Rohan Jayasekera
@rohanjay.bsky.social
Museums & AI-enhanced archives, digital information spaces R&D. One time foreign correspondent, MA/MSc grad, struggling writer & PTSD manager.
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Do you want to live in a "papers, please" country?
October 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Do you want to live in a "papers, please" country?
The Conspiracy Lounge. Closed.
Or is that what they want you to think…
Or is that what they want you to think…
December 24, 2024 at 5:59 PM
The Conspiracy Lounge. Closed.
Or is that what they want you to think…
Or is that what they want you to think…
Christmas treats: daughter, smoothie, black coffee, Irish whiskey, London…
December 24, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Christmas treats: daughter, smoothie, black coffee, Irish whiskey, London…
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Love it when bookshops or libraries arrange their books appropriately...
December 23, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Love it when bookshops or libraries arrange their books appropriately...
AI - Alcohol Idiocy.
December 19, 2024 at 5:13 PM
AI - Alcohol Idiocy.
BBC’s Jeremy Bowen returns to a now abandoned Syrian presidential palace. I love the idea that Bashar Assad’s leave-on-the-desk-to-impress choice of book was Piers Morgan’s autobiography. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC Radio 4 - Today
Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day
www.bbc.co.uk
December 12, 2024 at 7:49 AM
BBC’s Jeremy Bowen returns to a now abandoned Syrian presidential palace. I love the idea that Bashar Assad’s leave-on-the-desk-to-impress choice of book was Piers Morgan’s autobiography. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
Proof perfect. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” especially when allied with extraordinary human beings, and shared with beautiful purpose.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
A Bionic Leg Controlled by the Brain
A new kind of prosthetic limb depends on carbon fibre and computer chips—and the reëngineering of muscles, tendons, and bone.
www.newyorker.com
December 12, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Proof perfect. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” especially when allied with extraordinary human beings, and shared with beautiful purpose.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Natural History Museum picks at @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social's dinosaur teeth. www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Tyrannosaur teeth in southern England reveal Cretaceous dinosaur ecosystem
Spinosaurs, tyrannosaurs and relatives of Velociraptor once stalked England’s south coast.
www.nhm.ac.uk
December 11, 2024 at 1:23 PM
The Natural History Museum picks at @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social's dinosaur teeth. www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Best. Ever. Exhibition title.
www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibition/c...
www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibition/c...
Counter Culture
An exhibition looking at 175 years of shopping at Boots, take a walk through the history of this Nottingham brand, in our Djanogly Gallery.
www.lakesidearts.org.uk
December 9, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Best. Ever. Exhibition title.
www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibition/c...
www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibition/c...
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Remember, remember the fifth of December (is when we'll be (re)launching our new Esmée Fairbairn Communities and Collections Fund)
December 4, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Remember, remember the fifth of December (is when we'll be (re)launching our new Esmée Fairbairn Communities and Collections Fund)
What’s missing from this picture?
December 4, 2024 at 9:59 PM
What’s missing from this picture?
Tara Donovan’s Bluffs. Intricate, natural, beautiful (and made of thousands of clear plastic buttons). Hastings Contemporary.
November 29, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Tara Donovan’s Bluffs. Intricate, natural, beautiful (and made of thousands of clear plastic buttons). Hastings Contemporary.
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Just a quick heads up:
@museumsassociation.bsky.social are currently offering 25% discount on all membership packages.
MA membership is available for all people involved within the museum sector, including freelancers and volunteers, & monthly payment options are available too 🙂
@museumsassociation.bsky.social are currently offering 25% discount on all membership packages.
MA membership is available for all people involved within the museum sector, including freelancers and volunteers, & monthly payment options are available too 🙂
November 29, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Just a quick heads up:
@museumsassociation.bsky.social are currently offering 25% discount on all membership packages.
MA membership is available for all people involved within the museum sector, including freelancers and volunteers, & monthly payment options are available too 🙂
@museumsassociation.bsky.social are currently offering 25% discount on all membership packages.
MA membership is available for all people involved within the museum sector, including freelancers and volunteers, & monthly payment options are available too 🙂
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Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky
November 19, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky
November 27, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Pretty much all I thought about both Wolf Hall book & series is here: “A caring Thomas Cromwell makes good TV, but beware the ‘yes’ men who enable tyrants.”
a man in a black hat is smiling and holding a book
ALT: a man in a black hat is smiling and holding a book
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Pretty much all I thought about both Wolf Hall book & series is here: “A caring Thomas Cromwell makes good TV, but beware the ‘yes’ men who enable tyrants.”
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2 weeks until our next members’ meeting at Norwich Castle 🏰
Join us (it’s free!) to network with your sector colleagues, hear about what we’re up to at the MA, and find out more about Royal Palace Reborn, one of the UK’s largest ongoing heritage projects: www.museumsassociation.org/events/membe...
Join us (it’s free!) to network with your sector colleagues, hear about what we’re up to at the MA, and find out more about Royal Palace Reborn, one of the UK’s largest ongoing heritage projects: www.museumsassociation.org/events/membe...
Members Together: England - Museums Association
Join our free event – exclusively for our members Members Together: England offers a brilliant opportunity to familiarise yourself with …
www.museumsassociation.org
November 21, 2024 at 12:41 PM
2 weeks until our next members’ meeting at Norwich Castle 🏰
Join us (it’s free!) to network with your sector colleagues, hear about what we’re up to at the MA, and find out more about Royal Palace Reborn, one of the UK’s largest ongoing heritage projects: www.museumsassociation.org/events/membe...
Join us (it’s free!) to network with your sector colleagues, hear about what we’re up to at the MA, and find out more about Royal Palace Reborn, one of the UK’s largest ongoing heritage projects: www.museumsassociation.org/events/membe...
Charles Arthur: "I am now officially begging you not to use chatbots of any ilk as search engines. Absolutely begging you. And where search engines stick a chatbot on the top (looking at you, Google), ignore that too." 👍 theoverspill.blog/2024/11/22/g...
November 22, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Charles Arthur: "I am now officially begging you not to use chatbots of any ilk as search engines. Absolutely begging you. And where search engines stick a chatbot on the top (looking at you, Google), ignore that too." 👍 theoverspill.blog/2024/11/22/g...