Reposted by Kirsty HallDr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 1hdelicious 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 1143
Reposted by Kirsty HallMicah @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 2366166
Reposted by Kirsty HallMicah @rincewind.run · 4hif 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 351307253
Kirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social · 3hWell, 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. 121
Reposted by Kirsty HallDreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 3hAmongst 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. 51007
Reposted by Kirsty HallDreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 3hFun 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. 416825
Reposted by Kirsty HallDreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 4hReminder that all the best planes want to be boats 2221526
Reposted by Kirsty Hallflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12hPeople 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. 15944180
Reposted by Kirsty Hallmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026ya 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. 341701421
Kirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Right up there with the Canadian maple syrup heist. 172
Reposted by Kirsty HallScott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Apparently, the last time I wore the jacket from last night's 50th anniversary dinner was at a Worldcon. 330234
Reposted by Kirsty HallDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Having 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. 361203264
Reposted by Kirsty HallAngry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Beavers, everybody. Beavers.notesfrompoland.comBeavers destroy sign warning about beavers 2137477
Reposted by Kirsty HallSooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Can 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😎 1574104
Reposted by Kirsty HallAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Wow! 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! 201608389
Reposted by Kirsty HallKelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026All 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. 210454
Reposted by Kirsty HallPeter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment. 1511137269
Reposted by Kirsty HallJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026this 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... 712068501
Reposted by Kirsty HallMedieval World: Culture & Conflict magazine @medievalworldmag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A 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 529098
Reposted by Kirsty HallMicah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026the 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 96114562660
Reposted by Kirsty HallDarach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Lookit. 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. 641662353
Reposted by Kirsty HallMarcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Privatisation 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… 13371167
Reposted by Kirsty HallElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'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. 9855226
Reposted by Kirsty HallHannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Fascinating thread, this: 0187
Reposted by Kirsty Hall@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · 08/10/20268/ 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. 17720
Reposted by Kirsty Hall@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · 08/10/20261/ 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*! 13813
Reposted by Kirsty HallA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It's because they can't afford to live. 521582237
Reposted by Kirsty HallMicah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026since apparently the original article failed to upload:news.mit.eduMargaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90Margaret 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. 31126249
Reposted by Kirsty HallMicah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived 2956691114
Reposted by Kirsty HallJack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 07/10/2026something 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" 1517750
Reposted by Kirsty HallMartha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 07/10/2026I 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: 315957
Reposted by Kirsty HallSardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/10/2026Jenny Holzer, Survival Series, 1983 26517
Reposted by Kirsty HallJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This 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 10994712975
Reposted by Kirsty HallLunatraktors @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Romance 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. 14414
Reposted by Kirsty HallLucibee @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. 13812
Reposted by Kirsty HallStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One 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?” 6857841249
Reposted by Kirsty HallKaty B @katybrc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Sharpe 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 0298
Reposted by Kirsty Halltoilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Found 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 191114623122
Reposted by Kirsty HallRick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions 491515277
Kirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I 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. 000
Reposted by Kirsty HallTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com 16994248
Reposted by Kirsty Hall🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 06/10/2026The state of the NHS. JUST VACCINATE PEOPLE. IT'LL SAVE SO MUCH MONEY. 24210
Reposted by Kirsty HallCatherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I 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. 293019812
Reposted by Kirsty HallAmyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026in 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. 014437
Reposted by Kirsty HallShepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026You 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"? 5455636
Reposted by Kirsty HallJennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter 502603829