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James Felton

@jimmfelton.bsky.social
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Author/annoyance from The Bird Site

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
me and my friends would've killed those cuddly mascots with hammers i can tell you that much
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 01/10/2026
It might not look like much, but this astronomical plate helped confirm the existence of "island universes." www.iflscience.com/this-photogr...
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When I first read about the death penalty as a child, I thought it was barbaric. Still do. A state that gives itself the judicial power to kill debases itself and everyone it involves in that repulsive business.
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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This Photograph Might Not Look Like Much, But It Showed That "Island Universes" Really Do Exist
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This Photograph Might Not Look Like Much, But It Proved That "Island Universes" Really Do Exist
After months of searching with the Earth's most powerful telescope, a single star showed us the true scale of the universe.
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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Worth it for the Feynman-kicking alone.
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 30/09/2026
Math is the 'Queen of Sciences', comes the latest hot take. www.iflscience.com/its-time-to-...
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Me and my grunge friends would’ve killed A.I. with hammers I can tell you that much
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026
Every AI CEO sounds like this.
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No she’s not.
TLS: Mary Beard on the Bayeux Tapestry.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being
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a frightful hobgoblin stalking throughout Europe @supermathskid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I wrote "ouch" on a piece of paper and sent it through the photocopier. What happened next chilled me to the bone
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent
Usually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025.
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 23/09/2026
Local legends, or something to watch out for while hiking?
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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I want to put on record that not every member of the @iflscience.com editorial team subscribes to what we could affectionately call “the Welsh Delusion”
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Chris 🎬🎧 @raidercast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Big Cats in Wales, let’s gooo 😻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Scientists are always arguing that we should pay more attention to local knowledge, all I'm saying is that that should also be applied to the Welsh.
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There Are Pumas In North Wales And Nothing You Can Tell Me About Sustainable Big Cat Populations Will Convince Me Otherwise
Scientists are always arguing that we should pay more attention to local knowledge, all I'm saying is that should also be applied to the Welsh.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026
I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Harper Collins execs this morning:
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Increasingly I have a lot of sympathy for the views in this thread. Yes, I’m typing this on a smartphone; yes, I’m part of the problem. And I think they’ve changed our social behaviour in hugely significant ways that we’re only just beginning to understand.
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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
[yelling like a rescue worker approaching the wreckage of the Titanic] are there any prime ministers out there who can tell me whether my concerns about this are legitimate? Are there any prime ministers out there alive?
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Who called them marine biologists and not aquademics
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you're making cheesy chips, for the love of god please layer the chips and cheese. Those substrata chips are not going to cheese themselves.
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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
TITLE AND COVER REVEAL: My next novel, Painting With A Dead God's Blood, will be published on 22 June 2027. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Painting With A Dead God's Blood by Eddie Robson. The cover shows a mural of alien beings in a street in Kyoto.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Glaciers collapse, disasters ensue. And then we’re expected to ignore all that because we can make fun AI images and google can badly summarise Wikipedia. Seriously. AI - Fuck off.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
JFC, the Telegraph description reads: "Fresh from their 'stop the boats' demonstration in Dover on Saturday, masked protesters board a train as three female passengers, unconnected with the men, look on." And the title is - I kid you not - "Race for the train". AREN'T MASKED RACIST MILITIAS FUN?
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.
Facebook post showing the photo of three white women on a train with a group of black-clad, masked men being shared to a group called ‘South east patriots’
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports
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a frightful hobgoblin stalking throughout Europe @supermathskid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Jeremy Vine on radio 2 inviting comment on the thugs last night, literally suggested that you might phone in if "you think they've got a point, because the government clearly isn't doing enough to curb the small boat crossings". How fucking dare you use my licence fee for this fascism
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/09/2026
Yelling "stop the boats!" as I charge in to rob this NatWest at gun point so that I can later call the Home Secretary as a character witness and the BBC will spend two weeks telling all my potential future jurors how legitimate my concerns were.
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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Billy over there is the best damn FBI agent we ever had” “Is he-“ “I want you to concentrate on the wider picture here, but yes he is fucking that goat for money”
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just remembered the Dolly Parton bus.
The National Express 925 bus service between Woking Station and Heathrow Airport.
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 24/08/2026
We have launched a new column: IFLScience Hot Takes! It's a semi-satirical series where we take a silly or outlandish idea and we tell you some cool science facts while arguing for it. First up, Alfredo wants humans to go to Venus and not Mars! www.iflscience.com/forget-mars-...
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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It was very fun writing an over the top opinion column! Anyway Venus forever and Mars sucks, come and debate me you cowards! 😜
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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"We could build a floating settlement, and the standard Earth-like atmosphere inside would keep it buoyant against the carbon-dioxide-rich air outside" fuck mars, i demand cloud cities on Venus
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Forget Mars! If We Want To Send Humans To Another Planet, Venus Is The Way To Go
We can do so much better than a dusty Red Planet. Gives us a real interplanetary adventure!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/08/2026
Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding Aerial footage of an estate in Somerset has revealed the benefits of rewilding land in the face of extreme weather brought about by the climate crisis. The area of the National Trust’s Holnicote estate where rivers have been returned to their natural courses and wetlands have been restored have remained green and lush during the five heatwaves across the summer. In contrast, the surrounding countryside has become parched and brown. Continue reading...
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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Oh yeah The Heist Of Hollow London is out in paperback now us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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The Heist of Hollow London
Shortlisted for the RUSA Science Fiction Reading List!In games of betrayal everyone loses.Arlo and Drienne are ‘mades’—clones of company executives, de...
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Amidala talking to Anakin meme. 
1st panel, Anakin asks 'do you like plums?'
2nd panel, Amidala says 'yeah, I'm actually saving some for breakfast'
3rd panel, Anakin stares
4th panel, Amidala looks horrified
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is part one of a blog post about gaslighting - in this case how the anti trans movement aims to break you , but it applies in many other situations and finding increasing number of people who have experienced some version of this www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po...
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The Gaslight Years - part one | Robin Ince
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to dea
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Nick Coveney @nmjcoveney.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Remember in this weather Goths die in hot cars. If you see one trapped, smash a window and give them a saucer of snakebite and black
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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It’s going to take a few more of these emergency alerts before I remember not to shit myself and close it instantly
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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Tried triple mango last night and I can already tell I will be spitting in the face of whomsoever dares to offer me double mango, I’ll tell you that much. Be gone from here, sir. Come back to me with more mango.
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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
@robinince.bsky.social in true spirit of the stairway fashion, I have remembered my favourite of my own top tips. And it is painfully on brand.
Viz top tip. Mourners. Read the dress code instructions on funeral invitations very carefully. Sombre, whilst being only 2 letters away from sombrero, is a world apart in tone.
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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
[everything is still awful but] Farage did think he was going to be standing there having beaten all the main parties and instead he's spending the day having to lie about the police so that he doesn't have to be photographed next to a high performance bin whilst the money investigation continues
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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Alfredo, the bastard, was pretty pleased with his own results.” I can’t believe I’m being maligned for planning, taking pictures, and successfully hunting my third eclipse 🤣
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Gretchen Wieners: I Can't Help That I'm Popular
Alt: Gretchen Wieners in mean girls: im Sorry that people are jealous of me but I Can't Help That I'm Popular
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