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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 06/10/2026

Important addition to Sandwich Discourse. Mayo is extremely underrated for many many cooking applications. Mix it with some flavours, use it to stick breadcrumbs onto fish. Air fryer. Nom.

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[my brain so large it threatens to engulf the entire Atlantic ocean]: the perfect sandwich is actually buttered on all four sides as it should be lightly fried in a pan too

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I feel like @mjrobbins.com has a lot to say about knobs (of the car dashboard variety).

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Chernobyly was so good that when it ended I was sad we would not be spending any more time in that world with those characters. Although the concept of the Chernobyl Extended Universe is pretty fucking bleak, I guess.

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RedScharlach @redscharlach.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Castle. It was silly and sexy and funny and I have the massive hots for Nathan Fillion and it got progressively more miserable and rubbish, and the leads clearly hated each other. Devastated 💔

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NO. DO NOT DO THIS. Do NOT think about The Event and under NO circumstances attempt to relive The Event. This may cause DISTRESS and CONFUSION. REMAIN INDOORS.

A double decker London bus with a poster on the side of it, saying “Relive the Event”. The poster is advertising Disney+ and the event in question is the Oasis reunion tour.

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Martin is back on the YouTube train with another brilliant short film venturing into the heart of darkness and inactivity that is Havering Town Council, and the giant trash fire that's terrorising Rainham's residents.

Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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IMO, the issue is not the monetary contribution, it's that an awful lot of people conflate fun activities that you do in your spare time as also being the same thing in terms of work, as in - not *real* work Games are enjoyable activities you do on the evenings and weekends with your mates

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 06/10/2026

I know you all hate Instagram but the Alaska Sealife Center has an orphan baby walrus 🥹

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Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Exciting new historical work on Rosalind Franklin continues to appear. This is a neat bit of sleuthing by historian @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and crystallographer Brian Sutton. Here's the DOI to the actual article (it's OA): 10.1007/s10739-026-09866-7 The main finding is an x-ray image of exactly

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Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 05/10/2026

Coming out this week, here's a trailer for my most ambitious film project to date, about the man-made volcano in London that's burning for six months of the year.

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Teaser: The Rainham Volcano

YouTube video by Martin Robbins

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today marks the 25th anniversary (😯) of our publication on discovery of FOXP2. To commemorate, I’ll repost a few prior threads about the gene. Here’s my explainer of how we tracked down FOXP2 & implicated it in speech/language deficits, in the days before completion of the human genome project.🗣️🧬🧪👇

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just remembered one of my all time favourite tweets

By @johnnorthside

Xanadu du du
Stately pleasure dome decree
Xanadu du du
Sacred river sunless sea
Fertile ground, girdled round
Blossomed incense-bearing tree
Come and dance every night, to the dulcimer lady

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Benoit Bruneau @benoitbruneau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Happy Pluripotency Day! #Oct4

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ding ding! The classic a/e switcheroo. I had to ring up Lufthansa and speak to a deadpan German woman who said "if he is your boyfriend he should know your name, jah?"

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes but also my partner spelled my name wrong the first time he booked us plane tickets so....

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Let's gooooo! On stage at 8pm

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hello Cambridge! On stage at J2 tonight with Sunday Driver, supporting the fabulous Baby Seals

Woman in front of a dressing room door with a sign saying Sunday Driver

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So apt. I am using it daily!

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AI is brilliant for a lot of things, but without understanding whether what it's giving you is a) correct or b) good it's not really helping at all. Fed up of seeing stuff that is 10x longer than it needs to be, looks like words but says nothing.

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Another time, a client "helpfully" did the first draft of the script for a 60-second animation using AI. It was over a thousand words, with more scenes than a Marvel movie. I think I used about 6 words from it in end.

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Case in point: a client is merging with another company whose comms team used AI to write the press release. Between us, the client and I have spent hours turning it from a load of overly-long repetitive dull verbiage into a tight 400 word story.

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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

New phrase I learned this week: Slop Grenade. A big ol' piece of AI generated shite that someone drops into a project that takes more time to interpret/fix than would have been needed to just do the thing the old-fashioned way.

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Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You should all read this. It’s superintelligent, organically so.

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Careful dear, we can almost see Uranus."

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Behind the Bastards episodes @iwriteok.bsky.social did about the Zizians were eye-opening in terms of the banality/insanity of this type of person. Humans seem to be hardwired to invent God - this is just the new version of it.

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Far too many quotable bits in @mjrobbins.com latest piece about the AI apocalypse doomed, so you'll just have to go read the whole thing martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...

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The AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring Now

Elites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems.

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Knock yerselves out, gene regulation dorks. @philipcball.bsky.social has a story for you...

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thank you, super interesting. The stuff about condensate is really fascinating - makes sense but I imagine very hard to study in the context of the real life Nucleus.

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Laura Knight’s seemingly-effortless pencil sketch of her bare-footed Cornwall neighbour & friend Ella Naper, eating an apple as she looks back down at us from her perch on a tree in a local orchard (1916). Love those delicate shadows! www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/how-...

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Marking the turning point of the year when I need to break out the cosy blanket for my morning wake-up-before-i-hit-the-gym coffee.

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 06/09/2026

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It’s really weird reading weird supposedly pro small business stories when you run a small business. This paperwork is not what bothers you! It’s a minor annoyance! It’s the taxes on hiring young staff, the cliff edges, and the sense your fellow small companies aren’t paying any tax at all.

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

There's a Forbidden LinkedIn post to be written about their vision-and-values-led management style...

Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Oooh that looks cool thank you!

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In all of this nobody is considering the psychological impact on children of what it might be like to know you were "meant" to be a certain way. It's hard enough living up to high parental expectations as it is, let alone if they paid thousands for you to be super smart, sporty, healthy etc