Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 2hMy God. It’s takes something special for me to have more sympathy for Rees-Mogg than his interviewer. 86612
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy 151104122211
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2hSomeone elsewhere asked for harrowing "travel" nonfic.... No Mercy by Redmond O'Hanlon, published as Congo Journey in the UK, is one of the greatest such books I have ever encountered. Now have to read it again. 3331
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialAlan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My death penalty position is that the state should not be in the business of deliberately killing its citizens and the fact that it’s also incapable of doing it humanely is just another level of the madness. 1322
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialAlan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There are some absolute cunts out there but normally their cuntish instincts are kept in check by social disapproval. One of the things that the Balaclava Brigade (aided by politicians and the BBC’s ‘legitimate concerns’ narrative) have been able to do is mobilize and legitimize that cuntishness. 0102
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You know who else was obsessed with dancing around on the pinheads of imagined classifications based on where great grandparents were born and what they believed? The Nazis. 71069178
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialDr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This seems like a good time to remind people I wrote a book on the physics and history of falling cats! 721461
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Gonna go out on a limb and suggest the loudest voices in the tech industry have very little grasp of the variety and complexity of the world outside their own industry, with a side dish of not understanding that to most people step one in furniture shopping is not "buy a CNC router and lathe" 33108485
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialNatanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Content aware fill versus discontent unaware fill 044
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026it's just not the case that LLMs can destroy humanity. An LLM cannot (technical sense) do shit. The thing which can damage important systems would be "an executable program, which calls an LLM to determine its behaviour". So, don't write one of those unless you are confident you can control it. 75119
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"but but Danny, the LLMs are so complicated and cool now that it's *impossible* for me to write a program like that and be confident I can control or predict its behaviour". Well you're not allowed to do the thing then!!! This is how we regulate poison and explosives. Leave it to someone who can 14314
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialRami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15/09/2026I did all the customer support for Vlambeer and I didn't even install a permanent atmosphere of fear and distrust inside the company by announcing 2,000 future layoffs amidst 2,000 immediate layoffs like some weird Hunger Games-esque reign of terror situation, but I guess IGN wanted to do propaganda 191031125
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Squadron Leader Lane had just turned 23, when this photo was taken. 316318
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialSwitch Angel @switchangel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I don’t normally clip silly moments like this, but I couldn’t resist #transpride 0348
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Why is there any doubt that the Norman conquest was bad for England, as in just twenty years it led to a Domesday scenario. 2032941
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The "stop the boats" movement is being driven by the type of English suburban racist who thinks that one black family living in their street is one too many. Yes, it really is as simple as that, and it has been for decades. There is no intellectual depth to this stuff. It is pure, distilled hate. 161015239
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialandy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...) 8379802146
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialRachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 31/08/2026As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴 752697760
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialCatherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The moon at about 97% eclipsed last night. I'll probably have more images, but I'm still going through them. #Astronomy #Astrophotography 110114
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialJames Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Absolute longshot: I'm looking for Euan Smith who drew artwork for White Dwarf magazine in the mid 1980s and therefore is probably British and probably in his late 50s or 60s. Do you or did you know him? 18143217
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/08/2026The older I get, the more clear it is that all our safety and well-being is intertwined. The same forces pushing racism are targeting trans people and immiserating the disabled and extracting everything they can from all of us. We gotta stand up for everyone because everyone is all of us. 3778183
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialAlison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today" Me on the floor rocking, sweating: "Oh hell oh god I'm so far behind on tree" 735364
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialPhil Edwards @philedwards.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Nobody knows what the sentence for any particular criminal offence is, so changing sentences (e.g. by making them "tougher") has vanishingly little chance of affecting anyone's behaviour. 415842
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Farage won. And lost. And didn't even turn up, having told the press the police had warned him of a "credible threat". The police denied saying this. His credible threat has no credibility. Which is apt. The inquiry starts again today. 29581105
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 13/08/2026most of these recent events involved the companies not adequately isolating their AUTOMATED HACKING SOFTWARE from the internet, not monitoring it in real time, and not understanding their own software worked And I still don't think you can rule out some of these being intentional marketing stunts 512628
