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Vicky Stiles
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Historian (somewhat lapsed)
Stabs fabric in a desperate attempt to cope with the relentless relevance of the past.
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Vicky Stiles @nocherubsplease.bsky.social · Jan 18
I love playing around with different techniques of crochet, quilting and sewing, and sometimes this results in things people might want to own. If you like colourful, practical, squishy items then take a look at my online shop.
fibrehaptic.bigcartel.com
A crochet shawl in muted rainbow colours. Pieces of a quilt laid out on the floor. Colours range from yellow to purple through greens and blues, with bands of white forming a rippling pattern from one corner. A drawstring bag in purple batik fabrics, next to two notebooks and pens to show approximate size.
nocherubsplease.bsky.social
Having a ridiculous free-wheeling night out in Manchester, roughly fifteen years since my first ridiculous free-wheeling night living in Manchester. We've laughed, we've wept, we've screamed, we've danced, we've grieved... I bloody love this city.
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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catzero.bsky.social
Here's four goblins in a wizard robe trying to scam their way into a very secret wizard meeting ✨️

#myart #goblins
Four goblins stacked on top of each other wearing a too big wizard robe
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
One of the biggest impacts I’ve seen from the unproven idea that people are wrongfully using disability accommodations is that people stop trusting people with disabilities and in fact further restrict, remove, and demonize accommodations for people with disabilities in general
December 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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ela-bambust.bsky.social
If you ever get imposter syndrome remember that the richest man in the world thinks chess would be improved with a tech tree and fog of war
December 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
nocherubsplease.bsky.social
Absolute belter of a story.
December 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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dly.bsky.social
reverse advent calendar where I scream a little scream into each tiny box and close it up tight
December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI”

Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Gen Z Shoppers Aren’t Spending Like Retailers Need Them To
More than other generations, 20-somethings are tightening their holiday-season budgets because of economic pressures.
www.wsj.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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samthielman.com
AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
January 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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jonnelledge.bsky.social
I feel like we're moving closer to the inevitable day when Liz Truss announces she's defected to Reform, and Reform frantically spins that she absolutely has not
December 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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davidhsiegel.bsky.social
I'll say it again -- I'm on my firm's AI committee: every canned demo has had brutal, malpractice-level errors, and every live trial has required more time and care to vet the output than to just do it, like working with an unteachably incompetent associate you'd need to sit down for a Hard Talk.
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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innes.bsky.social
From a fantastic hillwalking resource I use in Scotland: battling AI generated replies which lead other users into danger
walkhighlands.co.uk walkhighlands @walkhighlands.co.uk · 4d
This is a heads-up about fake AI accounts which have proliferated across social media.

The screenshot is from a genuine thread asking for advice on a mountain route; there are plenty of useful, real human replies.
The attempted reply (we stopped it) looks very real - but it is from an AI bot.
Screenshot showing rejected post with convincing text written by AI
December 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
nocherubsplease.bsky.social
Anyone else feel like most Christmas adverts this year are rather cynical? The message seems to be that the season sucks but at least you can save money at [shop]. I usually roll my eyes at the twinkly, magical "Christmas spirit fixes everything" bollocks but the absence of it feels even worse.
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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melindasalisbury.com
This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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marshdavies.bsky.social
I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
Mentally replacing every "ChatGPT says..." or "we asked AI..." headline with "bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer."
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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nick-pettigrew.bsky.social
There's an advert on his website for a 'Depot Supervisor' that pays £12.75 an hour for shift work.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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moonjam.com
Probably not the best way to start the day but I am ranting on Instagram
A screenshot of an instagram comment from user @moonjam3d. The text reads: "I completely disagree that AI is here to stay. Firstly, it's a weirdly passive aggressive stance that frames naysayers as people who have their heads buried in the sand on this stuff and honestly, the opposite is much, much closer to the truth. There isn't a *single* generative LLM model out there that isn't trained on BILLIONS of copywritten work - the tech literally cannot function without it BUT for some reason, this talking point just gets rolled up and pushed into a barrel labelled "luddite". It's insane to me that people brush that off as a minor hurdle. IP and rights management are the cornerstones of earning a living through creative work! The fact is, I LOVE learning and using new technology! It's exciting and rewarding but that's also how I know AI is not what it's purporting to be, at all. Please, take 20 minutes out of your day and read the reporting of Ed Zitron on the true state of the AI 'industry'. It is physically, legally and financially impossible for these companies to exist! Not only are they running at a loss of BILLIONS, they are all facing the legal consequences of selling a commercial product trained on rights protected material. Even if those chickens don't come home to roost, the fees they will need to charge to turn this into a profitable investment are astronomical... AI seems fun when it's basically free, but would you feel the same way if EVERY output cost you $20-$30? Just like crypto, the people pushing it hardest are the ones with the most to lose when the bubble bursts."
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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junlper.beer
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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themattmcd.bsky.social
My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 10d
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something. By Jeff Wise, a science journalist and private pilot.
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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tylerfromtheinternet.com
We have created a device that shall be integral to your life, to the point where it will be hard to function in society without one; we would prefer these devices to break annually and for you to purchase a new one at full price. If you don't, that's called hoarding. They're a thousand dollars each.
whippoorwont.bsky.social tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 10d
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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helenm40.bsky.social
Today I learned that stalking a 17 year old girl, writing up a 400 page 'dossier' about her, falsely reporting her to the police and smashing her phone does not constitute 'harassment'.

One wonders what *would*.
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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lines.snail.skin
I am not a "trans activist". I am simply a trans person who wants trans people like myself to be able to live lives free of dignity and fear in this country. I wouldn't know where to start to be an activist about that but I don't think that's a controversial point.
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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markgrimshawtism.bsky.social
It is genuinely insane to see a judge describe Graham Linehan as a “generally credible witness” in a trial where he claimed Sophia Brooks has been engaged in “trans activism” since 2013 (when she would’ve been 6 years old), then, when challenged, claimed her drivers license lied about her age.
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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batariangal.bsky.social
I don’t know enough about the situation with Lineham to opine on whether the judgement is valid or not, but everything about this paragraph in the BBC article makes me despair at how many institutions have been captured by the GC movement

www.bbc.com/news/article...
An excerpt from the linked BBC article that reads: She also did not find that the complainant, a biological male who identifies as a woman, "was as 'alarmed and distressed' as they portrayed themself to be by these messages and this course of conduct".
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM