Paul Fernandez
@exilefromgroggs.bsky.social
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Books. Music. Language. Science. Theology. Family. Talk. Think. #FBPE #NHS 🩵 #KTTO Remarried widower. Retd pilot. PhD research (applied linguistics)
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In the unlikely event anybody is interested in trekking to Herts to hear me talk about my research and career in flying, I'm, erm, talking about my research and career in flying. www.tickettailor.com/events/unive... Tickets are free but spaces need to be booked due to limited capacity.
Book your space – Language in the Sky: Can Linguistics Shape Airline Safety? – Rucklers Lane Village Hall, Hertfordshire
Language in the Sky: Can Linguistics Shape Airline Safety? – Rucklers Lane Village Hall, Hertfordshire, Wed 5 Nov 2025 -
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I've not had the nerve to go back, though I feel that several years of mental effort were bound up in it. It was messing with me mentally.
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That the Overton Window is now located in Southern Bavaria circa 1934.
Both less Israel and fewer Israels.
Scores above 38 reserved for professional soccer players.
Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃
PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.
WhAt dO yOu mEan prOnoUn's ouR parT of EnglIsH? WheN diD EngliSh becOme woKE?
Saw a Facebook post of an article about a teacher who was sacked for putting up over 100 flags and one of the comments was like “should be teaching pronouns 🙄” and it’s like yes? they are a part of English? So if they’re an English teacher yes??
I'm not interested in Halloween. It's promoted to sell cheap tat, it has sinister roots that aren't good to celebrate, it's become an excuse for antisocial behaviour, and now it's spreading from an evening to a month. My objection may have been (protestant) Christian to start with: now it's bigger.
I just don't like Halloween. It's promoted to sell cheap tat, it has sinister roots that aren't worth celebrating, it's become an excuse for antisocial behaviour, and now it's spreading from an evening to a month. My objection may have been (protestant) Christian to start with: now it's bigger.
"TR lawyers argue that police stop was unlawful."

Even "TR police stop at CT unlawful, court TOLD" would be better - at least it has no air of a judgement being handed down, and invites the question "BY WHOM?"
"This is not my fight." Just before the solar system falls apart. Cara Gee. What a performance. Nadine Nicole. Dominique Tipper. Shohreh Agdashloo. Wow. Did ever a SF series have such a stunning set of female roles?
Season 5 of the Expanse.

So so good.
Also iconoclasts generally (8th-9th Century Byzantium, Puritans of the 16th-17th Century).

Though their concern was more to do with idolising statues than historical records.
Not asleep. Choosing to keep their eyes shut.
I think it's because it continues to set the agenda. "Owing" in the sense of "ought" - "I ought to be engaging on Twitter". The truth was, in the end it was set up simply to frustrate anyone who wouldn't do things the musky way - the rest of us weren't making a difference, and being slowly poisoned.
I left for my mental health. It was hard, though - the sunk cost was high - at least for me, even if it had made little difference to anybody else.
If Labour could at least put the Farage's Brexit down, that would be a start.
I feel it's fairly niche to have had Annie Hall as my favourite film for most of my life. At least Diane Keaton won an Oscar for the gorgeous portrayal that left me with a crush on her.
a woman is standing in front of a bulletin board with a sign on it that says ' where can i help you '
ALT: a woman is standing in front of a bulletin board with a sign on it that says ' where can i help you '
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Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike T.

Actually, entirely unlike T.
"No kings" => "hate America".

Okay.
Your profile picture is post shave? Yeah, you definitely don't look like how I expected a horror author to look.