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Lost a fair chunk of a beautiful morning because this was so fascinating but it's time to go out into the sunshine

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm looking to hire a Tokyo-based Japanese interpreter/research guide (fluent in Mandarin and/or English, preferably Mandarin) in preparation for a research trip in late Oct/early Nov. Looking for: help navigating a university museum/archives and finding some Meiji era-related sites/maps/photos/etc.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's been 7 months since I gave evidence at the UKGov select committee hearing, on the policy changes at UKRI which have had a catastrophic impact on funding for UK astronomy and particle physics. When asked if we thought we were the "canary in the coal mine", we said yes..... we weren't wrong. 🧪🔭⚛️

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not to oversimplify but maybe it’s not surprising the two grossest abusers of 21st C English football’s financial regulations were clubs owned by people used to turning resource wealth into political power, linked to or parts of authoritarian regimes with equal disregard for international law.

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

*redoubles efforts to build a multifaceted DVD/Blu-ray library*

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 29/09/2026

I’m Gail, a one woman (and a feline assistant) business, based in Manchester. I create prints, homewares, T-shirts & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk

A grid of twelve illustrations featuring music designs, architecture designs, books, retro abstract designs and swimmers. Bold and colourful.

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For tedious reasons I am doing an online Ethics training module and the bit about making ethical decisions links to a YouTube interview with Daniel Kahneman which is clearly using auto subtitles as he's labelled 'conman' every time his name is mentioned which is unfortunate in this context

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The only time the word “confidence” should be used around the AI bubble is when it’s followed by the word “trick.”

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Exciting times in the neighborhood, as a rare conjunction of green and brown wheelie bin collections occurs this week. It's like a comet, only less photogenic

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well that explains the thump. Guess it's fine though as away now

A grease angel on a glass door, being the chest and wing beats of an off course wood pigeon

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Missed the actual full moon but this one will do fine

Night view of Bass Rock with near full moon casting a shimmering pathway on the sea and a single point of white light from the lighthouse on the island

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...

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Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson

A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Btw, here's "Luceros y Penumbras", the largest pop-up book ever created, currently on view at the Los Angeles Central Library. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-T-...

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This not having a cat thing is going well

A tabby cat curled up on an outstretched person

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Enormous Spiders Come Inside season has started early this year. Pint glass and postcards at the ready folks

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Now watching: Deep Blue Sea. Love this film so much. It's so dumb and so fun., and with way higher production values than the material in any way justifies

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Fraser Denholm @fraserdenholm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Perhaps we should appoint DGs of the BBC who arent just business drones, who have an understanding of broadcasting and tv/film/media production? This guy is JUST a management consultant. Why is it just accepted that C-Suite people can shift between industries with no expertise?

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Palantir has hired former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson ahead of a December government decision on a break clause that could end its £330 million role in the NHS's data platform. Foxglove's Martha Dark writes that his "new position contrasts starkly with his public views a decade ago."

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Palantir's New Senior VP Swaps Lords Pass for Labour Leverage

Lord Tom Watson’s new position contrasts starkly with his public views a decade ago, writes Foxglove's Martha Dark.

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Fraser @fraserwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

GLASGOW LOCATION HELP! Need a unique & interesting building to film in for the 48 Hour Film Project on October 10th 9am til 7pm. Will need access to toilets. Any recommendations would be amazing!

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today I overcame my horror of crowds to attend my first demo, in order to Stand Up To Racism, only the racism had apparently gone to Aberdeen instead. Unprepared for the 'new school assembly' experience, where everyone knows the call and response except you.

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🔭🌙 Just 10cm tall, this little clock-watch in the form of a book includes adjustable sundials, signs of the zodiac, tools to calculate the hours of daylight and the phases of the moon, a lunar wheel-chart, and even an alarm! ⏰

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Who could have predicted that electing people united in small-mindedness and lazy bigotry was unlikely to improve government?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026

Every day we get closer to this:

Cartoon by the human artist Twonks, showing George Jetson vacuuming the floor while Rosie the robot paints a picture

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 25/09/2026

Would love to see this account delete this post as it’s the one I keep seeing reposted, proliferating the link to London Daily, the AI scraper that strips the original story & photos of attribution. The Guardian article it plagiarizes is readily available. www.theguardian.com/world/2020/a...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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silentsweeney.bsky.social @silentsweeney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And if you want to donate the site to do so is here www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-cinema... If you want to discuss a major donation please email helpusbuy@cinemamuseum.org.uk

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The Cinema Museum: HELP US BUY OUR HOME

After 40 years of uncertainty, we have a chance to secure our home. We need £500,000 to purchase our home and we have five months to do it!

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This should be basic stuff, if someone is livestreaming crimes then the site where they do it should be treated as complicit if they make no effort to shut it down.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Short of far-out sci-fi solutions like programmable matter, there is no way to solve the space problem in cities. Cars simply take up way too much space. There no reason why one or two people need a 2-4 ton living room to get across town.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meanwhile the real miraculous future tech is solar & mRNA vaccines: preserving the planet and curing cancer. But we’re supposed to hand everything over to malevolent peeping toms and resource oubliettes for an ill defined ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ progress. It isn’t rational.

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Rob McCallum @robmccallum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Guy hammering unsafe nuclear bomb he made from stolen parts and marketed based on the pre-existing idea of a nuclear bomb from years of fiction says it could blow up if he keeps hitting it with this hammer he spent billions on

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Heyyy are you an author who has sold a book and then negotiated staying attached as a screenwriter and likes answering questions because I am in need of some hypothetical advice very fast for no reason at all.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yoohoo! The Cinema Museum in London is fundraising to buy its building with a gala show. The theme is movies about movies and it looks amazing. September 30, if you can get to London! cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/ex...

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Extravaganza of Silent Films About Filmmaking – to Help The Cinema Museum Buy its Home – The Cinema Museum

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 23/09/2026

In an environment of so many organisations turning to AI slop for their graphic design, *this* is how you do it. Be more cathedral. 🕍👏🏼

Advert from Edinburgh Minute: "Freelance graphic designer - 'St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral is searching for a freelance graphic designer to work with on a regular, long-term basis, for various print and digital media across the year (esp. summer and Christmas), including posters, flyers, and digital assets. "

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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A company presold $200k worth of carbon removal credits for an unproven tech, then tried to bully New Zealand into gutting environmental laws to bypass safety checks. Officials found zero evidence their "ocean fertilization" method works or is safe. 🌊

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Watching old DVDs and having to sit through the 'You wouldn't steal a car/ Piracy is a crime' warning, in the full knowledge of the wholesale theft of creative intellectual property that will be conducted by the LLM developers and endorsed by government a few years later

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The Herald @heraldscotland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'Most of our existing data centres are between 1-5MW, and up to 24MW, but these behemoths are 200-1000MW. The environmental cost of this energy use would be huge.' www.heraldscotland.com/news... @aprscotland.bsky.social

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The two #Equinox are the only days when the Sun rises due East and sets due West, everywhere. At the Dec solstice the sun rises in the S-East. At the June solstice it rises in the N-East. As the days pass between the two, the sunrise position slowly changes passing due East each equinox.🤩 🔭🧪

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 22/09/2026

big blaring horn fanfare, confetti falls from the ceiling, cheering stagehands roll a red convertible onto the soundstage, the sparkling "WE HAVE A WINNER!" banner drops

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Every time I return to Paris, I notice they've done more to reclaim streets from drivers and cars, including removing on-street parking, protecting cyclists from drivers, and prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists in shared spaces. Other cities can learn a lot from Paris.

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Shona Cook @shonacook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have noticed a decline in the quality of indexes lately - primarily in cookbooks but that's probably down to my own recent browsing. As online search deteriorates, we're going to need decent references. No personal experience of Alexis's work but I'm all for skilled professionals doing their thing

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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Craft organisations have issued a stark warning after Edinburgh College of Art said it will close three design courses. The groups say the cuts will 'devastate educational opportunities' and imperil the future of the craft sector. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2656913...

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Design groups warn programme closures will 'devastate' Scotland's craft sector

Last week, The Herald revealed that Edinburgh University plans to ‘teach out’ 90 courses in its College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences…

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