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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 1d

TERRAHAWKS (1983): Gerry Anderson's 80s puppet show was bonkers at the best of times, but the episode where Zelda's daughter, Cy-Star, 'gives birth' to the hermaphrodite It-Star, is next level.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 2d

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Alex Scott Fairley @alexscottfairley.bsky.social · 2d

I have already called, though the wait times are ridiculously long. Why on earth are you still using "X"? It's little more than a sump of toxic right-wing bots now. I'd strongly advise you to leave it. Also, my point stands on your website's discriminating against people.

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 3d

“The real economy of this planet is its forests and oceans. Its currency is water, food, oxygen, sunlight. Its stock market is the ecosystems and climate systems which balance the allocation of these resources, and its stakeholders are its 10 million species”

From my book BEYOND THE PETRI DISH

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Alex Scott Fairley @alexscottfairley.bsky.social · 3d

Remembering to do @wildflowerhour.bsky.social this week, as I'm still in the UK, and have been touring from Surrey to Yorkshire and Warwickshire to Essex, so please enjoy these bits and bobs! #WildflowerHour #wildflower (names in ALT).

Top row, left to right: herb robert (Geranium robertianum) / common vetch (Vicia sativa) / creeping thistle (Cirsium arvense);
Middle row, left to right: self-heal (Prunella vulgaris) / ivy-leaved toadflax (Cymbalaria muralis) / greater willowherb (Epilobium hirsutum);
Bottom row, left to right: redshank (Persicaria maculosa) / red bartsia (Odonites vernus) / greater knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa).

Top row, left to right: cinquefoil (Potentilla recta) / common toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) / hedge bedstraw (Gallium mollugo);
Middle row, left to right: common tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) / bird’s-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) / mouse-ear hawkweed (Pilosella officinarum);
Bottom row, left to right: yarrow (Achillea millefolium) / butcher’s broom (Ruscus aculeatus) / field mustard (Brassica campestris).

Top row, left to right: autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale) / red campion (Silene dioica) / bramble (Rubus fruticosus);
Middle row, left to right: common fumitory (Fumaria officinalis) / red deadnettle (Lamium purpureum) / pellitory-of-the-wall (Parietaria judaica);
Bottom row, left to right: long-headed poppy (Papaver dubium) / borage (Borago officinalis) / field speedwell (Veronica persica).

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Hope Jahren @realhopejahren.bsky.social · 4d

If you study plants, you need this book.
🧵1/n

The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants

A dazzlingly illustrated guide to the plant life of the dinosaur age, from intricate ferns to the most majestic megaflora

press.princeton.edu

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Asigot @asigot.tech · 26d

Normally I would probably agree with you but in this case its the corrupt AF William Hague, Former Tory leader, taker of cash from firms linked to Putin to the tune of many thousands for an 'advisory' role etc
As soon as he got in last year, in his first big interview he was banging on about AI.

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Alex Scott Fairley @alexscottfairley.bsky.social · 4d

Thoroughly ashamed of my alma mater. It's bad enough they effectively tacitly enabled the mendacious governments of Johnson and his cabal of crooks. Nobody, the planet included, needs this brain-rotting slop.

University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 27d

NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.

ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.

Graphic from the University of Oxford, featuring an image of a glowing, digital brain with the text: 'Generative AI at Oxford'. Highlights that ChatGPT Edu is now available to all staff and students. Includes a link for more information: ox.ac.uk/gen-ai

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Alex Scott Fairley @alexscottfairley.bsky.social · 4d

Bad enough that you effectively enabled Johnson and his cabal of crooks. Nobody needs this planet-destroying, plagiarism-riddled, slop-generating crap. Another reason to be thoroughly embarrassed by my alma (sic., apparently) mater.

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 4d

Mrs Walker insists there's no way she would lower herself and join in the scrum at the corner shop sale. I wonder if you can guess what happens next ...

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 4d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 9d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 5d

As I argue in #PlatypusMatters, Australia has the world's best mammals, but is sadly the worst place on Earth to be a mammal, with the planet's worst #extinction rate.
The Christmas Island shrew is now the latest species to be officially declared extinct.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

The tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 is now 39 species – far more than for any other country

www.theguardian.com

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 5d

A profound rethinking of the history of #biodiversity.

"In new view, plants did not colonize a barren wasteland, but rather world prepared for them over eons by the ancient and persistent activity of the fungal kingdom."

scitechdaily.com/earth-was-a-...

Earth Was a Fungal World Before Plants Existed

Fungi arose long before plants, shaping Earth with early soils and nutrient cycles. Their hidden legacy shows they may have prepared the world for life to flourish on land.

scitechdaily.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5d

Racist, fascist billionaires control consumer-facing "A.i." Do not use this propaganda tech.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Did You See? @tvdidyousee.bsky.social · 5d

#OnThisDay 11 October 1989 - FAST FORWARD
Have Tegs and Justine fallen on good times in #GrangeHill?
Will the voluptuous Carmen tempt Adrian in BREAD?
Why is Helga removing her stained clothing in 'ALLO 'ALLO?
Plus THE PROGGY PAGES.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 5d

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 6d

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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Alex Scott Fairley @alexscottfairley.bsky.social · 6d

Ha! I feel your pain! I shift between accents and lot for work (a LOT at the moment) and depending on whom I'm speaking to IRL, so sometimes it's a hot mess. :)

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 6d

The Nobel Committee is like, "This is why that orange asshole doesn't deserve the Nobel Peace Prize and why we are rewarding the exact opposite of him."

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

NOBEL rewards democracy over authoritarianism

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 6d

All my comics have happy endings!

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Alex Scott Fairley @alexscottfairley.bsky.social · 6d

I pedantically pronounce it in as Scottish a way as possible now and lean into as rhotic an /r/ as I can muster... :) Mind you, my everyday accent/lexicon is a car-crash of Americanisms, RP, Scottish, German and Australian idiom (unless I'm working and being paid to stick to one!)

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 6d

AUS Foreign Minister Penny Wong's fawning praise of Trump is vomitous. No mention by Wong of the billions of dollars of arms provided to Israel by the USA for its genocide in Gaza? Srsly?! This is abhorrent commentary from Wong. 😔 #auspol #USPolitics #NobelPeacePrize #GazaGenocide

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 7d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Alex Scott Fairley @alexscottfairley.bsky.social · 8d

worry that we're just circenses, I do feel we have more scope to offer a mirror to the world and proxy experiences of what better worlds might look like. Plus we're not as totally in the pocket of corporates, alcohol, and gambling I guess, and rarely induce riotous behavior. 2/2

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Alex Scott Fairley @alexscottfairley.bsky.social · 8d

I'm so glad you've articulated this. It's probably my most cancelable unexpressed opinion too. I grew up around professional ball sports and hated it for all the reasons you've listed there. I now work in professional theater (though I have to leave Tasmania to do it) and whilst I do sometimes 1/

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Lena📎 @eriksdotter.bsky.social · 8d

“We are all going to be rich and famous… or we would be.. if we followed our passion.

It’s rubbish. It’s marketing. It’s advertising. It’s cynical. It’s a lie.“

open.substack.com/pub/jeanette...

Passion or Process?

How to find what you love...

open.substack.com

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