Reposted by Daniel Woodtoilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Found 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 192115363133
Daniel Wood @danielgwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026gee 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... 010
Reposted by Daniel Woodelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible 25150273938
Reposted by Daniel Woodc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Donald 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! 513335
Reposted by Daniel WoodAlex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Just tried to convince my daughter that the French for "the man is eating" was "l'homme nom-nom-nom." 27913
Daniel Wood @danielgwood.bsky.social · 23/08/2026FFS I was a little more than a child at the time and I remember clearly the horrible reaction to Polish/eastern European immigration 0131
Reposted by Daniel WoodStellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 23/11/2024The only thing worse than living in unprecedented times is discovering the times are actually highly precedented 17903162
Daniel Wood @danielgwood.bsky.social · 21/08/2026...wait a second I think I've seen that poster before. Solid homage, good work. 010
Reposted by Daniel WoodTony Blair/Weird Al Guilt Project @tbwagp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026fun 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 111
Reposted by Daniel Woodiucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026In 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, 218104062355
Reposted by Daniel WoodTony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 20/08/2026BBC 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%. 16589364
Reposted by Daniel WoodIt's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Interviewer: Have you ever had a non-profit job before? Me: Yes, all of them 036077
Reposted by Daniel WoodStone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026What if we kissed at the— 5660391338
Reposted by Daniel Woodoneoneoneone @oneoneoneone.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Wild times on the UK MOTHS Facebook group. 21424120
Reposted by Daniel WoodMicah @rincewind.run · 10/08/2026this 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" 502491376
Reposted by Daniel WoodKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026it'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 159115282683
Daniel Wood @danielgwood.bsky.social · 06/08/2026funny you should say that, it was built with French loans, so there is now ~$200 million (more?) owed to France 110
Daniel Wood @danielgwood.bsky.social · 06/08/2026No, 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. 000
Daniel Wood @danielgwood.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The headline is misleading. I think it's worth pointing out that many in the country opposed it, ridiculed it, and didn't think it was a priority. It was a personal project of the previous president, so it happened anyway. See midi-madagasikara.mg/telepherique... for examplemidi-madagasikara.mg 130
Reposted by Daniel WoodBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Rod 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. 17747124
Reposted by Daniel WoodTim Smedley @timsmedley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026If 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.ukWhy isn’t it raining?One statistic helps us understand climate change—and why we are lurching from droughts to floods to droughts again 12917
Reposted by Daniel WoodFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026I 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.orgHow to plant a nuclear plant in IranThe question is: what on earth is Google doing? 742393893
Reposted by Daniel WoodJuan Pablo De Wes @juanpablodewes.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026A policy we can all get behind 0177
Reposted by Daniel WoodPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... 25339191200
Reposted by Daniel WoodYgrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 29/07/2026i've run the numbers three times now and it's always the same 262237611
Reposted by Daniel WoodIda B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 28/07/2026One 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 🧵 9395258
Reposted by Daniel Woodkate @katewitko.bsky.social · 28/07/2026do 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! 241405366
Reposted by Daniel WoodOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Film this, you cowards! 413224
Reposted by Daniel Woodryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/07/2026I wrote about a true American hero: prospect.org/2026/07/28/a...prospect.orgFrederick Douglass: Indefatigable American - The American ProspectIf 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. 320844
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 020
Reposted by Daniel WoodMatthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 28/07/2026Victorious 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 5554
Daniel Wood @danielgwood.bsky.social · 26/07/2026From the era of Doctor Who where the Daleks could be defeated by throwing a carpet over the top and wrestling them into a pond 100
Daniel Wood @danielgwood.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Ah "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 100
Reposted by Daniel WoodMicah @rincewind.run · 24/07/2026as 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 24104056
Reposted by Daniel Woodc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This 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) 1022140
Reposted by Daniel WoodEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 24/07/2026No, 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. >> 9518148
Reposted by Daniel WoodLegal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This 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 651258686
Reposted by Daniel Woodsky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Finally dug up my favorite Odyssey tweet ever 2379811640
Daniel Wood @danielgwood.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Gotta love Malagasy mechanics. This morning the driver fixed the car with what I would describe as a sword. Certainly a long ass blade 000
Daniel Wood @danielgwood.bsky.social · 20/07/2026May I be the 94th person to offer to provide the stamp for his face 040
Reposted by Daniel Woodashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 20/07/2026well, 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.orgGiving Can Be Simple (And During a Crisis, It Must Be) (SSIR)When the village cannot wait, philanthropy must learn from community. 20977319
Reposted by Daniel Woodblair @blairaf.com · 29/05/2026One 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? 251104291942
Reposted by Daniel WoodThe saddest girl to ever hold a martini @lifeisterrible.bsky.social · 20/07/2026i bet it looks even better in imax 11168102
Reposted by Daniel WoodStrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I see it now. 311046
Reposted by Daniel WoodAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20/07/2026shout out to The Strand bookstore staffer who did this 100133731950
Reposted by Daniel WoodScott 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…" 89540