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Mathematician by day, generally asleep by night. Chocolate fountains, sperm cells and bridge signs. @VisualPDE.com and @chalkdustmag.bsky.social. Probably listening to Radio 2.
Still from the film Haul out the Holly.
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #2: Haul out the Holly.
A Hallmark Christmas film, but thankfully not one of the really cheap feeling ones. Has the other one from Mean Girls in it, who obviously goes to a small town to celebrate Christmas.
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Def spoof territory
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #2: Haul Out the Holly.
Single woman returns to parents' huge house for Xmas. HOA insists she decorates the street. Instead of leaving, she falls for HOA president. Painful. Talent wasted on the script. Clearly summer. Is it a spoof? Took me 3 days to watch.
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Young white woman in a pinstripe suit holds up a glass of champagne as though making a toast. Setting is a boardroom meeting.
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #1: Champagne Problems.
Idk why but this reminded me of Emily in Paris even though main girl is competent at her job. Maybe it's because of the scenes where French people talk to each other in French. Anyway I liked it, nice Christmassy escapism. ๐ซ๐ท๐พ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐โ๏ธ/5
The poster for the film Champagne Problems.
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #1: Champagne Problems.
I've already forgotten the plot of this one. Although I do remember the montage of moments from earlier in the film about 2/3 of the way in - the sign of a true blockbuster.
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #1: Champagne Problems.
Workaholic American goes to Paris; gets involved in a champagne business; falls for a Frenchman. Itโs Emily in Paris + tinsel. Starts weak but side characters improve over time and I actually laughed at points. A strong start.
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We're back for 2025! Let's gooooooo โ๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธ๐ฌ๐ฟ๐คฎ
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๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ New Chalkdust alert! ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ
DNA origami, tracks and an interview with El Nombre feature in our AW25 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
Read the entire new issue now at
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We're working on some exciting new features for VisualPDE, but we want to hear from you!
Whether you're a regular user or just tried it once, we'd love your feedback on how you use the tool. Itโs a super short survey (promise)!
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05.07.2025 12:29 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Photos of the four people in the Finite Group, along with the FG logo
FYI: I'm part of the Finite Group, a friendly bunch of mathematicians with a free Discord community and monthly livestreams about cool bits of maths. Our next is 23rd May, when I'll be chatting with @Ayliean.bsky.social about maths & Rubik's cubes! Find out more and join at finitegroup.co.uk
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Standing in front of a low bridge sign marked 1.4m 4โ9โ
Came to Bedford. Was not disappointed. #heighthunt
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๐จ New Chalkdust alert ๐จ
You can read about sudoku, potatoes and crossnumber's biggest secrets right now in issue 21!
chalkdustmagazine.co...
I think Issue 21 is up there with the best issues of Chalkdust (and that's not just because I wrote an article for it)
17.03.2025 08:59 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Want to put more of *you* into your mathematical modelling? Soon you'll be able to do this through your webcam and VisualPDE!
More exciting things coming soon too! Let us know how we can support your science at hello@visualpde.com.
Three excellent people and a great project. You will learn mathematical modelling and how to interact with our experimental colleagues, proper interdisciplinary science. Plus we do excellent cookies at lunch time meetings ๐
27.02.2025 21:06 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hmm OK. DM me and we'll try to figure it out.
26.02.2025 10:11 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hi @wynke.bsky.social โ Do you want to try again now?
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The shortlist for the Chalkdust Book of the Year 2024 is out now. View the list and vote for your favourite book at chalkdustmagazine.co....
We'll be publishing short reviews over the next couple of weeks, including notes relating to our four judging criteria: style, control, damage and agression.
What a great calendar!
05.02.2025 23:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0All these people going around living their lives writing \frac{\partial y}{\partial x} all the time
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #13: Our Little Secret.
A disappointing end to #NetflixChristmas season. Lindsay Lohanโs bfโs sisterโs bf is her ex-bf. They hide this to impress Kristin Chenoweth (wasted). LL gets stoned; everyone swaps partners. ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Not silly enough. #BringBackHudgens2025.
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #12: A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter.
Sabrina sings some OK new Christmas songs and takes part in some OK sketches with guests. But itโs charming and sheโs obviously a great singer, even if it made me feel very old.
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #11: Carry-On.
A cross between Die Hards 2 and 3. A TSA agent resembling Terminator 2 is blackmailed into getting a case on a plane. Starts well, but plot gets silly quickly. Worst is the belief you could have a car chase round LAX ๐. Watch Die Hard instead.
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #10: Christmas as Usual.
Uncomfortable: a Norwegian woman brings her fiancรฉ home for Christmas but somehow her family donโt know heโs Indian and they are really weird about it. Supposedly a real story, but if I were the real womanโs family, Iโd be mortified.
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #9: That Christmas.
An animated adventure with a stellar cast that is less than the sum of its parts. Tired jokes. Strangely features lots of current Xmas songs. But agreed that Santaโs a Scotsman. Bill Nighy wears Redditโs favourite watch.
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Coming soon: a modern take on an old paper by William Newman and Carl Sagan postulating a simple wave-like model of interstellar travel and colonization (link below). Now with inter-galactic heterogeneity, stochasticity, and more!
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Setting is a carnival. Indian man holds pink candyfloss whilst an Indian woman looks at him sceptically.
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #999: Merry Christmas (Hindi)
Starts almost as a romance (woman meets man, takes him back to her place), turns into Hitchcockian thriller when she finds her husband's dead body... then it disappears, then reappears again?? Great film, will leave you guessing. ๐ต๐ต๐ต๐ต๐ต/5
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #8: Merry Christmas.
Occasionally we stumble across a really good film while doing this: this is one of those. As usual, it starts meet cute but quickly turns into a Hitchcock-like thriller.
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #8: Merry Christmas (Hindi/Tamil).
An unexpected gem. Set in Bombay, a man back in town meets a woman at a restaurant and they hit it off. Then it turns into a completely different mystery movie. Great fun, if a little long (mostly the intro credits).
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