Reposted by Token SkepticPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Compound bow First developed in the Ancient World Can't be drawn by just a random guy Tensile strength to make bronze arrows fly 292745701
Reposted by Token SkepticBlue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 05/07/2026It would appear that my husband and our steer are releasing a new album 211391143
Reposted by Token SkepticScoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 22/09/2025Charles II: Did you finish that statue of the Archangel Michael defeating the devil? Luisa Roldán: Si y yo hice la Diablo real fucking sexy, just like you asked 391934425
Reposted by Token SkepticBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 28/06/2026I can't imagine what lunatic vandal was running the Modern Library Twitter account back in 2018. 1120613
Reposted by Token SkepticAbbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026. 236168277552
Reposted by Token SkepticNaomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I interviewed him about ten years ago for a programme on Radio 4 about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He was utterly delightful and did the Gently Benevolent laugh for me just because I wanted to hear it. 11157
Reposted by Token SkepticTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer. 10680711067
Reposted by Token SkepticStephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 11/03/2026I still think about this a lot. 953698712
Reposted by Token SkepticRupert Stubbs @rupertstubbs.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Here’s the full Monty Python sketch, “The Bishop”. My favourite bit is in the intro, where the bishop character moves diagonally across the checkered tiles…youtu.beMonty Python’s The BishopYouTube video by Cathode Ray Terrors 5677
Reposted by Token SkepticNaomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 28/12/2025From: www.wired.com/story/why-ca... I have felt this to be true and said to myself “surely it’s been tested and if it were dangerous they‘d have banned it”wired.comRejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons AgainAmazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its sen... 1548
Reposted by Token SkepticNaomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 28/12/2025once upon a time when I was at a residential writing thing with Margaret Atwood, I came down for breakfast at 9am. she looked at me and said: "I suppose we have to let the teenage brain sleep in". I said: "Margaret, I'm 40." 21234
Reposted by Token Skepticthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Man, everybody of my generation who loved pop music knew these tunes. Safe travels home to Carl Carlton. 423923
Token Skeptic @tokenskeptic.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Sir Tom Stoppard, one of the UK’s best-known playwrights, has died aged 88, his agents have announced. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comSir Tom Stoppard, playwright famed for his wit and depth, dies at 88The King and Queen pay tribute to a "dear friend who wore his genius lightly". 000
Token Skeptic @tokenskeptic.bsky.social · 29/11/2025youtube.com/shorts/rXM6_...youtube.comI taught an octopus piano (it took 6 months)YouTube video by Mattias Krantz 000
Reposted by Token SkepticNaomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 21/10/2025TIL Michael Bywater was one of c.600 siblings who are the biological children of Bertold Wiesner, via his wife an obstetrician as 'anonymous sperm donation' others include comedian Simon Evans & barrister David Gollancz tinyurl.com/mrjx94xs tinyurl.com/4fxtd4hn en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertold...en.wikipedia.orgBertold Wiesner - Wikipedia 582
Reposted by Token Skepticmr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Yes Giant Cuttlefish sex is not the most important thing happening right now (unless you are a Giant Cuttlefish) but we are all in this together... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comGiant cuttlefish! They are in danger and scientists are going to save them with … bubbles! | First Dog on the MoonThe only other option was to go back in time and do something about climate change but time travel hasn’t been invented yet 312646
Reposted by Token SkepticJack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 17/08/2025I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it. 7071981636
Reposted by Token SkepticElizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Fuck yeah Chicken Jockey from Minnesota 516928
