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Kirsty Hall

@kirstyhall.bsky.social
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Artist & purveyor of obsessive projects. Scots bi feminist with MECFS. Had arse cancer, it was tedious but it's fixed now. Cis/her. No terfs or fash. Insta: kirstyhallartist/

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 1h
delicious cottage cheese solutions: - cottage cheese, frozen fruit, honey and peanut butter whizzed up in blender - cottage cheese and chives whisked into an omelette terrible cottage cheese mistakes: - mackerel and cottage cheese pâté
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Micah @rincewind.run · 4h
“oh well, nothing we can do here” is not a legal approach we take to any other tools that are used to commit crimes and I don’t see why we should with these ones, even if they aren’t being specifically directed to do so
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Micah @rincewind.run · 4h
if your agents are going to commit crimes, you are legally responsible if you cannot figure out how to prevent your agents from doing crimes, you’re going to have to choose between releasing them and protecting yourself from criminal liability imo this would do more for “ai safety” than a sex cult
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 2h
The classics! 🎓
Person one: the dramatic story of personal romantic histories of the members of Fleetwood Mac is the epic of Gilgamesh for suburban millennial women.
Person two : who Gilgamesh?
Person one: it's like Fleetwood Mac for Mesopotamians.
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Kirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social · 3h
Well, the Ottolenghi Smokey Honey marinade is an absolute winner. We mixed about a tablespoon in with some pomegranate molasses and marinaded a single chicken breast cut into strips. Delicious complex flavours with just enough of a kick. You could probably spice it up more but we're lightweights.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 3h
Amongst the people to get away with it was American pilot Ann Wood, serving with the British Air Transport Auxiliary. She'd seen it done before and figured it had looked easy enough. Wood didn't know about tides. Still squeaked through. The ATA weren't in the business of employing duffers.
Ann Wood in ATA uniform. Expected to jump into a range of aircraft at short notice, often without having flown the type before and having only the pilot notes to work from, the top ATA pilots were amongst the best "pure" flyers of the war. The women amongst them had to prove themselves first, but by the end of the war had proved themselves so convincingly that they were flying everything from trainers to high performance fighters to four-engine heavies.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 3h
Fun fact: in WW2 so many pilots flew under the Severn Railway Bridge that RAF police were eventually deployed there to take registrations as they went past.
The Severn Railway Bridge near Sharpness, seen at low tide. This may become significant later...
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 4h
Reminder that all the best planes want to be boats
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12h
People ask me this all the time, so I’ll just say: look at the transgender hate panic, a thing that had no organic element and did not arise from the public, and was instead imposed upon everyone by the world’s most hateful, poisonous and malignant media class.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ya i mean i do genuinely think that one of hegseth's goals is to drive people appalled by barbarity out of the military, because the long term plan is to make the military shoot at us, and the same guys who object to this won't do that either.
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Kirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Right up there with the Canadian maple syrup heist.
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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Apparently, the last time I wore the jacket from last night's 50th anniversary dinner was at a Worldcon.
Holding a badge ribbon in the palm of my left hand. It reads, "Murderbot doesn't love you. It just wants to watch its shows."
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The image is of a four panel comic. 
In the first panel, we see a pair of ghosts. The first ghost says, “Let us make love, my darling.”
In the second panel, we see  see the second ghost’s face, blushing. It says, “Here? In public?”
In the third panel, we again see the pair of ghosts together. The first one says, “No one can see us, we’re ghosts!”
In the fourth panel, the title reads “the cat”. We see a cat looking up at them.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Beavers, everybody. Beavers.
notesfrompoland.com
Beavers destroy sign warning about beavers
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can I have some legitimate concerns please? Hello, UK government, I have a legitimate concern that temperatures will rise to a level that destroys many already-struggling nations, leading us in to an era of food scarcity wars. And now we wait for Andy Burnham to act on my legitimate concerns😎
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wow! Texts are super rare for the Hittites, basically there’s just one archive and it’s 95% lists of prayer sacrifices to mountain gods, so this is really, really exciting!
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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
All this. The contract is unacceptable, and the people with the clout need to be very clear that even trying this nonsense will result in artists and authors walking away without further discussion.
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this is the funniest thing i've seen in a looooong time. city passes new rule allowing prayer before city council meetings. satanist prays. city council then debates proper time to "undo the curse that was just put on our city" www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...
