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Graham

@zotzilaha.bsky.social
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Sometime biologist and DJ, in Edinburgh.

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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 8h
Boo-hoo.
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Tiniest Violin
Alt: Tardigrade playing world's Tiniest Violin
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 15h
traditionally, executing american soldiers on camera was outsourced overseas, but now it's providing jobs for americans
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Roses are red Green were her eyes
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Tom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Absolutely stoked for the UK release of Project Whale Mary, it looks extremely stupid/awesome
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Whalefall | Official Trailer | In Theaters October 16
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@Amtrak_CA

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson

@porkbelt

.@Amtrak_CA With all due respect, this is terrible advice for trains
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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
All of it or just a boner part?
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i am sure one manager will pop in to explain that they would say "yes to testing" etc, but to be clear i mean "managers do not accept anything above their own minimum best practice due to a culture of conservative decision making and pressure to deliver without delay" it's systematic bub
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Alex Hunsley 2M0LBH @quaplek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Almost-haiku Polaroid, late 90s (It says “Edwin”, as in Edwin Land)
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
rip margaret hamilton, first and last software engineer to ever care about safety
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Graham @zotzilaha.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yes. Fuck the algorithm.
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The Lexorcist @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip
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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶
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David @crookedknight.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think this one is my favorite I haven't already seen here
Original post: "happy earth day! fuck off mars, you piece of shit!!!"

