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The wall art in West Hollywood is constantly changing.

Wall art: a large glass is depicted half full/empty with two cartoon figures sanding on either side. The one on the left is measuring how much liquid is in the glass with a ruler. The one on the right is standing on some footsteps and measuring howm much of the glass is empty with a ruler. The background is bubble-gum pink and there is some illegible graffiti on the wall.

Wall art: A large dog wearing a green hoodie and sunglasses with a gold chain and medallion around its neck and earphones is driving a green open top saloon car with gold wheels and headlights on. In the background are tall palm trees and high risk buildings against a sunset lit sky. The words Los Angeles are written in large, gothic style font at the top.

Thoughtful article; worth a read.

Leonid Schneider @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

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1. Burn down rain forest, plant GMO soy 2. Feed soy to tortured chickens 3. Feed chickens to salmon because the seas are empty of fish you used to feed your salmon. Health food, right? Go vegan.

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Kristi Noem's weird look is a crime.

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Please could everyone restrict the use of the adjective 'great' to mean something well out of the ordinary? Adequate, decent, fine, solid, good, sound, very good, and super all do a great job. Worthy is a solid choice if you wish to damn with faint praise.

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It does a job, sure but it's not great.

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Or go all the way and call it artificial information.

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That's not a very good example of a great plot.

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Trump want to start using SI. I am genuinely looking forward to the USA switching to metres/kilometres and grams/kilograms. A genius like Trump will have no difficulty making the switch.

Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

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Paul Pharoah @paulpharoah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Shock, horror, probe: Reform councillors and candidates are racists.

Paul Pharoah @paulpharoah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I think one can have a valid opinion of a colour palette without knowing anything about colour theory. E.g. "In my opinion that is a lovely colour palette".

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Paul Pharoah @paulpharoah.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

According to my birding app it is unlikely in Cape Town on 12th January (when photo taken).

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Paul Pharoah @paulpharoah.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#birds #BirdsOfTheWorld #nature This one is a brimstone canary. The photo was taken in Kirstenbosch Botannical Gardens in Cape Town.

Small bird with green-yellow breast, olive-green wings perched on the branches of a small bush with long glossy green leaves and a flower against a pale green background.

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Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

www.bbc.com/news/article... ".. "concept car" intended to show Citroen's direction of travel..." The picture clearly shows that Citroen is going south-east.

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The French firm is reinventing the classic model as carmakers come under pressure from Chinese rivals.

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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Epidemiologist: Oh, that: I went missing completely at random. Impute from that what you will.

The other place for solar farms would be over roads. In summer in California, being able to drive in the shade all the time would be a boon. It would also reduce road noise in surrounding neighborhoods.

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I was just about to write that, then saw you'd beaten me to it.

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The lengths these sorry excuses for humanity will go to avoid taking responsibility for their own deadly opinions is quite extreme.

Paul Pharoah @paulpharoah.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

He must have endless people telling him he is right.

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Age is just a number: A number that adds 1 second to your running time for each kilometre for every birthday from 40 to 64.

A scatter plot of the pace per kilometre for ~1900 runs by age from age 42 to 64 with a line of best fit showing an inexorable decline in pace as the runner ages.

I pay tax, but I do not feel complicit as I have no vote. Perhaps, working in a country that is so backward morally is complicity.

Claude is a snowflake. Can't you see the picture next to the name?

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I have thought about this when interacting with Claude (other are available). I came to the conclusion that being polite is partly just habit, and so it pays to be polite at all times. That's not to say I think people should be banned for being rude to Claude.

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Fair point. But, you can hate them, and still be polite. Hating something while maintaining civility is far more devastating.

Yes and no, but I suspect the way a person treats inanimate objects is also reflected in the way they treat people. Getting in the habit of being kind to things is no bad thing.

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I often wonder if any of them have had any training in basic spying!

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How is it possible that we have a toddler being in one of the world's most powerful jobs? And, so many people thinking it's OK.

Six years ago today my wife took her own life. I still have those pointless "what if.." thoughts. Mental illness can be devastating. Never be worried about asking someone if they feel suicidal.

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Doing the compulsory conflict of interest training is a) painful and b) the content makes no sense because the Republicans are trying to teach us all how to maximise our wealth using all available CoIs and this goes against everything in the training.

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Well, it's not bad news for the younger families within richer families because they inherit the money and can afford the nice house that the Tories do not want 'ordinary' people to have.

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Everything is taxed multiple times. My income is taxed, what I buy is taxed, the person who makes a profit from what I buy is taxed, the person who is paid by the company selling what I buy is taxed, the person paid by that company employs me to clean their house and I am taxed on my income.

This figure suggests that is not correct.

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One in three people think that he's OK! It is extraordinary.

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Also, AI, when applied to Trump and his cronies really means absence of intelligence, and he does not want any confusion.