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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 2d

This whole thread is absolutely peak Bluesky. Dear Americans, not everything is about you.

NYCNAFOFELLA. 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇭🇷🏳️‍🌈🇺🇲 Militant Centrist, Bill Maher aligned @nycnafofella.bsky.social · 2d

Announcing this on a board where Americans are in the fight of their lives against a fascist takeover may be a pointer....

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 2d

Or they have tiny cars

Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 4d

Try our premium package of several thousand nuclear warheads or perhaps our budget option of a few badly thought out social media posts

Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 4d

Is your intelligent lifeform getting too chatty? Can't afford a Dyson sphere? Then you need....

Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 4d

Huge news for science fiction writers

Photo of a business called Fermi Solutions. This joke relies on you knowing what the Fermi Paradox is.

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

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Michele Bannister @astrokiwi.bsky.social · 6d

"ESA plans to release imagery by next week. NASA will not be able to release any of its data, or even comment on it, until the U.S. federal government ends the shutdown."

Jonathan O'Callaghan @astrojonny.bsky.social · 6d

Interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is flying past Mars today. Might get some cool views!

skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

Mars Orbiters Will Have Front-row Seats to Interstellar Comet

Spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet will aim a suite of instruments at Comet 3I/ATLAS to capture details about this enigmatic object.

skyandtelescope.org

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 11d

Someone needs to make Adolescence, but for grown-ups who lose their marbles on the internet. And also make it funny. Like Four Lions

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 14d

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

LBC @lbc.co.uk · 15d

"We were told thalidomide was a safe drug and it wasn't..."

Nigel Farage says he has 'no idea' if Donald Trump is right about paracetamol being linked to autism.

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 15d

Falkirk probably should have won that game but a point gives us a small cushion over other relegation-threatened teams like Rangers

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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 16d

Europe should tell Trump and RFK Jr. it exports an amazing alternative to Tylenol called paracetamol and use that as leverage in tariff negotiations.

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 16d

a big hamburger

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 20d

Douglas Ross says he was physically assaulted by a government minister after raising a point of order about seagulls.

10/10 story, no notes
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...

Douglas Ross claims he was 'physically assaulted' by SNP minister at Holyrood

The MSPs were said to have clashed after Douglas Ross raised a point of order at Holyrood over problem seagulls.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 21d

The road to this happening has taken years and I genuinely found it very odd listening to the end of the debate today thinking “this is just going to… happen now?”

Holyrood @holyroodmag.bsky.social · 21d

BREAKING: Scotland's centuries-old 'not proven' verdict has been scrapped with the passing of the Justice Bill.

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Ala Alrababah @aalrababah.bsky.social · 23d

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨
Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️
In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 22d

Today I learned.....

Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 22d

Sad to lose Robert Redford (mom would be crushed), but love the number of people who are just realizing that this gif/meme is him.

a man with a beard is standing next to a river holding a camera .

ALT: a man with a beard is standing next to a river holding a camera .

media.tenor.com

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 26d

The thing is, not just is this not true (of current Reform intenders or especially their 2024 vote), but it's actually somewhat unusual in British politics to be the most popular party and have a support base as deviant from the median voter.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 26d

Michael Gove, "Reform voters are very close to, in their general views, with the British public"

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28d

Labour MP Sharon Hodgson’s office targeted in suspected arson attack

Police investigate after images show the office burned out and roof destroyed in Washington, Tyne and Wear Police are investigating a suspected arson attack on the office of the Labour MP Sharon Hodgson. Images show her constituency office in Washington, Tyne and Wear burnt out and the roof destroyed. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 29d

Clyde Tombaugh lived long enough to be called by the team developing what became NASA New Horizons asking for his permission to visit Pluto

Also he could have heard the Macarena on the radio

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29d

a thing I have just discovered that feels utterly wrong is that Arthur Miller only died in 2005. he could have seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. he could have seen Donnie Darko!

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 29d

British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold.

“We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.

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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · Sep 6

A final little bit from me in today's edition: the south London flagger who told the BBC he was one of many “hardworking business people” hanging British flags -- and his £98,000 false injury claim

When I called him, he gave this gem of a quote

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · Sep 5

Babe, new candidate for "most unfathomable spatial comparison" just dropped.

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · Sep 1

"I could be at home painting Abaddon the Despoiler"

James Cleverly considers his poor life choices

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IAU Office of Astronomy for Education @astro4edu.bsky.social · Aug 30

22-27 July 2025, the OAE Center China Nanjing and other Chinese research and science popularisation institutions organised an astronomy teacher training in Beijing and the grasslands of Inner Mongolia with more than 120 participants from all across China 🔭 #astroedu

astro4edu.org/news/pq769I0/

National Astronomy Teacher Training in Inner Mongolian Grasslands

The OAE Center China, Nanjing hosted a teacher training event in Inner Mongolia

astro4edu.org

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IAU Office of Astronomy for Education @astro4edu.bsky.social · Aug 29

The proceedings of the second edition of the Astronomy for Education in the Francophone countries conference organised by the OAE Node France that took place from 9 to 11 November 2023 have been published.

They are available as a printed book and as a free PDF online at hal.science/hal-05195898v1

Titlepage of the Proceedings of the second edition of the Astronomy for Education in the Francophone countries conference

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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · Aug 29

"Twitter is not Britain" still applies but now means something different

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Aug 29

Polling from @Moreincommon_ on Lucy Connolly

More than half think her sentence was too lenient or about right. Only a third that it was too harsh.

Only 18% think politicians should associate themselves her, while 51% think they should actively distance themselves from her.