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Gabe
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Bioinformatician🧬, Geek🖖🏼, Queer🏳️‍🌈, he/him👨🏻‍💻, Mollusc-Fan 🦑, Crafter🧶, Gamer🎲🎮, Bushcraft🏕, Cyclist🚴🏼‍♂️, Cis trans-ally 🏳️‍⚧️ Formerly @ReynardineFox
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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.
I’ve done it three times now and can confirm that it’s fantastic fun!
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
To me, Wiz’n’Liz is the crowning glory: a chaotic platformer that no one else seems to played 😭
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. [🧵]
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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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.
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
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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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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
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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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.
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.
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”
In positive news, Lib Dems refused to even debate whether trans women are women for their gender identity quotas
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secret spoiler from next weeks Alien Earth Finale
(Not facetious, I’m joining this news cycle part way through and literally have no idea 😬)
I honestly can’t tell which side put that up. Is it there to mock him or did he do it himself?
You get to be part of the lucky ten thousand and show them something new
xkcd.com/1053/
Ten Thousand
xkcd.com
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.
I assume she’s in mourning for Trump who, as I understand it, passed away a few weeks ago.
You can’t just go around accusing people of being puppets ;)
Gay men have the lowest divorce rate in the UK 🤷‍♂️
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.
Team mini for the win!
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.