Mark Caldwell
@impworks.bsky.social
I'll mostly be posting about table top RPGs, CGI, photography and writing but also probably whatever random thought crosses my mind
Liverpool (the place not the FC)
I do back end website development and accessibility for a living
Liverpool (the place not the FC)
I do back end website development and accessibility for a living
Enjoyed The Running Man
November 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Enjoyed The Running Man
Seagull on Wellington's Head through wet bus window
November 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Seagull on Wellington's Head through wet bus window
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'Silhouettes' by Vermont printmaker Jeanne Amato #womensart
November 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
'Silhouettes' by Vermont printmaker Jeanne Amato #womensart
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I have said it before and I will say it again in the coming week: @lostpages.co.uk and I are doing a talk at Dragonmeet about "making magic marvellous," and it's going to be fun. It's at 1430 on Saturday and if you're going to be there we would like it if you came!
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I have said it before and I will say it again in the coming week: @lostpages.co.uk and I are doing a talk at Dragonmeet about "making magic marvellous," and it's going to be fun. It's at 1430 on Saturday and if you're going to be there we would like it if you came!
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November 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Waves coming off the basalt columns at Reynisfjara black sand beach. It's amazing that the camera technology is so good now that this was handheld at 1/8th second - the columns are sharp but I was able to capture the movement of the water too.
#CanonR6II #Iceland #Geology
#CanonR6II #Iceland #Geology
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Waves coming off the basalt columns at Reynisfjara black sand beach. It's amazing that the camera technology is so good now that this was handheld at 1/8th second - the columns are sharp but I was able to capture the movement of the water too.
#CanonR6II #Iceland #Geology
#CanonR6II #Iceland #Geology
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Surprised hedgehog buddy
Part 218 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
Ceramic hedgehog dated to the Neolithic period found at the Hamin archaeological site near Shebotu Town in Inner Mongolia, China
Ceramic hedgehog dated to the Neolithic period found at the Hamin archaeological site near Shebotu Town in Inner Mongolia, China
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Surprised hedgehog buddy
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I now have a list of all the zine RPGs and wargames I own so I'm not going to be shopping at Dragonmeet and hit a do I have that moment (probably for a Cthulhu Hack book)
I need to do the big games now don't I because completisms
And then fiction
And then CDs
And then DVDs
Nooooooooooooooooooo!
I need to do the big games now don't I because completisms
And then fiction
And then CDs
And then DVDs
Nooooooooooooooooooo!
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I now have a list of all the zine RPGs and wargames I own so I'm not going to be shopping at Dragonmeet and hit a do I have that moment (probably for a Cthulhu Hack book)
I need to do the big games now don't I because completisms
And then fiction
And then CDs
And then DVDs
Nooooooooooooooooooo!
I need to do the big games now don't I because completisms
And then fiction
And then CDs
And then DVDs
Nooooooooooooooooooo!
Just potting up bulbs in containers for spring and double checking what some left over bulbs from planting in a bed a few month ago with google image search
The unwanted AI section insisted repeatedly they were charlottes which isn't great as eating daffodil bulbs will put you in hospital
The unwanted AI section insisted repeatedly they were charlottes which isn't great as eating daffodil bulbs will put you in hospital
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Just potting up bulbs in containers for spring and double checking what some left over bulbs from planting in a bed a few month ago with google image search
The unwanted AI section insisted repeatedly they were charlottes which isn't great as eating daffodil bulbs will put you in hospital
The unwanted AI section insisted repeatedly they were charlottes which isn't great as eating daffodil bulbs will put you in hospital
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This thread is glorious.
In Tesco’s this afternoon: an elderly Polish man at the self-checkout, trying to buy a pint of milk and a white radish. There is no picture for the radish on the machine. The assistant doesn’t know what it is. She asks a colleague: “It’s a white radish.” There is no entry for it on the machine.
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This thread is glorious.
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UK folk, please vote in local elections whenever possible. Hereabouts, a Tory (formerly UKIP) County Councillor, elected with a 19 vote majority on a 42.7% turn-out, has been sharing quotes from Enoch Powell on social media, seemingly as valid points for discussion.
November 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
UK folk, please vote in local elections whenever possible. Hereabouts, a Tory (formerly UKIP) County Councillor, elected with a 19 vote majority on a 42.7% turn-out, has been sharing quotes from Enoch Powell on social media, seemingly as valid points for discussion.
