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John MacPherson

@johnmacpherson.bsky.social

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Mostly a photographer: https://www.john-macpherson-photography.com I sometimes write: https://www.duckrabbit.info/blog/author/j-macpherson/ Scottish Highlander, left-coast, interested in all sorts of things. I make stuff, some of it even works.

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John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · Nov 20

I like stories. I posted this one on The Other Place and many people liked it. So I thought I'd post it here for anyone who missed it. It's about travel, but mainly it's about trust, risk & reward and a reminder that we're all strangers to others at some point. But only temporarily... 1/12

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 10h

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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SinisterTurnip @sinisterbulb.bsky.social · 8h

Bloody hell.

Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 9h

Spooks on the BBC: “We have to climb onto the roof, through a skylight and plug this thumb drive into the Chinese server.”

Spooks on Chinese TV: “We’ve just bought the British data centre. Job done.”

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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 21h

I heard the initial story, but the story is advancing and getting quite interesting!

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 8h

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Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 8h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Positive Black Content @miiriya.com · 1d

A man named Nicky Crawford transformed a school bus into a mobile laundry service for the homeless called “Flowing with Blessings” He teamed up with Georgia Tech engineering students and created the bus, which provides free laundry, showers, haircuts & meals for the homelessness

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Eva Amsen @easternblot.bsky.social · 14h

Next week! Pitching across borders. Sign up if you're interested in hearing how editors work with international science writers and hear from freelancers how they got their science reporting heard beyond their own country. www.absw.org.uk/events/pitch...

Pitching Across Borders

This online workshop is aimed at international science writers who are interested in writing for English-language publications.

www.absw.org.uk

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John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 13h

1980's advert, still one of the best I've seen for making a fundamental point, simply.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18h

Three panel cartoon by Wawa wiwa comics

An octopus, a shark and a jellyfish are talking to each other

Octopus: I once saw a human and peed myself

Shark: a human saw and peed himself

Jellyfish: a human touched me once and his friend peed on him

Octopus: dude…

Shark: what?

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 22h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 1d

So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

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Chris Washington 🧛‍♂️ @cwashington.bsky.social · 1d

The lads were out again this afternoon.

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Kim @kimoco.bsky.social · 1d

“They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.”

Never trust or respect Republicans

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 1d

The chat offers an unfiltered look at how a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

So you've got a Canadian "journalist" covering the trial of an Irish citizen, who lives in Spain and whose costs are being covered by a South African born migrant living in the United States.

Break out the flags lads....

a man in a blue shirt is standing in front of a door with the words " england " on it

ALT: a man in a blue shirt is standing in front of a door with the words " england " on it

media.tenor.com

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 2d

This is rather remarkable.

pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 2d

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John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 2d

The inflatada goes on

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Inflatada

John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 2d

Turd Reich

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John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 2d

"Well when we shone a torch on his arse it suddenly shrunk, but when we took the light away it suddenly got bigger again, and that was a huge clue which led us to this discovery" said the arresting detective, whilst adjusting his sunglasses.

John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social · 2d

Just start using Profa to describe them, every time. If they want to be Fa's they can wear the flag.

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 3d

updates for kipnuk

several houses are gone and more continue to float away from the village

hope help arrives soon

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Gav @antihippy.bsky.social · 3d

I love this sort of thing

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 3d

Here, now I’m in Portland

I despise this stuff, but wanted to test this one to understand the harm we have coming. I also worry some people here are disengaged from it and need to see

This whole process took like ten minutes including app install

🤮 no more tests, more would waste water

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