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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 9m

Today is 96 years since the R101 disaster immortalised by Iron Maiden's 18-minute track Emire of the Clouds: www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/res... - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_... I saw them perform this in Newcastle on the Book of Souls tour.

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1930 - RAF Museum

British Civil Aviation in 1930 30 March The Royal Aero Club issues the first pilot’s licence for a glider (sailplane), to C.H. Lowe-Wilde. April Lady Bailey is …

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 1h

Testing limits in a software environment or hardware architecture by discovering if it is possible to play Doom on it has always delighted. However I do wonder what an outside viewer would think about our fascination with killing demons in low-resolution on anything that shifts a binary digit.

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 11h

A decade ago I made these weekly Haiku's available for free/donation. Gradual Fail: 2 No gentle sadness. Anger froths, rages reddens, bruises face with fear. www.thedogatemybookshop.com/books/little... www.paypal.com/paypalme/Mar... #poetry #haiku #poem #writing #writingcommunity

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Little Lines: A Year of Haiku

Little Lines: A Year of Haiku by Mark Keating ( @shadowcat_mdk) In 2015 Mark undertook the challenge of composing at least one haiku each week of the year. By the end of the year he had written 121…

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Khonri 🫜🎃 @khonri.com · 04/10/2026

I'm feeling attacked by @theonion.com but also 10/10.

"How a Book Becomes A Bestseller, The Onion demystifies the publishing process."

1. Proletariat becomes literate.
2. Author's creative inspiration flourishes upon marrying spouse with high-earning, unethical job.
3. Author chooses magical being to have sex with, then works backwards.
4. Author lands agent by running full speed into them while holding loose-leaf copy of manuscript.
5. Penguin Random House blackmailed into seven-figure book deal.
6. Editor removes typos and originality.
7. Famous author who hasn't read book reminded they got three glowing blurbs last year from authors who hadn't read theirs.
8. Publisher contacts Merriam-Webster to license all words it's using.
9. Marketing completely misrepresents plot, tone, and author.
10. Terrified independent bookstore owners gamble their razor-thin profit margin on this one.
11. PR firm hires thousands of people through Craigslist to performatively read book on subway.
12. Colman Domingo, contractually obligated to appear in all things, voices audiobook.
13. New York Times oracle nods.
14. Book written for sole purpose of becoming movie becomes movie.

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 22h

Things that make you go hmm 🤔🤣

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Daily Tom Baker @dailytombaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tom Baker and Wanda Ventham during "Image of the Fendahl". #TomBaker #DoctorWho #FourthDoctor

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 21h

Another photograph from my archives. This is from May/Jun 2026. Are you trying to work? Bonnie doesn't want me to be doing that... #Photo #Archive #Photography #DigitalCamera

A brown Springer Spaniel dog lying upside down across a laptop keyboard, pressing its nose and wide eyes close to the camera as it playfully interrupts remote work.

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 22h

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 23h

Close to my heart, it is World Space Week, this week. Last night in the UK we had clear skies and I personally sat up till the wee hours and imaged the M33 Galaxy (Triangulum) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangu... www.un.org/en/observanc...

A face-on spiral galaxy with a bright yellowish core and faint blue star-forming arms, set against a dense field of distant stars on a dark background.

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Of course World Space Week starts on 4th October because 69 years ago the USSR launched the first satellite into orbit. Sputnik 1 paved the way for all following developments off planet, including the Cold War Space Race. (www.nasa.gov/history/sput... )

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Sasi Tumuluri-NASA IR&MS Boeing Information Services

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If Amazon says it is okay then it must be fine to house giant pollution-spewing slop factories everywhere. Stick one on your roof, they're lovely and they make your children happy*: www.theregister.com/systems/2026... * This is about as accurate as Amazon's upcoming campaign!

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https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/02/shut-up-and-take-our-money-amazon-plows-1b-into-quashing-datacenter-dissent/5300914

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Don't worry about how many tokens you are using, the AIs themselves are far outstripping your usage. Agents consume 7x as many tokens as users, I didn't realise that they enjoyed cat's-playing-instrument videos. Tell Morpheus I know who burned away the sky: www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

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AI agents use 5x more tokens than humans as cached prompts explode, headed for 10x — agents are mostly rereading what they've already seen, skyrocketing KV cache demand threatens already-worsening RAM shortages

OpenRouter has agents at 7.3 trillion tokens versus 1.4 trillion for humans.

