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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 15h
The magic money tree that no one wants to feed and water 👇
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Amanda Montañez @unamandita.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New knitting stitch just dropped, and I got to draw it!! www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...
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Mathematicians invented a knitting stitch that stops mistakes from spreading
With a little help from knot theory, scientists have invented a “robust knit” to fight laddering
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 08/10/2026
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a substantial, growing and largely unregulated threat to biodiversity worldwide. A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity examines the state of knowledge regarding the measurement, impacts and mitigation of ALAN. go.nature.com/4yglFr2 🌎🧪
This is figure 2, which shows biodiversity responses to ALAN across levels of biological organization.
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Francis Eldergill @eldergill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Attacking a boat in distress with a knife is fine but simply carrying one isn’t? Two tier policing 🙄 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester
Samuel Rowe, who was returning from allotment, seeking to overturn caution for possession of offensive weapon
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Elliott @elliottillustrates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
?? what could possibly go wrong with that ??
inbreeding is a thing - the Hapsburgs -
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In his family growing up it was 2 out of 5. He must be staggered by the reduction.
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The enornmity of the AI moment in markets in a few killer stats here in this column by Richard Waters on whether AI has broken the old VC model as.ft.com/r/95cda12f-f...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/09/2026
Oman oil escape route: How ship-to-ship transfers work — despite big risks aje.news/dc8kbm
Oman oil escape route: How ship-to-ship transfers work — despite big risks
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/09/2026
New tiger cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century aje.news/oxwijr
New tiger cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Quite a discovery 👀
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026
NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Supported by UN warnings on climate change and ICC rulings on Israel but not legitimate 🤷‍♂️
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“I went out to the protesters and told them, ‘You’ve got it wrong guys, it’s a cricket club” And not “Stop harassing people. Go home immediately. This is unacceptable behaviour”. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
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Protesters outside Portsmouth hotel mistake Pakistan U19 cricket team for asylum seekers
A group of masked agitators gathered outside a four-star hotel in Portsmouth after reports a group of asylum seekers had been taken there, when it was in fact Pakistan’s under-19 cricket team on a tou...
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Others trace this to 1607 (the year, not the time of day).
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Monetised conspiracism is a neat description for huge problem. It shouldn’t be legal.
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Of the 1,601,645 that live in Lancashire, the 754 refugees being housed equates to 0.047% of the total. Four out of five of them, 80%, are Afghans who assisted British military operations in their home country. Also, Lancashire council don't pay for it, the Home Office does. Performative politics
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
'On top of the hill.' (1901) Károly Ferenczy played a fundamental role in creating a genuinely modern Hungarian school of painting. His importance lies in the way he absorbed several European tendencies and transformed them into something individual.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I could be wrong, but I don’t remember so many polls being done about who would win a general election if it were held tomorrow at any other point when it was four years out from a GE ? Who is commissioning these polls? What is their purpose? Justification for wall to wall Farage coverage maybe?
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It was obvious (to me!) quite a while ago that quite a bit of the polling was unreliable
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
'Japanese Lanterns.' (1930) During the interwar years, Eric Slater borrowed motifs from the Ukiyo-e masters of woodblock printing Hokusai and Hiroshige, and finessed them for his own means; the final flowering of a tradition of British printmaking until a revival in the 1980s.
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James Dyson @dysonsk3.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Saw this and looked around. Wondering why #bbcnews choose to believe whatever local councils tell them. BBC: "Do you allow pavement parking?" Stockport: "No." Also Stockport: 🧵
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Macc Sustainable Travel @fhvjhvgvb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Levenshumle bike infrastructure
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is from r/snooker, and it shows a new mural at the back of Sheffield Snooker Club, uncanny, isn't it?
An artist's impression of what could be Ronnie O'Sullivan's corpse playing snooker.
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The road ahead is closed so we’ve decided to close the pavement and not tell you about that.
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hassling someone for 20+ years.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This Roman perfume bottle shaped like a bird is 2,000 years old, yet it looks like a modern design! 📷 Corning Museum of Glass glasscollection.cmog.org/objects/7194... #Archaeology
This photo by the Corning Museum of Glass shows a Roman perfume container made of transparent light blue glass in the shape of a bird. Seen in profile facing right, it has a long narrow beak inclined upwards. The head and neck are represented by single tubular element which merges with a plump, stylised body with a long, horizontal, tapering tail. Size: H 6 cm, L 11.7 cm. It is displayed against a grey background.

According to the museum, this bottle and others like it often contain powdered remnants of perfume. Glassmakers created the graceful bird shape by manipulating a glass bubble at the furnace. The bottle was filled with perfume and sealed over the fire. To use the perfume, its owner would crack the bird’s tail and reseal it after each use.
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“Emma is designed to improve access…” Bullshit. Emma is designed to replace humans, lower operational costs and provide “efficiency”. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Frustrated GP patients hang up as Yorkshire accent baffles AI receptionist
‘Emma’ the Rotherham chatbot has 17 languages says AI firm – but health watchdog says system struggling with local ‘twangs’
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“I can count on one hand the amount of times our book choices might have overlapped…” What’s the point of this entire article? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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You be the judge: should my girlfriend stop annotating her books?
Julie makes notes in the margin as she’s reading, but Charlie says she’s ruining books he may want to read. Should they get on the same page? You decide
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I wfh. It’s a south facing room in a 130 year old house with poor insulation. Stopping the sun hitting the window keeps the room 4-5 degrees cooler. Keeping it in place (here with bamboo) makes a big difference too. I cannot recommend this enough. Zero cost, some time figuring it all out.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Revealed: just 20 out of of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation, as UK burns in fifth heatwave of this summer - FOI request by me @andyburnham.bsky.social needs to level with the country about the climate crisis & set out radical plan to tackle it 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires
Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
He left everyone else on board to get shot at 🙄 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump reportedly hid in catering container to board secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat
Elaborate ruse was used to transport president to military flight from Air Force One in July
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Driving 1000km a weekend in any vehicle sounds pretty bad tbh 💤
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/08/2026
"A student’s essay on Macbeth has no value as a product. It’s what you learned in the reading and writing that created it – the swiftness and resilience and suppleness of thinking you built, along with the knowledge gained of a literary marvel, of something unsummarisable – that was the point"
Many students want to resist, but the temptation is great, and some start to feel they’re being penalised for their honesty. I tell the students I meet: imagine you’re an Olympic athlete. You set out to sprint the 3km across London, from Clapham to Balham. You know if you take the bus, it will be faster. But you also know that the point was never being in Clapham or Balham; they’re very similar: they both have a nice Pizza Express. It was the strength you built, the speed and knowledge of your body that you gained. A student’s essay on Macbeth has no value as a product. It’s what you learned in the reading and writing that created it – the swiftness and resilience and suppleness of thinking you built, along with the knowledge gained of a literary marvel, of something quicksilver and unsummarisable – that was the point. So you can’t collaborate with AI in the same way you can’t collaborate with a bus. And you cannot learn to think without a climbing frame of facts and ideas and texts to move around in.
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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
National Highways have a deeply flawed ‘performance indicator’ for measuring the safety of people travelling along or across the road corridors they manage on foot, by cycle or on horseback transportactionnetwork.org.uk/national-hig...
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National Highways must come clean on pedestrian and cycle safety
We recently highlighted National Highways' serious failure to meet its road casualty reduction targets - despite their claim that "safety is our most important commitment”. Worse still is their failur...
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
'Fruit in a blue delft bowl.' (1880) The Finnish painter Maria Wiik is an obscure artist even though her name is known through her friend Helene Schjerfbeck. In 1878 the art critic Carl Gustaf Estlander judged her work as 'downright excellent.'
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Making a printer is a pretty high bar for any type of vehicle
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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Outnumbered but not outsmarted 😉
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“We respond to predictable crises as if we had had no warning” Like a brief dusting of snow 🌨️
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
If only medical school was about surgery 🙃
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The UK will often spend hundreds of £millions on a single road junction that would fund Jodrell Bank for centuries.
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Michael Birtwhistle @salfordmh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is where our politicians go to crowdsource their prejudices.
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Absolutely fundamental to dance music in the 90s.
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Do not put in carton 🤷‍♂️
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Not just war that should be questioned here
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Don’t blame the model Open AI hacked into another company.
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
These guys are hanging out on our side wall every day 🕷️🕸️
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Peak Covid caused this many deaths per day and it isn’t going to happen every summer www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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May and June heatwaves killed about 2,700 people in England and Wales, data suggests
Extreme heat led to 440 deaths a day during June peak, say scientists, with climate crisis ramping up temperatures
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Stevie Zero @stevie-zero.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
That rather depends on how many deaths the government were willing to accept… Ordering a million body bags while ignoring scientific advice 😳
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