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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 20h

Timeline cleanse, watch whole thing

Bulldogs: dense and heavy

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Edd Edmondson @eddedmondson.bsky.social · 16h

It's ok, they'll follow the AI designs and end up with a tiny bicycle with the saddle on backwards or something.

Edd Edmondson @eddedmondson.bsky.social · 16h

Some of us Clocktower people know well the phrase "Too many sherrys"

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 20h

DON'T celebrate Prime Day unless you have accepted Optimus Prime into your heart as your lord and saviour.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Edd Edmondson @eddedmondson.bsky.social · 22h

meow.social/@Doveux/1153...

Doveux (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Are you allergic to LaTeX? This pharmacy I'm at has this allergy warning. #latex

meow.social

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 22h

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

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Edd Edmondson @eddedmondson.bsky.social · 22h

Got to thank my diabetes consultant today for spotting how bad my depression had got, before I'd realised myself. Put me on the road to recovering, and I now no longer qualify as depressed.

Staying on the SSRIs for the foreseeable though.

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Edd Edmondson @eddedmondson.bsky.social · 23h

Post birthday at the hospital for routine appointment. Sign on the wall announcing this is the place for care of the elderly outpatients.

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Edd Edmondson @eddedmondson.bsky.social · 1d

Have a couple of cat photos.

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El Espectro 👻 🎃 @telescoper.bsky.social · 1d

Caveman Physics

A colleague sent me this, so I thought I'd share it: Of course we can't be sure whether there's a singularity or not because of the presence of a horizon...

Caveman Physics

A colleague sent me this, so I thought I'd share it: Of course we can't be sure whether there's a singularity or not because of the presence of a horizon...

telescoper.blog

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Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 1d

Acting Director of the CDC, literally working to make life harder for parents, more dangerous for children, and easier for deadly infectious disease pathogens

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 1d

The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak

Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated

www.theguardian.com

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting and troubling report/thread here on vulnerability of scientific bodies to politicisation, something the public do not want and is not in there interest but could happen nonetheless if politicians with selective or hostile views on science and evidence were in charge

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Friz(ombie!) @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 1d

Just won the Nobel Prize for emoji use: 🔕

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 2d

I honestly can’t bring myself to read this but I do think it’s very important for people in the US to remember that this is happening right now because of our government.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 3d

How fucking embarrassing is it for the entire political establishment that they're being outflanked on the left by MICHAEL FUCKING HESSELTINE

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 3d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Edd Edmondson @eddedmondson.bsky.social · 3d

That all resonates so much with my experience. Thank you for talking about it. 🫂

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 3d

Oooh the Nobel Prize is out today, so it's time for my yearly round of ignoring that news and reading about many of the women who were snubbed of the prize in the past and who the Nobel Prize committee refuses to apologise for. 🧪🔭

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 3d

Trump’s straw rant fits too well on McIntyre

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Edd Edmondson @eddedmondson.bsky.social · 3d

I kind of want to see a screenshot...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3d

PLEASE HELP ME

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 3d

If I cringe any harder at the Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp's stand-up comedy routine, I may fold in on myself, collapsing into a PSR-J0952–0607-style neutron star of vicarious embarrassment. ~AA

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 4d

I see the LadySafety Carer Abouter is promoting Nick Cohen, who had to leave the Observer after a years-long series of harassment and gro-*all the editors of the entire British press run in and slam a big red button, releasing the trapdoor and dropping me into an oubliette*

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4d

Shocked to learn that the world’s preeminent transphobe is also a genocide apologist.

JK Rowling:

"Pro-Palestinian demonstrators couldn’t give it a rest – not even for 24 hours. They were chanting all the old slogans and ducking all the hard questions. ‘Globalise the intifada,’ they cried – does that mean killing Jews in Manchester?" ✍️@NickCohen4

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Edd Edmondson @eddedmondson.bsky.social · 4d

Far from the first such report, which is why I've had a surprisingly long list of academic references at the end of emails to fucking Wes.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 4d

Cass Review full of ‘stigma and misinformation’ and should not guide trans youth care, say experts
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/06/cass-review-misinformation-study/?utm_content=1759771204&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Cass Review full of 'stigma' and should not guide trans youth care, say experts

A newly published study has argued the Cass Review into trans youth care, published in April 2024, is full of 'stigma' and 'misinformation'.

www.thepinknews.com

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 4d

many benefits are household claims. imagine you're british and your spouse has ILR, and you're told that you're being denied benefits because your spouse is from "other parts of the world and they can leave". imagine if you lose your job and your spouse can't claim jobseekers, so you end up homeless

David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 4d

The Tory Party has gone mad..

He insisted the Conservatives had a plan to cut spending, including £8bn of annual savings from reducing the civil service, £6.9bn from cutting the aid budget and £23bn from slashing the welfare bill.

Stride told the BBC that to save money, only UK citizens would have access to the welfare system and that people with "low-level" mental health problems would also lose access to benefits.

Asked what would happen to people living legally in Britain who are not UK citizens if they fall into hardship, he said: "They've come from other parts of the world and they would have the option to return."

The Conservatives failed to back the Labour government's proposed £5bn of welfare savings this year. Stride claimed that the Labour plans were rushed and "not considered and principled".

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Margaret Harris @drmlharris.bsky.social · 4d

Ahead of tomorrow’s #NobelPrize announcement, I went on a deep dive in search of the most obscure physics Nobel Prizes in history. That means it's time for a thread on...🧵

PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZES YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF – PART 1

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A photo of the Matterhorn rising above an Alpine landscape. The colours are a little washed out, but do not appear artificially tinted

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