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DB McWeeberton @dbmcweeberton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Nothing but respect for my Diggers

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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do not want it in my words I do not want it faking birds I do not like it in my mail It really is beyond the pale I do not want it stealing art I not want it whole, or part I do not want your AI spam I hate it, hate it, Sam Altman

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Mike Transreal @miketransreal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well, you could go to see this instead! ;-) www.coburghouse.co.uk/exhibitions/... by @studioknotunknot.bsky.social I went along to the opening last night and really liked the pieces on show. Artist demos as well every day.

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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm really looking forward to this! If there's anyone that can make talking about myself as fun and uncringe as it's possible to be, it's definitely Ruth!

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Chalk Scribblers @chalkscribblers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Exactly one week from right now, we'll be gathering online to hear Charles Stross @cstross.bsky.social read from his latest novel and to answer questions about... well, about whatever you'd like to ask him. Sign up on Eventbrite to join us for free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2000172679...

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Chalk Scribblers meet the author: Charles Stross

An evening with leading science fiction novelist Charles Stross.

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Madeleine Shepherd @studioknotunknot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not a great bunch of tiles to draw in a game of scrabble!

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#ResistanceRoots Dorothy Vaughan was born on this day in 1910 in Kansas City, Mo. She was a mathematician, human computer and computer programmer who became the first African American supervisor at NASA. Throughout her career, she fought for equal pay and advancements and promotions for women. /1

Dorothy Vaughan in 1971, the year she retired from NASA. Vaughan was a visionary pioneer for women in STEM and a foundational architect of the U.S. space program. She broke through the dual barriers of Jim Crow segregation and gender discrimination to alter the course of aerospace history. Her calculations and FORTRAN programming laid the groundwork for America’s early aerospace achievements. By becoming NACA’s first African American supervisor in 1949, Vaughan cracked open doors that had been firmly shut to women of color. She spent her tenure as Section Head fighting for equal pay, promotions and engineering assignments for both Black and white women across the agency. When electronic computers arrived, she taught herself FORTRAN and trained her staff, saving dozens of Black women from layoffs and transitioning them into high-tech careers. Vaughan stands today as a symbol of resilience, intellectual brilliance and the indispensable power of community.

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Madeleine Shepherd @studioknotunknot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Exhibition teaser! This is the prototype of a piece for my solo show at Coburg House, Edinburgh at the beginning of October. www.coburghouse.co.uk/exhibitions/... I'm working on a larger version with orange instead of grey for the show. #knittedunconformities #mathematicalknitting

Photo of a mannequin body in the corridor outside my studio. The mannequin is wearing a knitted pullover constructed from large cream and grey, right-angled triangles.

There are some plants on tables in the background one of which has spikey leaves sticking out around the mannequin's left shoulder.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We don't deserve otters...

Description: A two-panel hybrid meme combining a simple black-and-white line drawing and a color photo shows a sad, wrinkled face in the top panel and then the same figure blushing at a cute otter in the bottom panel.

Text in the image:
Top panel: “The world is a cruel and unjust place.
There is no harmony in the universe. The only constant is suffering.”

Below between panels: “*minutes later*”

Bottom panel (next to the blushing figure and otter photo): “omg otters!”

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Madeleine Shepherd @studioknotunknot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Looing forward to this show about electronic music at Edinburgh Fringe Festival tomorrow. www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

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Wheelchair Access, Wheelchair Accessible Toilets

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Madeleine Shepherd @studioknotunknot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Deservedly so! Three of my all time faves in there.

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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Happy Skynet day to all those who celebrate

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Madeleine Shepherd @studioknotunknot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Do you "remember" James Clerk Maxwell? I reckon most of my followers will have heard of him. Not least because his was the first portrait is knitted back in 2015.

Photo of a knitted portrait of James Clerk Maxwell in light and dark brown stretched and pinned to a blue noticeboard. Knitted in 2015 by Madeleine Shepherd using a hacked domestic knitting machine.

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Talking Maths in Public @tmip.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In case you missed it, there are now two episodes of our latest series of the TMiP podcast available - listen to interviews with mathematical authors, knitters, hands-on maths cemtre managers and more, to hear how they approach talking maths in public. More info + links at tmip.uk/podcast

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ukrainian French artist Sonia Delaunay's 1920s - 1930s dress designs #WomensArt

Twelve stylised painted images of figures in angular or rounded colurful art deco style costumes against a white background

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Alison Kiddle @alisonkiddle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Contains me, talking to Madeleine @studioknotunknot.bsky.social about the maths of knitting and the knitting of maths 😊

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/11/2024

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Science Fiction Writer: The cup is a crystalline super computer and the liquid is hyperintelligent, they want to know why humanity should be allowed to exist, you have 30 minutes to respond and the answer must be danced by a cat

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Madeleine Shepherd @studioknotunknot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It really was! I think we may even have performed on the anniversary of the disaster. Someone quipped that we might sink the McEwan Hall! The Society got up to some wonderful performances, Dadaist meals, concerts of Terry Riley and John Cage, holding our AGM in the Commonwealth Pool!

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Madeleine Shepherd @studioknotunknot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

At the point when the iceberg struck cast and audience took to the lifeboats and the orchestra played Bryars' Titanic. The production was the work of Edinburgh University Experimental Arts Society.

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Madeleine Shepherd @studioknotunknot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I took part in a production of Titanic in the McEwan Hall in the late 70s. The Hall was the ship, unseated space the deck and seating the lifeboats. Actors played known passengers and mingled with the audience on deck uttering fragments of recorded speech from the hours before the sinking. 1/2

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I don't think it's super well-known but I do have a podcast. Topoics: Cyberpunk, AI, science fiction, mind, literature, beatnik, Phil Dick, infinity, fourth dimension, math, sex, robots, drugs, revolution, space, aliens, telepathy, immortality. www.rudyrucker.com/podcasts/

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Madeleine Shepherd @studioknotunknot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Recommend their Flux a n Mutability too.

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Chris Williams (dink) @chriswilliams-dink.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

If you're visiting Edinburgh in August and have even the slightest interest in comics, graphic novels, bande dessinée. Then don't miss visiting 'La Belle Adventure' on Leith Walk. www.instagram.com/labelleadven...

La Belle Adventure bookshop at 225 Leith Walk

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Madeleine Shepherd @studioknotunknot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Glad to see I'm not the only one who was shocked to see #onlyconnect putting its weight behind this rubbish. I know the question was about things people do for luck and they do actually do this. Trouble is it damages the statue, blocks the pavement and isn't even a long-standing tradition.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Increasingly, Soylent Green serves as one of the best metaphors for AI -- it's taking all that we are, as people, chumming it up, and feeding the slurry back to us. We're told that we need it, it's nutritious, it'll save the world, even as it damns it and us.

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Madeleine Shepherd @studioknotunknot.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Open Studios time again at Coburg House! Visit me and 50ish others artists and makers in our studios in Leith, Edinburgh. I'll have new work, a samples & seconds sale and a demo of the hacked knitting machine - also a large installation in the stairwell. www.coburghouse.co.uk/whats-on#/op...

A photo of an open door into a studio showing a knitting machine and about 4 metres of colourful knitting stretching from the machine out of the the door and across the floor.

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Madeleine Shepherd @studioknotunknot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Check out Candlemaker Row. Visit Greyfriars Bobby at the top, then Transreal Fiction bookshop @miketransreal.bsky.social. Walk down to Fabhatrix at the bottom of the hill and pop in to all the indie shops in between. Much cooler than Victoria Street.

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craftreactor.bsky.social @craftreactor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This weekend, 31 July - 2 August

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

57 years ago, on the 20th of July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon, as part of the Apollo 11 mission. The last time humans were on the moon was in 1972. #otd #history 🗃️

Buzz Aldrin on the Moon in a photograph taken by Neil Armstrong, who can be seen in the visor reflection along with Earth, the Lunar Module Eagle, and the U.S. flag.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It's so exciting being a freelancer in the arts & ents industry (one of the UK's biggest industries) bc about once a month the gvt have a new proposal to kick you in the head & you have to fill in a dry consultation form explaining why kicking you in the head would be bad for business, not good

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 17/07/2026

It's not too late to make Trump the star of a Truman-style show in which he spends his working days in a fake Whitehouse surrounded by paid actors doing all the same unhinged things he does now, but just for the world's entertainment. He'd be happy, and everybody in the world would be *much* safer.

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Madeleine Shepherd @studioknotunknot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Inertia is right. Also trying to find the best alternative. I've been thinking about shifting from Eventbrite to Ticket Tailor. Now I need to look at Luma.

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Madeleine Shepherd @studioknotunknot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I agree it may well be too difficult too tease out significant results . However, it's also a good bit of awareness raising. There's also value in getting more knitters to think about their own gauge in this much detail whatever the results may show.

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Madeleine Shepherd @studioknotunknot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I saw this too and had similar thoughts. In terms of experiment design it's like a scoping study to find the best areas to investigate in the main research. In practical terms, more people are likely to take part if they can use what they have without buying anything new. Hope they get enough folk.

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Talking Maths in Public @tmip.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Talking Maths in Public (TMiP) is the UK's network for maths communication, bringing together people who communicate maths in a range of formats, to a variety of audiences. Sign up for our newsletter, find out about our activities and listen to our monthly podcast by visiting tmip.uk

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Rob Maslen @profrmaslen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I loved Sam Neill’s films, but the one I loved most - unmentioned here - is Dean Spanley, in which he plays a spaniel reincarnated as a Church of England cleric; it’s based on a wonderful but little-known novella by Lord Dunsany. Watch it if you can find it!

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Madeleine Shepherd @studioknotunknot.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If you'd like to turn your own photographs into knitted pictures, then sign up for my Hacked Knitting Machine Experience Day. One place left on 11th July and more in August and September. In person only, in Edinburgh, Scotland. All classes can be booked here www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/8466895273...

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Knot Unknot - Madeleine Shepherd

K not Unknot is Madeleine Shepherd's textile studio.

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