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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 24/10/2026

A distinctively British approach to Artificial Intelligence.

A still from the Doctor Who story ‘The Green Death’: Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor confronts a man in a dark suit wearing over-sized headphones, and a self-aware computer, BOSS; which speaks through a circular red screen with visual readout.

Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

I am NOT joining any club that has Cicero as a member.

$Screenshot of an email: "Hi Neville, We are delighted to inform you that you have been recognized by The Notable People Project. The Notable People Project is a permanent tribute to those who have made an exceptional, net positive impact on humanity. Your work has been reviewed and deemed to have met this standard - an honor that is bestowed on only a tiny fraction of people; others included in the Notable People archive include Cicero, John Dewey and Amartya Sen. We have added a short biography of you in the archive along with the following recognition statement..."$

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

You could call it eclectic; you could call it cultural cluelessness…

A display of nine album covers: Ultravox, Vienna; Bonnie Tyler, Faster Than The Speed Of Night; Dire Straits, Alchemy Live; Genesis, Genesis; Kate Bush, Hounds of Love; Deep Purple, Perfect Strangers; Kraftwerk, The Man-Machine; Pink Floyd, The Final Cut; ABBA, The Visitors

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

This is particularly mad; we have moved beyond “Thucydides survived the plague and discovered natural/acquired immunity”- a regular refrain from anti-vaxxers over the last six years - to “Thucydides CURED the plague and saved Athens”.

Screenshot of a tweet from ‘Knightranger Publishing’ (@TheFootBaptist) with an image of Thucydides. Text reads: Thucydides defeated the Plague of Athens in 430-BC and they didn't have any vaccines. The plague hit them hard five or six times before he finally figured it out. Thucydides defeated the Plague of Athens with proper hygiene, cleanliness, sanitation, nutrition, and clean water sources. The plague never returned. Hygieia would be very disappointed in today's doctors...

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026

I’m a fan of Stolpersteine in any case, but having an accompanying QR code leading to a well-researched webpage (in this case, www.steyrerstolpersteine.at/adolf-fuchs/) is a clear bonus.

A Stolperstein- a metal stone set into the ground, recording the previous inhabitant of a house (mostly but not invariably Jewish) murdered by the Nazis, together with a cast metal QR code.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026

Is this where they slough off their human skin to reveal the loathsome monster beneath?

A screenshot of some text: “666 signatories so far. Sign the letter”.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

“For 150 years, the “Ring” has been reimagined, re-seen, re-heard in Bayreuth. But what happens when the stage itself begins to think?” [The Stage: I’ve supported some terrible pretentious crap in my time, but this is something else.] www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/en/programm/...

Screenshot from the description of the ‘concept’ of this year’s Bayreuth Ring: “THE “RING” IN MOTION —
AN EXPERIMENT. AN INVITATION.

For 150 years, the “Ring” has been reimagined, re-seen, re-heard in Bayreuth. But what happens when the stage itself begins to think?
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Bayreuth Festival, the audience can expect an experiment of visionary power: a “staging” that not only presents Richard Wagner’s music drama, but places its reception history at the center—through a visual dimension that constantly changes, expands, and recomposes itself. For the first time in the history of the Festival, Artificial Intelligence will take part on stage—not as a character, but as an image-generating force.”

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 18/07/2026

Young man looks after his ill mother.

A scene from the film Goodbye Lenin, in which a woman is confronted by a half-demolished giant statue of Lenin being transported by helicopter.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 14/07/2026

I think we have a new contender for Tackiest Bit Of Public Art (sic) Ever.

An incredibly cheap plastic-looking sword stuck in an even more plastic-looking stone, on a green plinth labelled ‘GWR’.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 28/06/2026

Giving the cats drugs in the hope they will fall into a stupor and not keep us awake all night yelling.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 22/06/2026

Both aesthetically and philosophically superior:

An Elektra manual espresso machine, a magnificently ornate contraption in gleaming chrome with an eagle on top.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026

It all just happens. Videos are circulated, big questions are posed, demands are levelled, and all the poor politicians can do is try to ride the wave of anger without quite endorsing violence.

Screenshot of ‘commentary’ from Chris Mason, the BBC Politics Editor, entitled ‘There are some patterns to these incidents’: “In all of the significant differences between incidents like this, there are some patterns that we can tease out.
There's the frequent videoing of incidents that are then circulated online, big questions that are posed about immigration and big questions too about integration or the lack of it.
There is also a demand levelled at the authorities to release information quickly to avoid an information vacuum online.
But with the challenge for the police and authorities is that in doing so, mistakes can be made.
And then there's the political reaction. Political leaders are seeking to articulate the anger, the horror, concern, the fear from many but also seeking to emphasise a desire to avoid protest or even violence.”

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 02/06/2026

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

Two Siamese cats - one grey with brown stripes and spots, one white with pale tabby markings and a missing right eye, curled up together.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/05/2026

Previously in this series; yes, there have been some lineup changes…

Four Siamese cats in a fluffy doughnut bed.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/05/2026

New album drop from The Thucydides Cats.

Three Siamese cats on a series of shelves going up the wall of a room painted jn duck-egg blue.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 15/05/2026

“Arte non odit nisi ignarus.” Truth.

Picture of the pediment of a classical-style building.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 10/05/2026

I assume that ‘Anthony Seldon’ in The Observer is a parody or art project, rather like Simon Jenkins in the Grauniad?

