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Steve Walker

@steve-walker.bsky.social

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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities". Voltaire, 1765, Questions sur les miracles

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Apparently, this is at least a month earlier than 'normal' around here.

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A bleak, if entirely plausible take on urban futures. The de-academisation of cities like their earlier deindustrialisation. Susan Pedersen in the current LRB

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Plus ca change... from Ruth Schwarz Cowan's 1997 'A Social History of American Technology'

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Say this in the other place. Made me smile. Anyway, there's a game needs watching

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

A sign of the times...

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

His father, Alf Inge Haaland, played for City also. Here's a pic of a young Erling in his first City shirt

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Shades of Blackadder and the slaughter of young men.

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A 60+ year old Soviet tractor designed to keep chugging across the steppes (in my mind at least) with minimal maintenance. Now, pulling the roller for the village cricket pitch.

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

In one regard, at least, I'm in pretty exalted company...

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

From a 1937 IBM corporate songbook... For more of this see: arstechnica.com/information-...

Screenshot of lyrics to be sung to the tune of "I'm forever blowing bubbles"

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

From the Wayback Machine - ICEM 1996

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Oh dear...

Semantic Scholar listing of items for International Computers and Tabulators

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

From the other place, courtesy @FredBoycott

shows a map of the North Sea renamed The Gulf of Yorkshire

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

And, I kid you not, this was the first image generated for the prompt '1984'...

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I've been amusing myself exploring an AI image generator. I give you Thelonious Monk.

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

The Chartist Northern Star blue plaque unveiled in Leeds this afternoon

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The OU used to do courses like this..

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

From another time...

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

I think Bluesky mods need some cultural sensitivity. Unless 'making a brew' has acquired some meaning I'm unaware of. That's possible, but would radically change my understanding of life in Yorkshire.