@akellyucc.bsky.social
Personal ramblings about the world we live in and life in general, especially science and culture. Frequent puns and dogs. Professor and food scientist at @ucc.bsky.social
They must be very small PhD level experts. Or very big pockets.
07.08.2025 20:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is really very funny, and sadly very true
youtu.be/4QA-7p11dAQ?...
The iHavenoshame
07.08.2025 18:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0An appalling Vista
07.08.2025 16:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Excellent
06.08.2025 21:37 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0On a lighter note, it does remind me though that I won a pun competition on Twitter in 2021 with this:
I wasn’t sure the vaccinator was giving me their best shot, so I asked to see their super Pfizer
One of the most revolutionary and literally life-saving (and not just in an abstract way, but quite possibly directly personally for many people) scientific developments, being deliberately sabotaged. Crazy. Evil.
06.08.2025 21:08 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The best you might get is an AI doctor who talks away to them while diagnosing stuff.
ChattyGP
Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
See the canonical example below.
Oil on Canvas by Japan
05.08.2025 22:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Batman was always elusive on his identity
05.08.2025 20:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Holy Roman Emperor, Batman
05.08.2025 20:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Aha
05.08.2025 19:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No, why?
05.08.2025 18:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Stay in your own lane space creep
04.08.2025 19:49 — 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 6 📌 0Actually I see that as a command not a question! Anyway, let’s call the book “Beautiful question mark, where are you (?)”
01.08.2025 07:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For the avoidance of doubt maybe they should name it the “KENNEDY (but not that one) CENTER”. In case RFK Jr got notions.
31.07.2025 21:32 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This Gerry Mandering seems like the worst cartographer ever. Who hired him?
31.07.2025 20:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I was a celebrity: how did they get me out of here?
31.07.2025 20:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Things that are clearly questions not followed by a question mark. For example, the title of a best selling Irish book of recent years.
31.07.2025 18:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0They should reject his premises
31.07.2025 18:13 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you’re a law graduate applying to do an LLM can you use a PhD to help though?
31.07.2025 16:50 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1I’ve been wondering about this…..
31.07.2025 16:46 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I recently finished and greatly enjoyed your Empire book so must get this one next
31.07.2025 08:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Do military historians react very differently to other academics when asked about their conflicts of interest?
30.07.2025 20:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They got it wrong anyway. Corman only made bee movies
30.07.2025 20:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Headline says “Marlborough woman killed in ME explosion lit up every room, husband says” with a photo of a burning candle.
There’s absolutely no way this was the best phrasing choice for this headline.
30.07.2025 18:20 — 👍 1223 🔁 176 💬 30 📌 13Oops.
30.07.2025 18:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You want a word war too?
30.07.2025 18:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0There will also be a new tram line to the docks timed around sailings because Luas trips sync ships
30.07.2025 16:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
