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@jonpoole.bsky.social
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Social Research person. Currently #localgov data, also here for ttrpgs and Warhammer stuff.

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 22h
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If Mike was a damp fantasy knight...
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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Imagine a soggy chaos monkey. Not in a cute way.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I could quote pretty much this entire article by @mjrobbins.com on the bizarre psychology of the AI apocalypse freaks, but you should just read it instead. Such a relief to see someone express my feelings so eloquently. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...
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Adso of Menk @adsomenk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Always repost a bit of Miller
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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Absolutely love that.
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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
new favourite Smaug dropped
the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town
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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ROU (eccentric) Misaligned Model Activity @cultureshipnames.bsky.social
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Digital Tolkien Project @digitaltolkien.com · 21/09/2026
Today is the 89th anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit. Here's a thread on interesting glimpses the book gave us into the legendarium Tolkien had at that stage already been working on for over twenty years but which readers at the time would have had no sense of.
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Mags @magnumificent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A lorry carrying a shipment of Worcestershire sauce from a brewery in Leicestershire was driving through Loughborough when it ploughed head-on into a Lamborghini Murciélago. 1/7
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Picture the scene. It's 1769. You're William Aberdeen and you're drawing a map of Sebay in Tankerness, #Orkney. It's going well but then you realise there are some blank bits so you decide to add some decoration. You think about what to draw for a moment. It's an obvious choice.
A section of an old hand drawn map of Sebay in Tankerness, Orkney
A section of an old hand drawn map of Sebay in Tankerness, Orkney
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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.
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Jean-Marc Liotier @liotier.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Defaulting to #1 and inquiring will nicely deal with #2 and #3 - so, when in doubt, assume #1 !
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If a number looks odd to you, there are generally 3 explanations: - you’ve misunderstood something - the number involves a genuine mistake - someone is trying to mislead you And faced with this ambiguity, people often choose whichever option reflects their prior outlook on the world. 2/2
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Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings is out now @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I’m confused, do I have to kill all the Jedi now?
A Five Guys receipt that says “Order 66”.
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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I mean they're none of them hiding who they really are, are they?
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Lord of the Ankle Bracelets
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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
100%, I am wondering whether LGR is so big that it needs to be gone through first, but there is a concerning lack of vision for LG throughout the otherwise wholly sensible sounding Devo noises at the moment.
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026
Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10
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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We're going to do terrible things to those archipelagos.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So, little thought experiment here. WHAT IF ignoring latest AI models actually increased productivity?
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The difference in utility between the use of ML to tackle big data problems that would otherwise be intractable & the use of LLMs to produce pointless slop is so large they cannot both be usefully described as “AI“. The first is making real progress, the second is dragging us towards the abyss.
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ianthemouthofmadness.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 18/08/2026
Ben Kenobi looking slightly concussed. Now that's a puddle I've not seen in a long time. a long time."
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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Ye gods, this is depressing.
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jacktshaw.bsky.social @jacktshaw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
NEW SUBSTACK: The Government’s Rewiring the State is a serious statement of intent. I examine — briefly — five questions that it raises, from the future of PuFins and ALBs to the role of local authorities: substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com
Five questions the Government’s Rewiring the State plans raise about the future of devolution
Devolution is moving into a new phase — but its institutional, practical and political implications are only beginning to emerge.
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Nicole Adams SideEye-Photography @blathin384.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Almost, full circle. Snowy Egret Bombay Hook NWR, 7 August 2026 #ECK #photography #birds #ClassicMono #BnW-Photography #reflection #water
Black and white photo of a Snowy Egret in smooth shallow water where it casts a perfect reflection of itself I tot the surface. The way the bird is bending over makes it seem as if it's a circle, but not quite
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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 15/08/2026
I’m so tired of genAI apologists telling me I only hate it because I don’t understand it. I hate it *because* I understand it, you absolute toenail.
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Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I recently learnt that Ian Miller (Games Workshop/Warhammer/Fighting Fantasy artist extraordinaire) did a short run of covers for Swamp Thing in the early 90s. I am glad to have learnt this.
