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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 1h

It's not even 4am and I've been wake for ages. What bullshit is this?

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 13h

Fascinating world of ancient #glass! #Roman dove-shaped vessels were used as perfume bottles. The liquid was sealed inside and the tip of the tail or the beak had to be broken to remove the perfume. This particular example, discovered in a first-century burial at Rovasenda, Italy, is...🧵1/2 🏺

A close-up of an undamaged, translucent glass vessel shaped like a dove. The vessel contains a clear liquid with a reddish sediment visible at the bottom.

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, but genocide was more important. I do winder if the GWOT stuff puckled many Americans' brains, or if they were already and I was just too young to know about it.

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 6h

The aesthetics for Apocrypha are wonderfully creepy. Shifting spaces, books as tentacles and teeth...the urge to carry out all the books...

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 7h

Little bit of painting today - got the Necromunda ammo case and tsrantulas painted, plus undercoat for a Valkyrie. It's all for the W&G rpg...

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 7h

I got into rpgs the usual way for my generation: Space Crusade/Heroquest > an RPG (in this case, ALIENS/Runequest) and having to learn to run then because there was no-one else

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 8h

The post-war "peace dividend" owed its existence to three factors: industrial capacity, political freedom and pent-up demand.

The Earth from space; it is covered in scaffolding that is crawling with little rude mechanicals ganked from 17th century engravings of people operating machines.

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Shannon Appelcline @shannonappelcline.bsky.social · 15h

Best Humble Bundle or Best Humble Bundle ever? Gene Wolfe was one of speculative fiction's best writers, with The Book of the New Sun being a masterpiece, closely followed by The Book of the Short Sun, The Fifth Head of Cerberus, and others. Give him a shot for just $20 for most of his novels.

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Humble Book Bundle: The Ultimate Gene Wolfe Library by Tor Books

Get a massive library of the best of sci-fi and fantasy master Gene Wolfe! Choose what you pay, and support Alzheimer’s Research UK with your purchase!

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Jack Norris @jackno.bsky.social · 19h

Here's my tribute to the dudes angry the new Gears of War has pride and other inclusive logos for their multiplayer... (Had to screenshot as the character limit got in the way)

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 19h

And yet, society relies so heavily on charity and unpaid labour, from caring for family members, to social clubs/guilds/modders etc.

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Jeff Nascimento @jnascim.info · 02/10/2026

“So instead of being fed up, discouraged, believing in no one, why don't you get into politics? Instead of protesting, get into politics. Because the good person you want me to be might be you” — Lula’s advice for youth 👊

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Folk 'n' Hell @folknhell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Viy is an absolute feast for the senses. This and Valerie and Her Week of Wonders did 50 years ago what November does so well now. That feeling of stumbling into some strange old folk nightmare

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Whilst we are on the subject: Funeral Cakes were a tradition especially common in the Yorkshire Dales, that can trace their origins to the Arval bread of the Vikings. These delicacies are reminiscent of shortcake biscuits, adorned with caraway seeds, and elegantly enveloped in

A funeral cake marker - these cake markers were locally made hand carved wooden stamps used to decorate funeral cakes. Possibly made by each family for their own use in the late 19th Century Image: © Dales Countryside Museum

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🧵Back to Ryedale Museum and my favourite exhibit mainly because it tells a wonderful story of community. It is, the Farndale hearse. Victorian funerals were taken very seriously and a certain level of ceremony was expected. In some ways they were the equivalent of a present day wedding. These

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

165 years ago TODAY, Charles Darwin had a normal one. "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them worse than everything…" I think about this letter a lot.

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To Charles Lyell 1 October [1861] | Darwin Correspondence Project

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What's your favorite episode of a television show? B5, the one where the media cuts up what people say to achieve an agenda. Because it's relevant. (Like yes, it's a genuinely needed things at times to push through the essence of what's going on in a line, but also it's also used in bad faith.)

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

I died

A tweet:

Therapist: What's wrong?
Me: If I do the Borat voice once more, I'll be getting a divorce
Therapist: And who told you that?
Me: *tearfully clears throat*

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 02/10/2026

"Sheryl, why do you focus on the US and Israel so much? Do you hate Western civilization?" I was born in a country built on stolen land with the forced stolen labor of enslaved people. Therefore, I will talk about how evil it is to steal land and enslave people and how we must make that right.

