Lyndsay J
@eljay2.bsky.social
Scottish, parent, dog servant, book lover. I don't do "follow back". Pronouns are she/her
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Lyndsay J
@eljay2.bsky.social
· Jul 22
What’s that brain? I should look at the internet some more? OK if you say so | First Dog on the Moon
You may think a beloved national treasure like myself would be outside chatting to marsupials but no I am on the internet feeling bad for not replying to emails
www.theguardian.com
Source of current profile picture. I love First Dog ❤️
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More on this remarkable enterprise and related schemes via @publicdomainrev.bsky.social:
publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-ea...
I have no reason to share it except that I'm confident that I will never be attacked by eels while wearing a belt of pig bladders, and that is some consolation at times.
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I have no reason to share it except that I'm confident that I will never be attacked by eels while wearing a belt of pig bladders, and that is some consolation at times.
Liberal Visions and Boring Machines: The Early History of the Channel Tunnel
More than a century before the Eurostar and LeShuttle, a group of engineers and statesmen dreamed (and fretted) about connecting Britain to France with an underwater tunnel. Peter Keeling drills into ...
publicdomainreview.org
October 3, 2026 at 7:15 PM
More on this remarkable enterprise and related schemes via @publicdomainrev.bsky.social:
publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-ea...
I have no reason to share it except that I'm confident that I will never be attacked by eels while wearing a belt of pig bladders, and that is some consolation at times.
publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-ea...
I have no reason to share it except that I'm confident that I will never be attacked by eels while wearing a belt of pig bladders, and that is some consolation at times.
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Hey guys! I'm Burke, he's Hare, and before we get into today's unboxing video, we just wanna talk a little about today's sponsor, Surfshark
October 2, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Hey guys! I'm Burke, he's Hare, and before we get into today's unboxing video, we just wanna talk a little about today's sponsor, Surfshark
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Great source of more information here and info on how to lodge a planning objection against the latest AI data centre proposal in Scotland.
Chapelcross Data Centre - Action to Protect Rural Scotland
This proposed 1GW (1000MW) data centre development, covering 57 hectares, is planned for land just north of the former Chapelcross nuclear site near Annan, Dumfries and Galloway. It is still in the ea...
aprs.scot
September 30, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Great source of more information here and info on how to lodge a planning objection against the latest AI data centre proposal in Scotland.
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Amazing how the media's still sticking to the 'going rogue' line. This software did not 'go rogue'. Its developers failed to build adequate controls, did not do enough testing, and are entirely responsible for the results.
Given that hacking is a criminal offence are we happy for the AI companies to be exempt from criminal liability?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
OpenAI Has Gone Rogue
It’s impossible to know the extent of the AI-hacking crisis.
www.theatlantic.com
September 29, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Amazing how the media's still sticking to the 'going rogue' line. This software did not 'go rogue'. Its developers failed to build adequate controls, did not do enough testing, and are entirely responsible for the results.
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Readers and writers of #BookSky, I got a story for you. Last year, I released a major nonfiction and sequel to an award winning mystery. This year, I released an audiobook on forensic history. But like most authors, I struggle to make sales/get recognition, and am a poor AF. Now the funny part: 1/
September 29, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Readers and writers of #BookSky, I got a story for you. Last year, I released a major nonfiction and sequel to an award winning mystery. This year, I released an audiobook on forensic history. But like most authors, I struggle to make sales/get recognition, and am a poor AF. Now the funny part: 1/
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LRP: additionally important to know that if you’re allergic to coconut, you’re also allergic to most activated charcoal products. Many of them are made using burned down coconut husks, but no one advertises that/it’s extremely hard to find out. So be careful this Halloween season!
September 27, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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Baba Yaga, the plains of Wyoming, and the perils of growing up--RATTLESNAKE WIND is a Kindle Monthly Deal, $1.99USD (and CAD) in ebook until 9/30. www.amazon.com/dp/B0BHKVR3YR
September 28, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Baba Yaga, the plains of Wyoming, and the perils of growing up--RATTLESNAKE WIND is a Kindle Monthly Deal, $1.99USD (and CAD) in ebook until 9/30. www.amazon.com/dp/B0BHKVR3YR
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I am not first and will be far from the last to say this:
I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS.
I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.
I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS.
I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.
I have mentioned it before, so maybe, but I know others liked it too. Hooray for word of "mouth" (or post) for getting it seen.
September 12, 2026 at 8:33 PM
I am not first and will be far from the last to say this:
I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS.
I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.
I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS.
I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.
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🔊Calling #Aberdeen #Elgin & #Inverness: I am heading North to come see y'all. There'll be grown-up book talks + school visits on route! Come & say hello. 🔭🏴🎢
📘Th 1st: Aberdeen Science Centre
📗Fr 2nd: Moray Astronomy Club
📙Sa 3rd: Inverness Science in the Atrium
ℹ️: www.roe.ac.uk/~heymans/H2D...
📘Th 1st: Aberdeen Science Centre
📗Fr 2nd: Moray Astronomy Club
📙Sa 3rd: Inverness Science in the Atrium
ℹ️: www.roe.ac.uk/~heymans/H2D...
September 28, 2026 at 5:58 PM
🔊Calling #Aberdeen #Elgin & #Inverness: I am heading North to come see y'all. There'll be grown-up book talks + school visits on route! Come & say hello. 🔭🏴🎢
📘Th 1st: Aberdeen Science Centre
📗Fr 2nd: Moray Astronomy Club
📙Sa 3rd: Inverness Science in the Atrium
ℹ️: www.roe.ac.uk/~heymans/H2D...
📘Th 1st: Aberdeen Science Centre
📗Fr 2nd: Moray Astronomy Club
📙Sa 3rd: Inverness Science in the Atrium
ℹ️: www.roe.ac.uk/~heymans/H2D...
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BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference.
UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns.
Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns.
Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
September 27, 2026 at 3:16 PM
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference.
UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns.
Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns.
Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)!
Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
September 25, 2026 at 10:05 AM
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)!
Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
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Leith from Calton Hill, Edinburgh. The massive yellow structures are parts for a wind farm based at sea off the coast near Montrose.
September 25, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Leith from Calton Hill, Edinburgh. The massive yellow structures are parts for a wind farm based at sea off the coast near Montrose.
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Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!
Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...
you.38degrees.org.uk
September 26, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Late entry for "Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)".
Upon graduating medical school in 1881, Arthur Conan Doyle did a doodle of himself waving his diploma over his head. The caption reads: "Licensed to Kill."
My new book SLEUTH-HOUND is about Conan Doyle's professor, Joseph Bell - the real-life Sherlock Holmes. Out Oct 20! linktr.ee/drlindseyfit...
My new book SLEUTH-HOUND is about Conan Doyle's professor, Joseph Bell - the real-life Sherlock Holmes. Out Oct 20! linktr.ee/drlindseyfit...
September 26, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Late entry for "Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)".
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Second-screening the Katmai Falls bearcam today reminds me:
Q: How do you weigh bears for Fat Bear Week?
A:. By using LIDAR — laser-scanning bears to quantify the chonk volumetrically, and then using estimates of ursine density to convert it to approximate mass.
www.geoweeknews.com/articles/sup...
Q: How do you weigh bears for Fat Bear Week?
A:. By using LIDAR — laser-scanning bears to quantify the chonk volumetrically, and then using estimates of ursine density to convert it to approximate mass.
www.geoweeknews.com/articles/sup...
Supporting Fat Bear Week With Laser Scanning | Geo Week News
“Fat Bear Week celebrates fatness. That’s what you want to do before you go into your den.” Each year as summer begins to fade and wildlife
www.geoweeknews.com
September 26, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Second-screening the Katmai Falls bearcam today reminds me:
Q: How do you weigh bears for Fat Bear Week?
A:. By using LIDAR — laser-scanning bears to quantify the chonk volumetrically, and then using estimates of ursine density to convert it to approximate mass.
www.geoweeknews.com/articles/sup...
Q: How do you weigh bears for Fat Bear Week?
A:. By using LIDAR — laser-scanning bears to quantify the chonk volumetrically, and then using estimates of ursine density to convert it to approximate mass.
www.geoweeknews.com/articles/sup...
Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll.
I love taking photos of the sky in Scotland as it's constantly changing.
In this picture I was lucky to be on a walking tour of Stirling on the one day of the weekend it didn't rain!
I love taking photos of the sky in Scotland as it's constantly changing.
In this picture I was lucky to be on a walking tour of Stirling on the one day of the weekend it didn't rain!
September 27, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll.
I love taking photos of the sky in Scotland as it's constantly changing.
In this picture I was lucky to be on a walking tour of Stirling on the one day of the weekend it didn't rain!
I love taking photos of the sky in Scotland as it's constantly changing.
In this picture I was lucky to be on a walking tour of Stirling on the one day of the weekend it didn't rain!
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We're trying to find a home for, and I quote, "the Pissfingers of cats."
Any takers? ❤️
Any takers? ❤️
September 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
We're trying to find a home for, and I quote, "the Pissfingers of cats."
Any takers? ❤️
Any takers? ❤️
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Biscuit Time! youtu.be/SKeZSXkmo40
Biscuit time!
YouTube video by James Oswald
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September 24, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Biscuit Time! youtu.be/SKeZSXkmo40
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Only $1.99 for a limited time.
Thank you for your attention to this promotion
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Murder of Crows (Detective Corstorphine Book 3)
Amazon.com: Murder of Crows (Detective Corstorphine Book 3) eBook : James Greig, Andrew: Kindle Store
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September 24, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Only $1.99 for a limited time.
Thank you for your attention to this promotion
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Thank you for your attention to this promotion
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGWS9GL...
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one of my proudest moments was being told by a former Gove staffer that he once angrily proclaimed:
"I am NOT an eldritch horror!"
in a team meeting, because of me.
"I am NOT an eldritch horror!"
in a team meeting, because of me.
The War Game, Sky's terrifying new docu-drama, which paints a haunting picture of a near-future scenario in which the Prime Minister is somehow now Michael Gove
September 21, 2026 at 10:06 PM
one of my proudest moments was being told by a former Gove staffer that he once angrily proclaimed:
"I am NOT an eldritch horror!"
in a team meeting, because of me.
"I am NOT an eldritch horror!"
in a team meeting, because of me.
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this is fantastic and I learned something new
September 20, 2026 at 8:22 PM
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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![Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreih526pxolmi4pgqdcdu435uhkrrldhpwq6rrsnk4hfs6dskbe5r7e)
September 22, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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It's true! The canaries were cute little guys who kept them company, miners got attached blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/canary-resus...
The canary resuscitator | Science and Industry Museum
Have you ever wondered what our curators' favourite collection items are? Here, assistant curator Lewis takes us through his rather surprising pick.
blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk
September 20, 2026 at 2:19 PM
It's true! The canaries were cute little guys who kept them company, miners got attached blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/canary-resus...