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Jim Finnis @jfinnis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My colleague Tomos on the national news talking about the SKP field trials of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xGp... (yeah, the lead story is the prisoner release.)

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Prisoners celebrate first wave of early release scheme - Watch Thursday's ITV Evening News

YouTube video by ITV News

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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

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Jim Finnis @jfinnis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Behind some ISO standards lurk fascinating stories. Here's ISO 18385.

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Jim Finnis @jfinnis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My colleague Helen talking about the Exomars Rosalind Franklin rover trials currently going on in Spain from the Rover Operations Control Centre in Italy!

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From The Times obit for Esther Rantzen. Nothing against Ms Rantzen but us dogsbodies trained for 9 months to “do the chores” and would like to see the obit writer survive “Red Light Fever” and operate the panel in a busy studio live on air or create believable sound effects for a convincing drama.

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lovecraft & M. R. James could only dream of writing a sentence like this.

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Jim Finnis @jfinnis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Unless you happen to be making shit copper in ancient Mesopotamia, or accidentally say "weasel" instead of "calm sea" in a play in ancient Greece...

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Jim Finnis @jfinnis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

River: Of course I called it in, there are five guys in balaclavas and vans next to a air base! Lamb: So of course you called it in. For fuck's sake. What was in the vans? River: I don't fucking know! Lamb: Another thing to add to the list of things you don't fucking know.

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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy McGoohan Day!

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 29/09/2026

CC @inksea.bsky.social I'm torn between genius and I'm sorry

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 28/09/2026

like if you think it’s fly tipping, repost if you bet dogging

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Jim Finnis @jfinnis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is an excellent book.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Let the Right One In” (2008)

A scruffy blonde golden doodle on its hind legs peeks through a screen door, hoping someone will let him in or join him outside.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 26/09/2026

Well I can’t say I like that one bit

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Chris @improbablytall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Time for my favourite French Constitutional joke: Man walks into a library and says "excuse me, I'm looking for a copy of the French constitution." "I'm sorry, sir," replies the librarian, "but we don't stock periodicals."

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

bit weird given the play is written in early modern English but I'd pay to hear Ēalā Rōmēo, Rōmēo, for hwȳ eart þū Rōmēo? Wiðsace þīnum fæder and forsac þīnne naman; oþþe, gif þū nelt, swere mē þæt þū mīn lēofa sīe, and ne bēo iċ nā lenġ Capulēting.

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Jim Finnis @jfinnis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This book cover popped up for various reasons, and I immediately thought "Because bloody Steerpike."

Cover of a gardening book: "Common reasons why Fuchsia fails to bloom."

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Jim Finnis @jfinnis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Alassëa nosta, Maura ar Bilba Labingi!

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KateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New Susannah Clarke! Fans of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and Piranesi - this may be news to you, it was to me.

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Edinburgh University created the first ever Chair in Celtic in Scotland in 1882 (Donald Mackinnon of Colonsay). This is a cultural retreat happening before our eyes where there was once leadership.

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.

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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

god i love videogames. have you heard about "places"? they are called locations

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The engines in Ney were - unusually for the Royal Navy of the time - diesel, apparently to gain experience of the newish technology. The use of the word "experimental" in relation to any military object is usually a sign that it didn't work as intended. Ney's engines were no exception:

Reliability both in officer and a ship is the first thing that an Admiral values. The Marshal Ney, judged by this standard, was a hopeless sinner; but her officers and men made up for her deficiencies. Her engines not infrequently exploded when asked to start; her engine-room was scarred as if by shrapnel from the fragments of burst cylinder heads, and the escapes of the engine-room staff were miraculous. Her Chief Engineer, Mr. Swan, stuck to the engines like a Trojan and almost overcame their bad habits; and really, when talking to him, you were almost converted to the opinion that just one little alteration would make them start next time the ship was required. Added to this, when they did not burst, they usually would not start, and when once started no one liked to stop them for fear of not being able to start them again. But, without exaggeration, the more they burst and the worse they behaved, the more Mr. Swan loved them and the more cheery Captain Tweedie became."

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

OK so this is interestingly dangerous; they're taking the masts off the sunken wreck of the S.S. Richard Montgomery today: unexploded.live/operation/

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Live webcam — UNEXPLODED

Look across the Thames Estuary at the Montgomery masts and the changing horizon.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Jim Finnis @jfinnis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The fuck? Morrisons - almost half price for twice as many biscuits but more non-recyclable packaging (the twin-pack comes in an outer bag)!

Upper picture: Twin pack McVitie's Digestives, £3.50. £5.56/kg, plus additional packaging.

Lower picture: Single pack of the same, £3.20. £10.16/kg, no additional packaging.

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Contains a picture of baby Alexei Sayle that is exactly what you'd want a picture of baby Alexei Sayle to be. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...

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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Really happy to have contributed even a small part to this. Understanding the differences between English and Welsh law is essential, and not just for practitioners in specifically devolved areas. www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/growing-...

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Growing apart: differences in English and Welsh law fill 38 pages

It is no longer safe to assume that laws are uniform across both nations, Law Society practice note warns.

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Tollytb🇮🇪🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 @tollytb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My girlfriend knew I'd had a dodgy stomach, so made me a lovely dinner. 🐢💨

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well. Would you look at that.

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Jim Finnis @jfinnis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thank God the map is not the territory.

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Jim Finnis @jfinnis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oof. I know the story of Blodeuwedd, but I've not read the Owl Service. Should fix that.

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 09/09/2026

Oh my God. I thought the "Blackshorts" thing was just the OP doing a Wodehouse reference. But no. They're actually wearing black shorts. Just like Roderick Spode. I think my brain is finally *fully* broken by this. Someone say "Eulalie" to Daniel Thomas

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Mr Dr Bae @dallas-taylor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Print this out and give your friends copies

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Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

An ex of mine from New Zealand was genuinely astounded that the UK outsources the vital function of lifeboats to a charity and unpaid volunteers. There are very few more selfless acts - we live on an island with terrible weather for goodness sakes. Snivelling abject little shits.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What is consciousness? What is sentience? These are philosophical question that have been asked since the dawn of time. How lucky we are to live in a time where 7 people in Northern California realised the answer is “being able to predict the most statistically significant next word in a sentence”

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's entirely possible to outsiurce services and achieve efficiencies. It just requires your business processes to be simple and consistent with clear governance. There is not a single university in the UK whose business processes are simple and consistent with clear governance.

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