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Colin Stark
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🧪⚒️⚛️🧮 Geoscientist studying physics of geomorphology/professor/civ eng faculty. Left pieces of my ❤️ in NYC, SF, Rennes, Cambridge. 🇬🇧 🇹🇼 🇯🇵 🌈 日本語/中文/Français ok
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Colin Stark @cstark.bsky.social · Nov 15
I love this: “I thought it was my job to learn everything I could about the band before some more technically capable producer fucked it all up and took the fun and danger out of it” (Elvis Costello on producing The Specials)

www.theguardian.com/music/2021/a...
‘A blur of legs, arms and adrenaline’: the astonishing history of two-tone
As a new exhibition documents the UK ska-pop sound, stars including the Specials, Elvis Costello and Pauline Black recall how it opened up music, fashion and racial understanding
www.theguardian.com
cstark.bsky.social
Kerry’s empathy and humor are unbounded: buy this book!
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
cstark.bsky.social
All too often, in fact
sybilchaos.bsky.social Le désobéissant 🏴 @sybilchaos.bsky.social · Nov 15
“Every normal man [person] must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: First Series, c. 1919
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
cstark.bsky.social
Note to @support.bsky.team: isn’t it about damn time y’all fixed this chronic bug in your iOS app?
Bluesky feed on iPhone reported as empty but it isn’t
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
cstark.bsky.social
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xkcd.com Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 5h
Geologic Core Sample

xkcd.com/3171/
Comic: Typical Geologic core sample. [Cylindrical core sample with labels for difference sections from top to bottom] Topsoil, till, granite bedrock, bottomsoil, roof of subway car, floor of subway car, more granite, municipal water main [gouge in core sample], slightly different granite, piece of screaming spelunker’s forearm, cool crystals with no resale value, mangled fragments of drillbit from previous attempt, some boring intrusive rock that’s basically granite but has a name like “diorite” or “Andalite” that you always have to look up, netherrack, Balrog wing. [break between next chunk of core sample] Granite, topsoil, cement, floorboards, carpet, possessions of a confused and angry homeowner in the other hemisphere.
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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quantamagazine.bsky.social
In 1874, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity. This unorthodox discovery kicked off descriptive set theory, a field that works to organize and define abstract collections of mathematical objects. www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-bridge...
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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tadethompson.bsky.social
Do you know how much of the cover price goes to a trad published writer? About 10-15%.

The various types of indie pub get a higher percentage (but have to do more work with virtually zero publicity budget).

How many publishers have been put out of business by piracy? Not a lot. Writers, tho'...
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
cstark.bsky.social
And we wonder why one half of Americans think the other half is crazy
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
‘A nucleus of a community’: the five-hour stage play about Dungeons & Dragons
In Initiative, a group of young people in the early 2000s finds themselves via the role-playing game, the latest example of its undying popularity
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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devincow.bsky.social
This could have happened to @nunesalt.bsky.social and me.

It still could.

Or to anyone of you.

www.ms.now/opinion/tenn...
Opinion | He spent 37 days in jail for a Facebook post. Larry Bushart’s story is a warning to us all.
Daniel Burnett: A 61-year-old Tennessee man was arrested for sharing a meme during the moral panic following Charlie Kirk's assassination.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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skinskintainan.bsky.social
object

#art #photo #photography #statue #streetsnap #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Tainan #EastCoastKin
©️skinskin
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
cstark.bsky.social
Attention, wavelet transform fans
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cnrs.fr CNRS @cnrs.fr · 1d
#CNRSnews 🗞️ The CNRS mathematician and computer scientist Stéphane Mallat receives the CNRS 2025 Gold Medal for his achievements in applied maths and signal processing, including the JPEG 2000 image compression standard and mathematical foundations of AI.
Stéphane Mallat, a pioneer bridging mathematics and computer science
news.cnrs.fr
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
cstark.bsky.social
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon
A simple proposal on a 1982 electronic bulletin board helped sarcasm flourish online.
arstechnica.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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vizcomic.bsky.social
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz350bs
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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uwila.bsky.social
As someone who works inside the Fed (BLM) all the data- all the access- all the information- already sold or sellable to anyone. It's dismantled & weakened our government in ways that can never be repaired.
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
cstark.bsky.social
Holy moly. That’s THREE great Predator films in a row! How on (alien) Earth has this franchise become sooo good?
“Predator: Badlands” is masterful sci-fi movie making.
Screenshot from “Predator: Badlands”
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
cstark.bsky.social
This hits HARD
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6d
I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.

IG bscomedian
November 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
cstark.bsky.social
It’s not as if they started on a high
Article in The Atlantic entitled “The Intellectual and Moral Decline of the American Right”
November 23, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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codfather.bsky.social
The Magot morons 😂
November 22, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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judithgeology.bsky.social
A M5.5 earthquake killed at least ten people in Bangladesh today. What made this moderate event so deadly? And what do we know about seismic hazards in the country?

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earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/bangladesh...
Bangladesh shaken by deadly M5.5 earthquake
A moderate magnitude earthquake near a dense, vulnerable megacity
earthquakeinsights.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
cstark.bsky.social
He’s a lame duck à l’orange

edition.cnn.com/2025/11/19/p...
Analysis: Is Trump a lame duck now? | CNN Politics
For the first time in his second term, fellow Republicans defied President Donald Trump. And he fell in line.
edition.cnn.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 8:53 AM
cstark.bsky.social
That’s because, dearest Republicans, you *are* clowns

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
White nationalist Nick Fuentes is exposing a civil war among US Republicans: ‘We look like clowns’
Tucker Carlson’s interview with the activist revealed the mainstream right is being flooded by extremism – and it’s now impossible to contain
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
cstark.bsky.social
I can’t quite decide who among these grifters is doing the most damage to science: Sabine Hossenfelder, Avi Loeb, or Eric Weinstein. Probably it’s Hossenfelder 🤬. I do know some of you are still following her on YouTube, which is NOT helping.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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datarocksnz.bsky.social
Painfully accurate
A modified version of the classic xkcd diagram about the the modern digital infrastructure. It shows a tower of scrappy random blocks balanced in ever more flimsy blocks. From top to bottom: lots of little random blocks poorly balanced with the note "something happening in the web", then a tiny block at one leg of the tower called Cloudfare. Another one a little below it called AWS. A tiny itsy little load-bearing block called Unpaid Opensource Developers. The Linux foundation is a thin base of the Tower. A tiny balancing block with a picture of the shark that ate the underwater internet cables is holding the entire tower together. For extra comic effect, there is a hinge forcefully streching half the tower upwards called AI. And an angry bird is being thrown at the entire thing with the note "whatever Microsoft is doing.
November 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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pybaubry.bsky.social
Bonjour à ceux qui me suivent et sont encore sur X.

Pardon d'insister, mais jusqu'à quand allez-vous légitimer par votre présence cette plateforme d'extrême-droite aux relents négationnistes?
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 AM