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Kate’s Agate @katesagate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Clarion once again doing political reporting the way it should be done
Oxford Clarion reports on Cllr Phil Godfrey’s role as the owner of a car servicing and tyre business alongside his claimed concerns about the Lib Dem’s “anti-motorist approach”
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
(AI actually has been used in science and medicine for decades and is incredibly good at doing things like finding cancer that can’t be seen with the human eye but that is a completely different type of AI then we’re all angry about it and we shouldn’t discuss them in the same conversations TBH)
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Sam Scarpino @scarpino.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
1/ Yesterday I was more worried about #hantavirus than I am today. Why? Flight attendant who was exposed - Tested negative Viral genome - No concerning mutations Two Singaporean's exposed - Tested negative Data situation - We're tracking at Global.health (h/t @mugkraemer.bsky.social)
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Kate’s Agate @katesagate.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Still one of the best pieces of writing on Botley West that you'll read! Bravo again Clarion!
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Wow, sure would be pretty crazy if a ton of experts in the artificial intelligence field relentlessly warned everyone about this state of affairs being inevitable over and over for years.
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Oxford Social Sciences Division @socsci.ox.ac.uk · 22/12/2025
🐈‍⬛Research finds that cats set-paw over our thresholds far later than originally thought finds @gregerlarson.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social 📸 We'd love to see some snaps of the feline friends that make your house a home! Share with #SocSciHome More: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cats became our companions way later than you think
In true feline style, cats took their time in deciding when and where to join us on the sofa.
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Kate’s Agate @katesagate.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Just discovered that Gen AI has ruined Etsy… so that’s a bummer.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
LOL - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKALATON WONDRING WHY ANY ONES STILL USING "DA NAZI BAR" IF THERE NOT ENJOYING ALL DA RIGHT WING BULL SHIT IN THERE, IF YOU ROOTED AROUND IN THE PORTOPOTTY EVERY DAY LOOKEN FOR TURDS AND SAID IT WAS BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO SAY THE TURDS ARE BAD, I DONT THINK ANY ONE WOULD BELIEVE YOU, AT THE END OF THE DAY IF YOU GOT SHIT UP TO YOUR ELBOW'S YA GOTTA ADMIT THAT YOU LOVE THE SMELL, ANY WAY A SKELATON IS AT SELF CHECK OUT AND THINKEN ABOUT MOVING ITEMS AROUND IN THE CORECT ORDER, EVERY LEVEL OF CAPTALISM IS ABOUT PAYING AS LITTLE OUT TO LABOR AS POSSIBLE, EVEN THO ITS MORE FUN TO SHOP WITHOUT TALKING TO ANY ONE IT WAS A SIGN THAT THE RULING CLASS WOULD RATHER PAY TWICE AS MUCH TO BUY A COMPUTER THAN TO HIRE A WORKER, ITS CLASS WARFARE AND IF YOU AINT FIGHTING THEM YOUR LOSING, ANY WAY DA TEXT SAYS "LOL IF YOUR USING TWITTER IN 2025, IF I WANTED TO BE YELLED AT BY A BOT I WOULD MOVE ITEMS TO THE BAGGING AREA WITHOUT SCANNIGN THEM "- DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 06/10/2025
"great!"
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/09/2025
Me in December 2024 referencing my work from earlier in 2024 www.wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-m...
Throughout these pieces I have repeatedly made the point that — separate to any lack of a core value proposition, training data drought, or unsustainable economics — generative AI is a dead end due to the limitations of probabilistic models that hallucinate, where they authoritatively state things that aren't true. The hallucination problem is one that is nowhere closer to being solved — and, at least with the current technology — may never go away, and it makes it a non-starter for a great many business tasks, where you need a high level of reliability.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt. This is simply false. - UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh - panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life
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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I'm all for trying to ease intergenerational tensions, but the people who are most opposed to reaching net zero by 2050 are literally those who will not be around to face the consequences.
