rage series Just £2.99 on Kindle and Kobo! www.laurie-mather.co.uk/shop.html
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 01/09/2026
We've published an explainer tackling some of the most common questions and claims we've seen about the benefits system and how much it costs, including: ▪️Can immigrants claim benefits? ▪️Are most people on Universal Credit in work? Read it here:
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How much is being spent on benefits? – Full Fact
We’ve answered some commonly asked questions about the benefits system.
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Somewhere To Be: Book 1 in the Queen's Rage series. Just £2.99 on Kindle and Kobo! www.laurie-mather.co.uk/shop.html
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International Times @internationaltimes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Charles Barouch>Concellation 2026 The Con Staff would like to warn you of an alarming new AI scam.
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I just checked the back, and we're completely out of shadow daddies. Could we interest you in a morally grey fairy god-uncle instead? www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The predictable Discourse is starting and I'm going to take a strong stand here: you can both want to abolish ICE and laugh really, really hard at Milo Yiannopoulos getting arrested by ICE after a decade of stoking the ethnonationalist hatred that led us to this point
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Ageless, yes. Faultless ... not so much. Somewhere To Be: Book 1 in the Queen's Rage series www.amazon.co.uk/Somewhere-Be...
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Floodlight @floodlightnews.org · 27/08/2026
NEW: Thermal drone footage shows the Microsoft-backed DataOne AI data center in Vineland, NJ is running dozens of gas generators. None of them have permits. A Floodlight visual investigation with @us.theguardian.com:
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One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law’
Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators
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Becca Coffindaffer @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The NYT platformed Coral Hart and her business PlotProse. She wants to charge you hundreds of dollars for her AI "writing" courses, but is there any value in them? And what kind of damage are AI-generated books doing to us, our world, and the publishing industry? #booksky youtu.be/UTZKuDIlSeM?...
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AI Author Grifts and Why No One Respects AI-Generated Books
YouTube video by Becca Coffindaffer
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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Grocer launches real-time fuel price tracker www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/the-gro... Fuel Price Monitor that groups forecourts by canopy brand / supermarket chain (UK) www.thegrocer.co.uk/reports-and-... Fuel Finder service (underlying data) www.gov.uk/government/c... #fuelprices #opendata
The Grocer has launched a new fuel price tracker that monitors the cost of petrol and diesel at the largest canopy brands and supermarkets.

Powered by Fuel Finder UK, the data is refreshed throughout the day using national forecourt pricing data submitted to the government's Fuel Finder service.

The dashboards show the average price for each forecourt brand and pinpoints the cheapest and most expensive forecourt for each group, as well as the daily and weekly pricing movements, providing a real-time granular view of the cost of fuel.