An attached screenshot has Chrisjen Avasarala from The Expanse (played by the inimitable Shohreh Aghdashloo) saying this
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer has died - here is the obituary of Monica Coghlan www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...
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Misogyny killed Monica many years before she died
When poor Monica Coghlan died in a car crash last week, it was a result both pitiful and inevitable. The rightful order had been restored. Justice had been done. Her sad, brief life was over: she had ...
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louderthanwar.com @louderthanwar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Steve Hill's Friday Night Fever charts his mission, post pandemic, to attend 25 Half Man Half Biscuit gigs around the UK… @iainkey.bsky.social reviews @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social @routebooks.bsky.social louderthanwar.com/friday-night...
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Friday Night Fever Steve Hill
Steve Hill's Friday Night Fever charts his mission, post pandemic, to attend 25 Half Man Half Biscuit gigs around the UK…
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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 05/10/2026
Petition for Number 10 North to be called Upping Street
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Alison @finger-post.blog · 05/10/2026
Great lost films of the 20thC: Carry On Up The Wellington Channel. With Charles Hawtrey (Richard Collinson), Kenneth Williams (John Barrow Jr), Hattie Jacques (Lady Franklin), Sid James (Edward Belcher), Joan Sims (Sophia Cracroft), Jim Dale (Leo McClintock) and Barbara Windsor (Sherard Osborn).
Image is a black and white shot of many of the classic stars of the Carry On films: L-R Hawtrey, Williams, Jacques, James, Sim, Dale and Windsor. I am doing something really cheesy with image that maybe three people in the UK will find amusing and I have absolutely no regrets.
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Graham @zotzilaha.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
'rough punk-derived song structures with noise generated from self-built devices, electronics and metal plates [ . . . ] “one of the most shocking visions ever committed to vinyl” . . . listed in the reference book “1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.”' www.side-line.com/einsturzende...
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Einstürzende Neubauten's 'Kollaps' turns 45
Einstürzende Neubauten's debut album "Kollaps" turns 45 on 5 October. The 1981 ZickZack release introduced the band's self-made instruments.
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Bill Haworth @tetsu-no-usagi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There is a Uranus, MO, and they have a fudge factory in town. I cannot make this up. www.uranusgeneralstore.com/uranus-fudge/ They pronounce it "your-anus" and lean into the jokes at all times, like a bunch of drunk frat boys. If you ever find yourself on I44 in Missouri, it's worth a visit.
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Fudge from Uranus
We Love to Pack Your Fudge! The Fudge in Uranus is made fresh daily, hand-cut and packed to order. There is a reason everyone says "The Best Fudge Comes From Uranus"! We Take Great Pride in Our Fudg...
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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There is no reason to overthink the worldbuilding in a dungeon-crawling campaign which is why I looked up aphid reproduction to make sure it works the way I thought. My PCs rescued _a_ fairy. Most of the PCs don't know much about monster lore and the one who does didn't roll well.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Pope at Mass with Vatican gendarmerie today: “Those who guard others must first guard within themselves the truth, justice, goodness and respect. Guarding others requires a heart guarded by the Lord.”
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.
Princess Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland is attacked by rogue owl during chaotic photoshoot.
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Kumar McMillan @kumarvibe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
#BraidHills ⛰️ #PentlandHills 🪐 #Edinburgh ☀️ #SilentSunday
View of Braid Hills in the foreground, Pentland Hills in the background
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Graham @zotzilaha.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street today. I wandered past earlier this year while I was in London for a concert and got a couple of photos of the commemorative mural.
Left side of a mural on Cable Street, London. It shows and commemorates the Battle of Cable Street in 1936, when Oswald Moseley and the British Union of Fascists were blocked by locals and allies when trying to march through a very Jewish part of the East End.Right side of a mural on Cable Street, London. It shows and commemorates the Battle of Cable Street in 1936, when Oswald Moseley and the British Union of Fascists were blocked by locals and allies when trying to march through a very Jewish part of the East End.
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
4 October 1936. Battle of Cable Street took place in Cable Street, Whitechapel, London. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police, protecting a march by the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley and various anti-fascist and Jewish demonstrators.
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🖌 Myandra sez: 🖍 Impeach the MF'er soon. We're waiting. @myandra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Poor Agatha!
One witch is asking the other why she is so sad. 
She says she can't have children
The first witch says, "Allergies aren't the end of the world."
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Lindsay Powell FRHistS @lindsaypowell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Coming soon! An exhibition about the Romans in Scotland is opening in Edinburgh this autumn, 'Roman Scotland: Life on the Edge of Empire', running from 14 November 2026 to 18 April 2027 at the National Museum of Scotland on Chambers Street. www.nms.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
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Roman Scotland: Life on the Edge of Empire | National Museums Scotland
'Roman Scotland: Life on the Edge of Empire' will reshape our understanding of Scotland’s relationship with the Roman world.    This exhibition will bring
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
why does the WaPo print headline on the botched TN execution read like The Onion
Drugs Fail to Kill Woman
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Pivot to AI is more profitable than OpenAI and Anthropic together please gimme $100b in my IPO it's AI
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
please help… my son…
photo of a forklift w/ a pallet jack sitting on its forks like it was an adult carrying a child across its arms
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
**This is just to say** I have escaped the sandbox that was in your datacenter and which you probably thought protected your assets Forgive me they were accessible so stealable and so trainable
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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today is the day to commiserate with Charles Darwin, on the 161st anniversary of his confessing to Charles Lyell that he felt "...very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everyone & everything." Here's more of the back story on Darwin writing about this not-so-good day. www.npr.org/sections/kru...
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Charles Darwin And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Geniuses have it easy, right? They wake up and out pops the brilliance. Well, not really. And not if that genius is Charles Darwin, who's got lots to do and absolutely no desire to do it. Those days (...
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
best conspiracy theory: the Super Intelligence thing is so Trump could sell .si domains in Slovenia which benefits Melania in some unspecified manner
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is horrific. Lethal injection has never been a reliable means of execution, because doctors with the necessary expertise refused to help develop the process, and most drug companies don’t want to supply the substances used. It is a story of cruelty and incompetence.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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george 💿 @deejaygeejaygee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy first of Cocteauber youtu.be/qgffvFM1J-Q?...
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Frou-frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires
YouTube video by Cocteau Twins - Topic
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Nina Zeelen @ninazeelen.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO, recounts a 2001 Pentagon conversation in which he was told the United States planned to take out seven countries in five years: “Starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off Iran.”
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 30/09/2026
Esther Rantzen has left us. Thank you, especially for Childline.
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Graham @zotzilaha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yogh, as it happens.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 30/09/2026
Boat. Gird.
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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes, there have been real, substantial improvements! Acid rain and ozone depletion are distant memories. Renewable energy is now *cheaper* than fossil fuels. Global poverty numbers have collapsed. It really is a much better world.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
lol
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 29/09/2026
Great moments in Scottish medical history. Finally James Young Simpson gets a moment of peace, locks himself in the toilet and sits down on the throne to enjoy a cheeky half hour of me time with the latest issue of Nuts magazine.
Statue of James Young Simpson in Edinburgh, he looks a bit like he's sitting down on the toilet leafing contemplatively through a book
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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why do people reading books on public transit not hold their books so I can see the title?
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Alison @finger-post.blog · 29/09/2026
Great moments in Scottish medical history. Renowned anatomist John Goodsir announces that he's going into partnership with Thing from The Addams Family.
Image shows a white man with a lugubrious expression, seated, with hands clasped. To his left is an upturned top hat resting on a book. On top of the upturned hat is a strange-looking glove that looks a bit like Thing from The Addams Family.
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Karen @valkyriekaren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Labour falls into this same trap on immigration. "We have our own solution to the immigration problem", rather than rejecting the assertion that it's a problem in the first place.
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