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Shit, Cronos is dead and kinda young too. I'm guessing people will be cranking up Back Metal, Countess Bathory or something, but I am going to play Teacher's Pet, their most Geordie of songs. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Conrad 'Cronos' Lant, Singer and Bassist of Black Metal Pioneers Venom, Dead at 63

Conrad "Cronos" Lant, bassist and lead singer of the black metal pioneers Venom, has died at the age of 63.

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Actually, I want to say more. There are a few ES hacks - the two I know of are the Unofficial rpg (UESRPG), a DnD derived one (blech) and Edge of Tamriel for GeneSys. EoT has a lovely charsheet, some nice mechanics, but lacks a bunch of stuff. URSRPG is one I tried right before Covid (2e) and I

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

animals will roll over and expose their most sensitive organs to you because they love and trust you. that’s what it means when your dog or cat flops over. its not just cute. its the ultimate statement of faith in you, a mysterious giant with godlike power over their lives

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well, my plan to run The Elder Scrolls as an intermission from the main campaign has failed... It's a whole campaign in itself and still going.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Your favorite Disney Prince (wrong answers only)

ND-4 from Star Wars Outlaws.

A reprogrammed commando droid who wears a big coat.

Here trapping to Kay Vess, who has her back to the camera.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There’s going to a lot of stories like this in the coming years.

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bough the Mrs Baldur's Gate for her birthday. She has no idea, In going to install it on the day and leave the PS on so when she sits down to play... She will never see it coming

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Imperial Dating System @imperialdating.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Imperial Date is: 0 752 026.M3 ++ THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: There is no time for Peace. No respite. No forgiveness. There is only WAR! ++ By the old Holy Terran dates (UTC) it is 'Thursday'

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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

somebody infiltrated that little squirrel freak zei's discord and apparently she loves doing phrenology on Jews. Huge surprise. Had forgotten about her, last I heard she was calling for the genocide of Kurds

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zei squirrel is a bigot (@ZRhazes) on X

remember she claim's to be on the left.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Eelp, no morning bike ride for me. Its absolutely storming it down.

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Saw this coming. The Anne Rice game was a hint.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

swearing aside, the strategy of just making the right stand by the things they say to each other seems pretty good. that was the secret sauce behind the "weird" messaging way back when (that they abandoned for whatever reason)

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Look, both sides of the US divide have been aiding and abetting genocide, they've been showing up what they are for longer than that as well.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s pretty nuts. Tom Watson’s very first intervention in his new job at spytech firm Palantir is to write a letter to his former colleague @labourlewis.bsky.social detailing all the times the firm has monitored his anti-Palantir activities

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

Jeanette Voerman. (An incredibly early 2000s character, a Malkavian in schoolgorl outfit and pigtails, tits as out as they can be and still technically 'in')

She fucks Nosferatu.

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well, if it isn't a tacit admission this could have been done nearly a decade ago. Still, the centrist got it right on Israel- oh, wait, no, they landed on the wrong side of genocide there too.

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That Burnham speech is broadly interesting, but a two state solution four Palestine? That's been dead for decades, the genociders won't have that. And an AI state? Might as well bave an etch-a-sketch state.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thought for the day (riffing off discourse elsewhere on BSky): AI isn't real. But p-Zombies are real, and LLMs are machines for turning people who outsource their cognitive functioning to "AI" into p-Zombies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical…

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just the cuntiest of people. Take your weird nonsense and piss off.

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember when they came in to supermarkets in the UK. Lots of talk about sheep shearing themselves. I like not having to interact with anyone, but yeah, my labour should not be taken for granted.

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The Ferret @theferret.scot · 29/09/2026

NEW: Audit firm PwC is examining whether the University of Dundee has too much cash to be eligible for £27m in taxpayer bailout funding. The university had £85m in cash at the end of June, we understand. Read the full story 👉 bit.ly/4iSUO0a

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's too hot outside. I'm dead after just a short walk.

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The tories famously has more dead members than live ones, while Labour is the vehicle for weird freaks and their freaky obsessions. This is the Western democracy they talk about?

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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

players hate being surprised by negative things but they also love choosing negative things on purpose to gain something.

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