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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 10h

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

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Tom Swann @tomswann.bsky.social · 14h

RBA says companies will have to accept lower profits growth. Doesn't quite have the same ring does it.

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 17h

How about no.

AFR headline: RBA says Australians will have to accept lower wages growth

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 1d

I follow a Norwegian lighthouse keeper named Paal Bjørndal whose whole bit is sharing profound things that are inaudible due to high winds. I love the internet.

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Hell Ray-ser @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · Feb 10

It's impossible to play the hurdy gurdy without making it your whole personality. No one is a casual hurdy gurdy player.

Hurdy gurdy guy dressed like some kind of dingus cowboy

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 1d

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 1d

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Just Little Adults @justlittleadults.bsky.social · 2d

It has been a bit but we have * new stuff *. It’s a written version of a talk about speaking the same language with the interventional radiology gurus. #ansky #pedsanes www.justlittleadults.com/topical-anae...

The Pointy End of the Needle - Anaesthesia and IR — Just Little Adults

This is a written version of a talk delivered by Dr Andrew Weatherall for the Society of Pediatric Interventional Radiology conference held in Sydney, Australia in October 2025. The task for this t...

www.justlittleadults.com

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Andrew Weatherall @andyweatherall.bsky.social · 2d

Hey I did this thing and thought I would share it just in case kids anaesthesia is your thing? (Also, remember sharing your blog posts on the socials? Wild throwback … Wednesday now I guess.) #ansky

Just Little Adults @justlittleadults.bsky.social · 2d

It has been a bit but we have * new stuff *. It’s a written version of a talk about speaking the same language with the interventional radiology gurus. #ansky #pedsanes www.justlittleadults.com/topical-anae...

The Pointy End of the Needle - Anaesthesia and IR — Just Little Adults

This is a written version of a talk delivered by Dr Andrew Weatherall for the Society of Pediatric Interventional Radiology conference held in Sydney, Australia in October 2025. The task for this t...

www.justlittleadults.com

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pseudomorph @pseudomorph.bsky.social · 2d

Hard agree.

Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · 2d

probably my most deeply-held belief: it is not possible for a slide deck to be both (1) a good presentation aide; and (2) a standalone document that can be read and understood in isolation.

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Andrew Weatherall @andyweatherall.bsky.social · 2d

Preach.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 3d

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

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Andrew Weatherall @andyweatherall.bsky.social · 4d

Actually I am interested in AI governance (but also not an influencer of the right import).

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 9d

NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL

How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 8d

In an obscure corner of Kazakhstan, the remains of an ocean millions of years old have created probably the most surreal landscape on earth -- as captured by photographer Daniel Kordan

mymodernmet.com/daniel-korda...

Kazakhstan's Mangystau plateau, near the border with Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, at sunset. Layers of ancient salt deposits resemble fjords of white, pink, red and orange icing spilling into a vast gray plane

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Andrew Weatherall @andyweatherall.bsky.social · 10d

Hey where is this? It is kind of glorious.

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14d

the most uncanny aspect of the 21st century is how many stories we have about charlatan showmen who conned the world—from PT Barnum to Andrew Wakefield—and yet we still take grandiose, provably false claims from tech CEOs as though they are harmless or, at worst, true

Politico @politico.com · 14d

“This was the year, I think, that the AI got smarter than us.”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman gets candid about the promises and perils of AI in the premiere episode of MD Meets — a new podcast from POLITICO's parent company Axel Springer.

🎧 Listen and subscribe: mdmeets.com

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 14d

Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an Al model's ability to edit real world spreadsheets. This result

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 15d

Udon Nou, who has noodles for brains, is a mascot from Kagawa Prefecture. He was handing out certificates to winners at this year’s Yuruverse mascot popularity contest (having won in 2023).

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Anaesthesia @anaesjournal.bsky.social · 15d

"... a ‘RSI–TCI’ mode with a pre-programmed manual bolus offers a pragmatic solution for those who wish to preserve an intact pharmacokinetic model for accurate propofol delivery, while allowing the rapid induction clinicians expect from a manual bolus."

#AnSky #MedSky

doi.org/10.1111/anae...

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 16d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 16d

I dunno why I’m only finding out now, but the “Australian Frog Atlas” is now in version 3.0. It’s a free download, including all the KML files. australian.museum/blog/amri-ne...

Putting Frogs on the map: the Australian Frog Atlas

Introducing Version 3.0 of the Australian Frog Atlas – detailed distribution maps for all 257 of Australia’s native frog species, and the introduced Cane Toad.

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Katie Collins @spissatella.bsky.social · 19d

They're inflating a sperm whale in my town, which is a strong contender for the oddest sentence I've ever typed

A grey inflatable of a sperm whale partially obscured by a silver van, attended by the person engaged in blowing it up

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 21d

Official petition to the 🇦🇺 govt: make part-time PhD students' stipends tax-exempt!
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

Stipends are low but at least tax-exempt. Unless they go part time, then it becomes taxable. This disproportionately affects PhD students w/ care duties, health issues, young children..

e-petitions

www.aph.gov.au

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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 21d

“Electricity generation costs would be up to 50% higher if Australia stuck with only coal and gas.”

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Electricity generation costs would be up to 50% higher if Australia stuck with coal and gas only

Griffith University experts reveal the 30% increase in consumer power bills since 2021 would have been worse under fossil fuel-only scenario

www.theguardian.com

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 22d

Seeing ice cream cones during their spawning runs really takes your breath away. They’ll only do this once in their entire lives.

MachinePix @machinepix.bsky.social · 22d

Ice cream cone manufacturing line.

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kcarruthers @kcar.me · 26d

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities

Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients

https://www.ft.com/content/128ee880-acdb-42fb-8bc0-ea9b71ca11a8

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