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Rod Ellis

@bigbadbank.bsky.social
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Not to worry, a bad equilibrium is breaking down that's all. The next one will have higher vibrations I promise. Tantra and indology, bonds and central banks. Oxford. Labour. 🇺🇦 No DMs thanks, just bleet me.

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Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"’I cannot overstate how much of a nothing burger this is,’ Rory Johnston, an oil market researcher and founder of CommodityContext.com, said on X.” - www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Trump says Russia to supply diesel to US and global markets
His administration temporarily lifted US sanctions on Russian fuel that were designed to deprive Moscow of revenues for its ‌war on Ukraine.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 09/10/2026
Inside the deadlock at the world's top climate science body reut.rs/478P7Eg
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Inside the deadlock at the world's top climate science body
The decision was expected to take minutes. But after nearly three years of debate, members of the world’s leading authority on climate change still can’t agree on a timeline to publish its next review of the latest science on the warming planet.
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The Hindu @thehindu.com · 08/10/2026
Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro and HCL among IT firms suspended from U.S. green card programme
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Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro and HCL among IT firms suspended from U.S. green card programme
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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 08/10/2026
Sam Altman visited me in hospital and did all the sudokus in my sudoku book really quickly then he gave it back to me and told me they were solved and I should check all the numbers myself, is this normal?
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Sascha Trippe 🛰️ 사샤 트리페 @saschatrippe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW PAPER: Wanchaloem Khwammai, my ex-student and now postdoc at NARIT, found a 300-deg polarization angle swing in multi-observatory radio data of the blazar OJ 287, likely caused by the propagation of a transient disturbance in the jet. arxiv.org/abs/2610.03044 🧪🔭☄️ #RadioAstro #Extragalactic
Observed radio flux density, EVPA, and polarization fraction of OJ 287 as a function of time and frequency, covering the period from 2012 April to 2023 January.
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The Hindu @thehindu.com · 07/10/2026
Mistral unveils 'Le Chonk' to compete with Chinese open-weight AI models
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Mistral unveils 'Le Chonk' to compete with Chinese open-weight AI models
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Rod Ellis @bigbadbank.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Kemisphere™.
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Stumpy Moose @stumpymoose.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He wasn't happy with his new role: handing out Werther's Originals and reminiscing about the good old days www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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Cristiano Ronaldo leaves Portugal camp after boss Jorge Jesus denies rift
Cristiano Ronaldo says he has left Portugal's international camp and will explain why "in time", hours after head coach Jorge Jesus denied any rift with the player.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 30/09/2026
Russia draws up measures to control bear population after spate of deadly attacks reut.rs/3TAPzHX
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Russia draws up measures to control bear population after spate of deadly attacks
The Russian government said on Wednesday it was drawing up urgent measures to control the population of brown bears that has spiralled out of control in some regions, ​with at least 22 people killed in attacks.
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A campaign by a group of Bicester students to ban school uniform in pornographic content has reached the national press and attracted almost 7,000 signatures. The Cooper School’s Little Feminist Bookclub believe children “are being sexualised by the depiction of school-aged identities”.
Little Feminist Bookclub students at the Cooper School
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Rod Ellis @bigbadbank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Agentic AI is basically Mr Meseeks: youtu.be/l5wvqKcqL7c?...
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Summoning Mr. Meeseeks | Rick and Morty | adult swim
YouTube video by Adult Swim
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John Lieske @johnlieske.social · 29/09/2026
Tesla Torso: a full-sized adult body that gremlins like Elon can drive around.
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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Excuse me, where's the cheese?" "Just to the left of the Shahed, sir."
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Rod Ellis @bigbadbank.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why does he not call it American Intelligence?
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Ian Walker @fenlandgent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Prediction for the Fulham/Man Utd game. A Fulham defender will fall in love with a Utd attacker. At half-time they stop competing. They walk along the Thames. They are captivated by a grey heron. They discuss whether the Thames here is estuarine. They are thrilled by how strange change can be.
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Rod Ellis @bigbadbank.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This seems ... good?
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Rod Ellis @bigbadbank.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Those are ok but there's a Ghanaian football team called the Mysterious Dwarfs.
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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 15/09/2026
Una especie de uniformización estética ha convertido los colores neutros en el nuevo idioma global del lujo residencial. ¿Por qué todos los pisos de lujo se parecen? El fenómeno tiene incluso un nombre: 'beigeficación'
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La saturación beige: ¿por qué los pisos de lujo se parecen tanto?
Los pisos de lujo en Madrid, Copenhague o Miami comparten hoy un mismo lenguaje visual que pasa por infinitas variaciones de la misma paleta de colores. Los motivos van mucho más allá de la estética.
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Rod Ellis @bigbadbank.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
People in that London so very different from people in Birmingham 100 miles away.
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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 08/09/2026
🔴 12 países, entre ellos España, anuncian restricciones contra productos de los asentamientos israelíes
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Once países europeos y Canadá anuncian sanciones contra productos de los asentamientos israelíes
En una declaración conjunta, los Estados, de los que España forma parte, estiman que es una manera de responder a la expansión colonial del Gobierno de Netanyahu
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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
... which lying regime?
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What's Going on With Shipping (Sal Mercogliano) @mercoglianos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Trump Administration Moves to Revive Prize Courts for Vessel Seizures maritime-executive.com/article/trum...
