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Tapani Linnaluoto

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Professional physics & statistics dropout. Cat Dad. Amateur armchair astronomer.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
[Scene is the Tudor royal court. ladies and gentlemen standing round. In the corner a very fat HENRY VIII is hunched over playing a lute.]
 
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LADY:
Hey Anne Boleyn -
Who’s that lute player?

ANNE BOLEYN:
I dunno 

[Determined face]

But I’m gonna find out.

[Title lettering panel]:

THIS SUMMER

[Scene is now two musicians - one with a harp, the other is Henry VIII again playing the lute]

HARPIST:
Yo Henry VIII  -  

Who wrote that sick lute riff yo’ jamming?

HENRY VIII:
Why...

[Looking around, modest, surprised at the attention]

I did…!

[Title lettering panel]:

SEE THE STORY

[Scene is now a tudor record producer with ruff and wearing dark sunglasses]:

PRODUCER:
Congratulations Henry 
Your lute thing is a hit and your story is now one of uncomplicated musical success!

[Show a panel with lots of Beatlemania-style scenes of success for Henry the musician - swooning tudor girls, playing lute on stage, waving to fans as he descends from his golden carriage. In the middle of it in Tudor lettering are the words]:

“UNCOMPLICATED MUSICAL SUCCESS MONTAGE”.

[Another scene - a man is saying to Henry]:

MAN:
Say Henry VIII -
Are you doing anything outside this narrative that is very bad or weird?

HENRY VIII:
No.

[Title lettering panel]:

…OF A MUSICAL GENIUS
who definitely didn’t do anything outside this narrative that was very bad or weird

[Scene with Thomas Cromwell]

THOMAS CROMWELL:
Hang on Henry aren't you also a - 

HENRY VIII [jumping in front of him with his lute held aloft]:
LUTE SOLO!

[Final film title panel]:

HENRY VIII: 
Rock Biopic
[rated U]

[Ends]
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I think it’s a good idea to re-read favourite books as you get older. It’s like seeing an old friend. You recognise them and they recognise you, but also you’ve got older and maybe not that wiser. You can be surprised by the old magic, and you can notice new tricks.
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Miriam Cosic @miriamcosic.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño
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Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.
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Timo R. Stewart @timostewart.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Verkossa käydään jatkuvasti Gazan ympärillä infosotaa. Yleinen virhekäsitys on, että kyse on jostain taitavasta ja hienovaraisesta operoinnista. Usein se on päinvastoin todella pöljää. Ja silti se toimii. Annan tuoreen esimerkin toiselta alustalta. Tähän liittyy monia suomalaisia tilejä. 1/
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Tomas Sjöblom @tomassjoblom.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Tämä ei ole hyvän mielen postaus, mutta ehkä syksyn tärkein postaukseni. Suosittelen kaikille tutkijoille ja tutkimusryhmille: käsitelkää törkyriskejä ja suunnitelkaa toimenpiteitä etukäteen yhdessä. Lähiaikoina on tiettävästi odotettavissa törkyä tiedeyhteisöä kohtaan. Ketjusta muutama pikavinkki.
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Pekka Pasanen @pekkapasanen.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Täysin samaa mieltä. Velvoitteet vain lisäävät yritysten töitä turhilla hakemuksilla. Kyllä työttömät haluavat töitä ja hakevat niitä, jos on jotain järkeviä hakukohteita. - THL:n tutkija: Työttömien sanktioista ja velvoitteista tulisi luopua – "Eivät ole edistäneet työllistymistä"
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THL:n tutkija: Työttömien sanktioista ja velvoitteista tulisi luopua – "Eivät ole edistäneet työllistymistä"
THL:n työttömyysraportin mukaan sanktioista ja työnhakuvelvoitteen seurannasta tulisi luopua.
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Shane Liesegang, SJ (シェーン|شَيْن|เชน) @sjml.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Tim Curry on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993), in costume as Cardinal Richelieu, holding an original GameBoy.
I hate to just repeat the post text, but in this case it's a straight description: Tim Curry on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993), in costume as Cardinal Richelieu, holding an original GameBoy.
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Okay, I've deleted my earlier post. Apparently, this is *not* a pipe. But the fact that I thought it was says a lot about society.
The Treachery of Images painting by René Magritte
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/07/2025
Also when I came to Bluesky I largely gave up arguing online and I genuinely haven't been happier on a social media instance for years
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Jarkko Lauspalo @lauspalo.com · 01/06/2025
Ketju vähemmän tunnettuista tilastoista Suomesta, vertailukohtana muut pohjoismaat.🧵 Aloitetaan verotuksen tasosta. Verotulot suhteessa BKT on Suomessa pohjoismaiden alhaisimmat. Tämä ei sisällä esim. eläkemaksuja ja muita sosiaalivakuutusmaksuja. 1/
Verotulot suhteessa BKT

