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Normal Guy @guy-normal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My post-industrial techno act - mainly comprising the clattering of keypads, the hiss of the coffee machine, and the Teams notification sound - has been wrongfully non-platformed by many of Manchester's so-called "forward-thinking" music venues

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 8h

Time for 2026 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread, now with storage. If you like these, you might like edition 2 of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website til end of Nov 2026. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

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Grise l’Indécis @wildobliquities.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ridiculous how much this made me laugh this morning

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New meme just dropped

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is the kind of thing you imagine businesspeople say when you're seven

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Imagine not wanting to incorporate a council by-election count into your wedding reception. ‘Ladies and gentlemen, before their first dance, the bride and groom will now announce the number of valid ballot papers issued.’

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I feel like we should be developing the general literacy that this is a form of very obvious engagement bait

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Stewart @stewmh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It definitely reads that way to me, although I could believe it's written intentionally to annoy people

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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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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Top-tier weird little guy on an incantation bowl from Nippur, Iraq, c 500 BCE, in the Penn Museum.

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Stewart @stewmh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Britain has a national cuisine ruined by the fact that the best food is saved for the monarch and dukes only.

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 06/10/2026

A good friend of mine has started a petition to have record shops move T’Pau records from the T section to the P section c.org/mLvKyNRbhs

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RedScharlach @redscharlach.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NO. DO NOT DO THIS. Do NOT think about The Event and under NO circumstances attempt to relive The Event. This may cause DISTRESS and CONFUSION. REMAIN INDOORS.

A double decker London bus with a poster on the side of it, saying “Relive the Event”. The poster is advertising Disney+ and the event in question is the Oasis reunion tour.

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Stewart @stewmh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Alec Guinness version is good IMO

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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

𝟏.) 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 This gift option isn’t just 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴, it’s 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 —with the added benefit of being perfect for the woman who has it all! 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 fits your requirements that your present be 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 and 𝘯𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘺, but 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘭 for a budding courtship.

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Sam Frantics @dsoart.com · 03/10/2026

In Xanada did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure foam debris

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(confused) I believe LLMs are conscious, but only Deepseek LLMs, because of the Chinese Room theory

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Normal Guy @guy-normal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Uhhh is anyone else seeing this ?? 😬

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Celebrating the sixth anniversary of one of the best puns to ever come out of either Twitter or Covid.

A tweet from ITV News that “Strictly Come Dancing contestant HRVY tests positive for coronavirus”, retweeted by Fourfoot with the post “He needs A and E.”

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I had no idea this was an option.

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Stewart @stewmh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

putting 🧪 for the science feed crowd

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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Stewart @stewmh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As far as we know, there's nothing else out there like that. For instance, we think dark matter particles exist but it's not guaranteed that we can actually produce them with a collider or find them with a dedicated experiment. So we are in terra incognita

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Stewart @stewmh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's interesting to note that the Higgs is the easiest way to solve this issue with the theories. The Higgs boson fits in in lots of other ways as well, this is just a neat one that doesn't need too much physics background.

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Stewart @stewmh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Before the LHC found the Higgs (spoiler) in 2012, all of these possibilities were available. The LHC would definitely reach enough energy to see what was happening. And indeed it was discovered.

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Stewart @stewmh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So we need a way out of our Probability(WW) going over 100%. Turns out there are 3 options: 1)Higgs boson with roughly the right mass 2)Some other particle with roughly the right mass 3)Change in the theory to keep the probabilities in check

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Stewart @stewmh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unitarity is the statement that all the probabilities have to add up to 100%. E.g. if we have a die and the probabilities are 1: 1/6 2: 1/6 3: 1/6 4: 1/6 5: 1/6 6: 3/6 this adds up to 8/6 > 100%, doesn't make sense. We say physical theories have to respect unitarity: all probs add up to 100%

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Stewart @stewmh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We can calculate Probability(p p -> W W) and see if this changes if we increase the energy of the protons (i.e. accelerate them faster). You find that Probability(WW) goes over 100% after 1.2 TeV (high but accessible at colliders).

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Stewart @stewmh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A special case of this is if we look at proton + proton -> W boson + W boson where we are looking for two heavy particles known as Ws. Exactly what they are doesn't matter because we can make a general argument

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Stewart @stewmh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are rules about how often different particles are produced. If you measure the output particles and how much energy the collision had, you end up with a spiky graph where each spike matches the energy threshold to produce the particle

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Stewart @stewmh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When they collide, the quarks within interact and can produce new particles, transferring their input energy. Exactly which new particles are produced each time is fully random - not because we can't measure or predict well enough, but because quantum mechanics is random.

diagram of two protons interacting with a central M showing particles being created at the collision point

https://slac.stanford.edu/econf/C060717/lec_notes/stirling_all.pdf

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Stewart @stewmh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unitarity and the Higgs boson: one thing that didn't make it into @jonnelledge.bsky.social's article, I think partly because I mentioned to him while he was distracted by a new housing estate on the bus to Harwell Campus. Let's start with two particles (protons) and let's make them collide

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026

don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit

Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit

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Normal Guy @guy-normal.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Gen Z don't know how to live in the moment. In my day, we'd go to warehouse parties. In freakin' Brooklyn. We had blogs. Open mics. Greenpoint. And yeah, we would get our hearts broken. By Adam. By Marnie. Even by Shosh .. (it is increasingly clear i am remembering HBO's Girls) Ah .. nevertheless,

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Stewart @stewmh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

oh what the hell, I'll treat myself, get my Italian police records

Reddit advert for a website that claims to be able to get your Italian police records. It has a picture of what I assume is an Italian police record. Your guess is as good as mine

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was wrong. It’s happening

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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 28/09/2026

them: what do you do? me: i’m a stockbreaker them: don’t you mean stockbroker me, smashing an oxo cube with a hammer: no

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my ordinary life @calne.ca · 27/09/2026

im very busy

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