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Count Melancholia

@lillyh.bsky.social
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Working for a fascism-free, habitable Earth and for Scottish independence. #MECFS #BasicIncome WGB'er I spend more time on Mastodon, the ethical platform. You can follow my bridge from there at: @LillyHerself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy BlueSky broke DMs.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 15h
Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 18h
Most TV is just this now.
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Kirsty Isla Thomas @kirstyislathomas.bsky.social · 15h
Great source of more information here and info on how to lodge a planning objection against the latest AI data centre proposal in Scotland.
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Chapelcross Data Centre - Action to Protect Rural Scotland
This proposed 1GW (1000MW) data centre development, covering 57 hectares, is planned for land just north of the former Chapelcross nuclear site near Annan, Dumfries and Galloway. It is still in the ea...
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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 18h
Hurrah!
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Mondrian's final masterpieces to be reunited
In the autumn of 2027, Kunstmuseum Den Haag will present an exhibition featuring Mondrian’s final two works, together for the first time in 80 years in the Netherlands.
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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 13h
Haha check this one out
Southgate station
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 10h
Oh yes. They're in and out of the garden all night
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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 9h
Successful first day in Prague. Ended with an evening stroll, passing the Museum of Alchemy just as they were setting up a puppet theatre production of Faust in the courtyard! It was pretty great! Very much informed by Švankmajer (they did the "Padlookay! Pilookay!" routine, I grinned like heck)...
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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 9h
PRINT OF THE DAY I do sometimes photograph things other than the London Underground! Today we’re heading up to Scotland & the brilliantly yellow West Street Station on the Glasgow Subway. I love the futuristic look of these trains in this composite photo. If you like this print see link attached
Trains on the Glasgow Subway
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 11h
Yemen's had a cholera problem ever since the Saudis started launching air attacks on the Houthis years ago: Cholera and acute watery diarrhea cases rising in Yemen, with 7784 cases reported in 2026 and alerts issued at two Aden IDP sites via @beaconbio.bsky.social - beaconbio.org/en/report/?r...
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BEACON
Track biological threats, share vital information, and collaborate on solutions for community protection and preparedness.
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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 11h
🚨🚨🚨 "Good parts of Asia will already be done transitioning before Europe gets to the halfway point,... aka the last bit of relevant market remaining for ICE vehicles looks like it will be Europe and North America." #alwaysbecharging ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 11h
www.msf.org/what-will-it...
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What will it take to end the Ebola disease outbreak in DRC | MSF
Stopping the spread of Ebola disease requires multiple coordinated actions to be carried out at the same time.
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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 3h
I had no idea she was Scottish!
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Steely Dan Enjoyer @steelydanenjoyer.bsky.social · 11h
Steely Dan’s true legacy: making session musicians famous and everyone else nervous
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Steve Kopian @unseenfilms.bsky.social · 4h
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 4h
How much to #Unlearn in hubris-driven claims of human exceptionalism www.sciencealert.com/primate-comm...
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Primate Communication May Follow Grammar Patterns Once Thought Uniquely Human
Human languages are complex and versatile.
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Nit Nurse With Wound @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Historic England was spending six figures to wrap photographs the taxpayer had already paid for. Then the wrapper died, and the public cannot see them at all."
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Nit Nurse With Wound @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sweet Jesus. So concerned about stopping people right-clicking your public collection of images that you put the whole lot in a private DRM provider that goes under, and the whole lot is fucked. Sweet. Jesus.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
McDonald’s uses “machine-learning algorithms to continually analyze data from millions of daily transactions across McDonald’s nearly 14,000 restaurants and generate what the company calls ‘the optimal price’ at each location for each menu item, from Big Macs ‌to discounted coffee for seniors.”
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Inside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big Mac
McDonald’s is increasingly using artificial intelligence to guide menu prices across the U.S. and some global markets, a plan that aims to boost headquarters’ profit but risks alienating customers and...
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 8h
*Here I am, ten long years ago, jetlagged in Australia, publicly grumbling about just a few of my many, critically important, historically significant, aesthetic issues, and people are like: "Why doesn't his tie match his shirt" youtu.be/jkHtSBzYGWQ?...
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Alien Aesthetics | Bruce Sterling | TEDxDeakinUniversity
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 15h
#Netherlands developing high-energy laser weapon to counter drone swarms—setting a goal to turn the current prototype into a fully operational military air defense system. english.nv.ua/nation/dutch...
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Netherlands developing high-energy laser weapon to counter drone swarms
The Netherlands is partnering with Australian defense technology company Electro Optic Systems (EOS) to develop a high-energy laser weapon designed to destroy drones and counter large-scale aerial att...
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 13h
Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: 365 million Hiroshimas. "The explosive addition of thermal energy, which was almost 40 times greater than all the energy humanity used that year, comes amid far-reaching changes to the deep water bodies fundamental to life on Earth."
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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 15h
Electric car emissions benefits are far greater than first thought Their results showed that the climate benefits were generally greatest when gasoline vehicles were retired at year one, resulting in a 58% reduction in carbon emissions over a 16-year period. www.futurity.org/carbon-emiss...
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Electric car emissions benefits are far greater than first thought
New research shows the carbon emissions benefits of electric vehicles are far greater than initially suspected.
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 18h
"Reading literature enables you to enter the depths of another human being." Han Kang recd. the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024 for her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." 1st Asian woman to win this prestigious literary award. #books
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 10h
Yeh, sure. Why not listen to #EDF #nuclear. ? After all, the longer the fossil fuels, the more time new nuclear has - esp. given it takes 20 years plus for just one nuclear power plant. Plus, what on earth would that do for UK's #climate cred and influence ... www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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New UK gas and oil projects are a ‘no-brainer’, says EDF boss
Developing North Sea fields does not contradict net zero goals, according to Simone Rossi
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 10h
Peter Thiel is a cancer on the world. Our govts are buying into his far-right ideological bullshit, and the software his company Palantir makes to commit genocide, destroy critical infrastructure, and spy on every aspect of our lives We are truly in the upside down m.youtube.com/watch?v=BCFX...
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Billionaire Pervert Accidentally Tells The Truth | The Kyle Kulinski Show
YouTube video by Secular Talk
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Henrik Jalalian @henrikjalalian.bsky.social · 9h
Det vi bevittnar är visionernas frånvaro från politiken När du vet vad du vill göra spelar det mindre roll hur du gör det och med vem När du inte vill göra nåt särskilt är bråket kring spelet och laguppställningen allt som återstår
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 11h
As follow-up. www.nationalacademies.org/donate-to-th...
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Donate to the Science and Innovation Fund for Ukraine
Your donation will support activities that:
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11h
William Friedkin with a terrific story about casting Fernando Rey in THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)
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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 9h
Good grief.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 10h
Part 2
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 10h
A Confederacy of Illiterates.
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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 9h
EEK 👀
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h
Mentions on Fox shows of the very newsworthy confrontation between Schmitt and Jack Smith: Ingraham (7-8pm): 0 Watters (8-9): 0 Hannity (9-10): 0 Gutfeld (10-11): 0 Fox & Friends this AM: 0
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11h
53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.
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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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Janny Wurts @jannywurts.bsky.social · 11h
Attention: I got an email today offering for sale the CONTACT INFORMATION, PHONE, ADDRESS, BUSINESS INFO - everything for the entire LIST of attendees for the 2026 World Fantasy Convention. Very ugly - did that list get hacked from the convention? I did fwd the email to writerbeware.
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Wallpaper* @wallpapermag.bsky.social · 12h
Behind the design and menu of Ottolenghi’s bright new Edinburgh restaurant www.wallpaper.com/travel/resta...
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 10h
@david8hughes

