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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉

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Science, sailing, sea and scattering (X-ray flavor). Against genocide in any form. Opinions are mine. I run a blog at lookingatnothing.com

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 27/05/2026
Big let down, to be honest
ijbol adjani ✅
@onbeinganangel

loved her work but this is really disappointing. i
hope she can clear this up

Benji @WrnrWrites [redacted]

To confirm, this “100% AI generated” passage is the
opening of chapter 5 from Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein

Your Text is AI/GPT Generated

100%
AI GPT*

It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that
almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of
being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered
dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-
extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive
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Remember the LMAO @ass.golf · 25/05/2026
Probably because it was turned off
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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
How they view us. apnews.com/article/gaza...
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Flotilla activists describe beatings, tasers and mistreatment by Israeli forces
Activists detained after their flotilla tried to breach Israel's naval blockade of Gaza have reported mistreatment by Israeli soldiers.
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Brandon Yan 甄念本 @brandonyan.com · 21/05/2026
China doing renewables and dominating EV markets and we're just watching our leaders double down on oil and gas
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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Politicians voting on judges ruling about science says something about the sad state of our current society. 🧪
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(Lizzie)🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @pip-kin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This isn't the actual story, I lived in Miami then. They violated Cuban airspace, to drop Anti Castro flyers. They were not helping any rafters. Invade a country's sovereign air space. Expect stupid prizes.
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Sen @dresdencodak.com · 02/10/2024
It's often pointed out how almost all the characters I write are biracial: Kim is half Korean, Xiaoling is Chinese and Central American, Elith is black and Scandinavian, Hayakawa is French and Japanese, etc. and then any vanilla white people (Melchior) are insane. LISTEN, I write what I know.
Kim RossXiaoling ChavezElith HeksenSebastien Hayakawa
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Sen @dresdencodak.com · 18/05/2026
Things may not be as they seem in Dark Science #183 - "Dust"... dresdencodak.com/2026/05/18/d...
Surrounded by faint stars, Kim Ross stands at the edge of a cave littered with ancient weapons and talismans. At the other end of the cave sits a massive sword, glowing white-hot. (from Dark Science #183)
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Captain Wonder @capta1nw0nd3r.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
By Alex Aubrey
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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In this image there are 2 very serious scientific images localizing a GNSS jammer. And 2 by me Today I came across a scientific article validating my radio horizon method for localizing jammers with ADS-b data. Published a month before I started my work. I honestly had no idea.
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
Twitter thread from Thomas Dietterich, reading "Attention 
@arxiv
 authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/
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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"
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DORA @dorassessment.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Rethinking assessment isn’t easy, especially in contexts shaped by global inequalities. In Uruguay, a growing movement is challenging metric‑driven systems and opening space for more inclusive and socially relevant research assessment. New blogpost by Natalia Gras & Judith Sutz 👉 bit.ly/RRA-Uruguay
Graphic announcing a new guest blog post on research evaluation reform in Uruguay, highlighting how metric-driven systems have shaped academic life and how collective efforts are creating change.Quote highlighting that, for the first time in Uruguay, universities, research institutes, and national organizations are collaborating to rethink research evaluation; guest blog post by Natalia Gras and Judith Sutz.Call-to-action graphic inviting readers to explore the full story and rethink what is valued in research, with link to the Uruguay research assessment blog post.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 12/05/2026
My “Islam Today” platform published its 100th piece today. A milestone moment in the fight against anti-Muslim & Islamophobia. We have subscribers from all 50 states and 97 countries globally. Read the full update & subscribe. No paywall. Regular dad jokes:) islamtoday.substack.com/p/a-mileston...
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A Milestone Day for Islam Today — 100 Articles Published
100 Articles. 97 Countries. One Mission. And We're Just Getting Started
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 08/05/2026
Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2.5 million papers published as a letter to The Lancet today.
