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Natalie Alana Ashton
@natalan.bsky.social
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🚊 connecting disabled communities in the North @transportforall.org.uk.
📚 publishing philosophy on knowledge and social change @ nataliealanaashton.notion.site.

don't blame my employer for my views, they begged me to stop skeeting. she/her.
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amaditalks.bsky.social
Folks with Diabetes!

There is an urgent recall on some FreeStyle Libre 3 and FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus sensors because they are showing false low glucose readings.

Check your sensor serial numbers at freestylecheck.com
Home | FreeStyle - Abbott
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November 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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ageofoddish.bsky.social
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane. A plate of the same cookies.
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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jsthrill.modphi.com
Sophie Vershbow @svershbow Whenever someone tells me they used ChatGPT [Mr Rogers sitting at a computer facing the viewer] “You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful”
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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quiteclare.bsky.social
"These windows heat the street", as my childminder used to say of her single glazed ones...
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
natalan.bsky.social
i grew up with double glazing so i've never understood why 90s parents and 90s TV ads were obsessed with it. but now we have two single glazed windows, and jesus. the heat just goes straight out of them even with the curtains closed.
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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gfsc.community
We are live in 5 mins!!
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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hatulimyafim.bsky.social
I had triple espresso I zoom to the moon I dance upon the stars I eat a comet for dinner
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
Large language mistake

Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... great read from @benjaminjriley.bsky.social
Our cognition improves because of language — but it’s not created or defined by it. Take away our ability to speak, and we can still think, reason, form beliefs, fall in love, and move about the world; our range of what we can experience and think about remains vast. But take away language from a large language model, and you are left with literally nothing at all.
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
natalan.bsky.social
oh go on then
chaninicholas.bsky.social Chani Nicholas @chaninicholas.bsky.social · 7d
WELCOME SAGITTARIUS SEASON! HYPERBOLE! ENTHUSIASM! AGGRESSIVE GENEROSITY! OPTIMISTICALLY OVEREXTEND YOURSELF! KNOW IT ALL! TMI! PDA! UNHINGED AS AN ATTACHMENT STYLE! BRUTAL HONESTY AS A LOVE LANGUAGE! LIFE IS SHORT! REGRET IS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAD INSIDE! F ICE! EAT THE OLIGARCHY! FREE PALESTINE!
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
natalan.bsky.social
everyone goes on about the bike lanes and the trams, but a place i think we're really behind the Netherlands is the easy availability of stracciatella yogurt
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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seanmorl.com
This Friday evening is The Morl Society:
A livestream of short niche presentations delivered by people who signed up to give short niche presentations. Even I'm not 100% on what they're all about, exactly.

Watch live from 7.30pm at www.twitch.tv/seanmorl
The Morl Society 4: The Programme Martijn Frazer The first successful* dutch voyage to Indonesia FunkyMrChicken "It's so hard to a Wi-Fi these days": An exploration of Modern ICt, its application in the home, and what that means in the context of Late-Stage Capitalism Ash / LooseyLeftie Innovative Puppetry in 1979's 'The Muppet Movie' MaggieFBK The Life Of Why: Felt and Scene Dan McKee The Theme Tunes of Tony Hatch: The Themes Tunes Of Tony Hatch Caroline My American Town Has a 100-Year-Old-Castle KingOfThyme The Vnexpected A-Z of Docthor Who [sic]: The Universe of Doctor Who is just a TV Show and the alphabet can prove it Benjamin Animation I REJECT YOUR [virtual] REALITY AND SUBSTITUTE MY OWN Friday 28th November, 7.30pm GMT www.twitch.tv/seanmorl
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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seanmorl.com
My latest for @nowthenmag.bsky.social:

The English public have rejected atoms and have embraced the ethereal grasp of Big Ghost.

Featuring an interview with @davidwclarke.bsky.social about @nfsengland.bsky.social.

nowthenmagazine.com/articles/a-f...
A Farewell To Atoms: Adjusting to the Era of Big Ghost
Sean Morley discusses the myth of the physicalist consensus and how supernatural beliefs are flourishing in an era of isolation and mistrust with folklorist Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam Univers...
nowthenmagazine.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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shannonvallor.bsky.social
Meta, my expectations for you were low, but JFC
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d
17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
By and large, however, the allegations against the other social media platforms are less detailed than those against Meta. The internal documents cited by the plaintiffs allege: Meta intentionally designed its youth safety features to be ineffective and rarely used, and blocked testing of safety features that it feared might be harmful to growth. Meta required users to be caught 17 times attempting to traffic people for sex before it would remove them from its platform, which a document described as “a very, very, very high strike threshold." Meta recognized that optimizing its products to increase teen engagement resulted in serving them more harmful content, but did so anyway. Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.
November 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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dell.bsky.social
"let people enjoy things, okay i enjoy critical analysis and being a hater"
November 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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kateri.bsky.social
Trans Theft Horso is everything indie games should be. A brilliant and unique experience, made by a singular weirdo with a dream.
benjamilian.bsky.social Ben Swithen, a person @benjamilian.bsky.social · 9d
I'm taking Trans Theft Horso to AdventureX narrative gaming convention tomorrow where I'll get to exhibit demos for the game, plus let people pet some plush animal friends.

Here are some visuals I made for the demo menu today #AdvX25
November 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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andreagrimes.com
I TOLD Y'ALL I didn't want to learn anything else!!! I said I was DONE with information and I MEANT IT!! I don't want to KNOW THINGS any longer! I was VERY CLEAR about this: do not inform me.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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tabathasouthey.bsky.social
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?” The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy. ‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly. You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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bgallaghercoll.bsky.social
Heron has arrived. On the River Kelvin in Glasgow, below Belmont St bridge. #birds
Heron stands on a rock in the river Heron, wings outstretched, about to land on a rock in the river. Heron, wings outstretched, about to land on a rock in the river.
November 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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euthyphro.bsky.social
Not me, though. I'm gonna talk openly about how challenging I found motherhood without shame. It's criminal what we expect women to endure with a smile on their face. I love my children, but I hate the social role of motherhood. It's dehumanizing to the women whose lives it polices.
November 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
natalan.bsky.social
does anyone actually understand this?
cstross.bsky.social Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 9d
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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benjamilian.bsky.social
I'm taking Trans Theft Horso to AdventureX narrative gaming convention tomorrow where I'll get to exhibit demos for the game, plus let people pet some plush animal friends.

Here are some visuals I made for the demo menu today #AdvX25
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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lolennui.bsky.social
watching your husband’s phone light up like a Christmas tree and knowing it’s President Donald J Trump
Rama duwaji looking angelic with her chin resting on her palm
November 22, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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sadvil.bsky.social
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?

We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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jblainefoster.bsky.social
But yeah the formula is “I used to do sports! But now I can’t do [basic activity of daily living]. I have tried graded exercise therapy and was concerned when it didn’t help because I want to be Productive Under Capitalism!”
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
it's weird to live in a world where a new 'worst thing you've ever imagined' happens at least a few times a month and it's easy to let it all run together and just sort of wash over you and go totally numb to all of it so you don't freak out because you still have to do laundry and go to work.
November 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM