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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pushing the boundaries of scholarship ...

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Dan Hollingsworth @dhollingsworth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Any fishy fun fans free on Saturday and want to sit with Matt?

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Alison @ampage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What a sentence. What. A. Sentence.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gandalf reaches Hobbiton. The Gaffer laments his new Sackville-Baggins neighbours: ‘I can’t abide changes, not at my time of life…least of all changes for the worst.’ Eventually, the Gaffer does happen to mention that a rider dressed in black arrived the night Frodo left.

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Neil the amatuer tube enthusiast @neiltaffy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Godzuki, Godzuki I wish you were the star.. Godzuki Godzuki you’re friendlier by far…”

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DocHackenBOOOOOsh @dochackenbush.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Godzilla! Godzilla! Beware his fearsome wrath Godzilla! Godzilla! His friend’s a giant moth

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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Matthew Adams @ythos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We're on S5 of For All Mankind. And like all the "science fiction" I like, it doesn't feel like science fiction at all. Character driven bureaucratic spy drama with a splash of those 60s-80s "best damned XYZ in Uttoxeter" boardroom sagas.

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ve read The Last Ringbearer, and written a paper that discusses it. Its treatment of women is slightly worse than the original.

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I had a suit just like Josh Widdecombe’s c. 1994 #scd

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Neil checking out whether he’s on camera 🙄 #scd

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Matthew Adams @ythos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The Battle of the River Plate" starts with V/O suggesting that the great advantage Germany had at the start of the War was that it could feed itself, but Britain relied on its merchant fleet to avoid starvation.

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justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

they're saying the AI can do math and science again, so it's time to reread Thurston's On Proof and Progress in Mathematics, a lovely articulation of the social work of assembling understanding, i.e., the best reason to tackle hard problems. www.ams.org/journals/bul...

When I started as a graduate student at Berkeley, I had trouble imagining
how I could "prove" a new and interesting mathematical theorem. I didn't
really understand what a "proof was.
By going to seminars, reading papers, and talking to other graduate students,
I gradually began to catch on. Within any field, there are certain theorems and
certain techniques that are generally known and generally accepted. When you
write a paper, you refer to these without proof. You look at other papers in the
field, and you see what facts they quote without proof, and what they cite in
their bibliography. You learn from other people some idea of the proofs. Then
you're free to quote the same theorem and cite the same citations. You don't
necessarily have to read the full papers or books that are in your bibliography.
Many of the things that are generally known are things for which there may be
no known written source. As long as people in the field are comfortable that
the idea works, it doesn't need to have a formal written source.

At first I was highly suspicious of this process. I would doubt whether a certain idea was really established. But I found that I could ask people, and they
could produce explanations and proofs, or else refer me to other people or to
written sources that would give explanations and proofs. There were published
theorems that were generally known to be false, or where the proofs were generally known to be incomplete. Mathematical knowledge and understanding were
embedded in the minds and in the social fabric of the community of people
thinking about a particular topic. This knowledge was supported by written
documents, but the written documents were not really primary.

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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This picture looks like a better timeline's version of the House of Lords.

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James Goss @gossjam.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Here's a list of talks for #DoctorWho #TargetBookClub on Saturday October 24th. Tickets bit.ly/smallbluebox

Target Book Club - The Abbey Centre, Westminster Saturday 24th October

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Frodo, Sam, and Pippin finish tea and leave Bag End as the sun sets. ‘It’s going to be a fine night. That’s good for a beginning’, Frodo says. ‘I am going to start, and Gandalf must follow me.’ Behind them, Sam hears the Gaffer send away a cloaked rider who asks for ‘Baggins’.

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Matthew Adams @ythos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In the 1970 TV show "Timeslip" segment "Year of the Burn-Up" Britain in 1990 has become tropically hot with temperatures heading to a dangerous high of...38C.

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Matthew Adams @ythos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

92! There is/was a Call My Bluff on iPlayer with BryanF and NanetteN as guests, for those who might enjoy such a thing.

