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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Morning sunrise, the Sun oblivious to being eaten later today by the Moon! #eclipse

Sunrise at dawn, looking out between trees towards the distant Mediterranean sea

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So far we have clear skies in Mallorca/Majorca for today's #eclipse.

View of Manorcan mountains, with a completely clear blue sky, from the terrace of a Mallorcan villa

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It's great when the good guys win. Huge congrats to Elon on the SpaceX IPO. What a moment! Without this man there'd be no electric cars. Renewables would be harder. The world would not have its focus on safe AI. But, more than even all of this, the dream of a Human future in space would have died.

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Why would any woman ever vote LibDem when the party, from the top down, wants to erase hard-fought women's rights? We need women-only spaces. Men cannot become women. What even is a woman if you believe a man can become one? Abandoning science for ideology is not a good look youtu.be/pFHVV_GcykI?...

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Professor Robert Winston you can’t change your sex whatever you do I scientific fact #bbcqt

YouTube video by World Politics

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Err, after the controlled, soft landing in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Australia, it was meant to burst into flames. That's what rockets with some remaining fuel which have just returned to the surface through the atmoshere, and are extraordinarily hot, will do when touching the ocean surface.

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Happy St George's Day! Also William Shakespeare's birthday and death day, Johnny Mackintosh's birthday and World Book Day (everywhere outside of the UK). Here's Saint George, the Bard, Johnny and the Spirit of London flying overhead! #StGeorgesDay

a landscape scene full of English flags, with the Tower of London centred in the background. In the foreground we see St George atop a white stallion with a spear attacking a green dragon, while a smiling William Shakespeare looks on, having just handed a glowing magical book to Johnny Mackintosh. Overhead Johnny's spaceship, the Spirit of London (in the shape of the London Gherkin) soars amid fireworks celebrating Stg George's Day.

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

But 1 ft per second is a loooong way below escape velocity, so surely she couldn't break free of Earth's gravity? No heliopause or well aimed trip to Proxima Centauri.

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Books change lives. Very occasionally, I've heard that of my own books, & it's the most wonderful thing for an author when that happens. Yesterday I received this message out of the blue & of course it made my day. If a book's made an impression on you, leave a great review. Let the author know.

Text of a message which reads:

"THANK YOU
Dear Keith,

I'd like to thank you for writing 50 AI ideas. Months back I picked up a signed copy and have read it cover to cover.

As a result of reading your book I was spurred on to taking an MA in Artificial Intelligence which I have just started."

Keep up the good work and thanks once again!

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Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com · 13/09/2025

How many people actually approve of Kirk's murder, on BlueSky and on Twitter? I got tired of anecdotes saying we are surrounded by bloodthirsty extremists, so I took a sample and counted. www.betterconflictbulletin.org/p/how-many-p...

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

What a terrible thing for the family to learn their son has become so radicalized he's a murderer, and for the good of society they have to turn him in. What an utter, horrific tragedy.

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Oh it sounded as if you had so much to get through, it would take a whole semester! I hope and expect you inspired some to read some books to help them go deeper.

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Sounds a fun course, though The Orvill never succeeded as it should have - no surprise it's unknown. Curious why your text should be "freely available" rather than paid for? I'm at Penguin nowadays but used to publish textbooks for Addison-Wesley. As you'll know, creating a great text is hard work.

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Thanks for the link, John. Interesting stuff. Was surprised by the remark that ideas around a holographic universe are criticized by non-academics for being unscientific.

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Wrong subs at the wrong time, but we always knew it would be hard. The Eustace experiment of Adams as a number 10 doesn't work - we need him and Ozoh as the defensive pivot, especially given our ageing, half-fit defence. But what a gorgeous goal from Morris, hopefully a glimpse of what's to come.

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Starmer doesn't need any help. He's out of his depth and dragging the whole country down to the bottom with him. Surely a candidate for worst PM and worst administration ever. Throughout this presser, and every day, he's just a rabbit in the headlights. 14 years of Tories then this! Frying pan/fire.

