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Max Woolf
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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 1d
I have something for you. search.savills.com/property-det...

It comes with everything you see.
Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rum, PH43 4RR | Property for sale | Savills
Property details for Kinloch Castle. One of many properties for sale in Isle of Rum, PH43 4RR from Savills, world leading estate agents.
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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 1d
Not enough people realise that if you buy a thing from a person near you, that money stays near you and in your community.

If you buy a thing from some private-equity owned outfit near you, that money leaves. Forever.

It's obvious, but so alien to so many.
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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 1d
So this is fun. If you use a Nerivio migraine device, and wear an Apple Watch, sometimes your Apple Watch tells you your heart has gone into atrial fibrillation.
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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 1d
This is a fascinating listen on how researchers uncover rural LGBT+ lives in the archive, and the difficulties in doing so compared to in urban histories:
themerl.bsky.social The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 2d
🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏

Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.

In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
The Absolute Units art. Three giant sheep hover over the English countryside.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 2d
"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 2d
I get the point that's trying to be made here, but it's actually inaccurate. The *MAJORITY* of actual practitioners in the tech industry have a position that is neither of these, it's merely getting drowned out by these two loud positions. The most common belief in the tech industry is simple:
justinwolfers.bsky.social Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 2d
There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.

Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.
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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 2d
It always worries me that 50% of the UK's medical records are stored on a system where the company that makes and owns the software regularly gets reviews like this.
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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 2d
Sound advice. 10k is totally doable. The only downside is that it takes like... twice as long.
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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 2d
Not much. The leap from 10k to HM is killer. Don't do it.

5k to 10k is OK.
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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 2d
You should fry butter beans in marmite and butter and have that on toast.

Thank me later.
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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 3d
Looks epic. Love the colour
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Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social · 3d
Spoiler alert- it was a Catholic hospital. I’ve been reading stories about people being denied miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy care at Catholic hospitals for well over a decade now, and people have definitely died because of these policies, but maternal mortality data is imperfect.
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d
“Please someone listen to me, I don’t want to die”

These are the words of a woman named Harmonie who had an ectopic pregnancy

Her obgyn refused to help, citing a
1% chance the fetus could survive

She lives in a blue state & still couldn’t access the life saving care she needed
Illinois Woman Denied Treatment for Ectopic Pregnancy
10.14.25
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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 4d
“We have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues”

I’m totally relaxed about this and 100% believe this guy.
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 4d
i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get
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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 4d
Another day, another reason JustGiving has decided to irritate me.

100 - 5 is 95.
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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 4d
I have zero photos of myself from this era and long may it continue.
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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 4d
Well-loved and very well-used, but slightly lacking in dynamic range. Also, I live in a narrow terrace and enjoy playing late at night 😅
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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 4d
I assume the answer in Reach's meeting rooms today is to "add more ads to every article" in an attempt to stem the losses.
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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 4d
My GP has moved to online triage (yay!) but you literally cannot fill out the form outside working hours.

Surely this can’t actually reduce demand?
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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 5d
34 years of hard use, a few coffee spills and 7 exams later, it’s time to say goodbye to this lovely piano. (New one on the way…)

I’ll miss you buddy 😢
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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 5d
Totally nearly walked in to it yesterday.
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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 7d
girl are you chatgpt because your KPIs are crazy
Mostafa • @mokatia X.com Shared row data file with GPT5 to analyze, the result KPIs were crazy, so I naively asked, and innocently it responded. ChatGPT 5 v ① Share ••• Did you make up these numbers? Good catch - I wasn't able to actually open and parse your CSV file yet, 12:50 AM • 16/09/2025 • 19K Views
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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 7d
Control your LLMs wokeness…

And SSO.
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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 7d
Your reminder to vote in the National Trust to keep folks with his views having any say.

I used a toilet last week, it had free tampons. I did not use them, and then got on with my day.
twlldun.bsky.social Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 7d
I mean, this is really desperate shit, isn’t it? I am a great deal more woke-sceptic than pretty much all of Bluesky but I honestly can’t be bothered to care about the National Trust putting vegan tampons in the men’s toilets and neither should you
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Max Woolf @max.woolf.io · 8d
Does Ruby Central make a habit of directly emailing folks about security incidents and post-mortems?

My inbox (over many years) says no. So was this the first ever security issue, or the first that was deemed serious enough?
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 9d
One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.
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