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Bethan M Jenkins

@gwenynen.bsky.social

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Please look after this Bee. Cymraeg a Saesneg, fel y mynnoch. Was Dyddgu elseweb. Ei/Hi. She/Her Signal -> https://signal.me/#eu/p-v5DrC5-xRE_oL2kkAN_8Txhbp3p5q7YIHFXT7jB8a0wOpn7mRFza5I5q80veGU

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21h

just gonna leave this here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2...

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Bethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social · 47m

Uh, bsky fall down go boom?

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Bethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social · 1h

VOTE ÖTTER!!

Bethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social · 1h

(May or may not be end of year fencing tournament that night, if it turns out not I'll try to be present 🫡)

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HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · 3h

Dec 18th at 7pm I'll be reading from ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE, chatting about editing anthologies and ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS (within reason and taste 😉) - tickets are £8.83 (cushion admin and fees).

I'd love to see you there, please reskeet far and wide!

www.eventbrite.com/e/illusions-...

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 7h

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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Bethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social · 1h

Hart was a family friend of a friend of ours, and apparently he was as wonderful in real life as on the telly (phew.)

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Bethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social · 1h

Covid gave me a blood clot, I've been on the vaccine schedule since the thing was invented because of the possibility of clots and this year suddenly... I'm somehow magically ok? (I'm also stumping up, but damnit we shouldn't have to.)

Bethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social · 5h

Exactly!

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 8h

You don't need to have read it to get the joke

www.worldofmoose.com/products/tri...

Cartoon. Venn diagram of two circles intersecting. The left circle contains the text 'Tristram Beer', the right circle contains the text 'Tristram lemonade'. There is no text in the intersection, leaving the reader to fill in the gap.

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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 9h

The 'Always money for war, not for the poor' in museums is 'always money for the capital development, not the payroll'

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11h

'The British Library...has taken years to recover from a major cyberattack that disrupted its services and restricted access to its collections. The walkout is set to take from 27 October to 9 November, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of the cyberattack.'

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 1d

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay - Research Professional News

Two-week walkout planned on second anniversary of major cyberattack

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Bethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social · 8h

I used to tell my trainees, if ever I gave them instructions where they felt "that's a bit patronising, why would she write that?" it was always 100% because someone hadn't done the obvious thing a previous time. (Sam. It was usually Sam. Nice chap, but...)

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 10h

So, people are going to have to pass A level english to live here are they? I hope they study what I did at A level, Translations by Brian Friel, about the colonial evil of the English forcing people to adopt the English language

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Frith 🐉 An Odd Type of Dragon @oddtypeofdragon.bsky.social · 1d

If you are in the US, pumpkins are a great wildlife snack! If you are in the UK pumpkins are actively dangerous to much of the wild animals who will eat it! (It has laxitive effects in small creatures like hedgehogs, and so is dangerous to them while they're trying to build hibernation reserves)

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Joezer the Joezerian @joeblivion.bsky.social · 22h

Y'all need to see this Bilbo and Gandalf from the Portuguese version of The Hobbit. Illustrated by António Quadros

A whimsical and charming illustration of Bilbo meeting Gandalf outside of Bag End

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Bethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social · 20h

...lily piñata? (I kid, I kid£

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 21h

kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

The Naming of Stats
June 19, 2023 • Obiter Dicta • R
The Naming of Stats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a stat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all are the names where usage is informal, Such as Median, Estimate, Average, or Range, Such as Variance, Quartile, or else Standard Normal All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names that may be better-tasting, Some for the frequentists, some for the Bayes:
Such as Skew, or Kurtosis, Metropolis-Hastings-But all of them sensible everyday names.
But I tell you, a stat needs a name that's obscurer, A name that's misleading, and hard to construe,
Else how can it keep on confusing the reader, Or frustrate professors, or pass peer review?
Of names of this kind, there are many examples, Like Hierarchical, Robust, or Omega-hat,
Such as Marginal, Confidence, or just Weighted Sample, Names that always belong to more than one stat.
But above and beyond there's still one name left over, And that is the name that you never will guess;
The thing that no human research can discover-
But THE STAT MIGHT JUST KNOW, and be made to confess.
When you notice a stat getting quite widely cited, The reason, you see, is whatever its flaws, Its user's engaged, or enraged, or excited
At the prospect of pinning the root of all laws:
That inviolable, friable
Unidentifiable
Deep and inscrutable singular Cause.

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Bethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social · 20h

Just realised the Purser gets to blow a bo'sun's whistle - coincidentally I bought one myself only last year for something else 😃

Bethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social · 8d

Aww yeah bit part in the show! Going to be a purser on a cruise ship! Hope I get a uniform 🤞🤞🤞

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 1d

There may be those who think it demeaning for a grown man to spend the day building a cat playground. But they would be wrong.

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The Cheese Goddess @thecheesegoddess.bsky.social · 1d

Ok. Saw this and will need to make it now. Pretty sure I can freeform it at this point in my fiber art journey.

A crochet grim reaper on a gear shifter of a car.

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io9 @io9dotcom.bsky.social · 1d

Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died

The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.

gizmodo.com

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

TIL that the aggro af wasps you see in late summer are worker wasps who have finished their nest tasks and are all out seeking sweet stuff and raising hell for the locals with the last days of their lives while waiting to die, wasps are basically just the insect version of retired Brits in Spain

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The Cat Hive @thecathive.bsky.social · 1d

The Criminal

Doodle of an orange cat with a piece of crumpled plastic in his mouth. He is running away quickly, wide-eyed. There is text from someone shouting "WHO IS EATING PLASTIC!!!"

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 1d

TGJones does feel like when a satirical drama invents a name for a high street shop 'so as not to cause any legal tangles'.

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