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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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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 5h
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 · 7h
I just checked the back, and we're fresh out of shadow daddies. Can we interest you in a morally grey fairy god-uncle instead? www.laurie-mather.co.uk/shop.html
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And once again: every actual artist has stories about being hounded and pestered and micromanaged over individual pixels, by the very same people who ship absolute fucking slop that can't even spell the company's name right and which makes all the food look like it's made of bugs and worms etc.
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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 11/10/2026
#NeverSkilling came up at conference - using #AI so no skill is ever learnt or acquired
Presenter pointing at opening page of research on never skilling  by medical professionals
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Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nic Cage:
He continued: “How do you survive AI? Amazon is a very AI friendly company to the tune of 50 billion dollars invested to OpenAI. I am not an AI friendly actor. I didn’t sign the waiver to let them use AI on Spider-Noir. It’s kind of like I’m probably not going to be working with that studio again. But that’s OK. So I got to get with these young directors who are Gen Z and they’re going at it their own way, whether it’s through the YouTube culture or whatever it is. They’re doing it from scratch and by hand. I want to get with that.”
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🇺🇦👇🏼
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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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Lisa Severn @lisasevern.uk · 11/10/2026
The BBC charter section 6.4: "...the BBC should accurately and authentically represent and portray the lives of the people of the United Kingdom today, and raise awareness of the different cultures and alternative viewpoints that make up its society"
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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So, the reason we mock horrible fascists is not to make fascists change their minds. It is to show they are mockable. It breaks the veneer of respectability and power. It gives others social permission to mock them. Satire is poisonous to power because it makes opposition both fun and collaborative.
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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 10/10/2026
This is how British WW2 psyops worked. Making the weirdness of Nazis more explicit. Mocking their ridiculous uniforms and actions.
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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026
Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly
Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Somewhere To Be: Book 1 in the Queen's Rage series www.amazon.co.uk/Somewhere-Be...
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good." 

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues  "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
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More silence

"Professor?"
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Matt Round @mattround.com · 09/10/2026
Product idea: caps lock key with Brian Blessed’s face on it
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Bjg Time Chatlie account seeking to identify & incite vs RNLI staff as traitors was run by a recruitment consultant in Worcestershire who is a Restore donor & Cromwell Club member. He hss now deactivated the anon troll account after being publicly identifird www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists
Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase
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Linda Dunn @dunn4authors.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
does this thing have hugs? sending hugs 😢 🫂
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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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Ann Kempster @annkempster.com · 08/10/2026
Good stuff from Gavin here. It's incredibly worrying that this is being done behind closed doors. It only breeds worry that it's the very worst and wrongest people being listened to. To renew faith and trust in government, this kind of work must be done in the open.
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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Petition for Jamelle Bouie to replace all headline writers in the US.
YouTube. Video with title

I cannot emphasize enough that the president has pudding for brains
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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 · 08/10/2026
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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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com · 08/10/2026
Exclusive: the government doesn’t want you to know who’s advising it on civil service reform medium.com/state-of-the...
medium.com
Exclusive: the government doesn’t want you to know who’s advising it on civil service reform
The short version
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I see you testing in prod Nick B
Screenshot of record in the National Data Library directory:

Nick B Test
Publisher Environment Agency

Summary
Nick B Test Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.

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There are no links to this data.
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Faerie doors go both ways ... www.amazon.co.uk/Somewhere-Be...
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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 · 06/10/2026
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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Linda Dunn @dunn4authors.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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 · 05/10/2026
I just checked the back, and we're fresh out of shadow daddies. Can we interest you in a morally grey fairy god-uncle instead? www.laurie-mather.co.uk/shop.html
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Linda Dunn @dunn4authors.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Lucy Knight @jargonautical.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Seriously 💥
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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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