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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 1h

Does anyone know what this type of IKEA chair was called, please?

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Jack Greenwood Art @jackgreenwoodart.com · 8h

#stunday

This photo by Jack Greenwood shows an old fortress on an island in Tenby Bay in Wales.
Moody clouds are above a green sea lapping on a golden beach.

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 2h

Good horses and a good dog, Rhossili, 12.10.25

A golden retriever type dog with an overly large stick in its mouth, running on the beach

A white pony with black markings grazing; the sea can be seen behind

A black and white pony grazing on a cliff top; Worms Head - a distinctive rocky promontory - can be seen in the background

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 2h

61 Teresa

Rhossili, 12 October 2025

"61 Teresa" written in the sand on a beach

Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 3h

Definitive proof of the existence of dog

Freya, a small brown and white terrier dog, sitting in a parked car

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 5h

Today I am mostly being a medieval scholastic philosopher

I have a definitive proof of the existence of dog

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 5h

Rhossili skies, 12.10.25

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 1d

Hope you feel better soon - that sounds Not Fun At All

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 1d

Brutal is right, and Mark Rylance brings a fabulous ambiguity to Cromwell

Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 1d

Everything Freya knows most surely about morality and obligations, she owes to blankets

Freya, a small brown and white terrier dog, sitting on a sofa wrapped in a blanket. Sat next to her is me; you can see my trunk, I'm wearing a philosophy football top with an Albert Camus quote on it: "Everything I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football"

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 1d

FFS

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Huge explosions were seen as Israeli air attacks hit a town in south Lebanon, killing at least one person and injuring at least seven others.

The strikes targeted a site that sold excavators and other heavy machinery.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 1d

BBC Model Linear B

A picture of a very old BBC Microcomputer sporting a keyboard with markings in Linear B.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 1d

People think the first thing Gutenberg printed was the Bible. This is false. The first things he printed were a political prophecy, propaganda about the Turks’ threat to Christendom, & a popular school text. If you want a parallel to AI, that’s it: making $ from conspiracies, racism, & school slop.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 2d

really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer

The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

sonjadrimmer.com

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited Rik Pic

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 1d

We're watching the BBC adaptation of Wolf Hall

I'm very struck by the similarities between the amoral, sociopathic, vicious and ruthless Henry VIII and the current president of the USofA

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 1d

It’s only 20 on urban roads; 50, 60 or 70 on motorways and dual carriageways

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 2d

Prolly will

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 2d

Freya does not have a bel and wonders when she's getting her prize

Freya, a small brown and white terrier dog, seen in close up lying on a white fleecy blanket

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 2d

Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 2d

🌌 The expiration date of the universe

A new study suggests dark energy may be slightly different than we thought. If it includes a small negative term, the universe could collapse in a 'big crunch' about 33 billion years from now.

🔗 www.sciencealert.com/physicists-p...

#SciComm 🧪 🔭

Physicists Predict When The Universe Will End in a Reverse Big Bang

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a finite timeline, new calculations suggest.

www.sciencealert.com

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 2d

So, about 33 billion more years, and that's it

Eat, drink and be merry, etc

Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 2d

🌌 The expiration date of the universe

A new study suggests dark energy may be slightly different than we thought. If it includes a small negative term, the universe could collapse in a 'big crunch' about 33 billion years from now.

🔗 www.sciencealert.com/physicists-p...

#SciComm 🧪 🔭

Physicists Predict When The Universe Will End in a Reverse Big Bang

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a finite timeline, new calculations suggest.

www.sciencealert.com

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 2d

A fabulous new #HigherEducationPostcard of @mybcu.bsky.social School of Art, written in French and sent to an address in France, naturellement

Posted at Five Ways post office in Brum on 16 August 1901, and note the Queen Victoria Stamp

Can anyone tell me what the writing says, please?

An old postcard addressed to France, with a red Queen Victoria 1d stamp

An old monochrome picture postcard showing the School of Art in Birmingham, with a message written around the image in hard-to-read French handwriting

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 2d

As any military strategist knows, port cities are always particularly vulnerable to amphibian assault.

Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 2d

’He is not the hero we deserve, but he is the one that we need right now.’

The Portland Frog, a guy in an inflatable frog costume, facing off against ICE troops in riot gear.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 2d

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became grown, I put away childish things. Then when I became a bit more grown, I rebought those same childish things from a vintage reseller and kinda don’t know how to feel about it

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