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vaishs.bsky.social
Gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome | Occasionally a computer scientist https://vaishs.github.io
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Don't try and spend Mondays like this unless you have trained extensively for it.

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Fun fact: Red Bull is originally a drink from Thailand, an Austrian businessman liked it so much and brought it to Europe and the world. It's called Krating Daeng which means Red Gaur. If you see the logo you'll see the resemblance.

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Solidarity. Forever.

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Since it's almost Midsummer...

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Trying to buy a new suitcase for book tours to carry my props, clothes, laptop and notebooks. Reviews all seem to think you want to subject your luggage to a nuclear strike. All I want is MANY external pockets, light and probably soft (cos lighter plus you can squeeze it into boots etc). TIPS??

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yes it’s a big mystery why people who think empathy is evil don’t become therapists

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Isn’t this just called having a brown parent?

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Tolkien and Lewis

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David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...

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This is Frank. He has found that the secret to happiness is a couple flowers, a lot of sunshine, and the occasional midday nap. 13/10

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'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?' Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

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Good morning✌️🍀

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In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊

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Well, if it’s 17 June, it must be the 85th anniversary of Major Alfred Wintle, MC, responding to the defeat of France by starting a one-man campaign to rescue the French Air Force using methods which landed him in the Tower of London

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This is the last thing the BBC needs

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Literally any page in the seminal Weizenbaum book has a paragraph serving up more insight than all AI CEOs combined

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There's a thread on AskReddit asking, "People who have had to drain their life’s savings on a single event, what happened?" 99% of the answers are depressing American stories about medical bills, 1% is an Australian who found a wombat burrowing under their house.

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The thief has been found! His name is Guðmundur Pedro and Nettó gave him a bag full of dried fish.

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Brighten your day. Historian rediscovers a pre-Incan method of water storage, gets money to restore the existing structures, and the town he grew up in now has access to water 10 hours a day, up from 1/2 hour per day. The details are v. cool. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Something wonderful for the weekend! About 40,000 years ago, during the #IceAge, an ancient artist skilfully sculpted this tiny head of a cave lion from mammoth ivory. It is one of the World’s oldest known works of figurative art. 📷 by me #Archaeology

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My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

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