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Stuart Dunn
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Digital Humanist and Professor of Spatial Humanities, King's College London (@kingsdh.bsky.social). Also: Head of Humanities, @kingsartshums.bsky.social. Various other things too, e.g. @folkloresociety.bsky.social Council Member.

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · 2d
"Grief is the price we pay for love".

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · 9d
His *really* correct name would contain rather more expletives.

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · 9d
Assuredly so. Maybe eventually there will even be some accountability.

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · 9d
Things really don't get any better for Andrew Mountbatten Windsor do they?

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · 11d
A sad decline in allocentric cognitive map reading skills on display #TheApprentice

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · 14d
But ... I thought the whole point of the Second Ammendment was that citizens could defend themselves from an overreaching central government?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
Republican senators join calls for fuller investigation into Minneapolis killing
Trump says his administration is
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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · 19d
Blimey, that went quick
My length of service record at KCL - 20 years

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · 20d
May I respectfully ask how and why any of this is considered to be "news"?

BBC News - Brooklyn Beckham: What we learned from bombshell Instagram post - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Brooklyn Beckham: What we learned from bombshell Instagram post
The 26-year-old made a series of allegations in a six-page Instagram post on Monday.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · 24d
Essentially, he is the only politican ever to have been outwitted by Badenoch. 'Nuff said.

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · 24d
💯, thank you!

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 25d
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Photo (not mine) of the corner of the roof of a house. The main house roof is on the right and to the left there is a turret with arched windows in cream paperwork and a conical slate roof. On the tip of the cube of the roof a statue of a cat is perched. All paws on the tip so the back is attached. Facing to the left the tail is lifted and threatening toward the right.

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · 25d
The Cat House in #Riga. Apparently, the cat was placed there with its tail facing towards the nearby Tradesmans' Guild, with whom the house's owner had had an argument.

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · 25d
Nothing being open on a Sunday except newsagents (which closed at lunchtime).
thereal3ccentric.bsky.social 3ccentric @thereal3ccentric.bsky.social · Jan 8
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?

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Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 27d
I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · 28d
Just read it, a great piece. Thanks for sharing.

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · Jan 11
A new blog/mini data resource on corpse roads, "The Bierwayfarer": corpseroads.wordpress.com. #folklore #corpseroads #GIS
The Bierwayfarer
All things Corpse Roads
corpseroads.wordpress.com

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3ccentric @thereal3ccentric.bsky.social · Jan 8
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · Dec 29
A small twixtime accomplishment - I have completed the Private Eye Christmas crossword. All 138 cryptic clues. And cracked the "unclue" challenge, which was their obituary of Dicke Bird. Even though if I tried to play cricket I would likely hold the club by the wrong end when trying to score a goal.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · Dec 25
*Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer* was the firste song to celebrate GPS

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · Dec 22
If you need to ask the question, you have already answered it 😉.

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · Dec 16
Can we stop attributing AI/LLMs with "hallucinations"? This is a term referring to human clinical/psychological conditions. It doesn't need to be ceded yet. "LLMs getting it totally wrong" is fine.

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · Dec 13
Definition of ageing: going into a chemist/pharmacy and realising how many of the notices on the notice board now potentially apply to you.

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The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social · Dec 9
Next week: join us for our last online talk of 2025: James Frost, 'The Hooden Horse of Kent'. Tuesday 16 December, 19:00-20:30 GMT on Zoom. Tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-hooden...
James Frost with hooden horses. Credit Caroline Dyal

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · Dec 4
💯

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · Dec 4
Also, and this is just a thought, maybe this is a reminder that electing a party that is up to its neck in Russian influence isn't a great idea.
stuartdunn.bsky.social Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · Dec 4
Although poor Dawn Sturgess couldn't be saved, I hope that there have been medals for the police, army, scientists etc, and first responders. Without their bravery and skill this would have been a mass casualty incident. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
Family of Novichok poisoning victim 'still has questions', as report finds Putin 'morally responsible'
An inquiry into Ms Sturgess' death in 2018 came after an attempt to poison an ex-Russian double agent living in Salisbury.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · Dec 4
Although poor Dawn Sturgess couldn't be saved, I hope that there have been medals for the police, army, scientists etc, and first responders. Without their bravery and skill this would have been a mass casualty incident. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
Family of Novichok poisoning victim 'still has questions', as report finds Putin 'morally responsible'
An inquiry into Ms Sturgess' death in 2018 came after an attempt to poison an ex-Russian double agent living in Salisbury.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · Dec 4
My, we have some serious quality journalism in this country.

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · Nov 28
I may just be tired at the end of a long week, but I can't seem to help reading this pop-up from @wired.com as a mafioso threat. You pay for the articles next time, capiche?

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · Nov 28
To begin with today, happy 117th anniversary to this entirely reasonable cat
Article from Des Moines Register 27 November 1908: NO BEER; CAT LEAVES TOWN Feline Deserts Connecticut Village That Went "Dry." WINSTED, Conn., Nov. 28. Fannie, a cat owned by Barreuther Bros., had liking for lager beer. When the town recently voted "dry" her owners went out of business and Fannie missed her drink. For some days she went to her saucer and cried for beer, but as none was forthcoming she disappeared. It is suspected she has gone to the nearest license town.