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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Went see my doc about a sciatica problem. It's seems my hip flask is to blame.

Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When I first heard of ChatGPT, and the DALLE•2 image generator, I spent some finding out what they did, and where they fell down—and I must say, I found out pretty quickly how fallible they were, which makes it all the more surprising to me that lawyers and academics have been tripped up by LLMs.

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Great example of why disposable email addresses are the way to go, for subscriptions and the like. Cf duckduckgo.com/email/settin...

Duckduckgo private email address generator.

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you're west of the Indian Ocean, you may yet have the chance to catch Venus and the Moon in daylight. 🔭

An almost-clear blue sky with the crescent Moon seen dimly against the blue, and a bright dot above that is Venus. An inset shows the overexposed image of Venus as slightly crescent-shaped.

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

...not blessed with a great understanding of elapsed time beyond 1/125 of a second...?

Screenshot of the start of a "Digital Camera World" article: "APS-C vs full-frame is a tale as old as time, and as a photography journalist, I’m..."

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Hatred draws itself on your face and it doesn't use nice pens." You have a way with words, my man.

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Downgrade a movie: The Illusionist of Oz

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

As much as I'm comfortable with everyday maths (oh, the joy when I found a real-life need for solving simultaneous equations, years after school), and am happy building spreadsheets, and converting light-years to kilometres, I can't abide sudoku. Ick.

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I found a Rarity-82 word worth 94 pts in OUTLIER. No one else in Outlier has ever found it. 7 finds no one else found today. SHARPSHOOTER · 838 points · 10 rare words. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/PQFTVB

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OUTLIER · Day 88

ozalba scored 838 on Day 88 — can you beat them?

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"Bokeh" doesn't mean that parts of a photo are out-of-focus; it means how those parts appear, depending upon the lens design, and aperture used.

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I found a Rarity-66 word worth 88 pts in OUTLIER. SHARPSHOOTER · 816 points · 10 rare words. 3 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/G35LGA

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OUTLIER · Day 86

ozalba scored 816 on Day 86 — can you beat them?

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I found a Rarity-82 word worth 94 pts in OUTLIER. SHARPSHOOTER · 845 points · 10 rare words. Only 2 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 5 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/SZE9QJ

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 09/08/2026

I don’t like when people think Being A Dick is the same thing as Having Balls. It’s not. Not even close. In fact there’s a Vas Deferens between them.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Icarus did his own research.

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Hard light. An engineer, engaged in pure research, stumbles on a method of generating a metre-long beam of light from an old flashgun grip. A workplace safety enquiry is launched after the device unexpectedly severs the arm of his lab assistant son who cries "no, that's not true; that's impossible."

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Forgot to put the sauce on my pizza tonight, just lashings of olive oil. I think I prefer it.

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

An egg and a chicken are at the bar in a pub. The barman asks "okay, who was first?"

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My wife turned into a serial apologist yesterday, even apologising for apologising several times. Should she apply for Canadian citizenship?

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In the days before correcting fluid...

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Anyone planning to catch the Mars-Uranus conjunction? North/South America about the right longitude. 🔭

Stellarium view of Mars and Uranus, less than 7 arcminutes apart just now.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 30/06/2026

Today is International Asteroid Day! ☄️ Why does the UN recognise this day on June 30? Anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska Event: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungusk... Russia is no stranger to airburst events - in 2013, there was also the well-documented Chelyabinsk event en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyab...

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International Asteroid Day | United Nations

International Asteroid Day aims to raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard and to inform the public about the crisis communication actions to be taken at the global level in case of a ...

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀 Well, Lord Rosse saw it as a crab in the 19th C.

Hubble Space Telescope image of the Crab Nebula. Tangled filaments fill the image, nearly 1,000 years after a massive star blew itself apart in a supernova explosion.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

My latest novel is published in paperback on July 2nd. If you pre-order from Blackwell's they'll send it with FREE international delivery & that will help the book get into shops. I'll also be signing EVERY ONE of these: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Our cat Professor Charles Cardigan reading Everything Will Swallow You and expressing shock about some scandalous allegations about cats in the opening chapter. Charles wanted to say to everyone that if you pre-order the book - which is published by a small publisher, with no marketing budget - it's more likely to get into shops.

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We used to give mossies to our zebra fish. Quite amusing, watching them rapidly fold the legs and body into their mouths.

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It's a fallacy that Galileo said "Eppur si muove", and little reason to give credence to the notion that he said "Ragazze dal sedere grosso, siete voi che fate girare il mondo del rock".

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"ENTER PASSWORD" *types 'snowflake'* "RE-ENTER PASSWORD" *types 'snowflake'* "ERROR. PASSWORDS MUST BE IDENTICAL".

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

There's a certain feeling of kinship when reading a second-hand book, and you find yourself folding a page corner as a bookmark and notice someone else marked the same page - especially if it's not at the start of a new chapter.

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Some style-guide dictats give me the shits, like Nasa for NASA. Here's another from the NYT (though maybe I'll style it nyT).

Ampersands in Company Names

Although ampersands are thought of as informal, if the ampersand is officially part of a company name, it’s best to use the ampersand instead of writing out the word “and.” For example, you write “Tiffany & Co.,” “Procter & Gamble,” and “AT&T” with ampersands.

In general, you write the company’s name the way it wants it written. However, the New York Times Manual of Style and Usage does say to use the ampersand to replace less common abbreviations for “and” in company names. For example, the creative agency Wieden+Kennedy writes its name with a plus sign for the “and,” but the New York Times style guide says to replace it with an ampersand

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 28/05/2026

Your little ones like to draw and love space? ✨🖍️ ESA Education invites them to send their art to space 🚀 Help them join Plato’s Find-a-New-Earth Art Challenge and their drawing might decorate the rocket that will send our Plato mission to space 👉 www.esa.int/kids/en/thin... #EduSky 🔭

Illustration showing a launching rocket on the left side. In the middle, Paxi is painting several exoplanets in space, where the Plato mission is also depicted.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

'Flourish' by LaToya Hobbs, contemporary US printmaker and co-founder of Black Women of Print #WomensArt

Print featuring a black woman sitting in a comfortable interior bathed in gold light

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

"If you submit one more ChatGPT rehash instead of a straight copy of the original, you're out!"

Three monks stand before Saint Benedict; a document is being passed between them (from a manuscript made in 1129). WikiCommons.

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Today, in the #BloodySilly department. First, open it up and take it in the shower?

Web ad showing an opened-up hard disk drive, covered in water droplets. The text reads:

Hard Drive Recovery Specialist. Recover Data From Your External Hard Drive

Sponsored
KLDiscovery Ontrack

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Must be decades since I've had a bridie, and never home-made. She's a treasure, I tell you. Just need the oven to do its work.

Four half-round pastry packages, with crimped edges, uncooked.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 21/05/2026

Oh, it's the third Thursday of May, which means it is: Global Accessibility Awareness Day! You can really make the internet more inclusive by doing simple things like adding alt-text to images, using high-contrast text, adding captions to your vids and more. #Accessibility 👇👇👇

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Thursday, May 15, 2025, help us celebrate the 14th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)! The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, ...

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This is a long shot because this isn't the old twitter, but I'm looking for history articles/books that look at cases of British/Irish settlers/squatters being prosecuted for crimes against Indigenous/colonized people. It can be anywhere in the world, but ideally the late C18/early C19.

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Draft concept for a daylight-savings alternative. AM has 13 hours; PM has 11.

Two clock faces: one goes to 13 o'clock; the other to 12 o'clock.

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

@drspacejunk.bsky.social Just watching Time Team, and wondering if any form of spectroscopy is ever used, or could be used, in assessing ambiguous materials in an exploratory trench? In this case, the archaeologist said it was a glacial feature, and the geophys bod opined it was a round house base.

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

When renovators think "the Cybertruck" is quite nice...

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Just toying with some leaf scans. The vein structure is almost like a suburban street plan.

A spear-shaped leaf, reduced almost to a skeleton. Scanned as a colour film positive.

A spear-shaped leaf, reduced almost to a skeleton. Scanned as a colour film positive but tones reversed as a negative.

Cropped section of first image, showing the vein structure.

As third image, but but tones reversed as a negative.

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

A boy's question after a show yesterday: "what's your favourite thing about space?" I had to think for a moment, because there's so much, but I said dusty nebulae, because of what it took to make them, and what they can become next. They also look pretty good too. So, what's your #FavSpaceThing? 🔭

Hubble Space Telescope image of the "Mystic Mountain" - part of the Carina Nebula. A complex mass of dusty material, sculpted by the radiation of nearby stars

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Duncan Waldron @ozalba.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

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