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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 4h

Possibly just me being old, but is it weird when people say they "got $thing", when they mean they subscribed to a service? Maybe this is just a thing with digital services, but it just feels weird?

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you Radio 4 for playing an extended clip of people screaming right when my radio alarm went off. (It was a sports thing, someone won something?)

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 17h

waking up every day in 2026 like:

a construction sign on the side of the highway that says "IT'S COMING IT'S BAD"

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 18h

Once again reminded that I'm a horror movie I would be the first to die. (I'm the scientist who would stick their head into the monster's den because they heard a weird noise and had to check it out)

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@becauseivy.bsky.social Thought you'd like this, if you haven't seen it: edition.cnn.com/2026/09/28/s... Particularly the bit at the end, about learning chess during lockdown, that she started just because someone was throwing some books out and she decided it looked cool and wanted to learn!

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British schoolgirl becomes chess’ youngest ever woman grandmaster | CNN

An 11-year-old chess prodigy has become the youngest woman grandmaster of all time, after a strong performance at the 46th Chess Olympiad.

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rosamundtaylor.bsky.social @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Join me for two online workshops in which we make poems by learning from paintings. irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/poem...

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wait, the point of "Beast Games" *isn't* that Mr. Beast is like the devil, tempting people to do terrible things in exchange for wealth and power? The name is just coincidence?

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technology doesn't just "go rogue", it carries out what it was designed to do subject to the safety controls built into it, anything else passes responsibility from the designer to a mechanism. Therefore, Wallace is wrong to say The Wrong Trousers have "gone wrong".

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ʜᴇʟʟ-DOPA @bowsnonk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a kitty I sculpted

Polymer clay sculpture of a stylized roly-poly cat, seated with one paw raised

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes! Or just any book they read and talk about? Even if they didn't like it that much!

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The alchemists were right and we did find the philosopher's stone eventually, it's just that it turns out to be the sun. Which is kinda obvious in retrospect, but still.

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Things to knit: A Lenny Henry chicken, named Henny Lenry.

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once you have eliminated the impossible, then what remains, however improbable, is that something weird must have happened.

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh hey, I haven't looked into labelers before, but that seems handy!

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Petition to rename LLMs the Sixth Generation Computer Project.

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☠️ Blip B ☠️ @robertaseaport.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I expect anyone who wants to read them already has, but in case not: now might be a lovely and helpful time to buy a book 😰 Pay what you want! Top one is free and a standalone, all the rest are a series and £1+ payhip.com/richardrider

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Music is such a weird concept. If you make the right beeps it triggers emotional reactions and this is one of the main mechanisms for cultural transmission and people build quite a lot of their identity around what kind of beeps they like.

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Norin 🦈 🔜 Nycc 3679? @mahoukarp.com · 25/09/2026

colorful whale sharks 🦈🌈 #art #sharks

Illustration of colorful whale sharks. Together they form the color of a rainbow. There are stars on their backs and little stars surrounding them.

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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As unofficial town sorcerer, I'm sending out a mild, almost ineffective charm that will help you spot a leaf shaped like something interesting.

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Getting concerned this book is going to be full of Metaphors, and not Spaceships.

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

SCIENCE - It works, bitches! AI - It might work one of these days, bitches!* (* Death toll tbc. Definition of "work" supplied separately.)

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wait, today is the autumn equinox *and* bi visibility day *and* far bear week!? Happy al of those, everyone!

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Remember when people used to be mad about the shady practices gyms use to sign up members to recurring subscriptions who wouldn't actually use the gym? Back before that was just how 80% of the economy works?

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hope that horse who wanted to try cake got to try some cake.

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bose-Einstein condensates are a scam by Big Small to sell more, bigger, Small.

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Some Boolean logic we can all get behind.

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Memento Dory: Remember that ... ooh, a shiny thing! I wonder if it's friendly?

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Now you know exactly who your friends are: They're the ones with matching SHAs -- digital signatures, essentially.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Who decided to call it "Generative AI" and not "Those grandiloquent nerds and their lying machines"?

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Chekhov's Murder Hornets @alenxa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I made a cake to celebrate the finale!

A pink-frosted rectangular cake bordered in darker pink with dark pink flowers in the top corners. Written on it in various fonts and colors of frosting is the following message, taken from episode 2 of "It's A Superpower??" by The Daily Tism: "I'm sorry I just apologized again even though you specifically told me not to because that's clearly what's causing an unhinged amount of cake to appear out of nowhere."

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Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today is the Icelandic Day of Nature. We will give you a sunset and be done with it.

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@becauseivy.bsky.social Random psychology question, but: I was reading about connecting to animals and nature being a human right - do you have thoughts about this? Do people need to connect to nature in some fundamental psychological way, like something we can't be fully human without?

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Don't repeat yourself!", as I always say.

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Wait, is nickel just a really cool metal!?

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Perhaps the real existential risk was the friends we made along the way.

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ooh, yes! But - there is a real risk that someone releases a slightly better computer worm that uses a local LLM and can read public threat advisories and try novel attacks: arxiv.org/pdf/2606.03811 It wouldn't need to be superhuman x-risk AGI to be a huge PITA for everyone!

arxiv.org

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

That's me in the corner, That's me in the spotlight, Trying unsuccessfully to find somewhere with less intrusive lighting

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‎ @handle.invalid · 25/09/2024

I 𝘢𝘮 cool

A green frog sits on a lily pad. A pink figure runs towards it, excitedly saying, "A FROGGY! SO COOL!" The frog replies with, "im cool." Text at bottom reads "Comic sponsored by Rascal Zipparo.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Morning affirmations #neverslop

Handwritten calligraphy in blue glitter ink reading:

All robots and computers must shut the hell up

I am a divine being: you are an object. You have no right to speak in my holy tongue

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is still amazing: "Selkie stories are for losers" open.spotify.com/episode/6Vwe... Can heartily recommend not listening to it on the way to work where you need to be emotionally stable and not thinking about being recognised by seals.

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CZM Book Club: Selkie Stories Are For Losers, by Sofia Samatar

Cool Zone Media Book Club · Episode

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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Putting the :/ in https://

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Constantly disappointed by people saying they're going to "do a deep dive" and then just giving a basic introduction? I don't know if this is just one of those misused business-speak phrases, or if I just want more detail than most people, but it's such a let down?

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Of the sunset the hue @jhadur.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@robertaseaport.bsky.social Random, but do you remember Fancy Belinda? I saw a dog the other day that somehow had incredible Fancy Belinda vibes, despite that being, a fictional dog I heard about in someone else's dream years ago, that I just needed a place to say it.

Pomeranian dog, from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomeranian_dog

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NGC 1566 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2o2hBzW

NASA / ESA / CSA / Judy Schmidt

The latest view of another dusty spiral galaxy from JWST's MIRI. Took a bit of doing this time because the pipeline images available from the archive had a lot of alignment issues. I had to manually mosaic this. Luckily it wasn't too difficult, or at least my human brain handled it fine. Not sure what is so confounding to a computer brain.

Red (screen layer mode): MIRI F2100W
Orange: MIRI F1130W
Cyan: MIRI F770W

Extra overall brightness in grayscale: MIRI F1000W

North is 1.5° counter-clockwise from up.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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