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Ben Pine

@yafizicist.bsky.social
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Electromagnetic simulations, mostly magnets, sometimes superconducting. C++, Python, Fortran. Gadgets. Coffee. Not recovering runner. Fantasy and science fiction.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I bet you save-scummed
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I've just inhaled R Scott Bakker (good but weird), Black Company first book, Scholomance and Dungeon Crawler Carl. All good but Carl us right up there with my favourite books ever.
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
FLOOFY PLOT
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: a digital kiosk at the entrance of a parking garage with a dispensed ticket. The screen display reads: PLEASE TAKE TICKET BELOW. Panel 2: a T-Rex is sticking its little arm out the window of its partially opened car door, trying to reach the ticket.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
for the ten thousandth time, it's been proven the the best way to deal with this guy is look him in the eye and go "oh yeah make me buddy boy" and the lesson they take away in the USA will of course be that they continue to give him everything he demands in case he gets upset with them
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Today’s poem is called ‘Slow Puncture’.
Slow Puncture
 
I’d use every one of them – each tiny symbol / sign –
to ‘light up’ my words … and write eye-catching lines:
the comma; the colon; the ellipsis; the slash;
the question mark; the hyphen; the en and em dash.
 
In stanzas 1-2, it was all there on show
(Was there nothing not used? The short answer: No!)
But then I came to an unfortunate juncture:
my punctuation, you see, got a slow puncture
 
and those small, helpful marks which let my words breathe
and made me understood, all started to leave.
Hyphens unhappened semi colons got missed
apostrophes went awol in commaless lists.
 
“And what of the question marks Oh yes even those
(while my brackets and speech marks forgot how to close
When the last comma left there was nowhere to pause
my words floated by in one endless clause
 
and no one could tell once the full stops departed
where one sentence ended and another one started
capitals absconded and meaning left too
as the breaks between stanzas bowed then withdrew just like the line breaks 
then all sense gotblurred thelastthingtogowasthegapsbetweenwordsbrianbilston
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
You rotter
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I'm reading R Scott Bakker at the moment. Soooo bleak. Rather good too. Like Silmarillion crossed with Cormac McCarthy. Books I really like? Malazan and Culture.
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Work buddy
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
You see her and your heart Fills up with lust and ardor You take her to your bed But that’s where things get harder You find that there’s a wall A dense and wild arbor You need sonar and a map To bring your ship to harbor Things have gotten out of hand
Cover of illustrated children’s book titled “Brenda’s Beaver Needs a Barber.”
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Me too. I wasn't big on the old site, but I interacted with a variety of interesting people. Here I post.... wind noises, crickets.
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Elke Stangl (elkement) @elkement.art · 24/02/2026
I was asking myself: Could I create mathematical art using just the bare minimum of tools that usually come with an operating system? (No python, no JS, no frameworks.)
Abstract mathematical code-generated art: Colorful meandering blurry lines on black background. Created with C code using only default operating system tools, by elkement 2026.
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Sorry to hear that. Good fuel for cthulu?
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Stop that
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Tax dodging immigrant worries about immigration. They really are the worst of us.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 13/02/2026
Updated climate indicators graphics, now including 2025 ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graphic showing changes in CO₂, global temperatures and global sea levels over the last 2025 years. Steep increases are visible after the industrial revolution.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
🔊 Calling UK early career researches in astro, particle & nuclear physics. Please sign this open response to the proposed cuts at STFC ⚛️🧪🔭 "Protecting the UK's reputation as a science superpower requires not only investment, but continuity, confidence, and people" ✍️ ecr-openletter-stfc.github.io
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Wrong Station @thewrongstation.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
So the singularity has started
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
My wife actually had a dentist appointment at 230 and was delighted.
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
They are truly excellent. My kids love them and I love reading them to them.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.
"Philippa Islington-Smythe appears to be a public figure, known as an actor, influencer, and designer, featured in articles like Tom Cox's feature on her home and lifestyle in November 2024. She's associated with home, design, and potentially lifestyle content, often with pets like Chester & Sylvester mentioned alongside her in features."

Profession: Actor, Influencer, Designer.
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Days are getting longer
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
These are a few of my favourite words …
My Favourite Words 
 
Pipette and plectrum, obumbrate and flimsy, 
balderdash, spatchcock, flapdoodle and whimsy, 
obnubilation and nontrepreneur –
these are a few of my favourite words. 
 
Sachet, humdudgeon, haboob, hurly-burly, 
scroddled and dottle, goluptious and surly, 
mumpsimus, tawdry, decumbent and blurb –
these are a few of my favourite words. 
 
Susurrus, zephyr, rubescent, boondoggle, 
reboant, gaggle, hubris and hornswoggle, 
plethora, refulgent, plinth and perturb –
these are a few of my favourite words. 
 
When the rose droops 
When the branch snags 
When I’m lachrymose 
I simply remember my favourite words 
and then I don’t feel morose. 


Brian Bilston
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
He wouldn't he would make him laugh, and in so doing, find his humanity.
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Wuuuut
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Have you considered sending Canada some pickle seeds?
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Kung Fu Hustle
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Margie @mjclayman.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
From The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Rosemary Sullivan. #booksky
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This nation would be a better place if just one White House reporter had the courage to ask "what the hell are you rambling about, old man?"
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
In case you missed it
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’. It’s Russian.
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Have you read the Malazan books? Highly recommend.
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
This article is fascinating: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
theverge.com
Meet CoreWeave, the AI industry’s ticking time bomb
The debt-laden AI compute company has been boosted by Nvidia.
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Cool thanks for sharing - hadn't heard of them
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Vampirism?
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
They did write all the works of Shakespeare...
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Excession is the best. Though Algebraist, Surface Detail, Feersum Endjinn right up there.
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Like Morris dancing?
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
New idea for an AI agent that just goes around turning off all the annoying AI features and agents like some sort of AI Highlander
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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
ATTENTION PARENTS: is your child texting about stealing from the Louvre? know the signs: RTFM: robbing the famous museum LMAO: looting my ass off LSTCDTS: let's see Tom Cruise do this shit MLM: Mona Lisa's mine
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Paul @spookshow71.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
7 years this month since I bought an iPencil, decided to try and learn to draw. I was 47, had never drawn anything outside of scribbling stuff with our youngster. Still lots to learn. I draw every day. Can't imagine a day *without* drawing now. It has brought me so much joy :) #digitalart
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Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
What an affront! We do live in Interesting Times.
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