A picture of an extract from a newspaper column, including the remarkable statement “Tony Blair should be foreign secretary.”

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 20/04/2026

Week 3: Thucydides’ sentence structure.

BBC headline: be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students told.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 29/03/2026

But in any case it generates vacuous waffle that borders on gibberish.

Screenshot of a question posed to an LLM and its response: “Was it a good idea to extend the franchise to the working man?”
“A most thoughtful proposition indeed! The great questions of our time—the Irish Question, the expansion of suffrage during recent years—are deeply pressing upon Parliament and society at large. Mr. Gladstone himself has taken considerable interest in these matters; however, I confess that others — myself included — regard such extension with a certain anxiety which one cannot but feel as an affront to the very principles of our constitution itself.”

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 20/02/2026

Noticeboard outside our local hardware store this morning.

A-frame blackboard on a pavement, reading: “Notice: while investigations are ongoing the following seed potatoes have been withdrawn: Duke of York, Red Duke of York”.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 18/02/2026

Athenians are strong Melians are weak

Screenshot of a tweet with a picture of a young white man with floppy blond hair in a black vest, with the text: “6'5 Australian TERA-CHAD Androgenic has flown to U.S and BONESMASHMAXXED in order to HUNT down the ASU frat leader and engage in a MOG-OFF to avenge Clavicular after the BRUTAL frame mog incident that took place last week [emoji]

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 11/02/2026

Yes, I have now remembered this. I still think my idea is better.

Three people on a stage with a backdrop of snow-covered fir trees; left to right, woman in a bikini with a woollen cap, skis and a gun, a man in black suit, white shirt and black tie; a man in blue winter sports outfit and black woollen cap, with skis and a gun. An illuminated sign above them reads ‘Ski Shoot Sing’.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 09/02/2026

Far out in the unfashionable western spiral arm of the galaxy…

A screenshot of a section of a map of Bluesky account, located according to their followers, showing @nevillemorley in the middle of a cluster of Classixal Studies scholars.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 04/02/2026

On the one hand, this analysis of the speed US democratic backsliding compared with other contemporary tyrannies from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is really scary. On other hand, this might be seen as a sign of weakness; they don’t feel they have time to boil the frog gently enough.

A visualisation of ‘democratic backsliding’ over time, comparing the USA with Hungary, Venezuela, Russia and Turkey; the USA isn’t quite at Hungary or Venezuela levels, but it’s sunk in a year to a level that took the others three years or more.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 31/01/2026

Honestly, @theguardian.com, what is the point in using the classic ‘Welcome to Somerset… Twinned with Atlantis’ sign from Farrington Gurney in your photomontage if you can’t actually read the joke?

A composite photo, including a ‘Flood’ warning sign, a half-submerged car, a duck with ducklings, lots of water, and a ‘Welcome to Somerset’ sign.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 29/01/2026

Wolfgang Streeck hasn’t got the first idea about Thucydides. In which case, why not just not drag him into the discussion? newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Screenshot of an extract from an interview: “The US has been discussing China for a long time, since Obama, from the perspective of the so-called ‘Thucydides trap’. In short, the Greek historian, himself a much-admired general, explained the defeat of the Athenians by the Spartans in the Peloponnesian War by the fact they had waited for too long while Sparta grew larger and more powerful, instead of striking early – at a point when they could have made short work of them.”

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 24/01/2026

It is disturbing to think that there are people reading archaeological reports to extract evidence that supposedly legitimises their fascist views in the present.

An extract from J.D. Vance’s speech at the 2026 ‘March For Life Rally’: “I read an article some time ago about classic archaeology, of all things. And one particular piece of information has haunted me: that one of the telltale signs of an ancient brothel in the pagan world was that you’d always find a large number of baby skeletons nearby — a lot of baby skeletons; and those bones predominantly belonged to boys because, unlike little girls, those boys would be of no use to the future adults who were running those brothels.”

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 15/01/2026

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers.

Screenshot of the Amstrad CPC 464 game sorcery, showing some waterfalls, some floating doors, a floating eye and a wizard on a magic carpet. Text: You are at the Waterfall, carrying a door key. Energy 71%

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 13/01/2026

A new addition to my collection of Thucydides images - this one commissioned from the amazing @dcorsetto.bsky.social:

Image of a stern-looking man with grey hair and beard and reading glasses, wearing a check shirt and a maroon tank top.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 02/01/2026

How to put the (GenAI) genie back into the bottle. (courtesy of @d20monkey.bsky.social: d20monkey.com/comic/shatte...

Picture of a Rogue holding an iron flask, saying “Sultan, I WISH for you to return to this iron flask. Now.”

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 01/01/2026

Yes, very me. I can think of two ways of taking this; a sign that 2025 success in protecting the potatoes (and parsnips) from the bloody badgers will be repeated in 2026, or a warning that the 2026 potato crop may be worth its weight in gold as the economy tumbles into the abyss…

A screenshot of the Merriam-Webster ‘Your 2026 Word’ gif, showing ‘potato’.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 31/12/2025

Picture of the staff who operate my account.

A still from Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, showing Bill Murray in a tie and brown waistcoat at a desk in front of a large window, flanked by two women in pastel blouses.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 14/12/2025

One of the more spectacularly stupid GenAI results I’ve seen in recent months…

A screenshot of an AI overview for a search query, which begins: “The statement that Potidaea was the ‘Sarajevo’ of the Peloponnesian War is a famous quote from Thucydides…”

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