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Andrew Yool
@dryool.bsky.social
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Novel reader, 🐈 lover, amateur 📸, gamer 🎮, slow 🚲, coattail-rider, rare blogger & ocean 🌊 biogeochemistry modeller (in that order). Views=own, RTs≠endorsement.
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Embarrassingly, I totally used AI to convert the original image into one with robots for "reviewers". Obviously with the super high quality, if logically / physically incoherent, result that one expects from AI ... 🤦 Prompt: "Modify this image so that the figures in red togas are replaced by robots. Otherwise keep the image as similar as possible, including the red togas."
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Alternatively: "100% of #gamers believe #Steam has a monopoly on PC games that spares them from having to install multiple bullshit apps like #Uplay / #EAApp"

Sure, @steampowered.com's monopoly is bad, but so is having to tolerate a whole load of crap alternative platforms.
November 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Hey @royalsociety.org - hate to break it to you, but just because you were formed in the wake of Britain's last civil war, doesn't mean you'll weather one fomented by your most racist, most scumbaggy Fellow. You're embarrassing UK science by acquiescing to a fellow who doesn't even respect you.
Screengrab from the Other Place of an evil billionaire scumbag fomenting civil war in the UK
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Hello #Clippy - sorry! Hello #Mico!

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
An AI-generated image of Microsoft Copilot's new avatar, Mico, painting over the name "Skynet" on a sign with its own name. Thanks to ChatGPT. Prompt: "Create a cartoon image of Copilot's new avatar, Mico, painting over a sign reading "Skynet" with their name "Mico". If you don't know what Mico looks like, have a look at the attached image."
October 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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I'm not entirely sure how to take this ...
Text in email: "You only have (Unlimited) days to complete the following assignments:"
October 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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While visiting @samsocean.bsky.social near #Oban, Team #SMARTEX takes a moment to look at a much shallower marine ecosystem … 🌊
A panoramic view taken while looking northwest from the Chapel Hill shoreline, close to Dunstaffnage Castle and the Scottish Association of Marine
October 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Glasgow keeps on being #Glasgow ...
The equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Glasgow, wearing its traditional traffic cone
October 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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<Looks around> No shit, Sherlock
New Scientist headline: Evolution of intelligence in our ancestors may have come at a cost. Accompanied by an ambiguous image of an early human.
October 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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No it's not.

(WTF happened to #NationalGeographic?)
National Geographic headline: "Science fiction's 'warp drive' is speeding closer to reality"
October 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Saw this and thought that. And AI was happy to oblige.
September 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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#CloudPorn - I can never get enough.
Upward view in London with buildings and a blue sky with fluffy clouds A segment of the London Eye with back-illuminated clouds in front of them. Upward view in London with buildings and a blue sky with fluffy clouds. Reflections on the glass windows of the buildings.
September 29, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Would love to be a fly on the wall when the #TimesOfIndia discover what coal-fired power stations (~45% of electricity production) and the resulting climate change will do to female 🦀 crabs, 🌊 marine ecosystems, 🌳 terrestrial ecosystems, 🚜 farming productivity, 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 human populations, coastlines, ...
September 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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@bas.ac.uk people - Is this true? If so, good for you.

I'm not sure what equivalent film would best work for computer-based Earth system modelling scientists (specifically marine 🌊 BGC), but I'm open to suggestions.
Screen grab of the following text: "This movie has become part of the culture in Antarctica. It is a long standing tradition in all British Antarctic research stations to watch "The Thing" as part of their Midwinter feast and celebration held every June 21."
September 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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I really wish they'd stop calling it "scepticism" when it's clearly just "fuckwittery" ...
Headline screengrab: "Climate change scepticism is rising. Will Starmer hold firm or buckle?"
September 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Only "in doubt"?!? Why the uncertainty @royalsociety.org? Is there something that's offsetting your Fellow's avowed racism, anti-science agenda, and recent call to violence?
BBC News headline concerning "uncertainty" around Elon Musk's Royal Society fellowship
September 19, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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As someone who grew up in a "Famous Golf Town" on Scotland's east coast, I was particularly tickled by this graphic from a fantastic "myth-busting" piece on #SolarEnergy by
@carbonbrief.org ...

interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...
September 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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In a bit of a coincidence, it's 8 years to the day since I was using #Lisbon's funicular trams. The same day I also snapped the second image of some graffiti we spotted in the city. Some of the commentary today has put the blame (at least in part) on the burden #MassTourism puts on #MassTransit.
A funicular tram in action in the Portuguese city of Lisbon in 2017. The view is down a steep road. The tram is heavily graffitied. Graffiti seen in the Portuguese city of Lisbon in 2017. The graffiti reads "Mass tourism = Human pollution". This photograph was taken on the same day as the preceding tram photograph.
September 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Autumn has arrived. And it has brought house guests. 😱
An unwelcome house guest: a big-ass spider. Autumn has totally arrived.
August 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Cool, calm and collected. Today's Bank Holiday visitor to our garden. Actually, more just passing through than visiting. 🦊
A fox walking along the rear wall of a UK garden A fox walking along the rear wall of a UK garden A fox walking along the rear wall of a UK garden A fox walking along the rear wall of a UK garden
August 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Then again ... #DailyHate
August 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Charismatic (after a fashion) megafaunal graffiti in the home of @noc.ac.uk ... 🦑🌊
Graffiti of a shark in the Avenue Underpass of Southampton Common. If you want to see it, best be quick - there was a nice graffiti cat here just a few weeks ago. Turnover is rapid.
August 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.
This photo is of the plaques carried by the two Pioneer spacecraft. From Wikipedia: "The Pioneer plaques are a pair of gold-anodized aluminium plaques that were placed on board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer 11 spacecraft, featuring a pictorial message, in case either Pioneer 10 or 11 is intercepted by intelligent extraterrestrial life. The plaques show the nude figures of a human male and female along with several symbols that are designed to provide information about the origin of the spacecraft."
August 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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They even treat their *ducks* with more respect than right-thinking natives!
August 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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DC is clearly a total dystopian hell-hole!
August 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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The #Trump #Crypto grift rolls on ...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
AI generated image using the prompt: Create a cartoon image of a ship (on the left of the image) with the wording "USA!" on its side blithely steaming towards what looks like a small iceberg with the word "Crypto" on it above its waterline (on the right of the image). The image also shows the situation below the water with the submerged portion of the iceberg being enormous in size with the words "Ponzi Scheme" prominently marked (again, on the right of the image, directly beneath the surface-protruding part of the iceberg).
July 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM