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Ed Clarke
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Occasional grower of beautiful crystals
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Tech platforms censor words, not meaning. It’s frighteningly insidious. This kind of censorship explicitly empowers bad actors by robbing their critics of the language to criticize.

Euphemisms are often the domain of fascists and predators. It’s a domain that online media wants to gate us inside.
December 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Superb, and just the thing to read shortly before your annual performance review #booksky
Cover of The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
July 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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YEP
July 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Tessa Sanderson once gave me second prize in a fancy dress contest.
bsky.app Bluesky @bsky.app · Jul 17
what's the most random interaction you've ever had with a celebrity?
July 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Choon:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmmE...
July 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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My Instagram feed has got very niche.
Consecutive posts on Instagram feed featuring John Everett Millais' Ophelia and a crocodile floating in the same pose.
June 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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The woe of the modern scientist, when your new phone autocorrects germanium into geranium.
June 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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It is an oversight that anthem singing ability isn't taken into account when picking national football teams #england
June 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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How I arrived on Bluesky youtu.be/7y4ATS5RTeg?...
June 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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It's time for the annual conference programme assembly all-nighter, where we find out how many people don't know where they work or what the names of their co-authors are #UKS25 #IshisnamereallyBrain
June 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Me in the National Security team group chat
George the bear
March 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Good morning
March 13, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Have a look at this coverage of the new paper led by Daniel Shaykevich, featuring Andrius Pasukonis, both currently at
@klivvvienna.bsky.social 😊 Link to paper in the comments 🐸
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Take me home, country toads
Cane toads have remarkable navigation abilities, even when their sense of smell and magnetic-sensory systems are compromised.
www.nature.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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There's a Nature sub-editor out there somewhere who deserves all the awards 🐸👑
biobarber.bsky.social Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · Feb 28
In spite of all the bad news this Friday I laughed out loud at this headline from @nature.com. Enjoy.
News headline from Nature, "Take me home, country toads" with a photo of a cane toad.
March 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Just reached my steps target for the day walking to the kitchen for some peanuts #goals
February 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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They're not necessarily playing another football game, they are just looking for revenge.
January 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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My first book of 2025 and already the best one I'll read all year about being freaked out by a cat in the French countryside #booksky #nyrb
Cover of Hill by Jean Giono, translated by Paul Eprile (NYRB Classics)
January 3, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (20/20)

#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Cover of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (Penguin English Library)
December 19, 2024 at 10:36 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (19/20)

#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Cover of Zama by Antonio di Benedetto (NYRB Classics)
December 18, 2024 at 10:32 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (18/20)

#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Cover of Orkney by Amy Sackville
December 17, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (17/20)

#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Cover of Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence (very old Penguin Classic)
December 16, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (16/20)

#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Cover of Complete Plays by Sarah Kane
December 15, 2024 at 9:06 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (15/20)

#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Cover of Where Furnaces Burn by Joel Lane (Influx Press)
December 14, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (14/20)

#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Cover of Wise Blood by.Flannery O'Connor
December 13, 2024 at 7:59 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (13/20)

#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Cover of Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (Penguin Classics)
December 12, 2024 at 8:28 AM