Matthew Adams
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Matthew Adams
@ythos.bsky.social
· Sep 26
As always, there's a Yes Minister scene for this.
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77 years ago today, Ray Williamson was ploughing a field in Snettisham, Norfolk...
... what happened next would be the beginning of 50 years of finding torcs at this important site.
#OnThisDay
#Archaeology 🏺
bigbookoftorcs.com/2020/07/15/t...
... what happened next would be the beginning of 50 years of finding torcs at this important site.
#OnThisDay
#Archaeology 🏺
bigbookoftorcs.com/2020/07/15/t...
The torc finders of Snettisham
Since we started working with Iron Age torcs, we’ve always been fascinated by Ray Williamson and Tom Rout, the two East Anglian ploughmen who first found torcs at Snettisham. Usually mentione…
bigbookoftorcs.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:44 AM
77 years ago today, Ray Williamson was ploughing a field in Snettisham, Norfolk...
... what happened next would be the beginning of 50 years of finding torcs at this important site.
#OnThisDay
#Archaeology 🏺
bigbookoftorcs.com/2020/07/15/t...
... what happened next would be the beginning of 50 years of finding torcs at this important site.
#OnThisDay
#Archaeology 🏺
bigbookoftorcs.com/2020/07/15/t...
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OpenAI could have locked in being Microsoft's supplier, but no, they had to go make them into a competitor who now knows everything about running frontier models at scale as well as having primed their customers to expect genAI (indeed, to hardly be able to escape it!)
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says his new superintelligence team will build "frontier-grade research capability" and Microsoft needs AI self-sufficiency (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
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November 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
OpenAI could have locked in being Microsoft's supplier, but no, they had to go make them into a competitor who now knows everything about running frontier models at scale as well as having primed their customers to expect genAI (indeed, to hardly be able to escape it!)
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Right. Here's my big pitch:
Muppet James Bond
James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye
Dominic Cooper as Bond
Kermit M Frog
Mrs Moneypiggy
Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ
The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.
Muppet James Bond
James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye
Dominic Cooper as Bond
Kermit M Frog
Mrs Moneypiggy
Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ
The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.
December 4, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Right. Here's my big pitch:
Muppet James Bond
James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye
Dominic Cooper as Bond
Kermit M Frog
Mrs Moneypiggy
Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ
The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.
Muppet James Bond
James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye
Dominic Cooper as Bond
Kermit M Frog
Mrs Moneypiggy
Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ
The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.
The thing I'm finding most annoying about the whole BBC News thing is the way it is being couched in terms of political bias and whether the public think it is all lefty or righty, and who should be purged. I think it's really about competence and the "dramatic story generation" news culture.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The thing I'm finding most annoying about the whole BBC News thing is the way it is being couched in terms of political bias and whether the public think it is all lefty or righty, and who should be purged. I think it's really about competence and the "dramatic story generation" news culture.
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It felt almost transgressive to make this show, something I found both interesting and exciting. “This is happening without your permission.” Whose? The author’s? The listeners’? TLS subscribers’? Huge thanks to @unamccormack.bsky.social and Nicky for engaging with it so wholebrainedly. LISTEN NOW!
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
It felt almost transgressive to make this show, something I found both interesting and exciting. “This is happening without your permission.” Whose? The author’s? The listeners’? TLS subscribers’? Huge thanks to @unamccormack.bsky.social and Nicky for engaging with it so wholebrainedly. LISTEN NOW!
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I really loved making this episode and I am an Outline sceptic. Reading, researching, thinking, reconsidering and (especially) talking about Rachel Cusk, her work and the success of these novels, was educational, therapeutic and very enjoyable. Whether or not I changed my mind is largely irrelevant.
New episode up now. Transit by Rachel Cusk, and the Outline trilogy as a whole, discussed by Andy, Una and Nicky. @iammilliam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @birchos.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1c43...
Transit and the Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk
open.spotify.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I really loved making this episode and I am an Outline sceptic. Reading, researching, thinking, reconsidering and (especially) talking about Rachel Cusk, her work and the success of these novels, was educational, therapeutic and very enjoyable. Whether or not I changed my mind is largely irrelevant.
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All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes
September 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes
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Floella Benjamin for DG.
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Floella Benjamin for DG.
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I just released my first VS Extension! After seeing how excited @maddymontaquila.net got in an @aspire.dev YouTube live coding session about a VS Code NuGet visualisation, I decided to build a simple VS version.
