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Adam Proctor / Fortsunlight
@fortsunlight.bsky.social
Award winning motion designer & videographer based in Fife, Scotland.
Previous - creative lead at BBC multimedia unit. #SciComm
www.fortsunlight.co.uk/work
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If you like motion design or curious tales about mysterious noises, deep time, dark matter and other scientific curiosities do have a look at my wee website.
If you need any moving image production do get in touch for a chat - fortsunlight.co.uk/work
This is beautiful! A listener calls the wrong radio station and Iain Lee turns it into a 'Knightmare' style choose your own adventure.
You'll never find a radio presenter as inventive and original as @iainlee.com (ably assisted by @katherineboyle.bsky.social )
youtu.be/1jQ5DvlZVBw?...
Iain Lee – Monday 16th April 2018
YouTube video by iain Lee Vault
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December 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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The Covid Inquiry finds that if Boris Johnson had called the first lockdown even one week earlier then it could have saved at least 20,000 lives.

Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Let’s go!!!!!
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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If you're stuck for a film this Halloween, Hammer's YouTube channel will be live streaming their 4K restoration of Quatermass 2 this evening.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOdy...
Quatermass 2 Halloween 4K Screening + Nigel Kneale Documentary
YouTube video by Hammer
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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A favourite variation was one I contrived for @thefence.bsky.social in 2020, re: Jeff Bezos' then wealth of $177bn.

"Iago first said 'Put money in thy purse’ at the premiere of Othello on Nov 1st 1604. You'd only need to put $1.1 million in said purse every single day since to match Bezos’ total".
Given the Mamdani discourse, I wrote a bit about billionaires. If you were given $100 a day and aimed to have as much wealth as the world’s billionaires, you’d have had to have started about when animals first developed the ability to breathe oxygen.
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July 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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At the moment, I'm particularly looking for *scientists* interested in writing for @aeon.co. Is that you? I have recently commissioned essays on geology, oceans, cosmology, astronomy, Antarctica, the brain, computer science, quantum and more. aeon.co/science
Science — Latest | Aeon
Science Essays from Aeon. World-leading scientists and science writers explore topics from theories of evolution to theories of consciousness, quantum physics to deep time, chemistry to cosmology.
aeon.co
June 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Some 100 private jets will fly to Venice for Jeff Bezos' wedding, and I recycle yoghurt cup lids.
June 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...
FIFA drops anti-racism, anti-discrimination messages for Club World Cup
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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And politically stupid, too. Alienates core vote (& they do have places to go) in pursuit of votes he'll rarely get, & demolishes his core policy agenda of growth, making his re-election more unlikely. Even those (inc. me) willing to cut him a lot of slack feel betrayed. A truly awful day for UK.
May 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Heading home from Glasgow after seeing the wonderful Tindersticks at the Pavillion Theatre.
Accompanied by strings and horns it was a special night and my first time seeing them since I stumbled across them 30yrs ago.
March 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I'm trying to stay hopeful, but we’re stumbling closer to the edge at the mercy of small men...
"This is the tragedy that Donald Trump has wrought: the world will rearm, defence stocks will soar. Perhaps we’ll find a new balance; if not, there will be war."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump dreams of a Maga empire – but he’s more likely to leave us a nuclear hellscape | Alexander Hurst
The US president’s new imperialism could make real the apocalyptic world depicted by cold war filmmakers
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Did you hear the story of a father who had an affair with his step son, that ended in a grisly murder?

No? It’s had millions of views on a true crime YouTube channel but, curiously, it got absolutely no press coverage at the time. People were asking the local paper why they hadn’t covered it…
March 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We had to say farewell to this good old girl this week. Kea rescued us when she was maybe 1 or 2yrs and we had a wonderful 14 years with her. Just about broken into a million pieces by losing her.
February 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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I have an essay in the estimable @emergencemagazine.bsky.social about how we harmonise our lives with nature's rhythms, even as they fall out of synchrony. It's part of a chapter in Nature's Genius, out in May! @canongate.co.uk
Examining the shifting “wild clocks” of spruce saplings in Norway’s Future Library, Sami reindeer herds in Scandinavia, and oyster colonies in Scotland’s Firth of Forth, David Farrier seeks ways to renew the rhythms by which we live. Read this week's essay, “Wild Clocks.” https://buff.ly/4aqhxdF
January 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I worked on a cruise ship in my mid-20s.
Kelly, the trumpeter, and I traded beers with kitchen staff at midnight, taking cookies to 'metal beach' atop the boat. There, we'd watch stars while lightning danced on the horizon.
Watching ships now I can't help wonder where that path might have taken me.
January 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Absolutely loved this, @richardfisher.bsky.social
Marcia brings the incredible journeys of these rocks and minerals to life with such vivid detail.
It’s like a geological action movie unfolding over millions of years beneath our feet.
It was a pleasure to work with the geologist Marcia Bjornerud on this lovely essay about metamorphic rocks: the "emissaries from the deep". From Timefulness to her more recent book Turning to Stone, Marcia's work has so often inspired me over the years #geology #geoscientists aeon.co/essays/metam...
Metamorphic rocks go on deep journeys we never can | Aeon Essays
Metamorphic rocks are our emissaries from the deep, travelling to alien realms and revealing the restless nature of Earth
aeon.co
January 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
If you like motion design or curious tales about mysterious noises, deep time, dark matter and other scientific curiosities do have a look at my wee website.
If you need any moving image production do get in touch for a chat - fortsunlight.co.uk/work
January 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I finally made the move from that other place.
If you need any Motion Design work just give me a nudge.
January 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM