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This is not M&S Just food This is ... food

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_Technically_ my picture was on the BBC news website today. Admittedly a tiny sliver of forehead behind my colleague's ridiculous hat, but it still counts www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Discussing my ample bra size on This Morning, earlier today.

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Genuinely couldn't believe this figure until I saw the Financial Times confirm it using Meta's own financial reporting data For THIS $100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine And they spent it on this

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Retch PLC displaying exemplary behaviour as per usual

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We were on the Today Programme this morning! Here's a blog post from Ben about why OpenSAFELY is in the news today, and how a total of £17 million of new funding from Wellcome is going to be a game-changer: www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...

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Again, raw feeding is dumb, puts your pets and your family at unnecessary risk of getting ill

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DIY gigs in breweries FTW. Regal Cheer are dope

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My local paper (the paper formerly known as the Bristol evening post) ran a story recently (in true Retch clickbait guff fashion) about the rising number of measles cases and the comments on fb were like 100% antivaxxers. Depressing enough, but what surprised me was most of them were yanks

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I seem to have a spectacular ability to write unit tests that exhibit spooky behaviour. Not sure if me, this particular project's _unique_ database configuration, or just pytest's magic being a bit too magical

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The modern phenomenon of the Haunted Cereal Bowl has bothered me for years

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HOT RESEARCH NEWS! Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor... Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵

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Every 20th Century British Character Actor's Wikipedia page:

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

My love for you is like a peregrine falcon. One more valentine from a past year.

submitted 10 days ago • 24 comments

Utterly heartbreaking

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Quick TIL: if you have uv installed and you want to try out ANY Python package in an ipython REPL, you can do so just by running uvx --with llm --with sqlite-utils ipython Pass as many --with package options as you like I wrapped it in a shell script, "itry llm" til.simonwillison.net/python/itry

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“This is bad, full stop. It creates a class of person who are forever excluded from civic life no matter how long they live here. It’s also a clear breach of the refugee convention.” Damn straigt, @colinyeo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 82 comments

In major news(drumroll🎉) for fans, friends and family of #TheGlobalJigsaw we have a pilot episode up that is fully visualised youtu.be/RJT1ycrut8c?... - please have a look at @ikrassi.bsky.social and Vitaly Shevchenko, talking about Russia's language of war. Your thoughts would be much appreciated 🙏

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Slimbridge is great, these guys are otterly adorable

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Simple way to reasonably run a background process in a docker container. Saves setting up s6 or similar. Uses the run-one-constantly tool from the run-one package to keep it running, and the default docker init process to propagate signals to all child processes. gist.github.com/bloodearnest...

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Slimbridge is great, these guys are otterly adorable

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My handsome flappy boy

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Not sure if banter or dark timeline

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone know what this call means?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

None of this remotely matters in the scale of things but I am just confused as to why the Spotify homepage now pushes random LadBible takes on viral video formats used by BuzzFeed more than a decade ago.

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

The size of that

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Oh man, I have so many stories about that "startup". The founder Marshall Webb spent a year harassing me because I posted a research paper on the Mirai botnet (he considered himself to be the sole authority). It later turned out his knowledge came from him personally hosting their infrastructure 1/5

submitted 16 days ago • 24 comments

I used to add little Easter egg fake thumbnails at the end of my videos. Ah man, I used to be more fun then. But making one thumbnail for the video itself is enough headache! I went back to look for them just now. The YouTube formatting of video links has changed but you get the idea

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

@theednawatkins.bsky.social how's it hanging, bud?

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Another crank journal to have on your radar

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Irritated (and irritating) window pecking continues

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I see now why George W Bush called Peter Mandelson “silvertongue”. on.ft.com/3Q4hPgO

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

Stop motion is as time consuming as it is fun 🥹 I do think it is a great way to convey Mathematical concepts though✨

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Alan's feeling shy this morning

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