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Simon🦑

@flatsquid.bsky.social
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Science, anti-quackery, on the cusp of throwing it all in for unemployment in another country tbqhwy

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 1h
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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“So it was, on that misty morning, that Brenda set off for the capital. She knew not what she would find there, only that the time had come to move on - away from small-minded rural attitudes and people who called her ‘Oreo’ and ‘the wide panda’ - to seek a more fulfilling life.”

A belted galloway cow walking into the mist, on a Dorset lane, towards a bold, unpredictable future. You can see half of my car in the background. It looks remarkably clean, by normal standards. When one of my wife's work colleagues asked her "What car does your husband drive?" she answered "I can't remember what make it is but it's the really dirty one that sometimes turns up in the car park here" and her colleague immediately said "Oh yes, I know the one."
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
right-clicking you to bring up a context menu
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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
[alphabet committee] boss: okay what comes after V designer: two Vs kissing boss: what designer: then two Vs doing it boss: wait designer: then a V with a huge dong boss: designer: two Vs 69ing
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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff
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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
All of it or just a boner part?
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Do we think he's made an AI to fuck his wife too?
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Corrie drama as Daniel Craig's new role brings gay throuple storyline to the soap. "This is an entirely different 'bond' for me!" he winked cheekily.
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horror stories rarely happen in cottages.
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Whilst it is very generous of yourself to provide your shit for the vegetarians/vegans I strongly suspect they'll decline and ask for silt 🤔
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gets an alert on doorbell cam only to find this. Might just never use the front door ever again
Black and white infrared, and badly out of focus, image of what appears to be a spider from underneath. You can just make out approx 6 legs, but the distorted image is very reminiscent of the facehuggers from the Alien films.
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃 🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 01/10/2026
Another week, another “we’re vaguely familiar with the basic premise of the story while at the same time wilfully missing the entire point” moment
Screenshot:

Is this a 3D model?
@IsThisA3DModel

80% of the children who accepted Wonka's Golden Ticket died

Josh Daws
@JoshDaws 
Rejecting Al is like refusing Wonka's golden ticket.
Anything you want to, do it Wanna change the world?
There's nothing to it
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Couldn't have happened to a nicer car 🥰
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just followed me a few mins ago. Reported and blocked.
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ah ok. Yes, BP readings are notoriously variable and you really need a set of readings over a few days to get anything accurate. Hopefully just an anomaly 🤞
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was hovering around 139 over 79 about 10 years ago. Did some dramatic lifestyle changes and I think I'm at about 134 over 74 now, but this has given me an impetus to get it checked again.
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Slightly disappointed the BBC haven't commissioned a series on truckers you have ridden but yes, Ice Road Truckers makes a lot more sense 👍
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Returning, but ironically, whence he came.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Aah, so sorry dude 😢💔
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Anyone driving around the Cotswolds after 10pm when everyone else is tucked up in bed with a hot chocolate is bound to raise suspicion. Utter rank amateur terrorism tbh
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So sorry Nessa ❤️
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My dream is that Europe/Canada and the UK just build all their own tech systems to replace those owned by the US oligarchs. Short term pain for long term “avoiding being held at gunpoint by US oligarchs.”
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I try to keep the ancient cultural references to a minimum but some just slip out! 😂
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Last team meeting I had to explain what a Bendy Bully and Brucie Bonus was to a 29 year old 😁
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Dave Jones @welshgasdoc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 19 94🏅 89🎉 99🎯 91👑 80🤗 Final score: 894
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 19/09/2026
this tweet is NINE years old and is still the best trans rights policy advice out there
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A magnificent erection!
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Larry & Paul @larryandpaul.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
BREAKING: Ed Sheeran Macklemore Row Explained!
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Ed Sheeran Macklemore Row Explained - #BrokenNews
The world's most apolitical man finds himself at the centre of a po...
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Just read this in a single sitting and I think I need a bit of thinking time now. Raw and stark and baffled by the hollow, tinny strangeness of it all. Basically, another unflinching study of male desperation to put alongside his other books. Really bastard good. As always. Bloody hell.
Felled: The Killing At Sycamore Gap : Andrew Hankinson
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@MohanadElshieky

Please stop saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took my shots and now I'm alive and have to keep working
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Evening repost Jimmy Carr’s Dangerous Suicide Advice theneuroscienceofeve... As it's #NationalSuicidePreventionMonth (emphasis on *prevention*), here's my thorough critique of a supposedly helpful but actually damaging take on suicide doing the rounds, provided by Jimmy Carr #Mentalhealth
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Jimmy Carr’s Dangerous Suicide Advice
There’s a clip going around of Jimmy Carr sharing his take on suicide. And it’s presented as some wise, profound thing. But it isn’t. At best, it’s just wrong. At worst, it’s actively dangerous.
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ESC Liverpool @escliverpool.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Get your skates on! There are just 40 tickets remaining for the European Skeptics Congress. Get your tickets while you still can. escliverpool.org
A traffic signal with a countdown reading 40
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Pleakley @pleaks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
banned myself from twitter for 1 week and opened it on reflex earlier today which is how i found out ringo starr thinks bigger animals have bigger molecules which is why he drinks goat milk bc its the “right size” for humans to drink and not cow milk which makes u more full bc of the big molecules
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 10/09/2026
Happy to report that I already knew the first one of these fun trivia items about Jesus. But I must admit, the other two came as a bit of a surprise.
Trivia
Christ is not part of Jesus' name. It is a title, and means "anointed."
The Magi who presented gifts to Jesus were in fact aliens who followed the Star of Bethlehem throughout the universe as it appeared before important events.[13]
Two immortal beings, the Sphinx[14] and the first vampire Varnae, observed Jesus during the time he was alive.[15]
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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Does anyone know what this show is?
I could describe it, but if you can't see it, I don't think you can help me here ;)
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
My biggest concern is that isn't his actual name but the person writing this post had a stroke mid sentence
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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Alistair Green @mralistairgreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Simply wonderful. Bravo sir, bravo 🇬🇧 👏
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 05/09/2026
Someone asked me today about my plans for the Fall and it took me a moment to realize she meant my plans for the Autumn and not the collapse of civilization.
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 05/09/2026
almost word for word
Screenshot of tweet from @InternetHippo:

New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now"
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
………..Bitcoin is not money. It’s “bored apes” in a suit.
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
static.klipy.com
We Have To Stop Him Will Byers
Alt: A man saying "We Have To Stop Him"
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satanicmonsto.bsky.social @satanicmonsto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Since I saw this meme it's all I can think of whenever there's a new story like this
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Simon🦑 @flatsquid.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Youtube fix it so you have no way of knowing how many people have watched (and thus paid for) the video. My suspicion given his follower count is that it's about zero, but yes, there's going to be plenty of slop on bigger accounts that the muppets will be paying for
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