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Leigh Dodds

@ldodds.bsky.social
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CTO at EnergySparks (energysparks.uk) a UK charity using open and shared data to help schools be more energy efficient. My background is in open data, data standards, data infrastructure & sharing. blog.ldodds.com

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
On the day that commences my 50th year on this planet (and the 40th of playing RPGs), I start my list of my favourite 101 RPGs that I've played. It's in order. So we begin with my least favourite RPG of all time. Drumroll...
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My 101 Favourite TTRPGS: 101 - Old Men Running The World
Earlier this year, we saw John Harper on the socials having worked out how many TTRPGs he's played. It was a big number. It made Jim and me sit back and do
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Sunday: ✅️ B&Q ✅️ Garden Centre ✅️ DIY ✅️ Cake Pretty successful so far.
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
If you see this, quote skeet with a screenshot from a video game that released the year you were born.
Screenshot of Pong
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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 27/09/2025
If you're having a problem with "Invalid Handle" errors on the web, please add a 👍 or leave a comment on github.com/bluesky-soci...
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Multiple "invalid handle" accounts · Issue #9090 · bluesky-social/social-app
Steps to Reproduce Multiple users are reporting an escalation in accounts displaying as "Invalid Handle" https://bsky.app/search?q=%22invalid+handle%22 Attachments What platform(s) does this occur ...
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
This is a great album. Electronica + classical piano 👍 grandbrothers.bandcamp.com/album/elsewh...
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Elsewhere, by Grandbrothers
10 track album
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Ruth Fox @ruthfox.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
1/ Whatever you think of digital ID, the process matters. And in 2025, this is still how we make big public policy. 👇
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
So much time and money wasted on debating and debunking these fuckwits. fullfact.org/immigration/...
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Is there evidence for Nigel Farage’s claim that migrants are catching and eating swans and carp? – Full Fact
With several related claims and video clips circulating on social media in the wake of the Reform UK leader’s comments, we’ve looked at what’s known.
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Reform UK’s Crypto Donations Put Under Spotlight as Experts Warn It’s ‘Impossible to Trace’ Foreign Cash bylinetimes.com/2025/09/26/r...
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Reform UK's Crypto Donations Put Under Spotlight as Experts Warn It's 'Impossible to Trace' Foreign Cash
Anti-corruption campaigners raise the alarm over loopholes that could allow large sums of untraceable money to slip past checks
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Yes, but is it good for Oracle? www.thenational.scot/news/2549755...
thenational.scot
Plan to make Tony Blair interim leader of Gaza branded ‘insane’ by SNP
A PLAN to make Tony Blair the interim leader of Gaza has been described as “nothing short of insane” by the SNP ....
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
TIL about David Lynch's Feeling & Thinking Checking Stick. youtu.be/Z-Ju1I4P4BU?...
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David Lynch - Feeling & Thinking Checking Stick
YouTube video by ReInstallPaul
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I did a newsletter. But more importantly I DID A VIDEO. Riiiight out of my comfort zone, but entirely inspired and necessary because Doomsong is so fucking cool. Check it out (and also get yourself a copy of Wyrd Science issue 7):
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Things! GOLD TEETH Beta, Book Delay, Doomsong, Poor Old Jim
Welcome, bold adventurers, to the TEETH newsletter! This is a (sort of) weekly transmission about our explorations in the very secret land of Tabletop...
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
ID card discussion reminded of this paper: "The Coerciveness of the Primary Key: Infrastructure Problems in Human Services Work" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... My notes after I read it a few years ago: blog.ldodds.com/2020/01/18/p...
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The Coerciveness of the Primary Key: Infrastructure Problems in Human Services Work: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction: Vol 3, No CSCW
The premise of a primary key is simple enough: every record or row in a table should have some number or string that can uniquely identify it. Primary keys are essential for linking data spread across...
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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 26/09/2025
I'm seeing so many takes around parts of the "ID card" melange, I have to add a few. It's not about cards. It's about registers. A register is a definitive 'true source' of data, about people, places, buildings, whatever.
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Ben Proctor @benproctor.co.uk · 26/09/2025
This is fun... Dataguessr dataguessr.com HT @puntofisso.bsky.social
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Dataguessr
Update your knowledge of the world. One quiz at a time.
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
"...spending in the AI sector is “parabolic.” In fact, it is so vast, the researcher said, that it might single-handedly be propping up the American economy." gizmodo.com/deutsche-ban...
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Deutsche Bank Notices That a Needle Is Getting Dangerously Close to the AI Bubble
If not for AI spending, the bank says the US would be in a recession.
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Assume there will be a Britcard BBC Microbit Edition™ for anyone without a smartphone.
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Lot of territory between "A digital certificate that says you can work in the UK" and "ID Card"
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
TIL about David Lynch's Feeling & Thinking Checking Stick. youtu.be/Z-Ju1I4P4BU?...
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David Lynch - Feeling & Thinking Checking Stick
YouTube video by ReInstallPaul
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Looks like the Aapti Institute are about to repeat the work the Open Data Institute was doing about 5 years ago aapti.in/blog/buildin...
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Aapti Institute | Building the Third Pillar: A New Framework for Data as Digital Public Infrastructure
Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) have played a major role in economic and societal transformation. While identity and payments have emerged as mature pillars of this infrastructure, the third criti...
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Nobody tell them about Calpol.
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
What can I take for my allergic reaction to this much stupidity?
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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 25/09/2025
Semiotic Standard-style chapter icons from my book Perfect Organism: An Alien: Isolation Companion, designed by the game's lead UI artist, Jon McKellan.
A series of icons representing the different chapters of my Alien: Isolation book.
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
2025 (continued), ID cards www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
Public backs ‘super ID card’ which could be used to report potholes
Ministers have recently said they are considering introducing a form of digital ID for adults in Britain
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The Breakfast Club remake took a turn.
The Lost Bous from Alien: Earth
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
This got more eye-rolls on Mastodon.
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Alien: Earth finale was great.
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
My mum's mum hated conformity. Faced with bureaucracy she was known to exclaim, "I'm not a number!" She was my NaN.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Suspect this New Statesman deep dive into the Tony Blair Institute makes the case that the correct "Economist descriptor" for the TBI is now "Oracle dealership" rather than "think tank" www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
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Inside the Tony Blair Institute
Who really benefits from the former PM’s tech evangelism?
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Hey all, some great news and some difficult news over on GOLD TEETH. The beta is here for all backers to get stuck into, but the core book is delayed for reasons that are unfortunate and out of our control.
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Update 13: GOLD TEETH Update: Good News, Bad News, Beta News · GOLD TEETH: The Tabletop RPG of Piracy & Occult Horror
Let’s start with…. \drumroll/ … the good news! The good news is all backers have the beta for GOLD TEETH in your Kickstarter inbox right now. Go check it out! It’s a huge chunk of the book that will a...
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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 23/09/2025
The problem isn't autism. It's fear and hatred of autism. The problem isn't trans people. It's fear and hatred of trans people. The problem isn't immigration. It's fear and hatred of immigrants.
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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
RAPTCHA
A CAPTCHA layout with the central Bosch triptych from The Last Judgement:

Select all squares with
THE DAMNED
If there are none, click skip
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Beautiful
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Liam Flannery @liamflannery.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I've just launched the Steam page for my new game Factory 95! It's a retro-Windows inspired automation game about making PowerPoints. You can wishlist it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3987250/... #gamedev #indiegame
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Technologically advance some bands Escalators Nine Centimeter Nails The Polymer Brothers
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Daniel Nye Griffiths @d-nye-griffiths.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
For some reason I am getting the impression that this headline, every part of which is horrifying and eldritch, is supposed to convey a message of hope.
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Top tip for varying up a Manhattan or an Old Fashioned thehouseofbotanicals.co.uk/cocktail-bit...
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
"Jackpot pants"
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
A mixture of covid and qr code enabled table service means that there is a sizeable group of people that have not had to learn bar etiquette. Maybe they dont have to! In the meantime chaos reigns.
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Just finished reading Wild Folk. Gorgeously illustrated book of folk tales. Loved the stories, but the illustrations, which were all done on stained glass, are just fantastic 🤩 www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/wild-f...
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Wild Folk | Jackie Morris, Tamsin Abbott | London Review Bookshop
WILD FOLK is a beautifully illustrated sequence of seven tales, marking the first book length collaboration between the storyteller artists, Tamsin Abbott and Jackie…
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I've listened to a lot of this during sleepless nights in the past www.404media.co/how-lofi-gir...
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How Lofi Girl Became a Chill Beats Empire
How the iconic looping video of a studying anime girl and stream of chill music became a big business.
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Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
And in non-work blogging, notes on the continuity between algorithmic social media and "post social media" chatbot platforms. alexparsons.co.uk/blog/posts/2...
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Post-Social Media
Social media sheds its most unreliable component: other people
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
This Is a good post. davidcel.is/articles/rai...
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Rails Needs New Governance
Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fi...
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Another "Invalid Handle" spotted. Wonder what's happening at @bsky.app
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Everyone's cross with me because I bought mince pies.
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Know anyone in Bristol that wants to see The Wedding Present on the 3rd October? I've just put up 4 tickets at a discount as we can't go now. Shares appreciated 🙏 secure.ticketmaster.co.uk/rs/3E0061664...
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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
They should have communicated intent and a plan before revoking access from a bunch of long term maintainers. That's not how you build trust. rubycentral.org/news/strengt...
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Strengthening the Stewardship of RubyGems and Bundler
Ruby Community, At the heart of Ruby Central’s mission is our responsibility to steward the open source tools that power the Ruby ecosystem. That commitment is only as strong as the people and proces...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The hype is real. This two hour long doc about extreme birdwatching is an absolute delight, and nothing less than a soothing balm in horrible times. The makers have put the whole thing up on YouTube, for free with no ads, and all of you should watch it right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...
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LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching
YouTube video by owen reiser
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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Good morning. Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern. 40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith. You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Right you lot. Get WYRD SCIENCE Issue 7 ordered: shop.wyrd.science/products/wyr... I am in it talking CAVES OF QUD. I will take it as a personal favour if you pick this up. But don't do it for me, do it for the health of #TTRPG generally, because this is the magazine we all deserve.
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Wyrd Science Vol.1 / Issue 7 [Print]
PLEASE NOTE - THIS ISSUE WILL SHIP IN EARLY/MID SEPTEMBER, ANYTHING ORDERED AT THE SAME TIME WILL BE SENT OUT TOGETHER PLEASE PLEASE NOTE - IF YOU WANT A SUBSCRIPTION, AND TO SAVE 10% ON THE COVER PRI...
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This is so deeply unserious. Throughout the entire 14 years of the Conservative government oil and gas licenses were routinely issued and for much of the period there was a policy of maximising extraction. Production still fell, the economy flatlined, and energy security got worse.
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