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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

I just put a new clock up. It's a sign of the times.

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

#Physics Note, I think "Goldstone Boson" is the Wikipedia article with the most info about his physics legacy.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

I suspect no one outside of physics has heard of Goldstone, but what he did was huge.

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Your watch tells you what to do, mine tells me the time.

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Been a while since I've had this much mail on a column - let me know what you think x Double standards from groceries to a 'shrug emoji' www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

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Double standards from supermarkets to a convenient 'shrug emoji'

One reason these double standards are accepted is because the political class refuses to acknowledge them and there is little pushback.

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

It's not cold this morning... it's fresh. And that's better than it being stale.

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

A/B testing? I've got no A-material to test, these posts are all B-sides.

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Only 4854 new items waiting for me in my Mastodon home feed.

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

"Actors?... you can't trust them!" - John Wilkes Booth #RandomThoughts

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2026

The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)

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Ricardo Antifa Harvin @ricardoharvin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

@level98 Yes, a major part of the problem that has fed the denial for a decade regarding Trump, specifically, is that the system, the "rules and norms" which exist on paper will be enough to stop him, despite all the evidence to the contrary. He's a 34-time convicted *felon*, and the most […]

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Just watched TV serialisation of "His Dark Materials" - equally fantastic/flawed book trilogy. IMO TV series does amazing job (IN many ways better than the books even with it's own blemishes... who/what doesn't have those?). Recommended! An aspect I love is the complexity of the heroes - […]

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@ricardoharvin Many thanks for your reply. I could talk further but I'd like to hear from USian voices tackling this question because it seems to be one, in general, being avoided with experts often castigating others for doubting them that this system or that system is in place to stop Trump / […]

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Addendum: I mean, the buying diesel from Russia thing too... the live-streamed execution was just an example - where is the red-line?

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Because one here's of many cases of the admin doing "illegal" things and not being stopped and ignoring things like court orders etc... and because live-streamed execution doesn't seem to be a red-line. 2/2

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

#USPol I asked some time back but I thought I'd ask again - it's difficult to get a sense from outside the US. What is (are) the "red lines" that Trump / the Trump admin have to cross for the US people to turf him out of office? E.g. are there genuine systems in place to e.g. stop them simply […]

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Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I have recently had a glimpse of the other side of this. One of my other colleagues is highly dependant on Claude for everything, and has been working with a couple of contract programmers on creating some new telescope automation software for a couple of their projects. I got asked to help a […]

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Scanning through VCE Specialist (advanced) maths book (best of a poor bunch of high school texts for this) and came across this at the start of a chapter on "Proof": "A mathematical proof is an argument that demonstrates the absolute truth of a statement. It is certainty that makes mathematics […]

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Stories can't change the world, but they can change people, who can change the world.

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Fabio Manganiello @fabio.manganiello.eu.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

22 years ago Anna Politkovskaya was brutally assassinated in the elevator of her apartment for reporting the crimes and the corruption of Putin’s imperialist campaign in Chechnya. No European leader outside of Marco Pannella showed up at her funerals. Today is the day to remember the woman who […]

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Another year of putting up with people knocking on my door, but yet again I've been overlooked for the No Bell prize.

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Trump is getting ready to lift sanctions on Russia so his family and oligarchs can make billions by purchasing Lukoil's profitable overseas assets for less than they are worth. This sale would be a bribe from Putin. That is all Trump wants.

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Just "lost" an hour overnight. My least favourite night of the year. ☹️... oh well, in the immortal words of D-Ream, things can only get better, eh?

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

"Cookies, cookies, everywhere, nor any crumbs to eat." - the internet. [Thanks go to Sammy Coleridge]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Each time the world’s installed solar capacity has doubled, the cost of producing it has fallen by about 20%. That regularity has a name among engineers, Swanson’s Law, and it descends from a rule first spotted in aircraft manufacturing in 1936. Theodore Wright found that airplane costs dropped […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@randahl/1173577534… If you were intent upon destroying the United States, hollowing it out as a working democracy, you would do nothing different.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

No one is coming to save us. There isn't a big single hero. That's a good thing. Following, trusting in singular persons is part of the problem. Keep your heroes at an arms distance. The durable way out is the one where we have to save ourselves.