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Kate’s Agate @katesagate.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
We’re doing something quite good it turns out 😉
Joe O’Connor, Eleanor Schofield and Eloise Sheffield as Orsino, Viola, and Olivia in Twelfth Night
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Kate’s Agate @katesagate.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Here we go
Kate stands in front of the poster for Twelfth Night
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Kate’s Agate @katesagate.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Lovely people of Oxford/Eynsham etc. for the last 6 months ago I have been plotting and working with a group of lovely people to put on a play. Twelfth Night opens on Monday at Oxford Castle and runs for two weeks. I think it’s something really special, made by local people. Won’t you come along?
The actors playing Orsino, Viola and Olivia demonstrate the shows central love triangle. Orsino gazes lovingly at Olivia, who yearns for Viola, who looks out at us longingly from the centre of the tangle.A bright pink advertising banner for Twelfth Night in front of Oxford’s Castle Mound, with its iconic twin trees. The sky is bright blue with wispy clouds.
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 27/04/2025
Is this anything?
A promo image for Nickelodeon show Rocko's Modern Life, except the text has been edited to read Rocko's Modern Basilisk.
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Kate’s Agate @katesagate.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Brilliant deep dive!
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Kate’s Agate @katesagate.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Mr Williams has owned a second home in the area for for 20 years... they had had little interest from potential buyers, despite dropping the price by £40,000. Let's ask the fun question, how much did you buy it for and how much are you trying to sell it for? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Gwynedd house prices plunge as council acts on second homes
House prices in a Welsh county have fallen by more than 12% year-on-year, according to new figures.
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Kate’s Agate @katesagate.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Great news for biodiversity in #Oxfordshire thanks to Botley West plans - and should put paid to claims of a “glass and steel wasteland”. @eynsham1.bsky.social @libdemsoxon.bsky.social @calummillerld.bsky.social
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
It's official: solar farms are good for birds. www.businessgreen.com/news/4409747...
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Study: Solar farms could help boost numbers of birds and wildlife
New study by the RSPB and the University of Cambridge suggests that where renewable energy projects are managed to deliver nature benefits they can result in more biodiversity than arable farming-domi...
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Kate’s Agate @katesagate.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
And yet the solar NIMBYs keep a sky why we need to do grid scale solar? And why near them?
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Kate’s Agate @katesagate.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
In Oxford the McDonalds even closes its loos to paying customers after 8pm! Finding somewhere to even pay to use a facility is almost impossible.
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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 02/01/2025
Now offering my free online workshop “How *not* to use ChatGPT for fun and profit.” Here’s the outline: 1. ChatGPT is bullshitting you. 2. Yes, more than you already think. 3. Yes, it’s getting worse, not better. 4. Only a fool willingly adds more bullshit to their life. 5. Don’t be a fool.
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Kate’s Agate @katesagate.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Carry On is a bad, dumb film. Films do not need to be clever to be good, but this as an incredibly stupid plot masquerading as a clever thriller. Also just wrong, wrong about many things in a plot altering way. I wish this was a better film, but it is not.
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 02/12/2024
Solar farms arent harming the countryside, you just don’t like the way they look. Example 103: insect populations boom from shade and wildflower habitat. phys.org/news/2024-01...
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Insect populations flourish in the restored habitats of solar energy facilities
Bumblebees buzz from flower to flower, stopping for a moment under a clear blue Minnesota sky. Birds chirp, and tall grasses blow in the breeze. This isn't a scene from a pristine nature preserve or n...
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Kate’s Agate @katesagate.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Make Batman fun again
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a man in a batman costume is standing in a room with other people .
ALT: a man in a batman costume is standing in a room with other people .
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Kate’s Agate @katesagate.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
What if rewatch Bridgerton 3 and just stop after episode 4?
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Kate’s Agate @katesagate.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
Tom Bombadil is a wife guy
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Kate’s Agate @katesagate.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
Hello I am posting
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