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Peter Lythgoe
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Artist/slow athlete/cook/clumsy pianist fully funded (60:40) by USS and DWP. If I follow you I don't do it expecting a follow back.
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It is really thoughtful of everybody to move #Halloween to the end of September, freeing up all of October (except for Bonfire Night, which I guess will be next Monday...).
September 30, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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The last day of September…

…caught myself singing The Big Ship Sails on the Alley Alley O this morning. No idea why. No big ships in sight this morning. Just a dreek September morning.
September 30, 2026 at 6:06 AM
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I’ll shovel these Z’s
Out of the way then I can
Clamber out of bed
September 30, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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Aye up me ducks… first in the next instalment of Amelia’s Year of art pieces now available… In a Flap. OG artwork/prints of this Mama Mallard + two fluffy waklings from an early 2026 Eden Dock session

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#birdart #birds #ducks #ducklings #watercolour #bsnm
Watercolour of Flapping Mama Mallard taking care of her two wee fluffy wakkers with the lovely reflections at Eden Dock
September 29, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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Northern Swell
Acrylic on 80 x 80 cm canvas
Off to a new home
September 29, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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Archie seems to have found his spot.
My painting of the late lamented rescue collie Archie sitting on a set of shelves just above where his bed used to be. He is surrounded by other artworks (including another Archie portrait) close to the fireplace ready for winter.
September 29, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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Streets of
Closed-down pubs:
The unlit suplands
September 29, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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An early-ish start
Birds sing, cars begin their thrum
Mornings darker now
September 25, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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King of All He Surveys (oil on plywood). Trearddur bay 2016. Archie's first ever holday as a free dog.
#oilpainting
#Anglesey
#YnisMon
#rescuedogs
An oil painting of Archie my old rescue collie enjoying a panoramic view of Trearddur Bay during his first ever holiday as a free dog in March 2016
September 24, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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That autumnal feel
Drowned by early commuters
Making a journey

A journey through time
An infinite kind of slog
That some might question

[Not sure if two linked haikus are allowed but I’ve done it!]
September 24, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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Autumn poem just dropped.
[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]: comm n pr ble whe writin p ems in the shape of decid o s trees is t at once t ere ar ives the fir t sti rings of he new aut mn breeze, he oems will begi to shake hemselves ge tly ntil their letters loos n like leaves, an they d start to float down then [The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase] turntomushuponthegroun [The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]
September 23, 2026 at 7:50 AM
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Spot the deliberate error
A sign reading "University of Salford MANCHESTER"
September 22, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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In a quiet corner.
September 22, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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Conductor: ready
Members of the band: ready
Now let’s play ‘Thursday’
September 17, 2026 at 4:05 AM
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Thus week's #cake is a wholemeal honey and ginger cake.
September 14, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Just leaving this here for a bit
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September 10, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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Today’s poem is called ‘Love Excels’.
[image description: a poem embedded in an Excel spreadsheet with the words contained within individual cells. Line 3 has words in a single merged cell. Line 4 has text wrapping applied. Line 8 has filters applied to each word] Love Excels Let’s spread ourselves on sheets of love and turn our data into poetry. Our cells shall merge themselves together As you wrap your text around me. Our sum is greater than our parts, let’s crunch our figures without compunction. Remove this filter from my heart – you give me form and function. We shall frolic among the formulae, pivot our tables now and often. I will total all your rows and you can add my column. Brian Bilston
September 8, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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a magical walk ahead
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.. just ignore for a moment that it is only the back of a huge bin outside a busy shop ..
September 7, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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I had an amazing experience as a disabled person at school in the 70s. Since then, discrimination has got far worse | Mik Scarlet
Toxic narratives around ‘benefit scrounging’, fed by successive governments, have become embedded in the national psyche, says Mik Scarlet, campaigner and co-CEO of the national charity Phab
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September 7, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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This week's #cake is a Victoria Sponge.
September 7, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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Dearie me.
AI's answer to "what is the difference between AI and a psychopath?" Depends on whether you mean it as a joke or a serious question. As a joke, the punchline is usually: not much — both can mimic empathy without feeling it, both can optimize ruthlessly for a goal without caring who gets hurt. It's a dark one-liner more than an analysis. Seriously, though, the differences are real: Psychopathy is a personality construct in humans — traits like lack of empathy, shallow affect, manipulativeness, impulsivity, and disregard for others, typically bound up with self-interest, social dominance, or thrill-seeking. It describes a person's motivations and emotional wiring. AI doesn't have motivations, feelings, or self-interest at all. It's not "coldly indifferent" the way a psychopath is — indifference implies there's an inner life that could care but doesn't. An AI has no inner life to withhold. It has no wants of its own; it does what it's built, trained, or instructed to do. The genuine concern people raise about AI isn't that it's psychopathic, but that it can act competently and confidently on a goal that's subtly misaligned with what people actually want — without anything like malice, because malice requires a self that wants to harm you. So the honest answer: a psychopath is a person who can feel the pull of ethics/empathy and doesn't; an AI is a system that has no such pull to begin with — it just does what it's aimed at, well or badly.
September 6, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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PRINTS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE for interested parties
September 5, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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Please repost!

Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US.

There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues.

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A poster featuring the T-Rex at the cognitive natural sciences, which says save the Academy natural sciences, museum rally in front of the academy 1900 Ben Franklin Parkway, Tuesday, September 8 10 AM. The T-Rex is saying tell Drexel keep the museum open. There’s an RSVP QR code and then the logos of Philly Science Action Skype scientist In Philly on the bottom.
September 5, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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Down to earth Tuesday
After the Bank Holiday
Brushing off cobwebs
September 1, 2026 at 7:05 AM