Ruotsi: 26,80%
Tanska: 24,50%
Islanti: 22,40%
Norja: 21,30%
Suomi: 20,00%
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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Scenes of mammatus from Monday night east of Salina.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Threads is the greatest nuclear war drama ever made in my opinion, and I'm POTENTIALLY excited about a remake. But let me explain why I think it eclipses the others... A short 🧵 on 🕸️s www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Adolescence team to remake Threads nuclear attack epic
Sheffield-based Warp Films firm plans to turn the 1984 movie Threads into a TV series, it says.
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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Wow. Look at this face-melting substorm we witnessed last night in Fairbanks, Alaska around 2:20 am. Such vivid, bright colors and rapid motion. It was wild!
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
A new paper led by Sebastian Sippel just appeared in Nature arguing that ocean temperature measurements in the early 20th century have a cold bias. It's a fun story illustrating the process of scientific discovery, so let me talk about it a bit. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Early-twentieth-century cold bias in ocean surface temperature observations - Nature
Independent statistical reconstructions of the global mean surface temperature from either ocean or land data show that existing estimates of early-twentieth-century ocean surface temperatures are too...
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Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I’m petting my cat & thinking about the pleasure of giving pleasure. what’s great about cats is they externalize these feelings of pleasure through purrs, so you know you’re doing a good job. & it feels so good to make someone else feel good, doesn’t it?
a picture of me petting my tabby cat, she has her eyes shut.
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 21/12/2024
Winter, by Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne, made in 1625. Another lovely Dutch winter on ice painting, so romantic, so pretty. Let's have another look at some of the details shall we? Thread. Source here; www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie...
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John Hoopes @jwhoopes2.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
One of the most important books in the battle against disinformation is Martin Gardiner’s “In the Name of Science” (1952), later republished as “Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science.” It discusses the roots of many myths that persist to the present day. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fads_an...
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion" (more examples below)
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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
This thread 🧵 collects all the #archaeology 🏺 starter packs Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives @cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now! bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Jussi Jalonen @jojalonen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Yritetään uudestaan, koska eilen Bluesky oli hieman hidas. Ilmari Käihkö kaipailee kriittistä arviota Ukrainan sodan aikaisesta julkisesta keskustelusta. Hän myös ihmettelee, mikseivät historiantutkijat ole osallistuneet siihen näkyvämmin. Olen historiantutkija, joten kommentoin nyt ketjun verran.
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Ilmari Käihkön kolumni: On aika tehdä kriittinen välitilinpäätös Ukrainan sodan julkisesta keskustelusta
Kaksi vuotta sitten Venäjän piti hävitä sota, nyt samaa osaa tarjotaan Ukrainalle. On aika ruotia, miten olemme onnistuneet sodasta puhumaan, Käihkö pohtii.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Should I introduce myself again for new people? I'm Molly. Not a bot or image scraper and I have never made any money from my accounts. I post kitty images with ALT text and attribution unless it's something from my personal collection: bsky.app/profile/cats...
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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 19/10/2023
The Finnish joke I told the first lady of Finland. How do you recognize a Finnish extrovert? (I do not know. How do you recognize a Finnish extrovert?) When he talks to you he stares at *your* shoes, instead of his own. (Pause. Everyone reflects for a time. Then they nod.)
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