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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 1d

US media & tech oligarchs: The way to become even richer is for the US to follow Russia down the path to kleptocracy.

They haven't really thought it through.

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 1d

I remember Zwicky for "Ve haf known zis for 30 years!!"

Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 1d

When you're building a sky, use decent materials, people! Ice might be cheap but it soon starts crumbling and you spend a fortune on maintenance.

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 2d

Have they tried *paying* them?

Buzzy @buzzy.nz · 2d

It's kumara farming:

bsky.app/profile/buzz...

Buzzy @buzzy.nz · 2d

Nothing so grand as Australia. The future is apparently kumara farming in Dargaville.

I wish I was joking.

(via www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...)

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 2d

Lazy-arse responsibility-dodging delegating dipstick is apparently the expert on 'work ethic' and 'team membership'.

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 3d

"You only truly appreciate Gilgamesh when you hear it in the original Akkadian" was not something I expected to read today.

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 3d

Great fanfic crossover possibilities.

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 3d

EVERYTHING IS BETTER WITH GOOGLY EYES

Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 3d

While doing research on ancient languages for a novel I'm working on I discovered Dr. Martin Worthington at Cambridge University. After years of study, he's come up with an approximation of Akkadian. You can listen to The Epic of Gilgamesh here:
www.openculture.com/2010/10/the_...

Hear The Epic of Gilgamesh Read in the Original Akkadian and Enjoy the Sounds of Mesopotamia

This clip gives you a taste of what Gilgamesh, one of the earliest known works of literature, sounds like in its mother tongue, Akkadian.

www.openculture.com

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 5d

If dazzle camouflage was good enough for ships it's good enough for shelducklings.

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 5d

The good old days of prehistory.

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 5d

@rosewind.bsky.social

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 6d

Meet Richard Frye, whose research record on leucovorin traces the gulf between promise and proof.

By Brendan Borrell

www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/exc...

Exclusive: Meet Richard Frye, who studies leucovorin for autism

Frye has led two placebo-controlled trials of the folate supplement in autistic people; the first was suspended by regulators, and the other has yet to be published.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 6d

Guilty!

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 6d

You have to admit, the bankrupt resource-extraction crowd get value for money. They only had to bribe the most despised MP of the most despised party in parliament for their "prop us up with $$$$" policy suggestion to become part of a whole coalition platform, with media expecting a bipartisan deal.

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bipartisan deal where Labour adopts Nat policies because this bankrupt extraction company won't go searching for gas that isn't there unless they can rely on being subsidized for searching for gas that isn't there.

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 6d

Me [serving a sachet of wet food for the feline overlords]: If this is pronounced 'sashey', a small axe is a 'hatshey'.
Fraud Doktorin: [picks up the Frying Pan of Loving Correction]

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 6d

That logistics stuff only matters when the people being killed and the property being smashed are in some other country.

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 6d

Since the millers were also editors of the Special Issue they didn't care about making sense, only filling space. The clients who paid to be listed as authors cared even less.
We also encounter "Hugh change", which would have been "Hough Transform" in an unknown source document about iris scanning.

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 6d

Another retracted piece from the Same SI was even more bonkers: the millers took a paper about surgeons using head movements to control telesurgery, & engarbled it to be about guards controlling a (murderous) Security Robot. Producing novel concepts like 'camera skillet'.
sci-hub.se/10.3233/WOR-...

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 7d

Superhen enters phone booth, takes off glasses, changes costume, lays egg.

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 7d

I grieve to report that this absolute mantlepiece of text engarblement has been depublished. Along with 13 others from the same thoroughly fraudulent Special Issue.
pubpeer.com/publications...

I included it in this report from the fake-science economy:
forbetterscience.com/2024/06/17/r...

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 7d

PRO-TIP: You don't have to copy-paste *everything* from the Chatbot response straight into your scholarly manuscript.

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 9d

There are Some Things that Man was Not Meant to Know. But we won't know what they are until we know them.

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 9d

"What's a Greek Urn", he asked, knowing that the answer will probably be in drachma.

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 9d

If you're looking for a nice thing to say about a zombie friend, "She looks like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth" is generally true. Except on hot days.

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 10d

WORST OMENS EVER

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