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Phil C 🕉️ @phil-c.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Summer has been over for two weeks and Ocado want me to "start thinking about Christmas".

Phil C 🕉️ @phil-c.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Google is proud to deepen our roots in Finland" As a documentor for many years, and a RSA-trained teacher of English, this type of construction still makes my teeth itch after some years.

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Phil C 🕉️ @phil-c.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just finished watching the 2014 biopic of Stephen Hawking. Eddie Redmayne does a great job of showing Hawking's growing disability, although he does look like Austin Powers in the early years.

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Phil C 🕉️ @phil-c.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Got an email from Spotify: "you need to change your password as we've noticed some unusual activity on your account." Yes, that was me trying to change my email address.

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Phil C 🕉️ @phil-c.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm just watching an old TV series set in the war years, and it's like being in a Vermeer painting. Every indoor scene has light flooding in through windows to the left.

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: MIT engineers develop a breath test that detects pneumonia in minutes no X-rays, no lab wait. Just a single breath Two MIT engineers, Loza Tadesse and Aditya Garg, have developed a breath test that can detect pneumonia in minutes.

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Phil C 🕉️ @phil-c.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Farage's byelection opponents: weak enough to be nobodies, yet strong enough to humiliate him.

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 25-year-old Argentinian biologist Pilar Ferrer has developed an injectable gel that helps repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack

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Phil C 🕉️ @phil-c.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Watching The Godfather II (1974) yet again. I still can't work the plot out.

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Waterloo scientists Dr. Brian Ingalls, Dr. Sara Sadr, and Dr. Marc Aucoin have engineered “tumor-eating” bacteria that can invade and destroy cancer from within. A potential breakthrough in cancer treatment research.

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Phil C 🕉️ @phil-c.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

William Orbit has just died. And I've just realised that, although he was four years younger than me, we both lived in Palmers Green at the same time. Nice to think that we may have watched cartoons on the van in Tatem Park together. A brilliant musician/producer.

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Phil C 🕉️ @phil-c.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"It is well worth searching for truth; and we do this chiefly by searching for mistakes, so that we can correct them." Karl Popper, In Search of a Better World (2012)

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

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Phil C 🕉️ @phil-c.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

TIL that Emily Wilson, translator of the Odyssey, is the daughter of writer and broadcaster A N Wilson.

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This is an idea that has been floating about for a while, and is now in production, this could be used everywhere, and gives a sustainable advantage.

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Phil C 🕉️ @phil-c.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Today I am exploring the mysteries of Tailwind CSS.

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Phil C 🕉️ @phil-c.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Just finished watching The Black Dahlia (2006). Well, that's two hours of my life I won't get back.

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Priscilla Roberts, American (1916-2001), Self Portrait, 1946, oil on masonite, 75.8 x 35.9 cm, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

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Phil C 🕉️ @phil-c.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Today's Amazin delivery: two RAM chips to extend my PC's memory to 16 GB.

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Phil C 🕉️ @phil-c.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A lovely summer morning in the shire.

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Phil C 🕉️ @phil-c.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

So many riches in Hockney's oeuvre, but this piece of modern Cubism is a favourite of mine. Place Furstenberg, Paris, 1985

Two trees with circular metal grates around their trunks dominate the foreground. In the background, a narrow Parisian street stretches into the distance, flanked by multi-story white buildings with shutters, a parked motorcycle, and a car.

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Phil C 🕉️ @phil-c.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

One of the pleasures for me of watching Bleak House (2005) is that an ancestor of mine, one Henry Champ, was living in Berners Street in Marylebone in 1841. The London street scenes and characters would have been familiar to him.

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Phil C 🕉️ @phil-c.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Today I have been clean and sober for 33 years.

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Here’s some positive science news: researchers at MIT have shown that messenger RNA can activate a biological pathway that triggers the immune system to attack tumors. news.mit.edu/2025/turning...

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Turning on an immune pathway in tumors could lead to their destruction

By activating an immune signaling pathway inside cancer cells, MIT researchers found a way to force tumors to produce a molecule that leads to their own destruction.

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ElleO 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @ellohhlo.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Thank you University of Oxford! 🐝🌎

Science News

from research organizations

Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing - Colonies surged 15-fold

A lab-made diet supercharged bee colonies and could help save our food supply.

Date:

March 27, 2026

Source:

University of Oxford

Summary:

Scientists have developed a breakthrough "superfood" for honeybees by engineering yeast to produce the essential nutrients normally found in pollen. In controlled tri-als, colonies fed this specially designed diet produced up to 15 times more young, showing a dramatic boost in reproduction and overall health. As climate change and modern agriculture reduce the availability of natural pollen, this innovation could offer a practical way to support struggling bee populations.

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