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Had something similar to this happen last night at a comedy gig, we had a row of French kids behind us and so a line would get a laugh and then occasionally another smaller laugh a second later as the joke was translated

I guess the thinking here is that it’s probably too late to mount anything like a public health campaign to save them, but a campaign aimed at reducing social media usage in most people maybe stops more people following this path?

They should train hawks to hunt drones and then release these in areas of outstanding natural beauty

Really neat episode, just listened to it while walking through London and, spookily enough, as @iandunt.bsky.social mentioned Jacob Rees Mogg, there he appeared, waiting at the traffic lights across from me. So hope you’re proud of that eldritch power this podcast now has.

Did you stick around for rock concert (ft. the Swedish cover of sultans of swing) after the church had stopped moving for the day?

Hang on, that red flag…

But what to do about the Dutch, or the French? Term like the Greek or the Dane are gender neutral - happy for you to bring it back but it’s got to be done in an inclusive way

Heroic that you’ve actually come out with 140 plus opinions on this

The break with Rome in 1534 or the break with Rome in 407?

I guess not, I don’t ever read their online offerings. I reckon - but I’m not sure - that having it in person makes me more likely to read it than if I were set a curated list of articles every quarter or whatever

I get The Fence (@thefence.bsky.social) because it’s much better in print and they don’t put everything online, pretty cheap as well at £30-ish for a year. Still keep all of mine, there’s jokes in there worth coming back to even years later

They’re getting rid of the requirement to have an MPs home address on the ballot which seems like something that should have happened ages ago given the harassment they receive

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Not a particularly insightful point here but MoneySavingExpert.com has a bunch of different savings accounts that it recommends based on what you want from it ordered by interest rate, might be worth a look

🎶 we didn’t start the fire! 🎶

Maybe switch off the cricket once England are in…just in case

It is the most panicky group - it’s never enough to say we’re not doing well in this session, it’s also this match, this series, and the Ashes lost as well - never understood what they get from sending that in

Top notch investigative journalism this

Oh my god the footnotes in this were so bad for this! It doesn’t count as subtext just because you explain your point below the text

Huh, my pre-order showed up yesterday somehow, excited to read it anyhow

A geochemical characterization of lead ores in China: An isotope database for provenancing archaeological materials A well reasoned lead (Pb) isotope-driven provenance study lies in concert with a comprehensively evaluated database of geological ore sources and accompanying archaeological and contextual information...

Ok, well I'm not sure how much application there is for the modern day, but for archaeological studies there has been a lot done on tracing metal provenance, a few studies here:
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I think there might be something on lead or strontium isotopes - I’m aware of a bunch of studies that have done provenance tracking for ancient Roman artefacts, but this is pretty vague and approximate. Can find some papers if you’re interested.

Oh I really like this, going to do this at the next conference I’m at (albeit probably for the less exciting question of which ocean do we like the most rather than Edward VI, yay or nay).

Equally annoying whenever people talk about generations when often they just mean people in their late 20s or whatever, and we have descriptors for that, just use age!

Fun fact you might like; we don’t use the Richter scale to measure earthquakes, we use a different scale (the moment magnitude scale - boring name) and have done since the ‘80s, but it’s still called the Richter scale in news reports because people got familiar with that.

What a cultish coffee gizmo says about 21st century capitalism The inventor of the AeroPress ignored much modern business thinking

There’s a charming FT interview with the guy who invented the AeroPress which highlights the pressure he has had to resist to keep it so simple (and not make it a repeat subscription service etc) - on.ft.com/4ikBEfn

Worst Dr Who episode? But like, morally

I heard it growing up in London in the 00s, I think it ends 5ft 4.

Reduced North Pacific Deep Water formation across the Northern Hemisphere Glaciation - Nature Communications Three million years ago, cold and fresh deep waters formed in the North Pacific, with a structure akin to the modern Atlantic. This ocean structure was likely halted by growing ice sheets as sea level...

Excited that my first paper has been published in @naturecomms.bsky.social! We show that the Pacific Ocean looked very different in the Pliocene compared to today, but, crucially, was possibly very sensitive to small changes in sea level that could drive whole basin changes.
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“I haven’t read what you said but I asked AI and it gave me some answers I think are wrong” is an absolutely wild take, like it’s not even straw-manning your argument, it’s getting something completely different to make a different argument so you can argue with that. This is bananas

I agree with this so much, I think one reason why the political discourse in the UK hasn’t become as bizarre as in the USA is that everyone generally consumes the same news and facts and thus has to operate in the same world