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if you wear a casio watch, the only way to set an alarm is to give it to a two-year-old and let them play with it. the only way to turn the alarm off is to bump your wrist on something eight weeks later. there is no other way to turn the alarm on or off

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 5h

I get a treat every time I get a wordcount done js

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Mike Madowitz @mikemadowitz.bsky.social · 8h

Still can’t quite believe they blew up mathematics as a PR stunt to distract from a 40% revenue miss

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 8h

Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 12h

Why does Korea have a holiday for the alphabet? Because unlike other writing systems that evolved over centuries, Hangul was the work of one dude who solved mass illiteracy by sitting down and creating a brand new fully-formed system from scratch that anyone can learn almost instantly.

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Andrew Longhofer @andrewlonghofer.bsky.social · 19h

The replicability issue is foundational to my objection to LLM use in research. The temperature variable definitionally introduces randomness to outputs, and the fact that a given prompt does not generate an identical output every time means no procedure using them can reliably control variables.

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Steve (low effort Halloween name edition) 👻 @chompmancobra.bsky.social · 10h

Measles can reset your immune system and strip you of immunities you previously had. Covid can damage your immune system in a different way and make you more susceptible to infections. I swear to fuck people knew this in like 2021.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 12h

This prompted me to go back and check the claim that "On current DWP forecasts, from the 2024 election until 2030, Labour will have increased working-age benefit spending by a further £51.6 bn/year." It appears to be equally fictional/spreadsheet error. Correct figure is maybe £36bn..

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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Get your Welsh tentacles here. Congratulations @jlgeorge.bsky.social

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Lord Reith would have gutted Dave with a spoon.

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Octothorpe @octothorpecast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We were live from @octocon.bsky.social, and now you can hear that episode but it's not live. Is it dead? CAN PODCASTS DIE? Who knows! Listen here: octothorpe.podbean.com/e/170-... #ScienceFiction #Podcast #Octocon

Three crocheted Octos – one purple, one green, and one red – sit against a white background. The words “Octocon 170” appear at the top and “Live from Octothorpe” appear at the bottom. (Octo is the Octocon mascot and is an octopus, so these are made from the official Octo crochet pattern.)

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A magnificent thread, which must be read until the very end; and I mean *must*. Many thanks to @andylewis.bsky.social for the heads-up.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Having one of those days where i need to gently and repeatedly remind my developers that "functional" needs to happen before you get to do "shiny".

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Rob (the floor one) @floorisbed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ELON MUSK: [speaking into watch] what should i say to mark zuckerberg WATCH: hello mark zuckerberg ELON MUSK: no no I’M not mark zuckerberg, i’m elon MARK ZUCKERBERG: [to watch] hello

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gotta give it to Niger, criminalising asexuality is fucking hilarious. How the fuck you gonna prosecute that? Fuck once a week at least or die? Are they gonna start arresting losers with no game?

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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm more of the opinion that the US dollar is going to be devalued to the point where 100 billion a year is small change

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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 06/10/2026

CMS should be the biggest, most powerful department in the government because it's where we are truly world-beating. The fact that it's given to an invisible non-entity like Nandy, while government wangs on about fishing and oil drilling is so shortsighted, stupid and frustrating

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fairies are just a bee species that's discovered aposematic camouflage, which is why they disguise themselves as humans (a large apex predator). Because fashion changes much faster than phenotype they come dressed as Victorian ladies and gentlemen in hoopskirts and top hats. With stingers.

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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wise visitors refused fairy food: it was tainted with toxic honey made from monkshood, foxglove, and bog rosemary, and made one hallucinate. The introduction of rhododendron gardens in the Victorian era allowed fairies to step up production, with astonishing effects on English literature.

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Jon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

RANKED. COMPETITIVE. POOPING.

Royal Highland Show sign that says “Toilets For Competition use only”

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/10/2026

I'm not saying I have a gift of prophecy but

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.

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Jim Finnis @jfinnis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's a few people I'd like to meet on a knee-to-nose basis.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/10/2026

"A.i." maintains its reputation as trash.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This almost makes me want to watch his channel, but my taste for horror stories is not what it once was.

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Bethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bsky, I'm looking for a poem. It's Scots, and is list style, about all the people who "telt" him not to speak Scots. Failed to bookmark it the times I've seen it. Anybody got any ideas?

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Jim Finnis @jfinnis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Genius. And yeah, you have to hear it.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 03/10/2026

Among other things I'd like to simply be able to give the safety app a list of everything and have it mass added instead of having to do these one by one and clicking way too much

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ironically, my original interview with the journalist I spoke with was primarily about how "inconsistencies" can come from gender bias in investigatory processes and then be blamed on survivors. It was the inspiration for this thread--but none of these points made it into any USA Today article:

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 03/10/2026

We have the best-named machinery ever.

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The back of a wheeled trailer with overhanging leaves and a green sign saying "Elizabeth Trailer"

The back of a low trailer with a plastic water container on top and a plastic tap. The sticker across the bumper reads "Splash Gordon"

A bright orange wheelie trolley with the name "Jack Sparrow the Sack Barrow" printed in white on the side

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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Effective Altruism in Cybersecurity: "why should we worry about the security bugs we have now when we can be fixing the security bugs we believe that we will have in the future?" x.com/AlecMuffett/...

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This government has made life dramatically harder for trans children and their families. The human costs are enormous. Cal is not the first parent I know that has made the gut wrenching decision to leave the country. Read this then start fighting for a world where trans kids can live and thrive.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

YOU SCOUNDREL YOU FIEND I WILL FIGT YOU IN THE NAME OF THE MOON LIGHT

silly digital drawing of a sailor pink rosey moth, she has a pink dress and red boots and red bow and her big moth antennae are hair

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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jesus fucking motorboating Christ, NO. Fuck off, right to the edge of fucking off, fuck off over that edge, hit the very fucking bottom of fucking off, and then fucking crawl away to die in a fucking corner.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.

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tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My god, everything this administration does is stupid.

"Today, the passport arrives in an envelope that can look like any other letter," Rubio said. "We wanted to turn receiving a passport into an experience that people will remember and keep."

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Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/cine... So excited to be presenting on Welsh folk horror and children's television at this year's Cine-excess International Film Festival and Conference

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Cine-Excess International Film Festival and Conference 2026: Legends Never Die

The Cine-Excess International Film Festival returns to Birmingham for its 19th annual exploration of global cult and horror film traditions.

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Jim Finnis @jfinnis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Software I've written in association with a colleague at the Open University (he's frontend, I'm backend) is being used a lot in this trial - it's a thing called PASTI that lets the geologists suggest targets for further exploration. I'm absurdly proud of this.

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