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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 2d

“who *are* you?”

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 2d

Isn’t a big part of your role going around and asking people “what do you want?”

a man is asking what do you want in a dark room .

ALT: a man is asking what do you want in a dark room .

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 2d

Meeting your equal from another department and immediately knowing that you will die with your hands around each other’s necks, but not appreciating what a journey that would turn out to be.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 2d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 6d

There's a really great MinutePhysics video about the aesthetics- and physics-based reasons for the number of wind turbine blades: youtu.be/pgqkti7yePk

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 6d

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

The Independent @the-independent.com · 7d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 6d

Not the point, but this reminds me of one of my favourite bits of dumb trivia: 978 is the UPC country code for “Bookland”.

Brought in around 2007 to unify old 10 digit ISBNs with 13 digit barcodes, books got their own country with the 3 digit prefix. Bookland! Lovely place to visit.

LeedsBookClub aka Drneevil @leedsbookclub.bsky.social · 6d

Apparently UK supermarkets aren’t labelling food (like mango and watermelon) with its country of origin…if that country of origin is Israel.

Under EU law, country of origin must be stated…but the UK isn’t in the EU anymore.

Anyway, if the first 3 digits on the barcode are 729, it’s Israeli.

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 7d

He really didn’t know what to do with someone who was willing to accept him for what he was 🥲
“Madam, I am not like you! Every sixteen hours, I turn into a liquid!”
“I can swim”

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 14d

In positive news, Lib Dems refused to even debate whether trans women are women for their gender identity quotas

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Bishop Steiner @bishopsteiner.bsky.social · 20d

secret spoiler from next weeks Alien Earth Finale

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 20d

(Not facetious, I’m joining this news cycle part way through and literally have no idea 😬)

Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 20d

I honestly can’t tell which side put that up. Is it there to mock him or did he do it himself?

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 21d

You get to be part of the lucky ten thousand and show them something new
xkcd.com/1053/

Ten Thousand

xkcd.com

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 21d

Yeah, I definitely wouldn’t have guessed “new age nazis named after a cartoon” 10 years ago. This might be the most ridiculous timeline to be trapped in.

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 21d

It’s a character from Pepe the frog

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groypers

Groypers - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 21d

I assume she’s in mourning for Trump who, as I understand it, passed away a few weeks ago.

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 22d

You can’t just go around accusing people of being puppets ;)

A scene from Star Trek: Lower Decks. Captain Freeman shakes an alien with a bulbous green head after mistaking him for a puppet.

Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 23d

Gay men have the lowest divorce rate in the UK 🤷‍♂️

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24d

Nigel Farage:

"Children who have two stable parents have a better chance in life... The most stable relationships, the ones that last the longest, tend to be between men & women... There's an awful lot of kids in the country not getting the kind of start... they deserve."

Farage has two ex-wives.

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 26d

Team mini for the win!

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 27d

Trying to decide how I feel about the season finale of Foundation. As someone who knows the books well, it’s always nice to be surprised (and that was very surprising), but I’m not convinced it made sense, especially to those who don’t know the books at all.

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · Sep 9

No Fozzie as the whale.

a teddy bear is singing into a microphone with the words `` whaka whaka whaka '' .

Alt: The muppet, Fonzie bear, is telling a bad joke with his catchphrase “whaka whaka whaka” in text above

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · Sep 9

So Gonzo as the whale then?

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · Sep 9

Muppets Moby Dick - would that be Kermit as captain Ahab and miss Piggy as the white whale?

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · Sep 8

I’d missed how you worked out the translation - very clever work!
bsky.app/profile/gagh...

Jörg Hillebrand @gaghyogi49.bsky.social · Aug 11

At the end of #StarTrekSNW's "Through the Lens of Time", the same display in sickbay is briefly seen in English and in the language seen on Vadia IX. Using this part of the display, I was able to decipher the language and find nearly all of the letters. The translation here is straightforward.🧵 1/5

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · Sep 6

It would be great if VFX artists refused to work with directors who lie and say they don't use VFX.

It would also be fascinating to see how their movies would look if they actually didn't have any VFX.

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