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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant)

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Dilettante at 56°N. Writer, copy-editor, proofreader, TV subtitler, molecular biologist, one-time fashion model, two-time star* of STV's Take The High Road. Fiction, history of science and medicine. * corridor nurse, woman on the loch shore

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 27d

We live in cretinous times, and the cretins would appear to be winning. Join the resistance and read a book.

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 5h

No sum of money can satiate them.

commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 5h

Indeed! We'll have all of November to lament it, I'm sure.

commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 14h

Met Benny Gallagher once at lunch when I was a teenager. Can't say I remember a great deal about him.

commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 14h

That's disturbing...

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 16h

Ah, a classic moment of @nature.com recognizing the scientific contributions of both genders: man and machine.

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 16h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 16h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 18h

Looks like a tough job but somebody's got to do it, right?

commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 18h

This mask-wearer is always happy to see @astrokatie.com modelling a decent FFP3 out and about and not afraid to be photographed masked. 💪😷

Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 18h

Podcast out tomorrow - with @pennysarchet.bsky.social and @mjflepage.bsky.social and time zone-shifted Katie!

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 18h

Work begins on Little Hollywood on the Forth.

Work begins on new £16m Stirling Studios project

It is hoped major film and TV producers will use the site on a former military base at Forthside.

www.bbc.co.uk

commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 19h

I was fine with it in April so I expect much the same. Hopefully availability is better this time of year, had to head down to Glasgow Boots in the spring, only place that had any.

commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 19h

Had my flu two weeks ago and felt flattened for ten days. Now I have my energy back, I'm waiting a while to book my covid jab. Hope you have nothing more than a sore arm this weekend.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 20h

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 9, 2025 ~ Arctic FUBAR

"If orange rivers are the first sign, what comes next could redefine the planet’s climate system, and faster than anyone imagined. What began as an aesthetic anomaly has become a planetary alarm..."

www.ecoticias.com/en/arctic-tu...

Arctic is turning orange — It could trigger a devastating chain effect sooner than expected

In the Arctic, melting ice turns rivers orange — scientists warn this rare phenomenon could trigger a devastating chain reaction for Earth’s climate.

www.ecoticias.com

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 20h

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Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term

A French court increases by a year the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot.

www.bbc.co.uk

commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 21h

Ginger ginger.

juux @juux.com · 21h

omg part deux

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 21h

I endorse this message 100%, 90%, 85%, 80%, 75%, 70%...

commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 22h

Our post woman is Polish, she grumbles a lot but is still one of the happiest people I know. Love her to bits.

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 22h

Holy shit, America has lost its collective mind.

"After the break, government steps up attempts to root out deep-state training camps, we have a behind the scenes look at this season's Illuminati fashions, and Chad will be here with the weekend cooties forecast. We'll be right back."

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 22h

Two dry weeks ahead, and the wind dropping from Saturday...

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 23h

I'm starting to question my delivery, because the material is flawless.

commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 23h

That's what I told them! Repeatedly!!

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 23h

Still say it regularly. No one laughs.

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 1d

"Frankly, it was absurd..."

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 1d

yes, there is much that can go wrong, yes the destruction,scars and trauma will be with us for decades, but to now write about a possible, imminent, even definitive end to this bloody, relentless, appalling war is ... well... a moment

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

‘First phase’ of ceasefire deal to end war in Gaza agreed by Israel and Hamas

Donald Trump announces all hostages will be released ‘very soon’ and Israel will withdraw troops to an agreed timeline

www.theguardian.com

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 1d

"...a serious market correction, which he said could come in the next six months to two years."

Big bada-boom.

JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon sounds warning on US stock market fall

Dimon said he was