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n-j-a.bsky.social
Nic
@n-j-a.bsky.social
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Writer. Director. Aretologist.
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n-j-a.bsky.social
More delightful, greedy fools. #squirrels #wildlife
December 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
n-j-a.bsky.social
Behold these adorable idiots.
A tubby grey squirrel gobbles another cracked acorn it holds in its stupid chubby little paws, looking straight into the camera with one black beady eye, defiantly. A slightly more svelt grey squirrel holds an in its stupid chubby little paws, very close to its mouth, as if tasting it before gobbling it down, looking straight into the camera a sense of slight shame as if being judged. An absolute unit of a grey squirrel perches on a fence post, its tail curled, its expression suggesting it knows it has been eating non-stop for the entire morning and it's not going to stop, so please stop filming and shaming me. A let's face it clearly chunky grey squirrel sits on a fence with an acorn stuffed in its adorable face, its paws hanging in front of it, bearing an expression of frozen guilt, like a dog with a stolen sausage.
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
n-j-a.bsky.social
We gathered acorns to stop them clogging the drains, and stored them in a pot. We may be responsible for a burgeoning obesity crisis in the local squirrel population.
December 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
n-j-a.bsky.social
No. Worries if not, my friend. WORRIES if not.
October 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
n-j-a.bsky.social
Is this put-rocks-on-pizza ChatteGPT or its cousin who goes to a different school?
October 17, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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clairedean.bsky.social
A podcast has just been released of my story 'Feather Girls' read by MyAnna Buring: wordtheatre.org/weekly/
Weekly Stories · WORDTheatre
wordtheatre.org
October 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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elisecutts.bsky.social
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
September 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
n-j-a.bsky.social
Got raptured but forgot my keys. How should I proceed?
September 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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commonmugwort.bsky.social
Ruins of Athens.
#Athens #UrbanPhotography
Colour photo. Taken through a gap in a fence, a long, dry empty lot, between two walls, with the rear face of a ruined neoclassical building. Traces of paint on the wall indicate there was another house facing the street here once, probably with a courtyard garden in between. The remaining ruin has two storeys, a tile roof, a covered porch or patio in the back, and an upper storey in two sections with a narrow roofed corridor in between. The whole is a typically Athenian yellow umber, with a bright green strip of invasive ailanthus trees. In the background, more buildings and the blue sky.
September 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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End of summer, autumnal skies are superior to summer skies. I shall not be taking questions.
Can one ever describe the sort of dusk sunset sky that transitions left to right from tangerine cloud into grapefruit red while impossible dark blue almost rainclouds in front of that hover before the last blue green glimpse of the light of the setting sun? Probably not.
August 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Not now, Unique 1.5m Year-Old Ice...
Headline: "Unique 1.5m year-old ice to be melted to unlock mystery." Below: a photograph of a circular section of ice sample housed in an excitingly futuristic metal casing, all mounted in a metal trough. Out of focus in the background, a figure in a red coat and what looks like a laboratory.
July 18, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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schoolofnight.bsky.social
It's almost upon us! 5 DAYS till we return to London and to #SandsStudios for 2 very special gigs to mark our 20th anniversary. Still a few tickets left at sandsmusic.eventive.org/films/681cc5e2…
@robertmountford.bsky.social @coxitude.bsky.social @dylanemery.bsky.social @oliversenton.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Intriguing Going Rogue from @tansyg.bsky.social this week exploring rare "twin indie films" (twindies?) Dredd and The Raid. Who came up with what first? Who borrowed from whom? And who actually directed Dredd..?

https://www.patreon.com/GoingRoguePodcast
June 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
n-j-a.bsky.social
Road to nowhere...
An abstract photograph of the edge of a road. A vertical white line in the centre splits the shot left and right, on the left a crack etched into the tarmac like a lightning bolt, on the right a grassy verge and ditch run top to bottom at a slight angle.
May 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Social media has evolved. It's no longer five sites posting screenshots from the other four. Now it's videos.
April 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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jrfhanger.bsky.social
Global solar power is doubling every three years! Wow!

"Solar power surged by a record 474 TWh in 2024, the largest annual growth ever recorded in
absolute terms and the fastest increase in six years (+29%)."

See p.13 of Ember's new study.
#energysky #greensky
ember-energy.org/app/uploads/...
April 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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krissychula.bsky.social
This is high art
April 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Read weird books, go to strange places you've not heard of, watch obscure DVDs you find in jumble sales, listen to suspicious cassettes from bins, walk down streets that curve in a peculiar manner, say the third thing that comes to mind, avoid the verb to be, NEVER use LLMs as search engines.
March 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Storm. In the mountains the sky grumbles like the irate gods.
A hill in a mountainous landscape, covered in trees, with low mountain peaks in the background, lies beneath a troubled, cloudy sky, which seems to mirror the curvature of the hill below.
March 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only?
A still from Battle Beyond The Stars, showing a rag tag group of space wayfarers around a space table.
March 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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commonmugwort.bsky.social
Will Eisner, Hamlet on a Rooftop: stendec7.wordpress.com/hamlet-on-ro...
Hamlet On Rooftop (Will Eisner) Comic Tale
Visit the post for more.
stendec7.wordpress.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Diogenes, patiently waiting for you to get the hell out of his light.
In a park, against a backdrop of bushes, with a glimpse of houses beyond, a concrete sculpture depicts a bearded Diogenes, clad in sparse cloth, sitting on the ground and using both hands to lift his bowl to his lips. He looks serious, perhaps even a little disapproving. Or maybe he's just lost in thought. No, he's definitely judging you.
February 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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lingthusiasm.bsky.social
Episode 49 - How translators approach a text

How do translators decide whether to more closely follow the literal structure of the text or to adapt more freely?
49: How translators approach a text
Lingthusiasm Episode 49: How translators approach a text Before even starting to translate a work, a translator needs to make several important macro-level decisions, such as whether to more closely...
lingthusiasm.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Peaceful moments under a full moon.
January 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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johnaugust.bsky.social
;tldr We shouldn't panic about AI, but it's worth paying more attention to what's happening — and how fast it's moving. johnaugust.com/2025/somethi...
Something’s Coming
An explainer for regular folks about what's happening in AI, and why it's likely to dominate the news in the next three years.
johnaugust.com
January 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM