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rhamdu.bsky.social
Now pursuing whatever interests me after a career in journalism and international development. Formerly @rhamdu on Twitter.
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I feel sorry for the US Army. They might have had a bigger turnout for their 250th anniversary parade if it hadn't been perceived as Trump's . birthday bash

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I am sure this US tool supplier sends out similar advertisements for Mother's day.

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Thunderstorm now over Normandy is forecast to cross the Channel. Kent is in for a soaking. Here in Brighton there's a pre-storm feel, even a drop or two of rain, but we are off the main track according to Met Office.

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Trump to Iran: when our Israeli friends have bombed your nuclear installations, we can talk about it.

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Uh-oh. Email from the mob.

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When you accidentally start an app that you no longer use and it says "Welcome back" as if you've just been away on holiday.

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'New nuclear' is a bad idea and 'data centres' is the worst reason for it.

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Miles Davis went funky - leading to the On The Corner album - after Sly Stone told him how much money he was making. Well, that's the story...

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This high haze which is reducing the June sunshine to October strength - is the rumoured smoke from Canadian wildfires now shading England's south coast?

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I have a feeling this #WFP compromise will satisfy no one. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

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I'm enjoying a podcast. I am delighted to say that there is a transcript, so I don't have to listen to the audio. I can therefore listen to some Pat Metheny while I think about philosophy and neuroscience. Responses mentioning brain lateralisation will get you blocked 😉

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Is it just me, or do other people find wide single-column layouts unreadable? It's like trying to watch tennis from a seat right next to the net.

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Spent the morning at the dentist. Hygienist appointment followed by root canal treatment on a 3-root molar. I have been lying flat in a chair but I feel like I have done a full day's work. For lunch I ate chunks out of my anaesthetised cheek, plus a few things from the fridge.

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AI-generated text reads like the work of an alien trying to pass the human citizenship test.

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Talking to Nick Robinson on #bbcR4Today Keir Starmer can't decide whether pensioners are working people. Pensioners want to know whether Labour is for us or against us.

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The explanatory emptiness of correlates of subjective experience

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HARD: how does consciousness arise from matter? HARDER: how does consciousness act on matter? HARDEST: WTF is consciousness anyway?

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Still my take on WFP

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How the heck to axolotls regenerate limbs? An answer is (as it were) taking shape. But if axolotls can do it, why can't we? Is there some massive cost that axolotls must pay, to maintain mechanisms that most animals scrap once they have completed embryonic development?

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I'm trying to flatten and recycle the cardboard box in which a 3kg Le Creuset cast iron skillet arrived, and it's almost as indestructible as the pan itself.

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BBC axes national treasure Gary Lineker. The sad lesson is that however careful you are, somebody will interpret criticism of Israel as an attack on Jews. There aren't many insults you can safely aim at Israel, and def not rats, because the Nazis called Jews rats + a LOT of other offensive things.

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