mattshenton.bsky.social @mattshenton.bsky.social · 16hIt’s a bit like the monkeys and Shakespeare business. If we all made 642 albums, what are the chances that 1 of them might turn out to be reasonably good (yet despite being lyric-free still contain annoyingly « wacky » musical phrases)? 010
mattshenton.bsky.social @mattshenton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll 030
Reposted by @mattshenton.bsky.socialBut Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 20/04/2026This. I've seen enough people claim that LLMs are useful for coding, for example, that I'll happily accept that if they say so. But anything that requires factual accuracy or dealing with the real world, they're bullshit engines and *extremely* dangerous ones. 58214
mattshenton.bsky.social @mattshenton.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Note to self : google scholar searches conducted in dreams, and literature consumed therein can be unreliable 010
mattshenton.bsky.social @mattshenton.bsky.social · 10/03/2025@keithbeard.bsky.social Italian beard power in effect 120
mattshenton.bsky.social @mattshenton.bsky.social · 31/12/2024@melonisevil.bsky.social happy new year, Rav! 000
mattshenton.bsky.social @mattshenton.bsky.social · 31/12/2024@pmgilmartin.bsky.social happy new year, Phil! 110
Reposted by @mattshenton.bsky.socialMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I’m not going to tell anyone how to do Bluesky, but I would like to encourage the following: - Repost stuff you find interesting/entertaining - help others to find the good people to follow - repost small creatives who you like who are trying to plug their work 221104362
mattshenton.bsky.social @mattshenton.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Better late than never, just a touch of snow on Mt Fuji today 151
Reposted by @mattshenton.bsky.socialRabbi Rachel Barenblat @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social · 21/10/2024This is the high-quality content I am here for. (Not sarcasm. I'm about to go read this essay, with glee. This is so much better for my heart than reading the damn news.) 3879
Reposted by @mattshenton.bsky.socialThe Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 21/10/2024Life imitates art, and then art catches up, because people in historic England would decorate their homes with artworks of impressively square livestock. Explore the significance of these well-angled animals on our blog! merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2015/10...merl.reading.ac.ukConsuming the fat cows - The Museum of English Rural LifeWhy were livestock in 19th century artworks so rectangular? Read on to learn about the history of agricultural portraiture. 311319
