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Dave

@davemck.bsky.social

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Glaswegian nerdy type, former rocket surgeon, now doing controls & model based design. Massive fan of MATLAB, Simulink & test driven development (TDD). #MATLAB #Simulink #TDD

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Dave @davemck.bsky.social · Jun 23

For some reason, I bought a 3D printer a few weeks ago. Goodness knows I've not got the spare time for it, but it's been quite nice to muck about with.
I've slowly been printing some Warhammer like bits because one of the kids has some Warhammer friends, who really have Warhammer Dads.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 5h

Ten years ago today.

Tweet that reads: 'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

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SaxAddict 🎷 🎗🇺🇸 @saxaddict.bsky.social · 16h

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 8h

Teaching the Scythians, so it is perhaps time to remind you that they had some stunning "sleeve" type tattoos of animals, birds, battles, and dots. Due to the preference for mummifications, we have a few pieces of their skin that survive from burials, like this one now at the State Hermitage Museum.

Fragment of mummified skin showing a Scythian tattoo. © The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, 2017. Photo: V Terebenin.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 15h

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

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John Berry @drawncoyote.bsky.social · 23h

The Simpsons screenshot of the Stonecutters singing "Who makes Jared Leto a star?"

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"

“Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion

After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 12h

This rocked up in the replies and remember that this was *water* that did this. Regardless of how well you know the physics, the pressures down there remain beyond imagination.

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Kat Kayelem 🏳️‍⚧️ @kayelem23.bsky.social · 12h

One of the more interesting images from the NTSB report on the Titan submersible implosion.

Imagine you work in data recovery. You've got data off devices dropped from heights, driven over, immersed in water, lightly incinerated... then someone from NTSB rocks up and leaves this with you...

Image of "a large electronic and metallic mass" taken from the NTSB report on the hull failure and implosion of the submersible Titan. The description reads:

"The NTSB laboratory received a large electronic and metallic mass from the United States Coast Guard on November 13, 2023. The NTSB was working on behalf of the USCG. The mass was transported in plastic storage container. The mass weighed approximately 100 lbs. The mass was a compilation of compressed metal, compressed plastic, compressed electronic components and compressed other materials. The mass exhibited signs of thermal damage without typical signatures of having been exposed to open flame. A section of the mass contained polar fleece material."

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Dave @davemck.bsky.social · 9h

The other part of the story hopefully being increased corporation tax.

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Tim Jerrome @timjerrome.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you to the eternally wonderful Joe and Ollie for guiding me through my first time on a podcast - if intense ramblings about finding queer snippets in rural archives is your thing, give it a listen! @themerl.bsky.social

The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 12h

🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏

Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.

In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

The Absolute Units art. Three giant sheep hover over the English countryside.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 11h

Look at my friend’s necklace that she wore this evening to the talk!

It has our Moon and even Pluto!

A necklace showing the nine planets of our system and our Moon. Technically Pluto is not one of the main planets and that is just the way the cookie crumbles.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 4d

I got my then pre-teen to look closely at all the art in the Doge’s Palace in Venice by having a “Where’s Willy” competition with him, to see which of us could count the most penises.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 4d

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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💥𝐒𝐀𝐓𝐒𝐔💥 obsessed with KINGDOM @satsscarlet.bsky.social · 1d

Day 15 "Clock"
#poketober25

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 13h

You wouldn't BELIEVE how many mp3s were torrented off of Ofsted's servers back in the day.

If you were amazed how fast you could download good Metal music in the London area back then, there's a reason why.

Don't ask me how i know.

Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 13h

At one point, two thirds of the earth's digitised pornography was held on Imperial and Delft academic domains. Apparently.

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 20h

This week my newsletter is a response to @davekarpf.bsky.social's "It's Giving Enron," which I think is a helpful narrative but not sufficient to explain the the current state of the industry

www.leahreich.com/you-are-inve...

You Are Inventory

Yesterday I read a newsletter from another writer named Dave Karpf, in which he offered a framework for understanding the current AI bubble. His framework is comprised of the three stories he says we ...

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 19h

Turns out that painting them isn't much easier than photographing them, but I'm pretty pleased with how this belted kingfisher turned out. #illustration #birds

A digital painting of a female belted kingfisher perched on a wooden post. She is blue on the back and top of the head with a white belly and rusty red 'belt'.

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outsidewolves @outsidewolves.bsky.social · 5d

outside wolf

A scanned image of a sketchpage. The early life cycle of a wolf is depicted in drawings and text: "Take a wolf." [a quadrupedal wolf.] "Make him bipedal." [He is standing on two plantigrade legs.] "Dress him in clothes from the department store." [He wears pants and a rugby shirt, one leg propped up on a small box.] "Give him a 20 year long interdisciplinary education." [He is seen as a high school math student, looking at a wall clock while using a graphing calculator. As a college student, timing the movement of a film development can. As a graduate student, looking at mortarboards being tossed in the air.] "He is now ready to go outside!" [He is once again on all fours, albeit still in bidepal form, wearing kneepads and a harness which reads "MASTER'S DEGREE- OK TO PET."

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Dr Joanna McKenzie @jobob.bsky.social · 1d

Day 15: frog #inktober2025

A sketchbook page with a drawing of a frog perched on a rock, facing right, throat slightly bulging.

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Dave @davemck.bsky.social · 1d

Do you know what's really refreshing. They look happy. Genuinely having fun. I don't think I can remember the leader of a political party in the last few years actually smiling.
The exception being the lib Dems. Willie Rennie (Scotland) and Ed Davey are having fun while doing policy, that cuts thru.

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outsidewolves @outsidewolves.bsky.social · 1d

A four panel comic strip. An anthropomorphic wolf man runs into an office where three others are working at their desks. He says, "The fire marshal is coming for annual inspections!" In the next panel, a seated wolf is playing with a remote control airplane, and a smoke detector with an open battery compartment is mounted on the wall above him. The first wolf says "Put that 9 volt back in the smoke detector!" In the third panel, an anthropomorphic dog holds a power strip while standing next to a sculpture comprised of multiple power strips. The first wolf says "Hide your..."Daisy Chain Power Strip" sculpture!?" In the fourth panel, a bear proudly displays his t-shirt which reads "I love storing combustibles around radiators." The first wolf, in exasperation, yells "CHANGE YOUR SHIRT!"

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Three panel cartoon by Wawa wiwa comics

An octopus, a shark and a jellyfish are talking to each other

Octopus: I once saw a human and peed myself

Shark: a human saw and peed himself

Jellyfish: a human touched me once and his friend peed on him

Octopus: dude…

Shark: what?

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

"Great first draft, Isla. Now if you could just take out every incidence of 'for fucksake' then I'll sign off on it and we'll put it up on the website."

zuzak 🦭 @zuzakistan.com · 2d

Glasgow City Council has a whole sovereign citizen FAQ

whoever wrote this was so very tired

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Why you require to pay Council Tax - Glasgow City Council

Information about why you are required to pay Council Tax.

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