At the time of launch, Shell is the most expensive fuel retailer, with diesel averaging 187.4ppl and petrol 165.3ppl. Of the supermarkets, Morrisons is the cheapest for petrol at 158.7ppl, while Tesco is cheapest for diesel and averages 178.8p.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“by a celebrity 💅” fuck her god she’s SO MAD someone else besides her is being lauded as the patron saint of child literacy. you had your chance and blew it, lady! that’s not who you are anymore! gotta force HBO to reboot your movies just to feel something smh
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 27/08/2026
You can just ban socially toxic technologies! They were socially banned like twelve years ago with Google Glasses, we can do it again in more formal ways with this latest attempt to push the Pervert's Delight™ onto society. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Push for import ban on 'pervert' smart glasses amid privacy concerns
Support is growing for a ban on the import of so-called “smart glasses”, amid an influx of low-cost devices that are being used to film Australians without their consent.
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Julia Cushion @juliacushion.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Should public data have to pay for itself? 🤑 We think charging for data risks reducing the value of public data and locking useful datasets away for the long term. Quick summary of our response to the government’s call for evidence: www.mysociety.org/2026/08/27/t...
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The problem with making public data pay for itself
The government is looking at whether public bodies should have more freedom to charge for access to their data, and we've responded to its call for evidence. There are good reasons to be cautious abo...
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This morning I cut five chapters from the beginning of my WIP and wrote a completely new opening scene from a side characters POV. Ask me how angry I am that this worked so incredibly well 😡
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Not to profit off Amazon's poor decisions or anything; but if you were considering switching allegiance to a different ecosystem then Somewhere To Be is also available on Kobo and BookFunnel :) www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... payhip.com/b/8zkBS
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If you like: * grown up protagonists * thrift shops and coffee shops * a sprinkling of data science * sweary fairies * mythology and vengeance then Somewhere To Be should be your next read! www.laurie-mather.co.uk/shop.html
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
You'd think a man who's lived this long would have learned how to talk to girls by now. www.amazon.co.uk/Somewhere-Be...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/08/2026
I already didn't go to Starbucks (not drinking coffee at all helps with that) but I'm happy to support this. If you do drink coffee, find a nice local coffee shop to give your business to.
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
That's our latest giveaway wrapped up and the winner selected - if you entered the draw it could be you, so do check your emails (not forgetting your spam folder, just in case!) Our next giveaway will be in November: to sign up simply join our mailing list: mailchi.mp/ea7354c3967b...
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Well, it's another week. Time to convince people to buy my book, I guess :) www.amazon.co.uk/Somewhere-Be...
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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 23/08/2026
Greenwich Council, hang your heads in shame. As a challenge, see if *you* can work out how to order a replacement wheelie bin online. It can be done. I promise you that finding out how will make you scream, as it did me.
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Hey, I gained some followers. Was it the book outline full of profanity, or the reposting of thoughtful political content from actual smart people? Either way, at least half of you are shortly going to be very disappointed.
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
What if ... the immortal has only lived this long by winging it? www.amazon.co.uk/Somewhere-Be...
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Re-plotting the book outline is going really well ...
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Ageless, yes. Faultless ... not so much. Somewhere To Be: Book 1 in the Queen's Rage series www.amazon.co.uk/Somewhere-Be...
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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The most famous transphobe on Earth, over the sound of her own molars cracking, preparing for the release of a new show based on her only successful books: "I think these mentally ill monsters are fine sometimes." Online "trans" "press": OMG HASHTAG ALLY YASS QUEEN!" 😍😍😍🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
jon ronson has written a book about men who go crazy online and he's dedicated an entire chapter to graham linehan. graham is not going to like the observer review.
Ronson’s account of Graham Linehan is another harrowing tale of a man’s life ruined by the internet. Linehan was a beloved comedy writer, co-creator of Father Ted, and a prolific presence on Twitter, where he was well liked and respected. Then, in 2013, something began to shift, when an episode of his sitcom The IT Crowd, first broadcast in 2008, was repeated. In it, a man discovers his girlfriend is transgender and a brawl breaks out between the two. Viewers did not like the display of violence nor the supposed implication that the trans woman was “really” a man, underlying maleness bursting forth uncontrollably once she is angry.

Linehan responded to criticism with polite bafflement, then defensiveness, and finally overt anger. He began to research transgender issues and developed a singular obsession with the topic, which has since gone on to comprehensively destroy his career and personal life. Linehan, who believes trans activism and indeed ordinary trans existence pose an existential threat to women, talks of little else (except, these days, a fervent pro-Israel stance). He tweets near-constantly, cloaking his obsession with supposed concern for the wellbeing of cisgender women, but he does not balk at aggressively insulting those women who disagree with him.Linehan’s self-ignited ruin stopped being satisfying for even his opponents to watch a while back, and now is only profoundly depressing. Ronson was once a good friend, but in refusing to endorse Linehan’s beliefs about transgender issues, he was added to his long list of his enemies. In The Castle, Ronson speaks to him directly, having been attacked countless times on Linehan’s social media feed. One thing that becomes clear, beyond the truly abject state of Linehan’s wellbeing, is that he is able to persevere with his campaign because he has convinced himself he is battling the greatest danger currently at play in the world. At one point he suggests that there are so many fewer serial killers nowadays because all the sociopaths have migrated to the internet in order to argue with him about trans issues instead. It reminded me of religious protesters screaming at me in Dublin once, as I walked into a reproductive-rights clinic that provided information about abortion. I was furious, but then forced myself to think about how I would feel or act if I truly, earnestly believed that every abortion is equivalent to the murder of a child. That might, indeed, drive me mad.

The Linehan chapter is brilliant: insightful, candid and moving. I’m still not convinced that any broader crisis of masculinity or male purpose had much to do with Linehan’s downfall, though. He wasn’t at a loss or empty of purpose when he began his campaign. He didn’t turn to vitriol because he didn’t have anything else to do. His case is, if anything, notable for involving a man with an enviable life and abundant success throwing it away for reasons that to many in the outside world may seem obscure or deranged.
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
History/horology side of BlueSky - I just learned of the existence of Nuremberg eggs, and I want to include a similar device in one of my books. Where’s the best place to learn about the mechanism? (Please share for reach)
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Text: Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence. 
Background image: a bearded man putting up the frame of aparge tent in a muddy field with trees in the background.
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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Royal Mail's 'Find an address' service is still working – can't we just add UPRNs to that? www.royalmail.com/find-a-postc... Why do we need two sites for finding addresses? (Perfectly reasonable questions that we don't want the minister to ask)
Screenshot of GeoPlace status page, with latest update:

"Update - Findmyaddress.co.uk still remains offline. An update will be provided tomorrow before 5.30pm. Sorry for any problems this is causing.
"Aug 19, 2026 - 17:33 BST"
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