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

As a Derby fan, this feels quite a coup. Should we be excited?

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

An extraordinary find in the history of computing. Alan Turing's personal collection of his papers! "Trove of Alan Turing's papers found in loft of WWII hero's best friend" www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Trove of Alan Turing's papers found in loft of WWII hero's best friend

The papers, which include the wartime codebreaker's personal signed copy of his 1938 PhD dissertation, were found in the loft of the sister of his best friend

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

At this time every year I feel obliged to say I did once write the script for the Junior #EurovisionSongContest. Good #Eurovision tonight from Switzerland. The UK song (WTH just Happened?) felt a bit too Taylor Swift in the fast parts, but those Remember Monday girls can sing. Hope they do well. 🇬🇧🇬🇧

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Lovely to see a bite out of the Sun from here in London. My Nothing phone did a good job of snapping it through the #eclipse glasses.

A selfie lying on the grass showing bald-headed me with eclipse glasses (on top of regular glasses) and wearing a black t-shirt showing solar system orbits. It's a sunny day.

The bright orange Sun with the top right eclipsed by the Moon.

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Must have agreed for someone else to come in, and didn't want it leaking out while Warne was still at the helm. Surprised Hanshaw is officially in charge for tomorrow.

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Sometimes you end up deleting many 1000s of words, but always save them for future use, just in case. And then never look at them again! #HappyWriting

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Are we witnessing "one cosmic bound for AI"?

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

In Lennon Wheeldon & Keilen Robinson we've 2 England U19 internationals in our own academy we don't give any game time to, plus other promising youngsters eg Cruz Allen whose record in youth football surpasses Armstrong's. Why develop other teams' academy products instead of our own? #dcfcfans #dcfc

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Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston @arielzj.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I've started a blog, 'Preserving Hope'. It will track developments in the field of preservation for life extension, along with anything else I find interesting and relevant If you enjoyed my book, this is where I'll keep new and related content coming preservinghope.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

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Welcome to 'Preserving Hope'

A newsletter tracking progress in turning fate into choice

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The industry punches massively above its weight in terms of media profile, but the sad reality is there is not much money in publishing. It's such an interesting and stimulating industry to work in, but wages are low and hours are long. And few authors can make a good living from it full time.

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Fabulous #TedTalk from Lisa Kaltenegger (founding Director of Cornell's #CarlSagan Institute) on our new age of exploration, discovering whole new worlds every day. On which we have the ability to search for life! What if we're not alone? www.ted.com/talks/lisa_k... #FermiParadox #JWST #AlienEarths

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Are we alone in the universe? We're close to finding out

Astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger explores the thrilling possibility of discovering life beyond Earth, highlighting how cutting-edge technology like the James Webb Space Telescope lets us analyze distan...

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

#Starship launch delayed again, until Thursday evening UK time. I'm sure launch cadence will ramp up massively through the year, but it's a disappointing start to 2025. x.com/JudgeTrevino...

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

10pm GMT (also very coolly known as Universal Time) should see #Flight7 of the mighty #Starship: a new variant, also despatching 10 simulated satellites from the payload bay. Earth's first fully reusable heavy launch rocket will cut the cost of access to space by x100. www.spacex.com/launches/mis...

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SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The launch window for the massive new #NewGlenn rocket opens in three and a half hours time (6am UK time). And lasts for three hours. I will be intrigued to find out how it's gone when I wake up. Wishing #BlueOrigin all the very best for the company's first ever orbital launch attempt, and landing!

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Today was the #Wordle of the devil. And, no, that isn't a clue

Screenshot from a phone showing a history of Wordle scores. Played 666, Current Streak 666, and Max Streak 666. The win rate is 100%. Below is the distribution of the scores, with 0 correct guesses on line 1, 32 on line 2, 258 on line 3, which is in green to indicate the most recent result, also 258 on line 5, 96 on line 5 and 22 on line 6.