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just shared Lim’s “Us” with a junior associate, who shared back a vid titled “I Will Go Down With This Ship”. Hang on, something in my eye…

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream.

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Julie Benson @juliebenson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My sister, @shawnabenson.bsky.social who hasn't been using Twitter/X, but hasn't really been using Bluesky either for that matter is back and looking for friends and followers. Go befriend her... no seriously, I need her distracted by others cause she's super bugging me today, uch! ;p

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The thing I find unconvincing about The Father Brown Mysteries is how many Catholics there are seeking the sacrament of confession in rural England.

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was done with this week by 9.12am.

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Karin Robinson @karinjr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have big news! For the last few months I've been working on a secret project. Today I'm revealing all. I'm delighted to announce Visions & Hauntings: Tales of Women Wanting More This collection of my speculative fiction features 13 stories of strong-willed women in worlds that don't work for them

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 01/11/2025

Slow Horses is so cool I wish England was real

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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln. Doctor Who writing partners. Creators of the Brigadier and the Yeti. When the partnership dissolves one becomes a conspiracy theorist who writes an insane book about Jesus’s children and their influence on history. The other becomes script editor on Howard’s Way.

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

How would you describe your social media reach?

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Is anyone else seeing this or is my brain just programmed to refer everything back to lord of the rings somehow?

The new species of wild cat they discovered which is incredibly cute but in this picture looks cross and - perhaps just in my eyes - a bit like Smeagol/Gollum from LOTR

Smeagol/Gollum from LOTR looking cross and - perhaps only in my mind - a bit like the recently discovered new species of wildcat

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Bryan Talbot @bryan-talbot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@eyedotter.bsky.social and Bryan will be at the Newcastle Lit and Phil, giving a presentation on Lo! An Amazon! The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft on Tuesday 29th September - 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. Free entry but please book at www.litandphil.org.uk/event/lo-an-...

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Lo! An Amazon! | Book Launch - The Lit & Phil

Tuesday 29th September | 6 – 7:30pm Book Launch Mary [...]

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A reminder that I and many other authors are doing this tomorrow in Hastings: www.hastingsbookfest.org/events/david...

hastingsbookfest.org

David Quantick | Hastings Book Fest

Local Heroes

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Lee Draws Stuff @leedrawsstuff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Daily Trek Character #35 - Kai Winn Adami "Walk with the Prophets, child. I know I will." Rapture, DS9 S5 #startrek #DeepSpaceNine #DS9 #startrekfanart For my thoughts on this one or to see tomorrow's early head to www.patreon.com/cw/leedrawss...

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Why give me only 1 episode of Slow Horses? What use is that to me?

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tbuktwo67.bsky.social @tbuktwo67.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#DoctorWho Random fake Target covers.

Edit. Doctor Who fake Target cover, Gridlock Russell T Davies.

Edit. Doctor Who fake Target cover, Smile by Frank Cottrell-Boyce.

Edit. Doctor Who fake Target cover, Vincent and The Doctor by Richard Curtis.

Edit. Doctor Who fake Target cover, Tooth and Claw by Russell T Davies.

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When I go on my mid-morning jaunt round to the cake shop, I see this mound of earth (right) and my immediate thought is that I’m looking at the Duke of Wellington’s grave.

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pow, they took off.

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Organization for Transformative Works @transformativeworks.org · 17/09/2026

Cardie-ologist & Henrietta Wotton Fanfics, #StarTrek: Deep Space Nine fanfiction archives, are being imported to #AO3 via #OpenDoors. For more information, please refer to our latest news post: otw-news.org/2p8s33bm

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Holy shit, went to a talk and signing by Mary & Bryan Talbot about their new Mary Wollstonecraft book, and ended up at the front of the signing queue; Bryan Talbot only went and did a sketch of Mary for me!!! 😮😮😮

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just been informed by a close junior associate that New York Times bestselling authors are “two a penny” 😆😆😆 #PoorMum

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