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ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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MJW @the-lazyknight.bsky.social · 16h

"Make sure you get my good side!" "Ok, which one's your good side?" "YES!"

A rook poses on a wooden fence rail, head turned to the right.

A rook poses on a wooden fence rail, head turned to the left.

A rook poses on a wooden fence rail, head turned to look straight down it's beak at the camera.

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MJW @the-lazyknight.bsky.social · 16h

Yes, yes, you're a very pretty cathedral, and you're looming quite prettily...

The interior of St Colman's cathedral in Cobh, looking up towards the altar. The floor is a pretty red and cream Celtic knowltwork, the ceiling dark oak, and the side arches white stone. Is very pretty.

The entrance to St Colman's cathedral in Cobh., looking across the road. The forced perspective makes the vertical lines lean togetht

St Colman's cathedral looms above Cobh main street.

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nothing is more gory than an embryo burrowing into its mother's flesh to bathe in her blood.

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MJW @the-lazyknight.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I just ordered a portion of chips (*) as a dessert and, NGL , it really did help more than a normal dessert would... (*: fries, for the USian whilst it's)

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Pan-sexual; We Love Pans @pansexualwlp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Look at these scissors!! For scissoring!

Foldable scissors and the handles are legs with boots! I thought it was a butterfly knife

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🎨 Old Skies for Ow My Emotions (sci fi variety) 👻 Blackwell Series & Unavowed (same universe) for Ow My Emotions (supernatural superfriends variety) 🎻 Hob's Barrow for Folk Horror Oh God Oh Dear God Oh No

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David Green @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Special sale just in time for Fantasycon and the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social awards :) Get your free book and maybe check out the (discounted) sequel too! Shares greatly appreciated! mybook.to/magicmapsand...

fantasycon special sale
oct 6th till Oct 10th
Magic Maps and Mischief is Free
Charms Charts and Conspiracies is 2.99

Magic Maps and Mischief
Nominated for Best Fantasy Novel at the British Fantasy Awards and winner of two Indie Ink Awards 2025

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The spooky season has arrived, and that means Creepy Biology is upon us. It's time to talk origins. It's time to talk gore. It's time to talk about BLOOD. Specifically, YOUR blood 🩸 [a thread]

A blood splatter by Luis Moraga 17, from wikimedia commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EFECTOS_(SANGRE)_(93).png

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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 05/10/2026

Today, almost 6 months after publication, I get an email from the copyright office saying they can't proceed with this copyright registration. Why? Because they detected that some of the text in the book was generated by AI. (Spoiler: zero percent of the book was generated by AI.)

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Brianna Hildebrand: What The F*ck?!

Alt: Brianna Hildebrand saying What The F*ck?!

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

My partner had never seen the work of genius that is the ‘tea consent’ video, so now I’m sharing it here again, because consent explained through the vehicle of tea is the most British thing ever. And also really fucking important.

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Tea and Consent

YouTube video by Thames Valley Police

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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm pretty sure that the reason Cats Love Boxes is because cardboard smells to them like petrichor does to us.

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Michelle Manus @michellemanus.com · 04/10/2026

For all those who stood with our orca comrades as they tirelessly sank yachts for the greater good, THE SPERM WHALES HAVE ENTERED THE FIGHT. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

independent.co.uk

Gang of eight sperm whales sink yacht after ramming boat in South Pacific

Crew described terrifying encounter as they were woken up by “loud thud” as the 52ft vessel was struck

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mystical archway. Photo from St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor. Good luck to everyone trying for Glastonbury tickets today. 🤞#Glastonbury #glastonburytor

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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Tanya Huff @tanyahuff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good news: BLOOD SHOT has been selected to be part of Kobo's Spooky Season sale in the US and Canada! For the entire month of October, the ebook will be priced at $1.99. Publisher has also price matched across vendors so Nook & Kindle readers can enjoy the deal as well. www.kobo.com/ca/en/search...

