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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Also excellent in the evening with all the illuminated bridges! A great option for that awkward hour or two between museums and shops closing, and restaurants being full of haggard families with toddlers and/or retired Midwestern couples, if they are even open.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I played this one over screen share with my sister, and we sunk a good 100 hours into it. Masterpiece is really the only way to describe it! There’s some amazing competitive speed runs done in “bingo style”, which are a totally different way of playing and just so impressive, if you’re interested!

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Very fond memories of watching @christopherodd.bsky.social ‘s entire Prey playthrough the first time I got covid! It looked & felt so cool but I’m rubbish at stealth and shooters, and hated playing it myself. Somehow the combo of scary-ish game with a chill but sharp streamer vibe was just perfect.

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Benjamin Kraemer @limnobenja.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My partner Catalina is hiring a 2-year postdoc in landscape ecology, remote sensing & human–environment interactions! I may be biased, but she's a brilliant scientist and incredibly caring supervisor. And the job is in Innsbruck. I mean, come on! Apply by Nov 2! lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karri...

The Inn River in the foreground, a row of colorful houses in the middle ground, and mountains rising in the background.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Get AI to read a book to your kid so you have more time to… do what, exactly?

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s pretty clear in the user agreement that expressing frustration is fine, and it’s sustained abuse where they draw the line. To me this seems like a good rule (don’t let your users habitually abuse) for a bad reason (a shared belief that AI consciousness is imminent or already present.)

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The saddest part of that is “so my friends can join”… Does this sound like a man who would join his friends in their games, where it’s their hometown and their hopes and dreams feeding the quests? What kind of friendship is that?

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some of the Layover podcast episodes go into more detail about the game design, if you’re interested!

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s great, isn’t it!? I do really appreciate the effort into designing challenges that don’t depend on doing anything disruptive in public. They sell the kits to play the Hide & Seek version of the game at home! Many big cities have a Discord where you can find strangers to play with.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bold to put Dubai of all places as the first item in the list of cities London is in competition with!

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There was something magical about how indestructible Mobikes were! A friend who conveniently had wellies on once rode off on one that was on the app map despite being about 20 metres into the Thames, worked perfectly after he shook the water off a little.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There’s one LinkedIn post that still haunts me where someone asked “wouldn’t it be great” if you can come home at the end of a long day, and watch a whole rom com movie where the main character is replaced with a deep fake of you, and genuinely, that sounds like a Black Mirror episode to me.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Unfortunately I have no idea how to rescue the porridge!

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For the latter, go all in and make it five spice!

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why wouldn’t that count? Obviously that’s not a time when they’re paying very actively paying attention to you but surely if the goal here is just to give the general impression that reading is a good and fun thing to do, “my book is better than your TV or my phone” fits the brief!

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s like reverse Legally Blonde affirmative action!

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can vouch for buying a big bag of unflavoured “electrolyte powder” from whatever your favourite supplements shop is, and stirring some into a nice cold glass of water. Feels much more legit than pure salt, actually pretty tasty, and costs basically nothing compared to the sachets and tablets.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’d really like to know if this desperation to get ads everywhere is because ads are incredibly effective and this makes a huge difference to profits, or if it’s because there’s so many ads everywhere that we’ve become desensitised and the only way to get the same results is massively more volume.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pick your level of detachment from reality: 1 — the England football team are not English 2 — Helen Mirren is not English 3 — King Charles is not English

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know, it’s the sort of thing we’d never have bought for ourselves, but we were given it as a gift, and it’s been much appreciated! It’s hard to overstate how much less frustrating little tasks are with tools that are well up to it rather than just about able.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s solidly in “indulgently expensive house moving gift” territory, but we have something similar to this from this brand and it’s genuinely got everything we have ever needed for many years and it looks brand new despite some battering. www.gedoretools.co.uk/product/gedo...

gedoretools.co.uk

Gedore Red Universal Tool set Basic in tool box 72pcs

Universal Tool set Basic in tool box 72pcs from the Gedore Red range

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Even something as simple as LED lights… Buying, storing, replacing, safely disposing of incandescent lightbulbs was drudgery! And we’ve basically just forgotten about it altogether.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I like the idea of having last mile deliveries done by small vehicles, but isn’t this kind of stretching the definition of “cycle”? The pedals aren’t even connected to the drive train, are they?

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How much would you drink if you knew your mother would make a “well-placed call” whenever you were hungover?

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

True, I pass through the Ludgate Circus junction pretty often and there’s always something slightly magical about the hundreds of people using it at any given moment at peak times and seamlessly getting where they need to go!