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In the era of 'Slop Submissions' even the giants such as Google end up overwhelmed. They have paused their submissions due to overwhelming numbers of unreproducable and hallucionatory requests: www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr... #tech #google #AI-Slop

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Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop submissions — product flaw submissions halted until 2027 as maintainers drown in hallucinations

Engineers and open-source maintainers reportedly overwhelmed by thousands of sloppy reports

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A decade ago I made these weekly Haiku's available for free/donation. Week 10 Between shapes of light, the skies push cyan to slate, calm lost to swift storm www.thedogatemybookshop.com/books/little... www.paypal.com/paypalme/Mar... #poetry #haiku #poem #writing #writingcommunity

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Little Lines: A Year of Haiku

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Another photograph from my archives. This is from May/Jun 2026. Four waterfalls walk Bannau Brycheiniog. #Photo #Archive #Photography #DigitalCamera

Sunlight streaming through trees creates visible rays and mist over a two-tier waterfall spilling into a calm pool, with wet rocky foreground and small people standing near the base for scale.

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The A-Z Guide to Gobby: L is for Listening. Quantitative surveys are just about measuring a response. Qualitative surveys allow you to listen to people. Learn how it works: gobby.io #QualitativeSurveys #SurveyTools

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Hughes That Girl ⚥ @nikkipedia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Unfortunately missing #DayofDredd as have prior plans however owe a lot of my politics to 2000AD & Dredd in particular, especially Unamerican Graffiti and America. And that’s not to forget the dark dark humour that runs throughout Wagner and Grant are such underrated authors it’s scandalous

Chopper’s smiley face on the statue of Justice

Dredd threatening to shoot Sensitive Klegg

Judge 1 : what to you think? Werewolf?
Judge 2: and I’m Bugs Bunny

*Werewolf howls*

Judge 2: lets move it Bugs

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Waving a big hello to my German friends and wishing the rest of the nation a good Tag der Deutschen Einheit (German Unity Day).

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Writing some linked stories which I have been working on the idea of them for over a decade. This is the second major attempt at writing them down. Currently have 3 mostly-finished long pieces and an anthology of shorter stories. Now I have to think about next steps like releasing #writingcommunity

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alex 🌱 @alexmoranbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not to alarm anyone, but… this book I'm working on is genuinely the most insane thing I've ever written. I didn't know I had this kind of book about rage, codependency, the violence of love, and grief in me set against a blistering cold PNW winter, but here we are. 🧍🏽‍♀️ #writingcommunity

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Daily Tom Baker @dailytombaker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tom Baker during "Full Circle". #TomBaker #DoctorWho #FourthDoctor

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That ys great! The starte ys an Earthe Quake -- Foweles, Serpentes, An Aeroplane -- And Lenny Bruce nys not afrayde

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A decade ago I made these weekly Haiku's available for free/donation. Week 9 Transparent hands push, whip and twist, free to anger, heard by what they toss. www.thedogatemybookshop.com/books/little... www.paypal.com/paypalme/Mar... #poetry #haiku #poem #writing #writingcommunity

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Little Lines: A Year of Haiku

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A decade ago I made these weekly Haiku's available for free/donation. Week 8 Cased within drizzle, casts empty hearts to despair, drawing out the days. www.thedogatemybookshop.com/books/little... www.paypal.com/paypalme/Mar... #poetry #haiku #poem #writing #writingcommunity

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Little Lines: A Year of Haiku

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Another photograph from my archives. This is from May/Jun 2026. Looking down over South Wales towards Newport, Bannau Brycheiniog. #Photo #Archive #Photography #DigitalCamera

Sunlit morning over rolling green hills with a fog-filled valley and distant blue mountains beneath a pale sky streaked with wispy clouds and airplane contrails.

