David Woakes
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David Woakes
@woakesd.bsky.social
· Aug 5
My kid made this and says it’s a model of a Cyber Truck (yes that one). I think she got it just right.
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I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
AI Skills Boost - AI Skills Hub
aiskillshub.org.uk
January 28, 2026 at 12:07 PM
I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
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Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.
January 12, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.
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It seems that Nadhim Zahawi has died
January 12, 2026 at 12:16 PM
It seems that Nadhim Zahawi has died
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If, like me, you did NOT get the ONE thing you wanted from Santy (a 95-year-old bachelor farmer with plenty land and a bad cough), treat yourself to a print from an Irish doodler instead - big discounts across the shop, including on bundles, so go on. Go on go on go ON.
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
December 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
If, like me, you did NOT get the ONE thing you wanted from Santy (a 95-year-old bachelor farmer with plenty land and a bad cough), treat yourself to a print from an Irish doodler instead - big discounts across the shop, including on bundles, so go on. Go on go on go ON.
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
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Irish rap group Kneecap calls for action in solidarity with eight pro-Palestine hunger strikers, warning the British state is using isolation and pressure to break them. As the prisoners face life-threatening conditions, Kneecap links the repression to Britain’s colonial history.
December 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Irish rap group Kneecap calls for action in solidarity with eight pro-Palestine hunger strikers, warning the British state is using isolation and pressure to break them. As the prisoners face life-threatening conditions, Kneecap links the repression to Britain’s colonial history.
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Oxygen feels essential to life.
But when it first spread across Earth, it nearly wiped life out.
For billions of years, organisms survived without it... until a slow chemical shift rewrote the rules.
Oxygen didn’t start life.
It almost ended it.
🧪 #SciComm
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But when it first spread across Earth, it nearly wiped life out.
For billions of years, organisms survived without it... until a slow chemical shift rewrote the rules.
Oxygen didn’t start life.
It almost ended it.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/pn0A04F
That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything (And Made Us Possible)
How life survived a planet-changing chemical shift billions of years ago
medium.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Oxygen feels essential to life.
But when it first spread across Earth, it nearly wiped life out.
For billions of years, organisms survived without it... until a slow chemical shift rewrote the rules.
Oxygen didn’t start life.
It almost ended it.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/pn0A04F
But when it first spread across Earth, it nearly wiped life out.
For billions of years, organisms survived without it... until a slow chemical shift rewrote the rules.
Oxygen didn’t start life.
It almost ended it.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/pn0A04F
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call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else.
unplug the machine.
unplug the machine.
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else.
unplug the machine.
unplug the machine.
Unreasonably optimistic view of an AI future in the Guardian. This only works out if the billionaires decide to keep us white collar workers around.
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
What will your life look like in 2035?
When AIs become consistently more capable than humans, life could change in strange ways. Here we look at how the era of artificial general intelligence might feel
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Unreasonably optimistic view of an AI future in the Guardian. This only works out if the billionaires decide to keep us white collar workers around.
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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No one could have predicted 25 years ago that Wikipedia would grow into the backbone of knowledge on the internet it is today, powering search engines, voice assistants, and generative AI tools. 🧵⬇️ (1/3)
December 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
No one could have predicted 25 years ago that Wikipedia would grow into the backbone of knowledge on the internet it is today, powering search engines, voice assistants, and generative AI tools. 🧵⬇️ (1/3)
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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
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absolute bargain if any of yous have a use for 7,949,020,598 wasps
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
absolute bargain if any of yous have a use for 7,949,020,598 wasps
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Or maybe diagnosis is at last catching up with the crises so many have been enduring, which have for so long been minimised, dismissed or ignored.
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Wes Streeting orders inquiry into mental health ‘overdiagnosis’
Health secretary wants clinical review of the rise in conditions such as ADHD and autism that cause people to drop out of the workforce
share.google
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Or maybe diagnosis is at last catching up with the crises so many have been enduring, which have for so long been minimised, dismissed or ignored.
share.google/1aKjHRJ596x6...
share.google/1aKjHRJ596x6...
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Must have rained. Streets are wet. A leg lamp illuminates a second storey window. Out in the bay a squid attacks a pirate ship. But the night clutches its secrets. This is Roku City.
November 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Must have rained. Streets are wet. A leg lamp illuminates a second storey window. Out in the bay a squid attacks a pirate ship. But the night clutches its secrets. This is Roku City.
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Can we stop outsourcing our thinking and humanity to the plagiarism machine that's actively heating the planet? Thanks.
November 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Can we stop outsourcing our thinking and humanity to the plagiarism machine that's actively heating the planet? Thanks.
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A kid handing you a book & asking you to read it to them is the same as being knighted. Like of course. It’s an honor to serve you, m’lord
October 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A kid handing you a book & asking you to read it to them is the same as being knighted. Like of course. It’s an honor to serve you, m’lord
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Ah, yes, the double standard.
Kids do edgy things like saying "I love Hitler." Just ignore it.
Oh, also, my admin is getting people fired and pulling their visas for saying mean things about Charlie Kirk.
Someone should ask Vance why its only the shitheads who support him who get to be "edgy"
Kids do edgy things like saying "I love Hitler." Just ignore it.
Oh, also, my admin is getting people fired and pulling their visas for saying mean things about Charlie Kirk.
Someone should ask Vance why its only the shitheads who support him who get to be "edgy"
October 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Ah, yes, the double standard.
Kids do edgy things like saying "I love Hitler." Just ignore it.
Oh, also, my admin is getting people fired and pulling their visas for saying mean things about Charlie Kirk.
Someone should ask Vance why its only the shitheads who support him who get to be "edgy"
Kids do edgy things like saying "I love Hitler." Just ignore it.
Oh, also, my admin is getting people fired and pulling their visas for saying mean things about Charlie Kirk.
Someone should ask Vance why its only the shitheads who support him who get to be "edgy"
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“If you get hit by a car travelling at 50km/h, you’ve only got a 1.5-in-10 chance of surviving. If it’s going 30km/h you’ve got a nine-in-10 chance.”
“But it was not enough to put up a sign that says 30km/h…there also needed to be design changes to slow down traffic.”
Speed is always a factor.
“But it was not enough to put up a sign that says 30km/h…there also needed to be design changes to slow down traffic.”
Speed is always a factor.
Switching 50km/h speed limits to 30km/h would protect cyclists while barely affecting commutes, research finds
One expert says a cyclist hit by a car travelling 50km/h has about a one-in-10 chance of surviving, while at 30km/h it is a nine-in-10 chance
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“If you get hit by a car travelling at 50km/h, you’ve only got a 1.5-in-10 chance of surviving. If it’s going 30km/h you’ve got a nine-in-10 chance.”
“But it was not enough to put up a sign that says 30km/h…there also needed to be design changes to slow down traffic.”
Speed is always a factor.
“But it was not enough to put up a sign that says 30km/h…there also needed to be design changes to slow down traffic.”
Speed is always a factor.
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imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
September 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
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Elon Musk is responsible for at least 300,000 deaths, a number that's steadily increasing, it doesn't include Ukrainian civilians murdered as a result of his attempt to protect the Russian navy when he disabled Starlink to sabotage a Ukrainian defence operation.
May 31, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Elon Musk is responsible for at least 300,000 deaths, a number that's steadily increasing, it doesn't include Ukrainian civilians murdered as a result of his attempt to protect the Russian navy when he disabled Starlink to sabotage a Ukrainian defence operation.
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Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says
Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting”.
The man noticed that posts encouraging him to “get Threads”, Mark Zuckerberg’s rival to Elon Musk’s X, were being dropped into his Instagram feed featuring embedded posts of uniformed girls as young as 13 with their faces visible and, in most cases, their names. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
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Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
September 15, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
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one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer
Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
September 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer
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A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
September 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.