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I dunno, this feels like a pretty clear cut case of someone cycling in a way that was over-the-top aggressive (starting fights with pedestrians, looking away from their path to intimidate) and punishment of a stern talking-to plus a ban from a private service seems in line with the “crime”.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Huge lengths”… What’s the point of having CCTV all over the City and of Lime collecting all that data on users if not exactly these cases? If it is that hard, those systems need to be easier to use.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NICE prevalence stats are a great resource! I also thought it was very interesting that the lifetime incidence seems to be 40%-ish, so quite a few people never have them at all!

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think it’s just an age thing! “Incidence is thought to increase during school years reaching a peak in adolescence and early adulthood before declining in later adulthood. An estimated 5–30% of school-age children and young adults have warts.” cks.nice.org.uk/topics/warts...

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It’s easy to see how hustle culture drives people mad when you see that… Even the “big” invitations are just some kind of indirect advertising via name recognition, and you’ve then got to funnel any fans you pick up into something else you’re selling on the side to make a living.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

How is that different from teaching mathematicians abstract thinking skills? As in, is the difference in who is selected for medicine (inc. self-selection), in how they’re taught, in that taking notes is fundamentally different from abstract thinking, or something else?

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Can schools or universities really teach someone how to listen or not be rude, though? Innumeracy sure, but even organisation feels like it’s kind of on the edge of what a curriculum covers.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@daisychristo.bsky.social has been writing lots of interesting things about what this means in practice — what if transferable skills just don’t really exist? open.substack.com/pub/daisychr...

open.substack.com

What if transferable skills don’t exist?

The implications for schools, universities, and the British civil service

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Delightfully 70s metaphor for the experience too! > According to the New York Times travel writer John Hillaby, the rain was so intense it “fell in misty sheets with a noise like boiling fat”.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Really puts into perspective what “heavy” rain looks like in different places, experiencing the London rain today, having read that many parts of Tokyo got 200+ mm in 24h earlier this week! www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09...

japantimes.co.jp

Heavy rain lashes Tokyo and surrounding prefectures

The Japan Meteorological Agency is urging people to be on high alert for landslides, rising river levels and floods in some low-lying areas.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’d heard a few anecdotes from celebrities that the go-to option is a Sprinter these days, since it looks totally inconspicuous from the outside even using the service entrance/exit. See lexanimotorcars.com/vehicles/mer... and a story from Charli XCX here: itscharlibb.substack.com/p/the-realit...

itscharlibb.substack.com

The realities of being a pop star.

According to my experience...

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In my personal experience using both Uber and AL, the difference is more like 60% vs 90%. Also if Uber cottons on that you’re using it for business trips, it jacks your prices way up and then you might as well use AL.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Am I misreading somehow or do both of the colours in the key have identical labels? I think one of them should be “one-way” based on the map note where they meet, but I can’t figure out which one is which.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If multiple people get food poisoning at an event, and chicken liver parfait was on the menu, UKHSA often doesn’t bother to do any additional testing, because it’s always the chicken liver parfait. For example: www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Gastrointestinal infections and outbreaks in England: 2023 to 2025

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There was this just in the last month as well… [The tribunal found that after raising concerns, Evans was “subjected to a prolonged nearly two-year investigation by the university”] www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sometimes the buildings literally need these events for their own maintenance! The organ at Union Chapel in Islington needed extensive repairs after lockdown as letting the building go too cold damaged it. unionchapel.org.uk/organ-at-risk

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Union Chapel

Union Chapel is a church, live entertainment venue and charity drop-in centre for the homeless in Islington, London, England. Built in the late 19th century in the Gothic revival style, the church is ...

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’m as pro real-time, remote monitoring, automated data pipelines as they come (it’s literally my job!) and this stuff scares me… There’s a line where this sort of data feeds anxieties rather than solves them, and I fear there’s a critical mass now on the wrong side of that balance.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I read this about how some summer camps takes hundreds of photos of the children every day a few weeks ago and haven’t stopped thinking about it. www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

theatlantic.com

The New Parent Trap

At summer camp, the kids may be far from home, but technology is keeping many moms and dads tethered to them—and anxious.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I can hear them well into my 30s (so can a few family members, I imagine there’s some genetic variation here?), and they make me just absolutely furious every time. If someone invented the opposite to stop pensioners from being in the park, there would be riots.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A regional variant, but in the same spirit…

Meme titled CHOOSE YOUR MENTOR YOUR MAN comparing gaunt “alpha male celeb” to “friendly guy you met in the pub”

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Are you considering following up with a report on how a confused recycling policy gets us here? Lewisham, where the double recycling fires happened, names about four places you *can’t* bin batteries, but none you can. Supermarkets take them and add them to their standard bin in front of you.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The document might go on to describe this, but these drills are sometimes done by dressing a staff member in an animal suit and having them go around the park! A lot of what needs to be prepared for is tracking the animal’s movements over radio and that’s the best way to simulate it.

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Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This works for all sauces! Cheesy ones, bacon-y ones, hoisin ones… Boil the noodles/pasta in the least amount of amount that’s sufficient to concentrate the starch even more.

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