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Trump Administration Moves to Revive Prize Courts for Vessel Seizures
The Trump administration is moving to reestablish a 19th-century maritime institution that has fallen into disuse: the prize court, a special-purpose...
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Rod Ellis @bigbadbank.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Warning: contains shockingly high levels of bullshit from lobbyists.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Central Beach, Blackpool, 1964.
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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 14/08/2026
🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Finlay Tarling, ciclista galés de 19 años, muere atropellado durante la Vuelta a Portugal. Un coche invadió la carretera en sentido contrario cuando participaba en la prueba
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Finlay Tarling, ciclista galés de 19 años, muere atropellado durante la Vuelta a Portugal
Un coche invadió la carretera en sentido contrario cuando participaba en la prueba
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Rod Ellis @bigbadbank.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
TIL : el Conde Cubo de Basura
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Rod Ellis @bigbadbank.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
So we can expect small brightly coloured crowds of them on every street corner, standing quietly waiting to be used, some fallen over and in the way of passers-by, like the last few iterations of China's export surpluses.
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Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 10/08/2026
L'accord de défense mutuelle conclu entre l'Arabie saoudite, le Pakistan et la Turquie la semaine dernière montre "un changement de perception" dans la région vis-à-vis des États-Unis, a affirmé lundi la diplomatie iranienne, estimant "ne pas avoir de raison de s'inquiéter".
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Rod Ellis @bigbadbank.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I'm so sick of wearing shorts
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Sam Beckwith @realsambeckwith.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I want Cyclops cheese #TheOdyssey
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Alex Thomas @alexgathomas.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If the Burnham govt wants a written constitution to entrench a new allocation of powers go for it if you dare It would open up every other procedural worm-can, energy-sapping constitutional and bad faith argument under the sun Just legislate. Keep a written constitution out of it is my advice
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The Week in Polls @theweekinpolls.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Have we really had an unusually large number of PMs recently?
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Have we really had an unusually large number of PMs recently?
It’s become a commonplace comment that we have got through a lot of Prime Ministers recently. But is it true?
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Bloody hell.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 24/07/2026
If you're outside mowing this weekend, always look behind you when backing up your mower.
A lawn flamingo, a lawn gnome who is shirtless and muscular, and flexing their bicep in a way that is only slightly uncomfortable for the viewer, a lawn pinwheel, and a human child all stand in a row. The text reads: Your lawn mower can't tell the difference. Always clear your lawn of objects and bystanders before mowing. Always look behind you before backing up your mower.
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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
After missing out on a photo of the woodpecker yesterday, I was glad to see an otter this morning and get.... bugger!
Back end of an otter diving into the sea.
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Rod Ellis @bigbadbank.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Eric Bloodaxe, Sveyn Forkbeard, Harald Hardrada, your boys took one helll of a beating
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Stumpy Moose @stumpymoose.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
A new day dawns 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 youtube.com/watch?v=pOEU...
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Vindaloo - Vince Cox (Epic Orchestral Cover)
YouTube video by EpicTrailerMusicUK
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Ian Walker @fenlandgent.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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SmallStoneRecords @smallstonerecords.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Live Free and Ride Hard. Happy 4th of July.
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Rod Ellis @bigbadbank.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Too much sport today
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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 03/07/2026
🍲 El último consultorio de El Comidista del curso es un batiburrillo de conflictos ‘pantumakeros’, consejos sobre batidoras, bizcochos gays hechos con Monster y dudas sobre cómo cocinar el pene de toro
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Aló Comidista: “¿Cuál es la mejor manera de hacer pan con tomate?"
El último consultorio del curso es un batiburrillo de conflictos ‘pantumakeros’, consejos sobre batidoras, bizcochos gays hechos con Monster y dudas sobre cómo cocinar el pene de toro
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Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 26/06/2026
➡️ Les arrêts ou baisses de production décidées par EDF visent à respecter des obligations environnementales pour protéger la faune et la flore des rivières et des fleuves qui servent à refroidir les installations des sites nucléaires.
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Rod Ellis @bigbadbank.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The trouble with this heat is that it is going too be over too quickly. It takes me at least two weeks to get past the pink and white sweating stage. After that I start to adapt and it's fine.
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Rod Ellis @bigbadbank.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Do you think that if we were offered the 51st state deal like Canada we would bite?
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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
UK heatwave update: I was dreading doing a podcast recording this morning because my smoke alarm kept going off every 20 mins last night due to the humidity, but we had to reschedule anyway because the heat has knocked out the host's internet connection
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Fireman On Fire Stunt
ALT: Fireman On Fire Stunt
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Electric Wall Honey @missususs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
No
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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
All of France is scorching hot today. Except for one village in the northwest...
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Ian Walker @fenlandgent.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Fair bit of change about at the moment.
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Joseph Cotterill @jsphctrl.ft.com · 22/06/2026
You might think Iran General License X is just a cool and somewhat evocative name for this milestone, but actually they have done so many they ran out of numbers already and are nearly out of the letters.
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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 20/06/2026
Cuba busca oxígeno en unas reformas tardías que la población recibe con escepticismo. La isla rompe sus dogmas y adopta muchas de las medidas liberales que rechazó durante décadas
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Cuba busca oxígeno en unas reformas tardías que la población recibe con escepticismo
La isla rompe sus dogmas y adopta muchas de las medidas liberales que rechazó durante décadas
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