Will Ellwood
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Mountain runner, lapsed climber, occasional writer, and sometimes engineer.
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#BruceSterling
5 days ago
*WELL State of the World 2026 is winding down, with much eloquent doomer grumbling, but I feel better for doing it, and somehow I always do.
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The WELL: State of the World 2026 with Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky
The WELL: State of the World 2026 with Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky
https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/561/State-of-the-World-2026-with-Bru-page01.html
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Dr Headgear
5 days ago
It certainly sounds a bit like the language of the Middle Management Tribe. And the structure: Sentence, summary list, moral, request for reflections is pretty much their Haiku
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#BruceSterling
5 days ago
*My thoughts are that he's quite right. People really are speaking Delvish now. It's a dialect that's not of human origin, but it's a new, living dialect with which people speak to each other. *There may even be a Delvish *cultural sensibility*
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Wintery Mix Tuesday 13th Jan. The MET Office forecast predicted a wintery mix would fall from eleven until noon. Delayed by my own natural distractions that was scheduled for slightly after I left the house on my standard Tuesday run. On the calendar fifty minutes of easy running with six times…
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Wintery Mix
Tuesday 13th Jan. The MET Office forecast predicted a wintery mix would fall from eleven until noon. Delayed by my own natural distractions that was scheduled for slightly after I left the house on my standard Tuesday run. On the calendar fifty minutes of easy running with six times twenty seconds of hill strides. A trip to the closed food carts near Footdee before heading then north along the coast to a nearby park with an appropriate hill free of weekday dog walkers.
http://blog.will-ellwood.com/2026/01/13/wintery-mix/
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Wintery Mix Tuesday 13th Jan. The MET Office forecast predicted a wintery mix would fall from eleven until noon. Delayed by my own natural distractions that was scheduled for slightly after I left the house on my standard Tuesday run. On the calendar fifty minutes of easy running with six times…
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Wintery Mix
Tuesday 13th Jan. The MET Office forecast predicted a wintery mix would fall from eleven until noon. Delayed by my own natural distractions that was scheduled for slightly after I left the house on my standard Tuesday run. On the calendar fifty minutes of easy running with six times twenty seconds of hill strides. A trip to the closed food carts near Footdee before heading then north along the coast to a nearby park with an appropriate hill free of weekday dog walkers.
http://blog.will-ellwood.com/2026/01/13/wintery-mix/
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2025 A lot of people I respect write excellent roundups of their years, and 2025, has been no different. I wish I'd been more methodical in recording the music that I'd enjoyed this year (mostly techno of various flavours and stoner metal), but I have not. The important activities in my life are…
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2025
A lot of people I respect write excellent roundups of their years, and 2025, has been no different. I wish I'd been more methodical in recording the music that I'd enjoyed this year (mostly techno of various flavours and stoner metal), but I have not. The important activities in my life are broadly running, reading, and writing. Running I ran a lot this year (just over 2000km) , but not enough.
http://blog.will-ellwood.com/2026/01/12/2025/
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Joachim Boaz
8 days ago
Izumi Suzuki’s “Terminal Boredom” (1984, trans. by Daniel Joseph 2021)
sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/15/s...
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#BruceSterling
9 days ago
*StanfordOrKetamine has set me and my formerly-human open-source friends on fire"
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Jordan Turner
11 days ago
When the film is so underexposed that it ends up feeling like painting. Shot on Ilford XP2 and Nikon N50
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Frustrated that I wasted a morning waiting for an important delivery that didn't arrive (so couldn't run in the snow) and now, after having to work all day, lack the executive function to even do a basic 20 minute strength session. I want my happy noon till seven thirty schedule back.
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Quick question, how's the road to Mar Lodge/Linn of Dee right now? Thinking of heading up that way on Friday/Saturday.
11 days ago
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On Sunday I skied from my house to the sea then Footdee. Now I just hope the snow melts enough that a new washing machine can be delivered.
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vx-underground (automated mirror)
14 days ago
Microsoft is so fucking stupid. Microsoft renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot App I'm not joking
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It's frustrating that the second photo of the sea, the harbour lit up, and the snow covered dunes will probably be the best photo I take this year.
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The first run of the year had immaculate vibes, even if it was slow. Ran across
@moabin.bsky.social
skiing. I've joked that there's a dub techno album cover in the photos I took, but I'm not sure I'm joking.
17 days ago
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James A. Reeves
18 days ago
Three songs that possess the spiritualized energy I fantasize about cultivating in the first minutes of a new year:
www.jamesreeves.co/first-things/
1. Kali Malone - Spectacle of Ritual 2. Abul Mogard - Desires Are Reminiscences By Now 3. Autechre - VLetrmx21 (65% slower)
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New Journal And hot on the heels of yesterday's entry about being at the end of one journal, today I start the new one. The sticker came from the parcel with my one of my Christmas presents in. As a bonus, below is a photograph I took earlier today of the stack of most of the core notebooks that…
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New Journal
And hot on the heels of yesterday's entry about being at the end of one journal, today I start the new one. The sticker came from the parcel with my one of my Christmas presents in. As a bonus, below is a photograph I took earlier today of the stack of most of the core notebooks that I've filled over the last decade plus.
http://blog.will-ellwood.com/2025/12/30/new-journal/
20 days ago
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Notebook Intervals I'm reaching the end of my current personal notebook which is always a weird position to be in. There are three stages in the lives of my notebooks: the first dozen or so pages are filled with references to the previous notebook, but there is an immense feeling of optimism and…
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Notebook Intervals
I'm reaching the end of my current personal notebook which is always a weird position to be in. There are three stages in the lives of my notebooks: the first dozen or so pages are filled with references to the previous notebook, but there is an immense feeling of optimism and potential. Then comes the long middle where a groove or a rut is found depending on life circumstances that takes months to complete.
http://blog.will-ellwood.com/2025/12/29/notebook-intervals/
21 days ago
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Rob Sheridan
23 days ago
Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
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Long Run Saturdays Oil industry machinery in the south harbour with golfers on the clifftop golf course in front of it. I'm moving my long runs to Saturdays since it might be more restful. When I posted this to Instagram mid run I put some Deepchord alongside it. You'll have to imagine that.
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Long Run Saturdays
Oil industry machinery in the south harbour with golfers on the clifftop golf course in front of it. I'm moving my long runs to Saturdays since it might be more restful. When I posted this to Instagram mid run I put some Deepchord alongside it. You'll have to imagine that.
http://blog.will-ellwood.com/2025/12/27/long-run-saturdays/
23 days ago
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Chris Person
28 days ago
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans.
youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
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Reject AI! Worship the true machine God! Its name is 909/303!
27 days ago
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Tim Maughan
28 days ago
it’s going to look great at first: a new era of “cheap” phones and laptops, that are light and slim with amazing battery life - because they’re basically just front ends for cloud services, and do zero local compute added bonus: forget trying to block ads when “your” browser is running in the cloud
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Jen's away visiting her parents, so I've mostly been in my room exploring dub techniques. Results so far are mixed.
28 days ago
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Stephen Baker
about 1 month ago
An annual roundup and must read from
@jamesreeves.co
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Arbeitology
about 1 month ago
Ballard is like Baudrillard, I dont want to admit he's right, but living in britain, he becomes more right every day
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Abigail Nussbaum
about 1 month ago
On the third day of Hanukkah, I am kicking off a new project on my blog: a series of short critical essays as I read - for the who-knows-how-many-th time - The Lord of the Rings. Today's essay is an introduction, and new posts will go up every two weeks.
wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
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The Great Tolkien Reread: Introduction
"The Doors of Durin" by J.R.R. Tolkien This tale grew in the telling, until it became a history of the Great War of the Ring and included ma...
https://wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-great-tolkien-reread-introduction.html
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Siobhan Thompson
about 1 month ago
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
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Bandcamp Friday!
about 2 months ago
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Leigh Walton
about 2 months ago
“The purpose of a system is what it does. There is, after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it consistently fails to do.” — Stafford Beer, 1985
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Red Rope Scotland
about 2 months ago
Our next trip is to Glen Doll, in the Angus Glens area of the
#Cairngorms
National Park. Our trip in 2018 was one of glorious blue skies one day and misty with snow falling the next - it's a great area to explore! We have a programme of monthly weekend trips for 2026 - why not join us?
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Chris Townsend
about 2 months ago
A few days ago in the Cairngorms
#hiking
www.christownsendoutdoors.com/2025/12/nove...
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November Sunset in the Cairngorms
Cairn Toul & the Lairig Ghru just before sunset One of the big advantages of the winter months in the Scottish Highlands is that sunset is i...
https://www.christownsendoutdoors.com/2025/12/november-sunset-in-cairngorms.html
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Chris Townsend
about 2 months ago
Goshawk dies from gunshot injuries in Aberdeenshire - Police Scotland appeals for information
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/01/g...
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Goshawk dies from gunshot injuries in Aberdeenshire – Police Scotland appeals for information
Press release from Police Scotland (1 December 2025): APPEAL FOR INFORMATION AFTER BIRD OF PREY SHOT IN ABERDEENSHIRE Officers are appealing for information after a bird of prey was shot in Aberdee…
https://raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/01/goshawk-dies-from-gunshot-injuries-in-aberdeenshire-police-scotland-appeals-for-information/
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James A. Reeves
about 2 months ago
All the greatest hits at a slower speed—guaranteed. Plus
some egg foo young
. 1. Simple Minds - Don’t You Forget About Me 2. Will Web - Spacewalk 3. The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe 4. Vladislav Delay - Huone 5. Swans - Leaving Meaning 6. Pole - Hafen 7. Aphex Twin - #1 8. The Cars - Jacki
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The Spouter-Inn
about 2 months ago
New!
@wordgarbler.bsky.social
revisits an old favourite with Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, and
@sakbari.bsky.social
is excited about Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s new book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead. Listen at
megaphonic.fm/spouter/87
or on your podcast app.
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87. Waiting for Godot / Theory of Water. | The Spouter-Inn
Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s new book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead.
https://megaphonic.fm/spouter/87
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Rupert Goodwins
about 2 months ago
J G Ballard on the South Bsnk Show , twenty years ago. I first found his work in the SF section of the local library when /i was ten or so, and and got hooked on the atmospherics of the first three novels. Later, called by the vast temporal resonances of the far night sky...
youtu.be/8LosxrbL3sU?...
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J G Ballard Documentary
YouTube video by matley virgo
https://youtu.be/8LosxrbL3sU?si=roA5bpJKb18dksNg
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Clashindarroch Forest Last Friday and Saturday I went nordic skiing in the Clashindarroch Forest for the first time. There were mixed results. Yes, I enjoyed spending time with friends in a beautiful place, but an increasing weariness from the day job has made me irritable. It didn't help that I'd…
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Clashindarroch Forest
Last Friday and Saturday I went nordic skiing in the Clashindarroch Forest for the first time. There were mixed results. Yes, I enjoyed spending time with friends in a beautiful place, but an increasing weariness from the day job has made me irritable. It didn't help that I'd lost all my limited confidence in step turning and controlling long skis on descents.
http://blog.will-ellwood.com/2025/11/28/clashindarroch-forest/
about 2 months ago
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Loch Avon. Sept 2025.
#cairngorms
#blackandwhite
#lochavon
about 2 months ago
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Ben Macdui Summit Trig Point. Sept 2025.
#cairngorms
#blackandwhite
#benmacdui
about 2 months ago
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Ben Macdui Summit Trig Point. Sept 2025.
#cairngorms
#blackandwhite
#benmacdui
about 2 months ago
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Dan Hartland
about 2 months ago
I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while: here’s
@davidheb.bsky.social
on the incomparable Nina Allan’s latest, A Granite Silence: “In her latest novel, Allan turns her attention to a historical murder case: The many worlds that spiral out from one tragic event.”
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A Granite Silence by Nina Allan
In her latest novel, Allan steps in a different direction again.
http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/a-granite-silence-by-nina-allan/
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Rutger Bregman
about 2 months ago
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Charles Johnson
about 2 months ago
i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years
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Fifteen Years
https://xkcd.com/3172/
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Some scenes from cross country skiing in the Clashindarroch forest last Friday. It's difficult to concentrate this week.
about 2 months ago
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Cian McCarthy
2 months ago
"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living." ~ Søren Kierkegaard 🎨 James T. Watts (1892)
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Snow has arrived in Aberdeen, but I already enjoyed a short dook into the snow on Carn An T-Sagairt Mor last Saturday.
2 months ago
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Joachim Boaz
2 months ago
Two reviews of Izumi Suzuki's "Terminal Boredom" (1984, trans. by Daniel Joseph 2021) (with
@rachelcordasco.bsky.social
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sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/15/s...
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Today's album on repeat Robert Hood's Internal Empire.
2 months ago
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