Pendaran the Poet
@pendaraniwys.bsky.social
Doggerel dispenser; legend recycler. More poems and Arthurian legend retold over at pendaraniwys.com. Support and shorter poems at patreon.com/PendaranIwys
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I did this in both of my classes this semester. It was super successful. The students had to ask an LLM about a subject they already knew well, like their favorite musician, movie, sports team, or something else they had previously researched.
November 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I did this in both of my classes this semester. It was super successful. The students had to ask an LLM about a subject they already knew well, like their favorite musician, movie, sports team, or something else they had previously researched.
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I'm part of a new podcast with showrunner Kat Viken where we discuss the impact of AI on creative careers, with celebrity guests in film, TV, comedy and arts.
Check out AI & The Creative Professional!
🎧 https://pod.link/1850401719
Check out AI & The Creative Professional!
🎧 https://pod.link/1850401719
November 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I'm part of a new podcast with showrunner Kat Viken where we discuss the impact of AI on creative careers, with celebrity guests in film, TV, comedy and arts.
Check out AI & The Creative Professional!
🎧 https://pod.link/1850401719
Check out AI & The Creative Professional!
🎧 https://pod.link/1850401719
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Very excited to make my @coherentcomedy.bsky.social debut, live on Zoom on December 1st!! 🥳
If you’ve wanted to see me do standup but don’t live around London, now’s your chance!
If you’ve wanted to see me do standup but don’t live around London, now’s your chance!
🍓DAVID STRATHDEE🍓
And so @davidstrathdee.bsky.social completed what will be an absolutely incredible line-up.
Get your tickets below 👇
#CoherentComedy
And so @davidstrathdee.bsky.social completed what will be an absolutely incredible line-up.
Get your tickets below 👇
#CoherentComedy
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Very excited to make my @coherentcomedy.bsky.social debut, live on Zoom on December 1st!! 🥳
If you’ve wanted to see me do standup but don’t live around London, now’s your chance!
If you’ve wanted to see me do standup but don’t live around London, now’s your chance!
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TODAY ON TGS: Our second This Guy Rocked episode featuring Prof. John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social on Bernard Mandeville, a thinker who was so far ahead of his time that his writing got put on trial for it. Very cool.
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
TODAY ON TGS: Our second This Guy Rocked episode featuring Prof. John Callanan @johnjocallanan.bsky.social on Bernard Mandeville, a thinker who was so far ahead of his time that his writing got put on trial for it. Very cool.
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London SOLD OUT, so you'll have to go in Brighton, Bristol, Manchester or Edinburgh
The Mediaeval Poot Geoffrey Chaucer returns for his Christmasse Merrimynts this December - in five whole different cities! Brighton! Bristol! Manchester! Edinburgh! London! Tickets here linktr.ee/jlukeroberts
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
London SOLD OUT, so you'll have to go in Brighton, Bristol, Manchester or Edinburgh
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Sound Heap is back, with an episode based on YOUR suggestions (well, if you're one of our supporters who suggested things)
podfollow.com/soundheap/view
podfollow.com/soundheap/view
Sound Heap with John-Luke Roberts
John-Luke Roberts, the CEO and Fun Captain of Sound Heap, Inc., welcomes you to the Sound Heap podcast – the podcast of podcasts. It will give you a taste of shows from across the Sound Heap network, ...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Sound Heap is back, with an episode based on YOUR suggestions (well, if you're one of our supporters who suggested things)
podfollow.com/soundheap/view
podfollow.com/soundheap/view
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The @realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive for this week is Class.
Tell me your favourite sci fi and fantasy that deals with class in interesting or unusual ways. Give me books, tv, movies, games etc.
Your recommendations please! (or warnings to steer clear also welcome)
Tell me your favourite sci fi and fantasy that deals with class in interesting or unusual ways. Give me books, tv, movies, games etc.
Your recommendations please! (or warnings to steer clear also welcome)
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The @realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive for this week is Class.
Tell me your favourite sci fi and fantasy that deals with class in interesting or unusual ways. Give me books, tv, movies, games etc.
Your recommendations please! (or warnings to steer clear also welcome)
Tell me your favourite sci fi and fantasy that deals with class in interesting or unusual ways. Give me books, tv, movies, games etc.
Your recommendations please! (or warnings to steer clear also welcome)
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Want to walk into and through an actual Iron Age house…and UP THE STAIRS?
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
November 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Want to walk into and through an actual Iron Age house…and UP THE STAIRS?
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
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Migrant barracks
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Migrant barracks
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
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The Mediaeval Poot Geoffrey Chaucer returns for his Christmasse Merrimynts this December - in five whole different cities! Brighton! Bristol! Manchester! Edinburgh! London! Tickets here linktr.ee/jlukeroberts
October 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Mediaeval Poot Geoffrey Chaucer returns for his Christmasse Merrimynts this December - in five whole different cities! Brighton! Bristol! Manchester! Edinburgh! London! Tickets here linktr.ee/jlukeroberts
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British Camp, Malvern Hills; when standing on top looking acrosd the ramparts towards Pinnacle Hill you can clearly see where Elgar got his influence from. #hillfort
November 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
British Camp, Malvern Hills; when standing on top looking acrosd the ramparts towards Pinnacle Hill you can clearly see where Elgar got his influence from. #hillfort
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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guys sound heap is back on monday - finalist at the new york radio festival 2025, finalist at the british podcast awards 2025, winner of the bbc audio drama award for best sketch show 2022, it’s a brilliant sketch show that makes fun of all the best and worst types of podcast
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
guys sound heap is back on monday - finalist at the new york radio festival 2025, finalist at the british podcast awards 2025, winner of the bbc audio drama award for best sketch show 2022, it’s a brilliant sketch show that makes fun of all the best and worst types of podcast
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
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November 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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In mediaeval times, maps were made by laying a very big piece of paper over the town, and rubbing the surface with a crayon.
November 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
In mediaeval times, maps were made by laying a very big piece of paper over the town, and rubbing the surface with a crayon.
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When I got SNAP benefits after I left my ex and went back to school, it was $99 a month. I also had kind friends who helped me along, and a job that included free and discounted food. I don't know how people without that kind of support survive, even with benefits.
November 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
When I got SNAP benefits after I left my ex and went back to school, it was $99 a month. I also had kind friends who helped me along, and a job that included free and discounted food. I don't know how people without that kind of support survive, even with benefits.
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I like how you can use emojis to zoom in on a pig
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November 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I like how you can use emojis to zoom in on a pig
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I'm doing a work in progress on monday, and I've sort of forgotten to tell anyone. So, come along please. www.angelcomedy.co.uk/event-detail...
John-Luke Roberts: Work In Progress | The Bill Murray Comedy
John-Luke Roberts: Work In Progress on 3rd November, 2025 at 6:30pm at The Bill Murray. Hosted by Angel Comedy Club London.
www.angelcomedy.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I'm doing a work in progress on monday, and I've sort of forgotten to tell anyone. So, come along please. www.angelcomedy.co.uk/event-detail...
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Come along and witness my London panel show debut! ☺️
Sunday afternoon in London: comedians put the world to rights. (Someone has to!)
Join us as we find out what daft, profound, and just-crazy-enough-to-work ideas these intrepid comics come up with!
queercomedyclub.co.uk/event/101-ru...
@bechillcomedian.bsky.social @davidstrathdee.bsky.social
Join us as we find out what daft, profound, and just-crazy-enough-to-work ideas these intrepid comics come up with!
queercomedyclub.co.uk/event/101-ru...
@bechillcomedian.bsky.social @davidstrathdee.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Come along and witness my London panel show debut! ☺️
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The @realmsunknown.bsky.social deep dive this week is into Portals. Let us know your favourite use of portals in Sci Fi or fantasy.
Give me books! TV! Movies! Games! Comics and anime! Tell me what does portals well and what’s interesting about it!
Give me books! TV! Movies! Games! Comics and anime! Tell me what does portals well and what’s interesting about it!
October 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The @realmsunknown.bsky.social deep dive this week is into Portals. Let us know your favourite use of portals in Sci Fi or fantasy.
Give me books! TV! Movies! Games! Comics and anime! Tell me what does portals well and what’s interesting about it!
Give me books! TV! Movies! Games! Comics and anime! Tell me what does portals well and what’s interesting about it!
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Just remembered I'm doing a WIP on Nov 3rd in Angel and I should probably tell people about it www.angelcomedy.co.uk/event-detail...
John-Luke Roberts: Work In Progress | The Bill Murray Comedy
John-Luke Roberts: Work In Progress on 3rd November, 2025 at 6:30pm at The Bill Murray. Hosted by Angel Comedy Club London.
www.angelcomedy.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Just remembered I'm doing a WIP on Nov 3rd in Angel and I should probably tell people about it www.angelcomedy.co.uk/event-detail...