Bored Aardvark
@boredaardvark.bsky.social
Interests palaeontology, art especially science and paleoart, science, medicine, history, sewing and beading. Most knowledgeable and least likely to engage in arguments about nutrition - what can I say, the pseudoscientific claptrap wears you down.
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November 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Jesus wept 🤦♀️. I saw this at the time but didn’t realise just how brave John Noakes was. When people talk about getting ride of health and safety I’m guessing they mean going back to this.
BBC just showed this video of John Noakes climbing Nelson’s column.
Wearing flared jeans and ordinary shoes, on a wooden ladder with no harness!
youtu.be/tMrB_3wq2ak?...
Wearing flared jeans and ordinary shoes, on a wooden ladder with no harness!
youtu.be/tMrB_3wq2ak?...
1977: JOHN NOAKES scaling Nelson's Column is TERRIFYING | Blue Peter | Classic clips | BBC Archive
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November 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Jesus wept 🤦♀️. I saw this at the time but didn’t realise just how brave John Noakes was. When people talk about getting ride of health and safety I’m guessing they mean going back to this.
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So we're slightly late to the party given that the big news dropped a month ago, but here's a full hour of the #TerribleLizards #Podcast where @iszi.com and I talk about #Nanotyrannus and what it all means for T. rex and tyrannosaur research going forwards. terriblelizards.libsyn.com/nanotyrannus
Terrible Lizards: Nanotyrannus or not?
The biggest news in palaeontology this year dropped just in time for us to miss it with last month’s episode but we’re giving it the full hour this time. The idea that there’s a miniature tyrannosaur ...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
So we're slightly late to the party given that the big news dropped a month ago, but here's a full hour of the #TerribleLizards #Podcast where @iszi.com and I talk about #Nanotyrannus and what it all means for T. rex and tyrannosaur research going forwards. terriblelizards.libsyn.com/nanotyrannus
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NEWS! 'My vision for Twitter was always an army of foreign nationals monetising propaganda to influence US voters', insists Elon Musk newsthump.com/2025/11/25/m...
‘My vision for Twitter was always an army of foreign nationals monetising propaganda to influence US voters’, insists Elon Musk
After Twitter added a new feature that showed the locations of many high-profile, well-followed MAGA accounts to be outside the United States, Elon Musk has insisted this was his plan all along.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
NEWS! 'My vision for Twitter was always an army of foreign nationals monetising propaganda to influence US voters', insists Elon Musk newsthump.com/2025/11/25/m...
Really enjoyed Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Buchold. A book with a really good middle aged female protagonist is a rare thing. Stands alone but probably want to read The Curse of Chalion first #BookSky
November 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Really enjoyed Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Buchold. A book with a really good middle aged female protagonist is a rare thing. Stands alone but probably want to read The Curse of Chalion first #BookSky
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Some frosty bird nest for #FungiFriday
November 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Some frosty bird nest for #FungiFriday
FFS I hate it when they do this.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
FFS I hate it when they do this.
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A tiny dragon guarding his treasure.
November 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A tiny dragon guarding his treasure.
The Kobo turned up. First impression was it’s tiny, but the screen is the same size as the kindle paperwhite, and the text seems just as clear with lots of adjustments possible, much more intuitive screen controls particularly screen dimming. Colour looks nice but not sure how much I’ll use it. 1/w
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The Kobo turned up. First impression was it’s tiny, but the screen is the same size as the kindle paperwhite, and the text seems just as clear with lots of adjustments possible, much more intuitive screen controls particularly screen dimming. Colour looks nice but not sure how much I’ll use it. 1/w
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US customers: contrary to what you might have heard, art and books from the UK are still TARIFF-FREE! Plus, all import duties are pre-paid by me, so you WON’T have to pay any extra!
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
US customers: contrary to what you might have heard, art and books from the UK are still TARIFF-FREE! Plus, all import duties are pre-paid by me, so you WON’T have to pay any extra!
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
Bollocks to it, tired of giving so much money to Amazon for books and my Kindle battery is very poor now. Going to try a little colour Kobo.
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Bollocks to it, tired of giving so much money to Amazon for books and my Kindle battery is very poor now. Going to try a little colour Kobo.
Can we have our country back please. I’ve been banging on about this since the riots but no one seems to care about community staff.
Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England.
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Can we have our country back please. I’ve been banging on about this since the riots but no one seems to care about community staff.
Ok so Swortdheart by @tkingfisher.com has come out in the UK today. It’s £9.99 on Kindle 😱. Anyone know if the author gets more money if I pay that much? Back to contemplating an alternative eReader (£7.99 on Kobo) - my hands don’t like physical books much and I don’t want to read on a iPad screen.
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Ok so Swortdheart by @tkingfisher.com has come out in the UK today. It’s £9.99 on Kindle 😱. Anyone know if the author gets more money if I pay that much? Back to contemplating an alternative eReader (£7.99 on Kobo) - my hands don’t like physical books much and I don’t want to read on a iPad screen.
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We're going to be pulling AI shrapnel out of the weakly twitching carcass of the British state for decades aren't we?
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
We're going to be pulling AI shrapnel out of the weakly twitching carcass of the British state for decades aren't we?
Made it to course 3 of 4 in the AI for healthcare specialisation before losing the will to live. It was basically just a list of algorithms and their supposed applications which we can do perfectly well already e.g. predict length of stay, allocate resources, interpret scans, diagnose disease. 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Made it to course 3 of 4 in the AI for healthcare specialisation before losing the will to live. It was basically just a list of algorithms and their supposed applications which we can do perfectly well already e.g. predict length of stay, allocate resources, interpret scans, diagnose disease. 1/2
Gary Lineker?
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Gary Lineker?
Best lift ever.
November 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Best lift ever.
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IT’s HERE! The trailer from Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age!
I cannot wait for you to watch it! Once again, I’m so proud to be part of the amazing and talented group of people who help put this series together!
#PrehistoricPlanet
youtu.be/f7kvwp9aIyM?...
I cannot wait for you to watch it! Once again, I’m so proud to be part of the amazing and talented group of people who help put this series together!
#PrehistoricPlanet
youtu.be/f7kvwp9aIyM?...
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3 Official Trailer | Apple TV
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November 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
IT’s HERE! The trailer from Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age!
I cannot wait for you to watch it! Once again, I’m so proud to be part of the amazing and talented group of people who help put this series together!
#PrehistoricPlanet
youtu.be/f7kvwp9aIyM?...
I cannot wait for you to watch it! Once again, I’m so proud to be part of the amazing and talented group of people who help put this series together!
#PrehistoricPlanet
youtu.be/f7kvwp9aIyM?...
Stepped up a notch with the #AI in healthcare course and I’m now well reminded about the different types of regression. But it’s still not AI guys.
And I’m thinking, if they insist on tying healthcare algorithms in with AI they’re going to just make everyone think they’re as useless as chatGPT.
And I’m thinking, if they insist on tying healthcare algorithms in with AI they’re going to just make everyone think they’re as useless as chatGPT.
November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Stepped up a notch with the #AI in healthcare course and I’m now well reminded about the different types of regression. But it’s still not AI guys.
And I’m thinking, if they insist on tying healthcare algorithms in with AI they’re going to just make everyone think they’re as useless as chatGPT.
And I’m thinking, if they insist on tying healthcare algorithms in with AI they’re going to just make everyone think they’re as useless as chatGPT.
So cool. Where an interest in #lichens and #paleontology intersect 😃.
November 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
So cool. Where an interest in #lichens and #paleontology intersect 😃.
Day 5 of my #AI in healthcare course. I have taken to screaming “that’s not fucking AI, we’ve been able to do that for at least 30 years!!!!” at my iPad. My husband has taking to waving a gin bottle at me…..
November 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Day 5 of my #AI in healthcare course. I have taken to screaming “that’s not fucking AI, we’ve been able to do that for at least 30 years!!!!” at my iPad. My husband has taking to waving a gin bottle at me…..
Please someone save me, for I did not know what I did when I enrolled on AI systems for healthcare. For now I have completed the first module, and comes “the data to decision path for infusion of AI in healthcare”. I don’t think my soul can take anymore 😱.
November 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Please someone save me, for I did not know what I did when I enrolled on AI systems for healthcare. For now I have completed the first module, and comes “the data to decision path for infusion of AI in healthcare”. I don’t think my soul can take anymore 😱.
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If you’d like to hear me talk about what I do, now you can, thanks to Elliot and his fantastic People are Fish YouTube channel (well worth subscribing to if you don’t already):
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vntr...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vntr...
Reimaging Your Favourite Dinosaurs | Ft. DragonsOfWales (Andy Frazer)
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November 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If you’d like to hear me talk about what I do, now you can, thanks to Elliot and his fantastic People are Fish YouTube channel (well worth subscribing to if you don’t already):
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vntr...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vntr...