4 hours and not one comment has suggested starting a Hue and Cry to help Ben as he's Looking for Linda from the 1980s?
(Really Sorry I got ear wormed as soon as I read the post)
(Really Sorry I got ear wormed as soon as I read the post)
Ok Bluesky, let’s give this a go: I found this postcard in the back of a photo frame I bought at a London thrift shop.
It’s an unsent postcard from a woman called Linda to her parents. The front shows the Kremlin in Moscow and the stamp says 1984 (!).
I’d love to return it to Linda - can you help?
It’s an unsent postcard from a woman called Linda to her parents. The front shows the Kremlin in Moscow and the stamp says 1984 (!).
I’d love to return it to Linda - can you help?
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
4 hours and not one comment has suggested starting a Hue and Cry to help Ben as he's Looking for Linda from the 1980s?
(Really Sorry I got ear wormed as soon as I read the post)
(Really Sorry I got ear wormed as soon as I read the post)
Look at the use of the split diopter lens used to shoot the scene
November 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Look at the use of the split diopter lens used to shoot the scene
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
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“Cloudfare said the root cause “was a configuration file that is automatically generated to manage threat traffic””
taking the person out of the loop doesn’t prevent error
Cloudflare outage causes error messages across the internet
taking the person out of the loop doesn’t prevent error
Cloudflare outage causes error messages across the internet
Cloudflare outage causes error messages across the internet
US company that defends millions of websites against malicious attacks says it believes issue ‘is now resolved’
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
“Cloudfare said the root cause “was a configuration file that is automatically generated to manage threat traffic””
taking the person out of the loop doesn’t prevent error
Cloudflare outage causes error messages across the internet
taking the person out of the loop doesn’t prevent error
Cloudflare outage causes error messages across the internet
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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Albert Alberg's Frost Flowers on the Window (1899) communicates a “new, truly great discovery”, that frost is able to make “ice photographs”, expressing the form of objects near it — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frost-flowers
(Image: ca. 1905 photograph of frost by Wilson Bentley)
(Image: ca. 1905 photograph of frost by Wilson Bentley)
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Albert Alberg's Frost Flowers on the Window (1899) communicates a “new, truly great discovery”, that frost is able to make “ice photographs”, expressing the form of objects near it — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frost-flowers
(Image: ca. 1905 photograph of frost by Wilson Bentley)
(Image: ca. 1905 photograph of frost by Wilson Bentley)
Whatever happened to self driving cars?
November 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Whatever happened to self driving cars?
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I hate how true this is.
November 19, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I hate how true this is.
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Enjoyed Now You See Me Now You Don't
As with the previous films I think it inherits something of the spirit of Mission Impossible TV series that the official films miss
Focus on the deception
The team doesn't use guns
The team is loyal - no traitors
As with the previous films I think it inherits something of the spirit of Mission Impossible TV series that the official films miss
Focus on the deception
The team doesn't use guns
The team is loyal - no traitors
November 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Enjoyed Now You See Me Now You Don't
As with the previous films I think it inherits something of the spirit of Mission Impossible TV series that the official films miss
Focus on the deception
The team doesn't use guns
The team is loyal - no traitors
As with the previous films I think it inherits something of the spirit of Mission Impossible TV series that the official films miss
Focus on the deception
The team doesn't use guns
The team is loyal - no traitors
Very light snow on the wind in Liverpool
In 4 days we've gone from no gloves to autumn gloves to should have brought my winter gloves
In 4 days we've gone from no gloves to autumn gloves to should have brought my winter gloves
November 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Very light snow on the wind in Liverpool
In 4 days we've gone from no gloves to autumn gloves to should have brought my winter gloves
In 4 days we've gone from no gloves to autumn gloves to should have brought my winter gloves
Enjoyed Now You See Me Now You Don't
As with the previous films I think it inherits something of the spirit of Mission Impossible TV series that the official films miss
Focus on the deception
The team doesn't use guns
The team is loyal - no traitors
As with the previous films I think it inherits something of the spirit of Mission Impossible TV series that the official films miss
Focus on the deception
The team doesn't use guns
The team is loyal - no traitors
November 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Enjoyed Now You See Me Now You Don't
As with the previous films I think it inherits something of the spirit of Mission Impossible TV series that the official films miss
Focus on the deception
The team doesn't use guns
The team is loyal - no traitors
As with the previous films I think it inherits something of the spirit of Mission Impossible TV series that the official films miss
Focus on the deception
The team doesn't use guns
The team is loyal - no traitors