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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some thoughts on AI, sci-fi, and using tarot as a more accurate predictor of the future (big robots made me do it @danmcdaid.bsky.social - don't hate me): www.open.ac.uk/blogs/design...

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Predicting AI Futures Using Stories – Design@Open

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

As others have said here, your exam results are only a step in your journey. They do not define you and they absolutely do not reflect what you can do. Every year we see hundreds of students join us to study design and find out there are many different ways to learn things; to know things 1/

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The line between horror and comedy can be a thin one. Vic and Bob's brilliant Masterchef sketch from 1995 made me laugh out loud while my skin was crawling. "HE IS SAD!"

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Cargie (Spooky Version) @cargie.baby · 23/07/2026

I've seen "Space Seed" before but it's so freakin good I'm watching it again. ricardo montalban is absolutely magnetic

Ricardo Montalban as unfrozen dictator Khan Noonien-Singh in the Star Trek TOS episode "Space Seed"

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"I use chatgpt as a search engine" "I use minesweeper as a website browser" "I use the lego pirate ship when I want to boil an egg"

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Hello, it's Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Also yes. As an adult, book clubs are great for this.

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

SAPPHIRE AND STEEL: ASSIGNMENT FOUR (1981) The inscrutable agents find themselves up against the show's most memorable villain: The Shape! An evil entity who lives inside every photograph ever taken, his Magritte-influenced look terrified me.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The single greatest shot in TV history , how one frame replaced pages of script and defined a character in seconds.

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I have questions. But I also don’t want answers.

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Future Historian @futurehistorian.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Uuuh, that 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Try is going to earn the Boks some loud telling off! 😂😂 BRILLIANT TRY BY SCOTLAND, Beauty! Maybe this match ain't going to be as easy as Boks thought it'd be. HT, match tied Let's keep it up in the 2nd half, lads!!! #RSAvSCO #NationsChampionship #Rugby

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Malcolm White @mfwhite2.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Oh my, this is a rugby match for the ages 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇿🇦

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.

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The Last Caretaker @thelastcaretaker.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Every player in The Last Caretaker eventually becomes this person...

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Doctors TARDIS @doctorstardis.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I don't want a download code, I want a physical game on a disk

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Bloomsbury Books UK @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🎉 WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 🎉 Huge congratulations to Alice Jolly and The Matchbox Girl! “Originality, innovation, ambition ... confronts a topic of immense complexity in a gripping tour de force."

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SaraAAAGHH A GHOST!!! Ford 🐍🎨👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I can't quote the post but someone on here pointed out that even Nintendo are avoiding releasing anything in November, and now I really want to make something quickly and ship it in November lmao. Like an anti GTA jam for the rest of us who DGAF about that game

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 07/06/2026

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

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Hello, it's Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I am writing AND drawing AND colouring a ten page strip for the Anderson anniversary anthology! Can't show anything yet, but it's a mindbending thrill ride into some VERY dangerous new territory for International Rescue. Stay tuned to this channel for more details!

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The next Futures discussion is with Fred Van Amstel and Hien Phen discussing The Paulo Feire Method applied to deisgn education. Friday 8 May 2026 at 11:00 (BRT) 15:00 (BST) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-paulo-...

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The Paulo Freire Method applied to design education

Fred Van Amstel and Hien Phan will discuss adapting the Paulo Freire Method to design education,

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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

NASA’s Artemis II Reveals the Basin in Full For the very first time, the mysterious Orientale Basin has been fully photographed. Thanks to Artemis II, humanity now sees the Moon in unprecedented detail, reminding us of the endless wonders beyond Earth. 🛰️

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

All the leather and suede jackets in The Search for Spock are pretty good, but Sulu's look has so much swagger

Sulu (leather jacket on top of a leather vest, draped over his shoulders like a pimp's cape) stands opposite a sitting Star Fleet security officer

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 02/04/2026

Introducing In Your Spare Time: A Podcast of the Blog of Ursula K. Le Guin! inyoursparetime.libsyn.com

A drawing, by Ursula K. Le Guin, of a loafed-up black cat as seen from behind. The cat's tail curls around the podcast title IN YOUR SPARE TIME. Ursula K. Le Guin's name is at the top of the image, which has a teal background.