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RM @rowlandm.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Three big things from the HILDA Annual Statistical Report: 1. Food insecurity increased in 2024, affecting more than 1 in 6 Australians aged 15 and over 2. Half of 18-29 year olds now living at home with their parents 3. Fatigue increases across the country, younger people report worse health […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I'm kind of obsessed with this old puzzle. You need to move the piano to the lower LEFT corner by sliding the pieces. Curious if anyone has done any math things with such tile puzzles? It's easy to move it to the lower right, and possible but kind of hard to […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

An "promotional" wooden puzzle from the Argonne van and storage co. It is nearly 100 years old. You slide rectangular blocks labeled as boxes.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not everybody knows this, and everybody should. On Sept. 26, 1983, a Soviet nuclear warning system alerted Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov that the U.S. had launched a missile attack. He did not retaliate, preventing WWIII. This is a post about AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I find it _interesting_ that most modern portrayals of fairy tales involve kings, knights, princesses and so forth - the privileged aristocratic classes on top of the social pyramid. Even if the protagonist of such a tale is poor, they are still secretly from privileged parents, and their story […]

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

People can find it difficult to understand the negation of an implication "⇒". Its possible it relates to the struggle of connecting informal to formal use. "Informally" we'll often write "⇒" without being clear whether the relation is "⇒ and ⇐" = "⇔" i.e. an equivalence, or ""⇒ and ⇍" i.e […]

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I'm thinking of starting a Laurel and Hardy appreciation account, focussing on Laurel, called... Only Stan's.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Also Wikipedia just led me down the most delightful rabbit hole: "The Milton Report" which starts with the sentence "As the only professional astronomer in the province of Saskatchewan" and I just want to be friends with this poor guy across the decades since "only professional astronomer in the […]

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

When we were kids, one of my brother's favourite jokes was: "Be alert. Your country needs lerts!" I mention this because it possibly goes some way to understanding my sense of humour.

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Eating dairy can be painful. I mean... yoghurt. (Yes, my daughter didn't find this funny either.)

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@MelissaBearTrix I mean, one could argue the Visigoths did Rome a favour.

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Mi casa su case?... NO!... it's mine!... all mine!... well, apart from my beautiful wife, parasitic children and their partners... oh, and dogs, and cats... which actually means I'm really just the cleaner, chef, supplier of money etc. and I'm lucky if I get my desk and computer to myself (one […]

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

We made a comic about the Hulk.

1 Waiter: Any room for dessert Mr. Banner?
2 Bruce Banner: I really wanted some but I'm way too full. This makes me so mad.
3 Bruce turns into the hulk
4 Hulk: I'll have the tiramisu.

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

By the way, I recommend following @Unixbigot for her regular micro fiction (a story contained within a post). Two in one... entertainment *and* thought provoking insights! I mean, there are other great people I'd recommend etc. I should probably do some sort of list or something... but you're […]

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Yesterday I broke out the shorts as temperatures headed into the high 20s (°C everyone). And once you break out the shorts, there's no going back!... except... This morning's dog walk was below 10, wind and rain (though it almost seemed like hail). Brrrr... at least the legs dry quickly. The […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

"On your knees; hands behind your head!" "You haven't even bought me dinner" *Thwack* "shut up, convict. Where's the grow room?" "" "Speak!" "You told me to shut up" "Oh a wiseass. We'll find it—our Agents profiled your electricity use and heat emissions. We /know/ you've got a grow lab […]

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

If someone calls you a square, just remind them that a square is king of the rectangles. [Notes: 1. This may not actually help your case. 2. All advice like this that I give comes with the caveat that it might be complete rubbish. 3. Pity my students who are a captive audience, at least you […]

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

From "conversations I have with students": An ellipsis is three dots, whereas ellipses means more than one ellipse (a squashed circle).. You can remember the difference by noting the one that has the letter with a dot "i" rather than the "e", is the one that means the dots... the other one is […]

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

#Mathematics A trivial pet peeve, but I can't stop being annoyed at Blackboard bold fonts for the letters representing the standard sets. They commonly almost *but not quite* mimic what one would write on a blackboard i.e. the N, Z and C tend to be OK... but extra lines are added to the Q and […]

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