Seamus Blackley
@seamus.bsky.social
Them: You're the father of the xbox!
Me: If it moves back in, it’s paying rent.
theoretical physics | CEO | gastroegyptology | cacao | CHM trustee
Me: If it moves back in, it’s paying rent.
theoretical physics | CEO | gastroegyptology | cacao | CHM trustee
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Seamus Blackley
@seamus.bsky.social
· Apr 30
I’m in England, in a field of Barley. Today, I’m going to collect wild yeast under that tree back there, and I’m going to show how to feed and grow it until it’s ready to bake with. We are going to start at the very beginning, and end at the end.
(this is an experiment in thread transfer)
(this is an experiment in thread transfer)
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(If you haven't seen it, great golly you're welcome.)
Betty Boop - Minnie The Moocher - 1932 HD
YouTube video by Betty Boop HD
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:24 AM
(If you haven't seen it, great golly you're welcome.)
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Cinema will find a way. 💕
December 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Cinema will find a way. 💕
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My television runs on Android and what a sorry, amateur, horrid experience it delivers. I assume they get away with this only because most consumers are trained to expect it to suck. Fucking thing just needs to switch inputs and it garbage collects like it’s processing global transactions for Visa.
December 7, 2025 at 6:32 AM
My television runs on Android and what a sorry, amateur, horrid experience it delivers. I assume they get away with this only because most consumers are trained to expect it to suck. Fucking thing just needs to switch inputs and it garbage collects like it’s processing global transactions for Visa.
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It’s hard for me to hate them. They probably have no budget. They work in UI at a TV company. Yuck. And realistically nowadays it’s probably one guy contracting from somewhere with low wage laws getting yelled at by idiot executives to make copilot prompts. It’s all on a greased slide to purgatory.
December 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
It’s hard for me to hate them. They probably have no budget. They work in UI at a TV company. Yuck. And realistically nowadays it’s probably one guy contracting from somewhere with low wage laws getting yelled at by idiot executives to make copilot prompts. It’s all on a greased slide to purgatory.
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The best part is when the POWER BUTTON has a multi-second delay so that everyone who uses it goes through several cycles of turning it back off again whilst waiting for it to show it’s on, and 50-80% *check to see if it’s plugged in.* HOW DOES THAT PASS QA?
December 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The best part is when the POWER BUTTON has a multi-second delay so that everyone who uses it goes through several cycles of turning it back off again whilst waiting for it to show it’s on, and 50-80% *check to see if it’s plugged in.* HOW DOES THAT PASS QA?
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Hey London pals, I have a friend with an extra ticket to Lander 23, Punchdrunk’s immersive multiplayer stealth game, 3.30pm on Wed 10th in Woolwich. Ticket is £40. Please DM me if you're interested and available and I'll connect you!
December 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Hey London pals, I have a friend with an extra ticket to Lander 23, Punchdrunk’s immersive multiplayer stealth game, 3.30pm on Wed 10th in Woolwich. Ticket is £40. Please DM me if you're interested and available and I'll connect you!
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Also, Nota Bene: if you find yourself on the verge of reply guy mansplaining to me about the challenges of deploying software across a diverse spectrum of global consumer electronics devices, stop right there and use Wikipedia, you inattentive and brainless layman.
December 7, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Also, Nota Bene: if you find yourself on the verge of reply guy mansplaining to me about the challenges of deploying software across a diverse spectrum of global consumer electronics devices, stop right there and use Wikipedia, you inattentive and brainless layman.
My television runs on Android and what a sorry, amateur, horrid experience it delivers. I assume they get away with this only because most consumers are trained to expect it to suck. Fucking thing just needs to switch inputs and it garbage collects like it’s processing global transactions for Visa.
December 7, 2025 at 6:32 AM
My television runs on Android and what a sorry, amateur, horrid experience it delivers. I assume they get away with this only because most consumers are trained to expect it to suck. Fucking thing just needs to switch inputs and it garbage collects like it’s processing global transactions for Visa.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wzhn...
“Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land
About their leader with the famous face?
Will you tell them that the reason nothing ever grows
In the garden anymore
Because he wanted to win the craziest race
That's this world over.”
“Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land
About their leader with the famous face?
Will you tell them that the reason nothing ever grows
In the garden anymore
Because he wanted to win the craziest race
That's this world over.”
Xtc - This World Over
YouTube video by Rockula Bacchus
m.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wzhn...
“Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land
About their leader with the famous face?
Will you tell them that the reason nothing ever grows
In the garden anymore
Because he wanted to win the craziest race
That's this world over.”
“Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land
About their leader with the famous face?
Will you tell them that the reason nothing ever grows
In the garden anymore
Because he wanted to win the craziest race
That's this world over.”
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By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
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When people are mean to you, remember the universal truth that it comes from their own fears, not from a deficiency in you. So don’t react. Chin up. Wait for the reality of their own internal conflict to take care of it.
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
When people are mean to you, remember the universal truth that it comes from their own fears, not from a deficiency in you. So don’t react. Chin up. Wait for the reality of their own internal conflict to take care of it.
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I HAVE NO IDEA WHO NEEDS TO HEAR THIS BUT DUMBARTON OAKS' MEDIEVAL LIBRARY IS HAVING A 30% OFF SALE.
IF YOU WANT TO GET INTO THE WEIRDASS SHIT I STUDY, THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY.
(You need to order from the publisher's website directly)
IF YOU WANT TO GET INTO THE WEIRDASS SHIT I STUDY, THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY.
