"Impressive" Wordle 1,874 3/6 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Although not as "impressive" as... Wordle 1,873 2/6 🟩🟩🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I assume it tastes like chicken flavoured seasoning, but with added cheese.

Challenge: Get people to name three crimes for which they feel that custodial sentencing guidelines are currently too heavy-handed. I'll wait. /

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social · 21h ago

Sad to see LibDems jump on the prison panic bandwagon. "We know some prisoners must be released earlier, but not them, or them, or him, or her, or them, etc..." is an infinite loop that destroys public trust. Also potentially dangerous, as it throttles arrest/prosecution/sentencing at the other end.

Comparing here and X on Arday is like two different worlds and tbh not in a way that speaks brilliantly of Bluesky’s concern about academic integrity.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · last wk.

also there's two separate sets of accusations for Arday; he got the TES story - done by legitimate journalists and credible academics - killed by legal threats, and then an online racist stumbled upon the material separately.

Under the British Nationality Act 1981, if Baby Girl Brooksbank has a child outside the UK with a non-UK father, that child will both in the top ~50 in the line of succession while not being a British citizen. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Princess Eugenie gives birth to a baby girl in Portugal

The daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson welcomed her third child on Monday.

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Hi @kaylaepstein.bsky.social, please note that the mass of something is the same wherever it is. The weight might be different between the Earth and the Moon, but that's a different question. 🙏 www.bbc.com/news/article...

I'm disappointed that after 8 comments nobody has yet asked the obvious question here.

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Will people be more likely to click the "very positive" button because that's what everyone else is doing, or less likely because it's all worn away and not shiny and green? At last, a practical application for psychological research!

30% of those who voted gave their first-round vote to a racist party. This is not "roundly beaten". It just tells us that there isn't a majority for hate. It should also tell us that the risks of first-past-the-post are intolerable, even if (or, perhaps, because) 34% gave a Labour landslide.

HOPE not hate@hopenothate.org.uk · 5d ago

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK was roundly beaten in the Greater Manchester Mayoral election. In fact, the party was humiliated.

Dis-donc...

The replies to this illustrate a point that remains valid across the entire political spectrum: "Climate policy that affects other people's lives is fine, just keep your hands off <CO2-intensive stuff that I like>, it's only 1% of the problem anyway". /

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · last wk.

aahhhhhhhhhhh can't we have anything, can't we do anything right www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I once had to courier a document from France to a UK university whose literal entire postal address was of the form "AA11 2BB, UK" and it took 72 hours instead of 24 because the French office of the courier company refused to believe that a postcode could represent something smaller than a city.

Alex Holcombe@alexh.bsky.social · 5d ago

A journal has "Address 1" as a *required* field. What do you suggest I enter for co-authors whose university doesn't have a street address? Lack of street address can be literally true, e.g. my university, the University of Sydney, has its own postcode. For now, I put the department name twice.

Why does it say "A 12.5% discretionary service charge will be added to your bill" and not "You can award yourself an 11.1% discount, but we will take every penny of that from the staff's compensation"?

the brilliantly cutting, disparaging term "AI slop" is what we all arrived at informally, and now actual corporations are adopting it themselves. I love this for us

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 7d ago

New: LinkedIn just introduced a "seems like AI slop" button. That's literally what the button says. The thought leaders are going to have a meltdown www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

I think Nigel Farage should pay it too. It's not like he can't afford it.

I would just like to place on record how much I hate hotel self-service check-in, particularly when an employee stands right behind you telling you how to fill in every field.

In which I try to explain, with the aid of rulers going up a slope on a relief map, why it's going to be tricky to see the eclipse in Mallorca on Wednesday 12 August: open.spotify.com/episode/6S1D...

Capitalism is getting out of hand.

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PSA: I have taken over hosting of statstodo.com. But I'm having a couple of DNS and SSL configuration issues with my provider. If you find this message while looking to see it it's down: yes, it's down. I'm working on it. 🙏 In the meantime, the site is working at www.meta-systems.eu/statstodo/in...

You can find both of these arguments next to each other in any online discussion of EES. It's almost as if facts don't matter to some people.

"The special room where one comes up with wild speculations should be called a suppository" -- @smutclyde.bsky.social

A pretty good documentary on scientific fraud. Soundtrack in German or French, but English subtitles are available. Covers Piltdown Man, Stapel, Theranos, and more. www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

Betrug in der Wissenschaft - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Wissenschaft gilt als beste Erkenntnismethode der Welt – doch sie ist nicht unfehlbar. Immer wieder erschüttern Betrugsfälle die Forschungslandschaft. Ob manipulierte Daten, gestohlene Ergebnisse oder...

arte.tv

When the editor has a time machine.

Am I the only person who has a "burner" password for sites where (a) it doesn't really matter if someone hacks it and (b) you don't trust them not to let your password get stolen?

If you have access to really fresh red chillies and really fresh raspberries (ideally both picked in the last hour), take a small taste of both and you may notice some interesting similarities. (Pic from womersleyfoods.com/products/vin...)

A happy light fitting in the Ship Inn, Porthmadog, Wales. #Pareidolia

Kind of a shame that they omitted the last 6 letters of "Liverpool", considering that there is plenty of room on the sign. I guess the overall length of the station name is limited to some number of characters.

Smart time-saving move just before security at SEN (Southend) airport. Kids get to measure whether they are 1m tall or not, which is the criterion for sorting them into lanes at the security check.