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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 1d

Q for the sci-fi fans - what would say are the biggest Malthusian-themed mid-20thc works (e.g. on overpopulation). As non-fan I’d default to Logan’s Run & Soylent Green but sure I’m missing good stuff. Pref film but books OK (both =perfect). 1945-1980. #HistSTM

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 4h

two days til the new Chicks on Speed album!

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 16h

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 20h

I wrote a thing about seasickness 🚢 ⛵ 🚢 🤢 🤮

poheritage.com/story/pitchi...

Pitching and rolling: a short history of seasickness | P&O Heritage

Since Ancient Greece, mariners have known seasickness, but a cure has remained elusive, even to doctors intimately acquainted with life at sea.

poheritage.com

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David Lewis @davidclewis.bsky.social · 21h

Want to see Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? Then you’re a cunt.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 21h

So you want to reduce non white immigration by setting … an exam? In 20 years you’ll be complaining (again) that there are too many Asians.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21h

TIL that the aggro af wasps you see in late summer are worker wasps who have finished their nest tasks and are all out seeking sweet stuff and raising hell for the locals with the last days of their lives while waiting to die, wasps are basically just the insect version of retired Brits in Spain

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 1d

maybe you could use AI to come up with an idea less obviously fucking stupid and pointless than 'Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones'

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 1d

wow I bet designers love you

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 1d

poem about museum, or poem about wasps?

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Michael Leo Owens @milophd.bsky.social · 1d

Black and white picture of Gil Scott-Heron, author/singer of “Whitey On the Moon”

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 1d

Translate says first one is Chinese, 2nd one is Japanese

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 2d

thank you!!! having a slack cinema day in Hampstead

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 2d

thinking of getting into Early Bourgeois Revolutions

Books: Summer of Fire and Blood, The Time of the Harvest has Come

Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 2d

I have only ever been to one javascript conference and it was this one and I didn't understand half of it and it was great.

Sareh @sareh88.bsky.social · 2d

Heya, who else is going to @ffconf.org in Brighton this year? Friday 14th Nov 2025.ffconf.org

ffconf is my annual reminder that there are humans out there in the tech industry who actually care about other humans. Always a pleasure to attend. 😍💛
Hope to meet folks there.

ffconf 🌟 UK web conference since 2009

ffconf - the UK's best JavaScript and Web conference in Brighton.

2025.ffconf.org