(You need to order from the publisher's website directly)
November 30, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I HAVE NO IDEA WHO NEEDS TO HEAR THIS BUT DUMBARTON OAKS' MEDIEVAL LIBRARY IS HAVING A 30% OFF SALE.
IF YOU WANT TO GET INTO THE WEIRDASS SHIT I STUDY, THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY.
(You need to order from the publisher's website directly)
IF YOU WANT TO GET INTO THE WEIRDASS SHIT I STUDY, THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY.
(You need to order from the publisher's website directly)
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Tragically, this decipherment was only necessary because of a one-man Spanish Inquisition, a deliberate, decades-long campaign by a single Catholic priest, Diego de Landa, to destroy the Mayan language & culture.
One Catholic Priest Destroyed the Entire Mayan Written Language
The priest, Diego de Landa, wiped out all knowledge of the written language, and nearly destroyed the spoken language too.
churchandstate.org.uk
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Tragically, this decipherment was only necessary because of a one-man Spanish Inquisition, a deliberate, decades-long campaign by a single Catholic priest, Diego de Landa, to destroy the Mayan language & culture.
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I am so enormously thankful for essentially every person I know and have ever met, and for everything they have taught and given to me. The good, the bad, and the unspeakable. It all counts. The trick is to remember to pay that debt forward to everyone you meet from now on. ❤️
November 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I am so enormously thankful for essentially every person I know and have ever met, and for everything they have taught and given to me. The good, the bad, and the unspeakable. It all counts. The trick is to remember to pay that debt forward to everyone you meet from now on. ❤️
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I hate that negativity gets all the amplification by social media algorithms.
Let’s amplify LOVE instead.
I am beaming love at you. Right now.
Fuck the haters. I defy you. I am beaming extra love right into your face. Relax and be loved.
Let’s amplify LOVE instead.
I am beaming love at you. Right now.
Fuck the haters. I defy you. I am beaming extra love right into your face. Relax and be loved.
November 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I hate that negativity gets all the amplification by social media algorithms.
Let’s amplify LOVE instead.
I am beaming love at you. Right now.
Fuck the haters. I defy you. I am beaming extra love right into your face. Relax and be loved.
Let’s amplify LOVE instead.
I am beaming love at you. Right now.
Fuck the haters. I defy you. I am beaming extra love right into your face. Relax and be loved.
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An ox-head Iron Age bowl handle from Llantrisant Fawr in Wales. Some 2000 years old and gloriously ’Celtic’ with incised tongue. Known (I believe) as ‘bovril’ the vessel was worked on by @archaedelle.bsky.social . Having seen it this week I thought it perfect for #findsfriday #archaeology #celts
November 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
An ox-head Iron Age bowl handle from Llantrisant Fawr in Wales. Some 2000 years old and gloriously ’Celtic’ with incised tongue. Known (I believe) as ‘bovril’ the vessel was worked on by @archaedelle.bsky.social . Having seen it this week I thought it perfect for #findsfriday #archaeology #celts
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Mathematicians Make Surprising Breakthrough in 3D Geometry with ‘Noperthedron’ www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...
This New Shape Breaks an ‘Unbreakable’ 3D Geometry Rule
The noperthedron has a surprising property—which disproves a long-standing conjecture
www.scientificamerican.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Mathematicians Make Surprising Breakthrough in 3D Geometry with ‘Noperthedron’ www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...
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When Einstein proposed general relativity he laid out three tests: the precession of Mercury's perihelion, deflection of light by the sun, and gravitational redshift.
Irwin Shapiro proposed a fourth test #OTD in 1964: the gravitational time delay of light. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
Irwin Shapiro proposed a fourth test #OTD in 1964: the gravitational time delay of light. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
November 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
When Einstein proposed general relativity he laid out three tests: the precession of Mercury's perihelion, deflection of light by the sun, and gravitational redshift.
Irwin Shapiro proposed a fourth test #OTD in 1964: the gravitational time delay of light. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
Irwin Shapiro proposed a fourth test #OTD in 1964: the gravitational time delay of light. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
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These new papers on the 'dga of planar loops' look very fun: arxiv.org/abs/2511.15653 🧮
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 AM
These new papers on the 'dga of planar loops' look very fun: arxiv.org/abs/2511.15653 🧮
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ahah IT WORKS look it's a C² dual quaternion B-spline!!
this is interpolating *poses* in dual quaternion form, coupling position and rotation, instead of treating them independently (this is a really neat thing!!)
this is interpolating *poses* in dual quaternion form, coupling position and rotation, instead of treating them independently (this is a really neat thing!!)
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
ahah IT WORKS look it's a C² dual quaternion B-spline!!
this is interpolating *poses* in dual quaternion form, coupling position and rotation, instead of treating them independently (this is a really neat thing!!)
this is interpolating *poses* in dual quaternion form, coupling position and rotation, instead of treating them independently (this is a really neat thing!!)
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No, Apple “AI,” Philip is not a bighorn sheep. He’s a relatively small (but intellectually enormous) standard Dachshund.
I know that there aren’t many photos of dachshunds on the internet for you to learn from so it makes sense that you’d get this wrong.
I know that there aren’t many photos of dachshunds on the internet for you to learn from so it makes sense that you’d get this wrong.
November 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
No, Apple “AI,” Philip is not a bighorn sheep. He’s a relatively small (but intellectually enormous) standard Dachshund.
I know that there aren’t many photos of dachshunds on the internet for you to learn from so it makes sense that you’d get this wrong.
I know that there aren’t many photos of dachshunds on the internet for you to learn from so it makes sense that you’d get this wrong.