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@drchrisdillon.bsky.social

A thoroughly leftie, Guardian-reading chap, but of the champagne socialist variety. Recovering Stellar Physicist. Fan of cardigans. Unrepentant Bibliomaniac. Moustache haver. He/Him.

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Zora's Domain from BotW but it says Zohran's Domain

Zora's Domain from BotW but it says Zohran's Domain

05.11.2025 03:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5591    ๐Ÿ” 1301    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
star wars; palpatine has retuned memo, but says woke instead

star wars; palpatine has retuned memo, but says woke instead

05.11.2025 05:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2338    ๐Ÿ” 357    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Is there a video version of this??

23.10.2025 19:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.

22.10.2025 10:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4043    ๐Ÿ” 654    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 56    ๐Ÿ“Œ 20

Thank you Nicola Davis for actually linking to the underlying study โ€“ So many science articles quoting a journal never actually link to or reference it! So annoying!

01.10.2025 10:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

25.09.2025 16:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2076    ๐Ÿ” 540    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 85    ๐Ÿ“Œ 36

His autobiography is incredibly sweet and introspective. Under-rated national treasure. Have you seen him making pottery?

23.09.2025 07:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

23.08.2025 13:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4320    ๐Ÿ” 1818    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 46    ๐Ÿ“Œ 46

The US was 80/20, so 20% fat :)

19.08.2025 07:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you compare like for like with 20% beef itโ€™ll be ยฃ7/kg, so ~ยฃ3.20/lb , $4.30/lb? Add on sales tax and the US meat is probably 50% higher per lb.

18.08.2025 21:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cute!

16.08.2025 20:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

(Hopefully Merlin will finally respect that weโ€™re Drs)

15.08.2025 21:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is genuinely a life goal, I want to be the weaponised PhD expert for slagging your mates.

15.08.2025 21:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A great day for the parish! Wish I could make it down, but I'm sure you'll be back on the Island before too long. If you've ever watched Derry girls maybe I can convince you to make a pilgrimage there one day.

15.08.2025 15:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ordered a copy today from my local bookshop, canโ€™t wait to start it!

14.08.2025 20:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Looking forward to those Zelda episodes coming up!

14.08.2025 09:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Zelda snubs, lost gaming communities, and the great โ€˜is this even a video game?โ€™ debate.

In this special correspondence episode, @simonparkin.bsky.social answers your questions on the state of educational games, surprising omissions from the Perfect Console, and more.

Listen here: bit.ly/45DHqop

14.08.2025 08:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Family of Southport stabbing victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspects Exclusive: Michael Weston King, grandfather of Bebe King, warns government against โ€˜kowtowing to the likes of Farageโ€™ The family of Bebe King, one of the three girls killed in the Southport attack last year, have urged ministers to reconsider their support for disclosing the ethnicity of serious crime suspects, saying this information is โ€œcompletely irrelevantโ€ and that โ€œthe propensity to commit crime happens in any ethnicity, nationality or raceโ€. Bebe was six when she was murdered by 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana, a Welsh-born black Briton from a Christian family who had lived in the local area for a number of years. Continue reading...

Family of Southport stabbing victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspects

14.08.2025 09:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 230    ๐Ÿ” 85    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 19

Just a reminder that if you're working on the HBO Harry Potter show, or the audiobook, or making/buying licensed Harry Potter products, or covering *any* of the previously noted without mentioning JK Rowling's virulent and non-stop transphobia, this is what you're supporting:

06.08.2025 11:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2275    ๐Ÿ” 986    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

Interdental brushes are the GOAT for this.

02.08.2025 22:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh no Ellen that's terribly sad โ€“ I hope the orange boy returns home soon!

28.07.2025 10:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Prague, 23 November 1911
Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie,
Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say.
But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you!? that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling. However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism!
I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin(3) too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom i

Prague, 23 November 1911 Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie, Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say. But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you!? that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling. However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism! I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin(3) too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom i

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything youโ€™d want in such a letter:

(1) your haters are trash
(2) youโ€™re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planckโ€™s radiation field ๐Ÿงชโš›๏ธ

27.06.2024 14:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9075    ๐Ÿ” 3221    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 68    ๐Ÿ“Œ 144

Maybe itโ€™s because Iโ€™ve been holding a newborn for two weeks but it has occurred to me a lot that nihilism is not actually tenable long term - eventually someone will come along and try to rebuild a lot of things because thatโ€™s just what people do

21.07.2025 18:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 861    ๐Ÿ” 89    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
21.07.2025 13:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 137    ๐Ÿ” 42    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Look, speaking as a physicist, it is hard for me to put into words how batshit crazy this is.

16.07.2025 04:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1572    ๐Ÿ” 253    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 81    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

Heโ€™s always been taken in by grifters and amoral characters provided theyโ€™re sufficiently famous. TED-talk brained.

14.07.2025 18:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Guys, thereโ€™s no chance of the Irish becoming a minority in their own country. Do you know how many generations it would take for that to even be possible? If thatโ€™s something youโ€™re worried about ahead of healthcare, housing, wealth inequality, climate change etc you might just be a racist

08.07.2025 21:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 239    ๐Ÿ” 53    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Love this! Great moustache! Itโ€™s the superior facial hair.

07.07.2025 15:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh my god thatโ€™s so blatantly a phone charger as well. What an absolute ghoul, but how did no one notice this right away??

06.07.2025 20:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Deeply upsetting, love the TCM wine club, had always wished it was available in Ireland.

20.06.2025 22:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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