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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@indra.dahal24 does tiny construction projects: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

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It's only a toxin if it comes from the bark of a yew tree, otherwise it's just sparkling cyanide

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The final advert.

The Viz advert for Frank Muir Modeller magazine featuring the plasticene model of Frank Muir with exclusives such as 'Make a classic My Music Era Muir out of BabyBel wax'

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 27/12/2024

realizing i never posted it here….but too long have we been limited by the 2-dimensional political alignment chart. i think by using my new tool we can truly map another person's politics. here it is: The Ideology Cube

political alignment chart with an “annoying to me personally” z-axis

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Three words: Star Wars Multiverse

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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

China’s Tiangong Space Station crosses in front of Jupiter in this remarkable astrophotography shot. Just hundreds of kilometres above Earth, Tiangong appears in front of Jupiter, a world hundreds of millions of kilometres away. Captured by 沈老思347

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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The mandarin duck is very much the testcard of the bird world.

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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wow, more progress on the Riemann zeta function! We know in our bones that for all positive integers n, ζ(n) = 1⁻ⁿ + 2⁻ⁿ + 3⁻ⁿ + ⋯ is irrational. But it's only been proved for n even, n = 3, .... and now, it seems, n = 5. This may seem small, but it's huge. zenodo.org/records/2282...

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ζ(5) is irrational

We prove that ζ(5) is irrational. The proof constructs integer polynomials Qₙ of degree 37n with 0 < Qₙ(ζ(5)) < exp(−139n²/5) for all sufficiently large n. These polynomials are rationally normalized ...

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Re: the recent discussion about whether any technology has alleviated drudgery www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgRn...

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The Imperial Doppelganger

YouTube video by Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik Uni Marburg

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Starting to think Lisa Nandy's secondment to the Home Office was a mistake

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In the early days of the Large Hardback Collider there were hopes of finding the supersymmetric partner, the snovel

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Henri @henriwords.com · 20/09/2026

Tangentially related, I occasionally challenge myself to find the letters A-Z (hard mode: in order) in a single walk…

A grid of 26 square black-and-white photos each depicting a letter of the alphabet in order, formed of things found in public

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For some reason he blocks me as well

$Screenshot of a tweet I sent in 2020: Picture of a mug with the words "I grep, therefore I am." As a linguist I expect Steven Pinker is a wizard with regular expressions He probably knows all the tricks, like using \b to mark word boundaries He's probably such a regular expression nerd that he drinks his coffee from a RegexMug, or a FiniteAutomatonTankard, or a GrepStein$

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

stop having there not be a new bill wurtz song www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFqj...

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in the future

YouTube video by bill wurtz

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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

AI alignment.

A Nancy comic strip:

https://mathstodon.xyz/@nancycomics@mastodon.social/117258763311864862

P1- FRITZI HEARS A SQUEEK COMING FROM THE KITCHEN

P2- FRITZI CATCHES NANCY GETTING COOKIES FROM A CABINET IN THE KITCHEN

FRITZI: IN THE COOKIE CLOSET AGAIN--GO STAND IN THE CORNER FOR AN HOUR

P3- NANCY IS STANDING IN THE CORNER

FRITZI: I DON'T WANT THAT EVER TO HAPPEN AGAIN

NANCY: IT WON’T

P4- LATER WE SEE NANCY OILING THE HINGES ON THE KITCHEN CABINETS

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Billy Domineau 🇵🇸 @billydomineau.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11 is a great day to reread my viral Seinfeld spec and to remember I’m one of the most talented TV writers available to write for your show. I have $225k in student loans and my family is about to pay OOP for my dad’s post-stroke rehab, so you’d better believe I’m gonna give you my best!

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Read This: A darkly comedic Seinfeld spec script set days after 9/11

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Wordle 1,910 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Starting with the same word 1167 times eventually pays off

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Things took a wrong turn with the development of multicellular life, which is a precursor to communism

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sequel story: we invade Omelas and rescue the kid. Eventually someone notices that his welfare still tightly correlates with various Omelan economic and social indicators, even at a distance. Now we're putting the Omelas kid on the next interstellar rocket to use him for superluminal signalling

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Mike Jacovides @jacovides.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

zwee=two, ee=egg, -eg is an adjectival suffix

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

1) People complain about inflation 2) Inflation comes back down 3) Politicians say "OK, I fixed it" 4) Politicians are perplexed when people are still complaining 5) Oops, turns out what they meant was "prices are too high" This is why there's no decent way to appease complaints about immigration

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

They should invent a kind of tired that also makes you sleepy

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“Mathematics paper withdrawn after counterexample fails to replicate in a randomised controlled trial”

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 07/09/2026

Welcome to the #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail record breaking thread! This journey starts Kemijärvi 🇫🇮 and ends Lagos 🇵🇹 18 trains, 100 hours 9 minutes, 4008km as crow flies, 6281 route-km Project background: longestjourney.crossborderrail.eu Follow live: longestjourneylive.crossborderrail.eu

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“Mathematics paper withdrawn after counterexample fails to replicate in a randomised controlled trial”

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 07/09/2026

Writing some scientific workflow slides for this week’s MPTC class.

Research workflow for those branches of the sciences where the important thing is to become famous.

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Wow, I really had no idea

Screenshot from the Wikipedia page on Brassicas, edited to say:
"Brassica species and varieties commonly used for food include bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, peanuts, haricot beans, olives, Pop Tarts, and chicken."

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The cats graciously put on a magic show for us last night. I figured out how they did most of the tricks, but I didn’t say anything, because that would have been rude.

Two cats on a platformed tower. One is on the lower level, head hidden behind the middle section. The second is on the top tier with only their head showing.

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"I mean, what’s the use of our sitting up half the night arguing that there may or may not be a God if this machine only goes and gives us his bleeding phone number the next morning?"

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

James Orr stepping down from Reform to spend more time with his Manson Family

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leotrs @leotrs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

1/ A math paper doesn't have to show every reader the same thing. My exposition of Turán's theorem keeps the argument fixed but the presentation is yours: you choose the order, the level of detail, and the notation, and none of it changes the content. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nkp...

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Turán's theorem, from edges to eigenvalues: an interactive paper

YouTube video by Leo Torres

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Michael Bench-Capon @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

People think that finding out Star Wars came out closer to King Kong than the present makes them feel old, but if they were actually old it wouldn't make them feel old because King Kong would not seem like the distant past to them

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Admittedly there were some ways in which the Norman conquest overstepped the mark by modern standards, but you can't hold the Normans responsible for the sins of their ancestors. And anyway let's not forget the many good things they brought to us like the legal system and railways

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Michael Bench-Capon @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If √2 can be a/b Square both sides, rearrange and you'll see a's 2k for some k And so b is 2j So they can't be coprime QED

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 02/09/2026

What if our ears were like our eyes, and only had three (types of) receptors? Interestingly speech is still more or less intelligible, but not much else to me this shows how much more discriminating of frequencies our hearing is than our vision. Of course our vision has much more spatial resolution

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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wanna feel far? The Great Pyramid of Giza is closer to the Colosseum of Rome than Walt Disney World

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

*clips historical timeline into a light box* Well the scan results are back and you can see the problem for yourself. We propose to do keyhole surgery to insert a stent into our age of bronze

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 27/08/2026

NASA and SpaceX are targeting #NASARoman’s liftoff for no earlier than 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, August 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 🎥 Launch coverage begins at 6:20 a.m. 🔭

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NASA Sets Coverage for Roman Space Telescope Launch from Florida - NASA

Coverage plans are ready for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope prelaunch and launch activities. Roman is NASA's next-generation observatory designed to

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Minor point but I really hate this performative “yowl” people do to try and appear underfed. I don’t pretend I haven't been given breakfast and I did people would rightly tell me to shut up.

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Downgrade a movie: The Taking of Pelham One

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Octogenarian Dolly Parton. Then octogenarian man Tim Curry. Then octogenarian war criminal Ratko Mladić. Then the octogenarian incumbent head of a western country

Screenshot from The Simpsons: “When are they going to get to the fireworks factory?”

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Francis Heaney @francisheaney.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Trump renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America means the new mnemonic for the Great Lakes will be SHAME

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Checkmate, Canadians. What are you going to do, have two different names for a place? Échec et mat, les Canadiens. Qu'allez-vous faire? Utiliser deux noms différents pour un même lieu?

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Spiralling overthinking whether to send a single polite email, then deciding against it because it might be "unwanted contact"? Academics: AI is coming for your jobs

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Stuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

@aproblemsquared.bsky.social In episode floor(sqrt(20k)), you slightly breezed past the follow-up question on "other places π turns up in maths", saying that "if π was 4 and it turns up somewhere else, that's just the number 4" [🧵1/π]

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Area Man @areamancm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I don’t do a lot of TikTok but quite honestly, hats off. A masterpiece

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