Just described Cyclops by saying ‘bro is just sheepmaxing’ and i am very pleased with this synopsis

I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:

With England vs Argentina in the world cup don’t get too excited if it gets to a penalty shoot out .. here an analysis of the 1998 shoot out vs Argentina using regression discontinuity shows increase in heart attacks pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12493655/

Flinty

Mutable Joe@mutablejoe.bsky.social · 3w ago

for the next hydration break france have chosen a 2003 sancerre, let's see if that helps

for the next hydration break france have chosen a 2003 sancerre, let's see if that helps

Hey Bluesky #literati #booksky - I am going to #Canada on holiday and would like to read some books that relate. Specifically Vancouver, Whistler, Banff, Jasper, Calgary, Montreal. Hit me up with your suggestions.

FTFY

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · 4w ago

Better with Kane surely…

Penelope: weaponised by men as the gold standard for wives since BCE. I hopped inside her marriage to Odysseus in a series of letters in my Women’s Prize shortlisted book, A Thousand Ships (2019). Here’s just the beginning… #TheOdyssey #AThousandShips #Penelope

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wake uppe chat, newe schism just droppid

The noise I made on reading the final line was frankly Lovecraftian.

Sam Wilson@samwilson.bsky.social · last mo.

The rightmove listing to end all rightmove listings. If it wasn't for popbitch I wouldn't have caught this one. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...

22 years ago today I released Salad Fingers.

So my prediction of sketchy round of 32 followed by courageous round of 16 followed by defeat on penalties in the quarters looks at once spot on and also optimistic.

I am not enjoying the French away kit. Also not really understanding why an away kit is needed for a blue team against a red team.

Waitrose nightmares

HOW MUCH WINE DAVID?!

The Brazil national anthem is a banger but there are a LOT of words to fit in

Poor Côte d’Ivoire

Messi xkcd.com/3260/

Very excited to hear from @nataliehaynes.bsky.social at the lovely @stgeorgesbris.bsky.social this evening (my birthday eve present to myself)

Please can we talk about ways to make airports - particularly security - less awful. It’s wall to wall sensory overload, being shouted at all the time, lights, people, noise, smells. It makes my neurodivergent daughter anxious for days before and after and even as a mostly NT adult still awful.

Lucky shot

Keeping smartphones outside children's bedrooms at night assoc w roughly one-third lower odds of insufficient sleep at age 14 (OR 0.64). 😴 Important new research out today that all parents should read. The impact that smartphones have on youth sleep, depression & obesity. buff.ly/XyJkviF

These aren’t random protesters being ejected - it’s the editor in chief of the ADA’s top journal.

Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS@dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Shame on the American Diabetes Association- ejecting scientists from the meeting for distributing copies of an editorial critical of NIH funding cuts. Kudos to these scientists for standing up for science and resisting censorship 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Now to go check the IDweek code of conduct page…

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

OK I've just found this, absolutely brilliant (though more of a long-term project) londonist.com/london/museu...

How To Explore London's Museums And Galleries

All the museums and galleries in London.

londonist.com

Lack of careers advice for girls is not the reason top jobs in well-paid sectors go to men.

Green Alliance@green-alliance.org.uk · 2mo ago

"Women make up just 2% of workers in skilled trades and they are underrepresented at senior levels in the energy industry." Manjot Sahota explores how exposure to early careers information about green jobs is currently hindering the diversity of the sector and what needs to change.

Lack of any Wurzels tracks tell me loud and clear that we in the West Country would be completely ignored by a Burnham government

I feel seen. For the record I’m happy to act as a consultant to any film makers who are setting their blockbusters in an analytical chemistry lab of the late 90s early 00s www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The hill I will die on: If Hollywood blockbusters must dabble in science, can’t they get the small stuff right? | Helen Pilcher

Project Hail Mary, Jurassic Park: from dino-mosquitoes to a spaceship’s roar, pointless mistakes on the scientific details make me wince, says science writer Helen Pilcher

theguardian.com

The things I have had to explain to my 13yo because of the Pitt has now been expanded to include fax machines. She is somewhat incredulous.