DavidMcDavidface

DavidMcDavidface

@davidmcdavidface.bsky.social

Scot exiled to south of the wall. Personal servant to a cat. He/Him.

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This soliloquy gives me strength. I'll listen to this every day when I need it.

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words. The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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On the eastern edge of Glasgow Green stands this memorial and a low stone wall along the edge of the Clyde. These are a reminder of a rather contentious structure built in 1796 and known as Allan's Pen. Cont./ #glasgow #glasgowhistory #allanspen #glasgowgreen

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It's built on the theft of other people's stuff and won't stop telling everyone how great it is despite all evidence to the contrary. It's already about as British as it could be.

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com

Chancellor says government to commit hundreds of millions to develop ‘distinctively British’ approach to AI

I can attest to @erikaishii.bsky.social's joy at visiting Hobbiton in NZ. It is truly a wonderful place. Walking through the cutting from the visitor centre, I genuinely choked up and got tearful.

Erika Ishii@erikaishii.bsky.social

“I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.” More later, but my love for LOTR directly led to a Middle Earth invitation & I’m emotional.

I managed to tell him the previous visit three weeks ago just after he had his stroke that I loved him and I would see him again. I still travelled up to be with my brother and niece and managed to talk to his picture in his flat.

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Here's something you may NOT know about beluga whales: they have squishy foreheads. This area is called the MELON, and it's a specialized organ filled with fat, oil & wax that acts as a deformable acoustic lens, focusing sound waves into the water around them. But wait, there's MORE!

Whale Tales@whaletalesorg.bsky.social

An extra spooky booluga for you on this #WhaleWednesday in spooky season. 🖌️All Everything Dolphin #WhaleTales

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🌕BATS FOR BATS🦇 Unlike many countries, in Japan bats have long been considered auspicious symbols...their images used on everything from sword sheaths to kimono. In China the word for bat (fù 蝠) was a homonym for 'wealth' or 'fortune' (fù 富), and over time the bat became connected to good luck.

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The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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'What day is it?' asked Pooh. 'It’s our BIRTHDAY.' squeaked Piglet. 'My favourite day.' said Pooh. Happy 100th BIRTHDAY to Pooh and the gang! 🎂🎉 Pooh and his friends first appeared on the 14th October 1926 in #WinnieThePooh by A.A. Milne. #WinnieThePooh100 #onthisday

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didn't realize that execution livestream was scheduled for today

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

😬 Katie Zacharia's first press briefing was brutally bad 😬 Trump managed to find a press secretary who can barely read, but she does have the number one qualification -- looking like Ivanka Here's a supercut from Zacharia's first briefing, which made Karoline Leavitt seem like Ronald Reagan

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All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey. I've been for a walk, our balls are cold today. They'd be dry and warm if they were in L.A. #SaturdayMorning dreaming on an #Orkney autumn day. 🍂

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According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.

bryan newbold@bnewbold.net

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

So... another one of these trips back to Glasgow. Dad's had a pretty severe stroke. He's conscious, but word salad, right side of body effected... It's hard to leave him. He had a bad night last night. Difficult to travel back down south. I feel like the corner of Glasgow Central Station... Empty.

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A lovely thing to wake up to; all the art in my feed from @2000ad.bsky.social’s #DayOfDredd that I missed yesterday… Still my favourite character — here’s a long thread of all the original Dredd art I’m lucky enough to currently own💥

I don't think I'm going to make #DayofDredd tomorrow. Spending the weekend in Glasgow visiting my dad in the hospital... ☹️ But have fun everyone, stay positive and good vibes to all. Remember... make fascism fiction again. ✊️

2000 AD Comics@2000ad.bsky.social

Barry Kitson & Colin MacNeil head a great line-up of #DayOfDredd signings at Forbidden Planet International stores in Norwich, Belfast, Manchester & Glasgow THIS SATURDAY! Don't miss it, citizens https://bit.ly/4gTHRAt

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The beautiful and unique Battlefield Rest Tram Shelter on the Southside of Glasgow. Designed by Frank Burnet and Boston, it opened in 1915. Cont./ #glasgow #battlefield #architecture #tram #architecturephotography

Burn these fraternities down.

Anne Helen Petersen@annehelen.bsky.social

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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A little reminder that the Doctor has spent multiple lifetimes, battling evil world-challenging robots, in a whole variety of guises. Take this shit, and fucking shove it.

IGN@ign.com

The BBC's new director general has described a 50-minute AI-generated episode of Doctor Who as "pretty good," and suggested that the technology now enabled the creation of content "at the standard of a Hollywood studio." https://bit.ly/4rD8rmh

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Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...