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Suw

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Writer, creative ecologist, owned by Grabbity & Copurrnicus. Currently writing an eco-sitcom podcast, Fieldwork, about four ecologists studying a rewilding project. https://fieldworkpodcast.substack.com/

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24m

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels.

Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory."
Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality."
Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?:
Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint)
Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close"
A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 54m

stories themselves, and will always eat up the ones that are neatly packaged for them. If you can't do that packaging, you're invisible.

Suw @suw.bsky.social · 54m

Ooh, thanks, I'll put it on my TBR list!

It's just so egregious in my field - a tiny number of campaigners get showered with attention, whilst the vast majority who work just as hard, if not harder for longer, do not. Tbh, a lot of it is also journalists now don't have the time to look for...

Suw @suw.bsky.social · 1h

I love how Sam Altman is all "Oh, some silly start-ups might be over-valued, but not us, guv. Oh no, we're all value, we are."

Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 12h

That there is an AI bubble is pretty much irrefutable now - the only grounds for disagreement are over its scope. Certain uses, genAI in general, or something wider?

BBC News - 'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley
www.bbc.com/news/article...

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

www.bbc.com

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 1h

Oh wow. That does make sense.

I get why it exists as a business function, but it is very frustrating to see it have so much power over, essentially, whether individual people get recognition or not.

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 1h

Though what I'm curious about is, did he have a photo shoot at some point and go "Right, I'm gonna work my way through every emotion and demeanour now, just in case it comes in handy later" because if so, that's boss level thinking ahead.

Suw @suw.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, the joy. Exactly what Sundays were made for!

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 1h

Oof, another reminder this morning that what the fêted and lauded have that the rest of us don't is a good PR office.

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 1h

RIP your replies.

You should probably restrict them now, whilst you can.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 2h

For the love of God, stop sharing your shitty AI videos of Trump being arrested, rats running around the Al-Jazeera studio and musicians doing stupid dances. You are impoverishing artists and creating an environment when anyone caught red handed can just claim the video is faked. #FuckAI

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 16h

I’m gonna guess that it’s the result of some pretty hefty wind shear.

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 17h

1119 words down. But gotta break for dinner now.

Suw @suw.bsky.social · 17h

Note to self, when looking for synonyms for 'habitat', you can't just substitute in the Welsh 'cynefin'. That won't work at all.

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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 18h

The BBC just can’t stop wasting licence fee payers’ money.

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 18h

Right, one shit draft is better than no draft at all, so I'm going to bash out 1200 words about cemeteries and biodiversity over the next 50 minutes.

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 19h

Someone left a big furry sausage on my garage roof.

Cloud, a cream and fawn long haired cat, showing her belly to the sky.

Suw @suw.bsky.social · 21h

"Can't you see that I'm the real victim here?"

Suw @suw.bsky.social · 21h

Wouldn't put it past them to do it knowing it'd probably be refused, so then they get to keep it. "Oh, well, I tried, but I guess I'll just have to spend this obscene amount of cash I got for selling my soul."

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 22h

I'm so glad that she's adjusted so well! It's amazing how adaptable they can be. ❤️

Suw @suw.bsky.social · 23h

Exactly. They all *are* bad because of the presence of the one bad apple.

Suw @suw.bsky.social · 23h

Why do so few people understand the implication of the 'bad apple' metaphor. He's not just one bad apple and that it... he's the bad apple that rots the whole barrel.

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing work!

Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 1d

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

mitochondria from bipolar patients are closer to the nucleus in these images; control patients' are spread out further

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Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · 1d

Just saw a Christmas ad so if anyone wants a free telly it's in my front garden full of hammers

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. The best messaging and comms can't save a duff strategy, although it might mask it for a while.
Also, as a comms pro, I find that if it's really hard to figure out how to talk clearly about a company or an idea, it's a dead giveaway that there's something strategically missing.

Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 2d

One thing that marks out good founders/CEOs in start-ups is they get that communication *is* strategy, in much the same way that writing *is* thinking. So it's not just that they don't have a clear strategy IMO; they're not engaged in the process of developing strategy.

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