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Sarah Mackie

@lumi1984.bsky.social
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Lover of sci-fi, gaming, soundtracks and the Scots language. www.youtube.com/@sarahmackievids Aspires to a Scotland with self determination and a better world for all. "...humans can be better than they are, so let's do that." - James S.A. Corey

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 16h
The Abyss (1989): Flatbed submersible, art by Steve Burg
Flatbed submersible, art by Steve BurgFlatbed in the movie
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Sarah Mackie @lumi1984.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A sight and sound that always heralds the start of autumn for me
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026
This is a photo of our home planet taken only a few hours ago! So what? We have photos of Earth taken from space every day. Ah, but *this* photo was taken by a spacecraft ON ITS WAY TO JUPITER.
From the source: "Mostly black space, most of Earth visible at the top right of the image. Part of a spacecraft visible on the left."
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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We’re just innocent men
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 28/09/2026
Star Trek: The Next Generation started 39 years ago today. The future began again at this (Encounter at Far)point.
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I really think people like this should have to wear the logos of their sponsors on their clothing when they are being interviewed
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He holds a number of paid positions as an adviser for lobbying and consultancy companies.[51] He is paid chair of the Purpose Defence Coalition, members of which include arms manufacturer Leonardo, which has "extensive links" to Israel’s military.[52] He is paid chair of the Purpose Business Coalition, members of which include Leonardo and oil company BP. He is a paid senior adviser to Rud Pedersen, a lobbying company with expertise in security and defence, which has oil and gas companies Glencore and Enwell Energy as clients.[53
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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.
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Olivier Roth @olivierroth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
C'est lundi. Café ?
Affiche dessinée : un chat noir très élégant en kimono boit un café dans une tasse rouge. Légence : MORE ESPRESSO, LESS DEPRESSO.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
as an artist I'd love this but I also think everyone else should also get it. I think UBI should just be default. But I think that would transform the economy into TRULY being the free marketplace of ideas, the car capitalists chase and hope they never catch lol #politics
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Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two months on from the announcement about Jodrell Bank Observatory's future funding, almost £50,000 has been raised thanks to your generosity. While discussions continue, no solution is yet in place. Help protect Jodrell Bank with a donation: donate.manchester.ac.uk/p/jodrellba…
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ADHD Memes @adhdforreal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 25/09/2026
While the autumn equinox has now passed, today brings something a little different, the equilux. 🌖 That's when day and night are as close to equal length as they get, with sunrise and sunset around 12 hours apart.
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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of my favourite typos was from the cover page of a student's coursework a few years back
Word cunt: 2050
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing tools coaching mass shooters and helping people kill themselves. People need to wake the fuck up.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
So this story is WAY wilder than I thought The Trump post I flagged this morning because it includes Natalie Harp is actually based on the Getty photo you can see below. But there is one key difference -- MONICA CROWLEY'S FACE HAS BEEN EDITED TO LOOK LIKE NATALIE HARP'S WTF is going on here?
Getty pic of Xi and TrumpTrump TS post featuring the mentioned edit of Monica Crowley's faceoriginal pic image of MonicaTrump TS post which shows Natalie's face where Monica's is on the original. very weird
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My dad doing a "somersault" at his local swimming pool, filmed by his pal Malcolm. "THE POOL AND I HAVE AN ARRANGEMENT," my dad told me. "THEY OPEN UP THE STORAGE CUPBOARD AND LET ME GO IN THERE SO I CAN GET A GOOD RUN-UP" P.S. Read this. You won't regret it: www.tom-cox.com/31-notes-i-h...
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy 130th Birthday to F. Scott Fitzgerald who was born #onthisday in 1896. This is also your reminder that if editor Maxwell Perkins had not convinced Fitzgerald to change the title, The Great Gatsby was going to be called 'Trimalchio in West Egg.' Which really isn't as good.
The original cover of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
A black and white photograph of F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Sarah Mackie @lumi1984.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Homemade sign photographed at an unknown protest, saying "Our expectations for you were low but HOLY FUCK"
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Homemade sign photographed at an unknown protest, saying "Our expectations for you were low but HOLY FUCK"
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Sarah Mackie @lumi1984.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The blackshirts are back, and tumbleweed skites across the space where UKGov action should be.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When I try to mentally file away someone’s name.
A crate containing the Ark of Covenant being moved into a massive warehouse full of crates.

(Still from Raiders of the Lost Ark)
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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm telling you guys, you gotta put killcodes in the games you make now and hold them hostage. Day 0 patch set to automatically apply and delete everything if you aren't there to manually pause it. Go full Pandora Tomorrow. Your bosses don't know anything about coding, they can't fix it!
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.
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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 23/09/2026
The two Scottish female novelists who outsold and inspired Jane Austen by Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman theconversation.com/the-two-scot... Books by Susan Ferrier and Mary Brunton at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #literature
Scottish novelist Susan Ferrier; from an engraving after the 1836 portrait by R. Thorburn.

Portrait of Ferrier shown wearing an elaborate lace-trimmed bonnet and a dark dress with embroidered collar, holding what appears to be a locket or watch on a chain.Portrait of Mary Brunton (1778-1818) from the 2nd edition (1820) of Emmeline.

She's shown with curled hair, a pearl necklace, and puffed-sleeve dress.
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Sarah Mackie @lumi1984.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The blackshirts are back, and tumbleweed skites across the space where UKGov action should be.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 17/12/2024
Bond Villain Sharks.
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Sarah Mackie @lumi1984.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why hasn't Patriot Platform been proscribed already?
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Sarah Mackie @lumi1984.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why hasn't Patriot Platform been proscribed already?
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Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If this doesn't result in him going to prison I'm fucking done with my country. Only Sunday I read the riot act to a few friends over this. the RNLI are there to aid anyone in trouble at sea, not just the people you like. If you stand with Black Shirts you are on the wrong side of history.
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hogsy @hogsy.me · 22/09/2026
My god. We really are living in an idiocracy.
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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
guest comic for @mrlovenstein.bsky.social new book
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Much as we love bookshops, they need more than love to keep going. A bookshop can be the centre of a whole community. Bookshops support authors; organize events. A thriving bookshop teaches the next generation that literacy matters. So don't just love your bookshop: actually buy books there.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published
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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sep 22nd - The postmark date on a postcard sent by, recent escapee, Andy Dufresne, to Ellis "Red" Redding. 📽️📅 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3 Screenshots from the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994): First, Red in prison uniform holds a letter in the prison yard with the subtitle “I got a postcard in the mail.” Second, a close-up of the postcard’s front showing a cowboy riding a giant jackrabbit with the words “Cattle Punching on a Jack Rabbit.” Third, the back of the postcard addressed to Ellis Redding at Shawshank Prison, subtitle reading “Fort Hancock, Texas.”
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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 22/09/2026
Dead Space (2008): USG Ishimura, art by Ryan Church
USG Ishimura, art by Ryan Church
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚
A shelf of books by JRR Tolkien
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 22/09/2026
Good to see the US media showing a bit of spine - hope they keep up the boycott until Trump caves.
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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 21/09/2026
This is the funniest thing that's happened in a grim year.

3 minutes ago
Michael Grynbaum
Media reporter

The TV networks did not bring cameras to Trump’s ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new helipad on the South Lawn. Watching the White House’s official YouTube stream, it was impossible to hear any of the president’s remarks. The audio is completely garbled.
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Sarah Mackie @lumi1984.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Michael Fassbender: Perfection
Alt: Michael Fassbender saying perfection with a straight face
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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