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Gabe

@reynardinefox.bsky.social

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Bioinformatician🧬, Geek🖖🏼, Queer🏳️‍🌈, he/him👨🏻‍💻, Mollusc-Fan 🦑, Crafter🧶, Gamer🎲🎮, Bushcraft🏕, Cyclist🚴🏼‍♂️, Cis trans-ally 🏳️‍⚧️ Formerly @ReynardineFox

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 18h

I’m always surprised by how many guys with bios saying “no 30+” then go on to message me despite having my age on there.

Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve done it three times now and can confirm that it’s fantastic fun!

Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 9d

Hang on - why’s the engineer in a TOS era engineering red uniform but the captain in a late DS9 era command red uniform? 😅
Someone here should be wearing gold

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 9d

🎶 we all stand together 🎶

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfEy...

Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 10d

To me, Wiz’n’Liz is the crowning glory: a chaotic platformer that no one else seems to played 😭

Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 10d

Vector recreation of the iconic Psygnosis logo.

Psygnosis were a video game developer and publisher from '84 to '99, perhaps most famous for Lemmings and WipeOut. At least to me. I was also fond of a mech shooter called Walker. [🧵]

Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 13d

“who *are* you?”

Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 13d

Isn’t a big part of your role going around and asking people “what do you want?”

a man is asking what do you want in a dark room .

ALT: a man is asking what do you want in a dark room .

media.tenor.com

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 13d

Meeting your equal from another department and immediately knowing that you will die with your hands around each other’s necks, but not appreciating what a journey that would turn out to be.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 13d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 13d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17d

There's a really great MinutePhysics video about the aesthetics- and physics-based reasons for the number of wind turbine blades: youtu.be/pgqkti7yePk

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 17d

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

The Independent @the-independent.com · 18d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 17d

Not the point, but this reminds me of one of my favourite bits of dumb trivia: 978 is the UPC country code for “Bookland”.

Brought in around 2007 to unify old 10 digit ISBNs with 13 digit barcodes, books got their own country with the 3 digit prefix. Bookland! Lovely place to visit.

LeedsBookClub aka Drneevil @leedsbookclub.bsky.social · 17d

Apparently UK supermarkets aren’t labelling food (like mango and watermelon) with its country of origin…if that country of origin is Israel.

Under EU law, country of origin must be stated…but the UK isn’t in the EU anymore.

Anyway, if the first 3 digits on the barcode are 729, it’s Israeli.

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 18d

He really didn’t know what to do with someone who was willing to accept him for what he was 🥲
“Madam, I am not like you! Every sixteen hours, I turn into a liquid!”
“I can swim”

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · 25d

In positive news, Lib Dems refused to even debate whether trans women are women for their gender identity quotas

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Bishop Steiner @bishopsteiner.bsky.social · Sep 19

secret spoiler from next weeks Alien Earth Finale

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · Sep 19

(Not facetious, I’m joining this news cycle part way through and literally have no idea 😬)

Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · Sep 19

I honestly can’t tell which side put that up. Is it there to mock him or did he do it himself?

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · Sep 18

You get to be part of the lucky ten thousand and show them something new
xkcd.com/1053/

Ten Thousand

xkcd.com

Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · Sep 18

Yeah, I definitely wouldn’t have guessed “new age nazis named after a cartoon” 10 years ago. This might be the most ridiculous timeline to be trapped in.

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · Sep 18

It’s a character from Pepe the frog

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groypers

Groypers - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · Sep 18

I assume she’s in mourning for Trump who, as I understand it, passed away a few weeks ago.

Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · Sep 17

You can’t just go around accusing people of being puppets ;)

A scene from Star Trek: Lower Decks. Captain Freeman shakes an alien with a bulbous green head after mistaking him for a puppet.

Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · Sep 16

Gay men have the lowest divorce rate in the UK 🤷‍♂️

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 15

Nigel Farage:

"Children who have two stable parents have a better chance in life... The most stable relationships, the ones that last the longest, tend to be between men & women... There's an awful lot of kids in the country not getting the kind of start... they deserve."

Farage has two ex-wives.

Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · Sep 13

Team mini for the win!

Gabe @reynardinefox.bsky.social · Sep 12

Trying to decide how I feel about the season finale of Foundation. As someone who knows the books well, it’s always nice to be surprised (and that was very surprising), but I’m not convinced it made sense, especially to those who don’t know the books at all.