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Dr Jones

@drblahdblah.bsky.social
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Ex-tronomer, Australian in Europe, Essendon FC fan. Views all my own. He/him

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 21/07/2025
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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Great thread describing what 1987 was like in the UK for gay people. I was 15 at the time. Genuinely, although I’ve thrived in my life I don’t think I’ll ever not be a bit scarred by this period in my life.
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I’m warming up my hammys as we speak! 😂
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/05/2025
Top winemaker ‘may have to leave its Spanish vineyards due to climate crisis’
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Top winemaker ‘may have to leave its Spanish vineyards due to climate crisis’
Familia Torres has been making wine in Catalonia since 1870, but says it may have to move to higher altitudes in 30 years’ time A leading European winemaker has warned it may have to abandon its ancestral lands in Catalonia in 30 years’ time because climate change could make traditional growing areas too dry and hot. Familia Torres is already installing irrigation at its vineyards in Spain and California and is planting vines on land at higher altitudes as it tries to adapt to more extreme conditions. Continue reading...
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Given the injuries, the doctors are the winners here…
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
This is really interesting. And how they vote themselves to irrelevancy.
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
What's your dancing style?
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a woman in a black dress is dancing on a dance floor
Alt: The character of Elaine from the TV show Seinfeld in a black dress is famously badly dancing on a dance floor.
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Rhett Bartlett @rhettrospective.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Simply too sad for words. Farewell Adam Selwood.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 14/05/2025
Please enjoy these shelter pups reacting to getting a kiss. Some are bashful, some have butterflies, and all deserve approximately 10 million more. 14/10 for all
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
You think what's being done to land-based ecosystems is bad? Take a look at what's happening under the sea. It's as if all birds and other wild animals were being hoovered out of forests for our mass consumption, shredding the trees and everything else in the process. Out of sight, out of mind.
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
A better metric is net meters gained then — meters gained minus the meters from turnovers.
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Definitely — and I also accept shirts and apparel. Also from @donthestat.bsky.social ;-)
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I was just thinking the other day that I was a decent back pocket player if they need me this season. If it keeps going, they might!
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
@essendonfc.bsky.social should send you a couple of bombers tops then. We will need all the help we can get with the next few matches and injuries.
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Yeah, I was reading about a killer crab. Did it kill other crabs? Or humans? I mean, to be convicted, surely it had to kill humans, right? And if so, how have I not heard about it?!? 😂
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I know it wouldn't change anything but just once when a Trump lackey gets up there and blames the Biden administration for their obvious destructive fuck-ups I want a reporter to just ask something like "does this get embarrassing for you, this obvious bullshit?"
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This is a record that, as an @essendonfc.bsky.social supporter, that I’m happy to see broken…
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This is a record that, as an @essendonfc.bsky.social supporter, that I’m happy to see broken…
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I’ve never actually liked corgis
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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Baby shoes, never worn: SOLD!
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Shouldn’t have gone to sleep… 😅 But we got the W in the end…
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 09/05/2025
This Rümeysa Öztürk hearing is radicalizing. I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom. Dark, dark stuff.
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
It is! :-)
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
That’s lovely — our dog does the same thing!
A chocolate Labrador looking out a window, supervising the neighbourhood.
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I would also go for Crossley as we have Visintini for development in the ruck, so this would help Goldstein in the ruck the rest of the year. Then I might use one more on one of the Richmond VFL players. #GoDons
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Alex Graudins @toonyballoony.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
oh I see, when the pope chooses a new name, Christians are all for it and address him as such, but a TRANS person chooses a new name—
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I have to admit as an atheist, the Catholic Church certainly got it right in communicating the results of the papal elections for the information age. I don’t care, yet “what colour is the smoke?!?” I think when I see a news alert on my phone. 😅
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This is possibly the most brilliant post I’ve seen. Even if it’s fake, it’s still great. The names, the 2 nines, the wrong city names in the wrong places, the terrible map that’s consistently wrong, but still familiar. Brilliant, no notes…
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
One of my favourite episodes of the Simpsons ever. Hits so much on the head so well, yet I still find myself liking Homer.
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
They don’t have to be, they just need to be misaligned to any wannabe dictator. That’s enough for such a mechanism. Monarch or not is relevant.
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Why? I think that that’s the best feature. It could be anyone: the NL PM for instance, so it doesn’t have to be royal or colonial at all. Just so happens it is for us.
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I’m not a monarchist by any stretch, but what I do like about Australia’s system is that we have a disinterested bystander, half a world away who can dissolve parliament and call fresh elections if a leader tries to take over the country (amongst other things). Seems like an effective check to me.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
In the Biden economy Rubio needed only one job to make ends meet
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Shoes off is the only way to go.
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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a man with a beard wearing a light blue shirt is sitting on a couch
Alt: A gif of Richard Hammond saying that’s clever…ooh that’s clever
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Reminds me of this west wing scene about the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy — seems applicable here too. The blackout occurred after the high renewables load therefore it was caused by it. youtu.be/rsI36TzIikY?...
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post hoc ergo propter hoc (logical fallacy) - from The West Wing
YouTube video by Eric Woodard
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I like them when we’re not playing in them. I have to work when it’s on. So annoying!
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
You can see green shoots that the better list management and better development is giving us for sure
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Nice bit of trivia that — thanks!
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
It’s this type of things that make me think we have a bright future. It’s not the established players driving things, but the younger players. In 5 years, they’ll be the stars if we keep going like this…
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Don’t know why I put the word “here”, but I think you get my meaning.
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Are there any grandfather/son pairings here and would that list include the name Hird?
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
So the Collingwood team is full of creeps? Fits…
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Dr Jones @drblahdblah.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Sorry, but books aren’t invertebrates as they have a spine… #DadJoke
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut." www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Why So Many MAGA Men Look Like Joe Rogan
The slim-fit uniform of grindset entrepreneurs and right wing podcasters can be traced back decades.
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Dr Shanika Galaudage @astronerdika.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
So I know folks have heard the news about an exoplanet that might be “teeming with life”? 🌱 I created a series of infographics that aims to cover the key points of the research findings + some of the area where scientists are sceptical! 🧐 Meet K2-18b! 👋 #astronomy #exoplanet #scicomm
Infographic about the exoplanet K2-18b and its discovery with Kepler
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