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(he/him) Web Developer, Do Gooder, Neck Haver 🇲🇬 / 🇪🇺

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Daniel Wood @danielgwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
gee thanks NordVPN for this incredibly useful warning. So a password that might be linked to my email address for an unknown service that I may not even be using any more was leaked. Let me just think what I can do with this information...
Screenshot of an email from NordVPN. Text reads: Your data may be exposed online. Dark Web Monitor has detected that one or more passwords linked to REDACTED may have been exposed on the web. We couldn't identify the service related to this leak, but we're notifying you so you can remain cautious...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Donald Crabtree was a master flint-knapper & a subject expert in traditional stone-shaping. On two separate occasions, he fashioned obsidian knives to be used by surgeons operating on him: a partial lung removal & open heart surgery. Let's talk about the how & why of obsidian blades!
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A photographic slide of Don E. Crabtree flintknapping with obsidian while seated inside.  He's wearing a violently 1970's outfit of red hawaiian shirt and burgundy pants.  He holds a piece of rock in both hands, but admires the knapping work he's just done.
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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Just tried to convince my daughter that the French for "the man is eating" was "l'homme nom-nom-nom."
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 23/11/2024
The only thing worse than living in unprecedented times is discovering the times are actually highly precedented
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Daniel Wood @danielgwood.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
...wait a second I think I've seen that poster before. Solid homage, good work.
Movie poster for MUTINY (2026) starring Jason Statham. On one side we see a container ship, vertically aligned to look more like a tower. It's exploding which is exciting. On the other we see Stathe's manly bonce, complete with perturbed expression. Did he lock the front door when he left this morning? I guess we'll find out in MUTINY.Classic movie poster for the 1988 Christmas film, DIE HARD, starring Bruce Willis. The composition of the poster is exactly the same, from the exploding tower-boat to the bold red headline to John-boy's rugged face. But wait! The expression on our cowboy's face has slightly more shock than Stathe's. More of a dawning realisation that his boss just caught him pulling a fake sick day kind of vibe.
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Tony Blair/Weird Al Guilt Project @tbwagp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
fun fact: Alan Ritchson actually gets bigger by 1% for every episode of Reacher he films. the production team has therefore taken to freezing him between seasons to control his growth, a policy that also prevents him from assassinating Republican politicians
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Daniel Wood @danielgwood.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is why I'm on bsky
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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
BBC invited Palestinian writer, researcher and analyst Muhammad Shehada on to talk about Israel’s decision to investigate the killing of Hind Rajab. Below is Muhammad’s account of what happened next. Full disclosure: I know him years and he’s a regular on the pod. So naturally I believe him 100%.
@muhammadshehad2
Disappointed the BBC cancelled my interview on
Israel's killing of Hind Rajab
2 producers eagerly reached out. They confirmed the time & one called to prepare a brief for the anchor
She asked me whether Israel's announcement is positive, I explained in detail it was a cover up.
The IDF is blaming the killing of Hind, her uncle, aunt & 4 cousins on the family itself for trying to flee by car & on the ambulance sent to rescue her for "failures in the co-ordination of the movement."
None of this is remotely true! The Red Cross immediately informed the IDF about 5-year-old Hind who was hiding in that motionless car, & they requested permission from Israel to allow an ambulance to rescue them.
After multiple long hours, Israel granted greenlight to the ambulance & provided them with a designated route on a GPS to drive on.soon as the ambulance reached Hind's car, the IDF ambushed & bombed them immediately with an American made anti-tank missile then opened fire on Hind's car. The car was hit with 355 bullets.
Israel then kept that area under lockdown for 12 days, & prevented anyone from approaching.
Hind's mom went daily to the Ahli baptist hospital hoping to find her daughter, until her lifeless body was brought in along with the charred remains of the ambulance men.
Israel then claimed after an "initial investigation" that its troops were NEVER in that area to begin with. They maintained that claim for 2 years despite ample recordings & satellite images debunking this lie.
The only reason Israel is now making this new announcement of a deeper investigation is to shield its soldiers & generals from the International Criminal Court by invoking the principle of "complementarity;" that the ICC cannot investigate a state that is already investigating itself in good faith.I told the BBC producer Israel today also quietly shut down the investigation into the triple tap killing of American, Canadian, British, Australian & Polish citizens in the WCK massacre. Israel blamed the massacre on the aid workers themselves for "deviating from the predesignated route" & for hiring an armed security guard "without informing the IDF" (both claims where debunked by WCK themselves, who had coordinates their every step with the IDF).
I told the producer the Israeli commander responsible for this massacre, Nochi Mendel, is a fanatical settler who had signed a petition calling for starving Gaza & that he was celebrated by settler leaders & supported by Israeli government leaders after what he did.
Mendel even received a box of chocolate from the settler council's leader & a letter of support for what he did.
Mendel was initially dismissed by the IDF & blamed for the massacre, but was quickly & quietly reinstated & promoted in the Defence Ministry as the head of the settlements and notionol infroctrunturo unitIt's abundantly clear Israel is NOT serious about prosecuting any of the atrocities committed in Gaza. Since the genocide began, only two soldiers were punished by the IDF; one for microwaving a living frog & another for cooking sausages in the army kitchen on Shabbat.
The producer asked me: What about the 150 cases the IDF said are pending review?
I answered: it's just a number designed to give the appearance of seriousness, but it's essentially meaningless.
If it took the IDF two whole years to admit the simplest of facts that the entire world had already known, which is that their troops were the ones who fired on Hind Rajab's car, how do you expect them to do with the remaining cases that are not as high profile?
Five minutes after the call, the producer wrote me that they decided to cancel the interview & will not even host anyone else to comment on the issue, & instead they'll play archival footage!
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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Interviewer: Have you ever had a non-profit job before? Me: Yes, all of them
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
What if we kissed at the—
90s news Screen grab states: liberty university gay sex command center
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Daniel Wood @danielgwood.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Tonight's read #pageagainstthemachine
Front cover of FEMINA: A new history of the Middle Ages, through the women written out of it, by Janina Ramirez
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oneoneoneone @oneoneoneone.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Wild times on the UK MOTHS Facebook group.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/08/2026
this is a pretty good microcosm of how things in big tech have changed over the past few years is this really important? no, but "what's in the microkitchens" is an easy way to make people feel special, which is something that used to be very important in big tech now it's "sit down and shut up"
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout
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Daniel Wood @danielgwood.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
No, misleading headline. Many in Madagascar opposed it, didn't think it a good idea or a priority. It was a personal project of the previous president.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Rod Liddle was a piece of shit in both his private and public life, and it speaks to the state of British media that they're praising the man. He presaged the steep downward decline of British broadsheet print columnists into increasingly open racism, misogyny, and hatred of queer people.
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Tim Smedley @timsmedley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
If you're wondering why we keep lurching from "the longest ever wet period" to "longest ever dry period", then (wherever you are in the world) this article explains it: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Why isn’t it raining?
One statistic helps us understand climate change—and why we are lurching from droughts to floods to droughts again
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
digitaldigging.org
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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Juan Pablo De Wes @juanpablodewes.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026
A policy we can all get behind
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
i've run the numbers three times now and it's always the same
a simple Google line chart titled "What The Fuck Is Going On" that shows growth in What The Fuck from 2021 to 2026, with a significant increase in 2024 to 2026

x-axis is Year
y-axis is What The Fuck

the values are:

Year        What The Fuck
2021	11
2022	8
2023	17
2024	19
2025	42
2026	84
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
One of the craziest things in American history happened once on July 27th. I wouldn't be surprised if you never heard it, but the story has everything and represents everything America is. But they'll never tell your kids. They sure didn't tell me 🧵
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kate @katewitko.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
do a deer my kids aren't here re i'm estranged from my son me the named in this lawsuit fa i'm driving on the run so my ex-wife wants me dead la i'm running from the feds ti a drink to clear my head that will bring us back to do!
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Film this, you cowards!
Screenshot of one of my highly intelligent internet poems: Roses are red / Feet need socks / then a photo of a newspaper hoarding containing the headline GRAN WITH SHOVEL FIGHTS GIANT FOX
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/07/2026
I wrote about a true American hero: prospect.org/2026/07/28/a...
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Frederick Douglass: Indefatigable American - The American Prospect
If Frederick Douglass, a former slave who saw the dream of emancipation drown in Jim Crow, didn’t give up on this country, then we have no excuse.
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Daniel Wood @danielgwood.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🎵 Wouldn't it be nice if clients paid us, then we wouldn't have to wait so long - something like that
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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 28/07/2026
Victorious did actually run out of rum twice during her secondment to the US Pacific Fleet, despite the best efforts of the Admiralty to ship copious quantities of the stuff halfway round the globe
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Daniel Wood @danielgwood.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Ah "Planet of the Daleks", where the Daleks team up with a bunch of people wearing snoods to battle Jon Pertwee and a bunch of people with terrible 70s haircuts
A Dalek gives orders to 3 people hiding underneath jazzy purple snoods
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/07/2026
as someone who delights in Large Man Punches Things while acknowledging that it is often problematic, the fact that Reacher generally punches chuds and the guy who plays him has these politics delights me to no end please watch What If A Man Was Large, The Show it is fantastic
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is Medea the Aye Aye at the Cincinnati Zoo. These remarkable creatures are lemurs from the island of Madagascar. Let's talk about their utter weirdness, starting with the long middle finger. A similar finger on a human would be 1 ft (30 cm) long. (📷Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden via FB)
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
No, no and no. These weren't "rogue AIs" -- what happened here is that OpenAI kicked off a software process and let it run. OpenAI was always in control and could have stopped the process (or actually paid attention to what it was doing) at any time. >>
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Rogue AIs going unsupervised for days, hacking at least one company, represent one of the first real-world examples of a threat long feared by AI safety researchers: loss of control. It comes as the cybersecurity capacities of top models, including Anthropic’s Mythos, have helped fuel debate in Washington about how to regulate artificial intelligence.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1
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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Finally dug up my favorite Odyssey tweet ever
@Owl_Meat on Twitter

Cyclops (crying): omg I'm so ugly

Odysseus:*puts hand on shoulder* Nobody cares

12:22PM 2/3/16
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Daniel Wood @danielgwood.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Gotta love Malagasy mechanics. This morning the driver fixed the car with what I would describe as a sword. Certainly a long ass blade
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 20/07/2026
well, I never expected to be published in a Stanford journal, but the McKnight Foundation asked me write my thesis to the philanthropic world after the MN ICE surge: when there is an emergency, just... give money to people on the ground doing the actual work. as fast as possible. radical, I know.
ssir.org
Giving Can Be Simple (And During a Crisis, It Must Be) (SSIR)
When the village cannot wait, philanthropy must learn from community.
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blair @blairaf.com · 29/05/2026
One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?
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The saddest girl to ever hold a martini @lifeisterrible.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
i bet it looks even better in imax
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I see it now.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
shout out to The Strand bookstore staffer who did this
sign that says STAFF PICK:
The Ill-Fitting Skin by Shannon Robinson
Please turn to page 108, because I need to tell you something.

page 108 says:

HE'S GOT A KNIFE, AND HE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU!
PUT THIS DOWN AND RUN AWAY!!!!!!!!
GO THIS WAY. →
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 18/07/2026
"Love Island is only popular because we’re exhausted and we don’t want to think anymore. If we took the coercion out of employment, through the means of a UBI… the free time this financial security would create could be spent doing more fulfilling things than watching blue-eyed attractive zombies…"
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/07/2026
‘He became a sensation’: Manchester pays tribute to abolitionist Frederick Douglass
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‘He became a sensation’: Manchester pays tribute to abolitionist Frederick Douglass
Annual lectures will discuss work of writer and campaigner who ‘revitalised the anti-slavery cause’ in Britain
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 18/07/2026
Big trouble in Little Clacton – The Great Clacton Bin-Off How Count Binface accidentally provided one of the most hilarious political circuses of all time, leaving Nigel Farage looking on in Clacton | Mark Cunliffe
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Big trouble in Little Clacton – The Great Clacton Bin-Off
How Count Binface accidentally provided one of the most hilarious political circuses of all time, leaving Nigel Farage looking on in Clacton
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Rob Finch @finchwrites.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Hoping i don't get ill in Croatia
Some croatian translations for emergencies in which it appears that the translation for "I'm ill" is "Language. Pronunciation."
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I talk a lot about the complexity of ocean conservation, and how real solutions can’t fit on a bumper sticker. Enter the Ocean Cleanup. Launched by a teenager giving a TED Talk, they claimed they were going to scoop all the plastic out of the ocean. 🧪🦑🌎
therevelator.org
Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis • The Revelator
Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?
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404 Media @404media.co · 11/07/2026
“It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.” www.404media.co/we-are-livin...
404media.co
We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 10/07/2026
Nigel Farage once became the butt of jokes about "losing to a dolphin". Now Count Binface has become the unexpected hero of the Clacton campaign. The internet's reaction did not disappoint. Here's a meme collection we’ve selected for you ⤵️ Share your favourites, too! @eastangliabylines.co.uk
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The 20 best Count Binface memes from the Clacton by-election
With Count Binface becoming Nigel Farage's main challenger, social media has responded with some gloriously inventive political satire
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