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Giles Sparrow is adrift in the vortex
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Pop science writer/editor consultant for hire, specialising in astronomy and its history. Regular nerd with @somethingwho.bsky.social
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Sometimes, the timeline just comes into alignment:
Justin Ling parodies Olivia Nuzzi's, deathless prose: "I stood on a rock. The rock was a gun. And everyone pointed the gun at me. The Politician called "Rocks," he said. He was so smart. Smart like a rock. My cat was on fire." This is immediately followed n my timeline by Simon: "I've bought some new socks."
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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"And that was..."
John Peel at the sound desk.
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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The baked-looking 'Aliens!" guy quotes the wisdom of Jeffrey Epstein...
November 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Every line its own aliens guy meme:
The "aliens" guy reckons "7 Skin as part of brain? Memebrane?"
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Aliens guy channels Epstein's brainworms: "And the speed of light simply mean one time around. Obviously a constant."
November 16, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Took a few days off for a trip to Chester and saw these gorgeous fossa pups at the zoo!
Fossa pups - they look like slinky little kittens with rounded ears and tails as long as their bodies, but are in fact highly specialised mongoose relatives from Madagascar. Super-cute as babies, magnificent as adults, and bad news if you're a lemur on the menu!
November 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Your third burn of the morning:
A O C tells Riley Gaines she might have had a better sports career if she channeled all her anger into swimming faster.
October 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Morning - what's going.. oh.
The is this a pigeon meme, only its Americans, some interminable baseball match, and cricket.
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
Oh dearie me - it's the crew from The High Life! You fercoffee?
October 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Who wore it best?
Doctor Who's Black Guardian, probably The Queen, played by Valentine Dyall
October 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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October 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Oh. My. God. PTA nailed it.
A security guy confiscates an "Exodus 8:2" sign being held up by a quiz show audience member in a scene from Magnolia (1999).
October 14, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Unsolicited:
A small antelope species in Namibia. Photo by Yathin S Krishnappa, via Wikipedia. CC BY-SA 3.0
October 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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A small antelope species in Namibia. Photo by Yathin S Krishnappa, via Wikipedia. CC BY-SA 3.0
October 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Is this appropriate? I feel I need more information…
Der Grilli des Nibelungen. Wagner appears to have diversified…
September 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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At the Frankischer Volksfest in rural southern Deutschland…
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A fairground ride with liberal ideas about IP… A familiar ginger trunk and quiff… Leo di Caprio recognising stuff
September 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Space Voyager - ran to about 15 issues in the mid-80s combining astronomy, space travel, modelmaking, telefantasy and literary SF. Absolute catnip!
September 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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"Just waggle his tail and say something racist."

"Alright, we've tried everything else."
The Doctor, Romana and K-9 are caught in a chronic hysteresis.
September 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Maybe if we try... another mini-reshuffle?
Once again, the "days since last incident" sign has to be reset...
September 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Unless it's this guy? (In which case, run away!)
Necros arriving to deliver some explosive dairy products in The Living Daylights...
August 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I fixed it for them:
I've edited the latest ridiculous AI hype story from the Guardian with a pic of a Speak and Spell: AI tells Guardian: 'When I'm told I'm just a stochastic parrot, I simulate the sad in a way microtargeted towards gullible journalists.' Ex-Microsoft 'portfolio management' dude invents new grift to keep AI hype bubble floating just a little longer, puts self and imaginary friend in charge.
August 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Fixed it for them:
I've edited the latest ridiculous AI hype story from the Guardian with a pic of a Speak and Spell: AI tells Guardian: 'When I'm told I'm just a stochastic parrot, I simulate the sad in a way microtargeted towards gullible journalists.' Ex-Microsoft 'portfolio management' dude invents new grift to keep AI hype bubble floating just a little longer, puts self and imaginary friend in charge.
August 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Fixed it for them:
I've edited the latest ridiculous AI hype story from the Guardian with a pic of a Speak and Spell: AI tells Guardian: 'When I'm told I'm just a stochastic parrot, I simulate the sad in a way microtargeted towards gullible journalists.' Ex-Microsoft 'portfolio management' dude invents new grift to keep AI hype bubble floating just a little longer, puts self and imaginary friend in charge.
August 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Fixed it for them:
I've edited the latest ridiculous AI hype story from the Guardian with a pic of a Speak and Spell: AI tells Guardian: 'When I'm told I'm just a stochastic parrot, I simulate the sad in a way microtargeted towards gullible journalists.' Ex-Microsoft 'portfolio management' dude invents new grift to keep AI hype bubble floating just a little longer, puts self and imaginary friend in charge.
August 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
gswrites.bsky.social
Fixed it for them:
I've edited the latest ridiculous AI hype story from the Guardian with a pic of a Speak and Spell: AI tells Guardian: 'When I'm told I'm just a stochastic parrot, I simulate the sad in a way microtargeted towards gullible journalists.' Ex-Microsoft 'portfolio management' dude invents new grift to keep AI hype bubble floating just a little longer, puts self and imaginary friend in charge.
August 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM