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Nick Halliday

@nickmhalliday.bsky.social
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Keen on Ancient history, Latin, Greek; running, sailing, Harlequins season ticket. Country music

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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 8h
BBC News - China has cracked down on AI relationships. Is it ahead of the game? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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China has cracked down on AI relationships. Is it ahead of the game?
Beijing has cracked down on AI chatbots that can replicate human relationships. Experts are asking if this is the right thing to do.
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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Interesting logic.
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Jukesie @jukes.ie · 30/09/2026
Product for the People 10(!) is going to be in Leeds on the 19th November. luma.com/7s9dnegb @debblanch44.bsky.social has put together a brilliant line-up for this milestone meet-up!
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Product for the People 10 · Luma
This is the 10th (!!) of our Product for the People events and we're coming to Leeds. An event for people interested in public service and product management…
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Come to the Dark Side, Luke. @labourlewis.bsky.social
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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you ever buy something leasehold get a good solicitor to go through the lease in detail first. BBC News - Leaseholders without hot water threatened with losing homes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Croydon leaseholders threatened with losing homes
George Ainsworth says he has been threatened with his flat being repossessed by the freeholder.
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Paul @atticusfinch-105.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
30 September 1917 Private Walter Hazel (16201) 7 Bn King's Shropshire Light Infantry died of wounds and was buried in Brandhoek New Military Cemetery Walter is remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's all double Akkadian to me.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Currently on display at @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social , on loan from Swedish History Museum, Stockholm 🧵2/2
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An amazing glimpse into Mesolithic everyday life: this more than 7,500-year-old ring was made from heather roots, carefully rolled up and prepared for later use. It was discovered at the settlement of Motala/Sweden, where the same material was used for fish traps. Dating 5750–5550 BC. 🧵1/2 📷me
A thick bundle of dried plant roots, tightly rolled into a ring and secured with fibrous ties, displayed on a dark grey museum plinth.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 30/09/2026
#OtD 10 Oct 1889 a nationwide wave of schoolchildren's strikes was sparked in East London, when kids from a dozen schools walked out of class and took to the streets waving red flags, and banners emblazoned with "No cane" and "Shorter hours" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8241...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 30/09/2026
Flydubai Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv diverted over Jordanian airspace towards Saudi Arabia, transmitting a general emergency signal before transmitting another emergency signal that indicated a possible unlawful interference several minutes later, according to Flightradar24
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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jolly hockey sticks!
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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In USA 'self'regulation' = no regulation.
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 30/09/2026
Personally I’m just waiting to hear what the accounting regulator has to say about those firms who signed off on the Man City accounts. #ArthurAnderson
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On this day 30th September 1868 the first volume of 'Little Women' by Louisa May Alcott was published. Artist: Terry Gabbey
Two houses stand at dusk in a snowy street. One is smaller and brightly lit. The other is larger and mainly in darkness. 
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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BBC News - 'Mum sent them £140,000': How to spot the signs a loved one is being scammed - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'Mum sent them £140,000': How to spot the signs a loved one is being scammed
Helen discovered her mum was in the grip of a romance scam - here's how she found out and broke her free.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/09/2026
‘“Hard borders” are a creation of the modern age. Until the late 19th century, borders almost everywhere were more or less open, often fuzzy or undecided.’ Ferdinand Mount on immigration and emigration in the English imagination. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Ferdinand Mount · Modest and Misunderstood: Wretched Strangers
In the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It...
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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Explain the difference between growth and profits...
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Jukesie @jukes.ie · 29/09/2026
I got Claude to build out a full - sort of structured - dataset of all the 4925 vacancies - job titles, organisation, salary, location (though this is a bit messy) and a few other fields - for people smarter than me to play with. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Internet of Public Service Jobs - dataset
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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How odd. I opted out of assembly when I was at school decades ago.
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Is it me or are Meta's new 'upgrade' audio only surveillance glasses just as freaking creepy as the perve glasses? So, basically they are LESS recognisable and no light to show they are recording the speech of everyone around? That's meant to be reassuring how exactly?
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Stefan Czerniawski @pubstr.at · 29/09/2026
"Quite often the technology is simply the place where a much messier organisational problem has chosen to make itself visible." @sharonodea.com in characteristic top form on what ineffective search demonstrates about intranets and their organisations - much of which resonates much more widely
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Intranet Findability: Why Employees Can’t Find Information
Better search won't fix an intranet nobody can find anything on. Here's why findability fails in complex organisations, and how to diagnose it with research, card sorting and tree testing.
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 29/09/2026
New data shows that just over a third of the 1.4 million participants in a study had high readings. The risks extend far beyond stroke.
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The hidden dangers of high blood pressure — what you should know
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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#MosaicMonday The #Roman mosaics of Villa del Tellaro near Noto, Syracuse, #Sicily. The villa, dates from the 4th C AD. The floors of the three rooms are taped with mosaics depicting mythological, hunting and dancing scenes. #Archaeology #History #Art
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cam bridges
Bridges
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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BBC News - Thousands of illegal ghost plates on cars revealed by new cameras www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Thousands of illegal ghost plates on cars revealed by new cameras
Illegal registration plates are far too easy to get hold of and are putting the public at risk, BBC is told.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A truly marvellous object: a 16th-century incense storage container in the shape of a #ship. Coins of the #Roman Emperor Nero, minted between 64 and 68 AD, have been attached as wheels. 📷️ Landesmuseum Württemberg
A intricately crafted incense storage container shaped like ship, made of bronze with a weathered patina. The container features a central lighthouse-like structure rising from its deck and is supported by Roman coins serving as decorative wheels, on is missing. The ship’s bow and stern are elevated and adorned with geometric carvings and porthole-like cutouts, enhancing its detailed, miniature design.A Roman bronze coin, used as one of the ship's wheels, depicting Emperor Nero.
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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Quins scrum coach. #COYQs www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...
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Adam Jones: Former Wales prop sheds five stone in Cardiff half-marathon challenge
Former Wales prop Adam Jones will face one of his greatest challenges when he tackles the Cardiff half-marathon.
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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Is OpenAI going to be prosecuted for hacking? BBC News - OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US government agency sites www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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OpenAI bots meddled with US government agencies, including SEC and Census
OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.
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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I went to school in Manchester (amongst other places). When we went one way down the corridor kids would say do you support 'City or United?' Depending on their preference that day they would kick you. It changed regularly.
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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Only 7...inc top 2
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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Its alright to apologise but who has been arrested?
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
These so-called glass claw beakers were distinctive art forms for early Anglo-Saxons in England and northern Frankish kingdoms. This one was unearthed at the Ringlemere barrow in Kent. The moulded glass appendages look very octopus-like. 🕰️c.400 to 600 AD 🏛️📷 BM #FindsFriday
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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Blimey. I would have thought all universities would have reviewed their appointment procedures recently. Can I send back my degrees?
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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Read his letters. Fantastically illuminating on how the Roman World worked.
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Paul @atticusfinch-105.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
24 September 1918 Private William George Clarke (72555) 3 Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers died of wounds and was buried in St Paul's Churchyard, Portwood Stockport. William is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Interesting debate with nephew last night. He is an actor and strongly against use of AI in any of his promotional material. Raised questions about the definitions of AI and what is creativity?
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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Went there last year a very unusual place to say the least. Lovely walk behind the old Abbey. Almost like a film set.
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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Answers for The Chase.
