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Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social · 2d

Yay, late friday, major release. 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
It might be scary if this project had any users 😂
github.com/InfantLab/Vi...

Release VideoAnnotator v1.3.0 - Production Reliability & Critical Fixes · InfantLab/VideoAnnotator

Released: October 31, 2025 🎃 This release addresses critical production blockers identified during client integration testing and establishes a production-ready foundation for JOSS publication. Hig...

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Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social · 3d

Entertaining myself while coding robots do my real work for me. I half wrote a thing and am quite proud of coaxing gpt5 into making this image of Anne Hathaway.
⚠️~40%🤖
onemonkey.org/the-best-wil...

The Best Will in the World? 📜🪶☠️🏆

Testaments as love notes, pranks, institutions — and the occasional drawing‑room mystery. ⚠️ Fair warning - post is ~40% AI slop ⚠️ I wrote my own will recently and afterwards I felt oddly buoyant.....

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 5d

Mein Flakturm hat ein Gartenhut!

Massive flak tower (like, if you need alt text, I am not exaggerating here - the architect clearly had shares in the concrete industry. It. Is. HUGE.) in the middle of Hamburg. On top of it is a tiered garden like a massive foliage hat.

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Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social · 4d

D'oh - I should have said Rider-Waite-Smith in 1st post. 🤦

Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social · 4d

Pro tip: You can see her original lithographs at the Victoria & Albert Storehouse. Who I am happy to say don't erase her.
collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?id_p...

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Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social · 4d

Your annual reminder that the traditional naming of the Rider-Waite tarot deck erases the female artist who did most of the work - Pamela Colman-Smith
www.openculture.com/2025/10/meet...

Meet the Forgotten Female Artist Behind the World’s Most Popular Tarot Deck (1909)

As an exercise draw a composition of fear or sadness, or great sorrow, quite simply, do not bother about details now, but in a few lines tell your story. Then show it to any one of your friends, or fa...

www.openculture.com

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Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social · 5d

Given the season, I don't want to NOT scare you. But ...

Millennials killed serial killing

...and cults!

Courtesy of Adam Mastroianni @mastroianni.bsky.social
www.experimental-history.com/p/the-declin...

graph showing huge decline in number of serial killers per decade.
original source https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-sunday-morning-post-whatever

chart of cult formation by decade showing huge declines since 90s
https://www.secretorum.life/p/the-cult-deficit-analysis-and-speculation-0aa

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Matovilka @matovilka.bsky.social · 5d

You know when Terry Pratchett said 'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works'? Yeah, he meant this.

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Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social · 5d

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Wrong Hands @wronghands.bsky.social · 5d

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Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social · 6d

As a Yorkshireman I can't abide Lancastrians. But 40 extra FREE brews?
By 'eck, I'm conflicted.

A pack of Lancashire Tea... 40 EXTRA FREE BREWS

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 9d

This is still at an early stage, of course, but it shows promise that remotely operated heat pumps could be part of a consumer-friendly, bill-saving service.

Big credit to @nestauk.bsky.social colleagues Max Woollard and Oli Berry, plus the team at OVO for their work on this!

The future of heat

How to drive decarbonisation with innovative tariffs and automated flexibility

www.nesta.org.uk

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Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social · 6d

Some scary stories about #Obsidian PKM for your nerdy #halloween enjoyment
🤓👻🤖
onemonkey.org/the-haunting...

The Haunting of My Second Brain: A field guide to Obsidian's AI ghosts and how to coexist peacefully with them.

My Obsidian vault is haunted. For years, it was a quiet, orderly place—a digital library of my thoughts, projects, and learnings. It wasn't exactly tidy but it was familiar. Over the last year, a new ...

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Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social · 8d

In 18 years living in the wonderful Barrier Block in Brixton, I've had hundreds of letters from estate agents telling me they have clients eager to buy my flat. Not once have they suggested where I should live instead.

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Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social · 17d

It's out!
And it is a thing of disconcerting beauty.
Should be available from all proper book emporiums today. Read and enjoy and spread the word.

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Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social · 19d

Elon Musk says he's not a Nazi. But he is also calling his newest rocket the V2...
arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

SpaceX finally got exactly what it needed from Starship V2

This was the last flight of SpaceX’s second-gen Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year.

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Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social · 20d

Try buying *any* large ticket item online...
- Oh, you've bought a king size mattress/range cooker/robot vacuum? You'll probably want to keep buy 4 a week from now on.. here come the ads.....

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Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social · 20d

When I was a lad watching snooker with my gran, Ray Reardon looked like a complete fossil. (Fossil Dracula, ah-ha-ha!)
Now Mark Williams is older than that and I'm older than Mark Williams.
😭😭😭😭🤯

www.skysports.com/more-sports/...

Mark Williams beats Shaun Murphy in Xi'an Grand Prix final to become oldest ranking event winner in snooker history

Three-time world champion Mark Williams became snookers oldest ranking event winner after beating Shaun Murphy in a one-sided Xian Grand Prix final on Monday; Williams is also the first ever player to...

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Booktasters @booktasters.bsky.social · 21d

I genuinely think footnotes are almost always more fun than endnotes. If I have to flip to the back every time, I just won’t. Let me stay in the moment with the author. But curious to hear if others feel differently?
#Booksky

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Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social · 20d

When I wrote my popsci book The Laughing Baby I avoided both footnotes and endnotes (and parentheses). Asides aren't necessary and mostly serve authors' desire to show off their working. All you need are Harvard style citations ([page], Author, Year).
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Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social · May 26

I think most books don't need endnotes or footnotes. Usually they serve the author far more than the reader. When I wrote The Laughing Baby I avoided both. It was hard work but made a better book.

A Note About Scientific References Throughout the book I try to give credit where credit is due. Science is a collaborative and cumulative exercise. Isaac Newton famously declared in 1675: ‘If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.’ Scientific progress happens through evolution. Revolutions in science rarely throw away what came before ; more likely they refine it. We argue about the details, but we are all working on the same big picture. Only a minority of the research in this book is my own and I rarely give more than a summary. It is important to credit the people who did the work and point out where to find the full, original versions. Popular science books often hide this information in footnotes or endnotes, or omit it entirely. I prefer to use the convention adopted by psychology journals. When referring to a study you give the names of the authors and the year of the publication like this: (Author & Author, year). For example, one early work on happy babies was written by Charles Darwin. ‘A biographical...

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 22d

No sharps

Bread section in Sainsbury’s.

Sorry for any
Inconvenience, we
are unable to slice
bread until further notice.

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Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social · 22d

The worst thing...

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Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social · 23d

Just how did this building suddenly appear opposite Kings Cross? I'd swear it wasn't there last week.
It has lab space for a biomedical company who've pulled out because of regulation changes. No alternative tenants yet.
I love it.

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Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social · 23d

It is always worth reading the biographies of MacArthur fellows. Amazing humans from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines.

www.macfound.org/programs/awa...

MacArthur Fellows - MacArthur Foundation

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to ...

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Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social · 24d

Cory Doctorow has also written about the solar revolution. His essay is substantially longer, substantially angrier and substantially better than mine.
pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/o...

Pluralistic: The enshittification of solar (and how to stop it) (23 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social · 24d

#NobelPrize popular information write ups are always superb examples of #scicomms (as you would hope.)
Hats off to
Science Editors: Peter Brzezinski, Heiner Linke, Olof Ramströmm, Xiaodong Zou
Text: Ann Fernholm
Translation: Clare Barnes
Illustrations: Johan Jarnestad
Editor: Alicia Hegner