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Charles Richter, in my Crypt Keeper SCARE-a! @richterscale.bsky.social · 8h

Pope accidentally shit-talks while in ex cathedra mode, condemns team to hell

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 10h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 8d

The press should be doorstepping the people who funded these repeated complaints and lawsuits. Make them explain themselves

Elle @centristmum.bsky.social · 8d

Sometimes you think 'oh it can't really be that bad can it' and then you click on the link and it turns out it is exactly that bad www.bbc.com/news/article...

Council demolishes play area after noise complaints

Parents in a Derbyshire town say their children are 'devastated' they have lost the facility.

www.bbc.com

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 9d

Here’s how full the Tory conference room was for shadow Chancellor’s speech

Like a parish council meeting

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Oliver @fromoliver.bsky.social · 9d

They do seem to act as if they are immune from actually having to run anything if and when they do win.

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 9d

It’s happened again

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Oliver @fromoliver.bsky.social · 9d

don't feel so bad that I'm onto my third coffee this morning when france is onto its sixth pm in less than two years

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 10d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Oliver @fromoliver.bsky.social · 12d

This is cool earth.nullschool.net#2025/10/05/1...

earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions

See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours.

earth.nullschool.net

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Oliver @fromoliver.bsky.social · 13d

Is it possible these days to make a science doc that isn't endless drone shots, blurry shaky-cam and breathless presenter geewizzery to the detriment of sharing some actual facts? Asking for the producers of Human.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 16d

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable,
not just engineering flaws 🧪
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Researchers reveal large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits

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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 21d

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 21d

This pair look like the villains in a movie where the hero is a dog.

Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 21d

Steen claims the political consensus has never been so out of kilter with the grassroots desire for an alternative voice

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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 21d

Nigel Farage comparing paracetamol to thalidomide reminds me of Jeremy Corbyn comparing the evidence Russia was behind the Salisbury poisonings to claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Tapping into different seams of the "Don't Believe what THEY tell you" mindset, but with the same goal.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 24d

This is how we know America has ended as a democracy, even if the Americans don't. Nobody is trying to impeach him, nobody is trying to enforce the law, nobody is taking to the streets to bring down the government. They just surrendered.

Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 25d

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal.

Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

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Oliver @fromoliver.bsky.social · 25d

I thought this was superb - really interesting take on a story I thought I knew.

Book cover: The Peepshow - The Murders at 10 Rillington Place

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Oliver @fromoliver.bsky.social · 26d

I'm impressed they manage to shoehorn in the Hydrogen Energy Agency.

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Oliver @fromoliver.bsky.social · 26d

15 million dollars for David Lynch's old house anyone? www.theagencyre.com/ldp-share/CL...

7017 Senalda Rd, LOS ANGELES, CA 90068 For sale - 15,000,000 | The Agency Global Boutique Real Estate Brokerage

Property for sale at 7017 Senalda Rd, LOS ANGELES, CA 90068 | The Agency Global Boutique Real Estate Brokerage

www.theagencyre.com

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Oliver @fromoliver.bsky.social · 27d

Obviously Labour is a bin fire, but this is Judean People's Front on steroids www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Is it really too much to ask for a halfway competent non-crank progressive party?

Corbyn clashes with Sultana over membership portal as split emerges in new party

Ex-Labour leader says ‘legal advice being taken’ over issue, while Sultana also claims ‘sexist boys’ club’ is running party

www.theguardian.com

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Oliver @fromoliver.bsky.social · 29d

*Proud husband face* www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Cambridge researchers awarded UKRI Future Leader Fellowships

Three Cambridge researchers are among 77 early-career researchers who have been awarded a total of £120 million to lead vital research, collaborate with

www.cam.ac.uk

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Sep 15

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

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milo edwards @miloedwards.bsky.social · Sep 15

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · Sep 14

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

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Oliver @fromoliver.bsky.social · Sep 14

I see the free speech absolutists are absolutely at it again.

Oliver @fromoliver.bsky.social · Sep 14

Well, that was fun.