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London’s most expensive house, the Reform UK Treasurer, Holly Valance, one of Labour’s biggest donors, a £265m sale, and a curious loophole we’ve uncovered that could slash the taxes earned from elite London properties. London Centric x Dan Neidle collab. www.londoncentric.media/p/londons-mo...

London’s most expensive house, Reform UK’s treasurer, and a massively reduced tax bill

A £265m mansion in the heart of the Chelsea • Sold by billionaire Nick Candy and his ex-wife Holly Valance • Bought by a Labour-donating hedge fund boss • Why was the tax bill so small?

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IKEA’s made a Skyrim mod where you get a bookshelf companion voiced by Matt Berry www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tBl...

KALLAX STORAGEBORN, a free creation for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim™ from IKEA.

YouTube video by IKEA UK

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Our Guests of Honour at #AussieCon5....

I think this is how you bait a @rogger.bsky.social trap?

Iain Clark@iainjclarkart.com · last mo.

OR WHY NOT TRY (At the chippie today in Northumberland.)

Is it the heatwave that caused every pub to install a beer slushie machine, because I am 100% in favour of this development. And may be wondering how much it costs for a slushie machine

Behold, our heat pump of joy! Made beautiful by local graffiti artist Binty Bint bintybint.com

I want to visit Japan for many reasons, but the current highest is the possibility of meeting Robin the island cat: www.instagram.com/p/DajMhZNk6t8/

Anyone watching the Tour in Japan on J-Sports gets commentary from Osamu Kurimura (in yellow), Kiyoki Adachi... and Luke, the guitarist in heavy metal band Seikima II who is also a keen cycling fan when he's not devil-worshipping

I don't know what I did to end up on this mailing list but I don't like it

Whale Necropolis, and weird fishes. Glorious chewy carcasses, the real circle of life: ‘we report a vast whale necropolis extending 1,200 km along the floor of the Indian Ocean, comprising 5 modern whale-fall communities and 476 fossil cetaceans.’ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone - Nature

Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insi...

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It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

Oh, the drama!

This is a really cool piece on how Alan Alda has funded an initiative to help researchers better communicate their findings to the public through learning improv skills.

Alan Alda’s Solution to Eroding Trust in Science: More Improv

The “M*A*S*H” star’s program to help researchers overcome their communication challenges now draws thousands. We sat in on a class.

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Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

Someone stole my card details and spent 700 Canadian dollars on Ontario tollway fees, one more example of the negative externalities of motor vehicles on non-drivers

"Brace yourselves,” said Kenyan opposition politician Fred Matiang’i. “The worst is about to come.”

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 4mo ago

‘Malawi has exhausted its strategic fuel reserves and is selling part of its gold holdings to raise foreign currency, as the economic shockwaves from the Iran conflict deepen an existing fuel crisis in one of Africa’s poorest countries.’ www.ft.com/content/273a...

2026 me: Hi 1986 me! 1986 me: 2026! What bit of science fiction is coming true? 2026 me: Butlerian Jihad.

Rich Raho@richraho.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Pope Leo addresses the Synod Hall after presentation of his first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas: “Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. The word is strong, I know, but deliberately chosen."

website that picks the Rothko closest to how the weather feels in your location (by Joonas Virtanen) rothko.joonas.wtf

There's been some high profile criticism of test-negative method for vaccine effectiveness, as well as counter-criticism. Yet remarkably little in media saying what the method actually does, why it's useful, what the limitations are, and how we can improve it. Great that John Drake wrote this:

Jay Bhattacharya Called Test-Negative Study Design ‘Crap.’ Here’s How We Know Whether Vaccines Measured With It Are Effective

Jay Bhattacharya dismissed the test-negative design as 'crap.' The biostatistics literature tells a different story.

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@jc-ie.bsky.social OK, do you have a doppelganger or is this your photo looking like you are in charge of the Oxford University Central Ethics Committee? www.ox.ac.uk/research/sup...

There’s a LOT going on as researchers and public health experts race to respond to the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in DRC and Uganda before it grows bigger. Some really important questions still open, but also a few answers coming into view🧪 My overview in @science.org is here (and thread coming):

Scientists play catch-up to startling Ebola outbreak

Testing, sequencing, and clinical trial efforts spring to life as Bundibugyo virus spreads

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The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

I like the idea that barbers are stuck in a The Producers style romp, where they want to do money laundering but are instead vastly popular salons

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

And then following up by complaining about ‘too many barber shops, hair dressers, coffee places’. I.e. in-person services.

"Based on the dataset you shared, US and UK responses differ mainly in tone, intensity, and wording style, even though they express similar emotional states" New post on what happened when I got Copilot to do some data analysis: kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

Real signals or artificial stereotypes?

Adventures with a cultural Copilot

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lots of rehearsals this week

Incredible chart (from otherwise depressing news story about bad advice being given to new parents) showing how cot deaths fell by 50% in the first year after the 'Back to Sleep' campaign was launched, and have continued to fall since. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre', Maryland - I was privately commissioned to memorialise the BARC by a past employee after learning it will be shut down by the USDA after over 100 years of research. They wanted to focus of this aerial embroidery to be the field plots... 1/3 (see thread)