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialisstvansurvivor.bsky.social @isstvansurvivor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026In Scotland door teams are often a Big Man and a Wee Man. Non-Scots assume the Wee Man is the brains. Not so. The Big Man restrains the Wee Man (actually a Glaswegian psycho) til it's time for the Wee Man to solve problems via headbutt. Source: Was the Big Man. Never had to deploy the Wee Man. 413010
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/08/2026We say, Airbud style, that there's nothing in the rules that says you can't have Bruce Campbell on the team for a notoriously hard pub quiz that has a Bruce Campbell round. Bruce points out there's a John Carpenter round. says he'll give Empire John's phone number but he may not get here in time /8 583143
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialEleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Reverse jacket cover illustration for 'The Odyssey' by Homer that I painted for @wraithmarked.bsky.social 's Special Limited Edition 🏺 731470
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialPᴜʀᴇ Dᴇᴀᴅ Gᴀᴍɪɴɢ @puredeadgaming.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The results of the video I posted earlier was this iconic shot 👏 Danny León and his crew smashed it. 131171244579
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialThe Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 13/08/2026when will we get the Grade Up to Elite Cow roguelike that we crave 2654
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialCaptain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Come for @standupmaths.bsky.social's UK election commentary, stay for my unhinged cameo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zn1...youtube.comCan Count Binface win?YouTube video by Stand-up Maths 733629
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialIan Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 26/05/2025IWM interviewed Swordfish pilot John Moffat in 2008. He recalled: 'Just then a voice says to me "Not yet John!" I thought 'where's that come from?' So I grabbed my [speaking] tube; 'What's wrong?'... A thread... 🧵 57222
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialNatanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Unfortunately, called it...thetimes.comHow Russian propaganda is ‘poisoning’ AI chatbots to spout liesChatGPT and its rivals have been manipulated by a Kremlin unit that purports to be a human rights group as it opens a new front in the misinformation war 196
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialDr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 11/08/2026His new Secret Service codename is “In Flight Meal” 1297
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 11/08/2026If early release can be altered so as to exempt homicide offences, it should be. Prisoners who have caused the gravest harm should be among the last to benefit from the overcrowding crisis. But carving out exceptions for individual prisoners in response to media campaigns is weak and unprincipled. 1032066395
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialMassimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Animaris Rex is an 18-metre-long walking 'beach animal' propelled by the wind, created by Theo Jansen as a fusion of art and engineering. Original post 24373071655
skuwiph.bsky.social @skuwiph.bsky.social · 09/08/2026r/Linocuts well-written stance on GenAI: www.reddit.com/r/Linocuts/c... "If you are someone who feels they cannot create “good enough” work without Generative AI, you are giving up before you’ve even started." This. Make "bad art," people, please! #genai #artreddit.comFrom the Linocuts community on RedditExplore this post and more from the Linocuts community 040
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialAlex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I have seen repeated many times, including in scholarly literature, the idea that a) the Nagasaki attack was ordered strategically because the Japanese government had not responded to Hiroshima, and b) that Truman "ordered" the dropping of a second atomic bomb. Neither of these are true. 226148
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialSilversprite @silversprite.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Not mandatory, but the most nostalgic item I've found and identified in a junk drawer is a roll of aluminium-coated paper for a Sinclair ZX81 home computer printer. (memories of printing in the dark; only the glow of the TV and tiny flickers from the printer) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVix...youtube.comZX81 vintage computer printing outYouTube video by Francis Massen 1101
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialGideon Coe @gidcoe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Thanks William.youtube.comBeth Orton - Central Reservation (William Orbit Remix)YouTube video by Per Christian Frankplads 311622
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialRetro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Just installed OS/2 on my IBM PS/1. Last time I did that was 35 years ago... In 1992, OS/2 2.0 offered features that Windows would not fully match until the arrival of NT, and later Windows 95. It was considered remarkably stable and was especially appreciated in corporate environments. 914917
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialOrkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Dough Ray Mears Fat Solar Tito. Our book trolleys are alive with the sound of music. 17611113
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialAlan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 06/08/2026What tf is wrong with this lady? 3181
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Increasingly common trend: when controversialist columnists run out of real minority groups to victimise they just make one up. 1437556
Reposted by @skuwiph.bsky.socialChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 06/08/2026fwiw I don't think "Cambridge University professor most people have never heard of committed professional malpractice" should actually be national headline news 541313136
![Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.
A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v5vphilwcf6nunioeyrpxw6g/bafkreibeadpx66jtqlttglhgbgkew6g65haxqngz5yt6p3ybwyi5zney54)
