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ldodds.bsky.social
CTO at EnergySparks (https://energysparks.uk) a UK charity using open and shared data to help schools be more energy efficient. Freelancing part time (my background is in open data, data standards, infrastructure and sharing) blog.ldodds.com
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Ballerina. 5⭐️ No notes.

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Support Ukrainian hospitals with this bundle of more than 250 indie RPGs for $8

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Art by John Harris for the cover of the Sinclair Spectrum Microdrive manual (1983)

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Never have I seen a place so desperate to be vandalised as Old Street station at this moment

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Had decided to not back anything else, but how could I resist something which is targeted so directly at me?

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Having weird conversations with ChatGPT has become a kind of performance art.

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Society is not good at funding data infrastructure, Part 172

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The BBC have gone all out on the new Walking with Dinosaurs series, but I'm really excited by the trailer for the next in the franchise 🍿

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David Attenborough voice over: "Arrakis. Dune. Desert Planet .."

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The BBC have gone all out on the new Walking with Dinosaurs series, but I'm really excited by the trailer for the next in the franchise 🍿

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The British public, on both the left and the right, has almost no grasp of what we will lose if we let the BBC go. The losses will be immeasurable, yet people from all spheres of life are cheering on the Beeb's decline. It's one of the most succesful disinformation campaigns of all time.

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The Netherlands holds a grim and unique place in European history.

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⚒️🧪 Thick black goop pouring from the earth is a horror often seen in TV shows or movies. Fortunately this is an amazing geological feature, and not a malevolent monster! This 1956 pic is of a natural bitumen or asphalt seep pouring into a mine shaft in Lettomanoppello, Italy. 🧵 Pic: Cazzini (2018)

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Excavating layers of slop to find the fossilised Precambrian explosion of open knowledge beneath.

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Trying to search for the origins of a metaphor, keep trying variations to find the original source. Its totally obfuscated by AI explanations

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#UKGE is huge and very friendly. Rehydrating before a TTRPG session this afternoon.

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At #CFASummit and love well love #OpenData? @danhon.com & I have a new podcast coming out, This Could Have Been a PDF, and the first season is about how to craft data standards faster, cheaper, easier (with *gasp* no standards body!). Get alerted when the pod launches: Thiscouldhavebeenapdf.com

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Finally got our paws on the Magic Realms: Art of Fighting Fantasy book and my god, we have so much to thank for Ian Livingstone & kid’s publisher Puffin having a somewhat idiosyncratic view of what was kind of art was age appropriate back in the 80s

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Did you know Michael Biehn (Aliens) filmed an action adventure series in Bristol in 2002? AND it was produced by @galeannehurd.bsky.social? See if these any of places look familiar! #AdventureInc #Bristol #BristolFilm

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trans people are real and bathrooms and sports are made up. if you act like that's the other way around i do not have to hear your argument because it is based on a false premise

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This is just 😘👌. (h/t @philosop-her.bsky.social)

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Louisiana made it illegal to *publicly discuss* pollution data that comes from cheap community-based pollution monitors www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/c...

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I'm watching the Parliamentary debate about the self-ID e-petition and my JAW IS ON THE FLOOR. The MPs speaking are hitting ALL the key pro-trans talking points: - transphobic bias in EHRC - nightmare of SC ruling - toilet bans are awful - must hear trans voices - IGLA rainbow map 1/

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The vital work begins fanedit.org/forums/threa...

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We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care. I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

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You can now download a free preview of Menagerie of Unbearable Things! tania-herrero.itch.io/menagerie-of...

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Lots to comment on here, which better minds than me already doing. I'll just wonder who thought "Humphrey" was a good name for a set of government AI tools?

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Finished watching this last night. One of the best APs I've ever watched. Trophy Gold is a great system and the Crown of Salt setting is just 🔥

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I see the Blind Men* are posting about the Elephant** again. * bsky users ** what it's like to use bsky

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