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Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.
Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec 1), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL
December 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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johnlyon.bsky.social
My bank's website is one letter off from a gross German porn site and it's annoying because I keep accidentally visiting my bank's website.
October 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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sundogscoops.bsky.social
firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now

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December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
I don't think I've ever talked on Bluesky about why I hate the Foo Fighters and Dave Grohl.

Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.
Dave Grohl, throughout the years.
September 16, 2023 at 10:12 PM
tomwd68.bsky.social
I am not a fan of the music of GM/Wham, but there's no denying he was a good egg and his estate are continuing that.
rural-laura.bsky.social Laura @rural-laura.bsky.social · 2d
Last year his estate donated the royalties for Last Christmas to his charity that offers funding for LGBTQIA+ orgs and they said they'd do it again this year. Listen to it loads!
scientits.bsky.social Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 2d
Listening to Last Christmas because it is an all-time banger and George didn't die on Christmas Day for you to disrespect his memory by participating in Whamageddon
December 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
tomwd68.bsky.social
On a work call about nature and hearing all about beaver releases.

Struggling not to make any "career limiting" responses.
a man wearing headphones is sweating while sitting in an airplane .
Alt: a scene from the film Airplane!. A man wearing headphones is sweating while sitting in an airplane .
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December 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
tomwd68.bsky.social
This is amazing.
Fantastic research describing a marvellous piece of theatre
bfletcherwatson.bsky.social Ben Fletcher-Watson @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social · 2d
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Part of our 2025 Advent Calendar, a black and white line drawing showing my version of Bigfoots wearing wintery clothes and bearing various wrapped Christmas presents.
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
tomwd68.bsky.social
A scene from Airplane! Of a nun slapping an hysterical passenger The pope, on an aeroplane holding a baseball bat.
November 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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uglygame.bsky.social
Just catching up with the budget coverage in the papers.
Headline from The Onion: Opinion Here's Why It Would Be A Mistake To Do Anything That Inconveniences Rich Assholes by Some Rich Asshole
November 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
tomwd68.bsky.social
More Warmaster.
The classic Kislev Lizardman match up
#Warmaster #WarhammerCommunity #Nerdlings #Warhammer #Wargames #Wargaming tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2025/11/warm...
Warmaster Revolution: Kislev v. Lizardmen
With Warmaster 25 over thoughts have turned towards to our Winter Warmer event in January. Alan has come up with a new scenario he wanted to...
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November 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
This is incredible thank you @sesmith.lol here are some shrimp.
November 29, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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tomwd68.bsky.social
Wars of the Roses Lion Rampant game
#LionRampant #Nerdlings #WarsOfTheRoses #WarOfTheRoses #Wargames #Wargaming
tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2025/11/lion...
Lion Rampant Wars of the Roses
General Ballroom and I were due to continue our games of Chain of Command. As gamers of a certain vintage and with CoC rewarding leisurely p...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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tomwd68.bsky.social
A little bit of Warmaster and Games Workshop history.
#Warmaster #Warhammer #Nerdlings #WarhammerCommunity #Kislev #Wargames #GamesWorkshop tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2025/11/kisl...
Kislevember: Warmaster Kislev WarWagon
This is the actual model that was "inked up" and photographed for WarMag when Kislev was released. I was given it by Jervis or Andy or Tom M...
tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
tomwd68.bsky.social
Third game at #WM25
Kislev v Chaos
#Warmaster #WarhammerCommunity #Nerdlings #Wargames #Wargaming
tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2025/11/warm...
Warmaster 25 Game Three: Chaos v Kislev
For this game I was again on my own and facing Peter who had come all the way from Germany with a Chaos army that bore a close resemblance t...
tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
tomwd68.bsky.social
Went for a walk and the Red Arrows turned up
A view of a row of bungalows glowing in late evening sunshine, four planes trailing smoke are swooping low overhead Four smoke trails curl across cloudy blue sky
November 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
tomwd68.bsky.social
Not very like the real thing eh, @badsquiddogames.bsky.social ?
vimtotime.bsky.social Halloweeno @vimtotime.bsky.social · 5d
I saw this on Instagram but it doesn’t give me the recipe
“Turkey men” - party savouries. A tomato with a face & a cucumber hat and a turkey body. My joke is that you can see all the things he is made out of
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
tomwd68.bsky.social
A little bit of Warmaster and Games Workshop history.
#Warmaster #Warhammer #Nerdlings #WarhammerCommunity #Kislev #Wargames #GamesWorkshop tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2025/11/kisl...
Kislevember: Warmaster Kislev WarWagon
This is the actual model that was "inked up" and photographed for WarMag when Kislev was released. I was given it by Jervis or Andy or Tom M...
tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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tomwd68.bsky.social
Another Warmaster 25 report
#Warmaster #WarhammerCommunity #Nerdlings #WM25

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Warmaster 25 Game Two - Kislev v Daemons
And so to the second game - this time I was playing solo with my 2,000 point force. And soon a familiar opponent appeared - Rob and his Daem...
tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
tomwd68.bsky.social
Wars of the Roses Lion Rampant game
#LionRampant #Nerdlings #WarsOfTheRoses #WarOfTheRoses #Wargames #Wargaming
tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2025/11/lion...
Lion Rampant Wars of the Roses
General Ballroom and I were due to continue our games of Chain of Command. As gamers of a certain vintage and with CoC rewarding leisurely p...
tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
tomwd68.bsky.social
You should buy Gail's stuff, it's dead good.
gailmyerscough.co.uk Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 8d
I’m not doing Black Friday this year.
I’d rather be honest with you than try to compete with big brands.
Every purchase genuinely makes a difference to my tiny business.
Shop independent this Christmas.

www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
I’m not offering Black Friday discounts this year because I’m a tiny one woman business and I can’t compete with the likes of Amazon. What I can offer - unique designs, high quality UK made products, customer service from a real person, a warm and fuzzy feeling because you are buying from a tiny independent business.
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
How I discovered I’m a ghost.
October 31, 2025 at 9:59 AM