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Steve Riddle

@riddsteve.bsky.social
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Academic, walker, photographer, accidental haikuist and player of Northumbrian pipes, not necessarily in that order. Working at School of Computing, Newcastle university. Playing somewhere across Northumberland, UK

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 15/10/2026
such a horrifying ending
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"The AI industry reminds me of those serial killers who are desperate to get caught, so they keep sending notes to the police that read 'pLeAsE sToP mE'. But everyone just assumes they're doing it for attention."
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Either you guys are listening in on my conversations (in which case, fair play for getting this recorded and published since Sunday when I was most recently discussing the 1996 / 15 years thing in quite some depth with an old school friend) or .. no, must be that.
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Really enjoyed this from the 3 Tynes podcast - lovely music and conversation substack.com/@3tynespodca...
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Yaryna Kvitka: musician, artist and performer from Ukraine
Today, my guest is Yaryna Kvitka, a singer, artist and performer whose upbringing in western Ukraine has created a love of tradition in both folk music and her country.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I, a human, wrote and drew this cartoon with my human body and sent it to human art printers who printed it with their human hands and you a human (?) can now buy a ltd edition print of it in my shop! Link in bio
[Scene is a kitchen, a person is boiling some peas on the hob]

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PERSON 1:
Oh dear! 

PERSON 2:
What is it babe?

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PERSON 1:
I am so overwhelmed with cooking these peas...

PERSON 2:
You mean you’re not using AI peas?

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PERSON 1:
AI peas?

PERSON 2:
They’re peas with AI!

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PERSON 2:
AI powered peas harness the potential of your peas

PERSON 1:
What

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PERSON 2 [Now in voice-over as hi tech meaningless graphics play]:

Taking your peas to the next level with new AI features powering your peas

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PERSON 2 [V/O over increasingly ridiculous graphics]:
Each pea has AI in a way we haven’t quite worked out yet but it’s fine

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PERSON 2:
Putting  AI to work for your peas and connecting every corner of your peas
 
PERSON 1:
Peas don’t have corners 

PERSON 2:
It does not matter!

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PERSON 2:
Our game-changing PEA-AI gives you the freedom to get the peas done 

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PERSON 2:
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas

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PERSON 2:
to spending millions on adding AI to the peas and then having to work out what that means

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PERSON 1:
Is it necessary to - 

PERSON 2 [grabbing her buy the cardigan]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET

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[Advert ending image showing the product, a bag of peas, with its slogan]

