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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.

Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Makes my little house look like a hovel!

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The example used In "If anyone builds it, everyone dies" is a manufactured virus. And then 'cures' that don't quite work as intended. The way it was presented was compelling. And given that AI has been used to create novel viruses, it's not so unlikely

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

How did you get it to work? I downloaded and it kept asking for my US address...

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Loved this episode... I am now a proud Luddite!

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

(AI actually has been used in science and medicine for decades and is incredibly good at doing things like finding cancer that can’t be seen with the human eye but that is a completely different type of AI then we’re all angry about it and we shouldn’t discuss them in the same conversations TBH)

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So aligned with this. So much cool stuff that is coming in the near term. But I refuse to use GenAI

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It's funny how you never hear of any truck drivers in Europe saying that they have accidents because they can't speed past the legal limit...

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

At King's Cross and there is still a queue to get photos at "Platform 9 3/4" I just don't understand how people can still support such a hatefilled person

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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If Bluesky was really as dead as they say, could I do THIS?? (okay I am going to need this to do big numbers)

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

To be fair a lot of "Christians" could do with being stuck with the sermon on the mount as their point of reference. Too many get their pointers from the Old Testament

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My position is that if English is not the first language, any difference in spelling or pronunciation compared to "correct" does not matter. I can't hold a conversation in another language and I'm sure I butcher names all the time despite trying not to. I'm the one who should be apologising to them

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Haywain 2026

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Very much powered by diesel... I work for them and I've heard the joke A LOT

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I could hear him speaking the lines in my head!

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Vlookup sucks and always has. Index Match is a much better formula set

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I prefer the deep dark green. Mostly because it feels closer to the original Dark Angels Green from the 90s

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Nothing really to add to all the good suggestions but hope you have a great time. I've been a number of times with work (last time was March) and with the time you have the list you've been given is great. I would prioritise the Great Wall as its my favourite

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Number 9 should be on the green party manifesto!

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I'm also worried about Net Zero without Ed, but yes this is a bad start

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"Emergency podcasts, sir. Thousands of 'em"

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Yup, full on wire fraud, but maybe it was an official act so therefore not a crime *walks into the sea*

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

No worries. I develop BEV and Hybrid trucks so have to be super aware of potential issues with prototypes

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This is 100% wrong. Fumes from lithium fires can be extremely toxic. The lithium itself isn't the worry, it's the fluoride in the electrolyte that's the issue. It can literally dissolve bones and teeth from exposure I'm sure Marie is fine (outside etc) but please know battery fumes are evil

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My son (10) will be on his 7th UK Prime Minister in the next couple of months I was 11 before I got my second...

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Well that triggered some remembered nightmares of my childhood

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is exactly the type of thread that makes Bluesky so wonderful to me. Great explanation of a complex problem...whilst also laughing at Trump!

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Power density and energy density please. In both volumetric and specific density. Then I might believe it could find a place in the battery ecosystem

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Definitely a highlight of the one time I've been to SF

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Thanks @naomialderman.bsky.social and all at @zombiesrunofficial.bsky.social for making my first run back if not fun, at least survivable! #SlowJogger5 Pursued by fast zombies, surrounded by Van Ark's soldiers: business as usual #ZombiesRun

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Magical spy novel? Now that sounds awesome!

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Stephen McLaren @spinachconvention.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I feel the same. And I don't think it's totally that others have moved away. My views on a whole lot of things have moved leftward since my early 20s. Heres hoping I don't move rightwards again in 5 years time!

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