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kzzprr.bsky.social
Caspar Addyman
@kzzprr.bsky.social
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Writer, technologist & infantologist creating ethical AI for families. Author of The Laughing Baby (pop sci), Babies Laugh™ (for babies) & Help Yourself (novel)
Reading: Mainly #scifi
Sanity: Running, tai chi & Zen
https://playtandem.com
https://babies.lol
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kzzprr.bsky.social
Last Christmas, I managed to win at #Whamaggedon.
This year (to save me from tears) I started advent listening to this..
open.spotify.com/playlist/6uv...
Last Christmas Covers
open.spotify.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
kzzprr.bsky.social
Math... not even ever!
November 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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viktorwinetrout.bsky.social
He is risen
The Pillsbury Dough Boy float at the Macy's Parade
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
kzzprr.bsky.social
Jakarta is now MegaCity #1
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
A portrait-oriented comic book cover titled "2025 AD Sci-Fi Special". The central figure is Hakim Jaya, an Indonesian reimagining of Judge Dredd, standing in a dynamic pose. He wears dark tactical armor with subtle batik textures, a sarong sash, and a helmet featuring a golden Garuda crest and a reflective visor. One shoulder pad is shaped like a red Ondel-ondel mask, the other like layered clay roof tiles. He wields a high-tech pistol projecting blue holographic text and a baton carved like a gavel. The background is a dense, rain-slicked cyberpunk Jakarta ("Mega-Jakarta") with elevated MRT trains, neon signs, and congested traffic. Large text on the cover reads "HAKIM JAYA".
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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oispooky.bsky.social
"Boxing's for everyone... She's a pioneer." 💪

The one and only time I MC-d a wrestling show (badly), I had the privilege of introducing Nor 'Phoenix' Diana from Malaysia, believed to be the first hijab-wearing pro-wrestler! Legends, all.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing...
Boxing: Zeina Nassar, the hijab-wearing boxer who makes her pro debut in Pakistan
How Germany's Zeina Nassar - who makes her pro debut on Wednesday - rewrote boxing's rules about fighting in a hijab.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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hex.ooo
three photos of signboards advertising local newspapers (Chichester Observer, Hereford Times, and News & Star) with the day's headline. The headlines are: NEW ORDER TO CURB STREET DRINKING STEPS TO IMPROVE CITY SCHOOL STING UNCOVERS ILLEGAL CIGS TRADE
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
kzzprr.bsky.social
Like me, you're probably worried that the robot revolution will look a bit bland and utilitarian. 🤖👾💀
Don't worry scientists at the "WISE" group at University of Hong Kong are working on a vision of something a bit more Lovecraftian. 🤖🦑💀
www.science.org/toc/science/...
November 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
kzzprr.bsky.social
Those clever folk at CERN working on a new way to destroy the world..
#yayscience
home.cern/news/news/ex...
Breakthrough in antimatter production
In a paper published today in Nature Communications, researchers at the ALPHA experiment at CERN’s Antimatter Factory report a new technique that allows them to produce over 15 000 antihydrogen atoms ...
home.cern
November 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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vincerai.bsky.social
Some say it's always Pub Day @deserterblog.bsky.social. If so, its' Double Pub Day today as our baby migrates to bookshops and bathrooms throughout the land. Trebles all round!
It’s Pub Day – Deserter
Deserter Stories is out today.
deserter.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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bubbaprog.xyz
...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
lexmcmenamin.com Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · Nov 2
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?

