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Hannibal Stardew

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Nerd of (almost) all trades | PACS dropout | Stroke survivor | He/him

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Hannibal Stardew @hannibalstardew.bsky.social · Jul 10

It's amusing in a horrifying way to witness how the Trump admin is running the US like a CIA-backed dictator during the Cold War.

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Stroke Association @thestrokeassoc.bsky.social · Sep 2

In a study of 29,000 patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), medics have shown clopidogrel to be more effective than aspirin at preventing strokes and cardiovascular events, without increasing the risk of bleeding.

A result that could transform health guidelines worldwide. 👇

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 31

Doctors find drug that is better than aspirin at preventing heart attacks

Discovery that clopidogrel is a more effective blood thinner could transform health guidelines worldwide Doctors have found a drug that is better than aspirin at preventing heart attacks and strokes, in a discovery that could transform health guidelines worldwide. For decades, millions of people have been advised to take aspirin to reduce their risk of experiencing a serious cardiovascular event. A daily low-dose aspirin makes blood less sticky and helps prevent heart attacks and strokes. Continue reading...

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Sep 1

Politics today is less driven by ideological conviction and more by parties chasing votes based on a distorted picture of public opinion, one filtered through algorithms that amplify emotionally engaging content. This incentivises performance over substance and erodes democratic deliberation.

Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · Sep 1

If correctly written:

"Ministers are to announce a tightening of migration rules as the government hands over the political agenda to Nigel Farage"

Both immoral and politically inept. Well done Yvette Cooper.

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · Aug 30

replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names

Batman punching Cesar Romero Joker with the word "Schlitz!" in pink at a jaunty angle

Batman punching the Penguin with the word "Pabst!" in light blue at a jaunty angle

Robin punching some henchman in a red and grey striped shirt with the word "Stroh!!!" in orange/red at a jaunty angle

Batman punching some henchman in a blue and grey striped shirt in front of a shelf of books about the Incas with the word "Blatz!" in bright green at a jaunty angle

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Hannibal Stardew @hannibalstardew.bsky.social · Aug 30

a man in a military uniform is standing in front of a room with people sitting at tables .

ALT: a man in a military uniform is standing in front of a room with people sitting at tables .

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Hannibal Stardew @hannibalstardew.bsky.social · Aug 30

Don't give them any ideas

Hannibal Stardew @hannibalstardew.bsky.social · Aug 9

Tony Blair has become Blofeld

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🎃Pumpkin Queen🎃 @stripeybutt.bsky.social · Aug 7

This is when the internet peaked and we never should have progressed into the current era of social media and hot takes and call outs.

Internet Archive @archive.org · Aug 7

🦡 🍄 🐍 archive.org/details/flas...

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Hannibal Stardew @hannibalstardew.bsky.social · Aug 6

Do you stuff & mount them?

Hannibal Stardew @hannibalstardew.bsky.social · Aug 6

Pope Lingo!

Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · Aug 6

Breaking news: the pope finally got back to his Duolingo account on Sunday. He’s now learning Italian.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · Aug 4

A Klan member in a pristine white robe, they remove their hood and it's Sydney Sweeney saying, "Tide, cleaner than ever."

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Aug 3

We’ve all been there

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Aug 2

Black comedy about a CIA operative who misreads “strategic hamlet” and attempts to teach the Vietnamese Shakespeare

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Hannibal Stardew @hannibalstardew.bsky.social · Aug 2

I am stealing that

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · Aug 2

Gowron from Stark Trek, but he's Mr. Rogers, and he says "Glory to you... and your neighborhood."

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · Aug 2

Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · Jul 30

This leaves out the part where it's an uncomfortably detailed sex scene between sailor moon and godzilla, for which the purchaser keeps demanding edits over a period of weeks.

Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · Jul 20

Artists on Bluesky: Hey, my car broke down and I need money so I’m reopening commissions! $15 gets you a drawing like this

(posts work of art so breathtaking that if the artist had lived during the Renaissance they would be employed as personal painter to the Medici family)

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Jul 30

no one in pharma (or almost any other major industry) has experience with or training for a frontal assault by an ideological government. they have no playbook for this.

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · Jul 30

one thing i genuinely cannot understand is why Pharma didn't go thermo-fucking-nuclear on RFK et al

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Hannibal Stardew @hannibalstardew.bsky.social · Jul 30

You are correct

Hannibal Stardew @hannibalstardew.bsky.social · Jul 29

I am clamoring for the resurrection of Zombie De Gaulle

Hannibal Stardew @hannibalstardew.bsky.social · Jul 29

@ciaran.operationglad.io he is changing the deal already

Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · Jul 28

Believe it or not, the EU-US trade deal just got messier.

The White House has published a fact-sheet about the agreement with claims that directly contradict the European Commission's version of events.

Let's take a closer look.

Fact Sheet: The United States and European Union Reach Massive Trade Deal

MAKING GLOBAL HISTORY: Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump announced a trade deal with the European Union (EU), fundamentally rebalancing the economic

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Hannibal Stardew @hannibalstardew.bsky.social · Jul 29

Tencent are real messy bitches

Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · Jul 29

Sony sues Tencent over "slavish" Horizon knock off Light of Motiram www.eurogamer.net/sony-sues-te...

Image showing Aloy from the Horizon series on the left and a female character from Light of Motiram on the right

Hannibal Stardew @hannibalstardew.bsky.social · Jul 29

I adore this man

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · Jul 29

if Libertarians were real and mattered as a movement a coalition would've formed decades ago to declare the sky a completely lawless place, making it legal for me to order heroin on a long-haul flight

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Terminally Von Der Leyen @ciaran.operationglad.io · Jul 29

Singing this to the tune of "Sound of Da Police" by KRS-One

Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · Jul 28

HOORT HOORT

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Hannibal Stardew @hannibalstardew.bsky.social · Jul 28

The deal won't last. Trump will sabotage it by proposing new tariffs on a whim.