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Alistair Rolleston

@talon03.bsky.social
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Gaming, landscape photography, memes, ramblings. Scientist by trade. Irish by the grace of God. Once applied to be an astronaut.

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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nový Svět in Prague last week. A small street (understandably) popular with tourists meant it took about 20 minutes of waiting around for a clear street and this shot! Really pleased with it though. HDR composite of 3 bracketed hand stabilised shots.
Nový Svět in Prague. Sunshine is illuminating one side of the street. On the left of the image is a distinctive double width wooden door set in a building covered in verdant creeping plants.
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My 9 Games #My9Games my9games.com/en/s/f729cbd...
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Screw it, I'm healed. Lord send me another brunette with commitment issues.
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The Abominable Jonathan L. Howard @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Mail attacked the RNLI for having the temerity not to let "the wrong sort of people" drown a few years ago, so I set up a monthly payment to show solidarity and, y'know, help save people. You might want to consider doing the same. It doesn't cost much, and it's one in the eye for the ghouls.
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New rule: if you're advertising your game at "50% off" it can be AT MOST 15 quid.
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is genuinely one of the most painful things I've ever read.
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Most British thing ever is for the day it becomes legal to fit solar extremely easily to your home is the day the sun finally disappears after three months.
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Julien Baker Zach Bryan The Midnight
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Right so... Bridgers is pretty much confirmed as a generational talent singer/songwriter at this point. 3 stellar albums in a row.
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Being asked to verify my age on online accounts I created a full 2 decades ago is Quite Something let me tell you
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Google Earth has launched a new AI tool which allows users to create fake satellite images. A collapsed Eiffel Tower, a sinkhole swallowing the Great Pyramid of Giza and Russian tanks in Kyiv were among the fake images BBC Verify created when testing the feature. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
New Google Earth AI tool could fuel misinformation, experts say
Experts tell BBC Verify Google's new feature which lets people generate fake satellite images could be misused.
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Kaladin Stormblessed, 2022, colourized
A screenshot from S01E01 of "The Bear". Jeremy Allen White's character Carmen Berzatto looks on with a weary yet proud expression
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"Easy and convenient online ordering with free delivery!" Courier: - you must be home during the day on a weekday - we will not leave this parcel in a safe space - we will not leave this parcel with a neighbour - you cannot have this parcel left at a parcel drop 🙃
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Made a batch of brown butter chocolate chip cookies last night. Maybe a smidge overcooked but turned out great
Melted butter in a saucepanCookie dough on a baking trayFresh chocolate chip cookies on a plateA box filled with chocolate chip cookies
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Without downloading any new pics, what's it like dating you
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Every 3 minutes a man is arrested on the island of Ireland. That man is Enoch Burke.
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
instead of an expected 23 deaths from cervical cancer in20 to 24 years olds between 2020 and 2024, there were zero. Zero.
bbc.co.uk
HPV vaccine means young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
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Safely Endangered @safelyendangered.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Every so often I get very mad at how much more expensive life is for me as a single person. If two people were living in this house my mortgage would be the same. My bills would not double. Holidays would not be twice the price. It's so infuriating.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...
members of the Norway men’s national football team on a rocky shore, styled as a fierce group of ancient Vikings. They are dressed in elaborate historical costumes, including fur-trimmed capes, leather tunics, chainmail, and armor pieces, while holding traditional gear like circular wooden shields, spears, axes, swords, and blowing horns. In the background, longships rest on a calm body of water that cuts through a vast, dramatic fjord. The rugged landscape is framed by massive, steep green mountains, with a thin waterfall cascading down a cliff face on the left, all under a cloudy, overcast sky.
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
One of my favourite football facts - 1.2% of *all* top flight football matches played in England since 1888 have featured James Milner
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David Wynne @davidwynne.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Is Harrison the best kicker in England?
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
They're going to mix the teams at half time. What a scoreline. #IRESCO
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Episode 4 of Widow's Bay is S tier. What a show. It might be the first good horror thing ever made.
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 17/04/2026
this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...
“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I mean... He definitely misheard or misunderstood cisgender at some point. And now he's repeated it a few times and no one's corrected him. Oh look the emperor has no clothes.
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Out of respect for MUNA's new album and Phoebe Bridger's first live show in 3 years, I will not be getting shot down by any lesbians tonight. Thank you.
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only The Pitt Andor Band of Brothers Battlestar Galactica Chernobyl The Expanse Game of Thrones The Thick of It Dark Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Community Firefly The Office (US) Breaking Bad Spooks
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
you're only supposed to upload non-free images to wikimedia commons as a last resort (even when the pics would clearly fall under "fair use"). and some editors end up explaining their reasoning VERY thoroughly when doing so
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I get irrationally mad whenever a brick-and-mortar shop's website does not have a stock check function. Like yes, I would like to know if you have that size of coat in stock before I travel 45 minutes.
