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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 6h

WHO declared it eradicated in 1980 iris.who.int/server/api/c...

Maybe chickenpox, mistranslated to Millar?

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 7h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

Polenta
Love, Actually
Dog Days Are Over

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 7h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

Celery
The English Patient
We didn’t start the fire

(Why? Jeez. Yes you did.)

Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 7h

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Lobster (or any shellfish requiring a toolkit to eat)
Seven (a very bad date movie)
In The Summertime (if her daddy's poor, just do what you feel)

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 11h

Let Claude do it

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 21h

Too many abbreviations in music these days, although I’m actually quite interested to hear a song by a database admin about a package delivery company

6music @6music.bsky.social · 1d

“D.P.D.” by DBA! #nowplaying #6music

Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

Probably steam soon after it hits the atmosphere. I like to think of it taking out a Starlink satellite on the way though

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

I deleted all my tweets when Musk bought the platform, and I stopped my business from posting on it when he did a Nazi salute. They were easy decisions, in retrospect.

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

And then, shockingly, the man found a kettle and made coffee for himself and his dog

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Rich Neville @richneville.bsky.social · 1d

She should get one of those signal boosters.

Sky News @news.sky.com · 4d

Phones creating 'epidemic of disconnection' in families, says Princess of Wales

The Princess of Wales has said smartphones and computer screens create "an epidemic of disconnection" within families.

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

Also if he wants to stain the monarchy further by trying to ’fix’ he should have at it.

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 2d

I predict a ribbit

Three protesters in Portland Oregon in inflatable frog suits. One holds a placard reading FROGS TOGETHER STRONG

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Tom Easton @tomeaston.bsky.social · 2d

Hop not Hate

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

This is AI.

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 3d

Do any of the book even mention hay fever?

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 3d

Hopefully she's taking her politics underground

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 4d

A few tons of freedom?

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 4d

Hopes are high and I wish them all well, but I worry about the reliability of any Trump 'deal' especially with stakes as high as this.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 4d

Israel and Hamas are set to sign an agreement in Egypt today to release all the remaining hostages in Gaza as part of Donald Trump’s plan to end the two-year war in the strip www.ft.com/content/e8e7...

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry, Cameron called a referendum he didn’t want and then lost it. It’s a No from me

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 4d

I think people are generally drinking less now than we know there is no safe limit

Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 4d

I’m thinking his courtiers have commissioned a custom Fox News channel showing him news they’ve made up

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 4d

I had a Mastodon account. The admin quit and shut down the server because it was too expensive to run, so the risk didn’t seem worth the effort of moving to another

Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 5d

which is one step away from "too many are learning to read and write"

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 5d

I can see One Nation conservatives generally going for Labour

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 6d

Think the “honest” can replaced with another ~st now

Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 6d

A 10x coder has 20 hands

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 7d

This photo (c.1901) shows two boys exposed to smallpox. Only the boy on the right had been vaccinated.

Smallpox is one of the deadliest & most contagious diseases known to man. The virus killed over half a billion people in the 20th century—three times more than all that century’s wars combined.

A black and white photo of two boys. The boy on the left has a severe case of smallpox, with pustules all over his face and chest and arms. The boy on the right has no pustules.

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