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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 5h

Well, apart from all the places they named after what they did there, murder gulch, etc

I think locally they're calling it something else tho?

Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 6h

You're specifically looking for someone in Evo-Psych, not just any psychologist

Epstein funded a LOT of the research that says shit like "we evolved to live longer because older dudes were banging young women"

So much of the shitty evopsych that's annoyed me over the years explained by that

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 10h

Yeah, Jennie brought Something back from conference, tested negative but it's been three weeks since I started symptoms and I'm only just fully clear, first week was hell :-(

Could be a covid that doesn't test well, could be a horrible flu, but it's worth avoiding either

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 11h

Some of them, I don't know which, were setup in the small hours US time, all at roughly the same time

Stinks of a Russian op, can't prove a thing

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 12h

Yeah, this--working GW retail for over a decade definitely helped with this, but when I used to guest at stuff I was playing a character and Doing The Thing, sometimes decompresion afterwards would be a PITA but it was how I knew to get thru it

Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 13h

Oh, haven't been that way for AGES, cool he'll have liked that

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 13h

Whereabouts? Because he'll be VERY yanky in that area for ages now--he was obsessing over something last night on the walk back, kept jumping up to look over the wall into the pool car park, I couldn't see a thing even with the torch, obvs

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 16h

Not really, he's just 6th behind the other 5

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 16h

When student me wrote in an essay that the concentration on winnable marginals to the exclusion of all else would lead to the hollowing out of the body politic I didn't realise I was Cassandraing, I was just doing a bit

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 17h

I can beat the medievalists! In 61 CE, revolting British natives attacked the Roman colony of Camulodunum (Colchester). In 2015, in a domestic space, archs found the remains of a whole box of coriander as well as fenugreek, poppy seeds, cumin, & other Indian spices. Homesick Roman women made curry.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 19h

I'm pretty sure there were Indian spices in England before potatoes.

Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 21h

The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 16h

The wierdness is because a chunk of the constitution came from the 17thC and acts of settlement, and the aristos of the time viewed their titles as a form of property

Thou Shalt Not Strip A Man Of His Property is kinda baked in to a chunk of stuff and changing it just isn't worth the fuss

Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 17h

Yeah, the whole 100 years is a long time/100 miles is a long way thing really is a truism even tho it sounds trite

I live in what for the area is a relatively newly built house, it's only 150 years old ;-)

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 17h

Sometimes, the sheer scale of America compared to Europe astounds me, we're so cramped over here. 50 years before the below, Jack Smeaton built the Calder And Hebble canals to—literally—put the town I live in on the map

Here's Spike (RIP) enjoying a stretch of it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calder_...

Ginger lurcher on long lead by canal path going past a modern building (Sainsburys) towards a bridge with an old flour mill (Rokt climbing gym) in the background. There's a narrowboat moored ahead and the canal, at one of its wider points, isn't very wide

Close up view of ginger lurcher by canal path. There's a narrowboat moored ahead and the width of the canal, at one of its wider points, is visibly not wide. The boat cannot be more than 5 metres wide by regulation

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 20h

Yeah, given our local population density that would mean you're the first stop, I'm almost certainly third today, and I'm fine with that it's just the wording implies soon not 'after we've crossed the mountains in the way'

Only checking cos it's clothes and I'm still in bed

Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 20h

I think what Amazon mean here is the van just left the depot unless they've got a really weird route

Amazon update map showing '3 stops away' but the dot is the wrong side of the Pennines leaving Rochdale on the M62

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 20h

Dear Australia

You've won this one, Timtams are now officially better

But only because the idiot owners of the brand they're based off have conceded defeat

Will Boris Johnson's legacy be we start eating Aussie chocolate bars? Fuxxake

iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 23h

Omg

"We made some changes to McVitie's Penguin and Club earlier this year, where we are using a chocolate flavour coating with cocoa mass, rather than a chocolate coating. Sensory testing with consumers shows the new coatings deliver the same great taste as the originals," the McVitie's owner, Pladis, said in a statement.
Club's classic advertising slogan citing its chocolate content is no longer in use, replaced by: "If you like a lot of biscuit in your break, join our Club."

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 21h

So timtams are now provably better just because number must go up

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Aaron H. Ellis @aaronhughellis.bsky.social · 1d

Variation on a meme:

God: In my book I invented the Golden Calf as a cautionary tale

Evangelicals: At long last, we have created the Golden Calf from classic novel, The Bible

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 1d

We are awarding our President's Medal to 'In Our Time' as it has done so much to showcase humanities & social sciences. We'd decided this before the news of Melvyn Bragg stepping down, but glad we got our timing right & had a chance to celebrate with him!
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/renowne...

Renowned BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time receives prestigious British Academy President’s Medal for 2025

The British Academy has awarded its prestigious President’s Medal to the long-running and beloved BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time. Recognising its outstanding contribution to humanities and social s...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 1d

Because it goes over the head of kids so you don't get complaints

Same era as Are You Being Served and Dame Edna

Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 1d

That was my exact reaction too--most actual Italians I've taken to the BM (admittedly decades ago) loved the place and were a bit smug about the Roman stuff--look, here's where we kicked your arse, etc

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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 1d

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are walking. Blue listens intently as Green goes on talking as he talks, leading the way.
Green: Once we get home, I'll read a book, weave two baskets, re-arrange the pantry, learn esperanto-

Blue interrupts Green, who turns to listen.
Blue: That's quite a list. Are you sure you're being completely realistic?

Green takes a momentary pause from being cartoonish, being now depicted as a painstakingly detailed and shaded painting of a fox, with fur texture, whiskers and all.
Extremely realistic Green: Of course.

Returning back to normal, Green keeps walking. Blue follows, looking at Green with suspicion.
Blue: How long did it take you to draw that gag?
Green: A lot longer than I am willing to admit.

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Another Angry Woman @stavvers.bsky.social · 1d

This is honestly a fascinating read, because it contains a full account of the judge taking the barrister into his office and making him print out all of his citations and point out the relevant paragraphs. Which obviously he couldn't do, because half of them didn't even exist.

Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 1d

This latest "barrister meets AI" disaster is something all stage 1 law students should read. It is vital about the key skill of case reading - you mustn't use AI to substitute for the skill of being able to find cases and find key content in cases:

tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/ui-202...

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Today, Dr. Frankenstein's descendants keep promising that Al won't destroy civilization while ignoring Shelley's point, that the inventor is more dangerous than his monster.”

Del Toro is wired into the outrage in Mary Shelley's sly 1818 novel, a nightmarish satire about men who care only about yelling "first!" without asking what horrors come next. Centuries ago, she warned of man's ill-considered rush to create artificial intelligence. Today, Dr.
Frankenstein's descendants keep promising that AI won't destroy civilization while ignoring Shelley's point, that the inventor is more dangerous than his monster.

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 2d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

It's not got the genius direction of Kurosawa, nor the all star cast of Sturges' 1960 version

But it does have James Cameron's flying tits and Hannibal being very silly, so it's better by default ;-)

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