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Colin Macqueen @ccrgmac.bsky.social · 8h

Heron on the Severn

📷 Mrs Mac

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 1d

I’m dealing with a lot of stress at work so not posting much but the best trend y’all are missing out on is the pizza wars over on Tik Tok. These people are talented!

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𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨 @fizz.lol · 7h

Women don't like the vehicle

photo of a european car that has been modified to look like thomas the tank engine with an ugly thomas the tank face on the hood, car is light blue and front bumper and lower half or red, car looks cartoonish and ugly as shit

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 10h

'Cannonball'

- "Cartoonist Harry Bliss wanted to share a recent experience that filled him with joy. 'With apologies to my wife, there aren’t many things on this earth I love more than dogs and trees,' Bliss said. 'And the two came together on a recent walk in the woods with Junior, my dog.'"

Illustration on the cover of New Yorker magazine. A cute dog doing a cannonball into a pile of fall colored leaves, which are piled in the bottom half of the cover.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Oct 30

The news in the world is awful, but it's almost Halloween, so let's talk about pumpkin enrichment for big cats.

This is Jinx the black leopard (Big Cat Rescue, Florida) enjoying shredding a pumpkin.

Jinx the black leopard at Florida Big Cat rescue absolutely tearing into a pumpkin. You can read more about Jinx (and his rescue story) here:
https://bigcatrescue.org/jinx/

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Son of Raum @sonofraucous.bsky.social · 11h

This made me laugh way more than I probably should have.

A flooded toby carvery show from the outside. The water looks very brown.
The caption reads, tell me when to stop with the gravy.

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 14h

And if all the offshore, deep drilling and chemical works expertise of the fossil fuel companies was fully transferred to the energy transition, then it’d happen in half the time.

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 19h

Feeling a bit lazy today, so my content may be surprising or inaccurate.

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 19h

‘Surprising’

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 1d

I have a plan. All possible plausible reopen this railway schemes in England & Wales (subject to very rough qualifying criteria) are put in a hat, one is drawn out, it is prioritised, and then NOT ONE FUCKING PENNY is spent on any studies / plans / consultations on others until that one is delivered

Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 1d

waiting for a Labour government

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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 1d

On, these are neat. Tree-Tags are like a Fitbit for trees. Track their growth, thirst, temperature etc.

Get millions of trees feeding data into a massive ML system and you can predict the health of a forest.

Luckily plants don't have GDPR rights 😄

www.eplant.com/tree-tags

#AIforTheRestOfUs

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 1d

If you think acronym making is a chore not a perk of the job, surely academia isn’t for you.

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 1d

And the US is the world’s largest oil producer (by a fairly significant margin)

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 2d

The Onion meme where a person labeled “Sickos” is outside a window says “yes hahaha … Yes” but it’s a photo of mark zuckerburg wearing Meta Glasses.

The subtext is that Meta glasses bring up concerned of use by stalkers, predators, and for other socially unacceptable behaviors.

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 1d

(And it’ll still interrupt you with “speed camera ahead” every couple of minutes despite the fact you’re completely unaffected by the camera.)

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Simon Mahan @simonmahan.bsky.social · 2d

First Arkansas wind farm operating in Cross County www.arkansasonline.com/news/2025/oc...

First Arkansas wind farm operating in Cross County | Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Crossover Wind, a 135-megawatt wind farm near Wynne, is now online. The farm's 33 Vestas 4.5MG turbines, designed to produce enough electricity to power 50,000 houses, have been operating since June.

www.arkansasonline.com

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 2d

The lead came out of the soil, just to be clear.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

A number of popular protein supplements contain levels of lead that could pose health concerns, according to a new report that tested samples of 23 powders and shakes.

Report Finds Lead in Naked Protein Powders and Other Popular Brands

Experts said the levels were not high enough to cause immediate harm, but raised the risk of long-term health effects.

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ricevermicelli.bsky.social @ricevermicelli.bsky.social · 3d

Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin novels are Kirk/Spock AU fanfic.

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 2d

heatmap.news/climate-tech...

Much like Peak Energy, Alsym is launching a passively cooled sodium-ion (NFPP based) grid storage battery.

Peak has already turned one on In Colorado.

Alsym Thinks It Can Break the U.S. Battery Manufacturing Curse

After a string of high-profile failures, this sodium-ion startup has a proprietary chemistry and a plan to compete on cost.

heatmap.news

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 2d

Walked out of my (tiny) local co-op empty handed the other day, at least partly because one of the staff members picking deliveroo orders was blocking an aisle.

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 2d

I am so glad we get medicine in blister packs in this country.

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 3d

r/AskDocs
u/help...ed6-7 • 23h • Layperson/not verified as hea...
Think I took heart pills by accident
Physician Responded
Okay in my house we have what we call the pill drawer which basically is just a bunch of loose meds

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, looks like you're reading Eratosthenic literature.

ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 2d

Green signs if they're national highways, I thought.

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 2d

This is a good article*, but I'm intrigued by the way the header picture looks LLM-generated, even though it does seem to be a collage of existing stock images.

*although it does say George Osborne was a master strategist, which is true, but doesn't mention that his aim was to ruin the country

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool on.ft.com/4qarx21 | opinion

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool

The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

on.ft.com

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool on.ft.com/4qarx21 | opinion

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool

The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

on.ft.com

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 2d

External wall insulation is such bullshit. Or at least the last option once you've got the rest of the building properly sealed.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thousands of homes with botched eco insulation 'must be fixed'

Insulation programmes costing billions of pounds have led to widespread problems with damp and mould.

www.bbc.co.uk