Alan Kelly
@akellyucc.bsky.social
Personal ramblings about the world we live in and life in general, especially science and culture. Frequent puns and dogs. Professor and food scientist at @ucc.bsky.social
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big grocery making the tills cashless but keeping the trolley requiring a coin
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
big grocery making the tills cashless but keeping the trolley requiring a coin
Listening to the brilliant @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social podcast and startled to hear reference to how quickly Richard Linklater makes films.
Was Boyhood not possibly the slowest movie making ever undertaken @kermodemovie.bsky.social?
Was Boyhood not possibly the slowest movie making ever undertaken @kermodemovie.bsky.social?
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Listening to the brilliant @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social podcast and startled to hear reference to how quickly Richard Linklater makes films.
Was Boyhood not possibly the slowest movie making ever undertaken @kermodemovie.bsky.social?
Was Boyhood not possibly the slowest movie making ever undertaken @kermodemovie.bsky.social?
I cannot believe this got into Nature but apparently it did. Holy crap.
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I cannot believe this got into Nature but apparently it did. Holy crap.
What would happen if you listened to Blue Monday on Black Friday?
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
What would happen if you listened to Blue Monday on Black Friday?
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😂. I love that HACCP, a food safety management system used in every food production and service facility today, was invented by NASA in the 60s to basically make sure this wasn’t a panicked spacedash
Astronaut Hates Long Nightly Spacewalk To ISS Outhouse https://theonion.com/astronaut-hates-long-nightly-spacewalk-to-iss-outhouse/
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
😂. I love that HACCP, a food safety management system used in every food production and service facility today, was invented by NASA in the 60s to basically make sure this wasn’t a panicked spacedash
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Feck
The historic Georgia election interference case against President Trump and allies for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election is no more. n.pr/4ol3cED
The Georgia election interference case against Trump and others has been dropped
The historic Georgia election interference case against President Trump and allies for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election is no more.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Feck
Sounds more like Pepsi than turkey
(In a famous slogan lost in translation episode the drink’s “come alive” message informed startled Chinese customers that it would bring their ancestors back from the dead)
(In a famous slogan lost in translation episode the drink’s “come alive” message informed startled Chinese customers that it would bring their ancestors back from the dead)
"A turkey may be so prepared and preserved that, according to Artephius’s Key of Wisdom, “an ingenious Man may raise the fine Shape of a Homunculus out of its Ashes at his Pleasure, so he may, without any criminal Necromancy raise the Shape of any dead ancestor for study and labor.”
How to Brine a Turkey, by H.P. Lovecraft
This time of year all cabbalists, daemonologists, magicians, and the like share amongst their number one scrap of forbidden knowledge: that soakin...
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Sounds more like Pepsi than turkey
(In a famous slogan lost in translation episode the drink’s “come alive” message informed startled Chinese customers that it would bring their ancestors back from the dead)
(In a famous slogan lost in translation episode the drink’s “come alive” message informed startled Chinese customers that it would bring their ancestors back from the dead)
Everyone ranking their Star Wars movies tonight and I really struggle to do this as on different days the order could be very different except for the top spot
a man says it 's beautiful in front of a group of soldiers
ALT: a man says it 's beautiful in front of a group of soldiers
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Everyone ranking their Star Wars movies tonight and I really struggle to do this as on different days the order could be very different except for the top spot
Screaming the quiet part out loud while giggling maniacally
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Screaming the quiet part out loud while giggling maniacally
He thinks an LLM means a postgraduate degree in Law
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
He thinks an LLM means a postgraduate degree in Law
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How much damage did this unregulated arrogant bunch of unqualified yahoos do to America and the world? How many people suffered and died because of them?
BREAKING: President Trump has shut down the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
The agency was originally scheduled to last until July 4, 2026
The agency was originally scheduled to last until July 4, 2026
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
How much damage did this unregulated arrogant bunch of unqualified yahoos do to America and the world? How many people suffered and died because of them?
A scientific study of dad jokes has found that dads who love pets are most likely to find them funny.
As they say, I feel seen.
As they say, I feel seen.
November 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
A scientific study of dad jokes has found that dads who love pets are most likely to find them funny.
As they say, I feel seen.
As they say, I feel seen.
Then: Leo Sayer
Now: Leo Singer
Now: Leo Singer
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Then: Leo Sayer
Now: Leo Singer
Now: Leo Singer
30 years ago I was at my first conference ever in Tel Aviv with a collaborator and we found an Irish bar decorated with every Irish cliche but owned and run by British guys who reckoned the marketing was better and most people wouldn’t notice
“Cultural appropriation” wasn’t a term then but…
“Cultural appropriation” wasn’t a term then but…
November 23, 2025 at 9:51 AM
30 years ago I was at my first conference ever in Tel Aviv with a collaborator and we found an Irish bar decorated with every Irish cliche but owned and run by British guys who reckoned the marketing was better and most people wouldn’t notice
“Cultural appropriation” wasn’t a term then but…
“Cultural appropriation” wasn’t a term then but…
Good COP/bad COP?
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff
Wealthy countries should triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Good COP/bad COP?
“As creative as it is genuine, The Beep Test showcases a band fully blossoming into their own thing and not afraid to carve their own path. Honestly, if you can’t vibe to some of these songs, you’re likely dead inside.”
Great review of by my son’s band’s recent album (yes this is a shameless plug)
Great review of by my son’s band’s recent album (yes this is a shameless plug)
God Alone - "The Beep Test" - Everything Is Noise
Look no further than God Alone's new album "The Beep Test" for a bloody good time. Check out our review right now!
everythingisnoise.net
November 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“As creative as it is genuine, The Beep Test showcases a band fully blossoming into their own thing and not afraid to carve their own path. Honestly, if you can’t vibe to some of these songs, you’re likely dead inside.”
Great review of by my son’s band’s recent album (yes this is a shameless plug)
Great review of by my son’s band’s recent album (yes this is a shameless plug)
Why would you listen to Marjorie Taylor Greene when you can listen to
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Why would you listen to Marjorie Taylor Greene when you can listen to
They get zero Marx for this
BREAKING: The House passes a resolution condemning socialism, per FOX
November 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
They get zero Marx for this
Gorgeous sky colours on a freezing morning
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Gorgeous sky colours on a freezing morning
This is a US senator. The wheels really appear to be coming off the wagon (hopefully)
November 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is a US senator. The wheels really appear to be coming off the wagon (hopefully)
Another normal day in the White House
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Another normal day in the White House