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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Ah my mistake. Bewitched by the county into letting cartography drift away from me

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I always imagined Hookland was landlocked. Though maybe it still is, despite the haunted lighthouses.

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also, I'm not affiliated with this in any way. Just delighted someone invented this

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Bluesky-user/podcast-listener overlap must surely be high, so dropping this link here. The developer was discussing it over on Reddit. It lists books mentioned in podcasts. I asked about @bunkerpod.bsky.social as I'm always scribbling down books. They added it and I am impressed! podshelf.io

podshelf.io

Books worth reading right now

Every book worth reading, surfaced from real podcast conversations. Free, no login.

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I haven't watched since I was a kid, might have to give it a rewatch now.

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Viewing figures pretty amazing for the first ep, but surely can only go up if the twist this year is that it's also channeling Squid Game

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Beautiful! This is a lovely image, good luck with it all at Comic Con.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Fundamentally, England is a country of incorrigible curtain twitchers.

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That guy @stuartbayens.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A federal judge has approved a US$1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about US$3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot.

ctvnews.ca

Judge approves a US$1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot

A federal judge approved a US$1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay authors about US$3,000 per book.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/07/2026

Holy shit, we're actually getting there. "UCLA researchers develop low-cost blood test to detect multiple cancers and other diseases from a single sample [—] In tests, MethylScan detected about 63% of cancers across all stages and roughly 55% of early-stage cancers." (from April) #ShareGoodNewsToo

newsroom.ucla.edu

UCLA researchers develop low-cost blood test to detect multiple cancers and other diseases from a single sample

The test could offer a more affordable approach to early disease detection.

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Yes, this final and yesterday's England/France match were a lot of fun to watch but this remains so important. Almost everyone has caved to Infantino's continued presidency, but he is a corrupt little man who does not treat all nations equally.

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Loved this moment so much, united the patrons of this Argentinian restaurant in Mexico in booing/laughing at the guy

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

He's honestly such a little shit

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I never really understand the point of these interviews in the US. To the foreign eye it seems like they spend ages showing the person is the worst incompetent POS then just go 'but I am sure they will do better in future' and appoint them anyway

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Yes,this is so important. We must maintain a basic standard of evidence, and fight to remind ourselves and others why this is an important journalistic, scientific, academic and reader baseline. I do think we need to find a way of dealing with this being slow and unable to fill a vacuum.

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

England at the world cup semi finals

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Fantastic game, I watched in mexico city where most people were behind you (I'm from UK so cheering for England I'm afraid!). They even had some Norwegians up on stage at half time doing the row! Thought your team were brilliant, sad that they went out as much as I'm happy england are going through.

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Watched the match today in Mexico City Zócalo. Cheers for Norway, cheers for England, cheers for Switzerland - united in booing for Argentina 🇲🇽🤝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Think Tuchel might have read this at at half time, good shout

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 08/07/2026

A Brit in the semis of Wimbledon, England still in the World Cup and Nigel Farage spending the summer arguing with a bin. Oh this happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I have loved every minute of being in mexico for the world cup, apart from the ads constantly. Especially at the end of the game - I like to see people celebrating, mourning, shaking hands, how the teams interact... here's it's final whistle the straight into the ads which really ruins the vibe.

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I have been watching too much world cup. Stopped scrolling because I thought this was an updated QF bracket after the Argentina/Egypt match. It's a stool sample chart.

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gabbylm.bsky.social @gabbylm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

FIFA have confirmed Balogun’s suspension has been lifted and he *will* be allowed to stand in the Clacton by election

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It seems like a massive overreaction to your first big public scandal. He wants to be PM and he enjoys a grift - there will be other times he gets caught with his fingers in the till. Is he going to throw all his toys out of the pram every single time?

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Hang on, I did not realise the US think Belgium are the underdog in this scenario. Really guys? Norway are a strong team, but their roadmap cannot be 'wait for England to do some really dumb things'.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 06/07/2026

opposition fans, singing in unison: 🎶 you’re shit, and you know you are 🎶 americans, crying: that’s not true. you can’t say that

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I’m in absolute bits I’m so sorry if you went to bed and didn’t see this live

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I like this piece, it puts into words what I've been worrying about - I like the vibes, but what's the actual plan/payoffs to making it happen? And your note about UK not being able to withstand much more grinding dysfunction. He needs to do well, this can't just be another story of one man's ego.

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

England flags lining the street in Mexico... kinda surreal to see CDMX, in the drizzle, decked out like a suburb in Kent 🇲🇽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #MexEng

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should....

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I very much feel your pain having gone through this exact process many a time. Mary Ward has some cheaper drawing courses. Or tbh I just go to local life drawing which is affordable, though I get that there's something appealing about a course and being taught a new thing.

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I don't understand the point of arguments like this. Obviously there are reasons he is the way he is. Doing some pop psychoanalysis about it still doesn't make him capable of doing politics or political communication in the 2020s.

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Omg Cabo Verde were amazing to the end, so sad for them but surely nobody on that team will have to buy their own pint ever again

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

So i think OP is trying to wind up the yanks but best Mexican I've had in London is Proper Tacos in Nags Head market - stall run by mexicans, very reasonably priced.

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Absolutely awful from Springer Nature. People should be aware that they definitely should not under any circumstances look up the many many pirate sites which exist to enable them to bypass paying big academic publishers to download academic work. Do not Google this/go to reddit to find out more.

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Tacky, fashy, and not even their own, original fashy. Passé fashy.

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This is fun! But let's hope I'm not the one put in charge of surviving on Mars, I apparently have only bad ideas when it comes to terraforming.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Happy pride to the super bisexuals

Fox News segment with Supergirl movie clip labeled super bisexual. Subtitle says: supergirl movie desperate to keep Hollywood woke.

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I'm sorry. Sci American is a great publication and I've enjoyed your articles over the years. All the best with whatever comes next!

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

On the c/f question, Mexicans 🤝 Brits. Though Michael has a point, it's hotter in London than CDMX right now and do we see people hydrating? No, we'll faint on the piccadilly line before we embrace the hydration break.

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I work for a charity and we also would like hundreds of billions but we simply have to settle for creating an effective business strategy and implementation plan to generate income. Sometimes life's not fair, CEO of Anthropic.

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

UK press is very not into the hydration break

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British Infection Association @biainfection.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

🎧 Here’s a snippet from our latest MIC podcast, “Looking to the future of the profession: inside the Infection Specialist Workforce report” – one not to miss! Listen to the full episode over on the BIA website 👉 www.britishinfection.org/education-ev...

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Anyone else in the ven diagram of people who were delighted by the #MexicoGoal and #AndyBurnham win in the same 15 mins? From CDMX to Makerfield

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is obviously very bad, but I am amused that it is a French academic who has used AI to give himself a spot of existential anxiety and a dose of intellectual impotence

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Christine Fears @ccfears.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

An important reminder that progress is not linear, it needs constant attention and fight.

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