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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 3d

New Ryoji Ikeda opens at 180 Strand next week. You can book here www.180studios.com/data-cosm

Data, intense sound, graphics, maths.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 3h

Unsolicited diptych

Photo of Diptych of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza (c. 1473 – 1475) by Piero della Francesca

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 4h

Cf. A pair of pitch black eyes, staring silently back at you, burning into your soul. Your pride wilting like a warm baby gem.

Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 4h

I think a large proportion of ChatGPT interactions could be achieved by rubber duck, at a much lower societal cost.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 5h

Trippy

Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 5h

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old

“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”

Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

Black-and-white picture of two children playing in woodland. Also in the picture, there are 12 hidden animals including an owl, a bat and a squirrel.

Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 5h

Is this real? It makes zero sense. The book isn’t mayo-scented, it’s garlic-scented (because vampires). The mayo has also been garlic-scented, so it doesn’t smell like mayo. So why bring mayo into it at all? Why not just have a garlicy book? I feel my grip on sanity loosening.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13h

A book is being marketed with mayo-scented ink. Jealous? Me? | David Barnett

With the rise of TikTok and two-tier marketing budgets, something’s off in the world of publishing (and it’s not just the aroma), says author David Barnett

www.theguardian.com

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 13h

I’m sure the job comes with some pressures, but really, it’s James Bond. How hard can it be? An 8 year old could tell you how to make one.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 14h

Breaking: Sébastien Lecornu has resigned again.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16h

Macron reappoints Sébastien Lecornu as French prime minister

Lecornu, who resigned as PM on Monday, is tasked with urgently delivering a budget to parliament The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has named Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, reappointing him after he quit the job earlier this week. Lecornu’s immediate task will be to deliver a budget to parliament by the end of Monday. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 21h

Alert The Buggles. Perhaps they can update the record.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

MTV to axe its music TV channels in the UK

The broadcaster will stop showing music videos in December, but its main channel will remain on air.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 21h

We just need to give him a tea cup and take a photo.

Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 21h

Trump hearing about the Nobel Peace Prize

youtu.be/FE_DF2-H_T0

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 23h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 23h

Ahh I see. It was a young woman’s fault of course. Because of digital. Not the fault of the senior executives who absolutely did *not* spot it and did allow an egregious claim to be aired without checking.

Screen shot of article

"What was interesting is that because we now have generations of younger producers who are coming into the business - and they are digital natives - they're marinated in social media," he said on Insiders: The TV Podcast.
"Apparently, the story was put on by a freelance journalist, I won't mention her name, who put [it] on her Twitter feed. And no one questioned it.
"It's a low-level mistake but nevertheless, it is indicative. It was good to spot it, because what you wouldn't want to do is just to make some kind of egregious claim about somebody and it is defamatory."

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

If they can keep dangling the Nobel carrot till 2028 maybe we’ll all survive.

Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

Paging Alanis Morissette. This is far more ironic than the 10,000 spoons thing.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

The ideal of democracy is Wisdom of the Crowd. But that phenomenon only really works for quantitative questions, and even then only if the crowd don’t share their answers - which is what polling does.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

That’s true. It’s a wilful gullibility though, I assume.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t even know how they factor Doyle into the whole thing. Maybe they conveniently pretend he (and his very un-Holmesian spiritualism) doesn’t exist.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t a gag btw.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Fry is a member of the Sherlock Holmes Society, which plays ‘the game’, which is a weird version of literary criticism where you assume Sherlock Holmes was real and all the events actually took place.

AAAAH-riadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 1d

I would immediately write down Stephen's name just because of this #CelebrityTraitors

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

The only unrealistic thing about the classic Nintendo ‘Bobson Dugnutt’ list is that it’s not rude enough.

I mean literally - they based it on real life baseball players, and Bobson Dugnutt was actually Ron Tugnutt.

www.reddit.com/r/baseball/c...

SLEVE MCDICHAEL

MILLIE DUSTICE
ONSON SHEEMEY

JERONT GRIDE
DARRYL ARCHIDELD

SCOTT DOUROUE
ANATOL I SMORIN

SHOWN FURCOTTE
REY MCSRIFF

DEAN WESREY
GLENALLEN MIXON

MIKE TRUK
MARIO MCALAAIN

DAIGT RORTUGAL
RAUL CHAMGERLAIN

TIM SANDRELE
KEVIN NOGILNT

KARL
DANOLETON
TONY SMEHRIK

MIKE
SERNANDEZ
BOBSON DUGNUTT

TOOD
BONZALEZ

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

The only unrealistic thing about the classic Nintendo ‘Bobson Dugnutt’ list is that it’s not rude enough.

I mean literally - they based it on real life baseball players, and Bobson Dugnutt was actually Ron Tugnutt.

www.reddit.com/r/baseball/c...

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

Im desperately looking to the image for semantic relief and just becoming more confused.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve completely lost track of the Jurassic Park franchise.

Lætus @bajamothblast.bsky.social · 14d

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

I think the ability to reach into your head and pull stuff out is the magic. And it’s impossible (even more so when it involves multiple people’s heads). I can definitely see the appeal of something that can do it for you, but I’m not sure what the result would be.