Steve Kilbane
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Actually, it’s “WolfPACK Amadeus Mozart.”
December 23, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Actually, it’s “WolfPACK Amadeus Mozart.”
So historical fencers spend a lot of time looking at original treatises
(Too often they announce they’ve “discovered” a new copy, when what they mean is “they read the archive catalog.” But anyway.)
(Too often they announce they’ve “discovered” a new copy, when what they mean is “they read the archive catalog.” But anyway.)
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
So historical fencers spend a lot of time looking at original treatises
(Too often they announce they’ve “discovered” a new copy, when what they mean is “they read the archive catalog.” But anyway.)
(Too often they announce they’ve “discovered” a new copy, when what they mean is “they read the archive catalog.” But anyway.)
I’ll bet there are loads of great stories about UNIT’s Black Archive, but no-one I know has ever visited.
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I’ll bet there are loads of great stories about UNIT’s Black Archive, but no-one I know has ever visited.
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Wait until you hear that LLMs can only train on digitized/datafied info.
Most of the FACTS scholars use are in archives/libraries.
Less than 1% of archival colletions worldwide have been digitized.
Also: lots of facts are not even in archives, but in the attics.
Most of the FACTS scholars use are in archives/libraries.
Less than 1% of archival colletions worldwide have been digitized.
Also: lots of facts are not even in archives, but in the attics.
suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
December 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Wait until you hear that LLMs can only train on digitized/datafied info.
Most of the FACTS scholars use are in archives/libraries.
Less than 1% of archival colletions worldwide have been digitized.
Also: lots of facts are not even in archives, but in the attics.
Most of the FACTS scholars use are in archives/libraries.
Less than 1% of archival colletions worldwide have been digitized.
Also: lots of facts are not even in archives, but in the attics.
INT. CASTLE LABORATORY- NIGHT
Sparks dance up and down towering gothic equipment as lightning flashes outside. Thunder booms.
MAD SCIENTIST: Yes! Yes! Quickly, the final switch, igor!
Cackling manically, a minion slams home a massive circuit breaker labelled “OUT OF OFFICE”!
Sparks dance up and down towering gothic equipment as lightning flashes outside. Thunder booms.
MAD SCIENTIST: Yes! Yes! Quickly, the final switch, igor!
Cackling manically, a minion slams home a massive circuit breaker labelled “OUT OF OFFICE”!
December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
INT. CASTLE LABORATORY- NIGHT
Sparks dance up and down towering gothic equipment as lightning flashes outside. Thunder booms.
MAD SCIENTIST: Yes! Yes! Quickly, the final switch, igor!
Cackling manically, a minion slams home a massive circuit breaker labelled “OUT OF OFFICE”!
Sparks dance up and down towering gothic equipment as lightning flashes outside. Thunder booms.
MAD SCIENTIST: Yes! Yes! Quickly, the final switch, igor!
Cackling manically, a minion slams home a massive circuit breaker labelled “OUT OF OFFICE”!
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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Focaccia for Winter Solstice Kalamata olives, onion, garlic, rosemary, branches, cherry tomatoes, olive oil, sesame seeds, yellow pepper, and Parmesan cheese
December 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Focaccia for Winter Solstice Kalamata olives, onion, garlic, rosemary, branches, cherry tomatoes, olive oil, sesame seeds, yellow pepper, and Parmesan cheese
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Also screw the BBC for its naked agenda. It refused to carry a hugely expensive first ever YouGov survey we commissioned showing how awful trans lives in the UK have become because it was "not strong enough" but there's no piece of anti-trans hatred too petty for it to platform.
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Also screw the BBC for its naked agenda. It refused to carry a hugely expensive first ever YouGov survey we commissioned showing how awful trans lives in the UK have become because it was "not strong enough" but there's no piece of anti-trans hatred too petty for it to platform.
It’s early afternoon on the last Saturday before Christmas, and I’m heading into town to buy presents.
If I don’t return, avenge me.
If I don’t return, avenge me.
December 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
It’s early afternoon on the last Saturday before Christmas, and I’m heading into town to buy presents.
If I don’t return, avenge me.
If I don’t return, avenge me.
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The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.
You'll remember that when Biden delivered an address in 2022, networks refused to air it because they said it was "political" www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...
As Biden warned about democracy’s collapse, TV networks aired reruns
Broadcasters NBC, CBS and ABC usually air presidential prime-time addresses live. But they found Biden's Philadelphia speech more "political" than newsworthy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.
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I wish a single journalist or leader would reach out to me
I have the scientific expertise, lived experience of a trans person, and am literally a science communicator for my career
I'm willing to explain this even though I know it will decrease my personal safety!! bsky.app/profile/jeym...
I have the scientific expertise, lived experience of a trans person, and am literally a science communicator for my career
I'm willing to explain this even though I know it will decrease my personal safety!! bsky.app/profile/jeym...
If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
December 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I wish a single journalist or leader would reach out to me
I have the scientific expertise, lived experience of a trans person, and am literally a science communicator for my career
I'm willing to explain this even though I know it will decrease my personal safety!! bsky.app/profile/jeym...