great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
kzzprr.bsky.social
Yay, late friday, major release. 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
It might be scary if this project had any users 😂
github.com/InfantLab/Vi...
Release VideoAnnotator v1.3.0 - Production Reliability & Critical Fixes · InfantLab/VideoAnnotator
Released: October 31, 2025 🎃 This release addresses critical production blockers identified during client integration testing and establishes a production-ready foundation for JOSS publication. Hig...
github.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
kzzprr.bsky.social
Entertaining myself while coding robots do my real work for me. I half wrote a thing and am quite proud of coaxing gpt5 into making this image of Anne Hathaway.
⚠️~40%🤖
onemonkey.org/the-best-wil...
The Best Will in the World? 📜🪶☠️🏆
Testaments as love notes, pranks, institutions — and the occasional drawing‑room mystery. ⚠️ Fair warning - post is ~40% AI slop ⚠️ I wrote my own will recently and afterwards I felt oddly buoyant.....
onemonkey.org
October 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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dreadships.bsky.social
Mein Flakturm hat ein Gartenhut!
Massive flak tower (like, if you need alt text, I am not exaggerating here - the architect clearly had shares in the concrete industry. It. Is. HUGE.) in the middle of Hamburg. On top of it is a tiered garden like a massive foliage hat.
October 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
kzzprr.bsky.social
Your annual reminder that the traditional naming of the Rider-Waite tarot deck erases the female artist who did most of the work - Pamela Colman-Smith
www.openculture.com/2025/10/meet...
Meet the Forgotten Female Artist Behind the World’s Most Popular Tarot Deck (1909)
As an exercise draw a composition of fear or sadness, or great sorrow, quite simply, do not bother about details now, but in a few lines tell your story. Then show it to any one of your friends, or fa...
www.openculture.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
kzzprr.bsky.social
Given the season, I don't want to NOT scare you. But ...

Millennials killed serial killing

...and cults!

Courtesy of Adam Mastroianni @mastroianni.bsky.social
www.experimental-history.com/p/the-declin...
graph showing huge decline in number of serial killers per decade. original source https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-sunday-morning-post-whatever chart of cult formation by decade showing huge declines since 90s https://www.secretorum.life/p/the-cult-deficit-analysis-and-speculation-0aa
October 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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matovilka.bsky.social
You know when Terry Pratchett said 'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works'? Yeah, he meant this.
October 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
kzzprr.bsky.social
👻✅
October 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
kzzprr.bsky.social
As a Yorkshireman I can't abide Lancastrians. But 40 extra FREE brews?
By 'eck, I'm conflicted.
A pack of Lancashire Tea... 40 EXTRA FREE BREWS
October 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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acjsissons.bsky.social
This is still at an early stage, of course, but it shows promise that remotely operated heat pumps could be part of a consumer-friendly, bill-saving service.

Big credit to @nestauk.bsky.social colleagues Max Woollard and Oli Berry, plus the team at OVO for their work on this!
The future of heat
How to drive decarbonisation with innovative tariffs and automated flexibility
www.nesta.org.uk
October 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
kzzprr.bsky.social
Some scary stories about #Obsidian PKM for your nerdy #halloween enjoyment
🤓👻🤖
onemonkey.org/the-haunting...
The Haunting of My Second Brain: A field guide to Obsidian's AI ghosts and how to coexist peacefully with them.
My Obsidian vault is haunted. For years, it was a quiet, orderly place—a digital library of my thoughts, projects, and learnings. It wasn't exactly tidy but it was familiar. Over the last year, a new ...
onemonkey.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
kzzprr.bsky.social
In 18 years living in the wonderful Barrier Block in Brixton, I've had hundreds of letters from estate agents telling me they have clients eager to buy my flat. Not once have they suggested where I should live instead.
October 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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marxtafford.bsky.social
It's out!
And it is a thing of disconcerting beauty.
Should be available from all proper book emporiums today. Read and enjoy and spread the word.
October 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
kzzprr.bsky.social
Elon Musk says he's not a Nazi. But he is also calling his newest rocket the V2...
arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
SpaceX finally got exactly what it needed from Starship V2
This was the last flight of SpaceX’s second-gen Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year.
arstechnica.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
kzzprr.bsky.social
When I was a lad watching snooker with my gran, Ray Reardon looked like a complete fossil. (Fossil Dracula, ah-ha-ha!)
Now Mark Williams is older than that and I'm older than Mark Williams.
😭😭😭😭🤯

www.skysports.com/more-sports/...
Mark Williams beats Shaun Murphy in Xi'an Grand Prix final to become oldest ranking event winner in snooker history
Three-time world champion Mark Williams became snookers oldest ranking event winner after beating Shaun Murphy in a one-sided Xian Grand Prix final on Monday; Williams is also the first ever player to...
www.skysports.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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booktasters.bsky.social
I genuinely think footnotes are almost always more fun than endnotes. If I have to flip to the back every time, I just won’t. Let me stay in the moment with the author. But curious to hear if others feel differently?
#Booksky
October 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM