Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Also "Pop-up Stick Puppet" which is at least descriptive. 010
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Pop-up Puppets, according to teaching / crafting websites. But I wouldn't say they're especially well-known, at least in the UK? 210
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Skip the first 3 for now (Gaul, Goths, Sickle - a bit like Colour of Magic & Light Fantastic), and go to Gladiator to start, is my advice. Sets up Gauls vs Rome in a clear way and has lots of familiar Roman elements (chariot races etc) for the younger reader. 110
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Agreed, the strongest stories (Soothsayer or Mansions of the Gods my favourite) work best with the background of all the other books. But lots of travelling in the early books, only Gaul and Big Fight of the first 13 are at home. And neither of those a great place to start, IMO. 111
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Only if you weren't paying attention. It's not all health-and safety-violations and banana thieves. 150
Reposted by Si WilliamsBruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026What is happening is not that AI-generated cultural goods are replacing human-made cultural goods; what is happening is that capital is flowing out of the production of cultural goods *entirely,* making us all poorer for it. 2788249
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026So frustrating, Greg. Should've been ahead at half-time, so close to 1-1, then folded. Bad vibes for the international break. 000
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Not that Poland isn't friendly, only that it's less-visited, I mean! 000
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Honestly, try not to be nervous. So long as you're friendly and humble, everywhere there are people happy to help. All those places welcome millions of visitors every year. (Except maybe Gliwice.) 100
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Jumbo literally carries Ella's pouches. www.jumbo.com/producten/el... 110
Reposted by Si WilliamsJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026“How will you incorporate Furbies into your workflow?” 2216
Reposted by Si WilliamsAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Refusing to use AI isn’t a recalcitrant position. It’s the moral one. There is too much wrong with how this is happening to just “if you can’t beat em join em” this. It’s a lack of consent machine. An environmental destruction machine. An emotional and cognitive numbing machine. 7346126
Reposted by Si WilliamsPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22/02/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_... The Battle of Holbeck Moor in 1936. Oswald Mosley (whose grandson runs Palantir UK) tried to start nazi shit in the Jewish quarter of Leeds. *30,000* antifascists showed up to tell him to eat shit and die, pelting him and his buddies with rocks til they fled.en.wikipedia.orgBattle of Holbeck Moor - Wikipedia 5402143
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Are you planning to do a quick top / bottom 5 or something when you do finish? Because that looks like a contender. 110
Reposted by Si WilliamsMichael Chesnut @michaelchesnut.bsky.social · 30/08/2026"Translators must defend their role not by competing with artificial intelligence (AI) on speed, but by taking responsibility for the cultural and ethical choices embedded in their work" With quotes from an expert at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies! www.koreatimes.co.kr/lifestyle/bo...koreatimes.co.krAI can translate words, but doesn't bear responsibility, experts say - The Korea TimesTranslators must defend their role not by competing with artificial intelligence (AI) on speed, but by taking responsibility for the cultural and e... 06833
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The excellent recent book by @timclare.bsky.social has your back: canongate.co.uk/books/5013-t... 110
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 26/08/2026A sports club, thinking cricket as it's off-season? 010
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 20/08/2026(oh the professional historian may have got there before me, but did he include unverified tertiary sources?) 110
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Nero had green ones, poseur that he was imperiumromanum.pl/en/curiositi... 110
Reposted by Si WilliamsBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/08/2026Why did these companies make these claims? Because their *customers* were making the claims. How could you hope to sell to a company that had 100x'ed its productivity with AI unless you, too had 100x'ed your productivity? 51/ 1804
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I've started revisiting LinkedIn just so I can use it. I feel like I'd go back to Friends Reunited if they implemented one. 020
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 28/07/2026In a very Ship-of-Trigger way, it's since been bought, renamed, and that location closed, but is still somehow there, as Raygun. thespacedblog.substack.com/p/where-was-... 010
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 25/07/2026"He described himself as a ‘countryman’ and while his family business has been very successful under his stewardship, he felt most comfortable in the role of philanthropist." OK, then. 100
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 25/07/2026He succeeded Viscount Chelsea (Charles Gerald John Cadogan, 8th Earl Cadogan, KBE, DL)? I haven't found any immediate opinions of how monstrous the Etonian billionaire peer and landowner was, or otherwise. 110
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Yeah, good point, Dixon is pretty good at it, I agree. Obvs I go with RhonalJEENyoh because etc and so forth 000
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 14/07/2026(to be clear, I am perfectly comfortable being a pseud, ymmv etc) 000
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 14/07/2026is there an argument that the unaspirated schwa that follows and make the nyuh possible is only when speaking French? Like I sound areal pseud if I casually slip that in halfway through an English sentence surrounded by my flat East Yorkshire vowels. 200
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Your Alt Text doesn't mention the Spode handle moustache. 010
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The source has the estimate at 4,543 for Germany gizmodo.com/unprecedente... 100
Reposted by Si WilliamsBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026AI's pitch to bosses is that they can fire most of their workers in order to terrorize the remainder into tolerating a working life wherein they are made to mark the AI's homework, at superhuman speed, and to assume the blame when it goes wrong. 12/ 113542
Reposted by Si WilliamsSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I am genuinely excited about a PM who will be serious about devolution. If done right it could give people more sense of control about their locality; free up Whitehall to focus on big strategic issues; and make it harder for a future national govt to burn everything down. 61763103
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Did you ever see Barry in the Deco video from a few years ago? www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOOA... 000
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I like Rodney Marsh's version. www.theguardian.com/football/200... 051
Si Williams @siwilliams.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Supposedly as the letter L is unfamiliar for Japanese speakers. www.thelist.com/212557/the-b... 100
