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Sandy Nelson

@buckeejit.bsky.social
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Pop-culture enthusiast, doctor, born a bit tired

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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 8h
We had this in the 90’s. It was a series of “your maw…” jokes.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Vivian H @vivianh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A conversation elsewhere reminded me. More innocent times, and I do mean that. You know the rules. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...
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Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland
YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica
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T'Other Simon @tothersimon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've got a well-paid job, filling small choux buns with cream. It's a profitablerole.
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Royal College of Emergency Medicine @rcem.ac.uk · 25/09/2026
An estimated 554 people are dying every week in the UK in association with overcrowding in Emergency Departments. That's according to new research presented today (25 September) from the Trainee Emergency Research Network, which is supported by RCEM. More below. rcem.ac.uk/college-n...
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don't know how to explain it, but orcs aren't real. Obviously, I don't believe in goblins and elves, but I REALLY don't believe in orcs. They're just something that was invented by a famous fantasy writer, like transphobia.
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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
he is a little fat belgian with various degrees of mental illness and that is how we like him go away
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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The way these are being phrased in headlines and breathless media coverage makes it sound like AI Chatbots are malevolent entities bouncing off the walls of their containment, desperately trying to escape. THEY’RE DOING WHAT HUMANS ARE TELLING THEM TO.
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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 17/09/2026
Trying to go see the new Resident Evil movie but apparently before I can enter the auditorium I have to have the spade key to unlock the door? And I only have the hearts key, which unlocks the route to the concession stand. Anyone know where to go next? A bit stuck
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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Do these guys work in the NHS?
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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I keep thinking this is actual breaking news when a notification about this post shows up on my lock screen
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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just like real life, mild virality has made me feel ill and I shall take to my bed.
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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran has pulled out of his tour, triggering a by-election
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Barney Ronay @barneyronay.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Football does a good thing. Men: get it out there www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Football lends voice to message worth relaying: men should talk about their pain | Barney Ronay
Premier League’s sponsorship of the Together in Suicide campaign is helping to convey simple, blunt and essential messaging
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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Jimmy Eat World
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Chuckling at the almost touching pointlessness of gifting Donald Trump a Michael Longley poem. Like playing Bach to a waffle iron.
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Never thought I'd hear an orange man advocate for a united Ireland
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Ian Lahey @ilahey.com · 12/09/2026
Never date a tennis player — love means nothing to them.
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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don't want to know if a fascist paedo dictator is enjoying the weather or not. I don't want to know if he's tried a pint of Guinness. I want to know how close he is to death and how uncomfortable he is.
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Mattie Lee 🎶 @mattielee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And now you're singing it, too. 🤣
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I hope this Ishmael finds you whale
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Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Small Prophets to return for a second series www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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Small Prophets to return for a second series
The story of the magical and mundane in a suburban cul-de-sac is the BBC’s biggest new comedy of the year
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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
trampoline sounds like something you'd use to clean a trampoline
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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
BAND LEADER: A 1, 2, A…
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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oh. Great. Another bunch of experts to ignore.
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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I love Barney’s writing but in the opening sentence of this piece he conflates Location, Location, Location with Property Ladder/Homes Under The Hammer and that’s where I draw the line.
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grant @grantpardee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"Tiny Tim, who DESERVED to die,"
Gonzo in Muppet Christmas Carol delivering the line "And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die"
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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is literally never true, and I wish writers would stop writing it. See also, 'it's just a flesh wound.' Even if you assume the bullet only causes damage along its path (also not true), and even if you're not shot through clothing, the skin is taken into the wound. Skin isn't aseptic.
"Bullet went clean through. You'll be okay."

