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Adam

@adamboal.bsky.social
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Science, History of Science, Physics, Learning, outreach and public engagement specialist. Organiser and developer of festivals and events of all sizes. Varied interests inc FPL

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 6h
Hm. Conversations I’ve had with insiders at Netflix are all about how any menu system can’t remotely compete with linear TV - so many disadvantages - and that plenty of programmes and whole genres can only survive on a platform that doesn’t rely on an algorithmic / front page priority system.
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 @mst3kofficial.bsky.social · 18h
@nerdist.bsky.social calls our return “another absolute banger.” 🤖 MST3K: The RiffTrax Experiments kicks off tomorrow with Sting of Death. Read the full review: nerdist.com/article/mst3...
nerdist.com
MST3K's Return Is Another Absolute Banger (Review)
MST3K's first RiffTrax experiment, Sting of Death, drops Friday digitally. It's a fantastic reinvention of the late-'90s Sci-Fi Channel years.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
RIP Margaret Hamilton
Lego Margaret Hamilton
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Chipockalips Now! @fragboner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026



right about now, the funk soul brother






check it out now, the funk soul brother






right about now, the funk soul brother






check it out now, the funk soul brother
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FPL Hippie @fplhippie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Erling Haaland has left the Norway camp in a private jet #fpl
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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The AI industry continues to be trapped in an endless panicky improv game, where they have to think up new uses for the humorously pointless object they’ve been given.
Whose line is it anyway. Stiles and mocherie play an improv game with a big white foam object
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There wasn't a social care crisis when local authorities provided the service free of charge. Then Thatcher privatised it and private equity bosses started charging £8000 a month.
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 29/09/2026
Europe continues to attract and invest in top talent in research and innovation. We are strengthening Horizon Europe for 2026-2027 with an additional €500 million supporting: 🌿biodiversity protection 📈strengthening competitiveness and bringing products to market.
Graphic announcing funding from the European Union: "€500+ million extra for EU research and innovation under Horizon Europe 2027" featured alongside an illustration of a woman holding a megaphone.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm kinda fully over that "the British conquered the world for spices and don't use any of them" joke because for one, you cannot recycle material for 5 straight generations and get a laugh worth a damn but also because in order to make it you have to agree with Tommy Robinson about who is British
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
or buy 400 copies of Imperial Island for less than £5k and then maybe you'd stop trying to deport everyone x
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Royal Air Force Museum @rafmuseum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
MIDS: 📢 We are offering Community grants of £250–£2,000 for groups, charities & not-for-profits in Staffordshire, Shropshire & Wyre Forest specialising in the creatives arts or research. These grants are supported by @heritagefunduk.bsky.social Apply by midnight, 1 Nov. Details: bit.ly/4rAQKnu
Image Description: Bold white text reads 'Community grants funding' and smaller white text reads 'Applications now open for areas of Staffordshire, Shropshire and Wyre Forest!'. The RAF Museum Midlands logo and the Heritage Fund logo are present in the bottom right corner. Features an image of a girl with her fist in the air cut-out on a dark blue background with swirling red and blue graphic.
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 27/09/2026
Love this
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good Question.......?
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.
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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...
nationalmuseums.org.uk
Jobs - National Museum Directors' Council Website
Association of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Saturday 9/19 is International Observe the Moon Night! If you live in central VA you can come take a look at UVa's wonderful historic McCormick Observatory. It's free, and you can register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/internatio...
eventbrite.com
International Observe the Moon Night with CAS
International Observe the Moon Night is a worldwide celebration of lunar science and exploration and the Moon in arts and culture.
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
These are the pictures I'll be entering in the Royal Astronomical Society's photographic competition: Alpha Persei Cluster, Vega, Mars/Castor/Pollux triangle, Moon and Venus. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #Moon
The Alpha Persei star cluster with bright star Mirfak. Very big bright blue star Vega. Triangle of stars Castor and Pollux left of centre with planet Mars below centre. The Moon at waxing crescent phase at centre with planet Venus at upper right and trees in foreground.
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Matt Severn @mattsevern.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If the government wants to make sure pensioners don’t pay income tax on their state pension, then they should increase the tax threshold for all in line with it. Instead they want working age people to be paying more income tax as well as being the only ones who pay national insurance
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Pepsi and Coke can’t even be in the same restaurant together, and society wants us all to get along? Pffftt...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My first morning in the Omaze house. I didn’t sleep. I could hear crying from behind the door I’m not allowed to open.The only thing to eat is frozen prawns. I went for a wander round the 4 acre garden and found a box of VHS tapes marked ‘For the next one’. I’m sure it’s fine. I’m sure it’s all fine
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/09/2026
If you're in government watching criminal-led blackshirt thugs in balaclavas wage war on the RNLI and you're hedging your bets because you're not sure who the majority of the country will side with, why do you even want to be in government? Why would you WANT to lead people you think so little of?
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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 07/09/2026
I feel that if game developers cannot count on keeping a job after a game ships they should at least get residuals. To me this is a moderate position.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Restoring Van Gogh's Ear & Mending His Broken Heart” 🎨 #asmr #satisfying #vangogh #papercraft #stopmotion IG: @paper_pepper (페이퍼 후추)
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
still can't get over how everyone in public office just decided that letting spammers make all cellphones unusable is just how life has to be
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 03/09/2026
We aren’t buying a board game, we’re buying the hope that one day we’ll have the free time and friend group to play it.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Dear BBC News, If you'd like to actually fulfill your mandate to inform the public of the reasons people take small boats please feel free to invite me onto any of your shows. I'm a world expert in this with an award winning book on the topic. Or you can just have a man stood shouting in the sea.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Before losing her life in 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Christa McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space with plans to teach a lesson to kids around the world from orbit. Today is her birthday, and even now, her courage and dedication to education continues to inspire.
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Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Could this unexpected signal be our first detection of dark matter? www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
World’s biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle
It’s far too early to declare a discovery, physicists with the LZ detector say
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Well, happy 29th anniversary to the greatest ‘reverse ferret’ ever issued by a media outlet
“We apologise for the Princess Diana page one headline DI GOES SEX MAD, which is still on the stands at some locations. It is currently being replaced with a special 72-page tribute issue: A FAREWELL TO THE PRINCESS WE ALL LOVED.”
Statement published by the National Enquirer, August 31, 1997
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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Thread. I have yet to see a proper explanation of how LLMs actually work that is targeted to an informed general audience. So here is an explainer that I put together along with Tim @countzerozzz (inspired by @CIFAR_News LMB discussions).
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dretter @dretterbuilt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
AA and AAA video games are over. everyone needs to go on steam and find whatever weird shit made by less than five people they can find
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Xitter is a like an old phone box. Reminded that it exists, I put my head in to see if it's still has a working connection to anything, and it stinks of piss.
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Kate Good @kategood.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I am soooo tired of having to download an app for everything. I went to a Seattle Sounders game tonight. I had to have a Ticketmaster app to download my tickets and then I had to have a Sounders app to actually use them. I just want to go back to a simple life. I hate it here.
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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🚨 Calling on the history/museum/LARP nerds of Bsky! I'm looking for someone who does lorica squamata repair! Bonus if they're in the North West, but I will courier it elsewhere in the UK if necessary.
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Butser Ancient Farm @butserancientfarm.co.uk · 18/08/2026
Is your child imaginative, curious and energetic? Send them on a time-travelling adventure at Butser! 🌿 They’ll make mosaics, create Roman jewellery, play ancient games, fire a Roman siege weapon and discover life in Roman Britain. 🏺 Book today! 🔥 www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/whats-on/cal...
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
can't believe they call them baby potatoes when petitoes is right there
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Checkmate, Nige.
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Several thousand people at the Crystal Palace park colonnades. More colanders than Ikea.
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Adam @adamboal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This 100%, justice for all not just those who get media traction
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If early release can be altered so as to exempt homicide offences, it should be. Prisoners who have caused the gravest harm should be among the last to benefit from the overcrowding crisis. But carving out exceptions for individual prisoners in response to media campaigns is weak and unprincipled.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Wow. Just wow.
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Dr Inigo Purcell @inigopurcell.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Yes it is striking the degree to which people don't realise that FE is one of the magic things for making a NEET into not a NEET and it not really being there any more is a factor. (And, hopefully, HE and jobs, but the friction re. getting people into and finishing FE is lower)
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