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'Peckham Fish Shop, 1973' by Hector McDonnell (Private collection)

Hon, mention: Turning on the TV news for 10 seconds for information and then switching it off again.

Athena Kugblenu@athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 3h ago

forget inaccuracies, I don't like it when: -people have outdoor shoes on very nice carpets -drink huge measures of whiskey at 2pm then do some highly skilled work like assassinate someone from distance -walk around with empty cups pretending they are full - brush their teeth with no toothpaste

"Great question! Platform 12 is the third album by US indie pop band, Boxie 49, and was released in 2004. It was met with generally positive reviews but the group released no further albums. If you mean right wing platforms, ask me more."

James Felton@jimmfelton.bsky.social · 5h ago

Man in a gilet stood on platform 12 gives up on reading the display and asks ChatGPT out loud if he is on the right platform for his train. I don’t want to be dramatic about it but Eratosthenes figured out the circumference of the Earth using a stick and knowledge of a distant well.

"Smart" technology

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · yesterday

🇫🇷 Major French supermarket chains on Monday said they had been hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to defrost in hundreds of stores, forcing spoilt food to be thrown away and raising concerns about food security. ➡️ u.afp.com/SCxU

He sounds insufferable tbqf

Exclusive: Do you remember the polling company Redfield and Wilton, which appeared from nowhere in early 2020, whose polls quickly appeared in lots of publications? The company’s director is a registered solicitor, prompting questions over where the polling expertise came from. Here’s the answer…

Nigel Farage adviser had unpublicised role at polling firm

Exclusive: Chris Bruni-Lowe used Redfield & Wilton Strategies role to develop potential campaign tactics, sources say

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I'm torn between Oh-god-this-is-made-by-AI and Oh-god-this-is-an-exceptional-AI-Colonoscopy. Make your own lovely minds up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TNp...

LGTM (Looks Good to Me) - Claude Opus 5.5 music video

YouTube video by Degenerative Pixels

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Very much "hello, fellow kids" energy to this presenter on #c4news about Brand. Also, why is she holding a tablet she never refers to?

My favourite Red Hot Chili Peppers song about poor TV picture quality is probably Scart Issue

Sorry for the alpaca-based spoilers.

Daniel Radosh@radosh.bsky.social · 23h ago

My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"

I don't see how you all (well, some of you), can watch this Strictly bobbins. It is so visually offensive it feels like living in a tub of Quality Street (when you used to get LOT of Quality Street).

“Teaching strategies to support”. Or “teaching”.

Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 24h ago

How can we design teaching that better supports international students to succeed within higher education? Here are teaching tips to boost classroom practice for the #inclusion and benefit of all students: https://ow.ly/hfjv50ZWUjk #Highered

Yes, he’s an attention- seeker. So why are you giving him attention?

Scientists at Newcastle & Durham published a study supporting the talking points of the grouse moor industry, funded by an "anonymous donation". After a year-long investigation, the authors now admit that the money came from... a group of grouse moor owners. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Correction to “The Influence of Different Aspects of Grouse Moorland Management on Nontarget Bird Assemblages”

Click on the article title to read more.

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Sophie E. Hill@sophieehill.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wiley's original investigation concluded that there was no violation of their policies. The investigation was only "reopened" when I pointed out the implications of this loophole...

Kind of obsessed with this spooky season scene my 12-year-old painted today.

This famous, foundational result is a myth - a false narrative constructed in the subsequent literature and projected back, wrongly, onto the original study. Quite how this happened is beyond the scope of our review - we are currently looking into this in a follow-up study of citation contexts.

Oh lord. #deletesAnotherSection

Dr Nick@nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · yesterday

New paper! Accepted at Perspectives on Psychological Science. A textbook finding in infant psychology is that newborns - within ~1 hour of birth - visually track a simplified 'three blob' facelike stimulus further than its inverted control (see picture). This suggested inborn knowledge of faces!

Hahahaha they generated their fake data using seed(42) which let someone exactly reproduce their pipeline. 😂

Neuroskeptic@neuroskeptic.bsky.social · yesterday

This is an astonishing @pubpeer.com post: pubpeer.com/publications... The author compares data points from a figure against random numbers produced with a certain seed, finding r > 0.999999996! 🫠 Could there be any possible innocent explanation? The paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hey kids. Ever wondered what a 'persistence homological scaffold' really is? If you're a psychologically healthy person, then probably not, but if (like me) you have the acquired psychic trauma caused by reading psychedelic neuroscience papers, then this post is for you! medium.com/@m.b.wall/wh...

What the f*** is a ‘persistence homological scaffold’? A guide for non-mathematicians.

This paper (Petri et al., 2014) is a classic in the psychedelic neuroscience world, and if you’ve ever been to a talk on psychedelics…

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My chum Nina’s spooky anthology play, Uncle Morty’s Antique Shop, opens in Kentish Town (in That London) tonight! Go if you can. Last performance is Saturday.

📰How police scanned 1.3m faces across Manchester 🗣️"Scanning people's faces as they go about their daily lives represents a serious intrusion into privacy Without proper safeguards police should pause facial recognition use" www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

'A digital police line-up': How police scanned 1.3m faces across Manchester

SPECIAL REPORT: Greater Manchester Police says live facial recognition has helped identify wanted offenders and vulnerable people. For critics, however, the technology risks turning public spaces into...

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Roses are red Violets are blue The Telegraph blows a gasket All because

[Recap:] The US remake of Ludwig is moving forward, with the ABC channel ordering a pilot of the comedy drama, penned by British comedian Humphrey Ker and his wife, American writer Megan Ganz. www.comedy.co.uk/tv/fyi/1206/...

Humphrey Ker writing US remake of Ludwig - British Comedy Guide

The US remake of Ludwig is moving forward, with the ABC channel ordering a pilot of the comedy drama, penned by British comedian Humphrey Ker and his...

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1. I was in school 2. How did he find out?

They only do bottoms floors. They're quite explicit about it.

Sarah Brand@drsarahbrand.bsky.social · 2d ago

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Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? High profile University research fraudster: The lab manager/postdoc left it

frank n furter@mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 2d ago

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Graphic designer: clear space on a document is important to rest the eye

Less atmosphere than Mercury.

Martin Fitzgerald@4hundredblows.bsky.social · 2d ago

Buffet - gammon

Oh, and a plan drawn by me from March 1991 #goinglive @saturdaymornings.co.uk