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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 18h

Well Stirling already had that shenanigans with Mifsud!

Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 18h

I'd regard pretty much all of the pro-Brexit parties (change their name every ten minutes) as clear Russian influence to start with.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

For people who don't know the answer to the hard problem of consciousness (nobody does), there's some very opinionated and sniffy people out there. When people do this, it becomes religious conviction rather than science, sorry.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Happy to now be able to announce our transdisciplinary project on AMR! The 48-month transdisciplinary study explores the causes and complexity behind the AMR issues recognised in freshwater environments. www.stir.ac.uk/news/2026/oc...

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University of Stirling secures £2.4m grant for major aquaculture project | About | University of Stirling

University of Stirling secures £2.4m grant for major aquaculture project

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mum's been looking at those walker things with four wheels that can go in any direction. "Oh! Like in Ezekiel's vision?" Taking too long to explain...

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A quick google shows Warhammer sales to be in the ballpark of USD$133m last year. Meanwhile, FAO FishStat gives trade statistics for worldwide aquaculture and capture fisheries. In 2024, UK _export_ market (so not including domestic consumption) was just shy of USD$3b.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is absolutely the most iconic pencil for me, although I'd have gone for an HB one.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Recently had my first AI _review_. Or it's someone who's failed a Turing test, which isn't impossible with academics.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So much of the debate on this is also affected by culture, similar to how post-renaissance Christian theology poisons the well on mental illness. The question you find on English language social media smacks of counting souls, rather than debating Buddha nature, for example.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's certainly a concern in the long run. We don't understand what consciousness is or how it works, or what has it, or if it's even countable, so precautionary principle applies. If ethics committees have to discuss experiments on a fruit fly, why not on a model that can write a symphony?

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My neurons don't speak Chinese, I could. I don't think CR disproves anything, because consciousness might arise from the system itself. I'm willing to consider that "is x conscious?" is the wrong question, and it's better to ask "how conscious is x?" I'm leaning really towards pansychism a bit.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This has popped up twice on my feed and each time I've thought: Who put bacon on that car?

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well its the proper way in the best places, like Lincolnshire and the Peak District.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well I for one am excited about a smaller pension and a parliament filled with bell ends when I retire. Still feels like boomerfodder to me.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So losses in 2025 the size of Iceland's GDP. Can't see this all going badly wrong and causing a financial crisis. Not at all. It's all cybertulips.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I wonder if @ukri.org could actually be sued for misuse of your intellectual property under the T&Cs of the submission process? Have a look! We're not even allowed to submit student work to an AI under the tease and seize of matriculation agreements. See also the hoo-hah about TurnItIn this week.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This sounds maybe like you're pasting something mutable, giving two different applications access to the same thing. But quite what that would be and why it's trying to do it...

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm unpacking a Next shirt and I feel like I'm in an episode of The Adventure Game here.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When she sings Danny's Song And you cry all night long, That's Anne Murray.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is going to give @chucktingle.bsky.social ideas if you're not careful.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Stirling Institute of Aquaculture currently has a new academic post available in aquatic animal health. See here for details... www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...

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Vacancy details | About | University of Stirling

Job vacancy at the University of Stirling.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The media could have not platformed Nigel Farage and discredited him 15 years ago. Instead Farage got them what they wanted - Cameron agreeing to a Brexit referendum, Labour and the Tories dragged to the right. Now they want two party politics back with the Tories in power. He’s served his purpose.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Indeed! Was just wondering how scuba companies are doing.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So what Sony are saying then is "we don't sell things". That's fine. I won't try to buy anything from you then.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Maybe being able to look back at all the things he's wrecked and put signs up saying "Trump fucked this up" is the best long-term memorial he could have.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm not sure why people get away with leading to millions of excess deaths, and people just handwave it because they're "business" or "in government". Or it's "the free market" etc. I feel more at personal risk from tech bros than I _ever_ have from terrorists. Terrorism is a massive distraction.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Came for the M&S mucky knickers comments. You've not failed me.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

New paper landed recently! doi.org/10.3390/aqua... Economic Modelling of Mouth Rot in British Columbia Atlantic Salmon Farming Always nice for students (here Matt Yau) to get an output from their UG or MSc project! Well done Matt!

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Have you explained yet about the _different_ infinities? :) E.g. that the cardinality of the real numbers is larger than the cardinality of the natural numbers? Maybe keep that until they're 5 or 6...

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Would be a complete death knell for most of them.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I mean, if you were worried they might haunt you, 25 centuries ago, maybe. But people still seem to bring up this hackneyed phrase and I really don't know why. Speaking ill of the dead is so often essential, and often quite fun.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I just checked the box of the Moving Mountains burgers I bought yesterday, and had one for tea. I was suspicious of the grease left in the pan. Nearly 20g of saturated fat in one burger. Oil being the top non water ingredient. The other is in the bin. Disgusting. #vegan

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The North when politicians talk about it only means placating the chattering media types in Salford. If you're east of the Pennines forget it, and Liverpool will be lucky.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Ah, the nauseating combo of Lush and Subway. Making every high street smell exactly the same, of yeasty lemons since time immemorial.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I've tried to use them as ramekins in the oven before, and it didn't go well. (That's the old style nice ones without the lip and the fluted edge.)

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Came here for the reflecting pool comments. ;) Seriously though, one issue with the reflecting pool is that they are trying to prevent it having an ecosystem, so the algae are just out of control. It needs some fishies, if they wouldnt die in the unwisely shallow water...

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Similar answer when people worry about bleach. I'm like, it breaks down to salt. It's about the least "toxic" thing you could dump into water to kill everything. Lasts longer than hydrogen peroxide, and leaves some residual salt, but in the great scheme of things, do carry on.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Being John Malkovich. JM is him. Everyone is a Muppet. Core cast of Kermit, Miss Piggy, and Janice. With The Count and featuring Fozzie Bear as Charlie Sheen.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The music in IKEA: It's like someone's died on EastEnders.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I'm still on a web ring! It's not been updated for about two decades.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I used to have a tracker count and a guest book. What ruined it wasn't the concept, but that gradually the vast majority of internet traffic is just... "Fake". It's all bots talking to each other and harvesting content, rather than lovely real people.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I tried to do this. It's not easy, because shit numbers such as 93 or 87 end up being interesting because they are shit, and that inherently promotes them up a bit.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Well Vic and Bob have both done his voice so I say cut out the middle man.

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Darren Green @pinkmongoose.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Macaroni pie and a blobby = dinner of kings when getting something for the train.

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