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Melanie Dymond Harper

@meldh.bsky.social
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Digital certificates, crypto (that's _cryptography_, not anything currency-related), drumming, singing, photography, foxes. She/her. All opinions mine.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/10/2026
"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?" buff.ly/oLdL54C
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Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
“Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five poin...
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Jim Killock @jim.killock.org.uk · 1h
What are the ramifications for tech and financial institutions of the US's latest attacks on the ICC? www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj20vkk… #digitalsovereignty
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h
My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you could use a pick-me-up, check out the Smithsonian’s live cheetah cub cam. The five-day old cubs are beyond adorable, and an important addition to the captive breeding program for this vulnerable species.
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Cheetah Cub Cam
The Cheetah Cub Cam streams live from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10h
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good." 

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues  "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
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More silence

"Professor?"
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 7h
just when you thought it couldn’t get worse
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/10/2026
what a grim and mean little quote
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 8h
Clippy the Word for windows assistant says:

Hey, it looks like you're waiting for ideal conditions to do that thing you've been wanting to do. Need I remind you that ideal conditions do not exist and will never happen?
•I'm aware
•Wow, rude
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 9h
“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems
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tuomaspirinen.bsky.social @tuomaspirinen.bsky.social · 11h
Friends, are you or do you know any graphic designers who are free to take freelance gig on a short notice? Experience in tabletop games is a huge plus! If so, please contact me!
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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 9h
Right yes, "protect are women" by preventing a long-planned fundraiser for Cancer Research... Bastards.
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Kari Maaren @angrykem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This Is Just to Say I have trained the AI to read to our baby the one you were probably expecting me to interact with Calm down AI is awesome so sweet and so cold
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 11h
Up to 60 red-listed curlew roosted on the Cambois data centre site: 15% of the number Northumberland Shore SSSI was designated for (found in QTS's own surveys). Now it's being cleared. Mitigation: just £40k to extend a council wader site already created for another development in 2014.
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Dave Merritt @butwhatifitsall.bsky.social · 11h
If this doesn’t convince world leaders that no reasonable accommodation with Trump is possible, I don’t know what will. Wake the fuck up people. Ignoring the shitshow will only make it worse.
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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 11h
As the UK took centre stage at one of Europe’s biggest music showcases, access to the Schengen area and the 90/180 day rule is constantly hampering British artists’ and crews’ ability to tour the EU. There is a simple fix – and it is already on the Prime Minister’s desk | Tim Brennan
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Britain was Guest of Honour at Waves Vienna. Its touring creatives still can’t work freely in Europe
As the UK took centre stage at one of Europe’s biggest music showcases, access to the Schengen area and the 90/180 day rule is constantly hampering British artists’ and crews’ ability to tour the EU. There is a simple fix – and it is already on the Prime Minister’s desk
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11h
There isn't a hell hot enough 🤬
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Megyn Kelly Blasted After Implying Cornell 'Jane Doe' Should Be Grateful For Assault Since She's 'Not The Most Attractive Gal'
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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 11h
Yeah, it exposed my bank details to everyone, but that just means I was using it wrong. It couldn't be an issue with the tool itself. Jesus, we're going to need some kind of a massive training program to get all these people to learn to use their brains again.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 23h
Today's Daily Cartoon, by Paul Noth.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 09/10/2026
Jesus H www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts
Former Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wow! 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!
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
‘Culturally British by my standards’ is one of the most chilling phrases uttered in British politics. Entirely unsurprising to me who it’s from.
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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Most important bit of the BBC streaming reporting on the Fonagty report into mental health. #FuckWesStreeting
A photo of a section of the BBCs streaming reporting on the Fonagty report on mental health. It shows Professor Fonagy talking to the BBC with the headline "Wes Streeting 'completely wrong' about over-diagnosis, says review author"

