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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 11h

I remember many years back reading through the SCP foundation cases and the ones which unsettled me the most was a memetic infection.

Which feels unsettling like what's happening to many people.

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 13h

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 19h

"Lots done. Lots more to do."

As Parliament is set to return tomorrow, here is a video the Labour government have put out to show us some of the things they have achieved in the first year.

And it's a LOOOOOOONG list.

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 15h

In summary Peter Thiel's logic

A meme with man labelled Peter thiel looking at a butterfly daring id this Chris/antichrist

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 2d

Reshare: This new set of RPG histories from Shannon Appelcline and Evil Hat seems like it'll be a treasure trove of facts and fun stories for fans of the first few decades of D&D.

www.rascal.news/shannon-appe...

Shannon Appelcline returns with a product-by-product history of the first decades of D&D

Designers & Dragons: Origins promises to be another essential reference.

www.rascal.news

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 2d

One hundred games is a heck of a lot of games to play, or even to own, but it's a staggering number to write, even if they're only a single page long. Chase chats to Grant Howitt, designer of Honey Heist and many other one page games, about the game jam he's running to celebrate the milestone.

One hundred one-page RPGs later, Grant Howitt isn’t ready to quit

Don’t you dare call it a legacy.

www.rascal.news

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 17h

Published in 2024 so aware a lots changed since then.
But represents my son and I quite well.
Has a tiger- hence why he picked it up.
And honestly the patter of the rhymes is cracking.

Definitely recommend there's a Tiger on the train by Mariesa Dulek and Rebecca Cobb.

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 17h

Presenting myself to colleagues as the first paediatric geriatrician

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 17h

Depressing to see this reversal in representation but reposting just to shour out the books that do keep trying to boost representation.
Was at the National railway Museum yesterday and my son spotted this book amongst the big brands and thankfully went for it.
Read it to him 10 times already.

The cover of there's a Tiger on the train.
By Mariesa Dulak and Rebecca Cobb
A large tiger in a top hat looks at a small boy with a red cap on

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 17h

Hadn't even thought that it fits so closely to my specialty!
But also such a daft thing to say medially- as I've met 65 year olds who I would never put near an operating table and 90 year olds who I've managed to get spinal surgery on.

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 18h

Afraid this is Bluesky's energy today

A girl in a pink dress looks at a sign saying that sign can't stop me because I can't read

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 18h

The 65 year olds in question

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 18h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

'I added a D-Dimer'

#medsky

Tim Norfolk @icmtim.bsky.social · 19h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

“Remember that patient you…”

Shai @shaiuk.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

“They’re for FULL escalation”

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 19h

Following the toddler round a soft play is probably the closest I'll get to recreating the Ace Ventura Rhino scene.

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

Clearly Mr Laos is embodying someone who has completed 100% of the side quests before facing the final boss below.

The Pope and two priests in front of an aweinspiring/horrifying spirit of Jesus

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly not sure how this is going to Pain out.

Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

France's postal service rolls out croissant-scented stamp 🥐

France's postal service rolls out croissant-scented stamp

France has launched a croissant-scented stamp to celebrate its emblematic flaky pastry, its national postal service, La Poste, announced on Wednesday.

www.france24.com

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly not sure how this is going to Pain out.

Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

France's postal service rolls out croissant-scented stamp 🥐

France's postal service rolls out croissant-scented stamp

France has launched a croissant-scented stamp to celebrate its emblematic flaky pastry, its national postal service, La Poste, announced on Wednesday.

www.france24.com

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

All I can think of is Kerching!
I'm sure it laid the seeds for hustle culture in the UK

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

And Philip Howard books in Roundbay. Order a lot into them but also do a lot of local books top

www.hive.co.uk

🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

Haven't been able to make it to a bookshop myself today on National Bookshop Day but will try to boost the two near me.

The little bookshop in Chapel Allerton which has a focus on kids books but a very good adult section (not like that) in the back.

The Little Bookshops

The Little Bookshop Books Leeds Skipton Fiction Non-Fiction Children's books

www.thelittlebookshopleeds.co.uk

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

It's very curious as the states is the origin it seems of so much tech and innovation.
But so little of that seems to have filtered to day to day life.

Wonder if part of it is the geographical size plus so much been state specific preventing homogenisation?

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

First time going to the National Railway Museum and man what a fantastic place!
All had a great time, toddler got to ride the train in and out of York and could have spent hours in the wonderlab.

A black train with a sign saying happy 50th Birthday to the national Railway Museum

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like he wasn't a person of interest

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 1d

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Jim Caviezel Won’t Return as Jesus for Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

bit.ly

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

Remember a really good BBC documentary a few years back in Dubai.
A guy had moved there for the low income tax rate but wasn't free to say anything critical about the Sheikh when asked.
Bizzare the choices people make and the liberties they give up

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🎃🦇 Batrick Read 🦇 @oldmandoc.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting to see, especially after Sam Freedman's informative column this week

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