I have the scientific expertise, lived experience of a trans person, and am literally a science communicator for my career
I'm willing to explain this even though I know it will decrease my personal safety!! bsky.app/profile/jeym...
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Five years too late for me but you can save others!
Finally someone doing the lord's work
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December 19, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Five years too late for me but you can save others!
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5 years on. 18th December 2020. The Downing St Party that eventually led the police to investigate & conclude that Boris Johnson had broken the law
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December 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
5 years on. 18th December 2020. The Downing St Party that eventually led the police to investigate & conclude that Boris Johnson had broken the law
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Also applies to authors, as Oisín mentions downthread.
When the subject of artists’ earnings comes up online, a question that often gets raised is ‘Why don’t you just work together to negotiate better rates?’ or ‘Why don’t you just form a union?’ If you don’t work in the arts or a related industry, this is fair question to ask. 1/
December 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Also applies to authors, as Oisín mentions downthread.
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This is just…jaw dropping.
Literally awesome.
Literally awesome.
Yuletide felicitations! The 1975 Christmas 'Radio TV Times' magazine is now available! 🎁
Explore 10 days of December 1975’s TV listings across both BBC and ITV.
Open the PDF, click on a programme title and start streaming from various platforms. 🤶
visualmutterings.com/1975-christm...
Explore 10 days of December 1975’s TV listings across both BBC and ITV.
Open the PDF, click on a programme title and start streaming from various platforms. 🤶
visualmutterings.com/1975-christm...
1975 Christmas Radio TV Times Magazine
Travel back 50 years into Christmas TV's past. The Christmas Radio TV Times gathers links to TV programmes from Christmas week 1975.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is just…jaw dropping.
Literally awesome.
Literally awesome.
Labour made a big noise before and after the election about how they were going to prosecute PPE fraudsters.
This Labour government is utterly shameless.
This Labour government is utterly shameless.
Frustrating to see Labour Government is following a similar trend to the previous government and delaying/blocking release of information on PPE VIP Lane.
A quick 🧵
A quick 🧵
December 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Labour made a big noise before and after the election about how they were going to prosecute PPE fraudsters.
This Labour government is utterly shameless.
This Labour government is utterly shameless.
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the “you should love ai” line is best outlined by a recent joe rogan episode. he LOVES ai music and always tells guests this. a guest pushed back on him saying “i’ve heard ai podcasts are amazing too” and joe rogan immediately pushes back. losers love it until it comes for them
December 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
the “you should love ai” line is best outlined by a recent joe rogan episode. he LOVES ai music and always tells guests this. a guest pushed back on him saying “i’ve heard ai podcasts are amazing too” and joe rogan immediately pushes back. losers love it until it comes for them
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As more and more creators are expected to be on camera to promote their comics, can we talk for a second about how this opens up female creators to intense harassment about their looks?
Not to mention a lot of "You only have a career in comics because you're good looking" comments?
Not to mention a lot of "You only have a career in comics because you're good looking" comments?
December 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
As more and more creators are expected to be on camera to promote their comics, can we talk for a second about how this opens up female creators to intense harassment about their looks?
Not to mention a lot of "You only have a career in comics because you're good looking" comments?
Not to mention a lot of "You only have a career in comics because you're good looking" comments?
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
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Remember when you censored Judith Butler for calling the gender-critical movement fascist? Or when you ran an editorial both sides-ing gender identity reform? Or when you quoted a transphobic hate group as a neutral source? Or when you basically republished one of their press releases verbatim?
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December 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Remember when you censored Judith Butler for calling the gender-critical movement fascist? Or when you ran an editorial both sides-ing gender identity reform? Or when you quoted a transphobic hate group as a neutral source? Or when you basically republished one of their press releases verbatim?
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
Hey @goodlawproject.bsky.social is there any possibility of going after the BBC over its lack of balance regarding number of appearances? (See also: Greens vs Reform)
Kamal al-Helbawy, the spokesman for the anti-Semitic Muslim Brotherhood, appeared on BBC only one time, in 2011.
Nigel Farage, the anti-Semitic head of Reform UK, has appeared on BBC QT 38 times since then, is a nightly feature on the news, and had his own show on GB News
Who is the bigger danger?
Nigel Farage, the anti-Semitic head of Reform UK, has appeared on BBC QT 38 times since then, is a nightly feature on the news, and had his own show on GB News
Who is the bigger danger?
December 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Hey @goodlawproject.bsky.social is there any possibility of going after the BBC over its lack of balance regarding number of appearances? (See also: Greens vs Reform)
It happened in Trump 1 too. Just about every appointment to head a dept was a person who’d been vocal that such a department should not exist.
There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
December 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
It happened in Trump 1 too. Just about every appointment to head a dept was a person who’d been vocal that such a department should not exist.
Communion wafers but they’re After Eights.
December 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Communion wafers but they’re After Eights.
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It continues to tell you everything you need to know about British politics and media that the only person who has ever had to apologise for Nigel Farage's long history of inflammatory and racist comments, is a journalist who accurately reported them as such
December 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
It continues to tell you everything you need to know about British politics and media that the only person who has ever had to apologise for Nigel Farage's long history of inflammatory and racist comments, is a journalist who accurately reported them as such