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C:\User\PeteTrainor @petetrainor.fyi · 05/04/2026

Shakara is without a doubt one of my favourite comics of all time, and having Robbie Morrison snd Henry Flint sign my collected edition last year, and being able to say “thank you” to them was amazing. Henry’s work is really something else here. Sensational. comicvault.cc/public/comic...

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Comic Vault - The new way to organise, track, grade, and analyse your comics all in one place.

The new way to organise, track, grade, and analyse your comics all in one place.

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SaraAAAGHH A GHOST!!! Ford 🐍🎨👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Can Scotland please annex the North east of England and take us with you so we can have some hope of the powers that be paying us literally any attention other than as a deprived spot to do racist rallies lol. 🥲

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

My favorite line I have written at Marvel.

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Bitmap Bureau @bitmapbureau.com · 27/02/2026

By the power of Grayskull…YOU HAVE THE POWER! Take up the mantle as Eternia’s greatest hero in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction, arriving digitally on PC and consoles on MOTU Day, April 28!

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The Open University @openuniversity.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Sixty years ago, Jennie Lee's vision created The Open University 🎓 Welcoming all backgrounds, millions have started life-changing journeys. #OUfamily #TheOpenUniversity #OU60 💙

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Seth Rosen @sirrosen.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Today is the 2 year anniversary of Pacific Drive's release. I'm also in the thick of refining my GDC talk about it, which I was meant to give last year before I needed emergency surgery, so it's been on my mind a lot lately. Here's a long 🧵. If you'll be at GDC: schedule.gdconf.com/session/paci...

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Scottish Rugby Blog @scottishrugbyblog.co.uk · 14/02/2026

Yay it's Calcutta Cup time on ITV. Cue a timeline full of us bitching about ITV's coverage

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The worlds most hopeful dog (Yes it’s closed)

Uggi the dog waiting patiently outside of Hlöllabátar subs

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Ursula K. Le Guin, spitting truth.

Hence some of the pitfalls of writing on the Internet, highly visible in e-mail, blogs, and responses to blogs. The mechanical ease and immediacy of electronic communication are deceptive. People write hurriedly, don't reread what they wrote, misread and are misread, get into quarrels, hurl insults, and use flame-throwers because they expect their writing to be understood as if they were talking.
It's childish to assume people will understand unexpressed meanings. It's dangerous to confuse self-expression with communication.

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🦇 Hallow-Ina! 🎃 @ina-strangeworld.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Real Plumber Plays SUPER MARIO BROS. For The First Time

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Hello, it's Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I'm sorry but there's a very good chance that C3P0 is a coprophile

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 31/12/2025

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 27/12/2025

I was thinking about what gifts people used to give to readers (besides gift editions of famous poets' work and illustrated histories of wars and such), and while I was thinking about it, somebody brought a book to the counter.... (1/10)

A book bound in red cloth with gilt titles and decoration, turned so you can see the ragged cutting on the right edges of the pages

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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

me when I see the elf on the shelf

Screenshot from the "Kill Jester" Adventure Call sketch in Limmy's Show, where Falconhoof strangles a jester

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Hello, it's Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

This image will live for ever

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Oh crikey but Malcolm McDowell’s response when presented with a photo of him & William Shatner fighting on-screen in Star Trek Generations is priceless!

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Derek Jones @plug103.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Cracking end to the week - check out Philip McKenzie's latest podcast featuring some of the Studio Properties crew (colin gray and James Corazzo) talking about how we constructed ideas of studio in the book.

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Episode 240: The Studio & Design Education w/ James Corazzo, Colin M. Gray & Derek Jones

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