The text below the photo says:
The author of today's report, Prof Peter Fonagy, has been speaking to Radio 4's Today programme.
He starts by saying that former Health Secretary Wes Streeting - who first commissioned the review - was "with respect, completely wrong" when he talked about an over-diagnosis of mental health disorders.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...
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Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst
A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Given students I’ve been supporting have been forced to turn to private providers (which the Church pays for) because the waiting lists are so insane, the system failure are already here *and it’s not the patients’ fault*
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'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.
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Vera Fang @verafang.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I have a British passport in my drawer because I AM British. But I’m not culturally English - I’m Scottish. Do I not count as real British to honest Bob? Or to his racist cronies? I grew up with this shit, from uneducated fascists. And now it’s openly spoken out loud by a political leader. Fuck him
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Rebecca McCarthy - Game Writing & Narrative🔜 MCM Comic Con @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dressmaker is a masterpiece.
I made a Garfield Dress
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Utter barbarism. Like watching the reverse evolution of man into beast.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pleased to announce that ADHD is being overdiagnosed again according to the BBC and pathetic skidmark Wes Streeting, so now - during ADHD Awareness Month no less - it's time to give it up and just be normal. Let it go. Just turn it off and get on with things www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says government review
The review, which focuses on younger age groups, warned there was a risk society was moving from an era of under-diagnosis to over-diagnosis or mis-diagnosis.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I have been excited in the past. I’m familiar with the sensation… but how to explain the buzz im feeling after a 25 year journey to get it made, to finally… FINALLY bring ROGUE TROOPER HOME! Hard to express really. See you at the premiere at the LFF tomorrow night, LONDON! ❤️🇬🇧❤️
Poster for Rogue Trooper with lovely quotes and list of festival accreditations
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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Really can’t make jokes about utterly terrible, useless and downright spiteful Nandy is. It’s fecking shameful how the first Minister for Culture Labour has since 2010 hates our culture and is happy to see it be washed away like this.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/10/2026
Asimov's trying to grab all the rights to @donatoarts.bsky.social's work is egregious but it's not in isolation, either. Other publishers are attempting other rights grabs and restrictions that they weren't doing a couple of years ago. Why? Because fuck you, that's why. Remember the power of "no."
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Fab story from Margaret Hamilton, RIP, showing why Science-Mums are brilliant scientists! When innovating at the cutting edge of technology, it's so important to bring together a wide range of lived experiences. Sad that only ~20% comp-scientists are female 👩‍🔬🧪 ℹ️: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Right:  A woman looking very cool in a 70's dress standing next to a massive pile of very thick books
Left text: Did your life as a software engineer and a mother ever collide?
Often in the evening or at weekends I would bring my young daughter, Lauren, into work with me. One day, she was with me when I was doing a simulation of a mission to the moon. She liked to imitate me – playing astronaut. She started hitting keys and all of a sudden, the simulation started. Then she pressed other keys and the simulation crashed. She had selected a program which was supposed to be run prior to launch – when she was already “on the way” to the moon. The computer had so little space, it had wiped the navigation data taking her to the moon. I thought: my God – this could inadvertently happen in a real mission. I suggested a program change to prevent a prelaunch program being selected during flight. But the higher-ups at MIT and Nasa said the astronauts were too well trained to make such a mistake. Midcourse on the very next mission – Apollo 8 – one of the astronauts on board accidentally did exactly what Lauren had done. The Lauren bug! It created much havoc and required the mission to be reconfigured. After that, they let me put the program change in, all right.
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ianthemouthofmadness.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 08/10/2026
RPG plotters, sharpen your writing implements of choice
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is absolutely disgraceful. A handful of pathetic men - real losers, the ‘protecting are wimmin’ flag-wearing, no brain cell types - is allowed to stop a huge, celebratory, women’s community event which raises money for cancer research. Why? This is misogyny writ large.
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🦋🐕‍🦺🌺LadyWillow💚🐾🦋 @ladywillow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 07/10/2026
LET THEM GO BUST ! Last year, Thames Water took out a £3bn loan - at 9.75% interest. And now they want another £2.4bn to keep going?! ENOUGH. If water companies can't survive without rip-off loans, they should be declared insolvent and brought into public hands through special administration.
Screenshot from The Daily Telegraph, 2nd October 2026: "Thames Water seeks £2.4bn lifeline after rescue plan stalls Troubled utility risks more financial turmoil if its army of hedge fund backers do not provide emergency cash", above a graphic of the Thames Water logo swirling down a drain.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Brittin so far absolutely fucking hopeless. There are countless tech and discussion podcasts in the private sector. You and Yours was exceptional public interest journalism.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🤣👏 @mrjohncrace.bsky.social
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
His marks in publishing will only accept the "it just works" of his scam so long as his fake-ass garbage machine creates the racist outcome they've been longing for
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Katsuragi D "#1 Twin Turbo Fan" Misato ♊🚀🐝 @cyberpuritan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Rest in peace Margaret Hamilton, and thank you for everything you've done! Genuinely one of the greatest scientific minds of our time. You brought humanity beyond the reach of our little earth for the very first time, and revolutionized so much more than people realize. You will not be forgotten! 🚀🌕
Hamilton next to her handwritten code for the Apollo program "There was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners." - Margaret Hamilton
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/10/2026
These were identical trips, loaded via identical referrer URLs. The difference was that in the browser where Air Canada knew that I was an extremely loyal and prolific customer, they had whacked me with a *44.8% premium* to punish me for my loyalty!
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 08/10/2026
From International Women's Day '21
Margaret Hamilton drawing
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
an insane fact is that jack black's mom played a critical role in apollo 13 but a somehow more insane fact is that his half brother is credited with creating wireless internet
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🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
this is so fucking sad
Alvin Sng 0 @alvinsng My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
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Me: Icanjust play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voic e.
Me:| can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you workin Al.
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