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Alex Wrottesley

@lexonic.bsky.social

📍 Maps, Data & Technology 
👾 Games / SciFi / Tinkering 
🛠️ Aiming for General Availability He/Him https://linktr.ee/lexonic

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Alex Wrottesley@lexonic.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I don’t usually share the little apps I make for myself but I’m really pleased with this one… An amazing archive of *2458* live gigs recordings by Aadam Jacobs, from the 80s to 2010s, was recently uploaded to the Internet Archive. aadam-radio.vercel.app

Aadam Radio — Chicago Live Archive

Stream hundreds of live concert recordings from the Aadam Jacobs Chicago archive — raw, unfiltered documents of nights that would otherwise exist only in memory.

aadam-radio.vercel.app

Rose Judson@rosejudson.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I learned this fact about medieval war “horses” about halfway through writing a medieval biopic for my MA, and it made it so hard to finish because I kept giggling through the battle scenes.

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Anyway. Let's not do "Harold goes boating" discourse, based on PR for the book by the guy who also sold those priceless coins he found. Instead i propose this: Norman horses were the size of modern ponies. So let's talk about how William was out there at Hastings doing a gritty Thelwell reboot.

Giovanni Colantonio@marioprime.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Tangential to DLSS 5 yassification: I demoed a project using Nvidia's genAI NPC tech a few years ago, and one of the things the dev told me they were working on was fixing gender bias that was baked into the AI. They had a female character named Iron, but the AI kept using 'he' to describe her.

Steve Parks@steveparks.me · 7mo ago

So here’s why Palantir is keen to get its mitts on UK health data, possibly at a ‘best in market’ price… so it’s all ready to offer a Farage Fascism App with address data that people have to keep up to date for their health…

Ulrike Franke@rikefranke.bsky.social · 7mo ago

“Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address,”

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The FT notes that delusional claims about London from Trump, Musk and others are having a reputational impact. The paper points out the capital's murder rate is a third of that in Berlin, a quarter of New York's, and 5% of that in Washington DC

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Alex Wrottesley@lexonic.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Last call for ratings on our #GMTKjam submission… if you get five minutes between now and 6pm we’d love your feedback!

Alex Wrottesley@lexonic.bsky.social · last yr.

And that’s a second #GMTKJam completed! All code and design by eldest (15) and this year youngest (13) got involved too and made all the art.🎨 My role this year limited to QA and keeping everyone fed and motivated. 🥪 So proud of the little slice of digital playfulness they’ve made 🙌👾

Alex Wrottesley@lexonic.bsky.social · last yr.

So, a few weeks ago I thought it would be fun to run a community awards programme for folks in the UK geospatial sector - from established leaders to the brilliant individuals who contribute so much (but don’t always get the credit!). So here it is 🤗 Apply now or nominate a colleague! www.geo100.com

GEO100

Celebrating Geospatial Excellence

geo100.com

Women+ in Geospatial@geospatialwomen.bsky.social · last yr.

GEO100 celebrates 100 professionals, educators, innovators and leaders shaping the future of the UK #geospatial industry. It's free and open to everyone. It's not a ranking, but some special awards will be given. You can learn more at www.geo100.com Apply before the deadline of September 30, 2025!

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · last yr.

My biggest advice to new managers relates to this: Create safe spaces for failure. People have to fail to learn. They have to fail to innovate. They have to be confident they can fail to report issues. The happiest and most effective teams are ones that treat failure as a necessary part of the job.

Painted Warrior@paintedwarrior.bsky.social · last yr.

Fail. Fail hard. Fail often. Get used to failure, because once it stops being feared, it stops holding you back. Make choices expecting to fail. Go into it with a light heart and zero expectations of success. Push yourself in low stakes situations and build up a callous. There is freedom in failure.

Jon Vernon@onlyindevon.co.uk · last yr.

Sorry for venting but another example today of how What3Words have engineered an over reliance on their platform in UK emergency services. Came across a car which was up on the verge at a strange angle, obviously not parked - 3 cars ahead of us drove past it but experience makes me always check.

Jonty Wareing@jonty.bsky.social · last yr.

It's What3Words accounts filing day 🎉 The good news! They reduced yearly losses to £10.6m from £16.4m, and turnover increased from £1m to £2.1m! The bad news! They achieved this by laying off 36 staff, and that £1m increase is probably from a single EU client. They have £15m in assets remaining

@geochicas.bsky.social · last yr.

[EN] 1/2 Since 2016, Twitter (now X) has been our primary platform for sharing the objectives and activities of Geochicas. However, on March 31, 2025, we will be closing our account. Moving forward, you can follow us and stay connected on Instagram, LinkedIn, Bluesky, and Mastodon.

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