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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 10h

This is amazing and a reminder that I want to build a similar machine soon

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 10h

We should never have gone beyond Windows 98. Or the invention of the wheel

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 10h

The irony is that today is also International E-Waste Day. Wonder how much this will contribute to the pile.

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah. The rest of us were baffled too

Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 12h

Absolute legend. My ex-creative director tried hiring him to do a video game cover. Asked Drew to do the illustration in a specific style (why, I don’t know). Drew politely declined and offered to supply the number of the illustrator he was being asked to imitate. Wish I’d kept that fax

Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 12h

RIP legendary illustrator Drew Struzan.

US one sheet: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 23h

‘96% of healthcare professionals said the model helps to reduce children’s anxiety, and 46% reported a lesser need to use sedation after the children played with the set.‘

‘Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.’

Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 23h

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment

Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.

www.cnbc.com

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 22h

I nearly didn’t but it felt right in the context

Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 1d

Publishing’s use of social media is generally appalling. It’s usually one post per day, a single image which may sometimes get converted to a reel. No faces, no personality. Even publishers with large followings get low engagement. So irrelevant on something they could fill with content

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Concerned about what the peace means for Palestinians? Concerned whether there will be peace at all? Concerned about accountability for the Israeli genocide? Shabana Mahmood has this to say to you.

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 1d

Did… do no one vet the title of this book?

The book by The Reverend Fergus Butler-Gallie is subtitled “confessions and communions of a young priest” and is called “Touching Cloth”

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Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com · 1d

Unlike museums, arts, cultural and heritage organisations, science and discovery centres are unable to access gov't and National Lottery funding for their infrastructure needs.

If you recognise the huge cultural and economic benefits of fostering an interest in science, sign this open letter.

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Association for Science and Discovery Centres (ASDC) @sciencecentres.bsky.social · 1d

Don't have time to read the newsletter? Here's what our open letter is about-

We're calling on the Government to ensure the UK’s network of science and discovery centres are recognised, valued and funded for the future.

Sign below 🔽 Every signature counts!
www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter20...

Association for science and discovery centres open letter 2025

This open letter is part of the campaign 'Science Centres for our Future: Supporting engagement, education and diversity in STEM for the next 25 years' calling on the Department for Science, Innovatio...

www.sciencecentres.org.uk

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 2d

Why The Hobbit and not Weirdstone of Brisingamen? Why Harry Potter but not Wizard of Earthsea? What makes some books like Titus Groan become acclaimed but not mainstream popular whilst others become part of our literary language?

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 3d

I went to see The Word For World Is Map and I would just like to observe that Ursula K. LeGuin was a gift to humanity in so many ways.

A print of Ursula's map of the Labyrinth of The Tombs of Atuan.

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about it in 2018, but it's an issue so fiercely defended by social silence that I found it impossible to get any traction. It's one of those occasions on which everyone thinks you've gone mad, as the alternative is to recognise that the system is mad.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Enough of Carillion culture. Make bosses pay for the carnage they cause | George Monbiot

Here’s how to tame corporate power, and prevent ruthless executives from enriching themselves by harming us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 3d

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 3d

In every class I visit the kids all why I use fingerprints in my books. I ask them right back and this is what they suggested this week:

Because it's a circle
To make it beautiful
To show that it's real

They used to say "because they are all different". They still said that but first, "real"

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 3d

Channel 4

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