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"blood shot huff" | eBooks and Audiobooks Search Results | Rakuten Kobo Canada Showing 1 - 12 of 19122 Results

Search results for "blood shot huff" at Rakuten Kobo. Read free previews and reviews from booklovers. Shop eBooks and audiobooks at Rakuten Kobo.

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MJW @the-lazyknight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cork is pretty in the evening...

A view of Lapp's Quay in Cork. The city hall is all pretty and purple

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For those in England & Wales who don’t get them on the NHS: private flu & covid jabs are available from today. I’ve just had both at my local pharmacy. £115 for the pair. Yes, that’s expensive, but if you’re a freelancer & don’t get sick pay it’s probably a lot cheaper than taking time off.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026

Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie:
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I do worry a TINY bit that this is how we got JK Rowling long before she went fully mask-off TERF, she was the darling of liberal Twitter for her sassy Trump dunks and that is 100% the reason she got so high on her own supply that she began sincerely believing she was a necessary voice in politics

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 30/09/2026

Oh, I am really sad about this - I knew Esther well in the 80s, when she was at the height of her considerable powers. An absolute force of nature and a good human being. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...

bbc.co.uk

Dame Esther Rantzen dies aged 86

Her family paid tribute to her in a statement calling her the "most wonderful mother" and a "cherished grandmother".

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MJW @the-lazyknight.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I shall sacrifice a humourously shaped vegetable in her honour.

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Julie (unprofessional) @juliebalt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Alt text - Post by user omgsidewalks reads "you CANNOT rage against the machine if you're asking it to summarise your emails for you"

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Elliott Kay @elliottkaybooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey, I wanted to say thank you so much for the reposts & shares on this yesterday. Book hype is HARD. It was hard on Twitter before it went to hell, and it's harder on Bluesky. IDK if it's me or the culture but shares seem rarer here. Any help is noticed and appreciated.

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MJW @the-lazyknight.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ugh. I do hate the inherent of aste of planned obsolescence. My late uncle had a tablet. It's perfectly functional, if a little slower than I'd like. But it's Android 10, and security updates for it stopped in 2022.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"This is the internet, not America" is now my war cry.

Do people REALIZE that "realise" is misspelled?

in Australia we use s not z

this is the internet, not america

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MJW @the-lazyknight.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@garethlpowell.bsky.social possibly more hours per week than you were thinking of, but...?

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026

Today in "absolutely not"

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Spookiest Welsh Canadian (Glynn Stewart) @glynnstewart.com · 29/09/2026

Every so often, I am reminded when talking to professionals in various fields that I have *no* idea how to market and get by mostly on luck and existing audience 😂 So, uh, tell your friends about my complicated dystopia space opera with weird cyborgs?

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Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com · 29/09/2026

This is exactly where I operate. Most of the time when I block someone, it's not that they've made me that mad, it's just that their arguments are just so goddamn boring that I am unwilling to spend another millisecond of my precious life entertaining them.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 29/09/2026

I would absolutely love to see a documentary about how #DIYSOS pulls together all the plans/suppliers/materials/volunteers/trades to do over an entire house in the space of a week

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026

GOD BLESS NIGELLA “I don’t approve of talking about food as naughty” I have been needing bake off to say that for YEARS. Food is a pleasure, not a guilty pleasure!

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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 28/09/2026

USB-C is the best technology in so long. I bring ONE type of adaptor on business trips now (to charge my computer, my phone, my tablet, my earbuds, my watch, my headphones). I'm sitting in a meeting right now using my Mac and am borrowing the cord from a ThinkPad user. Standards win.

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MJW @the-lazyknight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Earlier this year, I accompanied my Mum to her first radiotherapy appointment. Another lady there was hacking up a lung: no mask. Two weeks later, mum's struggling with an infection that's just sapping all her energy. Took two months to get anywhere near her previous capacity.

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MJW @the-lazyknight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(Russel Tovey enters, stage left, with a plucked chicken on a string)

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MJW @the-lazyknight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@garius.bsky.social signal boost pls? Digitising old, fragile tapes is going to be a specialist activity.

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