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Dominic

@FernandDouin

Archivist and lover of things past. Archiviste amoureux du monde perdu. Author of @SDS_Blog

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Joined February 2014
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Morning from Keswick, Cumbria.
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Abingdon this afternoon, River Thames
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Technology is perceived as inherently progressive because of its efficiency. Slowly, its role in society has shifted from being a tool to be controlled to something regarded as a moral good in itself. I explain this dynamic in the excerpt below.
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@RiazhaqNov 6
What iPads did to Norwegian children!
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Voici à quoi ressemble l’automne dans le Grand Est 🍁
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T. S. Eliot, from “Animula” #poetry
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#FlashbackFriday Great Alex Coupar photograph of British #Railways Peppercorn A2 Trimbush heading a train to #Dundee with Broughty Ferry in the background #Archives #DundeeUniCulture
Black and white photograph. A large tender steam locomotive is heading a rain of several coaches. On the left is a road with c 1960s cars. On the right is a body of water with a beach. A small hut is in the right in the foreground

ALT Black and white photograph. A large tender steam locomotive is heading a rain of several coaches. On the left is a road with c 1960s cars. On the right is a body of water with a beach. A small hut is in the right in the foreground

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St John Henry Newman, on his thoughts as a child #AllSaintsDay
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Isaac Watts (“father of English hymnody” & logician) on hidden saints (passage referred to by St Cardinal Newman) #AllSaintsDay
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Autumn Sunshine, Bourne Walk, Hastings, East Sussex’ by Edward Leslie Badham
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The Sere and Yellow Leaf #artbots #grimshaw
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Laura Jedeed (@LauraJedeed) just spent a full month living off the grid in rural Scotland, and this is what she discovered: slate.com/news-and-politics/…
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Bastei, Sächsische Schweiz heute in herrlichster Herbstfärbung und ein paar Nebelschwaden
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@unherdNov 1
The practice of “loudcasting” is so objectionable because it irrupts through the boundary of our private space, imposing unchosen noise into the stream of thoughts that make for an individual life, while making private conversations more strained and difficult. It effectively imposes a law of the jungle onto public spaces, contributing to a sort of high-tech state of nature where the loudest and most brazen dominate public places, imposing their passing whims on everyone else. Read more from @bencobley: buff.ly/KRtEbLZ
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'The Engineer' article from 1898 which shows the construction of the Glenfinnan Viaduct !
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Good morning everyone. Despite image stabilisation, I really thought that I'd fluffed this shot as I could barely keep the camera still in the 40mph gusts! A class 156 hugs the cliffs at Parton with a service from Whitehaven to Carlisle on 27/10/2026. Take care all 😉👍
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@PontifexOct 30
The future of #ArtificialIntelligence is not pre-determined. As a technology developed by human beings, its future depends on the choices we make. We therefore have the responsibility to guide, change and, when necessary, reject its applications. A reliable system that serves the human person is of greater value than one that is exceptionally powerful but whose consequences cannot be adequately foreseen or controlled.
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I Begin with a Little Girl’s Hair | Plough plough.com/articles/i-begin-…
I Begin with a Little Girl’s Hair | Plough

I Begin with a Little Girl’s Hair | Plough

With the red hair of one she-urchin in the gutter I will set fire to all modern civilization.

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It’s a glorious morning up on the hills this morning, the light is wonderful. #Shropshire
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The door to the Cathedral Library and Archives in the West Wing of the Bishop's Palace, just off Palace Gate in Exeter. #AdoorableThursday #exeter
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A quick visit to the former Public Records Office
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Checking a reference in Book III of ‘Paradise Lost’ and stumbled across the lovely STARS acrostic as Satan surveys the universe (one of several such acrostics in Milton’s poem):
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