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Tom Hawkins

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You could call on Lady Day; you could call on John Coltrane

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I believe @garius.bsky.social knows ships

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Twisting screwdriver £5, knowing which direction to twist £73

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Depends how many million requests an hour you need to handle at 3 Wh each, I guess.

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This suggests an amazing alternate history novel in which jazz is an 18th century British invention rather than a 20th century American one. Sort of The Difference Engine but for music.

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I suspect irony.

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Every single picture I see of Lee Anderson, I’m left thinking there’s a flat roof pub that doesn’t serve away fans somewhere in the north of England missing a landlord.

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Anna Meier's avatar Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social
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My favorite tried-and-true resistance tactic: Being Extremely Fucking Annoying.

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I believe you’re on the same page as Greg Jackson here

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Laurie Winkless's avatar Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social
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I unexpectedly find myself with FOUR spare copies of Sticky. So, it's giveaway time! TWO available here and TWO on Mastodon. Open to all 🌍 To go in the draw for one, reply to this post with this emoji: 🦎followed by your favourite sticky or slippery thing! Winners chosen 48hrs from now. GO! ( fyi 👩‍🔬🧪)

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“Cornegidouille! nous n’aurons point tout démoli si nous ne démolissons même les ruines ! Or je n’y vois d’autre moyen que d’en équilibrer de beaux édifices bien ordonnés.”

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More generally though the fundamental error here seems to be the assumption that anti-migration feeling correlates with actual migrant numbers rather than with perception, which is heavily biased by reporting.

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I wonder if he feels some sort of guilt for the way he handled migration from new EU member states, as if that gave the Brexit campaign the boost it needed. (I’m not saying he should have done differently though.)

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Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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CAN WE HAVE THE CHAOS NOW PLEASE? CAN WE?

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Moe Juggs's avatar Moe Juggs @joemuggs.bsky.social
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Absoltuely zero tolerance for doomers today. Reform vote was a protest vote after the most catastrophic few years for the country, but it's a dysfunctional "party" and will remain marginal. Meanwhile as many far right MPs (Mogg, Galloway, Truss, Baker) are out as Reform gains. Labour might have

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Ken Tindell's avatar Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social
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Harriet Harman wearing a necklace made of the C2 vertebrae of defeated Tory MPs.

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Mark O’Neill's avatar Mark O’Neill @marxculture.bsky.social
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Arcane experiments to probe the very limits of the universe conducted in a crypt. Mysterious machines funded by a bankrupt postwar government as a critical priority. An entire cathedral then built atop the abandoned crypt.

Quatermass? No, Liverpool.

physicsworld.com/a/the-legacy...

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To my UK followers, don’t put off voting today. All indications are that this is a done deal. Even so, in some constituencies a handful of votes could make all the difference. Vote with your conscience, vote tactically, whatever. And don’t forget your ID!

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Sarah Murphy's avatar Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
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Ok everyone. Let’s not fuck this up. After 14 years, 5 abysmal prime ministers, a shitload of contempt, lies, corruption and total steaming uselessness… we need to tell these Tories what we think. Our vote is our voice and we should use it. Or nothing will change. Get. Them. Out.

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I have posted this elsewhere and spoilsports have pointed out that MRPs involve an element of randomisation to make the numbers come out right, so this list of eleven seats owes more to chance than psephological judgement. It’s a nice thought though!

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Richard Gadsden's avatar Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online
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Combining all of the MRPs, there aren't very many seats that they all think are staying Tory. There are: Drumroll Drumroll ELEVEN

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Don’t you remember how the first few versions of Excel were like, ‘Certainly, I can add up these numbers for you. 2+2 = 15’, but eventually they fine tuned it and it was able to get the right answer? That.

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Also, more than £320m spent on Rwanda policy will be lost if Tories win election.

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Ele Willoughby 's avatar Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social
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Happy birthday to #physicist Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) who discovered atomic recoil, Radon & recognized radioactive elements could undergo chains of transmutations into a series of new elements.👩🏼‍🔬🎢🐡🧪⁠#histsci
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She was Rutherford’s 1st grad student at McGill. After publishing her results 🧵1/n

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Don’t you have REALLY LONG DRAWERS full of index cards?

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JL Kaufmann's avatar JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social
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Seriously, fellow British peeps, go and vote on the 4th. Don't take it for granted that the Labour landslide victory is a done deal and your vote doesn't matter. Brexit was such a catastrofuck because half the people who had a right to vote on it couldn't be arsed because OBVIOUSLY it was done deal.

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"Haven't been camping for a while, should get some refreshers from AI."

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Stejormur's avatar Stejormur @stejormur.bsky.social
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This is the kind of number that is so obviously wrong (*fourteen times*?) that I had to look up the original source. The report being quoted cites a meta-review, but when you look up the original paper it says... this lmao

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Labour in ‘intend to do right thing under international agreements’ shock

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Maybe the real AI was the data management we did along the way

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There are approx a million people in Devon so ‘attracts hundreds’ isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement. Though I’m sure he has his fans there. IIRC the Trago Mills guy is a notorious Brexiter (amongst other… *colourful* political views).

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Tom Hawkins's avatar Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social
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Ok well these start at c. $2000 and have a fibre optic connector for whatever your light source is - I guess you’d need some sort of thing to diffuse ambient light and couple it into a fibre. The optics side isn’t my field but I guess the suppliers should be able to advise you.

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How are you sampling and what would ‘too expensive’ be? Are you familiar with the Ocean Optics products for example?

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GPT-6 will be smart enough not to do the PhD.

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Does the pottery run a lottery?

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Oh no, you need to keep them thinking you’re just on the verge of being persuaded (this is admittedly extremely hard to do), for as long as you can keep it up, because every minute they spend with you is another minute they’re not contacting actual potential voters.

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It’s not bad! Feeling lucky I read it and enjoyed the plot twist before it got spoiled for me on Bluesky though

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Jalapeños haben “einer Chili-Sauce noch gefehlt”??

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Alison Fincher's avatar Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social
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Soliciting #kidlit book recs for my 10yo advanced reader.

She has LOVED the Brave New Girls series. Now she wants full-length sci-fi about “girls using their brains to solve problems.”

10yo is extremely earnest—no snarky narrators, please. Doesn’t need to be cozy, but nothing too “scary”, either.

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Joel Morris's avatar Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social
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Reading a novel or watching a film is already an interactive process, active not passive. It’s how we can watch or read the same story multiple times and react to it differently each time, or deepen our engagement. We already “choose our own adventure.”

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I have temperature controlled a lot of things in my time and reckon you have some good suggestions in the comments.

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The “Oliver Cromwell” character was based on the real-life Hector Protector, obvs.

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Adam Sharp's avatar Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social
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How dads comment on someone leaving the lights on, around the world...   5. It’s like the Blackpool illuminations in ’ere (UK English) 4. Are we living in Bethlehem? (Croatian) 3. We’re not in Versailles (French) 2. Is it Diwali again? (Hindi) 1. Was your grandpa Nikola Tesla? (Serbian)

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Tom Hawkins's avatar Tom Hawkins @nekomatic.bsky.social
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I have continued to think about this and reckon the formative value of the experiences we have whilst lonely may be undervalued. Perhaps there’s a Nigel Warburton Everyday Philosophy column in this.

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This is touching and I think absolutely true.

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