Kelvyn Taylor
@vibroseis.bsky.social
Ex-seismic layabout. Former editor of Personal Computer World magazine (UK). Copywriter, guitarist, grandad. Coach parties welcome.
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Kelvyn Taylor
@vibroseis.bsky.social
· Nov 15
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Yep, I'm new here. Don't have a lot to offer except some gentle guitar music, if you like that kind of thing.
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Well, Miller's certainly recreating the horrors that made his great-grandparents flee their homeland
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Well, Miller's certainly recreating the horrors that made his great-grandparents flee their homeland
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
The River Thames at Runnymede, December 23, 2019
📷me
📷me
November 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The River Thames at Runnymede, December 23, 2019
📷me
📷me
You can control my hob via an app, as long as you're within touching distance of it. Welcome to the future!
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
You can control my hob via an app, as long as you're within touching distance of it. Welcome to the future!
Also back in the day!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=okWN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=okWN...
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Also back in the day!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=okWN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=okWN...
There's also currently a 50% off promo code FIFTY until 30th November. Bargain!
It's time to be thinking about Christmas presents, and what could be a finer gift than the set of beautiful books Quarto Press has created with me? First, and most recently, this illustrated history of alchemy.
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Alchemy - Yale University Press London
Flush with hundreds of illustrations, this book revisits the histories of chemistry, medicine, ideas, and culture through the lens of alchemy “Ph...
yalebooks.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
There's also currently a 50% off promo code FIFTY until 30th November. Bargain!
Trilobite!
500-Million-Year-Old Trilobite Fossils With Soft Tissues So Intact, They're Blowing Paleontologists' Minds
dailygalaxy.com/2025/11/500-...
FYI - @johnmoffitt.bsky.social
dailygalaxy.com/2025/11/500-...
FYI - @johnmoffitt.bsky.social
500-Million-Year-Old Trilobite Fossils With Soft Tissues So Intact, They're Blowing Paleontologists' Minds
A prehistoric discovery in Morocco is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about Earth’s most iconic sea creature. Hidden beneath volcanic ash for over 500 million years, these fossils reveal ...
dailygalaxy.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Trilobite!
Such an evocative image
On this day in 1922 archaeologist Howard Carter entered the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Tut tomb, unbroken seal, 1922
Photo by Harry Burton
Knotted cord accompanied by a clay seal featuring Anubis, the ancient Egyptians’ jackal god entrusted w/ the protection of the cemetery. ~ Rare Historical Photos
Tut tomb, unbroken seal, 1922
Photo by Harry Burton
Knotted cord accompanied by a clay seal featuring Anubis, the ancient Egyptians’ jackal god entrusted w/ the protection of the cemetery. ~ Rare Historical Photos
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Such an evocative image
It's nearly time for us Brits to sit and wonder at the alien culture of Thanksgiving
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It's nearly time for us Brits to sit and wonder at the alien culture of Thanksgiving
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My usual experiment to find out how bad LLMs are at technical instructions (wiring a UK plug) as applied to grok. It's just as bad as any other LLM out there:
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
My usual experiment to find out how bad LLMs are at technical instructions (wiring a UK plug) as applied to grok. It's just as bad as any other LLM out there:
So all those folks whose company just went through complicated arrangements to move to a salary sacrifice pension scheme are gonna be happy
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
So all those folks whose company just went through complicated arrangements to move to a salary sacrifice pension scheme are gonna be happy
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I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts).
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.
Am I allowed to laugh loudly?
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Am I allowed to laugh loudly?
Certainly hope it's worth it - the Time Team hype machine is already rolling
archaeologyorkney.com/2025/11/25/t...
archaeologyorkney.com/2025/11/25/t...
Link: Time Team dig plans at Ness of Brodgar confirmed for 2026 - Archaeology Orkney
A small team of diggers will return to the Ness of Brodgar in 2026, following a major programme of geophysical survey across the site.
archaeologyorkney.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Certainly hope it's worth it - the Time Team hype machine is already rolling
archaeologyorkney.com/2025/11/25/t...
archaeologyorkney.com/2025/11/25/t...
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
Guess I got lucky!
Guess I got lucky!
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
Guess I got lucky!
Guess I got lucky!
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In stead of sending a link to old threads every time someone uses the term "Dark Ages", I decided to put it all in an article.
Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”.
Read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/25/w...
or:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/why-most-h...
Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”.
Read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/25/w...
or:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/why-most-h...
Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”
This is not YET another article on why calling the early middle ages the dark ages is iffy, it’s a list of sources & references. These days most historians no longer use the term “D…
fakehistoryhunter.net
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
In stead of sending a link to old threads every time someone uses the term "Dark Ages", I decided to put it all in an article.
Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”.
Read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/25/w...
or:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/why-most-h...
Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”.
Read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/25/w...
or:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/why-most-h...
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The good news: the president has pardoned the turkey.
The bad news: two hours later the turkey was arrested for running a ponzi scheme and committing acts of gross sexual imposition.
The bad news: two hours later the turkey was arrested for running a ponzi scheme and committing acts of gross sexual imposition.
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The good news: the president has pardoned the turkey.
The bad news: two hours later the turkey was arrested for running a ponzi scheme and committing acts of gross sexual imposition.
The bad news: two hours later the turkey was arrested for running a ponzi scheme and committing acts of gross sexual imposition.
Looked a bit into my ancestry, but sadly it's farm labourers all the way down. Until we get to Charlemagne, of course.
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Looked a bit into my ancestry, but sadly it's farm labourers all the way down. Until we get to Charlemagne, of course.
Pathetic, and especially so for this lecture series
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Pathetic, and especially so for this lecture series
Part of my early 2000s daily soundtrack
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youtu.be/vv5m0UGRTQ4?...
Daylight (Edit)
YouTube video by Delerium - Topic
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November 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Part of my early 2000s daily soundtrack
youtu.be/vv5m0UGRTQ4?...
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Fascinating!
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Fascinating!
It was my primary school music teacher, Miss Galtry, who encouraged me to learn music. For some reason she liked the way I played the descant recorder and loaned me an expensive wooden one in lieu of the standard-issue Bakelite. It made such an impression on me. Thank you, ma'am.
November 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
It was my primary school music teacher, Miss Galtry, who encouraged me to learn music. For some reason she liked the way I played the descant recorder and loaned me an expensive wooden one in lieu of the standard-issue Bakelite. It made such an impression on me. Thank you, ma'am.
This was one of the first books I read about paleoanthropology, and although dated it does seem to have many prescient ideas, particularly about multiple waves of Out of Africa migrations, and the role of non-stone materials.
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
This was one of the first books I read about paleoanthropology, and although dated it does seem to have many prescient ideas, particularly about multiple waves of Out of Africa migrations, and the role of non-stone materials.