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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The Falklands War involved many deaths over imperialism and sheep/penguins. Europe won’t roll over. Take your “two dogsled” comments and fuck yourself. Greenland has more history and culture along a random side road in Nuuk than half of the States.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I can’t draw comics, so I used words as my brushes (and as words), and Google Gemini Nano Banana as my ghost artist. Still uncomfortable attributing an image that obviously apes other styles.

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...YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY:
IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE WEATHER, WAIT FIVE MINUTES!
WELL ACTUALLY...
EVERY TIME THIS IS SAID, WE SEED ANOTHER HURRICANE OUT OF SPITE.
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MEMBER OF PUBLIC
WEATHERMAN
A TALE OF METEOROLOGICAL MISCHIEF!

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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I am SHOCKED that a FIFA Peace Prize recipient would bomb another country on Christmas. Absolutely stunned.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Putin threatening Belgium is fucking tragic man, get a life and go back to shit claims of rivers in Moldova

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

If you use Perplexity, watch out for their increasingly scammy behaviour including their refusal to refund a mistake I literally have receipts for. “Big AI” will get its comeuppance soon and academia will pick up the pieces by optimising for truth, not greed.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Did you know… I used to be a meteorologist 😅

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Addison Rae’s 2025 album is full of clever decisions incl. from the two MxM producers. These trio of women should forge long-term collab! “In The Rain” only has two bass drums per two bars (standard 4/4). Parallel 4ths and various modes. Shifting entire orchestration down a semitone in Diet Pepsi…

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Worst aspect is making LLM tools look like web browsers, or my insurance company’s chatbot. Prompt/content engineering is increasingly becoming my job, and it’s creative, unpredictable (!), jaw-dropping (sublime & ridiculous!) — if academia is fumbling in the dark, we’ve mainstreamed an experiment!

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Watching GitHub CoPilot CLI agent try to commit on my behalf & repeatedly forget to “git add” first. It’s silly/inefficient but impact is relatively low. But writ large, if one deploys an AI-driven systems lacking a suitable penalty, “if it breaks, it breaks” creates amplifying, unforeseen ripples…

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The genius of Left Behind by Slipknot is how atonal yet dissonantly melodic it is at times

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Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I’ve got some Teesside dialect I can give you son, ha’way then you daft melt

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I’ve got that horrible feeling a spam filter has blocked emails from AMetSoc for a while now, not for first time, and I’m going to be mortified if a paper review has gone through the cracks.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Stochastic sampling of anthropologic states unfortunately led us to discovering an efficient way to democratise interpretations of truth (“all stupidity counts one”) via popularity contests, and throw the idea of fact-curation to the wind. Truthiness now defined by aesthetic, rhetoric, advertising.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Blows my mind. The waste of money, energy; the staggeringly consistent incompetence… If you’re going to cosplay a LLM that’s actually just Microsoft Graph + Grammarly’s stunt double, maybe don’t shoehorn it into every piece of IP you own. Dreadful, and damaging abuse of the term “AI”.

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Tomer Burg @burgwx.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Given higher than usual confidence of rapid intensification (RI) from analyses of an exceptionally favorable environment & with the aid of newer hurricane models (HAFS) & Google DeepMind, NHC was able to skillfully predict Melissa's RI days in advance.

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Python Software Foundation @python.org · 27/10/2025

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

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The official home of the Python Programming Language

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Dale Denwalt @denwalt.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related. He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

So: this year I Prevail lost a clean singer, promoted rhythm guitarist to co-lead vox, lead guitarist plays an octave down to double the bass line, but the bassist often is playing synth. Got it. Remaining question— who’s baking the cookies between songs!? (If you haven’t seen the videos…)

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

In LaTeX, the symbol for "in" ($\in$) can be typeset in opposite direction by reversing the command term ($\ni$). It's the little nerdy things!

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

My dog is an Anti-fart activist, which is exactly the kind of far left extremism I expect from a Husky.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

If someone wants to get rid of you and you give them the stage in the name of “free speech”, don’t be surprised when you’re done in by Darwinism. No. Be intolerant of intolerance: this is a mandate as liberals. Free speech doesn’t tend to infinity as much as rose-tinted worldviews wish it did.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/09/2025

can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 30/09/2025

Funny how the guy yelling about professionalism looks like a middle manager at Men’s Wearhouse.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Fuck you, we aren’t done “with that shit”.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Oooh yeah this is a sweet re-recording.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

You know, this all feels like when the staff put the lights on for a few seconds at a nightclub’s closing time. Yeah yeah, we get the hint, we’re drinking up.

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Nina Reeder🇺🇦🇵🇸🐕🦚🍉🍉 @ninareeder.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

But he did, took it down after six minutes but……..

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Ha! With age comes boring analysis. For instance, I didn’t heard the piano line in the chorus of Chop Suey! by SOAD when I was 17 🤔

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

music.apple.com/us/album/swa... So the genre is… Shoegaze dream pop metal? Love it

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SWAY by STARSET on Apple Music

Song · 2025 · Duration 4:17

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Kathye Hamilton @democracyjazz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

They keep hitting the snooze button on the fascist alarm clock.

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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

If it takes political comedy being yanked for people to finally realize how quickly fascism moves and to start fighting back, so be it.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

In the nicest way possible, he’s the Jim Gaffigan of satire/late night.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... I back doxxing foreigners who post stories about Vance asking Americans to report foreigners who are posting articles about the event (sorry, “e-word”) especially those rationalising events with a speech by Vance where he encouraged doxxing of foreigners who pos—

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JD Vance backs mass ‘doxing’ campaign to find and harass Charlie Kirk critics

US vice-president encourages ‘calling out’ anyone who celebrates Kirk’s murder, including notifying employers

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

This is tricky. Gvr. Cox, in a field of subterranean behaviour, has made an effort to unite people, even if this and the “I hope it’s not one of us” line are ham-fisted. He is emotional, protectively circling the wagons, but I don’t see him spreading tinder under everything wooden like many others.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I’m biased having been a fan of the original 80s version by Johnny Hates Jazz, but I’m in love with Shattered Dreams on the new Starset album “Silos”.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Holy shit, nature is recovering. There is humanity on both sides, just for that brief projection through space and time, like Stonehenge.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Institutionalised racism still going strong, fellow whiteys, let's not forget.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The absence of mourning is not equal to the presence of celebration, and it’s strange how many people have conflated the two over the last day.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Don't blame me for this cliché, blame reality (whatever that is), but this is a really decent B-movie version of 1984. We're on the page about deification, I see?

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Maybe it’s time I get the hint this country is fucked and mostly hates foreigners, and having a pain in my chest daily from stress isn’t worth it.

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Irish woman with green card faces US deportation over $25 bad cheque

Donna Hughes-Brown, who has lived in US since 1977 and wrote cheque a decade ago, being held in isolation by Ice

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

What the actual fuck is going on. It is going to kick off massively. Thank god I’m three hours east of this impending madness

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

1. Entropy always increases 2. Intelligence is reduction of entropy (ignorance) and preservation of its state (memory) 3. Work is done to hold back entropy growth locally (electricity —> power to change state’s characteristics) 4. I read on a Truth Social post 1 electric = 1 IQ so QED, boom 🎤💥

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Congratulations to Michael Davies (why can I not tag you) for a first publication before even reaching associates level. He did almost all data analysis and coding, all without any previous meteorology class. Link to open-access paper and almost-relaunched group site here. jrl.ac/blog/post/mi...

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

2025 Metal production recipes revealed: Cervini + Fish = Poppy Braunstein + Cervini = Spiritbox Braustein + Cervini + Fish = Architects Fulk + Cervini (?) + Fish = We Came As Romans

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