Call the Nightingale
@oldlights.bsky.social
Aspiring author, reluctant world traveller, and astonishingly cynical occasional analyst of international politics. Some things I just do for me. The best hope for all humanity is respect for the law. A law men don't respect is no law at all.
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The Next Day@incompetusrex.bsky.social · 2w agoI solved the daily #CluesBySam, Jul 21st 2026 (Easy), in 03:07 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com
Hunting skills: 0% Accuracy: 0% Confidence: 100% #Cat #Caturday #Catsofbluesky #LifuX
I support women’s wrongs (when a female T-Rex eats lawyers)
AiddonValentine@aiddonvalentine.bsky.social · 3w agoAnd there she is
Woo! I am 80% finished with this book. Amazing how fast it comes compared to the previous one; I knew rewriting the first book was a good idea!
At least Abbott, Turnbull, and Morrison actually had differences beyond personal hatred. What the hey is going on in Westminster?
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 2mo agoAndy Burnham’s win in a high-stakes by-election means his campaign to become Britain’s next PM will now burst into the open. Keir Starmer has a chilly reception awaiting the new MP. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/now-...
However crazy I am, at least I'm not a Russian zealot demanding the end of global technological civilisation in a radioactive orbital haze that because my army can't take a ruined village. It's a low bar, but I clear it.
ChrisO_wiki@chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 2mo ago10/ Roman Alekhin calls for nuclear weapons to be used in space to destroy Starlink: "The only chance I've mentioned is to use nuclear weapons to destroy Starlink and other communication satellites and then fight without them."
Should be truth in advertising laws about calling whatever is going on at Queen Victoria Markets a night market. Have these people ever seen a night market? That ain't it. But at least I have the mental wherewithal to judge, which is a step up after months of crisis.
The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.
As someone says down in the thread, if we're going to have data centres at all, put them in far north Canada. Or Greenland, maybe. Places where humanity has already altered the environment.
John Smillie@johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 3mo agoMy first thought was: this is dumb My second thought was: well, they do have the most reliable source of terrestrial wind power on the planet
I remember the Dinosauroid! That was a very strange period. I think I was 8. Even at the time I thought it kind of silly, because why would they look like us? As a thought experiment, though, it's intriguing.
Darren Naish@tetzoo.bsky.social · 3mo agoYour reminder that Naish & Tattersdill (2021) published an historical overview of the niche phenomenon that was Russell and Seguin's 'dinosaur man' project, and included therein previously unshared correspondence, backstory and imagery. A write-up on the paper is at... tetzoo.com/blog/2021/8/...
The problem is that in many cases these dang car parks are legally required. We are very bad at this.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 3mo agoFinished another novel in between bouts of repeated illness. I'm not sure I understand why having more than one book in a series ready to go makes the first one more salable. I mean, the pieces click the gears in my head, but they don't fall together neatly.
If there's one thing that can persistently disgust me about Australia and its people, it's our attitude towards the rule of law and our obligations as a society when it gets down to people we just don't like. Especially when they're brown people. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
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I'm so tired. On top of my ongoing major depressive disorder, I have now had chronic pain for a year. Exactly a year. It's taken too fucking long to get in and every day feels like forever. The world's gone to hell and I'm sick of it. I'm sick of being here.
Reminder that really good experiences can still lead to "con drop" when the dopamine and endorphins wind down. In addition to set and setting, you'll ideally need gentle, enjoyable inputs for the next few days after, as well. Not like, Only, but definitely to a higher degree. Aftercare is important.
Winston Churchill quite literally asked the Americans to overthrow the very popular socialist Iranian government in 1953 because Churchill wanted the UK to keep extracting Iran’s oil wealth without paying for it. Please do be a bit more historically aware.
Alan Rusbridger@arusbridger.bsky.social · 5mo agoChurchill would have been appalled by a figure like Trump. But some journalists have convinced themselves that Starmer is to blame for this hiccup in the “special relationship” app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72649/...
I hate science fiction. I hate science fiction even more when it pretends to be science.
New Scientist@newscientist.com · 5mo agoThe science writer delves into the vast subject of consciousness in his new book A World Appears – and draws some surprising conclusions, finds Grace Wade
Important thing for the Greens is, I suppose, the primary vote rose, but a blow to the minor party regardless. Obviously McNamara had to do what was best for her; I'm in no position to judge anyone for quitting because of health problems. But the party could have been better prepared.
Leroy@leroylynch.bsky.social · 5mo agoTerritory Labor's Ed Smelt wins #Nightcliff by-election, taking the Greens' only NT seat www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... #ntpol
If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.
How Pixar’s Open Sexism Ruined My Dream Job (Guest Column)
A former Pixar employee writes that after John Lasseter's departure, the company still has a lot of work to do to fix its sexist culture.
variety.com
I absolutely NEED to know more about this story. This is *fascinating* and we still have no answers as to why someone literally tried to unwrite a game from existence
We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation
We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.
gamehistory.org
Women in Science: Alice Schlichtiger on Leadership & MS https://www.byteseu.com/1855662/ International Women’s Day is an opportunity not only to celebrate the achievements of women, but also to highlight the ongoing need to accelerate gender equality. Although the number of women working in …
Women in Science: Alice Schlichtiger on Leadership & MS - Bytes Europe
International Women’s Day is an opportunity not only to celebrate the achievements of women, but also to highlight the ongoing need to accelerate gender
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I do, of course, loathe science fiction. Unquestioningly and without exception. This is an example of why. Worse, it pretends to be real science www.futura-sciences.com/en/if-humans...
If humans disappeared, which species would take over the Earth? - Futura-Sciences
It sounds like the premise of a science fiction film. Professor Tim Coulson, a zoologist at the University of Oxford, treats it as a serious evolutionary question and his answer, laid out in his 2024 ...
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So many legs!! Moved this guy off the trail at the Park. Moved to a moist loose soil area. #invrrtes Milipede is as close as I can ID.
Turkey is going to stare at this and then laugh like this dude. This exact laugh.
a man with a mustache is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face .
Alt: a man with a mustache is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face .
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BYTESEU@byteseu.bsky.social · 5mo agoNATO membership top of Cyprus’ priorities after drone attack https://www.byteseu.com/1855358/ Cyprus is making renewed preparations for membership of the NATO military alliance after suffering a drone attack earlier this week. “If it were possible, we would submit an application tomorrow,” …
