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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Like, if AI is so smart why do we have to keep telling it what to do?

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"online prediction market"?! Come on, it's a betting exchange, stop legitimising it by parroting their own marketing

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Remember, Jenrick is not stupid. He's a trained lawyer, he knows the difference between police and court bail. He's just a turd.

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Surely restaurants you call for a reservation are now in the minority? Also, instructing somebody/something else to book is as much work as booking, isn't it? Firmly solution needing a problem nonsense.

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The fact there is an organic process that results in blue cheese never ceases to amaze

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You can try every day to make some small improvement to the world, and a handful of bastards will do a billion times more harm.

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Currently on iPlayer and much better than Reacher

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

asking "are they being an idiot for fun or profit, or were they just born that way?" is an important modern skill

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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 30/08/2026

If you want to learn more about Kanzi’s incredible linguistic abilities, check out this (free) issue of the Linguistic Discovery newsletter: Website: linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/kanzi/ Substack: linguisticdiscovery.substack.com/p/kanzi

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Did Kanzi the bonobo understand language?

Kanzi the bonobo, who learned language, made stone tools, and played Minecraft, dies at age 44. What can his remarkable linguistic abilities teach us about language?

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It is surprisingly good fun listening to lots of new music trying to decide which album to review

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_nsigned - The DIY Music Magazine @nsigned.com · 20/08/2026

Calling all DIY music lovers! There are currently 40 Bandcamp releases waiting for review on _nsigned! If you are interested in listening to some new music, head on over to _nsigned to tell us what you think of it! #diymusic #musicsky #bandcamp nsigned.com/review-requests

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_nsigned - The DIY music magazine

A community music review site. Post a link to your Bandcamp and other people will review it, or give some stuff a listen and tell everyone what you think!

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If anything is going to drive me to my Falling Down moment, it's people sending me "humorous songs" they "made" with "AI"

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Did not need that national security alert in the middle of having a wee

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Google ostensibly played cat and mouse with SEOers but also they seemed flattered by the attention and gave away too much information. I was dragged onto a few Google-led SEO sessions that were frankly depressing: "Can't we just make nice things and you figure it out?"

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We're lucky in Brighton that our subsurface water conditions are merely "low dryness". But bloody hell the rest of the UK... From the UK hydrological outlook for August: hydoutuk.net/sites/defaul...

A relative wetness map of the UK. It's nearly entirely "very dry" except for a few seams of lower dryness mainly in the south which I think are chalky areas.

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is wonderful, though I do note that the price of a pound of saffron is still comparable to the price of a horse

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Making lasagne during a solar eclipse

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Time for #sicily #sketchbook dump! It was very hot and I had limited patience and I got sweat all over the pen and paper. Night drawing was a bit easier.

Night time ink and mono wash sketch of a collapsed parasol and garden furniture backlit by a single lamp. There are some stairs that go... somewhere. There's a big Cyprus tree.

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Edoardo Gianni @edogia.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller? Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase. 1/n

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A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand

The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but their large size and structural ...

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This this this. Nothing interrupts thought like the bland blue line.

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

if we stopped vilifying salt and encouraged people to season well when cooking, they would be more satisfied with their own cooking and would eat less processed and take out food

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Favourite cheeseS: - decent stilton (my first love) - ripe langre or other non Newtonian cheese - a little pyramidal crottin style goats cheese I got at a market in the ardeche when camping which I've never been able to get since. It tasted of muscat grapes - very old gouda with the crunchy bits

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If AI has taught us anything it's that we really need to differentiate lowercase L better in sans serif fonts

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Give your £50 to someone to whom it does make a difference then?

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Good to see Jim Davidson on bluesky I was starting to worry

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Chocolate biscuits are not for dunking

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I love this! I used an SGI Indy and one of those leet monitors at Ricardo modeling tiny parts of car engines for a summer, and it really was so incredibly cool to nerdy little me. My win 95 PC bought with my gap year earnings was a bit of a let down in comparison.

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Well this Sam Neill quote blindsided me for some reason

I'm not afraid to die" he told the Guardian in 2023, "but it would annoy me. Because I'd really like another decade or two, you know? We've built all these lovely terraces, we've got these olive trees and cypresses, and I want to be around to see it all mature. And I've got my lovely little grandchildren. I want to see them get big. But as for the dying? I couldn't care less."

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is one of the most insane and irresponsible things I have _ever_ seen from @theatlantic.com. And that's saying a lot. Just unbelievable stuff.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

My granddad's solution to hot weather was just to have another cup of tea

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Guardians top 10 tips for keeping cool are like 1. Get some heat blocking blinds and fit them tomorrow 2. Don't wear jumpers 3. Become nocturnal and try just not to exist at day 4. I dunno change species to a more heat tolerant one 5... What a stupid article www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Reading the Wikipedia entry for taste in humans and honestly this diagram looks more like a guide to assembling a burger from bits of brain. Or vice versa. Not sure which is worse.

A diagram showing bits of the brain involved in tasting e.g. a burger, where the burger is coloured the same way as the brain is labeled.

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Asher Perlman @asherperlman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy Father’s Day

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 15/06/2026

If Reform ends up in government, they will be responsible for heavy stuff. Responses to terror attacks. Making war. National emergencies. The shitposting mentality is an insult to all of us.

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