Alison
@ampage.bsky.social
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and each one in their time plays many parts.
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It is rare for something shot in Manchester to feel absolutely Hooklandian, but Small Prophets is a rare thing - an esoteric TV comedy that grows the heart. Mackenzie Crook is a genius. Small Prophets is television treasure.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wLKL...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wLKL...
Small Prophets | Official Trailer - BBC
YouTube video by BBC Trailers
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February 14, 2026 at 8:29 AM
It is rare for something shot in Manchester to feel absolutely Hooklandian, but Small Prophets is a rare thing - an esoteric TV comedy that grows the heart. Mackenzie Crook is a genius. Small Prophets is television treasure.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wLKL...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wLKL...
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Just got a spam email from a supposed book club who want to hold a kind of symposium on my books. Yeah, i dont think they are that type of book. They refer throughout to 'your work' and mention no titles. Blocked and reported.
February 11, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Just got a spam email from a supposed book club who want to hold a kind of symposium on my books. Yeah, i dont think they are that type of book. They refer throughout to 'your work' and mention no titles. Blocked and reported.
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The spreadsheet on this clay tablet, which is almost 4,000 years old, is organised into columns for furrowed area, grain produced, land not sown, and the field’s name.
The first field is called “Of the soldiers who stood in for their fathers”.
It’s ancient Excel, but I find that incredibly moving
The first field is called “Of the soldiers who stood in for their fathers”.
It’s ancient Excel, but I find that incredibly moving
February 11, 2026 at 4:42 PM
The spreadsheet on this clay tablet, which is almost 4,000 years old, is organised into columns for furrowed area, grain produced, land not sown, and the field’s name.
The first field is called “Of the soldiers who stood in for their fathers”.
It’s ancient Excel, but I find that incredibly moving
The first field is called “Of the soldiers who stood in for their fathers”.
It’s ancient Excel, but I find that incredibly moving
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So when Daniel Kahneman met child traffickers, was he thinking fast or slow?
February 9, 2026 at 1:14 AM
So when Daniel Kahneman met child traffickers, was he thinking fast or slow?
I am literally in awe at the power of this act. Can you imagine, the sound of the bagpipes through the tear gas as the police run away? 21 year old king.
Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
February 10, 2026 at 6:20 AM
I am literally in awe at the power of this act. Can you imagine, the sound of the bagpipes through the tear gas as the police run away? 21 year old king.
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I do find this post from Musk hard to process. He doesn't exactly say he just found out Mars is far away, but how else to interpret his explanation for the recent shift in focus? He seems to be saying 'in the light of this new information'. Bizarre.
BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”
February 9, 2026 at 8:06 PM
I do find this post from Musk hard to process. He doesn't exactly say he just found out Mars is far away, but how else to interpret his explanation for the recent shift in focus? He seems to be saying 'in the light of this new information'. Bizarre.
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Don’t let the door hit you on the arse on the way out
February 8, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Don’t let the door hit you on the arse on the way out
McSweeny resigns. First of the gang to go
February 8, 2026 at 2:19 PM
McSweeny resigns. First of the gang to go
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There is no better question right now than “is water really blue?” I’m not joking, the wholesomeness of it, combined with glorious pictures of blue water is. Well. Cleansing.
If you have ever doubted that water really *is* blue, here's a photo of a meltwater pond on a glacier in Greenland. The water is pure, and the white background makes the colour obvious. You need a lot of clean water to see it, but the true colour of water is an incredibly striking brilliant blue.
February 7, 2026 at 7:50 AM
There is no better question right now than “is water really blue?” I’m not joking, the wholesomeness of it, combined with glorious pictures of blue water is. Well. Cleansing.
Wow i have been extemely poorly for two days. Ive only been able to drink sips of water and most of the time asleep. Just woke up clear headed but a bit weak and shaky. Dont know what that was.
February 7, 2026 at 5:17 AM
Wow i have been extemely poorly for two days. Ive only been able to drink sips of water and most of the time asleep. Just woke up clear headed but a bit weak and shaky. Dont know what that was.
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Something I wrote 11 years ago on the old Twitter
February 3, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Something I wrote 11 years ago on the old Twitter
Febyuree
February 2, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
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Qanon was never about taking down actual pedophiles and pursuing justice for victims. It was about smearing any and all prominent liberal figures while protecting and empowering actual pedophiles. Qanon was a movement of pedophiles, protecting pedophiles.
January 31, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Qanon was never about taking down actual pedophiles and pursuing justice for victims. It was about smearing any and all prominent liberal figures while protecting and empowering actual pedophiles. Qanon was a movement of pedophiles, protecting pedophiles.
I signed up to the AI skills hub. It seems to consist mainly of:
- free courses linked to commercial products
- free courses that are not about AI
- paid courses by commercial or academic providers
I did not find any original learning material. I haven't checked it all. I will look.
- free courses linked to commercial products
- free courses that are not about AI
- paid courses by commercial or academic providers
I did not find any original learning material. I haven't checked it all. I will look.
January 30, 2026 at 9:25 AM
I signed up to the AI skills hub. It seems to consist mainly of:
- free courses linked to commercial products
- free courses that are not about AI
- paid courses by commercial or academic providers
I did not find any original learning material. I haven't checked it all. I will look.
- free courses linked to commercial products
- free courses that are not about AI
- paid courses by commercial or academic providers
I did not find any original learning material. I haven't checked it all. I will look.
So my son is not a programmer, but he is interested in old 8-bit video games, and the other day he taught himself a little bit of Lua in a couple of hours, and made one - maybe Catacomb Abyss? - anyway, then he tried using an AI to generate the same thing, mainly to check his handiwork...
January 30, 2026 at 8:36 AM
So my son is not a programmer, but he is interested in old 8-bit video games, and the other day he taught himself a little bit of Lua in a couple of hours, and made one - maybe Catacomb Abyss? - anyway, then he tried using an AI to generate the same thing, mainly to check his handiwork...
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Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.
January 28, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.
Look at this - an amazing graph if it's true. Prototaxites has a completely different carbon absorption spectrum from all other known forms of life?? (Other points in the graph are from the same early-Devonian shale deposit). Can't judge if this is real but it is from legit published research.
January 28, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Look at this - an amazing graph if it's true. Prototaxites has a completely different carbon absorption spectrum from all other known forms of life?? (Other points in the graph are from the same early-Devonian shale deposit). Can't judge if this is real but it is from legit published research.
I've posted about Prototaxites before. Massive fungus that loomed over the early Earth. But new research released literally in the last few days is saying they might be some other unknown form of life... amazing. I hope they are aliens.
youtube.com/watch?v=LqT8...
youtube.com/watch?v=LqT8...
Life, but not as we know it... the Prototaxites mystery deepens again!
YouTube video by Life Through Time
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January 28, 2026 at 8:54 AM
I've posted about Prototaxites before. Massive fungus that loomed over the early Earth. But new research released literally in the last few days is saying they might be some other unknown form of life... amazing. I hope they are aliens.
youtube.com/watch?v=LqT8...
youtube.com/watch?v=LqT8...
Yes. We used to say these things almost verbatim 'they are stitching up candidate selection', 'he doesn't care about building relationships', but this was fringe extremism until now it's too late to undo the damage, it's mainstream discourse.
Isn’t it fun how we always reliably go from “that is a deranged conspiracy that merely proves you are an intolerable extremist, who must be hounded” to “yes, of course this whole thing was an idiotic stitch-up, so what?” without any of the lads ever having been wrong about anything? Rafa, here.
January 28, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Yes. We used to say these things almost verbatim 'they are stitching up candidate selection', 'he doesn't care about building relationships', but this was fringe extremism until now it's too late to undo the damage, it's mainstream discourse.