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One in 277 PubMed-indexed papers in 2026 shows fabricated references, says analysis
Figure from correspondence to The Lancet by Maxim Topaz and colleagues. Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2.5 mi…
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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Guy Venables
A woman with a placard saying "Please stop killing people" is dismissed by two businessmen as a "bloody extremist." Cartoon by Guy Venables.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
NEW: I’ve written a call to arms. Journalists are being murdered in unprecedented numbers by a Western ally that operates with total impunity. Enough. Publishers & editors have failed us. But if we can’t speak up about this, what is journalism even for? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Journalists of the world, unite!
You have nothing to lose but the cowardice/apathy of your corporate overlords. Something has to change.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
TIL the infamous "inkblot test" always uses the same 10 inkblots
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 25/04/2026
🆕 EU Longest Train Journey 🆕 Kemijärvi 🇫🇮 - Lagos 🇵🇹 🦅 Geodesic: 4088.33km 🛤️ Route-km: 6251.5km ⏱️Trip time: 87 hours 29 minutes 🚆Trains: 16 💶 Cost: around €400, with Interrail All mapped and explained here 👇 eulongesttrainjourney.jonworth.eu
Map of the longest train route between two places in the EU
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Almost 100% of new cars sold in Norway last year were electric. Not just because of oil wealth. Because of carbon taxes, EV incentives, and thirty years of consistent policy. New newsletter: Norway: The World's Most Instructive Energy Paradox janrosenow.substack.com/p/norway-the...
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Norway: The World’s Most Instructive Energy Paradox
The electrification playbook the world needs - and its inconvenient footnote
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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Caught the last day of the James Nachtwey exhibition in Berlin. It’s… impactful. He has seen things. And was still active in Ukraine in 2023 at (back then) 75 years old. #war #photography
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Sen @dresdencodak.com · 02/05/2026
I think the trick to depicting the horrors of capitalism in a farcical way without being dreary is to keep at least half of the horrors off-screen.
Father Abaddon (offscreen): "' Father Abaddon, my job doesn't pay enough to cover my rent.'
'I had to sell my legs to pay the rent.'
'I was thrown out on the street for having prosthetic legs.'
'Rats keep chewing on my legs.'
'I sold my arms to buy rat poison.'"
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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I see fellow sailors, even professional ones, wrapping line around their hand to get more purchase. This seems intuitive but is super risky, you can damage or crush your hand when the line gets out of control and you can’t let go. Invest in sailing gloves, and unlearn this habit. #segeln #sailing
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 02/05/2026
Humpback whale 'Timmy' has been released in North Sea after being stranded in shallow waters off Germany since March, witnesses said.
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Humpback whale 'Timmy' released in the North Sea after weeks stranded off Germany
A rescue team has released from a barge in the North Sea a humpback whale that had been stranded in shallow waters near Germany since March, witnesses said.
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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Walked around the ruins of TU Berlin yesterday. It was very pretty. Too bad it's in such a dilapidated state..
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Suddenly Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumber just can’t stop making big bucks off shrewd investments in companies making a fortune off connections to the government. They are experts in every industry now.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 30/04/2026
BREAKING: Global Sumud Flotilla reports that last night Israeli naval forces intercepted, boarded, and disabled and destroyed various boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla in a violent raid in international waters. 1/2
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
“That Charles courted Trump while failing to meet Epstein’s victims could hardly be a clearer message of who counts and who doesn’t, of which horrors are punished and which are excused.” My col. in tomorrow’s paper on the royal White House visit and complicity. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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King Charles’s White House visit was an exercise in full-throttle distraction and denial | Frances Ryan
A few days of joviality will hardly change American foreign policy or guarantee Trump’s ever-erratic affections for long, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Testing relative humidity meters and getting thoroughly disappointed.
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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Though we live on the ground floor, our balcony feels like it receives quite a bit of sunlight in the summer. So I’ve set up a solar panel, a Victron MPPT charger and an AGM battery to try and harvest some eco energy. Let’s see what we can get.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
this would fix the website
a dialog box reads:

Post reply?
You could probably just stay out of it.

The two buttons are:
- Mind my own business (default)
- Reply anyway
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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️
Terry and Rhianna Pratchett dressed up for the launch of Dodger in 2012.
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katharoutina @katharoutina.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026
Berlin, wir haben noch was zu tun! Und zwar bis 08.05. hierfür unterschreiben: berlin-werbefrei.de verkehrsentscheid.de Geht auch postalisch, Vordrucke und Postanschriften findet man auf beiden Seiten schnell unter "unterschreiben". Idealerweise kommt am Ende eine […]
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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Will it be possible to reproducibly coat surfaces by doctorblading with a robot arm? Stay tuned... cc. @vsaggiomo.bsky.social
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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Tesla should be bankrupt. The CEO went full Nazi, faced international boycotts and hasn't released a successful product in nearly a decade, and because the stock market is just all pretend, it's gone up in price because the right people want it to.
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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Today on the #arXiv : @elizabethtasker.bsky.social et al. 2026, "The science from asteroid sample return missions" - arxiv.org/abs/2604.22182 Reviewing what has been learned from bringing samples from Itokawa, Ryugu, and Bennu back to Earth.
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The science from asteroid sample return missions
To date, three samples from near-Earth asteroids have been delivered to Earth by Japan's Hayabusa (2010) and Hayabusa2 (2020) missions, and the United States OSIRIS-REx mission (2023). Free from terre...
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"All you had to do was pay us enough to live" Pasteup seen in Nashville, Tennessee
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SPiNDLE @spindlesong.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
these 4 pieces recently genuinely became some of my all time faves.. both the content is full of life and im very proud of them artistically!!
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The UK govt is Palantir’s 2nd biggest customer. Why? Or, more to the point, how? Our latest @thenerve_news investigation reveals a web of cronyism into the highest levels of govt. But Palantir also has a spin machine that uses political journalists to launder its PR 1/
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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Tracks, filtered, adjustable time. With one glance I can identify last hours movements of eg search and rescue, military or whatever I pick for filter.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 26/04/2026
Viktor Orbán’s defeat in Hungary’s general election has stripped Israel of one of its most dependable allies inside the EU. His ouster comes as capitals push to revisit sanctions on the Middle Eastern country. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/vikt...
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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Street art in Birmingham
Street art of a stylish and hip womanRainbow-themed street art at the entrance of the LGBTQ districtBrain in a jar on a cop body scanning a phone with the text “crime think”Comic style cop under the text “mass hysteria”, saying “YOU ARE TOO OLD TO BE SO TOY!!”
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Street art in Birmingham
Street art of a stylish and hip womanRainbow-themed street art at the entrance of the LGBTQ districtBrain in a jar on a cop body scanning a phone with the text “crime think”Comic style cop under the text “mass hysteria”, saying “YOU ARE TOO OLD TO BE SO TOY!!”
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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
A Russian rustbucket trawler is moving irregular along the coast of Møn, S of Copenhagen, with a homeguard navy patrol keeping track. Not sure on backstory but left Kaliningrad, seemingly broke down by Gothenburg, continued to a fish factory in Norway, now tug assisted limp back
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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Absolutely! And brings me back to this small piece I wrote not long ago www.iucr.org/news/newslet... ... she was almost certainly in the same place where I took some of the pictures I use in it (Bahia Palace)!
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(IUCr) Lost and Found among Moroccan Tiling Artworks
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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
one for @stecanossa.bsky.social, I think: youtube.com/shorts/heoul...
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The delicious geometry of Moroccan zellige tiles
YouTube video by Hannah Fry
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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
suspicious: FinnAir just sold our flight for later this year to be operated by Jettime... I suspect that in a hot minute, this operator will decide it's not going to do that due to fuel costs, and that we'll have a hell of a time getting any kind of compensation. Capitalist machinations...
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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
What racist army shoots at school kids in class?
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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
#FourierTiler already gets fans requesting options that I really had to add.. so here you go: release upgrade! github.com/stecanossa/F... New options: Log scale, non-squared FT magnitude, and export of 16-bit tiff images for those who cannot really stand small "dynamic ranges" 🗻 #BraggYourPattern
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.
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