Surgical gause, tweezers, haemostat, on a dirty surface
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Helen O'Hara @helenlohara.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Just remembered this and felt a little sad and amazed by the world. imgs.xkcd.com/comics/bee_o...
An XKCD comic about a bee orchid that mimics the form of a now extinct bee.
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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A dude tries to get his rug back.
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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Turned off Masters Of The Universe after half and hour. It is BAAAADD.
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Man dies after no ambulances could attend in winter pressures
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Man dies after no ambulances could attend in winter pressures
David Mann died after his wife had to take him to hospital because no ambulances were available.
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ One milkshake to rule the boys, one milkshake to find them, one milkshake to bring the boys and in my yard to bind them 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️
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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today
Margaret McGirr’s letter (“AI can lend a hand, but it will struggle to replace one”, July 21) and Chine McDonald’s guest column (“This retro revival is more than a longing for the past”, Opinion, August 7) both touch (sic) on something that should be obvious, but is carefully ignored by almost everyone in the tech world. Namely that our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies.
The brain’s job is to control the body in the world; it is the last organ to develop.
Every square centimetre of our hands (and of the rest of our skin) contains about a 170 touch sensors or nerve endings, sensitive to different kinds of touch: a slap, a burn, a caress, a hug — each of which travels to different parts of the midbrain, prompting the appropriate response. Quickly to the autonomic nervous system for something dangerous; more slowly via a different channel for something carrying meaning.
In addition to the hand’s limitless versatility, it is self-repairing, regulates its own temperature, knows without being programmed how much pressure to exert on an egg, a tennis ball or a day-old chick, and can fuse neurologically to whatever it holds.
So when we put a glass down on the table or slide a knife through an apple, we feel the table, or the apple, not the glass or handle in our hand (try it!).
Finally, and most urgently, the entire human body — including the hands — does everything on 25 or so watts of completely renewable energy: a tiny fraction of what a humanoid robot, even one of the current primitive iteration of robots, needs.
The “retro revival” is thus not cultural nostalgia.
It’s millions of years of evolution crying out to be heard, before we suppress it totally in the service of an automated — and dead — planet.
Sheila Hayman
Member of the Advisory Board, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, London NW1, UK
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Every vintage gameshow:
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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
@chrishewitt.bsky.social question for the pod: what is the best use of the one f-bomb a 12A is allowed?
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Ryan Lambie @ryanlambie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Buzzfeedist: The 10 things you can do with a cup (number eight will surprise you!)
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
What idiot called it a ‘ganglion’ when everyone knows the word is ‘pride’?
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Here are a few actual facts about welfare payments in the UK in response to fairly nasty, baseless headlines like the below, which are numerous and unfortunately widely believed by the UK population. 🧵
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ALLISON PEARSON
Britain must pop the welfare balloon or face ruin.
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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Looking forward to the metropolitan elite opinion columns on midges.
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Sandy Nelson @buckeejit.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Despite being terminally unable to recall its ubiquitous title correctly (End Of The Road? At The End Of The Street? The End Of Oak Lane?), I enjoyed this Speilbergian throwback immensely, despite lovely Ewan McGregors execrable accent. boxd.it/FF9a
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The End of Oak Street (2026)
After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking ...
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 15/08/2026
If you have a friend who has shared about suicidal ideation, follow up even if they "seem fine," even if the crisis appears to have passed. Ask about it directly. SI loves the darkness. It loves loneliness. It loves silence. Even asking about it is a service, even if after it's gone. /9
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
You want me to go with you to Sephora? The thing that killed Aerith?
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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
listen up children, people will give you a lot of advice growing up but here's the one thing that matters: have a mate who's a plumber
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Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Building FTL starships on the Clyde! A robot spy in a Venus cloud colony! Ancient alien intelligences! And most mysterious of all, bees. Perfect late summer listening, though I say so myself. 60% OFF Beyond the Hallowed Sky www.audiobooks.co.uk/promotions/p...
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60% OFF Beyond the Hallowed Sky
Mathematician Lakshmi Nayak receives a letter from her future self about faster-than-light travel. The equations work, and the letter itself seems to prove the possibility will someday be realized. Bu...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Royal College of Emergency Medicine @rcem.ac.uk · 12/08/2026
At major Northern Ireland EDs between April and June 2026, more than one in five patients waited more than 12 hours before being discharged, admitted or transferred. RCEM calls on the NI Executive Executive to take immediate action to overcrowding and delayed discharges. rcem.ac.uk/press-rel...
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