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Imogen

@mogenn.bsky.social
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scientist of a kind | current Adult Skills volunteer tutor | own too many books I haven't read | regrettably interested in politics

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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burham: If you believe in enough of what I've said, get behind the plan and get behind each other Me: brilliant, we're on to the practicing the Heimlich manoeuvre part of conference
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From Strictly It Takes Two... NO ONE IS SAFE FROM THE CURSED RATIO
An audience poll for Strictly's It Takes Two, where the question was "What do you want to see more of in Week 1? Personality or Technique?" Personality got 52% and Technique got 48%. BREXIT STRIKES AGAIN
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just succumbed to statistics-induced apoplexy after I looked up the anecdote at the start of The Wisdom of the Crowd, where they said the average from the crowd was better than individual guesses, when it was actually the MEDIAN
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Not gonna lie, so far I've spent most of the time googling who's in a relationship so I know which #strictly couples I can ship
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Two hosts next to the judges? How weird. What's Josh gonna do, run behind each couple up the stairs? 😅 #strictly
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In the new ep of @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social the way @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com pronounces Ben Delo's name has filled me with delight. Ben Delo isn't a crypto bro anymore, he's a quaint new type of bungalow. Clip linked (pls listen to the whole pod it's v good) open.spotify.com/clip/7z6Q8CB...
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Clip - Burnham won’t confront Britain’s Blackshirts. Why?
Oh God, What Now? · Clip · 9s
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Academic or practical... the two genders
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The only new thing I'm vibing with atm is this chaotically camp pairing ritual #Strictly Side note: Jowita's hair looks AMAZING
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That opening music montage was a delirious mix, I wanted more Sledgehammer #Strictly
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
begging someone to invent on hold phone music that doesn't make me feel like my eardrums are being battered
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm the kind of messy bitch who saves posts that I know will be controversial so I can get the popcorn out later when other people have replied
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Yeah, my weekly injections, regular blood tests, random joint pain, and fatigue is very cool 🙄
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The title above the first two panels reads, "Dog Toys".
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a bone shaped dog toy. She says, "Look!"
The second panel shows a dog wagging its tail. There is a speech bubble leading back to Sarah saying "It squeaks!"
The title above the last two panels reads, "Cat Toys".
In panel three we see Sarah again. She says "Come, child."
Panel four shows a cat raising its paws in glee. We see Sarah's hands holding cat nip. We see a speech bubble leading back to Sarah saying "It is time to do drugs".
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Indirectly declaring war on Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish culture. Never again, in Kemi Badenoch's United Kingdom, will the Scots be able perform the dangerous act of dramatically addressing a haggis
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Just had to wait five minutes to find out wtf they were alerting us about, because the first message was only in Welsh 🤷‍♀️
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Much as I love the News Agents their discussion on Covid was ill-informed and misleading. christinapagel.substack.com/p/we-are-lea...
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We are learning the wrong lesson from Covid school closures
A response to yesterday's News Agents podcast...
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Watching the BBC news channel and just got jumpscared by Jeremy Corbyn
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
COMMUNISM MENTIONED
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This statement is all over the place. What is this, Nigel Farage's grievance hour?
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Me, petulantly, in a Scottish accent: nowhere in England is the North
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
God. I could really do with Emu throwing me bodily into a supermarket freezer right about now.
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
it's just... kinda cringe??
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
How Does It Feel, Mr Footballer? [from 2021]

[Title]:

How Does It Feel, Mr Footballer?

[Following panels show a footballer being interviewed in various scenarios]

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[Making first contact with an alien on another planet]:
Yeh y’know obviously it’s a great to make first contact, we’re here to represent humanity and give it 100 per cent

2
[Chained above the fiery pit of Hell] :
2 Yeh y’know obviously it’s disappointing to be in the fiery pit but you’ve got to look forward

3
[Being devoured by tiny Nanobots in a future dystopia]: 
Yeh y’know obviously the murderous nanobots are a factor but we’ve got to take the positives 

4 
[On WW2 VE-Day]
Yeh y’know obviously we’re pleased to win World War 2, they came out organised and made it difficult for us

5 
[In a multi-dimensional vortex]:
Yeh y’know obviously there’s no easy games at the multiverse level, take one dimension at a time

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[Stood on a cloud, next to a shining orb of light]
Yeh y’know obviously it’s great to see the face of God, we’re happy with that

7 
[In the midst of an apocalypse, the world on fire]:
Yeh y’know obviously we wanted to survive as a species but we haven’t managed to do that 

[Ends]
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Filming in a quarry, or reusing the same corridor set 15 times in a single episode is the cornerstone of episodic sci-fi and no one will convince me otherwise.
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Biggest crime related to that Guardian top 100 books piece is that they've sorted the list of voters in alphabetical order, but by their FIRST name
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
everyone who became politically engaged after brexit rn
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
There are 3 kinds of constituency declaration for the Senedd: 1. Bosses who do it bilingually like it's nothing. 2. Planners who've invested in a podium for each speaker. 3. Sharers who are doomed to shuffle from beside the podium to in front of it in an endless loop.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
"Bluesky will never be Twitter." Then how come I look at it every morning and it makes me sad, hmm? Explain that.
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Cat distribution system committee uncovered
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
strong "they got Al Capone on tax evasion" vibes today
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
the Labour party right now is covered in gravy, stepping in every single pie while attempting to escape the hole this government is in
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Been catching up with @originstorypodcast.bsky.social episodes over the holiday, finished the first episode in the socialism season and then today watched The Matrix for the first time. It's like I did the extra reading before the seminar and didn't even realise.
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
"Just one more gig as a wise man my agent told me. Then I can audition for The Angel Gabriel biopic"
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Then: Uncharted 2 Now: Uncharted 2 In 2009 it was incredible how much it improved on the original in only 2 years! Now, I'd still say 2 is the best Uncharted. Later ND games are longer in a way that feels indulgent, but UC2 is a tight narrative packed with set pieces that still make your jaw drop.
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Yes! I was speaking to a friend who works at Scottish Water, and the public data LLMs are rubbish at e.g. meeting transcription, because it hasn't been trained on subject-specific terms and as a result makes (even more) mistakes.
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
When that guy from Five shouted into the camera about the #strictly final with rabid eyes, I screamed, covered my face, and almost cringed out a kidney.
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Absolutely mad decision to completely censor the lyrics of Cell Block Tango on #strictly. Apparently all the women in Cook County jail are in prison for... breaking up with their boyfriends??
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
That first sentence in his post edges pretty damn close to the great replacement conspiracy theory.
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
So glad #strictly isn't having an elimination this week, the last two person final was so depressing... Rose was crying, John was crying, AJ was crying with her injury. I couldn't go through that again
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
My own, very niche version of this was when the Tories were still in gov, being a fan of JRM (the Dead by Daylight streamer) and also seeing Jacob Rees Mogg be referred to as JRM on the regular.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This is really excellent data journalism... Elon Musk has declared war on the British government, it just doesn't realise it.
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Transferring my medical info from NHS England to NHS Wales makes me want to scream into the abyss on the regular.
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Me playing my first run of Balatro: this is cool but I don't get why people are obsessing over it. Me playing my 20th run: oh no.
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Happy tin foil pal and a pedal bin day
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Liz Truss tried her best but, as with so many things, if you want something done properly, you need to get the Americans to do it.
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This talk of generations reminds me of the historical blood-fraction laws and one-drop rule that were used in America to "racially classify" people. They contributed to the oppression of African Americans, and clearly any rule that allows you to say groups of people "don't belong" isn't a good idea
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Here's a shocking finding, opinion columnists don't critically engage with the material they are writing about. A thread on why we shouldn't take the survey this article is based on at face value🧵
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is a decent exploration of working from home, but it's hugely disappointing that they didn't speak to anyone living with a disability or chronic illness (or even someone on a long NHS waiting list) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00276pd
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Panorama - Should We Still Be Working from Home?
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, the way we work has been transformed, with many more of us working from home. But is that good for us, and is it good for the economy?
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
My case for the defence of jokey names is my all-time favourite anecdote about a protein that was discovered in the Trypanosoma brucei parasite (causes sleeping sickness), which had a ring-like structure... so they named it BILBO1
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Imogen @mogenn.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Already seen food shop displays for Easter. The lads only just been born, it's not time for him to be resurrected yet
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