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Bored Aardvark

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Interests palaeontology, art especially science and paleoart, science, medicine, history, sewing and beading. Most knowledgeable and least likely to engage in arguments about nutrition - what can I say, the pseudoscientific claptrap wears you down.

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I am in this photo and I don’t like it.

01.03.2026 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

There was one on at the NEC today at the same time as the national equine show. I was considering kidnapping a few harassed looking other halves and taking them to see the Luna Eclipse therapy ponies.

01.03.2026 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yay, Monarch Legacy of Monsters is back for a new season. It’s pretty much the only fiction TV program that I’ve got past a couple of episodes of in a while.

28.02.2026 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve got highly developed skills and domain knowledge in my area and AI is worse than useless. It can’t tell the difference between evidenced based science and pseudoscientific claptrap. Even if you give it quality science it cannot pick out the relevant facts or even just misrepresents what is said

28.02.2026 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Or I do and it just disagrees with your opinion.

28.02.2026 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t think Β£300 is going to go far as you think in the upkeep if a family home.

28.02.2026 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This also doesn’t say what you asserted. This is not how you have an evidence based conversation.

Arguing with me isn’t going to persuade the NHS to prescribe a massive cohort of people an expensive drug with potentially serious health risks on the say so of companies that profit from it.

28.02.2026 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s only to age 25 - how is that going to show cardiovascular risks? It’s also not properly excluding cofounders You can’t just share a study and say it says what you want it to say.

28.02.2026 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Stating β€œfacts” with no evidence base isn’t going to help your cause. You cannot have private clinics giving everyone who pays them a label and expect the NHS to just prescribe drugs with long term health consequences.

28.02.2026 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t be ridiculous. They are adults, they should pay their share.

28.02.2026 10:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think we may still have one very like that in the loft.

27.02.2026 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s a by election. You use it to kick the government.

27.02.2026 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s a by election. You use it to kick the government.

27.02.2026 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh don’t be so histrioni. It’s a byelection after the incumbents have been in a couple of years.

27.02.2026 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🚨BREAKING🚨 Robert Jenrick has defected from Reform to the Greens.

27.02.2026 07:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2320    πŸ” 305    πŸ’¬ 100    πŸ“Œ 35

Oh I missed that what a walloperπŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ

27.02.2026 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There was a local election near here yesterday. The Refrom bots were all over the posts about it. Saw the results this morning - none of them had been willing to put the work in to stand.

27.02.2026 08:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

AD - you can choose AI if you like of course. Bloody spell check is completely self obsessed.

26.02.2026 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But it really gets on my tits when people saying guaranteeing free high quality end of life care to all before implementing AD isn’t possible. Because then you just end up with the choice of bankrupting your family or choosing AI.

26.02.2026 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes problems are complex, sometimes there’s no good solution and you’re left asking what will do the least harm.

Lots of us have met people who would pressurise relatives to end it early so they don’t use up too much of their inheritance on care or be a burden to them to look after.

26.02.2026 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Frankly it’s not a lot more harmful than the summary it gave for the latest diet in pregnancy guidelines from the bnf

26.02.2026 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was waiting to get paid πŸ˜€

26.02.2026 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Who?

26.02.2026 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tbh I don’t use a desktop much now. I got my first computer about 45 years ago and my RSI is pretty terminal now. Just limping on until I retire.

26.02.2026 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh god I’ve been hearing people banging on about Linux for decades. If it provided a decent alternative it would have happened by now.

26.02.2026 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The splitters temporarily de split.

26.02.2026 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A spreadsheet from 1998 has way better functionality than the slop ridden disaster that websites are these days. Perhaps it was designed by someone who understood user interface design, and that you should be able to find the thing you want straight off the front page and access it with one click.

26.02.2026 07:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If he doesn’t want to be accused of being the other cheek of the populist arse from Farage, every accusation is an admission is not the way to go.

26.02.2026 07:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There’s some serious malpractice going on by some metal health practitioners here. Giving a label rather than teaching people strategies to deal with faulty thinking patterns.

25.02.2026 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I can remember seeing this on feeding pigeon on trafalgar square, probably in the late 1970s/very early 80s. I don’t think pigeon mesh or spikes were a thing back then.

24.02.2026 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0