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Stephen Cass
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Special Projects Director at @spectrum.ieee.org. Co-author of Hollyweird Science Vol. 1 and 2. Occasional science fiction editor. Maker and Retrocomputician. Feral cat servitor. 5e DM. ADHD. KB1WNR. 65xx. Originally from Dublin.
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January 15, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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Aertel was the bomb: you could e.g. look up arrivals at Dublin airport and see if a visitor's flight was delayed before schlepping all the way out there to pick them up, or get a fresh weather forecast. It's hard to convey how awesome that was to anyone who didn't experience life pre-Internet...
40yearsago.bsky.social 1980/1986 News @40yearsago.bsky.social · 13d
[January 14th, 1986] RTE launched its free teletext service, "Aertel," today with experimental transmissions on both channels until mid-February. The service provides news, weather, financial reports, and sports results. Viewers need a teletext decoder to pick up the Channel 1 service.
January 14, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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I'm not ADHD! I prefer to call myself a stochastic recaller.
benjedwards.com Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 22d
I'm not ADHD! I prefer to call myself an "asynchronous thinker" 😜
January 5, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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What I imagine is happening right now at Netflix's content delivery network's operation center, as the 8pm EST release time for Stranger Things 5 approaches: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwMU...
Aragorn's Battle Speech
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November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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This looks amazing, but if it hasn't been designed so you can visit every exhibit by only making left-hand turns I will be very disappointed.
portlandmercury.com Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · Nov 26
The new Ursula K. Le Guin exhibition at Oregon Contemporary is a sprawling love note to Portland's most far-out visionary.

The exhibition compiles her hand-drawn maps, and features a reproduction of her NW Thurman writing room... plus doodles of cats!!
Oregon Contemporary’s Le Guin Exhibition: Earthsea Maps, Cat Drawings, and a Full-Scale Reproduction of Her Writing Room
A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin isn’t a typical exhibition. Ursula Kroeber Le Guin wasn’t a typical artist. Curated by her son, Theo Downes-Le Guin, the new show installed at Oregon Contemporary i...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Yay! I really enjoyed Stargate, and how it plausibly progressed from small-scale planet-of-the-week adventures to full-up galaxy-scale space opera. True, it didn't hit the kind of TV highs that contemporaneous genre shows like BSG or Lost achieved, but it didn't misfire either, until maybe SGU.
andrewliptak.com Aɴᴅʀᴇᴡ Lɪᴘᴛᴀᴋ @andrewliptak.com · Nov 19
Eeeeeeeee! I was never a huge Star Trek person, but Stargate SG-1 was *my* show. I'm really excited to see that they're not only doing a new series, but that it's apparently not a reboot / reimagining but a continuation.

transfer-orbit.ghost.io/amazon-starg...
November 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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this thing hides posts it judges as ‘rude’, by some US standard. Thereby silencing most of the conversations in Ireland and Scotland, at least.
astridoverthere.bsky.social I said abolish and I fucking meant it @astridoverthere.bsky.social · Nov 6
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.
November 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library

#251 "Backrooms"
A black and white photograph of a deserted office space with a corridor lit by daylight coming in from offices on one side while dark doorways lead off to spaces on the other side.
October 29, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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This has been my earworm for nearly 10 days now, so I'm so so sorry, but now I have to inflict it on you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHsp...
Running up that hill Cover in Early Middle English BARDCORE/MEDIEVAL version. Original by Kate Bush.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Escape From PETSCII Castle Preview
#Commodore64 #C64Gaming #PETSCII #RetroGames #HomebrewC64 #EscapeFromPETSCIICastle

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Escape From PETSCII Castle Preview - The Oasis BBS
Watch Jimo9757’s new PETSCII Castle preview for the Commodore 64, featuring ray casting, blocky foes, and 12 minutes of gameplay.
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October 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Some of you will already know @crowdsupply.bsky.social's @helenleigh.bsky.social from conferences like Teardown and HOPE. I got to interview her about the biggest mistake people make gearing up from project to product: simply not charging enough. spectrum.ieee.org/helen-leigh-...
Crowdsourcing Secrets for Indie Hardware Success
How do indie creators turn prototypes into polished products without breaking the bank? Helen Leigh shares insights on avoiding common pitfalls.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Oh no! I've been running into Greg in his zoot suit or similar every couple of years at HOPE for the last two decades or so, and he was always such a thoughtful presence... RIP
archive.org Internet Archive @archive.org · Oct 22
We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....
Greg Newby
October 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library

#250 "124"
A photograph taken at night of a red door recessed into the stone wall of a building. A single light illuminates the door as cast shadows of the open iron gate and fence in front of the door onto the sidewalk.
October 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library

#249 "Grin"
A black and white photograph of a concrete structure in sunlight. A squat cylinder with a set of of horizontal bars covering half its circumference sits atop a curving, neck-like, support.
October 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library

#248 "Suspension"
A black and white solarized image of a huge arched suspension bridge tower, taken along the axis of the bridge. A grid of steel cablework radiates from the tower, reflecting sunlight, and an American flag waves atop it.
October 16, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library

#247 "Patience"
A black and white photograph taken at night of the head of a stone lion with a voluminous mane. Tree branches and the columns of a neo-classical building can be seen in the background.
October 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library

#246 "Collanade"
A black and white photograph of the trunks of five tall trees standing at the base of a rock-strewn slope rising into the background with shrubs and other trees.
October 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library

#245 "Dissolve"
A black and white photograph of a derelict factory with a single smoke stack sitting by the edge of a canal under bright sunlight on a deserted piece of ground.
October 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library

#244 "Whispers"
A black and white photograph of a long barrel-vaulted room with large windows with panes criss-crossed with metal bars. Shelves of books line the opposite wall, and the room is filled with neatly arranged long tables and chairs, with pairs of reading lights placed on each table.
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library

#243 "Overhead"
A black and white phtotograph of an empty street lined by walls underneath an elevated train line. Pools and gridded rectangles of bright sunlight stand out from the shadows.
October 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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<Laughs hysterically in Irish orthography>
merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Oct 8
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library

#242 "Fully Computerized"
A black and white photograph of a shuttered store on a city street corner. Signs above the shutters read "Captain Video" and "Fully Computerized."
October 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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What's your sign
A triangle with a black border and red background. Inside the border are black symbols with white outlines. A trefoil on the top, representing and warning of radiation. Five lines emanate in an arc towards the bottom of the triangle. On the bottom left, there is a skull and crossbones, signifying death. On the bottom right, there is a running figure, with an arrow pointing right, away from the skull and crossbones.
October 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library

#241 "Carved"
A black and white photograph of a leafless tree with a broad trunk and thick spreading branches. Many initials have been carved into the trunk, running up the height of the frame.
October 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library

#240 "Breezy"
A black and white photograph looking down a building arcade formed from rectangular concrete panels in a brutalist style.
October 3, 2025 at 2:05 AM