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Karl Sherratt
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Nerd. Brewer. Fiddler of tech

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smolrobots.bsky.social
And a Partridgebot in a Peartreebot! bsky.app/profile/smol...
smolrobots.bsky.social Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 5d
On the first day of Christmas, my Bigbot gave to me...

A Partridgebot in a Peartreebot!

#12BotsofChristmasRemastered
A grey-brown robot in the form of a plump little partridge with hinged wings, perched amidst the foliage of a robot in the form of a tree in a terracotta pot, with its face on the trunk, hung with little pear-shaped robots (yes, one is asleep). A speech bubble coming from the Partridgebot, which looks surprisingly angry, says "ah-ha!". In the bottom right is a logo reading, "12 'BOTS OF CHRISTMAS REMASTERED" with the letters alternately red and green.
December 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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smolrobots.bsky.social
Two Turtledovebots… bsky.app/profile/smol...
smolrobots.bsky.social Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 3d
On the second day of Christmas, my Bigbot gave to me...

Two Turtledovebots...

#12BotsofChristmasRemastered
Two robots in the form of grey doves with hinged, brown wings that have dark triangular patterns on them. Each also has a set of black tail feathers with white tips. One robot is ducking down and happily displaying these feathers in a fan while the other watches in amazement. Text in the top right reads, "12 'BOTS OF CHRISTMAS REMASTERED" in alternating red and green letters.
December 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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smolrobots.bsky.social
On the third day of Christmas, my Bigbot gave to me...

Three French Henbots...

#12BotsofChristmasRemastered
Three robots in the form of beige hens, with hinged wings and each supported by a spring on a single large, orange foot. They are wearing berets and wobbling slightly as they appear to be having a heated discussion. Text in the lower left reads, "12 'BOTS OF CHRISTMAS REMASTERED" in alternating red and green.
December 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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katbrownwrites.com
Nothing says feminism like forcing women to do something they have been vocal about not wanting to do.
December 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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smolrobots.bsky.social
On the second day of Christmas, my Bigbot gave to me...

Two Turtledovebots...

#12BotsofChristmasRemastered
Two robots in the form of grey doves with hinged, brown wings that have dark triangular patterns on them. Each also has a set of black tail feathers with white tips. One robot is ducking down and happily displaying these feathers in a fan while the other watches in amazement. Text in the top right reads, "12 'BOTS OF CHRISTMAS REMASTERED" in alternating red and green letters.
December 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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nationaltrust.org.uk
Opportunities to transform nature don’t get much bigger than this!

We have the opportunity to conserve 340 acres (138 hectares) of biodiverse countryside surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset.
Aerial view of the Cerne Abbas giant - a landscape feature showing the white chalk outline of a naked man with a club raised in one hand. There is text over lay which reads 'It's a big one!'
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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itmustbebunnies.bsky.social
GEN X THE ONLY GENERATION THAT BECAME 30 AT THE AGE OF 10 AND STILL IS 30 AT 50 Pictured: Judd Nelson as Bender from The Breakfast Club
December 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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elakdawalla.bsky.social
My Etsy shop is now open, and I'm shipping twice a week. Just posted: these hair claw clips, wire-wrapped with high-quality gemstone beads for the 8 planets, including gorgeous brown rhodochrosite for Jupiter. elakdawalla.etsy.com
The silver clip sits on a brown fuzzy cloth. Two sets of high-quality naturally colored gemstone beads represent the 8 planets of the solar system, wrapped with wire onto both sides of a strong metal claw clip. The clip is 11 cm (4 1/4 in) long with a very strong spring. The beads range in size from 4mm Mercury to 9mm Jupiter. The gold hair clip is clamped around a crumpled brown fabric, sitting on a lighter brown fuzzy cloth. Two sets of high-quality naturally colored gemstone beads represent the 8 planets of the solar system, wrapped with wire onto both sides of a strong metal claw clip. The clip is 11 cm (4 1/4 in) long with a very strong spring. The beads range in size from 4mm Mercury to 9mm Jupiter.
December 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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drdvus.bsky.social
Scientists created a dolphin with legs.
Animal rights groups want the legs removed.
But that would defeet the porpoise
December 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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adampype.bsky.social
hello bsky! our game was taken down due to a false DMCA which completely killed our momentum at launch. our studio is in a very precarious position right now. please share and spread the word, steam has been little help to our situation.

noplayersonline.net/statement
December 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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robertmackenzie.bsky.social
Motherfuckers, we basically beat *cigarettes*. Young people may not remember the total ubiquity of cigarettes in public life, but it was there. People still smoke, but it's *worlds apart*. Never cede ground on hating. We might not be able to destroy AI, but we can shame it back to obscurity.
cuteosphere.bsky.social cuteosphere @cuteosphere.bsky.social · 4d
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 2, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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philplait.bsky.social
This is a staggering cool JWST image of one of the most terrifying star systems I have ever seen. Apep is a monster… *three* monsters, actually, and blasting out radiation and dust and junk at speeds to freeze the soul.