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Ouch! Hope injuries are short-lived...

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Intriguing issue. I'm reminded of Douglas Adams' adage about technology. Those born into an AI world will see it as the most natural thing to aid their writing and storytelling. On the other hand, in a chess tournament for instance, how much if any assistance is (Superhuman) AI allowed to give?

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I beg to disagree. Here's a very measured thread partly explaining how we reached this terrible point, which remains ongoing. I would urge you to read and allow righteous anger to take hold. We should all be angry x.com/CDP1882/stat...

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Thank goodness someone is speaking out about the systematic gang rape of tens of thousands of working class white girls. A shame The Guardian doesn't appear outraged by this the biggest scandal in UK history, but instead criticises people for speaking out. You'd rather we all looked the other way?

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

It's the biggest scandal in British history. The numbers are vast. Maybe not 250k but certainly of the order of tens of thousands. All swept under the carpet due to institutional cowardice by politicians, police & media, working class white girls sacrificed in the name of racial harmony. Thanks Elon

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

The economic and military future of Humanity lies off-planet. Hence the goldrush of all these Chinese companies to be a part of it, always brilliantly documented by Andrew. A cause of sadness is that the UK and the rest of Europe are being left far behind, bereft of future technological sovereignty.

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

You're the expert, but I do think QM is important because it tells us something remarkable about the nature of reality, that we've not quite grasped. Without that, electromagnetism is the discovery that has (literally) powered Human progress. Indeed Newton's invention of science changed everything.

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

#aurora across northern UK (and the rest of Europe) at the moment. Here's a live webcam from Shetland www.shetlandwebcams.com/eshaness-lig... #NorthernLights

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Eshaness Lighthouse | Shetland Webcams

Located on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean at Eshaness Lighthouse

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

#Happy2025 and beyond! Surely this will be the year Humanity decides to take a step further out, and begins planning in earnest to become a spacefaring species. Ad astral!

A new year's party on a large viewing platform on the edge of a spiral galaxy, which dominates the view. Humans, cyborgs and aliens, all fabulously dressed, mingle, champagne glasses in hand, while a fleet of spacecraft performs a flyby above, and there are cosmic fireworks in front of a backdrop of various planets and the glowing spiral.

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Fascinating to be able to view the deep past, preserved here in letters written in cuneiform on clay tablets from thousands of years ago. An unrolled 22-tweet thread from @lefineder over there. threadreaderapp.com/thread/18731...

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Thread by @lefineder on Thread Reader App

@lefineder: Just finished reading "Letters from Mesopotamia", here are some thousands of years old letters preserved in cuneiform. 1. "Mom buy me this" - Iddin-Sin to his mother 2. "Dad buy me this" -...

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Having Isaacman and Musk more involved and at the heart of things can only be exceptionally wonderful for the space community. It's the dawn of a new era. The article queries funding, but when you cancel SLS you create massive new funding opportunities. And with Starship to LEO everything is cheaper

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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I believe such technical work is key to achieving our mission — making data easier for everyone to access and use. But it is extremely hard to find funding for technical work. If you’d like to support us, we would very much appreciate if you support our non-profit work: ourworldindata.org/donate

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Gorgeous pic. Because it's so fast-growing, I can see #bamboo being popular among early #Mars settlers. And, as they begin to terraform the planet, we might see scenes such as this!

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

#Nottingham #walkabout this Tuesday. Meet by the lions! Wish I could be there.

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Keith Mansfield @keithmansfield.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

#SignedCopies of "50 AI Ideas You Really Need to Know" at #London's @waterstones.bsky.social Piccadilly. For the perfect #StockingFiller, get yourselves to the 4th floor. Vital everyone understands #AI and how to use it as the pace of change continues unabated. #ArtificialIntelligence #Christmas

A pile of 8 blue and white copies of Keith Mansfield's 50 AI Ideas You Really Need to Know book sits on the counter awaiting "signed by the author" stickers to be added from a sheet beside them.

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