Reposted by Steve RiddleAlex 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." 1315736 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Either 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. 011 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Really enjoyed this from the 3 Tynes podcast - lovely music and conversation substack.com/@3tynespodca...substack.comYaryna Kvitka: musician, artist and performer from UkraineToday, 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. 010 0
Reposted by Steve RiddleStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I, 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 8406122 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 12/06/2026In 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 010 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 12/06/2026So (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". 130 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Well 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.. 111 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Oh 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? 010 0
Reposted by Steve RiddleNewcastle University School of Computing @computingnewcastle.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Is 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 001 0
Reposted by Steve RiddleRichard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 18/02/20262026 basically 3024087810867 0
Reposted by Steve RiddleSimon Mayo @simonmayo.bsky.social · 15/12/2025My favourite movie line. Thank you Rob Reiner. 111004183 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Thanks - punchline to a very old joke (why do the french never have 2 eggs for breakfast). Always, dare I say, cracks me up. 110 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Ah, 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. 000 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Quick 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 :-) 100 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 12/11/2025thanks! I agree, 20 years from now it might be a curiosity, still so raw now. 010 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Got my copy now. Gorgeous isn't it... thanks for the prompt! 010 0
Reposted by Steve RiddleOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Today 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 612578938 0
Reposted by Steve RiddleK. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 28/06/2025The singularity is awesome 271207164329 0
Reposted by Steve RiddleDavenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Study shows that relying on generative AI kills off your critical thinking skills. gizmodo.com/microsoft-study-finds-r…gizmodo.comMicrosoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking SkillsResearchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University warn that the more you use AI, the more your cognitive abilities deteriorate. 5299163 0
Reposted by Steve RiddleSteve 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 143 0
Reposted by Steve RiddleSteve Riddle @riddsteve.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2025Sneaking 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 041 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Amazing 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.. 010 0
Reposted by Steve RiddleHeard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Rico: “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”. 1652273 0
Reposted by Steve RiddleJanel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/04/2025I 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 545286407005 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Damn 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 010 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 23/03/2025This was beautiful and devastating, Alex, and just like episode 1 it'll be getting a few repeat plays during the week. 010 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Passing on a plug from my federated alterego... 010 0
Reposted by Steve RiddleFaculty 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 022 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Oh brilliant! (in an Arthur Shappey sort of voice). 010 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 04/03/2025As my friends say, "so middle class, the rest of us just get plagued by pigeons" 000 0
Reposted by Steve RiddleDr Aisling Tierney @irishashyt.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Snippet 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 #academicintegritybilt.onlineAI, compassion and the future for HEHigher 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… 032 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Condolences and, having just spent the weekend in Deal, yes it does. 020 0
Reposted by Steve RiddleGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Today'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. 37043 0
Reposted by Steve RiddleSteve Riddle @riddsteve.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2025An old friend will call Listen and remember then Book on the next train #DailyHaikuPrompt - friend #haiku #senryu 061 0
Reposted by Steve RiddleChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Spydere 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 111022231 0
Reposted by Steve RiddlePaul Greatrix @registrarism.bsky.social · 15/02/2025This 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...hepi.ac.ukWEEKEND READING: Matt Goodwin's 'Bad Education' isn’t good scholarship, but does that matter? - HEPIIn 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 ... 064 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Still do, in those retro swizzels packs [I mean, I kinda don't mind them.. if there's nothing else left..] 000 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Once 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.. 110 0
Reposted by Steve RiddleAlex 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 1040689 0
Reposted by Steve RiddleSteve 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 081 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Unexpectedly having a few days in That London, if we still call it that. View from Primrose Hill as the sun goes down, still unbeatable. 020 0
Reposted by Steve RiddleBylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 31/12/2024The 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.socialbylines.scotStop, thief! Writers and artists deserve protection from AI developersThe UK government’s consultation on AI is not fit for purpose, seeking to benefit big tech at the expense of creative talents 28641 0
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 31/12/2024".. but anyway, what do you think?" to a speechless expert.. perfect punchline #cunk 010 0