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Here's a spider 🕷️ using a web 🕸️ like Spider-Man: it creates a thin line of web that can be used to yank something in towards you at VERY high speed! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 🧪 Hat tip to @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 10/10/2026

It’s the weekend Have some highland cows

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 06/10/2026

The best name in sport is still Zippy Fish.

"I Love my name. Well, my full name is actually Zipporah, but | actually kind of forget that myself sometimes, because everyone just calls me Zippy ... Very grateful for my name."

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 06/10/2026

They're splitting Bluesky into two Bluskies: Those who preferred Swamp Thing and those who preferred Man-Thing.

Swamp Thing (left) and Man-Thing (right).

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 03/10/2026

Her contribution to DNA was forgotten, but Franklin was not. Franklin was well known for her work on viruses, and her obituary was published in outlets like The New York Times.

Rosalind Franklin’s grave, which reads “Her research and discoveries in viruses remain of lasting benefit to mankind.”

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 01/10/2026

September 30 / October 1

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 23/09/2026

Which reminds me… (Apologies for hijacking post)

oh shit. i'm at a doctors appointment, and i legit forgot to take the sugar glider out of my sports bra. let's hope she stays asleep!!!

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 22/09/2026

Part of the continuing series of news articles whose headline should be, "Animal seen in its natural habitat where it always lives." @whysharksmatter.bsky.social

CBC News video titled, "Shark swims just metres from Nova Scotia shore."

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 21/09/2026

Fellow biologists, does this look like a beta-pleated sheet in a protein to you? The figure legend reads, "Schematics showing structures of anti-cancer peptides ... beta-pleated sheet." Just one of the new entries in my collection of academic slop. bit.ly/academic-slop

A slop AI figure described in the text as beta pleated sheets in a peptide which does not look like other depictions of beta-pleated sheets in peptides you will ever see.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 14/09/2026

Seven 7️⃣ new entries in the collection of academic slop graphics. bit.ly/academic-slop Including this ⬇️ "lovely" illustration of quantum computing.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 12/09/2026

Erected 2011 by United States Consulate General - Toronto.

As the United States marks the 10th Anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, in the name of all Americans, Consulate General Toronto thanks the people of Ontario for their support and generosity following the worst attack on Americans since WW II.

The nearly 3,000 innocent victims from ninety countries included twenty-four Canadians. Our friends and family in Ontario, and all of Canada, were with us in our darkest
hour, as you always are. Neither terrorism nor any adversity can conquer free peoples, and we are grateful to stand with the best neighbours any nation ever had.

As together we look back, together we go forward.

We are eternally grateful.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 27/08/2026

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express

Twelve designs of the Cybermen from Doctor Who, all of which are have blank metal faces that betray no emotion.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 24/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky in your camera roll

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 22/08/2026

#CelebrateCanada Todd McFarlane, creator of Spawn and one of the best known Spider-Man artists. Born in Calgary, Alberta! 🇨🇦

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 22/08/2026

Late to this, but this is some damn fine comic reading.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 21/08/2026

Note how "death" is used here. Arday did not have a "downfall." Arday DIED. Unlike "Ideological diversity," which, being an abstract concept, cannot die.

News article: "The rise of Arday and the death of ideological diversity

The tragic downfall of a disgraced Cambridge professor exposes a crisis at academe’s heart. - Timothy Lynch, Contributor"

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 19/08/2026

Post a preview image that does not represent the work.

The Dark Knight preview image, showing an actress’s face looking up to the right of screen

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 17/08/2026

HAAAA HA HA HA HAAAAAH HA HA HA HAHHH (wipes tears from eyes) Sorry, I’ve heard lofty predictions before. From 2022:

Chris Anderson tweet dated that is dated more than three years ago : “Fixing Twitter may be as hard a job as converting Teslas into robotaxis and proving the viability of a
monster rocket capable of taking humanity to Mars. But within three years from today, I predict he will have accomplished all three.”

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 11/08/2026

I don’t HAVE to wait all year for #BuckarooBanzai Day to wear this hat. But it’s nice to save it for the occasion!

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 10/08/2026

Feel free to use this convenient graphic for future posts on this topic:

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 07/08/2026

How I'm thinking* about things: *I'm joking, but not much.

