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Dr Francis Osis

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Tweets about heritage, textile crafts, F1, dogs & nice walks. Makes motorsports art stuff at RaceCraft. Glasgow based. #ActuallyAutistic 🖖🌈🏳️‍⚧️ he/him https://racecraftembroidery.etsy.com

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Dr Francis Osis @fosis.bsky.social · Nov 10

Intro post time!

Hi, I'm Francis 👋 I work in the museums & archive service in West Lothian Council, and I'm just about to start my archives masters at Dundee. I have a PhD in history of medicine too!

I also create textile & fibre based art. I make clothes, quilts, and embroideries.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

"Last year the Byline Times published an embarrassing story about Conservative party councillors pretending to be ordinary folk during a televised election campaign event. A year later, Bienkov is suddenly off the invite list."

www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/10/free...

Free speech tested at party conferences - Index on Censorship

Political parties in the UK must allow critical voices in

www.indexoncensorship.org

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 1d

We've got some fantastic nature news to brighten your day 🎉

Wicken Fen has become the first UK nature reserve to record an incredible 10,000 species. A moth that imitates a wasp was the 10,000th species to be recorded. This work is possible thanks to a major grant from The Nature Recovery Project.

A close-up of a glow-worm with a black plated body and a bright green glowing tail clinging to a stem of grass in the dark

A dark grey moth with bright beige splodges on its wings. It sits of a bright green leaf against a black background

A small brown bird with a cream chest and darker brown tail feathers perches on a reed against a background of blurred brown and green reeds

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 2d

"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line".
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

www.theguardian.com

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Gavadon @gavadon.bsky.social · 5d

Homer saying " whenever horners not on screen all the other characters should be asking " wheres christian?"

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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 5d

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 6d

Those who teach and research Sir Gawain and the Green Knight will be interested in this fantastic research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem. They're also looking for contributors, so do get in contact with @michaeledenart.bsky.social! 👇

Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (circa 1370). Illu...

www.representing-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight.com

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 6d

Feels a bit early in the day to be posting this, but if I'm spending the morning with 18th-century sex therapist & supposed 'Prince of the Quacks' Dr James Graham then so can you 🍆

Detail from an 18th-century print depicting bewigged James Graham riding astride a large phallic instrument labelled 'Largest in the World' as a little duck says 'quack quack quack' at his feet

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 7d

Judgement at Nuremberg - David Low's cartoon in the Evening Standard #OnThisDay 1946

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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · Feb 5

Oh no! We forgot to learn from history

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 8d

The AI companies really want the public to forget that they cannot exist without stealing the efforts of actual creators and the public should always reminded

Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 8d

SAG-AFTRA has released a statement on Tilly Norwood, the AI "performer," saying:

“To be clear, 'Tilly Norwood' is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers — without permission or compensation."

SAG-AFTRA Statement on Synthetic Performer

LOS ANGELES (Sept. 30, 2025) — SAG-AFTRA has released the following statement on the announcement of “Tilly Norwood,” an A.I.-generated “actor” that is reportedly seeking representation:

“SAG-AFTRA believes creativity is, and should remain, human-centered. The union is opposed to the replacement of human performers by synthetics.

“To be clear, “Tilly Norwood” is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers — without permission or compensation. It has no life experience to draw from, no emotion and, from what we’ve seen, audiences aren’t interested in watching computer-generated content untethered from the human experience. It doesn’t solve any “problem” — it creates the problem of using stolen performances to put actors out of work, jeopardizing performer livelihoods and devaluing human artistry.

“Additionally, signatory producers should be aware that they may not use synthetic performers without complying with our contractual obligations, which generally require notice and bargaining whenever a synthetic performer is going to be used.”

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Dr Francis Osis @fosis.bsky.social · 8d

"Cutting the half-time orange" is a euphemism for a sex position and you can't convince me otherwise

TerrorLeopard🎃 @terryleopard.bsky.social · 8d

I don't think I've done any of these things.

