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Pamela Weaver
@pamelaweaver.bsky.social
Writing for a living, mostly about tech. Historian in a previous life. Politics, history, bikes, books, cricket, gardening, dogs, music. SocDem.
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Ireland/France/South Africa 🇮🇪 🇿🇦 🇫🇷
Fair warning: expect photos of dogs, France & cake
I know for sure that this will absolutely, definitely persuade me to eat meat.
November 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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A link to the Scrivener article, since the one going around is a screenshot, doesn't have the actual link, AND no alt-text, making it useless.

Please share this.

www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scriven...
Scrivener and AI: Why Do I See AI Prompts in My Scrivener Projects on Mac? - Literature & Latte
www.literatureandlatte.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics was just being invented – but there have been so many women who helped shaped the field since its inception
The forgotten women of quantum physics
Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics was just being invented – but there have been so many women who helped shaped the field since its inception
www.newscientist.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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in a way don't we all need something we're drawn to attached to a long pole to free us from a skylight we're stuck in
parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
November 18, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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There won't be a Mars bar fried in Glasgow tonight.
November 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Hullo from Vic.
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Scottish Wildcats were, until now, creatures unknown to me. Turns out, they look exactly how you would expect a Scottish Wildcat to look like...
November 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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There is no reason why this should have made me laugh so hard a bit of gas escaped.
November 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Aujourd'hui sur @franceculture.fr, mon dernier doc sur les traces de Marie Denizard, militante féministe au destin tragique : de la lutte pour les droits politiques des femmes à l’internement forcé www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Marie Denizard, de la présidentielle à l’asile : un podcast à écouter en ligne | France Culture
Dès 1913, l’Amiénoise Marie Denizard s’est portée candidate à la présidentielle – bien avant l’obtention du droit d’éligibilité par les femmes en 1944. Grâce à une jeune historienne, cette précurseuse...
www.radiofrance.fr
November 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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You could literally do a horror anthology based on the different ways this can go wrong.

AI dead mom escapes into your TV, and your digital fridge, and your pacemaker.
What if AI dead mom ends up neglected just like one of those digital picture frames. Sold at a digital goodwill for $2.50.
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
November. In Normandie. 😟
November 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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To all the doubters, AI is so close to being perfect

Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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The Tokyo Electro Automobile Co. Tama Electric Car from 1947.
It achieved the driving range of 96km and the maximum speed of 35km/h.
And it looks GORGEOUS.
I love it.
If they were still being made, I'd get one.
I wonder if a sheep fits in the back seat.
www.nissan-global.com/EN/HERITAGE_...
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Takeji Asano - Moonlight in Mii Temple
#ShinHanga #Woodblock #Print #JapaneseArt #Ukiyo-e
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Spoiler: it’s because he died. The writers of a franchise whose main character has been played by seven actors across sixty years think they have to come up with a plot explanation for the character coming back after dying in the previous movie. radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
EXCLUSIVE: James Bond Writers Reveal Twist That Has Left New Creators With 'Huge Headache' When It Comes to Resurrecting the Super-Spy for Amazon
Bond writers are now racking their brain, trying to move forward with the franchise after the last film's wild twist.
radaronline.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
FPTP is a curse.
If you're looking around thinking "if Trump & the Republicans cause enough suffering, there will be backlash & accountability," I would direct your attention to the UK. Hard to think of any country in history so clearly, demonstrably, theatrically fucked by a single party ... and yet.
The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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The Rest of The World: football can't be played in the snow.
Canada: Hold my beer and watch this...
This is the Canadian Premier League soccer finals and we have a bicycle kick goal in the middle of a blizzard … and that’s the most Canadian thing I’ve ever seen 😂
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
What you get when yoplait innocent 🙄
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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things I have discovered while researching the new series of Human Intelligence: the first ever textbook on forensic science was written in the year 1247 by a crime investigator in Song dynasty China.

It is called Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collect...
Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM