"No, I am the land of your fathers."

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra@fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · yesterday

MAY S4C BE WITH YOU

Well this is heartbreakingly horrifyingly beautiful.

Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · yesterday

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

Coo beasty! It's older than bronze (probably), how cool is that!

Kate Compton@galaxykate.bsky.social · 2d ago

Wait did i show yall the worlds best cow painting?

You know when there's a question you just never bothered to ask, then you see what the answer is and your brain, well, melts in confusion? I thought this bit was bad, then Richard talked about their air force OMFG

Richard Gadsden@po8crg.gadsden.online · yesterday

So... why did France fall in 1940? Almost all comes down to bad organisation. General Gamelin's headquarters did not have a radio. It relied on dispatch riders to communicate with the armies. French tanks didn't have radios and were commanded using signal flags from the command tank.

you know, big ups to The Verge for picking about the only sparkling controversial quote in a long, moderately technical interview and framing it to start discourse by leaving off the way what the CEO is actually pitching is the 'live' version of Reddit; they definitely know what plays on bluesky!

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Read, listen, or watch the full interview:

When I was at Uni I took multiple courses in International Relations, my main lecturer had studied 'near miss launches' as part of her PhD There were five of them that she knew of (this was way before 1999 when she did the course) None of them were Petrov Scary scary times

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · yesterday

Given we are approaching that time of the year, my big piece from years back on the 1983 Cold War Crisis (and the role of Stanislav Petrov in it) over onto authory as a free-to-read. Over the years, the myth of what happened has been simplified. The reality was scarier. Because: Ronald Reagan.

YEA IM A BIG FAN OF HOW THEY DID IT

Animation Obsessive@ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...

Thousands of years from now, anthropologists will wonder where the cult of rain god Joneledj came from, and where it got its mysterious mantra "build more bloody houses". Where are these houses, and why do they require a blood sacrifice?

If Rosie Duffield, Kathleen Stock, and Julie Bindel say nice things about me when I die then I know I will have been a truly terrible person

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2d ago

The GCs are uniting in their grief over Rod Liddle's death, a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend and said he couldn't be a teacher because he'd rape the kids. He was also a vicious racist, long before it was so profitable. He hated trans people, so, to these 'feminists' he's a hero.

This is from 2016 but I hadn’t heard of it until now. WILD story. www.denverpost.com/2016/08/10/l...

Kansas home wound up with 600 million IP addresses and a world of trouble

The little Kansas house in the center of the country became the crossroads of the Internet, with unimaginable consequences.

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lol as if following 100k people wasn't enough of a red flag. But yeah, fuck this guy. And expect more of this. They know Twitter's dying, so it's rats-off-the-sinking-ship-time. Convenient opportunity to attempt a rebrand.

Roger (6’5”)@iamtherog.com · 2w ago

Does everyone here know that @craigbrittain.com, who is currently masquerading as an anti-MAGA warrior, was fined in 2016 for operating a revenge porn website? A *lot* of y’all follow him. ⚠️ Marked as unsafe. ⚠️ www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

He did the summer season where I grew up once, my grandparents took me for my birthday (this was normal for pre-teen me) and he was genuinely lovely He got his start as a Butlin's Redcoat and worked his way up RIP Jimmy Cricket

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 2d ago

A lot of people today talking about an awful person who died but i want to make everyone aware of a good person who died: Northern Irish comedian Jimmy Cricket, who you should all look up if you don’t know. 10/10 all around wife guy, dad, granddad, and just a generally solid person

Quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

Red Dwarf: Kryton's Banana Lie

Alt: Red Dwarf: Kryten's Banana Lie

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🦇🤘 Miscreant Jennie 🔶️🏳️‍🌈@rigg.lgbt · 2d ago

if you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

I love old maps, especially of places I know/have lived Except despite both addresses I had there being within easy walking distance of the city centre, neither is on this map as the city has spread further If I'm reading it right, what is now Richmond Road was "Pound Lane", wonder why

University of Exeter Special Collections@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 3d ago

This city plan of Exeter dates back to 1835! Can you spot the illustration of Exe Bridge? This bridge replaced the medieval Exe Bridge in 1778, and was itself replaced in 1905. 📷 Cartography Coll./A.3.a.iv; digitised by @dhlabexeter.bsky.social #MapMonday #MondayMaps #MappingOurExeter #Exeter

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

This is SO COOL

Dr. Abigail Desmond@abigaildesmond.bsky.social · 3d ago

15,000 years ago, in one of the the earliest settled communities in the world, a child collected fine clay from the slow-moving river by her home. She then committed an act familiar to all inveterate play-doh enthusiasts; rolling and and pinching the squishy clay into tiny round balls.

Damn... 300% higher yields for peppers 200% for tomatoes. 65% lower water use for jalapenos. #agsky #agrivoltaics ,🌱🌞🔌..

hoergen@hoergen.bsky.social · 4d ago

*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…

The idea that #LongCovid is somehow “disputed at best” is ignorant at best, and at worst a mean lie. It’s not disputed, either that it is a physical illness or that it derives from having COVID 19 by my GP, neurologist, endocrinologist, cardiologist, health insurer, government, the EU or the WHO.

At least it is Titan this time and not Europa. Remember folks: all these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landings there.

Correct. Faced with a new problem, I saw breakout groups of volunteers pop up offering to shop for vulnerable and isolated neighbours and getting to know them. Until they got harried to return to normal.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

It's a well worn stereotype that people from Yorkshire, including myself, can't stop going on about Yorkshire But today it's our day (or 'ARE DAY') - #YorkshireDay - so to celebrate, and in-keeping with all my recent mentions of my book LITTLE KINGDOMS, a short 🧵 on the territories' early origins..

Clacton bin day leaflet, make sure the local Facebook and tiktok groups have a copy

A smaller thing that irritated me about COVID was seeing all the screens and table wiping in buildings with no ventilation, from otherwise smart people, a good 12 months after we knew airflow was key.

I can’t believe that Reform UK turned out to be financed by a bunch of money laundering fronts for Russia. It’s just so unexpected.

Well, I've had better days I suspect pausing repeatedly to entertain Ridley and watching Ride or Die at the same time didn't help I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 1st 2026 (Hard), in less than 27 minutes 🟨🟩🟨🟩 🟨🟩🟠🟡 🟠🟩🟠🟨 🟡🟩🟩🟡 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

cluesbysam.com

It's Yorkshire Day I've lived here for 18 years now, it's lovely And West Yorkshire gets the best flag, obviously

Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.

I continue to be disappointed when folks whose opinions I otherwise value do this on the regular. It’s just the absolute worst way to have a discussion and it’s exhausting to watch.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2mo ago

Quote-posting to mock/disagree/start a fight is pretty much always an instablock, just fyi. It's not something conducive to a good-faith discussion, no matter what the intent might be.

The outcry over Jodrell is showing many things. One that strikes me: for years we have told funders that big science projects like those carried out at the LHC and telescopes play a unique role in engaging the public & driving young minds towards physics and big data. Now they see we weren't lying.