When is my deportation date?

A pic from the labour party X account

Painting a fence, running the raffle, cutting the half time orange or even just that gentle knock on the door which checks your neighbour is alright. That's real Britain.

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 8d

Public Collectors publication #105 combines almost a year of my Bluesky posts about self-publishing, some messy studio photos, and the text from Why Self-Publish Under Fascism? This just came back from the printer and is available to order. Just $6.00 + shipping halfletterpress.com/PCpublic-pub....

Back cover:

After many years on other social media platforms, in October 2024 I decided to see what Bluesky is all about. People described it as like Twitter without the nazis, and I liked the lack of advertising and algorhythmic excess. I enjoy telling stories and do this a lot elsewhere online but was cool with the 300-character limit and found it helpful for condensing my writing into tight chunks of thought. If I needed more space, I could always say more in the replies, but mostly I tried to see what I could say with a single post.

I began writing about my self-publishing practice and quickly found a different and far more diverse audience than I have on other platforms. This booklet is a diary created through posts from near the beginning of my time on Bluesky until mid-September, 2025—almost a year.

2024-2025 has been a prolific time of making new publications for me, and some of those publications—particularly my text Why Self-Publish Under Fascism?—attracted many readers and new social media followers. That booklet was initially published on May 1, 2025. It came out of an invitation from Mariame Kaba to participate in a panel discussion titled: Why Make Zines in 2025: Information Control Under Fascism at the space Walls Turned Sideways in Chicago. I workshopped some of the text in a thread Mariame started on Bluesky. After making over 1,750 copies of that booklet by hand (I still might make more that way), I decided to fold that text into this publication since the diary content comes from a similar place of thinking and making. I’ve also added photos of my messy studio taken in September 2025, which became messier through printing, initialling, rubber stamping, and clipping the corners of so many copies of that popular booklet.

I love when a book or zine inspires me to make more of my own publications and I hope this little collection of short thoughts will motivate others to publish new things in their own way.

Marc Fischer / Public Collectors

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Dr Francis Osis @fosis.bsky.social · 10d

My two pop culture associations for the Holy Roman Empire are as a faction in video games (like Crusader Kings, Civ, Age of Empires) and Christopher Lee's metal concept album about Charlemagne 😅

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 11d

Your quick reminder that we're on the lookout for articles to put in the winter issue of our bi-annual journal, deadline's October 4th! We're on the 'watching them watching us' brief this time, so looking at surveillance both by them and us, power grabs against civil liberties, and all that jazz ...

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 19d

In the old days, you'd occasionally run into somebody totally normal who had one utterly insane belief, like a co-worker who just causally says he thinks the sun is alive. Social media is like if we extracted all of those individual bits of madness, cooked them into a stew and ate it for every meal.

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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 19d

Our CILIP LGBTQ+ Network seeks a new Chair. You'll act as a leading officer & inform the decisions made to raise awareness & advise Library, Knowledge & Information workers in UK on LGBTQ+ subjects. Role open to those who identify as LGBTQ+ or Queer. informationprofessionaljobs.com/jobs/chair-u...

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Queer Heritage and Collections Network @queerhcn.org · 20d

📢 Upcoming event from The National Archives
📅 Tuesday 23 Sept, 13:00 (UK time)

Queer places: Feelings, emotions & ways of rebuilding intangible heritage 🌈

With Luke Fawcett (Queer Places), Vicky Iglikowski-Broad & Giorgia Tolfo (TNA).

🔗 Sign up via The National Archives website 👇🏻

Banner image:
Research Routes - Queer Places: Feeling, emotions and ways of rebuilding intangible heritage

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 25d

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

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Dr Francis Osis @fosis.bsky.social · 25d

I had two weeks off my day job that I badly needed to rest and recover, but ended up having to catch up on so much other stuff that I've ended up working more over them than on a normal week and now I am exhausted and dreading going back to work 🥲

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 27d

Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered.

And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 27d

Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.

I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.