Mike Sowden
@mikeachim.bsky.social
Writer (on science, travel & curiosity), Yorkshireman, tedious enthusiast, professional overthinker, Megathreader. Now: Scotland.
Writes Everything Is Amazing: https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/
Writes Everything Is Amazing: https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/
Thank you for sharing my awful living nightmare! 😅 (Thank you. So kind.)
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Thank you for sharing my awful living nightmare! 😅 (Thank you. So kind.)
It does for some folk!
Pretty wild how an illusion like this can work in so many different ways, including not at all, between so many people. Truly all our brains are unique in entertainingly subtle ways.
Pretty wild how an illusion like this can work in so many different ways, including not at all, between so many people. Truly all our brains are unique in entertainingly subtle ways.
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
It does for some folk!
Pretty wild how an illusion like this can work in so many different ways, including not at all, between so many people. Truly all our brains are unique in entertainingly subtle ways.
Pretty wild how an illusion like this can work in so many different ways, including not at all, between so many people. Truly all our brains are unique in entertainingly subtle ways.
It's six months later and I just reposted it, Terry, so I'm doing what you said. So it's your fault now.
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
It's six months later and I just reposted it, Terry, so I'm doing what you said. So it's your fault now.
You are! The right-hand one should have a more acute lean. It doesn't work on everyone, though...
November 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
You are! The right-hand one should have a more acute lean. It doesn't work on everyone, though...
All credit due to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and the book the quote is from, which I will never tire of rereading.
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
All credit due to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and the book the quote is from, which I will never tire of rereading.
Reposted by Mike Sowden
Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.
Thank you! 🙏 Glad I could point you towards this amazing thing.
November 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Thank you! 🙏 Glad I could point you towards this amazing thing.
Reposted by Mike Sowden
...and as you can see, it has a combined plunge & downslope that's 11,500 feet, or almost two miles, high.
Here's that Burj Khalifa photo again.
Now please imagine *four* of these, stacked on top of each other, plus an extra few hundred metres on top.
BLIMEY.
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Here's that Burj Khalifa photo again.
Now please imagine *four* of these, stacked on top of each other, plus an extra few hundred metres on top.
BLIMEY.
7/
November 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
...and as you can see, it has a combined plunge & downslope that's 11,500 feet, or almost two miles, high.
Here's that Burj Khalifa photo again.
Now please imagine *four* of these, stacked on top of each other, plus an extra few hundred metres on top.
BLIMEY.
7/
Here's that Burj Khalifa photo again.
Now please imagine *four* of these, stacked on top of each other, plus an extra few hundred metres on top.
BLIMEY.
7/
Relatedly, this: bsky.app/profile/mike...
“Chatroom contributions are given equal status with serious academic work,” Evans, an expert on the Third Reich, told the Guardian, after being invited to test out Grokipedia. “AI just hoovers up everything.”
'Wikipedia-beater' my magnificent British ass.
'Wikipedia-beater' my magnificent British ass.
It's remarkably consistent which articles Gobbypedia lifts wholesale from Wikipedia and which it alters. It's editorial
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
November 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Relatedly, this: bsky.app/profile/mike...
Thank you so much! Really great to hear they're landing with you as I hoped. 🙂
November 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Thank you so much! Really great to hear they're landing with you as I hoped. 🙂
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Thanks for reading! 🙏
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Thanks for reading! 🙏
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November 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Finally, if you like sciencey stories like this, maybe give my newsletter a go? It's totally free to sign up:
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Thanks for reading! 🙏
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Thanks for reading! 🙏
...and considering it was only formally discovered in 1989 (!), it’s quite the thing for us to spend nearly the whole of our history as a species not knowing anything about!
As I have said before (see below), GEOLOGY IS NOT BORING: bsky.app/profile/mike...
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As I have said before (see below), GEOLOGY IS NOT BORING: bsky.app/profile/mike...
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A while back I learned something mindblowing about the geological history of the Mediterranean Sea, and I just can't get it out of my head.
Now I'm going to make it *your* problem too. Sorry.
Hang onto your hat. This is wild.
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Now I'm going to make it *your* problem too. Sorry.
Hang onto your hat. This is wild.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
...and considering it was only formally discovered in 1989 (!), it’s quite the thing for us to spend nearly the whole of our history as a species not knowing anything about!
As I have said before (see below), GEOLOGY IS NOT BORING: bsky.app/profile/mike...
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As I have said before (see below), GEOLOGY IS NOT BORING: bsky.app/profile/mike...
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