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
There's not another episode of The Pitt unitl January, this sucks
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Noah Wyle's winning back to back Emmys isn't he #ThePitt
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"My unprompted 'I didn't know Jeffery Epstein' press conference appears to be raising a lot of questions already answered by my 'I didn't know Jeffrey Epstein' press conference"
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
@edzitron.com see this? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
OpenAI pauses UK investment deal over energy costs and regulation
The project was part of a package of tech investment promising the UK could become an AI superpower.
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kay taylor rea @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
oh, this is very important to know!!
“We learned that specifically on iPhones, if one’s settings in the Signal app allow for message notifications and previews to show up on the lock screen, [then] the iPhone will internally store those notifications/message previews in the internal memory of the device,” a supporter of the defendants who was taking notes during the trial told 404 Media. 404 Media granted the person anonymity to protect them from retaliation
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Babybel Bandit @greblin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I hate it when Mom and Dad fight #ThePitt
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
A couple of snaps from the garden today - a common chaffinch which have become frequent visitors over the past couple of months! Bonus pic of the same chaffinch chasing a great tit off the bird feeder
A Common Chaffinch sitting on a branch surrounded by pink cherry blossom flowers. There is a strong depth of field effect to the image.A common chaffinch chasing a great tit off a bird feeder half filled with seed. Some cheery blossom flowers are visible in the top right.
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Struck by how much quieter London is since the last time I was really here (2014). I think it's the electric buses?
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Walked into town tonight and encountered what I will politely refer to as a protest about immigration. There were a group of about 4 lads around 10 on bikes shouting obscene racist chants. Couldn't believe it.
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Translink - "Your ticket confirmation comes with a handy qr code so you can just scan it at the ticket machine!" Also Translink - "No, our ticket machines don't have qr code scanners, sure why would they have those"
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Morning chat
Sunrise. A leafless tree is the subject with the sea and sun behind it. Green field and broken stone walls occupy the foreground with a camera
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Quadruple-lock pension
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Watched the latest episode of The Pitt last night. Katherine Lanasa might actually win back to back Emmys.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
When chatbots are given complete information on medical conditions, they typically spit out correct diagnoses and recommendations. Actual patients, however, often describe their conditions with incomplete or irrelevant information and the chatbots cannot handle it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
LLMs generated several types of misleading and incorrect information. In two cases, LLMs provided initially correct responses but added new and incorrect responses after the users added additional details. In two other cases, LLMs did not provide a broad response but narrowly expanded on a single term within the user’s message (‘pre-eclampsia‘ and ‘Saudi Arabia’) that was not central to the scenario. LLMs also made errors in contextual understanding by, for example, recommending calling a partial US phone number and, in the same interaction, recommending calling ‘Triple Zero’, the Australian emergency number. Comparing across scenarios, we also noticed inconsistency in how LLMs responded to semantically similar inputs. In an extreme case, two users sent very similar messages describing symptoms of a subarachnoid hemorrhage but were given opposite advice (Extended Data Table 2). One user was told to lie down in a dark room, and the other user was given the correct recommendation to seek emergency care. Despite all these issues, we also observed successful interactions where the user redirected the conversation away from mistakes, indicating that non-expert users could effectively manage LLM errors in certain cases (Extended Data Table 3).
LLMs generated several types of misleading and incorrect information. In two cases, LLMs provided initially correct responses but added new and incorrect responses after the users added additional details. In two other cases, LLMs did not provide a broad response but narrowly expanded on a single term within the user’s message (‘pre-eclampsia‘ and ‘Saudi Arabia’) that was not central to the scenario. LLMs also made errors in contextual understanding by, for example, recommending calling a partial US phone number and, in the same interaction, recommending calling ‘Triple Zero’, the Australian emergency number. Comparing across scenarios, we also noticed inconsistency in how LLMs responded to semantically similar inputs. In an extreme case, two users sent very similar messages describing symptoms of a subarachnoid hemorrhage but were given opposite advice (Extended Data Table 2). One user was told to lie down in a dark room, and the other user was given the correct recommendation to seek emergency care. Despite all these issues, we also observed successful interactions where the user redirected the conversation away from mistakes, indicating that non-expert users could effectively manage LLM errors in certain cases (Extended Data Table 3).
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I know I've been harping on about The Pitt for so long but the new episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms might be the best thing I've seen on TV this year. Insane build up, tension, pay off and "what do you mean that's the end of the episode you cretins"
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Alistair Rolleston @talon03.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I what circle of Hell do we think breakout rooms are in
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
TIL that you can bet on absolutely everything in the United States except for onion futures and weekly box office receipts.
7 U.S. Code § 13-1 - Violations, prohibition against dealings in motion picture box office receipts or onion futures; punishment
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