Read all about it!

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-ridiculo...

🔭 🧪
A ridiculously jaw-dropping JWST image of a fantastically terrifying star system
Apep consists of three immense and immensely powerful stars blasting out a fierce dusty wind
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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smolrobots.bsky.social
On the first day of Christmas, my Bigbot gave to me...

A Partridgebot in a Peartreebot!

#12BotsofChristmasRemastered
A grey-brown robot in the form of a plump little partridge with hinged wings, perched amidst the foliage of a robot in the form of a tree in a terracotta pot, with its face on the trunk, hung with little pear-shaped robots (yes, one is asleep). A speech bubble coming from the Partridgebot, which looks surprisingly angry, says "ah-ha!". In the bottom right is a logo reading, "12 'BOTS OF CHRISTMAS REMASTERED" with the letters alternately red and green.
December 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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davidallengreen.bsky.social
I have done a treat post for those kind enough to be paying subscribers.

How the BBC censored the line that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history”.

Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-bb...

Patreon:
www.patreon.com/posts/144717...
How the BBC censored the line that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history”
This sentence was cut from the broadcast of the 2025 Reith Lectures for "legal reasons" - but do those supposed legal reasons make sense?
emptycity.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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hazelmonforton.com
ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦
Okay bear with me. My amazing friend Robyn (@haykebyr.bsky.social) did this amazing image based on my stupid ass joke. It's Miss Piggy photoshopped into some Sister of Battle armour, with the white bob haircut and a fleur de lys tattoo on her cheek and everything. Except she's got pink satin gloves on. The caption is "In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future there is Only Moi" because that's the whole joke. Thank you.
November 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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amyshirateitel.bsky.social
Has our short form video consumption affected books? I explored my hunch that yes, it has, in my latest video on my second channel:
Short form videos are making books BAD
There's a lot to this: reading rate being down; attention spans dwindling; and short form content boiling everything down to it's most basic, un-nuanced take. The results is some pretty bad…
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
kincaid.org.uk
Making a loaf and not eating it all in a day challenge...
November 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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davidallengreen.bsky.social
For those kind enough to be paying subscribers, I have done a treat post:

How the BBC censored the line that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history”

emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-bb...
November 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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thespaceshipper.com
If you would like to support this account, for 3 bucks per month (or 30 per year), you will also have access to lots of articles on the creation of The Expanse, Star Wars, Alien, Foundation, Mass Effect, Trek, Interstellar, Dune, Avatar, Homeworld, The Matrix, and many more. 🖖

The program to date:
Long-form Spaceshipper: Welcome to my Spaceport! | The Spaceshipper
Get more from The Spaceshipper on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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aptshadow.bsky.social
For those who haven't come across the Terrible Worlds series - these are standalone novellas, entirely separate to one another in setting and plot, but loosely grouped in conceptual trios...
solarisbooks.bsky.social Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 6d
Next year, a new TERRIBLE WORLDS novella is coming your way from @aptshadow.bsky.social !

Preorder PREACHING TO THE CHOIR now: https://geni.us/preachtc

And dive into the rest of the thematically linked series whilst you wait. Each novella is a standalone but 1-6 are available in bind ups too!
Against a gold space background, an infographic of the different novellas in Adrian Tchaikovsky's TERRIBLE WORLDS series.
November 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
Sharing again because... 👀

This frieze from Fulton County, Georgia shows "Medicine's battle with Death." Note the rod with two snakes. Many mistake it for the Rod of Asclepius (the traditional symbol of healing). However, this is the Caduceus, symbol of commerce. A common error in the USA.
A frieze showing Death as a skeleton on the left, and Medicine as a man on the right holding Death back. The man, representing Medicine, is holding a caduceus, the symbol of commerce.
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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garius.bsky.social
Can't wait for the eventual Moronberg Trials.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7d
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
kincaid.org.uk
Had to do AI training at Ork today. One example was the Job Centre using LLMs to pimp up CVs for job seekers.

Which is ironic as every application in our recent sift that event hinted at AI went straight in the bin...
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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martynwarren.bsky.social
Really thought there would be some kind of thumbnail!
Screenshot frm my shop gallery, showing some mantis and katydid prints for sale.
November 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
I'm having a sale on my newsletter!

A Premium subscription (3 issues/week) is now 20% off, so it's $4.80 a month or $48 per year (that's 156 issues!). You can also get this as a gift for that space nerd in your life.

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/holiday-sa...

P.S. Bonus cool space pic at this link!
Holiday Sale for BAN subscriptions
A 20% discount off the price, and you can also get this as a gift for someone else
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM