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There'll be a run on the bank next. Just you wait... 🙈

Reminds me of the advice of the late Sir Terry Pratchett that you might like to adapt and adopt: do more grande jêtés and make your running shoes last longer... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 18h

#booksky Last week's sabbatical (and festival) readings were taken from... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Herne the Hunter [of Unpaired Socks]... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ah. Now the Physics Department of the University of Maximegalon identified hot tea as a strong Brownian Motion producer*. So...hardly a still point in the galaxy... (Hello @jennyradcliffe.bsky.social and @spcoulson.bsky.social 🙈 #H2G2) See: Infinite Improbability Drive

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Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Arthur Dent

ALT: Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Arthur Dent

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

...and I quote the observation from the current Mrs D: 'I don't know why you say there's not enough women in cyber because you seem to have a hell of a lot of them.' 🙊

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Kenneth Williams' Iconic 'Ooh Matron!' in Carry On Camping

ALT: Kenneth Williams' Iconic 'Ooh Matron!' in Carry On Camping

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm thinking of a work/life balance. Currently assessing the risk of only being aware of my wife for one month a year... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

...while the cat mewls, 🎵 'Memory...' 🎶 🙈

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Danny Robins @dannyrobins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My book for kids, ‘Do You Believe in Ghosts?’, has been selected for a Kindle Monthly Deal which means you can get it as an eBook for ONLY 99p this October! 🎃📚 Just to say, this is only available for UK Kindle readers. Get an e-copy from the link below. Happy reading! tinyurl.com/2j49f2yb

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

First purchase is the instruction manual to use it. A12 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't tolerate them. 'weakest link'...well that's just rude and as for, 'greatest asset'...how patronising! 🙈 (I can see a Dekker book from my desk: in between Hobbes' Leviathan and The Cyber Circuit by @coffeefueled.org.)

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Livsbian 🌈 @livvytrouble.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Hecate, Queen of Darkness, revenge yourself against the Thessalians. Deliver to me the children of the hydra's teeth, the children of the night!" - me when someone just leaves their trolly in the supermarket carpark instead of putting it away properly 😉

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Running to point the proverbial at people is 'the fundamental attribution error'... (I think it was the www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... episode of the excellent @timharford.ft.com series...)

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BBC Sounds - Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford, The Great Frenchman's Folly (Panama Disaster 1)

Ferdinand De Lesseps, is convinced that he is the man to build the Panama Canal...

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's no such thing as human error. It's just people being human... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well there's some inspiration for plugging the hole in the defence budget... 🙈 @livvytrouble.bsky.social 😁

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Skeleton Harryhausen

ALT: Skeleton Harryhausen

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Alternatively... 'If she'd had me domesticated, I'd be sitting in a coop laying the eggs myself.'🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's a grain of truth in that... 🙈

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Are your shelves creaking under the weight of our huge books yet? They're crammed full of essays about the dark pop culture of the 70s and 80s. And get 10% off till midnight on Friday 2 October with the case-sensitive code BOOKBAG10! Store link in bio

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani - Part Three (15th March 1984). Now that's what I call a cliffhanger.

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Greatest cliffhange. What a performance #PeterDavison

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hang on...weren't the last few series created by a few badly formulated AI prompts...? 😬

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Adrick from Doctor Who Smiling

ALT: Adrick from Doctor Who Smiling

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My most important foray into AI to date... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy memories of getting packets of these from me Gran on walks to South Gosforth Station... When she really pushed the boat out, sweet cigarettes were a thing too... All very @groomb.bsky.social ... when life was lived in colour and remembered in monochrome...

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Distributed components to optimise the packing density of the real-time envelope... 🙈

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Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What is the Lovell Telescope revealing about our Universe?🔭 Inside the Observatory: Discovering the Universe from Jodrell Bank, on 1 Oct, is an evening with some of the Observatory team exploring the cutting-edge science happening at Jodrell Bank Book now: ow.ly/ACNR50ZRo5w 📸 Andrew Brooks

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'll consider adding it as an opening slide for each lecture... ...summoning undead demons and rousing students at the start of term...same difference... 🙈

Students recreate the atmosphere of a Zoom lecture by covering their faces with black rectangles of card...in a lecture theatre...

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#booksky Last week's sabbatical (and festival) readings were taken from... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's another future we've lost. We were promised a world of Westminster typface...but have been stuck with Courier New...and shouted down if truth requires more than 80 characters. @richardlittler.bsky.social

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Lisa Ventura MBE FCIIS @cybergeekgirl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy Monday 😁 Next #InfosecLunchHour is on Wednesday 7 October, 12.30pm BST on Zoom. No topic set yet, and I'd rather you chose it. Two I'm considering: 🔷 When the attacker is the agent 🔷 Who answers when your own agent causes the breach? DM me your email to join us 😍 xx

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My thoughts on how frontier AI’s claims and warnings seem prone to colliding with reality, whether that’s in economics, medicine or cyber security ciaranmartin.substack.com/p/on-ai-clai...

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Frontier AI’s real world problems

Many of the claims and warnings about the impact of frontier AI seem to collide awkwardly with the realities of the specific subject in question

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm a Fowler's chap myself... 😁

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TBH...I have a quandary of solace... 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We're going fight over the best Bond now aren't we? 🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'll see your 'cult of the machine gods' and raise you, 'opening the digital kimono' (when interviewed about social media use)... 🤪🙈

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I once got locked in a hotel room when the key snapped in the lock. The proprietor refused to believe me until I pushed a broken piece under the door. (A moment of desperation too: it wasn't en suite... 🙈)

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Incredible Small Bathroom Miniature Reveal

ALT: Incredible Small Bathroom Miniature Reveal

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The chances of a key working decreases the further the room is from reception... 🤬🙈

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Sarah Jane Can't Open The Door

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ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Alleged Intelligence. Next! 🙈

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