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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 1h
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 12h
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 16h
My key takeaway from the whole Hebrew punctuation discourse is that there's probably never been more profitable time to be a batshit insane bigot with no redeeming characteristics or inner life.
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Editing copy professionally for … 13 years now and apparently I’m still the only person in the world who cares about the difference between a percentage change and a percentage point change
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s always the ones you most expect, huh.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For those in England & Wales who don’t get them on the NHS: private flu & covid jabs are available from today. I’ve just had both at my local pharmacy. £115 for the pair. Yes, that’s expensive, but if you’re a freelancer & don’t get sick pay it’s probably a lot cheaper than taking time off.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I accidentally spent £17,700 on 400 subscriptions to the LRB for Home Office staff and now the Life in the UK test is asking applicants to rank Derek Jarman films from most to least emotionally resonant?
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Great post. Time to take a big sip of coffee and check how the UK Greens are polling under Polanski.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
These students of international relations, they told me that all that mattered was a country’s material power—but then whah is a nuclear weapon possessed by North Korea treated differently from one possessed by the United Kingdom?
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That was actually a pretty decent speech from Andy Burnham.
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Woah, ok.
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Guy who gets mad at this because Hipkins isn’t a radical actually he’s a milquetoast moderate neoliberal centrist
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mattevansc3.bsky.social @mattevansc3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*Juliet wakes up and finds Romeo has stabbed himself* Juliet: Fuck
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
People with tickets to the Bayeux Tapestry doing soft approaches like they think I’m sort of illicit weapons enthusiast or something
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Counterpart not being on the top 100 shows list is an outrage. All 12 of us Counterpart fans are outraged.
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Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My five year old has the soul of Orson Welles. We were outside school and he 'put a kiss in my pocket for later.' Extremely touched by this, I gave him two back. He dug out the second one, THEATRICALLY CRUSHED IT IN HIS FIST and said 'one is enough.'
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Working on a project about feedback loops and finding it weirdly difficult to describe them succinctly
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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 24/09/2026
bildo's museum bar, daggett, michigan, 1980
bildo's museum bar, daggett, michigan, 1980
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Archie Hall @archiehall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My latest for @economist.com: AI writing is taking over politics. 10% of what was is said in Parliament is now AI-drafted, per Pangram. Yet more in the House of Representatives, or in Australia and Canada. Link: www.economist.com/britain/202... And a 🧵 below, w/ some main offenders
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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 23/09/2026
an amazing new project launches today in new zealand: people can report sexual harm, and get matched with others who reported the same person. when you report, you get a lawyer - and lawyer-client privilege. for free. i profile the website, technology, charity, & law firm here: www.webworm.co/tika/
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This Could Change The Way Victims Get Justice
David Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i’d genuinely like to read some savvy insider reporting on this tbh. like it seems about as plausible that they’ve concluded that most people just … don’t care all that much
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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DMs open
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this is fine
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 22/09/2026
we need to have it so there isn’t just One Person on the left who is allowed to say things about the realities of government that anyone who works in it takes as a given.
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
it’s … pretty funny that the arch ratfucker is getting ratfucked by his former ratfucking disciples 😇
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i do kinda worry that the absolute worst people are going to read the Nicky Hager and be like, ‘oh, so giving money to the taxpayers union is a good investment then?’ but we live in hope i guess
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
sometimes i feel sad then i remember that i live in London. if you are feeling sad i recommend living in London, it is quite good and will cheer you up.
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
wow that converse ad is … quite something 😬
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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 19/09/2026
Jean-Paul Sartre Experience - Flex [NZ, Indie Rock] (1986) a Flying Nun classic redd.it/8yrz1g youtu.be/j3lx1JjUloU
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Jean-Paul Sartre Experience - Flex [NZ, Indie Rock] (1986) a Flying Nun classic
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Su Yin Khoo @ksuyin.com · 19/09/2026
I don’t know about pizza but in Auckland we do have the feuding BBQ noodle houses thespinoff.co.nz/business/26-...
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Would the real Mt Albert BBQ Noodle House please stand up?
Two restaurants with the exact same name operate beside each other in Mt Albert. But which is the real Mt Albert BBQ Noodle House? Madeleine Chapman eats and investigates.<br /> <br />
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 18/09/2026
I spend my week crossing london on a bike and increasingly that means cycling alongside Wayve/Waymo robotaxis. it’s uncomfortable. they give you so much space, don’t do a close pass while accelerating as lights go red. So unnerving if you cycle on assumption everyone’s mental and wants to kill you.
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
holy god what is going on
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's been a blink of time since the Pylon People's Hum went silent. While we no longer see them marching across fields, under roads, they're still with us. Not only as remnants of a community living on canal boats, but as part of the county's living line of folklore. – Dr. M. Benn
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
they’re locked in a battle of wills
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Great reporting but incredibly depressing nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...
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The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes
I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
new cat just dropped www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Before good poll: chop wood, carry water. After good poll: chop wood, carry water.
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
related to this, I’m curious how Ardern would poll among Bluesky users who despise Hipkins
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m no fan of Danyl McL’s schtick but that Listener piece about Paul Henry is absolutely not positive or complimentary of his politics at all, be real now
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
i don’t think the people reposting this are thinking it through lol
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
kinda wild that the evidence for the media trying to cover up the fact that Tim Jago is pedophile is …. a news story about Tim Jago being a pedophile
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
people are very mad about this BBC piece but if you actually read it and not some screenshots of random paragraphs taken out of context it’s … fine? like it’s definitely not approving or positive towards the subject? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Anti-migrant activists like Danny Tommo are changing tactics
Patriot Platform wants to build a group of working-class voters to influence political parties on the right.
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
god imagine being this cool
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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Houthis: what the fuck, you told us it was economical to build the IR sensor with aluminum foil instead of mercury cadmium telluride Claude: That is exactly the right challenge to raise, and the honest answer is that the claim was asserted rather than demonstrated. Inshallah it won't happen again
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
things like this are usually a lot more complicated than they seem inews.co.uk/news/no-mask...
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No-mask zones and face scanning: Inside the operation to derail small-boats demos
Police have been told they are expected to make full use of their powers to stop protesters wearing face coverings following disturbances in Dover and Portsmouth
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
bit of a strange conclusion to draw given there was presumably at least one kiwi among the group doing CPR on the guy 🤷
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Matt @mfyfyr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
interesting piece and much as I hate to tentatively agree with Wayne Brown on anything I genuinely don’t know what side I’m on tbh www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...
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‘We can have beautiful things!’: Why Auckland’s City Rail Link is about much more than trains
After nearly a decade and with a budget of NZ$5.493 billion, expectations for Auckland's City Rail Link are high ahead of its September 13 opening.
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