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NuGet Version Glyphs - Visual Studio Marketplace
Extension for Visual Studio - Shows inline glyphs in .csproj files indicating NuGet package version status with quick version switching.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I just released my first VS Extension! After seeing how excited @maddymontaquila.net got in an @aspire.dev YouTube live coding session about a VS Code NuGet visualisation, I decided to build a simple VS version.
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And nor was this.
Alan's Psychedelic Breakdown Cover.
November 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
And nor was this.
This hilarious joke has not been received with the rapturous applause it deserved.
Fat Old Talbot Sunbeam
November 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This hilarious joke has not been received with the rapturous applause it deserved.
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Very few people know that this is, in fact, Storm Thorgeson's Hillman Imp with a fibreglass superstructure, heavily retouched by Po.
Very few people know that this is, in fact, Storm Thorgeson's Hillman Imp with a fibreglass superstructure, heavily retouched by Po.
November 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Very few people know that this is, in fact, Storm Thorgeson's Hillman Imp with a fibreglass superstructure, heavily retouched by Po.
Very few people know that this is, in fact, Storm Thorgeson's Hillman Imp with a fibreglass superstructure, heavily retouched by Po.
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Letting a computer make decisions is letting whoever controls the computer decide the range of acceptable choices. There is no way that the owners of the AI systems will allow them to make decisions which are optimal for the user but against the interests of the owner...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Letting a computer make decisions is letting whoever controls the computer decide the range of acceptable choices. There is no way that the owners of the AI systems will allow them to make decisions which are optimal for the user but against the interests of the owner...
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Post a non-religious image you think of as holy
November 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Post a non-religious image you think of as holy
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
TIL Mamdani was born a couple of weeks after I went up to College. I am a dessicated corpse.
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
TIL Mamdani was born a couple of weeks after I went up to College. I am a dessicated corpse.
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Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator
YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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I hope someone is writing "12 Hangry Men" about the sandwich guy jury
November 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I hope someone is writing "12 Hangry Men" about the sandwich guy jury
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Good morning America! Today is the paperback publication day of my #StarTrekSNW novel Asylum! It's such a belter they gave it an award. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #UnaByUna
www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-St...
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum [McCormack, Una] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum
www.amazon.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Good morning America! Today is the paperback publication day of my #StarTrekSNW novel Asylum! It's such a belter they gave it an award. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #UnaByUna
www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-St...
www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-St...
Similarly the abundance of platform games in the 1980s meant there was little street parkour. The increased popularity of shmups in the 90s and 00s saw a marked rise in people jumping around buildings.
It is no surprise parkour originated in France where all computer games were like Captain Blood.
It is no surprise parkour originated in France where all computer games were like Captain Blood.
yeah I was a teenager in the 1990s and there was a level of possible casual violence - of, say, getting headbutted by a random group of dickheads on the way home from school, as happened to me one time - that largely seems to have disappeared from British life. I blame videogames.
Violent crime peaked in 1995 according to the Crime Survey for England and Wales..
November 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Similarly the abundance of platform games in the 1980s meant there was little street parkour. The increased popularity of shmups in the 90s and 00s saw a marked rise in people jumping around buildings.
It is no surprise parkour originated in France where all computer games were like Captain Blood.
It is no surprise parkour originated in France where all computer games were like Captain Blood.
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
Hear hear. I set aside Saturday afternoon for a watch, and then the inevitable internet rabbit hole it takes you down as you find it more about the topics of the week.
If you love great art, this podcast is an absolute must-listen. Incredibly insightful commentary with a delightfully fun spin by two of the best in the business. I just got stuck in with Season 1 and I am obsessed!
This week’s podcast is a Halloween special; we discuss plague, terror and fire in art. Also, is the King Catholic? open.spotify.com/episode/796F...
November 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Hear hear. I set aside Saturday afternoon for a watch, and then the inevitable internet rabbit hole it takes you down as you find it more about the topics of the week.
Attention @badsquiddogames.bsky.social
“Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, seditious newsletters, identity cards and ration books to Dutch resistance agents, even penetrating Nazi headquarters in Paris, died on Oct. 20 in London. She was 103.”
Selma van de Perre, Dutch Jew Who Resisted Nazis, Dies at 103
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Attention @badsquiddogames.bsky.social
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“Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, seditious newsletters, identity cards and ration books to Dutch resistance agents, even penetrating Nazi headquarters in Paris, died on Oct. 20 in London. She was 103.”
Selma van de Perre, Dutch Jew Who Resisted Nazis, Dies at 103
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, seditious newsletters, identity cards and ration books to Dutch resistance agents, even penetrating Nazi headquarters in Paris, died on Oct. 20 in London. She was 103.”