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Aditya

@adityamandrekar.bsky.social
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Aero/Space Software guy, flannelled fool in the summer, Earth-bound misfit. No image reposts without alt text. (he/him)

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 6h
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Raf Nicholson @rafnicholson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shame on you Ollie Pope, Luke Wood, Moeen Ali, Reece Topley, James Vince, Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Laurie Evans for caring more about the money in your own pockets than the human rights of women and girls. This was a personal choice by you, and you chose wrong.
bbc.co.uk
England players told to think of 'daughters, sisters or mothers' before committing to Afghanistan Premier League T20 tournament
English cricketers aiming to play in a men's T20 franchise tournament organised by the Afghanistan Cricket Board have been urged to think about their "daughters, sisters or mothers".
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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026
This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose
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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People can't afford groceries
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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I WAS JUST ON THE BBC INTERNATIONAL NEWS PROGRAM!!! Don't worry, you didn't miss much, the questions were really just the announcer wanting to confirm it's not aliens. :)
Me on the BBC talking about "radio signals detected from distant planet"
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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"It points to an example where a tester's Dot noticed they had forgotten to bill a publication for an article. The Dot prepared an invoice and sent it on the person's behalf after it obtained their approval." Every use case for AI is something we could already do before, I swear.
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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey @scottlynch78.bsky.social I don't know if you've watched Reacher (specifically Season 5) but there's a bit that could easily have been inspired by Lies of Locke Lamora! Won't reveal what it is in case you don't want spoilers, but happy to do so if you want :) (Love the books btw!)
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Doug! @itsdoug.ca · 29/09/2026
Quoth the Raven:
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They should reveal that care workers have a 10% chance of wiping out humanity, and raise the investment that way.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
also thinking a lot about how #MeToo apparently went too far, when it’s quite obvious now that it didn’t go far enough. it didn’t really go anywhere. there were no lasting consequences of that cultural moment beyond people making jokes about it.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed
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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Each time I come across this account a voice in my head sings "ACARS का drama है"
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article
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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 28/09/2026
I loved the XKCD take on it here
panel 1 with a narrator standing in front of three representatives - physics, biology, and chemistry
narrator: Welcome to the degree-off, where we determine which field is the best! Physics, wanna go first?
Physics: Sure! I'd like to tell the story of Richard Feynman's manhattan project lockpicking pranks...

Panel 2
Physics ...and as he said "all science is either physics or stamp collecting". Thank you 

Narrator: Great! Bio, you wanna go next

Bio: Okay

Panel 3 - close up on Bio with a graph trending strongly downwards over time

Bio: This is a graph of the death rate from infection disease in this country. 

Panel 4

Bio: The heroes of my field have SLAIN one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. 

Panel 5 - Bio points accusingly at physics

Bio: While the heroes of YOUR field gathered in the desert to create a new one. 

Panel 6

Physics: ...Jeez, what the hell? I thought this was supposed to be fun and lighthearted

Bio: YOU MUST HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT STAMP COLLECTING.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is why more women don't come forward, and why more rapists aren't jailed. Because mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-yr-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?
jessica.substack.com
Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Imagine you are participating a light bit of dogging in a quiet farmers field in the Cotswolds & the next thing happening is the President of America is claiming credit for catching you in the international news & there’s now a photo of you on every major news outlet in the world?
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026
TiL
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was chatting to a friend who is 23 and doing her undergrad degree. She was saying that she and all her peers are using AI for assignments, but they also all believe their tutors are using AI to mark them. AI is assessing AI. What even is the point at that stage? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
As more Australian universities use AI to mark students’ work, is it creating creating a ‘slop-cycle’?
Educational institutions find themselves suddenly confronted with a fork in the road
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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Handsome South
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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have a soft spot for this song as the first half is all one take: m.youtube.com/watch?v=lmPf... It's not the greatest of dances or songs but even if you didn't know the director (Farah Khan) is a choreographer, you would by the end of it
m.youtube.com
Chale Jaise Hawayein [Full Song] Main Hoon Na
YouTube video by T-Series
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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What I'm bringing to the job interview bsky.app/profile/adit...
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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Recipe: Add the mushrooms and garlic and fry for 3–4 minutes, stirring, to drive off any excess liquid. My saucepan, twenty minutes after frying the mushrooms:
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Thumbs Up in Water
Alt: A human hand doing the "Thumbs Up" sign as it slowly sinks into water in what looks like a lake or pond
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the cool thing about social media in the year of our lord twenty hundred & twenty six is it's impossible to tell whether you're being scolded by an automated scolding LLM or a real person with no ability to understand context or jokes & who thinks the whole internet is addressing them personally
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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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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A focaccia I made for a bake sale. Please excuse the mediocre artistry! #BreadSky
A focaccia sitting in a square tin on baking paper. The top of the focaccia has two "flowers" made from cherry tomatoes - in one corner is a red core and yellow petals and the other corner has opposite colours.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
sammatey.substack.com
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
People like this are our last hope
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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sent this to a friend who lives in Alberta with "Looks like you've been doxxed"
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A Dave you know you know @notjustdave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
90% of the time Sauron answers the Palantir:
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DocHackenBOOOOOsh @dochackenbush.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Apologies for my lack of new Fat Bear action this week. Please enjoy these hefty chonks by way of compensation #Art #FatBearWeek
Illustration of a fat brown bear emerging from water holding a salmon in its mouth
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Agreed. Find your own sexy man, you lazy git.
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When was the last time our Secretary of State for Culture displayed anything approaching this degree of public enthusiasm for our world-class arts industry? Has she been seen anywhere? Given impending charter renewal... did she even bother to visit a single prom?
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allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
timeline cleanser
Tumblr screenshot

(poster name not shown): knock knock
dismembered-jackalope: who's there
justsomeguycore: deez 
dismembered-jackalope: sigh. deez who?
justsomeguycore: deez are the voyages of the starship enterprise
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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
CAPYBARTILLERY!! Design by @dochackenbush.bsky.social
A t-shirt with the caricature of a Capybara driving a tank with an apple in the cannon and more apples in a basket at the back and raising dust behind it. The capybara is on a mission!
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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Even the Cat Distribution System has fallen to the capitalists.
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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey @dochackenbush.bsky.social thanks for Capybartillery & "have you tried screaming?" ;) Photos will follow some time...
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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Whomst among us etc etc
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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How is this not anywhere as important as a Cambridge lecturer *allegedly* having made false claims (Oh look even most of those claims weren't false...) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just as well those committing wrongs against the RNLI are not holding placards supporting a proscribed organisation, else they would really be in trouble.
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I always block people for transphobia, I sometimes block them for being a fucking idiot, but only now have I discovered blocking somebody because the option is either a block or them calling an accidental dogpile onto themselves. You don't fuck about with the sea.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
allthingslinguistic.com
What is Yoda's syntax in other languages?
Sometimes people ask the best questions on Reddit: What does Yoda’s syntax look like in non-English versions of Star Wars? For those who aren’t familiar with Star Wars (all two of you), Yoda is a...
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
debated whether to share but screw it, I will, this Saturday has my first real experience of direct discrimination in a while when a Lyft driver I'd booked pulled up saw me when I got in , asked my name and then was like "I don't take you people" and canceled on me and left.
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