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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 7h

A decade ago I made these weekly Haiku's available for free/donation. Week 12: 1 Steel stays firm above. Trapped faces bow to Kismet. Stripped joy below. 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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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you're old enough to shave and already criticizing this on the basis of a single image, or questioning how the show will fit into established #DoctorWho continuity, I respectfully suggest you get a life. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

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First look at Doctor Who animated adventure coming to CBeebies

Doctor Who: TARDIS Crew will arrive on CBeebies and BBC iPlayer in late 2027/early 2028

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 17h

Another photograph from my archives. This is from May/Jun 2026. Looking out over the green below Grizedale Forest. #Photo #Archive #Photography #DigitalCamera

Dramatic band of low, textured clouds filling the sky above a rolling green valley and mixed woodland, highlighting bright meadows against darkening weather.

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 17h

The A-Z Guide to Gobby: O is for Open. You get an outstanding outcome when you are open to listening with a qualitative survey! Learn how it works: gobby.io #QualitativeSurveys #SurveyTools

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Home page - Gobby® Qualitative First Surveys

More meaningful engagement in qualitative research, co-design, co-production, and social impact.

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Gobby.io @gobbyio.bsky.social · 23h

Move beyond metrics, make sense of qualitative data, and measure what matters. More voice means less guesswork, especially when marginalised and missing perspectives are brought into the conversation. Meaning before measurement turns listening into evidence, and evidence into action.

Gobby A–Z guide, letter M. The slide highlights four themes: “Meaningful engagement”, “Making change happen”, “Measuring what matters”, and “Moving forward”. The text appears on a yellow background with hand-drawn illustrations including charts, speech bubbles, a magnifying glass, and organisational diagrams.

Message slide stating: “Move beyond metrics, make sense of qualitative data, and measure what matters.” The text appears on a grey and yellow background above a hand-drawn bar chart illustration.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hope she's well

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Daily Tom Baker @dailytombaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tom Baker during "Terror of the Zygons". #TomBaker #DoctorWho #FourthDoctor

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The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who @worldsofdrwho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tom Baker and Lalla Ward on location for "Doctor Who: City of Death" (1979). #DoctorWho

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A decade ago I made these weekly Haiku's available for free/donation. Week 11 Fierceness delays seasons. Squalls of white, amidst the blue, Buffets passive souls. 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 · 06/10/2026

Another photograph from my archives. This is from May/Jun 2026. Looking from Llandudno Pier towards the town. #Photo #Archive #Photography #DigitalCamera

Seaside promenade looking along a pebble beach toward a row of Victorian terraced hotels and crowds under a wide blue sky, with calm sea, a yellow boat near the shore and a blue-and-white railing in the foreground.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Tortie would like you to know that she has successfully defended the house from a small piece of mango, that fell on the floor.

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Fruit is known to be the natural enemy of the British house pets, well done that cat for defending you.

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Incoming wet wobbly from the usual cockwombles in the Who community incoming in 3..2..1... www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-fea...

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just to be clear, if you are not as bad as someone, that doesn't make you good. It isn't a slider, morality is multi-dimensional. Them being worse than you just means you're shit at being evil.

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A decade ago I made these weekly Haiku's available for free/donation. Gradual Fail: 3 Fuck this helplessness. My lost thought grows a zombie, trudges out this life. 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 · 05/10/2026

Interesting but not surprising. One of the benefits of a large probabiliity engine should be the ability to crack cryptographic puzzles with a high level of efficiency. Big news for security but not a sign of anything but statistical refinement: www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

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ChatGPT-6 Astra cracks 217-year-old Napoleonic code in just six hours — single-prompt AI run solves 24 rows of custom symbols from a single image, reveals lost troop orders

OpenAI’s model completed the task after being fed just a single image and prompt.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

what an asshole

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There's more woes for consumer electronics as manufacturers increasingly focus on AI industry for profits: www.tomshardware.com/service-prov... can't see this trend changing and we are entering the season of shopping.

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7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV Pro gets shocking 50% price hike driven by AI memory shortage — chipmaker axes entry-level Shield TV as component prices soar

Old hardware, new price.

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Another photograph from my archives. This is from May/Jun 2026. Looking out from Loughrigg Fell towards the south. #Photo #Archive #Photography #DigitalCamera

Stone triangulation Trig Point pillar on a rocky summit foregrounding rolling green hills, valleys and distant mountain ridges beneath a vast clear blue sky.

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The trend of slop-mitigation rolls on as arXiv (formerly part of Cornell University) academic paper repo has started imposing submission limits after a doubling in the last two years and a four fold increase over the decade is overwhelming peer reviewrs. www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...

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Mark Keating @shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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 · 05/10/2026

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 · 05/10/2026

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

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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 · 04/10/2026

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 · 04/10/2026

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 · 04/10/2026

The A-Z Guide to Gobby: M is for Meaningful. Qualitative surveys generate a lot more engagement and understanding. Have a more meaningful relationship. Learn how it works: gobby.io #QualitativeSurveys #SurveyTools

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Home page - Gobby® Qualitative First Surveys

More meaningful engagement in qualitative research, co-design, co-production, and social impact.

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

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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Sputnik

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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Home page - Gobby® Qualitative First Surveys

More meaningful engagement in qualitative research, co-design, co-production, and social impact.

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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

I am not sure I'd refer to them as a 'remarkable feat' but I am also probably not generated...

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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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