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The A-Z Guide to Gobby: K is for Knowing. A bad assumption is believing you know what to ask and therefore what to measure as important. Be more open minded. Learn how it works: gobby.io #QualitativeSurveys #SurveyTools

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Daily Tom Baker @dailytombaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tom Baker during "The Androids of Tara". #TomBaker #DoctorWho #FourthDoctor

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 02/10/2026

Always happy to help with costume ideas for your #cats.

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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Having spent the best part of 6 years as a crew mate to Katie's "Reva" in a nautical #DnD campaign, I'd follow her into Hell itself -- and in fact did so, on at least one occasion. Check out her 80-page guide to 5E sea critters large and small, friendly and...not!

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Reva’s Guide To Spectacular Sea Life - D&D 5e Supplement

Reva’s Guide features 80 pages of fully illustrated magical sea life, for your Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition games!

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today is the anniversary of the first battle of the Texas Revolution, the Battle of Gonzales whose catalyst was a small brass cannon that the Mexican's had loaned to the town of Gonzales and then the Texans refused to return it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

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Battle of Gonzales - Wikipedia

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

he dog’s emotional reaction when it saw its owner bald from chemotherapy. Original post

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If people don’t like you, that’s OK. If dogs don’t like you, then you need to work on yourself. It is what it is.

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Steve McHugh @stevemchugh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“I love your books, but you need to stop being political.” Firstly, no. Secondly, I think you may have missed the point of the stories I wrote.

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is the International Day of non-Violence so i expect that's going to be followed. Celebrates the birth and philosophy of Mahatma Ghandi and is a special day in India (Gandhi Jayanti) where they have a national holiday. www.un.org/en/observanc...

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International Day of Non-Violence | United Nations

International Day being brought to the attention of all people to bearing in mind that non-violence, tolerance, full respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, democracy,…

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Also on-this-day another of my favourite American Cultural behemoths was born with Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone. I only caught them on late night repeats in the UK in the 80s (IIRC). The first episode was "Where is Everybody" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_I...) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twi...

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The Twilight Zone - Wikipedia

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

76 years ago, 2nd October 1950, Peanuts first appeared in seven American newspapers. Still one of the most wonderful of American cultural contributions (IMO). schulzmuseum.org (schulzmuseum.org/timeline/#!/...)

Four-panel Peanuts strip: Charlie Brown hears others call him "Good ol' Charlie Brown," a friend echoes it while they sit together, and in the final panel he angrily mutters, "How I hate him!"

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another photograph from my archives. This is from May/Jun 2026. Four Waterfalls Walk Bannau Brycheiniog. #Photo #Archive #Photography #DigitalCamera

Multi-tiered waterfall cascading over mossy rock ledges into a shallow pool set inside a sunlit, tree-lined limestone gorge.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?' And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another photograph from my archives. This is from May/Jun 2026. Looking down from the Great Orme #Photo #Archive #Photography #DigitalCamera

Scenic coastal panorama showing a rocky headland jutting into calm blue sea, a coastal town to the right, and colorful cable-car gondolas crossing grassy hills in the foreground under a clear sky.

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Kevin Miranda @kevinmiranda.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Batman by Flaviu Pop

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another photograph from my archives. This is from May/Jun 2026. Kiln near Austell St David. #Photo #Archive #Photography #DigitalCamera

Corner of a roofless stone ruin with weathered stacked stones and a narrow arched opening into a dark interior, small grasses and plants in wall crevices and a patch of daisies on the grassy floor.

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The A-Z Guide to Gobby: J is for Journey. Join in a conversation and allow people to show you their journey in their own words. Learn how it works: gobby.io #QualitativeSurveys #SurveyTools

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another photograph from my archives. This is from May/Jun 2026. Tourists rowing across Pontcysyllte Aqueduct near Wrexham.#Photo #Archive #Photography #DigitalCamera

People in red canoes wearing life jackets paddle along a narrow elevated water channel on an aqueduct high above a green, tree‑covered river valley under low, cloudy skies.

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think we should rename AI and SI as II, infinite intelligence, then we will own it, infinitely, with the added advantage that you can make it an affirmation. I I Captain.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026

Fellas, we have to talk to our sons while they’re still young. This foundation👇🏽 is the way…

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