Futurama title card, with subtitle, “In Loving Memory of Science - Born 624 BC • Died 2026 AD”

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 06/08/2026

Tip! If you add “cooked.wiki/“ to beginning of ANY recipe url (before the https:// ) it strips away everything but the recipe and organizes the ingredients and method into separate columns. Example below.

Green masala biryani recipe formatted by Cooked.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 05/08/2026

Too real, Futurama, TOO REAL

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 03/08/2026

Did I hear… THE T WORD?

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 31/07/2026

Today in "Stuff I didn't ask for and want to turn off NOW": Google Image search no longer opens with a clean page. Now it opens with random images "For you", probably trained on your previous searches. I DON'T WANT THIS! I'd noticed a couple of days ago that Google Image search had gotten worse.

Google image search landing page, showing random picture under the "For you" tab of food and landscapes and comics.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 30/07/2026

"Ah, yes, because as we learned in fiction, wishes are always beneficial and have absolutely no unintended consequences" Says someone who has apparently nobody has read a SINGLE EFFING STORY ABOUT WISHES.

Aladdin: "Can you make me a prince?"
Genie: "There's a lot of gray area in 'Make me a prince.' I could just make you a prince." (Prince appears in background, saying, "Yo, ya'll seen my palace?") Genie: You'd be snuggled up with that dud for the rest of your life.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 29/07/2026

A journal named Count Dracula 🧛‍♂️ their "Author of the Month." This story, and over 40 others, are collected in "Stinging the Predators," an anthology of academic hoaxes. Jump to page 427! bit.ly/StingPred

Professor Thomas Count Dracula, MD, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Haematology Head - Experimental, Historical & Sensory Haematology, Vlad the Impaler University, Wolf's Lane, Wooden Stakes Grove 666, Transylvania, with a "Best author of the month" trophy.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 28/07/2026

Never needed to “hear someone else out “ LESS. 😶 Bloody hell, #LinkedIn.

LinkedIn post asking, “So why don’t we eat other humans” with pictures of someone cutting up meat on a dinner plate.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 27/07/2026

I don't think I've seen ONE conference presentation with subtitles this summer. 🤨 PowerPoint can do this! And it's pretty good! I've seen it correctly transcribe the disease name, "fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva." Go to "Slide show" tab on ribbon. #Accessibility #AcademicChatter

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 26/07/2026

@realgdt.bsky.social at SDCC talking about gen AI, continued: “And it’s not about who gets the job. It’s about, we are protecting a lineage of art. If we cut a generation of people from learning their craft, you’re cutting the rest of the history of that medium away from them, for what?” 2/2

Guillermo Del Toro saying, “It’s about, we are protecting a lineage of art.”

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 26/07/2026

@realgdt.bsky.social at SDCC talking about gen AI. “Absolutely no God dammed AI. “It’s much more expensive? I don’t care, you know? Because, well, listen… The thing is, what we’re protecting is the beauty and the redeeming power of art.” 1/2

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 25/07/2026

Alternative headline: Christopher Nolan thought he'd make a movie adapting an old poem. He's earned $342.1 million at the boxoffice so far, thanks to Emily Wilson.

A Penn professor thought she'd sell 1,000 copies of her "Odyssey" translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 25/07/2026

I’ve been having success with qwant.com! Turning off gen AI summaries is a one-time button press in the settings.

Screenshot of Qwant settings menu that shows ability to deactivate AI summaries.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 22/07/2026

You flatter me! Thank you for your kind words!

"The people's champion? Sounds pretty good to me" from the movie Real Steel.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 17/07/2026

The legend is in the upper left, but you have to hit "more". Under the first few lines and above the view count.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 14/07/2026

Show me a comic book page you love, no explanation needed. (Since it’s framed and in my house, I’m guessing the explanation is kind of obvious.)

A framed page from The Amazing Spider-Man featuring the Taskmaster. Art by Todd McFarlane.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 10/07/2026

William James in his 20s, before he became one of America's most eminent psychologists, looking... badass? From www.neh.gov/humanities/2... #HistoricalHotties

Psychologist William James at around the age of 23, with a beard, sunglasses, and fedora, which makes him look rather badass.

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