Cover of DC Comics' Swamp Thing #104 by Ian MillerCover of DC Comics' Swamp Thing #105 by Ian MillerCover of DC Comics' Swamp Thing #106 by Ian Miller
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026
One of my favorite rhetorical and analytical moves is joining things (showing that different, seemingly unrelated ideas are part of the same phenomenon) and taking them apart (resolving paradoxes by demonstrating that what appears like a contradictory thing is different things, lumped together). 1/
A collage made of architectural features from 'Variae Architecturae Formae' (1636), a collection of engravings. The architectural arches, buildings, fountains, etc, are layered atop each other and placed around each other to create an infinite, recombinant built environment.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Turtle eclipse
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Goodnight from The Irons, where saloon bar talk is about the Long Owl hill figure revealed by the ghost lines of a land crying out in trauma of drought. Goodnight from Evie Meddon, taking one last walk of the tall fields before the blades of harvest come. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
🔥🔥🔥 noahdasanaike.github.io/sage.html
The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE)
Dataset
Noah Dasanaike*
June 30, 2026
Conditionally Accepted at Nature Scientific Data
Abstract
Cross-national research on electoral behavior has been bounded by the granularity of comparative election data. Existing archives aggregate to constituency or country level, omit spatial information, or restrict coverage to a small set of well-documented democracies. The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) dataset collects lower-house parliamentary and presidential returns for 110 countries and territories at the smallest unit each electoral authority publishes, geocodes the units, and harmonizes party and candidate identifiers across languages. For most countries the unit is a polling station with fewer than a thousand voters; the full dataset carries roughly ten billion votes cast across more than eight million units. The dataset is openly available in tabular and spatial formats, with companion R and Python packages providing direct access. SAGE supports spatial analyses of electoral behavior across democracies and hybrid regimes at a granularity not previously available for cross-national comparison.Map
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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Genuinely brilliant piece.
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Solar eclipse coming up so here’s one of my favourite maps
Top is a map of the US with “Google search volume for “eyes hurt” April 3 to April 10 2024” with a hot line running from Texas north east through to Maine.  The bottom map shows the path of the total solar eclipse which runs in a lone from Texas through to Maine
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
And please, let's stop with "going rogue". Doing something unanticipated in service of an objective *you've set* in an environment *you've created* is not "going rogue".
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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I certainly agree we deserve minimum levels of respect as players.
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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It really did. Thank you!
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:
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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Merely a minor health and safety omission.
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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"What does your Elf lore know of this "palantir"? "They're just a bit of fun, like Elven skimming stones, nothing to worry about, we'd love them" @the-one-ring-rpg.bsky.social @mytholder.bsky.social @adsomenk.bsky.social
One Ring dice, with one feat dice showing an eye and four success dice, all ones.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I'm not posting Odyssey memes because one must be wary of GIFs bearing Greeks.
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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I've almost certainly peaked for the day. Maybe the year. www.maptap.gg July 15 100🎯 100🤯 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 Final score: 1000
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 13/07/2026
I have been expressing desire for an app that alerts me to the presence of pervert glasses in my vicinity. It exists and it's called Nearby Glasses! Immediate download.
techcrunch.com
A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses | TechCrunch
A hobbyist developer's new app, which can detect nearby smart glasses, comes amid resistance to always-on recording and listening devices that invade people's privacy.
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Over a thousand years of data on peak Japanese cherry blossom ourworldindata.org/grapher/date...
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
In winter, I spoke at a faculty event about AI. I was alarmed by the range of faculty awareness. Some believe our students are so "good" they'd never cheat. Yes, cheating's wrong. But systems that explicitly or implicitly incentivize cheating--AI does both--will produce cheating. 11/
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Jon @jonpoole.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
LGR via postcode sectors only.
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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Preparing to say goodbye to the mighty BBC Radio 4 Long Wave broadcast. The first service began 101 years ago. The transmitters at Droitwich, Westerglen and Burghead will be switched off at 0100 BST on Saturday. The 200 metre long AM signal at 198 Khz goes right through you and sounds fabulous!
The Long Wave transmitter at Droitwich in Worcestershire.
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