Alastair MacIntosh
@alastairmac.bsky.social
Archaeologist after a fashion.
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I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
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Wise words from Your Party
I don't understand what is written on the screen in this photo, but it gives me life. Is it Dostoevsky?
November 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Wise words from Your Party
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This sounds dark, but no, it’s way way weirder and worse than that.
On May 11, 1950, while working on the Rawlins National Bank in Wyoming, a construction crew unearthed a whiskey barrel that contained a human skeleton with its skull cap sawed off & an odd pair of shoes. Dr. Lillian Heath, now in her 80s, was asked if she knew anything about it...🧵
November 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This sounds dark, but no, it’s way way weirder and worse than that.
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Save the date! The Arches UK Interest Group (formerly known as the UK User Group) returns with its first hour-long session on Thursday, November 27 at 1:00 PM GMT.
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Save the date! The Arches UK Interest Group (formerly known as the UK User Group) returns with its first hour-long session on Thursday, November 27 at 1:00 PM GMT.
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
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HistoricPlacesLA, an Arches powered system that helps the City of Los Angeles inventory, map, and help protect significant cultural and historic resources, has announced HistoricPlacesLA Revealed.
October 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
HistoricPlacesLA, an Arches powered system that helps the City of Los Angeles inventory, map, and help protect significant cultural and historic resources, has announced HistoricPlacesLA Revealed.
Finally our Silicon Valley overlords will liberate us from our toil as artists, historians and geographers and allow us to follow our true calling as hazardous waste removal operatives. Truly a new golden age awaits.
October 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Finally our Silicon Valley overlords will liberate us from our toil as artists, historians and geographers and allow us to follow our true calling as hazardous waste removal operatives. Truly a new golden age awaits.
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Huge news for science fiction writers
October 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Huge news for science fiction writers
Share your favourite black & white film
September 25, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Share your favourite black & white film
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day 46 of making a cow tools every day unless i don't
December 24, 2024 at 2:29 PM
day 46 of making a cow tools every day unless i don't
What an utterly spurious, facile analysis. Apparently by receiving the generous support of the workhouse, your 19th century pauper stained his hands with the sin of slavery so we should all cough up for reparations today, not just the aristocrat families that walked off scot-free with all the cash.
Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests
Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests
Report highlights how British workhouses were funded and supported by those who profited from slave economy
They were places of crushing hardship for the poorest people in Britain for centuries but a new report highlights how closely workhouses in England and Wales were linked with slavery and British imperialism.
Workhouses, perhaps best known in popular culture through the Charles Dickens story Oliver Twist, were routinely funded and administered by people involved in the slave trade, the study says.
The paper Racial Capitalism and the Workhouse–Plantation Nexus in the Atlantic World was published in Antipode. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:58 AM
What an utterly spurious, facile analysis. Apparently by receiving the generous support of the workhouse, your 19th century pauper stained his hands with the sin of slavery so we should all cough up for reparations today, not just the aristocrat families that walked off scot-free with all the cash.
Just finished this episode yesterday, and while I enjoyed it very much, nobody mentioned my favourite scene, when Jack gave over his duty, chasing the Acheron, because his best friend Stephen urgently needed to be taken ashore for treatment. That to me is the absolute heart of the film!
July 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Just finished this episode yesterday, and while I enjoyed it very much, nobody mentioned my favourite scene, when Jack gave over his duty, chasing the Acheron, because his best friend Stephen urgently needed to be taken ashore for treatment. That to me is the absolute heart of the film!
Thank you, Peter - it is indeed a lovely view.
July 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Thank you, Peter - it is indeed a lovely view.
And what a thread!
this absolutely outstanding Palladian pile is up for sale and you’re all gonna have to bear with me because this one gets a whole thread
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Check out this 10 bedroom country house for sale on Rightmove
10 bedroom country house for sale in Queen Marys Drive, Barlaston, Staffordshire, ST12 for £2,895,000. Marketed by Jackson-Stops, Alderley Edge
www.rightmove.co.uk
June 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
And what a thread!
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Also available
June 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Also available
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Reading local social media! Always, er .. providing torrents of groupthink. Empty shops being blamed on Council [not guilty] rather than interweb [80% responsible] or Brexit [20% responsible, fenland market town]
June 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Reading local social media! Always, er .. providing torrents of groupthink. Empty shops being blamed on Council [not guilty] rather than interweb [80% responsible] or Brexit [20% responsible, fenland market town]
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Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows
June 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows
Hey @2000ad.bsky.social - when did the new Devlin Waugh drop?
very much enjoying Dr Who’s adventures with the topless handsy moustache guys
June 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Hey @2000ad.bsky.social - when did the new Devlin Waugh drop?
"Hennimoooooore!"
May 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"Hennimoooooore!"
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Please consider signing this. It’s a fantastic school chng.it/PMbRp9FR68
Sign the Petition
Save the Newark School of Musical Instrument Crafts!
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May 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Please consider signing this. It’s a fantastic school chng.it/PMbRp9FR68
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My latest: Forgot immigration and Brexit, here’s how intra-government battles over bins could make - or break - Starmer’s government.
Trouble at the tip
A half-arsed stand-off between central government and local councils is making it harder for people to do the right thing. Westminster should be worried.
open.substack.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:32 AM
My latest: Forgot immigration and Brexit, here’s how intra-government battles over bins could make - or break - Starmer’s government.
