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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Try to imagine how insane the message dissonance is, if you’re old enough to have lived through the Rwandan genocide, the siege of Sarajevo and the destruction of the Gaza Strip. As I am, I remember what was said about all of these things. One thing is not like the others.

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I refuse to accept that Bluey is this far down the rankings.

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton was richer than any tech CEO could ever be. They could have a thousand times her net worth and still never glimpse the true wealth she really had, which is made by genuinely caring about other people

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Always know your rights, kids

Cartoon depicts two boys talking in a car. One boy says “Can I introduce you to my best friend JavaScript? (JavaScript has been pasted over “Jesus”). The other boy cheerily replies Nope!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

a really useful tell on UK pundits having melted their brains on X is their obsession with DEI when the UK terminology is EDI.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"Public interest was driving the story"

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Whenever I see these conversations across the Atlantic, I’m struck by how the conversation compares US Tax and UK/EU tax, when really it should be comparing (Tax + insurance + deductibles etc). The US pays a lot of tax, it’s just called something else

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

At this point, the campaign videos make themselves

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard a NASA official say

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Of all the traumas we experienced during the pandemic, the most unspoken collective trauma we all felt came from the glimpse of Earth without humanity, and how much richer and healthier it was for having been spared us

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Jackson O'Lantern-Brien @sprobeforebros.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

cutting pure science to prioritize applications is fundamentally like asking farmers not to waste time producing grain, cheese, and tomatoes and focus on making pizzas

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The entire nation huffing paint right now. Thoroughly weird to watch from the outside

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

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Benedict Anning @benedictanning.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

HEY MY DEBUT IS OUT TODAY AND IDK I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO SAY TBH THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME DO YOU WANNA BUY IT NO WORRIES IF NOT also also i'm finally listening to the full audiobook and jfc kristin atherton is a fucking legend www.penguin.co.uk/books/474739...

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Atomic Coffin

'Combines a cold war spy novel with lurking horrors beneath the sea . . . a creepy, disorientating journey into fear.' Lisa Tuttle, GUARDIAN 'Feels like an underwater version of Event Horizon, with ...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I’m not sure, but the Great Financial Crisis that happened at the same time might have been a bigger factor

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Edinburgh SFF @edinburghsff.com · 22/05/2026

Congratulations to an amazing group of writers from the Edinburgh SFF community who have been shortlisted by @britfantasysoc.bsky.social - @clhellisen.bsky.social @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @annabelcwrites.bsky.social We’re absolutely delighted!

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 18/05/2026

why bother watching Americans and Brits argue over who has the best food when I could simply watch two bald men fighting over a comb instead

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

If you are a landlord and your tenants pay you while receiving Universal Credit, then you, the landlord, are also receiving Universal Credit

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The three stages of life: 1. Too young 2. Too busy 3. Too old

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

It’s _literally_ a false idol, folks.

An AI generated image of Jesus attached to a news story about how apparent Christians are chatting with a fake Jesus, completely unaware of their own Scripture

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 30/03/2026

Grab your early bird weekend pass for this year's @cymerafestival.co.uk before time runs out. One of my favourite genre literary events in the writing year, and all the better for being nearly on my doorstep www.cymerafestival.co.uk

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

On an unrelated note: dementia patients often lose the ability to keep their inner monologue to themselves, as well as losing the ability to filter private thoughts from public speech

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

“400 years ago, they would not have [heard of or recognised] introspection.” I think Shakespeare would like a chat with you

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/03/2026

"LLMs simply don't make mistakes like the ones you see here in this passage from Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy" is jokerizing

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The war is apparently being promulgated by twelve year olds

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This is also true for most cultural artifacts - films, tv, music, literature, etc . Fan criticism is usually spot on, but their suggestions for how to fix it are almost always misguided

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

1: UK employers need and want physicists. @iop.org study found 1 in 20 UK jobs rely on physics-related knowledge. The demand for physics skills and knowledge is growing fast and is becoming ever harder to meet. Conclusion: We need to train more physicists. Source: www.iop.org/sites/defaul...

A bar chart showing sustained grown in the number of physics related jobs over the last 15 years. The caption reads "Physics-related roles account for over 1.85m jobs in 2020: 1 in 20 jobs"

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

If you lose a by-election in a historically safe seat because *George Galloway* endorsed your opponent, then you and your party are in dire straits

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Fighting age man attempts to enter British territory illegally on a small boat

Nigel Farage grifting about the Chagos Islands

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

How can he be simultaneously ultra-divorced and super-twelve? Defies physics

Elon Musk’s latest ketamine rant about building stuff on the Moon despite not having a proven lunar launch vehicle or any track record in keeping promises

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 11/02/2026

Is the thesaurus sentient asks person paid by thesaurus publisher to ask questions like that.

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Orwell was pretty clear that the novel writing machines were bad.

Sloppist defends sloppism by saying she can make more slop than you can make decent art

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

It is weird seeing essentially the same headlines I saw as a first year astronomy PhD student in 2007/2008 as STFC first came into being. Does nothing ever change?

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Almost _nothing_ is an engineering problem

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It's finally the year of Linux on the desktop, and all it took was the end of the rules-based international order

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Europe, the continent that perfected bitterly held, centuries-long grudges, is an ideal continent to engender a grudge with.

Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on EU nations supplying military support to Greenland

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

This absolutely benefits Putin. Once again Trump’s actions weaken European capability against Russia. This is irreparable relationship damage between the US and its allies.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Hey Libby. I love your app. All our family's devices have Libby loaded, and we typically have a dozen or more books borrowed out. This is a terrible statement on AI in Libby. Do better. Take a stance. Choose some values and stand by them. You *don't exist* without authors and their creative works.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

If you ever installed Twitter (or X or Grok) on the App Store, you can submit a report of abusive content and ask them to remove the apps from the App Store. Just click the “Report a Problem” link on the app’s page in the App Store.

An App Store reporting form complaining about the X app.

Part of the App Store page for the X app, with the “Report a Problem” link circled in red.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

You have to laugh really. It’s like discovering that the government believes that “pee is stored in the balls”.

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Dr Duncan Forgan @dh4gan.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The America of today: thanking teachers for their service as they are de facto military veterans, as likely to be shot in the line of duty as any soldier.

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