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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 3h

After introducing pinch and a punch for the first of the month to my family it's been years since I won. When my kid was young it was easy as she didn't know what months were. Now it's harder. But today I won!

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 5h

OMG I need to dig into this but at first glance it looks awesome!!

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 13h

There is no way to perform capital punishment in a way that preserves human dignity and the rule of law. None.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 16h

it’s good to remind people today we aren’t going to trauma-inform our way to “more humane” forms of caging and execution

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 16h

It is truly sickening that we allow the state to execute people. I don't understand why it isn't a requirement of the Supreme Court that they attend executions. If they think it is so important that the state take the life of a citizen, then they should skip the opera or w/e and be there as witness

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16h

Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You gotta admit this is a good ad

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trying to explain "Wharfie Time" and why it cost Freo the GF to my wife and I think this might be the last straw for her

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My opinion on the TV list: Bluey got robbed

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can't wait to hear about the record-breaking fines imposed upon Man City! Al Mubarak might even have to look down the back of his second couch to scratch together the spare change

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

RIP Angry. Turns out you weren't such a bad boy after all youtu.be/otxGDgwJ_-w?...

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David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Best TV Shows of the 21st century, from me, an American Dad in my 50s 10. Bosch Season 7 9. Bosch Season 5 8. Reacher Season 3 7. Bosch Season 4 6. Reacher Season 2 5. Bosch Season 2 4. Bosch Season 6 3. Reacher Season 1 2. Bosch Season 1 1. Bosch Season 3

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Of course I want cheap punches taken out of the game, but I think every player, no matter the team, if they get to 300 games with no suspensions they should get a free hit (to the body, let's not be silly) on Jack Ginnivan. They get to choose where/when.

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Me when I need to go over my first draft

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tough morning for the Moruzzi and Magoun stans out there. If you have one in your life maybe check in on them to see if they need a hug

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Borges would f*cking love this whole LLM solved my math problem story

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hey babe, wake up, two new stick insects just dropped in Far North Queensland

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

[Takes Olympic record level bong rip]:

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We can simulate fish schools or ants in ways that solve complex problems (gradient detection, bridge building, nest selection) but no one would create this weird soul/no-soul dichotomy to argue they these that multi-agent swarms of extremely simple rules are “thinking”.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026

eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Didn't think yesterday's game could get any more epic, but this one was incredible. Bad look for the Hawks fans booing at the end

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Kieran McKenna it is then, I suppose

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh man this whole thing is going to come back to cybernetics isn't it

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Two things can be true at once. The whole doomer-AI-sex-cult-EA nexus, which is nuts and makes you question those at the top of AI companies. And also, "AI is existentially dangerous like a nuclear weapon" is a great talking point if you want to stop China from getting advanced chips

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I know it's been a week but seriously no-one is talking about the Hyrox diarrhea incident? Apologies have been issued, if you are wondering. To all of China, apparently www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...

theguardian.com

‘I’m genuinely sorry’: Australian Hyrox athlete who soiled herself apologises to China and rivals

Joanna Wietrzyk posts that she regrets her decision to keep racing but has decided to forfeir her win in the Beijing race

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Dr. Bourbonstein Ph. D @drbourbonstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The "how much do you like dogs" chart we all needed.

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just reminding myself that, no, under no circumstances do you "gotta hand it to" Taylor Lorenz

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Possibly the worst day on Bluesky ever

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm just a dumb guy, but if I ran a frontier AI company and was concerned about oh I don't know competition from China I might be tempted to talk about how my tech could end all of civilization

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

OK there have to be some Hull City fans on here. 2-2 at Stamford Bridge and unlucky to come away with only one point? Ridiculous. Absolutely having a lend

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Finished my first triathlon and my main conclusion is fuck cars

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So weird that they are playing this NFL game in Melbourne at like 11am. You've got the greatest sporting ground in the world and it's a brunch game?

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is wild and a wake up call to anyone using the commercial LLMs for research. These are companies with their own interests and are built from stealing other peoples' work. Why stop now?

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Love Herrington getting some flowers after three strong games off the bench for Hull. I'd love him to see more minutes but also appreciate that he's a kid and needs to build into it www.theguardian.com/football/202...

theguardian.com

Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action

Fulham need a boost, Tottenham show some spirit and Jack Grealish offers Everton much-needed energy

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The wife just told me that next we are in Melbourne she wants to try this winning pie, and all I could say is that it'd have to be a f*cking good pie to go all the way to Melton for www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/w...

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So why do my MA in-laws make fun of my accent?

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My eval guy told me models keep saturating his benchmarks so I asked how many benchmarks he has and he said he just goes to Artificial Analysis and gets a new benchmark afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding benchmarks to models and then François Chollet started crying.

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I can't oversell how fucking insane this is. DoD has a HUGE research budget, and the attempt to steal from NIH is outrageous

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Jeremy Hogeveen @jeremyhogeveen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We ( @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social and I ) wrote a "Hot Topics" piece for @npp-journal.bsky.social on the potential utility of frontopolar cortex TMS in precision psychiatry. Relevant now that this region has been accessed in some excellent recent NHP studies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Translating macaque frontopolar cortex discoveries into psychiatric treatments - Neuropsychopharmacology

Neuropsychopharmacology - Translating macaque frontopolar cortex discoveries into psychiatric treatments

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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Have you ever felt like something was missing from your #fmri results? Have you been worried about potential reproducibility issues? Well, this new @natmethods.nature.com article with 40+ coauthors shows how the simple change to transparent thresholding helps both. Go Figure! rdcu.be/B4tikBETdQZa

A comparison of old and new thresholding approaches for fMRI data. The newer, transparent thresholding allows for interpreting context, more complete modeling, a reduction of biases and an increase in meaningful content. This all leads to more accurate interpretations and improved reproducibility evaluations.

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Jim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Really good win by the Wallabies in Argentina, and great to see the big RV bashing through tackles. But it's an irony that while the kicking in AFL has never been better, the Wallabies kicking has never been worse

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