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Mark Burnley

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ATP botherer, Human Intelligence developer.

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · Feb 28

The world did have A.V. Hill, so that’s something to be grateful for in spite of current affairs. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

Blue plaque review series: A.V. Hill, athletic records and the birth of exercise physiology

Abstract figure legend Depiction of the world running records from 1925 studied by A. V. Hill and those of 2025 up to and including ultradistance events on a semi-logarithmic plot. These records, in ...

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 2h

It’s nice of him to “share his spotlight” with you. ?!??!

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 3h

It's by no means the worst that he's done or is doing, but the Trump administration illegally killing an important scientific project I've worked on for incredibly petty reasons is anger inducing. So much hard work by so many people ended because America is run by the corrupt and the gutless.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16h

Fair point. When I send invoices for freelance pieces, I'm often asked to include whether I prefer to be paid through direct deposit, a paper check, or cold hard cash in a Cava bag at a pre-arranged drop site.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 20h

You mean “the police” here: the data this is based on includes incidents online and off-campus, which universities cannot control or change. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Universities must act on antisemitism, Bridget Phillipson says

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says Jewish students do not feel safe, as she sets out measures to tackle antisemitism.

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 23h

Parenting. Turning losses into wins since civilisation began.

LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 23h

The 5 year old told me she saw some small flies go into a hole at the back of the cupboard under the stairs and I should go in and have a look, so I crawled in and she's shut and bolted to door behind me. I have about 5 hours of battery life and the BBC iPlayer installed. More fool her.

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Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 1d

"We all stand together", was right there.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 2d

I love this image.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 6d

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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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 1d

If “exceptional” means killing at least 66,000 people, yeah.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jared Kushner in Tel Aviv: "Instead of replicating the barbarism of the enemy, you chose to be exceptional, you chose to stand for the values that you stand for, and I couldn't be prouder to be a friend of Israel."

Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 1d

We Brits don’t give the place enough credit. It packs a punch if you know where to look.

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 1d

London continues to be a delight

Big Ben (actually Elizabeth Tower) in London at sunset, with crowds and buses

A bridge across the Thames with St Paul’s Cathedral in the background

The Thames at sunset with the London Eye on the horizon

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 1d

This is just brilliant. youtu.be/OTfcuJFNiy4?...

STEWART LEE on The Riyadh Comedy Festival, Oasis Reunion, Marvel, Star Wars and Being Beaten Up

YouTube video by Class Clown Podcast

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 2d

The high-ups are insulated from any effects. Once you have a billion in a trust somewhere, you simply can’t run out of personal wealth. The extremely rich people I’ve know are quite normal. They don’t live like Bond villians, which is why they got so rich in the first place.

Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 2d

I will say this: money doesn’t buy happiness, it just buys you different problems to be unhappy about.

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yes, but he was right at the time: they acquired Chrysler and now sell loads of Jeeps in the US and elsewhere. Having a bigger piece of a smaller pie is the goal in a crash.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 2d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 2d

The US should be added to the Council for At Risk Academics programme at this point.

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Dave nλ=2dsinθ @xtaldave.xtaldave.net.ap.brid.gy · 2d

BBC News: 'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz69qy760weo

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 2d

Spoke to somebody very high up in FIAT as the effects of the 2008 crash started to affect the car industry. “What does all this mean for you?” I asked. “It’s an opportunity”, he said. Same with AI; Altman wants the bubble to burst so he can harvest what’s left.

Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 2d

Ian Hislop included. He usually has an eye and an ear for this sort of thing.

Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 2d

Look, fancy dress works here, and you don’t have to tell college students twice. Frogs assemble!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 2d

Free from Desire: I’m not a dance music fan, but my 90s/noughties clubbing days spawned dozens of anthems better than that. It wouldn’t make a top 50 compilation of that era. Na na na na na na na, na na. What a set of lyrics though, right? Christ.

Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 2d

Sweet Caroline: did any of you wonder who Caroline was? According to Neil Diamond, it’s about JFK’s daughter, who was 11 years old when the lyrics were written. “Touching me, touching you” hits different in that context.

Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 2d

We need to talk about the truly terrible songs currently used at the end of sports events. Sweet Caroline and that one about Trombone Police (Free From Desire?!), I’m looking at you 1/3.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 3d

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 3d

This would have been a scandal for weeks on end if Biden had said it, but shit-thick Grandpa gets crickets and tumbleweed.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "We're gonna be reducing the cost of medicines by 100%, 200%, 300%, 500% and even more than that."

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3d

All conspiracy theories eventually lead to antisemitism.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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