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How that project is coming

How that project is coming

Jun 19: SpaceX Starship 36 explodes into massive fireball during static test last night

WATCH: “You’re a U.S. senator and you don’t know anything about the country you want to topple.” Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran

This lil’ beaut lands in less than 3 weeks! It’s a funny, fact-filled guide to the Stone Age for kids aged 8+, co-written with @brennawalks.bsky.social I’d be v. grateful if you lovely peeps might pre-order a few copies, as it makes a MASSIVE difference to the success of a book — thank you! 🙏 📚😎

Making ChatGPT available for free in 2022 was comparable in its generosity to the way tobacco companies once gave away cigarettes in bars and restaurants. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigaret...

“individ. sources would fade yet further into the background, as users trust tools like NotebookLM to offer cogent-seeming summaries of enormous troves of texts w/o much attention to their origins or agendas.” NB: You can’t write good history w/o deep, factual context & empathy. AI has neither 🎁 🔗

Making ChatGPT available for free in 2022 was comparable in its generosity to the way tobacco companies once gave away cigarettes in bars and restaurants. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigaret...

Congrats to @themedievaldrk.bsky.social and Melek Karataş on the publication of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections, the latest title on our Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures (BSMC) series with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social. If you’d like to be next, get in touch! @bristolcms.bsky.social

It's out! On Thursday, there was a book launch for this transformative study of how the Domesday Book was made. Astonishing that it has been possible to learn so much about something so apparently well-understood. @oxmedstud.bsky.social

Christ almighty. I’m on the same page as Rand Paul. Buckle up. It’s the Last Days.

This is very high on the list of “Most Seagull Thing Ever” events.

FBI Warns Second California Senator Still At Large theonion.com/fbi-war...

Something happy today from Regent’s Park. A family of Swans!

The right ale for our time.

💔RIP Brian Wilson & Ride those Good Vibrations 🎵🎹🌠thank you for the summer sound of the west coast surfing scene of my teenage years. You were a unique soul visiting Earth your music made the world a happier place and you played your part in creating The West Coast Sound of an era! 😎💖

Beach Boys singing about eating healthily. youtu.be/kX5xIp7erJ0?...

I know this feeling

R.I.P. Brian Wilson. I saw him perform Pet Sounds in Knoxville. A glimpse of heaven it was. youtu.be/sQpsSPN5n3A?...

In happier news, my cat is weird.

The maestro has passed - the man was a open heart with two legs - with an ear that heard the angels. Quite literally. Love and Mercy for you and yours tonight . RIP Brian. nytimes.com/2025/06/11/a... Brian wrote down the lyrics of love and mercy for me -

Listening to Brian Wilson conjure songs in the studio from unlike and disparate collections of musicians and instruments is peak humanity.

R.I.P. Brian Wilson. I saw him perform Pet Sounds in Knoxville. A glimpse of heaven it was. youtu.be/sQpsSPN5n3A?...

RIP Brian Wilson - undoubtedly one of the greatest song writers of the 20th century. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

My neighbors (The King’s Cross foxes, that is)

Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more They're closing down the textile mill 'cross the railroad tracks Foreman says, "These jobs are going, boys, and they ain't coming back" To your hometown

One in 35 Americans live in Los Angeles County. Los Angeles is America.

Pulitzer

Could we get a thread going with all the best Musk/Trump memes? This is my fave (h/t @charliecollier.bsky.social)!

Maybe, in retrospect, the Internet was a bad idea.

Maybe, in retrospect, the Internet was a bad idea.

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

Kind of turned out to be the theme of the last two Doctor Who seasons

Kind of turned out to be the theme of the last two Doctor Who seasons