PEA-I AI PEAS WITH AI

Just ‘peas’ for God’s sake buy the AI peas


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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
In my Stellar-street imagination that's how this sort of thing should always go, pop around to Mackenzie's for a cup of sugar and just casually raise the big important thing
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
That's great. Every piece matters..
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
So (pardon the interruption) I have to applaud the meticulous planning that lead to me reading this, then turning to Be Funny Or Die and arriving within minutes at the extended Detectorists quote. In a chapter titled "Pretty Patterns".
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Well that was both a weird as I'd hoped and as unnerving as I'd feared. I was probably more unsettled by the conversation with Carrie Quinlan than anything else. I do hope she's ok. Time to go back and listen to both series..
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Oh me too. Is it weird to hope the lads decide to jack it in and, I dunno, go watch some more episodes of Sapphire and Steel or something?
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Newcastle University School of Computing @computingnewcastle.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Is AI good for education? That's the question being considered in this recent From Newcastle podcast, with School of Computing's Phillip Lord and Dean of Postgraduate Research David Kennedy from @sagencl.bsky.social. 🎧 lnkd.in/eYmwuHfA #ArtificialIntelligence #FromNewcastle #HigherEducation
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
2026 basically
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
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Simon Mayo @simonmayo.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
My favourite movie line. Thank you Rob Reiner.
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Thanks - punchline to a very old joke (why do the french never have 2 eggs for breakfast). Always, dare I say, cracks me up.
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Ah, I did wonder. Do I have the energy... PS right, so that's who just appeared in the train seat beside me. I might offer them some peanuts.
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Quick posting question Neil - are you using something like buffer for cross-posting to fedi and bluesky? I have my fedi account bridged but it has its disadvantages.. Oh, also nice deployment of the 5-syllable Nyarlathotep there :-)
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
thanks! I agree, 20 years from now it might be a curiosity, still so raw now.
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Got my copy now. Gorgeous isn't it... thanks for the prompt!
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out
A man with a spectacular 1970s mullet, wearing big wellies and a v-neck jumper over a T-shirt, looks at camera as he stands on a boat which is itself standing on the muddy bottom of an empty canal. He is holding up an enormous wooden plug on a long chunky chain
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The singularity is awesome
Google search for “all you can eat buffet near me”
Al Overview
To find an all-you-can-eat buffet near you, you can use online search engines like Google or Yelp, specifying "all you can eat buffet near me". These searches will typically provide a list of nearby restaurants offering buffet-style dining, including their addresses, contact information, and customer reviews. You can also refine your
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Study shows that relying on generative AI kills off your critical thinking skills. gizmodo.com/microsoft-study-finds-r…
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Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills
Researchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University warn that the more you use AI, the more your cognitive abilities deteriorate.
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2025
#DailyHaikuPrompt - lush Howway bonny lad Ham pease pudding, that's ma bait Geet lush stotty cyek #haiku Happy Geordie cliché haiku Friday
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2025
Sneaking in a few days in Dublin before heading back to work next week. Beautiful weather today for a train trip to Howth, walking on the cliffs for a couple of hours. The smell of that gorse.. #dublin #howth #cliffs #lighthouse #walking
View across undulating clifftop towards a promontory with a lighthouse at the end. A bay beyond this, with land rising on the horizon. Blue skies, blue sea. Yellow gorse flowers adorn the clifftop merging together into middle distance.Yellow gorse in foreground gives way to cliffs dropping sharply into a cove, seabirds nesting in the cliffs. Blue sea beyond, and a ferry on the horizon heading towards the port at Dun Laoghaire
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Amazing and yes, I've had to go back and listen again. Mostly because of how, after you put all the toys back in the box by giving us the cast list, you did a massive rug-pull with the final few words of the Loudburst ad. You cunning devils. Just what I wanted to hear..
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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Rico: “They’ll never know we exported anything from their science love shack.” Julian: “If the Albatross find out, this will blow back” Rico: “I say we green light.” Howard Lutnick: …. Rico: “We are currently clean on Opsec”.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Damn right. I'm not going to recount all the shit from those times that I'm still dealing with, but yeah no cosy nostalgia thanks
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
This was beautiful and devastating, Alex, and just like episode 1 it'll be getting a few repeat plays during the week.
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Passing on a plug from my federated alterego...
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Faculty of Science, Agriculture & Engineering @ Newcastle Uni @sagencl.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🚀 Join Dr. @aimafidon.bsky.social this week at our #PublicLecture as she explores the future of tech, innovation, and diversity in STEM! Don't miss this inspiring talk from a leading voice in technology and education ➡️ tinyurl.com/3kwebtze #WomenInSTEM #TechInnovation
A promotional banner for a British Science Week event at Newcastle University. The left side features a photograph of Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, a social entrepreneur and computer scientist, wearing a yellow dress and a blue beaded necklace. She is holding a stack of books titled 'She's In Ctrl' and smiling at the camera. The right side has a dark blue background with white text providing event details: 'In conversation with Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon,' scheduled for Thursday, 13 March at 5:30 PM in Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building. It includes a call to book a free place at www.ncl.ac.uk/events/public-lectures. The Newcastle University logo is displayed at the top, and the 'INSIGHTS' logo appears at the bottom right.
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Oh brilliant! (in an Arthur Shappey sort of voice).
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
As my friends say, "so middle class, the rest of us just get plagued by pigeons"
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I'll see your parakeet and raise you...
Peacock, male, colourful blue chested, standing in garden and staring into house through glass door
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Dr Aisling Tierney @irishashyt.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Snippet from QAA Insights Conference focused on AI featuring great insights from Prof Mary Davis (Oxford Brookes) and Prof David Webster (University of Liverpool) 🤖 bilt.online/ai-compassio... #artificialintelligence #AI #highereducation #academia #qaa #academicintegrity
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AI, compassion and the future for HE
Higher Education continues to face thorny challenges thanks to AI, as outlined at this week’s QAA Insights Conference. In one of the breakout groups titled “compassion in education” two speakers pr…
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Condolences and, having just spent the weekend in Deal, yes it does.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Today's university in crisis is Kingston, which is cutting all the departments and subjects below, a savage retrenchment that won't even make them half of the £20m savings they need. Every day will be like this until something is done.
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2025
An old friend will call Listen and remember then Book on the next train #DailyHaikuPrompt - friend #haiku #senryu
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Spydere man Spydere Man Doth al things a spydere kan Sondrye webbes he kan weaven Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen Lo, anon cometh Spydere Man
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Paul Greatrix @registrarism.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This is an extremely helpful review on @hepi-news.bsky.social of a book I didn't want to read before and definitely do not need to do so now. As @profstevenjones.bsky.social sharply observes "Why is it that only ‘cancelled’ academics seem to have media agents?" www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/02/15/w...
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WEEKEND READING: Matt Goodwin's 'Bad Education' isn’t good scholarship, but does that matter? - HEPI
In Bad Education, Matt Goodwin makes the argument that Western universities have moved ‘sharply and radically to the left’ (p.51) over the last six decades, to the extent that diversity is now deemed ...
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Morning. Coffee?
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Still do, in those retro swizzels packs [I mean, I kinda don't mind them.. if there's nothing else left..]
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Once again we're on the same wavelength, although I haven't yet managed to work "voted least popular sweet of the 1970s" into the pattern.. I might come back to it later..
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
“Is there any evidence that people with, to quote Trump, ‘severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities’ can become air-traffic controllers? There's more evidence that they just end up President of the US.” @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2025
#DailyHaikuPrompt - pebble A beach of shingle Retreating waves drag across Loud whispering stones #haiku #poetry
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Unexpectedly having a few days in That London, if we still call it that. View from Primrose Hill as the sun goes down, still unbeatable.
Early evening view across grassy slopes to London skyline, clear cold sky and long shadows across the grass. Girl sitting left foreground, long black hair. Middle distance, right, a couple sat together. All facing towards the city.
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
loose your paper chains, very good...
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 31/12/2024
The UK government’s consultation on AI is not fit for purpose, seeking to benefit big tech at the expense of creative talents | Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social
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Stop, thief! Writers and artists deserve protection from AI developers
The UK government’s consultation on AI is not fit for purpose, seeking to benefit big tech at the expense of creative talents
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Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
".. but anyway, what do you think?" to a speechless expert.. perfect punchline #cunk
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