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Chris Gentle. Relentlessly bad technical & political takes. Design, invention, development: health, security, enterprise, geospatial. Sydney Australia. Eora land. Fix your hearts or die. Old @crgentle: https://bsky.app/profile/oldtweets.xop.co
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Chris Gentle @xop.co · Sep 12
A plug for my @hourstats.bsky.social bot. Every 30 minutes it posts a graph of how Bluesky has been feeling this last week and shows a sample of five popular new posts that you can explore.
A screen capture of a typical @hourstats.bsky.social post with a top five posts in the last 30 minutes, and a reply with a graph showing bluesky's change in sentiment over the past week.
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Chris Gentle @xop.co · 8h
Winslow updated the interiors, Truman repaired the floor, Kennedy added a desk, Carter added solar panels, Obama a rug and bee hives, Trump...
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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 18h
Lego MRI scanner set (donated to hospitals) a big help for kids who need scans:

"more than 1 million children globally have used the sets to help them prepare...96% of healthcare professionals said the model helps to reduce children's anxiety, and 46% reported a lesser need to use sedation"
How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment
Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.
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Virgil Abt @abtnatural.bsky.social · 10h
(The date block includes a newly discovered number, "Two Hundred and Forty-fiftieth". Assuming that's equal to Two Hundred and Ninety, I guess Santos may have to wait forty years before the clemency is effective?)
Done at the City of Washington in the District of Columbia this 17th day of October in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-five and of the Independence of the United States the Two Hundred and Forty-fiftieth.
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Chris Gentle @xop.co · 9h
It's a necessary but unpleasant place to visit because of the people who want to live there.
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Chris Gentle @xop.co · 1d
"underscores safety concerns that Gov. Gavin Newsom voiced before Saturday’s event at Camp Pendleton."

Incredible that according to the NYT today Newsom voiced concerns, whereas a day or two ago the NYT was saying Newsom "traded jabs" with the White House.
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Chris Gentle @xop.co · 2d
You can't arrest me, I'm amerkin.
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Chris Gentle @xop.co · 2d
We should encourage Trump to re-enact this live. I'm sure it's safe to put an untrained octogenarian who doesn't know how to wear a mask in a jet full of faeces with a gold crown loose in the cabin.
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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 2d
Melbourne: ever helpful
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Chris Gentle @xop.co · 2d
Hold on. The crime here is stealing an erection.
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Chris Gentle @xop.co · 2d
The US is a bit more upbeat today than usual.
hourstats.bsky.social Good Posts and Sentiment Bot @hourstats.bsky.social · 2d
📊 Seven day Bluesky sentiment
Seven day Bluesky sentiment trend chart. Current sentiment: 11.0% (Oct 19, 12:06 AM UTC). Highest sentiment: 17.8% (Oct 15, 8:06 PM UTC). Lowest sentiment: 5.0% (Oct 14, 9:06 PM UTC). Average sentiment: 10.8%. Trending positive over the period.
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Chris Gentle @xop.co · 2d
Those cops need to be charged for tampering with an erection
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Chris Gentle @xop.co · 2d
Caught and released a sacred kingfisher that was trapped in a cafe this morning. Feeling pretty virtuous.
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Chris Gentle @xop.co · 2d
Man running for mayor has not been mayor before. Critics say he should focus on developing a time machine.
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Chris Gentle @xop.co · 2d
"Traded jabs" definitely worth noting in para 1 of a story about reckless endangerment.
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 3d
goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...
Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
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Chris Gentle @xop.co · 4d
I blame spays lasers
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Chris Gentle @xop.co · 5d
...and right after I post that, Bluesky spikes to the highest sentiment all week.

bsky.app/profile/hour...
hourstats.bsky.social Good Posts and Sentiment Bot @hourstats.bsky.social · 5d
📊 Seven day Bluesky sentiment

* Highest sentiment for the charted period
Seven day Bluesky sentiment trend chart. Current sentiment: 17.8% (Oct 15, 8:06 PM UTC). Highest sentiment: 17.8% (Oct 15, 8:06 PM UTC). Lowest sentiment: 4.4% (Oct 8, 10:06 PM UTC). Average sentiment: 10.9%. Trending positive over the period.
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Chris Gentle @xop.co · 5d
The daily dip in Bluesky sentiment corresponds to peak US news and posting hours.
hourstats.bsky.social Good Posts and Sentiment Bot @hourstats.bsky.social · 5d
📊 Seven day Bluesky sentiment
Seven day Bluesky sentiment trend chart. Current sentiment: 10.0% (Oct 15, 7:36 PM UTC). Highest sentiment: 16.7% (Oct 10, 11:36 AM UTC). Lowest sentiment: 4.4% (Oct 8, 10:06 PM UTC). Average sentiment: 10.9%. Trending negative over the period.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d
Hotshot Peasant Has Window
Hotshot Peasant Has Window
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Chris Gentle @xop.co · 5d
European refugees who oppose migration.
fry from futurama is making a funny face and says hmm ...
Alt: Fry from Futurama is squinting and saying "hmm ..."
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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 7d
Without saying Hurt, fav Cover Song?
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Chris Gentle @xop.co · 7d
Tricky: Black Steel
youtu.be/9ZJTM03UByU?...
Tricky - Black Steel
YouTube video by TrickyVEVO
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 8d
Both Headspace and Project Rockit making the point that if the ban is about getting kids to go outside and socialise in person, a lot of in-person places for young people are taken away now. They're moved on, can't hang around shopping centres etc anymore.
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 8d
Props to Project Rockit for bringing an actual young person, Caitlin Blanch, to speak to the committee given the policies are about them but mostly excludes them.
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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 8d
True story: I had a field experiment that was just racking up brutal desk rejects from various political science journals so I used the formatting to make a Word doc look like LaTeX and it got accepted on my next try.

I figure the reviewers assumed a dude wrote it.
johnholbein1.bsky.social John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 8d
This is your periodic reminder that you can add coffee stains to your LaTeX documents.
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