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Steve Baxter

@bothererofcats.bsky.social

Software engineer, pro-European, botherer of cats

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Luca@lucagalletti.bsky.social · 2w ago

One of French puppeteer Raphaël Gromy’s most recognizable performances features a puppet painting real artworks on canvas, blending puppetry, live performance, and visual art into a unique theatrical experience. 😊 IG: @artistsuniversum @raphael_gromy

fesshole 🧻@fesshole.bsky.social · 3w ago

My colleagues think I get in early because I'm a hard worker. I do work hard during office hours. But I start each day writing werewolf Miss Marple fan fiction. I have a fairly good reputation on the forums. I need to have an escape from accounting.

Sandra Newman@sannewman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Writing tip: Give your protagonist a pet cat. In the final pages, shift to the cat's point of view. Follow the cat outside, through moonlit woods, to a pasture where cows kneel in worship around a glowing spacecraft. As the cat trots up its gangway, we glimpse in the windows an all-cat crew.

Zoë Grünewald@zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Now i have your attention (and brilliant ideas), here are five, immediate policies I would focus on. They're not exhaustive but I think they do three key things: acknowledge where things are broken, prioritise fairness, and take the fight to Reform. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Britain’s politics is broken — but not beyond repair

The next Labour leader will have a tough inheritance, but also a chance to apply some fixes

substack.com

Zoë Grünewald@zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Can we start compiling a list of every policy you'd like to see a new Labour leader make? Big or small, what would actually start to make the country feel better for people?

Ciaran Martin@ciaranm.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era. Hear me out ( 🧵) 1/ www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...

Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities | AISI Work

We conducted cyber evaluations of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and found continued improvement in capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges and significant improvement on multi-step cyber-attack simulati...

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RM@dorsalstream.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
ido@ido.bsky.social · 5mo ago

never again want to hear that it’s woke nonsense to want our energy to come from the sun rather than being completely at the mercy of Putin or the IRGC being annoyed

Chris Addison@mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Could be worse. In order to avoid controversy, all Euro notes feature bridges. In order further to avoid controversy, they're all fictional. Or they were until the folk of the Dutch town of Spijkenisse took it upon themselves to build them. Now all Euro notes feature bridges from just one Dutch town

Heather Stewart@guardianheather.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Culture war latest: the Bank of England has announced that after a public consultation, to which it received 44,000 responses, the next new banknotes will feature native wildlife. Tories: "It is deeply depressing that under Lab our national heroes are considered too 'divisive' to be on bank notes."