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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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The first episode of my new video series, Cosmology 101, is out now! This one is about cosmic expansion. Check it out and subscribe to the Perimeter Institute’s YouTube channel to get the whole series! youtu.be/7GC8XOKwRpM?... #Cosmology101

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Great video, really interesting. I now consider myself to be slightly less dense on the subject of cosmic expansion.

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I think my favourite of your books, that I have read so far has been Dracula Motherf*cker. That was fantastic. I also really enjoyed True War Stories and Madi. I know there's lots more out there for me to find, time and finances permitting.

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I have painful memories of a close encounter with the Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité in Paris in 1987. They tend to hit (hard) first & ask questions later. If things kick off it will be nice to see them dishing it out to a load of fascist scumbags.

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Nazi Germany was forced out of business in 1945. But I suppose they could always try Putin's Russia

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As well as those eliminated, 10,000s will return home utterly traumatised. They'll return to an economy on its knees, a collapse in society & care, & breakdown in law & order due to pardoned convicts. V many will drink themselves to death. The state will only keep control through massive repression

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People who make stories for a living are going to bang on about how stories are vital. People who make baked beans will do likewise. I love stories & baked beans, but I have never believed that either of them is what makes me human.

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Mark Shore's avatar Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social
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custom sunblock formulas with SPF 1000+ have been an unlife changer for Steven

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I thought he spent the daylight hours resting in a box full of his native earth and came out after sunset.

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Marisa Kabas's avatar Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
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AI is a largely useless technology that is literally destroying the environment and tech bros continue to go all in because they want the world to burn so they can finally get use out of their apocalypse bunkers

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.0's avatar Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.0 @tammi.bsky.social
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Imagine what that's like when you have to sort & prepare for sale 10 tons of potatoes that have been in a bulk store over winter. Most will have sat there quietly & done nothing. Some will have become really nauseating mush & some will have struck out on their own & become strange & bizarre.

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My company said we all had to be on there, so I obliged. Now my inbox is full of posts from people I couldn't give a shit about & messages from recruiters. I have used the latter to coerce them into big pay rises over the last 2 years. The HR Director who wanted everyone on LinkedIn has been fired.

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Haven't been to Banbury since the 80s, but my late uncle was a leading light in the local Tory party and the very definition of an old, gin-soaked, British Imperialist. The idea that Banbury now has a Labour MP will have him spinning in his grave.

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I imagine Chat GPT or whatever is already building up a library of sound clips from old Schwarzenegger movies so that when it does send out the Terminators to hunt down those of us who are left, they sound right.

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As long as the only exit from the coal cellar is welded shut during the fight......

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It is such a horrible irony that a state founded by victims and survivors of one of the worst genocides in human history has now become fascist in all but name. If there is a Hell, Hitler must be pissing himself laughing.

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In my younger days, I was happy to experiment with all sorts of recreational pharmaceuticals. But I would have drawn the line at whatever they are on at The Telegraph, and I definitely would not have touched whatever Camilla is tooting.

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I always thought that elves don't poop, they just produce lembas, and there are lots of very deep shafts in dwarf mines. Which may be what pissed off Durin's Bane so much.......

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Maybe for balance, they should do a cover showing Trump's adult diapers with the Presidential seal?

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Presumably, the Economist views being old and not fully able physically as worse than being a convicted criminal, fraudster, failed businessman, conman, racist bigot, and sex offender.

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Would be fantastic if it happens. But I grew up near Richmond & still have family in the area. It's so solidly Tory that if they put a pig in a suit & a blue rosette, it would get a lot of votes. If the pig did get elected it might it would raise the average IQ & level of integrity amongst Tory MPs

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Elly's avatar Elly @ellyburg.bsky.social
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please repost the post below I need to have many things to draw before I get started please

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I wonder if the servant he gets to make them for him spits in them before or after spreading the butter?

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Elena Kononenko 's avatar Elena Kononenko @kononenko.bsky.social
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Dedicated to everyone who fell in love unrequited. 💔

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ℓουℓου ❤'s avatar ℓουℓου ❤ @skiptomyloulou.bsky.social
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To mark this epic finale, I've created a Tory Twat quiz reminding us why we should vote tactically to get the Tory Twats out of office.

After 2 years of doing these quizzes, I can finally retire!

forms.office.com/r/nDs1Aw6M4Y

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Andrew Hickey's avatar Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.bsky.social
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Apparently people have started referring to Rowling as Enoch Blyton. Seems appropriate in multiple ways.

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Mark Chadbourn's avatar Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
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Set your alarm for Thursday.

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Part of my job is to translate engineers' writings into English that can be understood by someone, not a Chartered Engineer (or clinically insane). When I moaned about workload my manager suggested we try ChatGPT. This just emitted gibberish, taking out all the nuance & most of the technical content

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He's going to spend the rest of his existence with one of the best views in Paris. No wonder he looks pleased.

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Charlie Stross's avatar Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social
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GOOD NEWS! You can now buy fresh milk that will outlast Rishi Sunak's career.

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Either he hit his head on something early in the election campaign and hasn't been cared for properly. Or the gear Gove supplies to the Tory inner circle has been cut with something weird, again.

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100% agree, there are a few places here in Liverpool that do that. I avoid them like the plague.

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The intervention being to demand a more equitable, i.e. cat-centric distribution of tuna

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Peter Capaldi made some pertinent observations about the art produced by the privileged and the posh.
If every public school was forced to close I very much doubt that the quality of the nation's cultural output would suffer.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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If it was on eBay, it is also quite satisfying to nuke their vendor rating. Not as satisfying as crushing them, seeing them driven before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women (or men). But every little helps.

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