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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No, your Magic 8 Ball is not conscious, and it does not have feelings. Also, the burden of proof in this debate is not on me.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No idea what people mean when they say books used to use more obscure language.

A copy of The Heaven Tree by Edith Pargeter (Ellis Peters) on top of A Dictionary of Medieval Terms & Phrases.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

America, please learn to make a snack that isn‘t entirely too sweet. These are tasty, but after one my teeth itch.

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Shaun Aitcheson @shaunaitcheson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a staggering all-time high 65% off on Steam! 💀⛏️🩸 It's the perfect time to check out our folk horror adventure set on the moors of Northern England. The answers lie in the soil...

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Lyndon White @lyndondraws.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And...here...we...go! "A travelling wizard returns to his home town, to save it from a fire demon & the people who banished him as a child." I'm really excited to be returning to the world of Candles, it's good to be back. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lyn... #comicbooks #fantasy

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Delighted that Head of Steam and Kings Head get a joint shout-out in this. Huddersfield one of the rare stations that has more pubs than trains at the moment.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a great book, and you should definitely snag the first edition if you're at all interested in design and haven't read it.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Only learned about this story recently via @secondcaptains.bsky.social Great example of people with huge moral courage creating a movement.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I avoided a taco stall because they had a shit AI menu. Perhaps their tacos were lovely? I’ll never know. Please don’t do this, taco people.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hard to do anything other than applaud this:

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’d forgotten until today that Wu Tang Clan had a song called “For Heavens Sake”. Presumably on an album with “Typical”, “Well, Really!“ and “I’ll Just Do It Myself Shall I?”

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Been listening to the new Green Lung record this afternoon, and I am in a MUCH better mood as a result.

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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 25/09/2026

A selection of cover designs from Typografia, 1973. Issue 7 Cover by Bohuslav Blažej Issue 5 Cover by Luděk Rohlík Issue 3 Cover by Milan Jareš Issues 10 Cover by N. A. Gončarova designreviewed.com/archive/ #czechdesign #1970s #typography #graphicdesign

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is great, and captures exactly why 7-70Up is so moving, enthralling, and occasionally enraging.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Have you hyphenated that copy?” “Sure did, boss, real smutty just like you wanted.” “What?”

A passage of text in which “Bellenden Road is broken over two lines with a hyphen so that it reads “Bellend” “en”.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can’t believe Sable is 5! I remember excitedly watching this evolve from early teaser videos to absolutely falling in love with it on release. Maybe time for another play through?

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

”Did you get that photo for the cover of our flute book?” “Sure did, boss, real fucking creepy just like you asked.” “What?” … “WHAT?”

A book with the title “Complete Irish Flute Book”. The cover shows a little girl with a troubled expression holding a flute. She’s standing between the legs of a man perched on a dry stone wall. Look it’s absolutely fine, nothing untoward is going on. But jeez.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I knew Lichtenstein was a fraud, but I'm genuinely a little shocked how much worse his copy is. What a hack. Also, kudos to the original art by Tony Abruzzo, which is FAR better than it has any right to be.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Kermit the Frog ys one thousande tymes more real than Tilly Norwood

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In terms of sheer speed to create a nice-sounding-sort-of-track, this is one of the best toys I’ve ever picked up.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Terrorism: elderly priest carrying a sign. Not terrorism: masked thugs targeting volunteer emergency workers.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Clare Youngs, contemporary graphic designer and artist who works with collage, paper and fabric #womensart

Collage resembling a fun blue patterned elephant facing left with a smaller gray elephant under its trunk

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Good Christ, LinkedIn is awash with AI Bayeux tapestry images. Of course it is.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Feels like we’re losing a local cafe/restaurant/bar/pub every week at the moment. I really am not looking forward to the monoculture chain dystopia we‘re building for ourselves.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is such an easy mistake to make that I keep forgetting it.

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Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Signed. Please consider doing the same. I have family on the local lifeboat who literally down tools to go and rescue anyone without prejudice. They, not these masked thugs, are the true heroes.

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Simon Morgan-Wilson @officeofwilson.com · 09/09/2026

I very much enjoyed this piece about the Barbican by @grindrod.bsky.social. I’m even using one of my gift links so others can read it. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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What happens when the future gets old?

A modernist icon, London’s Barbican Conservatory is in need of renovation

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𝚕𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚊 𝚢𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚎 @loulayorke.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

good evening, starling sessions is on all streaming platforms now 🪺 sq.lnk.to/TRX031 choose your fighter from the list! I'd recommend 'Broody' if you're feeling melancholy and 'Sister Fledge' if you're at the gym. thank u for your attention in this matter 🚨

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Loula Yorke - Starling Sessions

Listen to Starling Sessions by Loula Yorke.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I wonder if that’s going to *really fucking obviously* turn out to be an expensive mistake in the future?

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ok, this is somehow 1000x more uncomfortable than the stills made it look.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Between a Steam Deck and a keyboard cover, I may actually be arriving at a workflow in Dorico.

A MacBook showing the Dorico music notation software. There’s a rubber keyboard overlay on it, and a customised Stream Deck macro keypad next to it.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I am quite excited how the renovation of the world's largest freestanding hyperbolic paraboloids is going.

A black and white photo of a building based on a series of concrete structures resembling brutalist tulips (three pictured). In the foreground is a construction fence.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Everything I would aspire to do with photography. Total medium-defining genius.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What a brilliantly creepy paragraph this is, one that seems worryingly apposite to this age we live in.

"The great benefit of being in somebody's head since birth is that your voice is easily confused with their own. Over the years, I've displaced Emory's conscience and better sense. I'm trusted implicitly, because she doesn't know how alien I am." (Stuart Turton, The Last Murder at the End of the World)

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I sometimes wonder if Italy is directed by Wes Anderson.

A photo of Cremona station from a train, showing a long yellow building with regularly spaced windows that creates a symmetrical and horizontal composition.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Loved every page of How Railways Will Fix the Future by @garethdennis.uk , but particularly this.

"It is often claimed by campaigners and academics that it’s a shortage of evidence that prevents politicians and others from making change happen. However, there is a problem with this. In Ben Phillip’s words, “the evidence for transformational change happening because decision-makers are shown evidence is really weak”." (Gareth Dennis, How the Railways Will Fix the Future)

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I really feel that, in many fields, design was optimised somewhere between 1990 and 2010. Every “innovation” since then has been bullshit faux-scifi tech wanking.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Murdoku is my new favourite thing - like sudoku crossed with Cluedo. (Found this one in Italy, but they‘re also in English).

The Murdoku book, showing a stylised blueprint of a building reminiscent of a Cluedo board overlaid on a sudoku square. The rooms are labelled and filled with objects such as tables, TVs, plants.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026

This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...

a photo of a hand holding a cuneiform tablet

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It’s absurdly childish, but I do love “driving” a metro train.

The view down a metro tunnel from the front seat, side walls blurred with speed.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“Have you named our new cocktail?” “Sure did, boss, real randomly sweary just like you wanted.” “What?”

A cocktail menu with various options, one of which is “Fucking Basil”.

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Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Obviously they should be in prison. Obviously they never will be. Burn it all fucking down.

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