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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 12h

Or: I have invested time in learning about this technology and, having done so, I’ve decided you’re wrong, and I’m going to block you.

Justin Wolfers
@justinwolfers.bsky.social

There are basically only two positions in the debate about Al.
1. I've barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. Al sucks.
2. I've invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it's transformational.
Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.
October 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 21h

Finished reading The Winter Spirits, Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights ~ various authors.

Putting insomnia to good use, catching up with my reading!

#booksky #nowreading #ghoststories

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Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 21h

Post your top 30 favourite songs from the 80s. One song a day for 30 days, in no particular order.
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The Mighty Lemon Drops ~ Like an Angel

youtu.be/49qthO68afQ?...
#80sTop30
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#music

Like An Angel

YouTube video by The Mighty Lemon Drops - Topic

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Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 2d

Post your top 30 favourite songs from the 80s. One song a day for 30 days, in no particular order.
🎶🎸 😊
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Killing Joke ~ Love Like Blood
youtu.be/TnpwuRlXbhk?...

#80sTop30
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#music

Killing Joke - Love Like Blood (Official Video)

YouTube video by KillingJokeVEVO

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Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 3d

Started reading The Winter Spirits, Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights ~ various authors.

I haven't had the energy/desire to read for pleasure for a long time. And so, I just kept collecting books... this one is from my 'to be read' collection to start things off.

#booksky #nowreading #ghoststories

The book cover of The Winter Spirits, Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights. The artwork is in mainly blue tones featuring an old fashioned hanging lamp with lit candle inside, on a wrought iron fancy hook bracket surrounded by stylised holly leaves and red berries with the twelve authors' names on the holly leaves. Snowflakes are scattered throughout the design.

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Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 3d

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. 1 book/day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

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Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime ~ Sean Carroll

#Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky 📚🪐

The cover of Sean Carroll's non-fiction book "Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime" featuring the book's title and subtitle in white against a blue background with a blue dot-created image of two galaxy-like objects, directly above each other and very similar in form, with droplets extending from the middle of each towards each other

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Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 3d

Post your top 30 favourite songs from the 80s. One song a day for 30 days, in no particular order.
🎶🎸 😊
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The Damned - Thanks for the Night

youtu.be/kV1H5mq1K24?...

#80sTop30
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#music

Thanks For The Night

YouTube video by The Damned - Topic

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Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 4d

Post your top 30 favourite songs from the 80s. One song a day for 30 days, in no particular order.
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The Sisters of Mercy
No time to Cry

youtu.be/Q5SOcfUodrU?...

#80sTop30
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#music

The Sisters Of Mercy - No time to cry

YouTube video by Opeth Opet

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 11d

Your reminder that The Green Man's War is a Kindle ebook deal for October. You can get fully caught up with Dan Mackmain's adventures before The Green Man's Holiday is published on 30th October.
www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Mans-W...

Cover art shows a lethal, pale-scaled serpent-dragon or wyrm lurking in woodland. It looks straight at you as its forked tongue flickers between open, sharp-toothed jaws.

Cover copy reads: THE GREEN MAN’S WAR

For a few years now, the Green Man has sent Daniel Mackmain to resolve clashes between ordinary people and the supernatural world. Dan has found allies among folk from myth and met other humans who can see the uncanny.

He has also made dangerous enemies. Someone has decided to put a stop to this interference once and for all.
Dan and his friends are about to find themselves in the firing line.

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Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 11d

It's a really good film, I was genuinely on edge a few times the first time I saw it.

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The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social · 13d

Yes, please encourage people to follow us! We're nice, and we do cool things.

We also have a #cat

#folklore #HistorySky #Skystorians #heritage #library #archive

The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social · 13d

Do you follow @folklorelibrary.bsky.social

We founded this registered charity to save and preserve folklore materials and at-risk heritage.

The charity holds collections of international significance.

Please follow if you don’t and tell your friends if you do 🥰

bit.ly/flafundraising to support

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The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social · 13d

Dido the Archives Cat is being Very Helpful today.

She has decided to take the day off from being a furry trip hazard.

#ArchivesCat #CatsOfBlueSky #cats #folklore #TripHazard

Pictur of a black and white 'tuxedo' cat lying on a black bean bag in such a way as to make her look like she has fewer than the usual feline allocation of feet.

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Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 14d

How does this compare with other western countries, do you know?

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Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 14d

On the upside they may be appalled and offer us extra help as we seem incapable of moving forwards in a positive manner by ourselves.

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Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 16d

Strangely, I haven't seen any of these despite being 18 back then.

Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 16d

Just a few words along the lines of "we have learned from this" blah blah blah ad infinitum.

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Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 16d

They got my vote last time, I couldn't bring myself to vote for Sir Starmer. There's still no other option for me at the moment, I wish they had the media coverage that the far right have.

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Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 16d

So, what happens now? I'm expecting many years of appeals at the very least. Unless, of course, the firm declares it's bankrupt. Will she be removed from the House of Lords?

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Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 16d

When someone has the power, courage & inclination to take on the media, reduce the bias & propaganda we're overwhelmed with, the media start reporting events and facts & stop churning out the agendas of billionaires. When we start to teach critical thinking skills & people crave autonomy & freedom.

Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 16d

When are we going to realise that people from foreign lands are not automatically our enemy… but the likes of Michelle Mone and her husband (and those millionaires and billionaires who are making money out of your misery and at your expense) are!

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Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 16d

My past four dogs, all lived to around 14 years of age and all greatly missed. The males we had from puppies, the females were rescues.

An image combining four of my previous dogs. Top left is Merlin, a seal and white border collie (it's a dark-blue grey coat, not a true black), born 1995. Top right is Pepper, a red brindle long haired mixed breed, born 2002. Bottom left is Spud, a black and white Border Collie, born 2009. Bottom right is Kashka, a sable and white Border Collie, born 2009.

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Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 18d

It's a bit dark to see for me, but some kind of spirit quartz? Possibly amethyst or smoky quartz as it looks a little brownish on my screen.

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Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 20d

Gregore. As in egregore. For some reason gargoyles always make me think of egregores even though that doesn't make a lot of sense. He must be really naughty though, he's chained up!

Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 21d

Saddened to hear this. She was a friend of my Father's at some point in the 1980s. I only met her once but she was warm and friendly. We spoke about cats, I think I was 11 or 12 and cat obsessed!
#patcrowther #patriciacrowther #Wicca #Gardnerian #witchcraft #witchsky #occultsky

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21d

Patricia Crowther, known as UK’s oldest witch, dies aged 97

Wiccan high priestess’s 1970s BBC radio series is credited with helping to popularise modern witchcraft Patricia Crowther, known as the UK’s oldest witch, has died at the age of 97. Crowther was a follower of the Wicca pagan religion, developed by Gerald Gardner, who in the 1940s opened a witchcraft museum on the Isle of Man and is credited with rescuing the practice from obscurity. Continue reading...

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Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 22d

Cosmos. Still doing well as autumn takes hold 🍂
#bloomscrolling #ukgardening #flowerphotography #notpolitics

A photograph of a mauve Cosmos flower with sulphur-yellow centre. The background shows another flower but smaller and less developed than the main one, with their deep green feathery leaves lightly catching a beam of sunlight.

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Tea and Talk with Jill @teaandtalkwithjill.bsky.social · 22d

If you have a little cash to donate...
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Help raise £3000 to support a tiny puppy who came to our rescue with a complex broken leg – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to support a tiny puppy who came to our rescue with a complex broken leg. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

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