Mary Thomson
@infraredeyes.bsky.social
Scientist, Scot, UK and US citizen, now living in New Zealand. Opinions expressed are my own. If you don't like 'em, think up your own stuff.
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If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
My most controversial dessert opinion? If there are seven choices for dessert, no more than three of them should be chocolate. The world is full of excellent fruity/spicy/creamy desserts that don't all taste the same.
My most controversial dessert opinion?
Food Network and its ilk have poisoned people’s brains into thinking that everything needs contrasting textures. A good chocolate mousse doesn’t need toasted nuts or a crumble, all it needs is … nothing (or whipped cream or, even better, raspberry coulis).
Food Network and its ilk have poisoned people’s brains into thinking that everything needs contrasting textures. A good chocolate mousse doesn’t need toasted nuts or a crumble, all it needs is … nothing (or whipped cream or, even better, raspberry coulis).
My most controversial dessert opinion?
Cheese is not a dessert. It is lovely, as an appetizer or something else. But ‘cheese board’ does not belong on the dessert menu.
Dessert must be sweet (thus cheesecake is fine, although I do not like it… which might also be pretty controversial…).
Cheese is not a dessert. It is lovely, as an appetizer or something else. But ‘cheese board’ does not belong on the dessert menu.
Dessert must be sweet (thus cheesecake is fine, although I do not like it… which might also be pretty controversial…).
December 11, 2025 at 4:19 AM
My most controversial dessert opinion? If there are seven choices for dessert, no more than three of them should be chocolate. The world is full of excellent fruity/spicy/creamy desserts that don't all taste the same.
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Your regular reminder that Peter Serafinowicz is a genius.
December 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Your regular reminder that Peter Serafinowicz is a genius.
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The Fed cut interest rates today not because the economy is humming as Trump claims but because it sucks. And it sucks because Trump, the king of bankruptcy, doesn't know what he is doing.
December 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The Fed cut interest rates today not because the economy is humming as Trump claims but because it sucks. And it sucks because Trump, the king of bankruptcy, doesn't know what he is doing.
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Starmer: we’re the economically serious party, the grown-ups in the room
Also Starmer: we’re happy to hit the economy by up to £10 billion to appease racists.
Also Starmer: we’re happy to hit the economy by up to £10 billion to appease racists.
December 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Starmer: we’re the economically serious party, the grown-ups in the room
Also Starmer: we’re happy to hit the economy by up to £10 billion to appease racists.
Also Starmer: we’re happy to hit the economy by up to £10 billion to appease racists.
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If there is a God no one involved in the making of this monstrosity will be forgiven, and they will burn in the deepest depths of the farthest hell for eternities without end.
My rage is so profound, deep as the Mariana Trench and hot as the sun.
My rage is so profound, deep as the Mariana Trench and hot as the sun.
My dad will have been dead for two months tomorrow morning. I would love to talk to him forever. I can't. And a fucking glorified LLM-fueled chatbot can't change that, but it can be a freakish abomination in the eyes of God and men, preying on the grief stricken to give them shit and call it gold.
December 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If there is a God no one involved in the making of this monstrosity will be forgiven, and they will burn in the deepest depths of the farthest hell for eternities without end.
My rage is so profound, deep as the Mariana Trench and hot as the sun.
My rage is so profound, deep as the Mariana Trench and hot as the sun.
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"Want to come the World Cup? We're going to need you to tell us every one of your social media accounts, every family member's names, addresses, and phone number, and every email address you've used in the last decade. Welcome to the land of the free!"
December 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
"Want to come the World Cup? We're going to need you to tell us every one of your social media accounts, every family member's names, addresses, and phone number, and every email address you've used in the last decade. Welcome to the land of the free!"
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America's NatSec strategy is an expression of weakness, borne out in its record, 0 from 3, of trying to force a pro-Russian surrender on Ukraine. It has been Europe's strength that prevented this. Much remains to be done, but we should avoid the counsel of despair.
open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
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America's Weakness, Europe's Strength
The 'new' national security strategy is the admission of defeat from a declining country
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
America's NatSec strategy is an expression of weakness, borne out in its record, 0 from 3, of trying to force a pro-Russian surrender on Ukraine. It has been Europe's strength that prevented this. Much remains to be done, but we should avoid the counsel of despair.
open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
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Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Andrii Melnyk:
"Our territory&sovereignty are not for sale.We’re not at a Christmas bazaar.We’re not at the infamous Cherkizovsky Market.Russia wants us to surrender.But my reply to you is this:you’ll get nothing but the hole of a bagel -not #Ukraine"
"Our territory&sovereignty are not for sale.We’re not at a Christmas bazaar.We’re not at the infamous Cherkizovsky Market.Russia wants us to surrender.But my reply to you is this:you’ll get nothing but the hole of a bagel -not #Ukraine"
December 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Andrii Melnyk:
"Our territory&sovereignty are not for sale.We’re not at a Christmas bazaar.We’re not at the infamous Cherkizovsky Market.Russia wants us to surrender.But my reply to you is this:you’ll get nothing but the hole of a bagel -not #Ukraine"
"Our territory&sovereignty are not for sale.We’re not at a Christmas bazaar.We’re not at the infamous Cherkizovsky Market.Russia wants us to surrender.But my reply to you is this:you’ll get nothing but the hole of a bagel -not #Ukraine"
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I see Farage didn’t vote in the Customs Union bill this afternoon, not speak against it. Either he’s not back from Abu Dhabi yet or he can’t be arsed to defend his pet project or he’s lazy or he was at some grift opportunity. Or all four.
December 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I see Farage didn’t vote in the Customs Union bill this afternoon, not speak against it. Either he’s not back from Abu Dhabi yet or he can’t be arsed to defend his pet project or he’s lazy or he was at some grift opportunity. Or all four.
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After a backroom meeting with Donald Trump and a donation to the Trump ballroom, NVIDIA got a deal to sell the most advanced AI chip it has ever sold to China.
The NVIDIA CEO should testify under oath in Congress.
The NVIDIA CEO should testify under oath in Congress.
December 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
After a backroom meeting with Donald Trump and a donation to the Trump ballroom, NVIDIA got a deal to sell the most advanced AI chip it has ever sold to China.
The NVIDIA CEO should testify under oath in Congress.
The NVIDIA CEO should testify under oath in Congress.
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Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
My latest for CIDRAP News
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My latest for CIDRAP News
Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
My latest for CIDRAP News
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
My latest for CIDRAP News
Today, I was obliged to give my birth date to access BlueSky, presumably due to the new Australian law about social media access. Which is entirely understandable, except that I AM IN NEW ZEALAND, which is not part of Australia and not subject to Aussie law.
@safety.bsky.app please buy a world atlas
@safety.bsky.app please buy a world atlas
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Today, I was obliged to give my birth date to access BlueSky, presumably due to the new Australian law about social media access. Which is entirely understandable, except that I AM IN NEW ZEALAND, which is not part of Australia and not subject to Aussie law.
@safety.bsky.app please buy a world atlas
@safety.bsky.app please buy a world atlas
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UK Total wealth of billionaires in 1990 = £59 BILLION
Total wealth of billionaires in 2025 = £795 BILLION
Number of food banks in 1990 = 0
Number of food banks in 2025 = 2400.
The government need to tax the rich, not put up the taxes for the working poor.
#taxtherich #taxBillionaires
Total wealth of billionaires in 2025 = £795 BILLION
Number of food banks in 1990 = 0
Number of food banks in 2025 = 2400.
The government need to tax the rich, not put up the taxes for the working poor.
#taxtherich #taxBillionaires
December 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
UK Total wealth of billionaires in 1990 = £59 BILLION
Total wealth of billionaires in 2025 = £795 BILLION
Number of food banks in 1990 = 0
Number of food banks in 2025 = 2400.
The government need to tax the rich, not put up the taxes for the working poor.
#taxtherich #taxBillionaires
Total wealth of billionaires in 2025 = £795 BILLION
Number of food banks in 1990 = 0
Number of food banks in 2025 = 2400.
The government need to tax the rich, not put up the taxes for the working poor.
#taxtherich #taxBillionaires
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Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, Radosław Sikorski, to Elon Musk
"Go to Mars.
There's no censorship of Nazi salutes there."
"Go to Mars.
There's no censorship of Nazi salutes there."
December 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, Radosław Sikorski, to Elon Musk
"Go to Mars.
There's no censorship of Nazi salutes there."
"Go to Mars.
There's no censorship of Nazi salutes there."
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Remember folks, during winter every ten degree temperature drop lowers your tire’s PSI by 1 so it’s very important to go to the gas station and notice that the air thing doesn’t work and then do that five more times at five different gas stations
December 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Remember folks, during winter every ten degree temperature drop lowers your tire’s PSI by 1 so it’s very important to go to the gas station and notice that the air thing doesn’t work and then do that five more times at five different gas stations
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“Just come legally and do things the right way and you’ll be fine” they say. They lie.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
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Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
“Just come legally and do things the right way and you’ll be fine” they say. They lie.
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In Washington did Kubla Don a useless, gold-ballroom decree:
Where wealth, the dirty river, ran
Through oligarchs' rapacious hands
Down to a sea of greed.
Where wealth, the dirty river, ran
Through oligarchs' rapacious hands
Down to a sea of greed.
December 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
In Washington did Kubla Don a useless, gold-ballroom decree:
Where wealth, the dirty river, ran
Through oligarchs' rapacious hands
Down to a sea of greed.
Where wealth, the dirty river, ran
Through oligarchs' rapacious hands
Down to a sea of greed.
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There was. Ukraine gave up its nukes in exchange for guarantees of territorial integrity. In 1991.
Then there was another in 2014. Ukraine gave up Crimea rather than fight a hot war against the Russian invasion that led to its occupation.
Why would a third negotiation have different results?
Then there was another in 2014. Ukraine gave up Crimea rather than fight a hot war against the Russian invasion that led to its occupation.
Why would a third negotiation have different results?
December 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
There was. Ukraine gave up its nukes in exchange for guarantees of territorial integrity. In 1991.
Then there was another in 2014. Ukraine gave up Crimea rather than fight a hot war against the Russian invasion that led to its occupation.
Why would a third negotiation have different results?
Then there was another in 2014. Ukraine gave up Crimea rather than fight a hot war against the Russian invasion that led to its occupation.
Why would a third negotiation have different results?
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It is probably best that Obama killed Osama Bin Laden before Trump had the chance to pardon him.
December 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It is probably best that Obama killed Osama Bin Laden before Trump had the chance to pardon him.
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Not that anyone in publishing cares, but Nuzzi also promoted the exact same birtherism she's describing. bsky.app/profile/waga...
December 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Not that anyone in publishing cares, but Nuzzi also promoted the exact same birtherism she's describing. bsky.app/profile/waga...
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"I am America's premier failson/failnephew, and I want people to die from the flu so I don't have to face the wreckage of my own past."
December 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
"I am America's premier failson/failnephew, and I want people to die from the flu so I don't have to face the wreckage of my own past."
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hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...