Vanessa is the name of the Doctor!

that's my point?

check your new followers

Anyway, this reminds me that when we moved to Brum one of the 1st things we did was make a list of all local curry take-away places and sytematically work through them all. Our fav list has evolved, multiple closures & new openings, but I realise we're way overdue another systematic try-n-see year.

Even ppl who know that it doesn't work in their own countries believe that it works for The Other via some magical Orientalist Thinking. Clearly all Italians have a sixth sense for who makes the best pasta, and this rickshaw driver has definitely tried all 140 stalls at the night market. come ON.

#MondayNetwork - a regular appeal to any #skystorians with intersecting interests: food /nutrition, surviving climate change, environmental determinism, race science, exploration, acclimatisation & physiology, cit sci, Indigenous knowledge, & related topics to say hi or share link to your work! 🗃️

Reminder to the #histSTM #skystorian crowd that there's an online, free seminar this pm UK time which feels like it might speak to a lot of contemporary interests (including #EnvHist - see you there!

This is why I roll my eyes when I see the standard travel advice on forums "ask a local" rather than use guide books or food blogs or whatever. it's terrible advice! the average person on the street has not eaten at every restaurant in town! Most ppl aren't adventurous with (expensive) eating out!

I will eventually appear on housegawp sites for my seaglass conservatory

What I did on a stormy rainy Saturday: soldering

IDK kinda funny that the people most enamoured of slopAI are also those who waffle on about echochambers and their dangers, innit.

SSHM AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025 Monday 6 October [Online]  4:00 – 5:30pm (UK time)  As required, the Society gives notice to members that the Annual General Meeting to formally accept the accounts for 2024 and for…

Planning your week? How you fixed tomorrow, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST?

Come along to @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, followed by The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'

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If someone is in a position of (even marginal) power and shares their opinions publicly, and can’t handle any kind of pushback on either their opinions OR their exercise of power, it seems like a well established social phenomenon at this point that this tends to drive them mad and radicalizes them

pony, middy and pot are my pick.

The only standard quirkier than Australian beer measures is Australian time zones.

So that makes it OK to do it?

(Scientists who claim “AI helped us with this breakthrough!” without making any effort to distinguish their painstakingly designed, well tested and not-new ML algos from slopAI are part of the problem and are tarnishing their own work while astroturfing for predatory fascist tech. Shame on them.)

Uk government reached the “harassing lawyers who win cases against us” stage of opression.

“Fahad is a senior solicitor specialising in cases involving national security and has a strong track record of holding the British government to account”

The reason i know i am unfit for the modern world is that i will literally never watch a video that is a complete stranger looking into a phone camera & talking at me.

Who are you? Why are you suddenly talking to me? Yikes!! Go away!!!

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

4 months after reporting on fms and still waiting for the storm drain to be unblocked on Astor Drive. Pedestrians having to walk out into Wake green road (round all the illegally parked parents…) to cross as the dropped/textured curb floods every time it rains 🤷‍♀️

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

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That’s awful: three (or four?) in 24 hours is a grim stat.

Part of why so many genteel pensioners are getting arrested for supporting a proscribed group is because they can afford to be arrested. It’s not just that it’s bad optics to arrest retired vicars or whatever. Lots of those who feel strongest would be at much higher risk and face worse consequences

Did we ever get an update about the exact nature of the “serious incident” that shut down London Waterloo station on Friday? (Also: this is where bsky still hasn’t matched twitter - there was almost nothing on here about rail chaos thr/fri; when I was on T it’d be the first place I’d go for updates)

It's @skyfeed.app / @skyfeed.xyz feed, run by @redsolver.dev and there's no updates (& some of those accounts haven't been active for months so I wonder if they've just been abandoned).

Anyone know what's up with the onlyposts feed? It's sporadically updating back to posts from 2 days ago.

I think it's called the burrito method if you want to google for videos...

Every time, I've had people introduce me at talks saying I did my phd on the history of sports medicine because of my first book (uh, nope, 19thC public health).

Pep is objectively correct. On average, Israel kills 35 children every day in Gaza. With Israel blocking most food aid, around a quarter of all Gaza residents were suffering from famine in August. Together, this constitutes genocide, according to the International Association of Genocide Scholars