Wife: don't forget to pick the kids up from school

Me: it's Saturday, they're both upstairs

Wife: it's Wednesday & we have 3 kids
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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 9h
Meanwhile, in Canada...
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bsdtectr @bsdtectr.bsky.social · 10h
Democrats have to start raising taxes on all of those motherfuckers. Tax rates like during WWII. Close all the goddamn loopholes, etc.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 15h
She also adjusted her pace to ensure the injured cub could keep up. By 2008, he was observed hunting on his own & at the age of 20 is King of the Fat Bears, holding his own at the crowded Brook Falls. A story of a mother's love, sacrifice & a little cub who became a champion fat bear. 🥹
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How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack
Discover how Bear 89 became Backpack, why his nickname predates his leg injury, and how his mother Holly adjusted to her cub’s needs.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 10h
Fabulous fragment of an ancient Egyptian wall relief with three bears and an oil jar. The paint has survived some 4,500 years! Limestone relief from the Pyramid Temple of Sahure, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, c. 2496-2483 BC. Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology
My photo shows a circa 4,500-year-old limestone relief with some well-preserved paint in places, from the funerary temple of Sahure at Abusir, measuring 39 × 35 × 8.5 cm. It shows three bears (partial view only) and a tall one-handled pottery vessel, across two registers. The upper register at left, shows the two leds and hindquarters of a bear, and at right, a bear’s lowered head, chest, and foreleg, painted mid-brown. The lower register at left shows a tall, dark-reddish-brown pottery vessel with a long neck and single handle, and at right, the lowered head, neck, shoulder, and top of foreleg of a dark-brown bear. The bears wear collars tethered by ropes to looped fixtures in the ground. The fragment comes from a wall scene depicting tributes from the Levant. Bears were not native to Egypt. The bears represented are Syrian brown bears  (Ursus arctos syriacus), which were quite common in Levantine mountain regions in antiquity. They were kept as exotic animals in enclosures by Egyptian kings, and also hunted.
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 10h
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Next time you’re told the Scottish Government is failing to replace inflammable cladding here’s the evidence, six times for emphasis, why it’s not necessary in Scotland
In the National today, the above, and a report based entirely on events in England with no mention of the somewhat obvious fact that there have never been towering infernos in Scotland despite 6 to…
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“not all AI models [are shoggoths]” fucking listen to yourselves. the state of some of you
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Sunshine Jarboly @sunshinejarboly.bsky.social · 13h
*two aliens zoom through the solar system in their spaceship. one of them points to the earth as they pass by* that’s where flan was invented.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 13h
September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. Today is a time to raise awareness of the ongoing impacts of residential schools and remember the children who never came home. How are you honouring the day?
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have no idea if this is true but the collage kills me
A black lemur in a leafy tree with its mouth open as if singing, beside an inset photo of Pavarotti striking a similar pose. Text reads: “New research shows lemurs use operatic techniques when they sing, to reach high notes.” Classic FM.
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Foxyfunderburd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🇺🇦 @foxyfunderburd.bsky.social · 17h
This is how low this scumbag would go 👇 using his dad's death to score political points 🤡 VILE!
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 10h
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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Stelco's U.S. owner to face 'fullest extent of the law' over layoffs: PM Carney | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says the federal government will use "all powers" at its disposal to pursue Stelco's American owners "to the fullest extent of the law."
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 11h
If Andy Burnham is so determined that he won’t be the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, let’s have a referendum, let the people in Scotland decide, and see who is right.
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