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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A roar of loneliness. For #ReliefWednesday, this beautiful late C4 BCE Etruscan terracotta askos. Its deeply modelled mane echoes the frescoes of the François Tomb where it was found. The tomb's dispersion proves that scattering a collection destroys its context. #AncientBluesky 🏺
ZOOMORPHIC LION ASKOS FROM THE FRANÇOIS TOMB, LATE C4 BCE. VILLA GIULIA, ROME

A terracotta vessel shaped like a crouching and snarling lion, resting on a narrow black-glazed base decorated with a wavy pattern. The surface combines painted and heavily modelled relief-like decoration, featuring deep tongue-shaped locks forming the mane and short hatched brown brushstrokes indicating the hide. The open mouth ingeniously serves as a secondary pouring spout. Discovered in 1857 in Vulci, this beautiful object is currently on loan from the British Museum, serving as a stark reminder of the tragic dispersion of the grave goods of the François Tomb. While the famous C4 BCE frescoes were stripped from the tufo walls, objects like this askos were scattered through sales to foreign collectors and institutions. This permanent dismemberment of a unified context is the curse of Italian cultural patrimony. It mirrors the fate of medieval polyptychs broken into isolated panels, Roman mosaics ripped from their architectural settings, monastery libraries sold off piecemeal, and intact family archives pillaged for individual gain. When private greed triumphs over the public good, the original meaning of these masterpieces is gravely diminished and the connective tissue of our history is lost.
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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Historical fiction that marries together research and fills in the gaps to bring the past vividly to life is just the kind of treatment Mark Antony deserves! #AncientRome #MarkAntony #AncientBluesky🏺🎙️ www.patreon.com/partialhisto...
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✨Early Release✨ Mark Antony with Alex Gough | The Partial Historians
✨Early Release✨ Mark Antony with Alex Gough by The Partial Historians on Patreon. Join The Partial Historians's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‘Charlus.’ #Painting by Gérard Schlosser (1931-2022) #art
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Blue Green Yellow Orange Red by Ellsworth Kelly, 1966 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

© Ellsworth Kelly
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Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have just realised that us rugby fans are being discriminated against as there are never any police at The Stoop.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 24/09/2026
‘On a pilgrimage to Ferney, Voltaire’s retreat outside Geneva, James Boswell reported that he still spoke English in the argot of Covent Garden in its rakish heyday: “He swore bloodily, as was the fashion when he was in England.”’ Thomas Keymer on Voltaire in London. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Thomas Keymer · Mangeons du jésuite: Voltaire in England
‘Almost everything is imitation,’ Voltaire wrote in one of the French editions of Lettres philosophiques. Books were...
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Jukesie @jukes.ie · 24/09/2026
I'm looking for a co-working space as I won't have an office to escape to really with the new coaching stuff... The two problems I see are I have no interest in somewhere 'pet-friendly' as that is 'me-unfriendly' + spending my days in one of the phone booths due to all the calls!
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ancient Greek figurine of a barber cutting a man’s hair, 5th century BC. Brings to mind the ‘chatty barber’ joke: Q. How should I cut your hair Sir? A. In silence! 😂😂😂 Coincidentally this joke can also be traced back to the 5th century BC! Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a terracotta figurine of a barber cutting a man’s hair with a rectangular base. Seen in profile, the barber on the left, stands behind his seated, bearded customer, holding cutting shears to the hair at the back of the customer’s head. The barber wears a short white linen kilt. His customer wears as long white tunic.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 23/09/2026
From Hounslow to Hendon, without the detour. The proposed West London Orbital would create a new passenger rail link, unlock 25,000+ homes, support thousands of jobs, improve air quality and help cut congestion. Have your say in our public consultation now: haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/west-london-...
Map showing the proposed London Overground West London Orbital rail service. The route runs north to south from Hendon, Brent Cross West, Neasden (new station), Harlesden (new station), Old Oak Common Lane (new station), Acton Central, South Acton, Lionel Road (new station), Brentford, Syon Lane, Isleworth and Hounslow. Interchange connections are shown to the Jubilee, Bakerloo, Central, Mildmay and Elizabeth lines, plus National Rail services and airport links. Stations and routes are subject to consultation and further planning.
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To mark the Autumn Equinox, I offer you a biscuit tin. Designed in 1958 by CF Tunnicliffe
A large rectangular biscuit tin with a decorative lid showing red squirrel perched on a tree stump in front of a vivid blue ground 
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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#ReliefWednesday #Battle between #Romans and Dacians (detail), Column of Trajan, dedicated 113 C.E., (📸 S. Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) #Roman #Art #History
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