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Medieval World: Culture & Conflict magazine @medievalworldmag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A hobby that grew into something amazing: Thousand Castles is a free database of 57,000 castles, fortresses & palaces worldwide. Explore, rank, and plan trips with interactive maps and themed collections bit.ly/4zmLzdu
Castle enthusiasts, assemble!Castle enthusiasts, assemble!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Lookit. Deep down every Irish person wants to spin some yank a yarn that gets cited as fact in some factual text. We told an Irish American girl that when the Muppets was released in Ireland, Kermit the Frog was called Dermot the Frog because Cromwell’s son was a Kermit.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Privatisation in a nutshell: 1) Steal from us something we own. 2) Sell us back an inferior service 3) Charge us a higher price. The pattern is the same everywhere: royal mail, water, railways, the NHS, public services, council services…
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've talked about this before, but it is very hard when you see how moral red lines are drawn, and the complete gutting of trans people's civil rights is entirely within an accepted norm and barely remarked upon even by many progressives.
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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Fascinating thread, this:
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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
8/ Perhaps this is the new etiquette. Describe the smoke. Condemn the flames. Identify who brought the petrol. Even point to the person holding the match. But don’t, whatever you say, mention the arson.
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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
1/ Britain’s party leaders made good use of the thesaurus this season to avoid the word racism. I counted division, hatred, extremism, toxicity, fear, prejudice, grievance, questioning identity or the far right. Anything, apparently, except *that*!
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's because they can't afford to live.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
since apparently the original article failed to upload:
news.mit.edu
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived
Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is
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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
something very funny about the Bayeux Tapestry getting 5 stars after 940 years, as if Bishop Odo of Bayeux has been sat at home all this time waiting for the review, absolutely raging - "I gave that Guardian journalist a press comp on OPENING NIGHT for god's sake"
Poster of The Bayeux Tapestry with a bunch of 5 star reviews
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 07/10/2026
I really think that if a therapist has a client who is presenting with new symptoms- grandiose/paranoid/agitated or with sudden loss of self-esteem, increased isolation Or with increased conflict/argumentativeness in their relationships or social transactions Assess their AI/LLM use:
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/10/2026
Jenny Holzer, Survival Series, 1983
DONT WATCH THE UNDERCLASS. IT'S MORE LIKELY THAT THE WARLORDS WILL KILL YOU.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum
Lancre operated on the feudal system, which was to say, everyone feuded all the time and handed on the fight to their descendants. The chips on some shoulders had been passed down for generations. Some had antique value. A bloody good grudge, Lancre reckoned, was like a fine old wine. You looked after it carefully and left it to your children.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Lunatraktors @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Romance is resistance Re-enchantment is resistance Fashion is resistance Play is resistance Anything that keeps us happy and healthy and beautiful in the face of oppression helps pave the road to freedom.
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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
'Recovery' was always a big problem for the PACE trial, to the extent that they didn't actually mention it at all in the main trial paper in 2011. Discussion of it was relegated to a later paper in 2013, which also contained a metric tonne of fudge, because they knew they were in trouble over it.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Katy B @katybrc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sharpe will never accept that he's done any harm at all, he'll no doubt defend what he's done for the rest of his life, but I do hope others hear these words, look at the evidence, learn & change how they understand #ME & #pwME who've had this incalculable harm inflicted on them
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions
Jeffrey Archer, former
Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Publisher says author died peacefully at home
'between writing sessions'
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Kirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fuckety bye.
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Kirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wish folk would stop underestimating Scotland's mountains. They absolutely can kill you. Look, sometimes folk get injured or ill through no fault of their own and a call out is inevitable but going out with the wrong clothing and no equipment, well that's on you.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
As we join the great theoretical scientist, he is deep in thought. So still, quiet and focused that he might almost be asleep. But inside that brilliant mind, what new idea is forming? What certainty is being meticulously interrogated? What ingenious theory is ready to change our world forever? (the scientist snores lightly) Ah, it seems he actually is asleep. And that's fine. Science is hard and not every day can be a success. We will come back another time.
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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 06/10/2026
The state of the NHS. JUST VACCINATE PEOPLE. IT'LL SAVE SO MUCH MONEY.
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
in the art fraud world, faking a signature is the killing stroke for a legal case. the smart fraudsters let a faked artwork work its way through a series of deniable attributed-to's and in-the-manner-of's and let the buyer fill in the blanks.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You ever have that thing where you're reading a book and you can do the lift for suspension of disbelief for the entire fantastical premise of the thing but then you hit one detail and your brain is like "absolutely not"?
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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter
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