Penny Wright

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Waiting for Godot, Sydney Theatre Company – review Hugo Weaving and Richard Roxburgh play Gogo and Didi with wit and vigour in Andrew Upton's production of Beckett's play

Hugo Weaving and Richard Roxburgh did an excellent job at the Sydney Theatre www.theguardian.com/culture/aust...

Ella Baron on Adolescence and the dangers social media pose to teenage boys – cartoon Keir Starmer and Gareth Southgate have both recently warned about internet safety

Watched the excellent Adolescence this weekend, so good but extremely sobering. Ella Baron's cartoon captures it perfectly. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

National Rosie the Riveter Day is observed in America #OnThisDay to recognise the important role women played in the WWII war effort. These cotton Bell Aircraft coveralls, made by Hattie Snow Uniforms, were worn by Evelyn DeLong Parris in c. 1943–45. SFO Museum. #fashionhistory

Totoro or Kiki's Delivery Service

The thread about the Calton Hill Naval Telegraph and the Forth coast’s Napoleonic communication system A 1797 painting of Edinburgh showing the Calton Hill includes a curious feature; what appears to be an enormous flag pole on its summit. So what on earth was this pole, why was it there and what wa…

THREADINBURGH: The thread about the Calton Hill Naval Telegraph and the Forth coast's Napoleonic communication system threadinburgh.scot/2023/07/14/t...

Techdirt and Wired are doing some of the best reporting and journalism right now.

What Elon Musk wants is worse than you think | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, a new breed of journalists just might save America.

As the Musk coup rampages through DC, most Americans don't understand there's a method to the madness that's even more terrifying

They want to replace "outdated" democracy with AI, in a power grab that empowers billionaires with a lie about efficiency

My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

A page of 52 thumbnail images of government websites that are no longer available.

Effective and creative data visualization in the form of a full page piece in the WaPo today to show how Trump/Musk are dismantling government.

The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis There are twenty-four hours in a day. This isn’t a matter of political opinion or technological disruption—it’s as immutable as the fact that two plus two equals four. No amount of geni…

If you want a long, but very thorough, read on just how crazy dangerous the situation is with Elon, @brockm.bsky.social has laid it all out in a single article. Please read it.

www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...

The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

If you’ve been wondering what Elon Musk and his lackeys are up to since taking control of the US government, look no further. Our latest story names six 19- to 24-year-olds working with his DOGE organization, which now has access to sensitive federal systems. wrd.cm/4jzpiSN

the tariff trade war stuff is pretty complicated but one way you can think about it is that in this scenario the United States is basically Drake and Canada is Kendrick Lamar

Good morning from sunny Edinburgh! 🌅🏰

#Sunrise #Edinburgh

Indigenous Australian artist Alma Nungurrayi Granites paints the great Warlpiri story of 7 Sisters Dreaming, about the ancestral Napaljarri sisters who are found in the night sky in the star cluster Pleiades #womensart

Glad you are here!

Distracting necklace

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Beautiful

Denise Paolucci (rahaeli on Bluesky) cofounded blog site Dreamwidth and previously worked in trust and safety at LiveJournal. She has a ton of experience with every possible form of social media bad actor and regularly posts on Bluesky about trust and safety. Lately, she's been writing about our bot friends. Paolucci thinks this particular wave of "reply guy as a service" bots are test runs by a spambot maker, who hopes to rent the bots out to other bad actors as a service: "It's common for spamming software to be pitched as social media management." [Bluesky] Bad actors want to sort out what bot styles get the most responses for engagement farming. Bluesky is light on algorithms that filter what you can see, but spammers got in the habit of exploring how the algorithms work on Twitter, Facebook, and Threads so they could exploit them. Some bots are being run to establish what can lower the quality of discussion on a platform. These bots may be political or commercial in intent. Twitter has long been overrun with this style of bot. The bots also join followback and follow-for-follow hashtags. Content-scraper accounts are grown in the hope of selling the account to a spammer Bluesky has a large number of followback accounts. Some of these accounts have already

This is a good post with some theories as to why this is happening

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Happy MLK Day.

Same but with an e

This is such a great mesage abt jorunalism and kind of the Anti Daily Bugle, Busiek cooked again

Sunrise over Edinburgh in the horizon, over the Firth of Forth in Fife

Winter sunrise over Edinburgh across the Firth of Forth #Fife #Scotland

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Turner in January | Ireland's Vaughan Bequest | National Galleries of Scotland In 2025 the National Galleries of Scotland will commemorate the 250th birthday of beloved British artist JMW Turner with a once-in-a-lifetime, free exhibition. For the first time, visitors will be abl...

Turner's watercolours at the Mound. #Turner #art #Edinburgh
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Painting of a simplified, stylised sunrise with an oval deep blue to light blue sky, white blurred sun rising on a blue horizon

Georgia O’Keeffe,
Light Coming on the Plains, III, 1917 #WomensArt

This is a great 'And finally' from Thames's Reporting London in 1983 on the South London Goth Scene at the Batcave

Great to see you here, I used to follow you on Twitter.

Reported

Three Bridges #Fife