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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 4h

Elon: i’m going to send a data center to space! Zelenskyy, packing a repurposed Cessna full of composition 4: me too

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 18h

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Old Man and the Sea Squirt

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 19h

I'm not sure what Janet Landgard did to piss off the typographer for that poster, but there's a story there

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 21h

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Booty Call of Cthulhu

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

See also Peter Jackson's 'Forgotten Silver' mockumentary from 1995, which captures the look of antique archival footage so flawlessly that it led many to believe New Zealand aviation pioneer Richard Pearse achieved powered flight in early 1903, months before the Wright brothers.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

LLMs are a blight on society, & sloppers should be pilloried & pelted with rotten fruit, veg, & eggs, but I wish people would stop claiming, as Wilson does here, that em-dashes are a 'tell' for AI prose. Bloke unironically uses three of the things in his own article. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

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Someone used AI to create a book about me and sold it online

Cam Wilson, who is the ABC's AI reporter, recently discovered an AI-generated book about him and a book he wrote.

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I take it all back, she does have the versatility to play Aslan

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Elizabeth Knox's 'The Absolute Book' could be considered here also

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Gallimaufry" probably doesn't get a lot of conversational love. On the other hand, I am a staunch advocate for "despoliation", and think it should get more use than it does

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think the thing with 'unusable' words is often going to be a blend of archaism and pronunciational inconvenience, and 'vehemence' certainly has the latter in spades. There are things that look fine on paper but once you've tried uttering them, you think 'no, not trying that again'

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Please show some compassion - this is a living being we are talking about, after all. No eagle deserves having to put up with this kind of treatment.

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Free-range, 100% organic media outlets, no preservatives, not from concentrate, may contain traces of nuts

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

'artificial media outlets' is a valid term, it distinguishes them from the natural media outlets

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm excited - this is the first I've heard about a reboot of Gerry Anderson's "U.F.O." Who's playing Lt. Ellis?

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just like the Taliban.

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"I'd recognise that keel anywhere! That's the bastard that struck Spermella!" "Oh, it's going down. You all up for this?" "Is the Seapope catholic?"

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

this is very Physics Teacher Bond Villain coded

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fun fact: An 'opacifier' is a small biomedical device developed in 1763, to soothe and ensure the visibility of infants. However, modern babies are so seldom born with transparency that the original spelling is now seen as archaic, and many cheaper models now omit the important secondary function.

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

checking the lyrics, there probably isn't any good verse in that song with which to be starting that ad also if one is not paying close attention to exactly what is being said, that 'bucking the system too' near the end is quite the auditory double-take

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I found a Rarity-83 word worth 94 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 870 points · 10 rare words. Only 29 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 4 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/5XQSPK

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OUTLIER · Day 133

oligomer scored 870 on Day 133. Can you beat them?

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"So I says to her, Gret, I says, nick off, I've still got the ones AI Brigitte Bardot flogged me"

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

next you'll be telling me his blade ain't vorpal

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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amirite tho

White text on yellow-orange ombré background that reads:
Don't let Al ruin your writing.
It's your writing.
Ruin it yourself.

Amirite

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You too could be like Jacob (ie excellent and reading something from my list of 75 great but neglected books): causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2020/02/75-e...

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75 Excellent But Neglected Books

On Twitter I did a big thread of 75 unjustly forgotten or neglected books, so I thought I'd put the whole thing here to make it more eas...

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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Secret Ingredient - Gator Days

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

we've given America Rupert Murdoch, surely that should be enough

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That v-neck in the lower left is a choice

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

put it in the not-hard-enough basket, obvs.

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

you are making light of this, but cats only resort to such measures in extreme distress, usually during periods of chronic underfeeding

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

don't think of it as a merkin, think of it as your pubic persona

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I gotta say, this isn't exactly weakening my 'kill it, kill it with fire' attitude towards the slop machine

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I do feel aggrieved that defenestration was not canvassed as an option

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

80 hours of embroidery! This aerial landscape is directly inspired by Dartmoor and I'd say I have another 30-ish hours to go? I'm now starting to fill in the fields for the sheep, the tor area will be done last as I'm still deciding whether I want a slope or not 😅 I hope you like it! #art

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial-view landscape. It depicts a moorland scene in a range of green shades, about 70% completed.

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

although half a bird in the hand is not usually accepted as legal tender by most bird-currency exchange outlets

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The existence of the terms 'orthodox' and 'paradox' suggests a 1,3-disubstituted isomer 'metadox', the apparent nonexistence of which shows that each moiety is strongly deactivating towards derivatisation at the (3) position also, nonexistence is one more than octexistence, I don't make the rules

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Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not enough reward? Sure it gets cold in winter, but the lakes, the hiking, the wildlife, the living somewhere that is not a full-on kakistocracy...

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