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Anthony England
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PhD chemist etc. 56yo beginner boulderer (6A-ish), climbing walls & being as gibbon-like as my ageing body allows me. More & more into health eating, avoiding the UPF/non food we haven't evolved to eat

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Anthony England @ebolaphone.bsky.social · Nov 9
This tweet is 8 years old - and now just as valid once again ...
ebolaphone.bsky.social Anthony England @ebolaphone.bsky.social · Nov 9
Post-truth organic chemistry - carbon is overrated; nitrogen is replacing it. Making OChem Great Again #TrumpScience
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@stuartmaconie.bsky.social Whole potato in crsip bag ... on the radio
wiswell.bsky.social John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 3d
Got my first bag of potato chips in months. Cracked it open. The first chip out of the bag was... soggy?

The second chip was almost fungal.

Baffled, I explored the bag and discovered AN ENTIRE POTATO. Unsliced, brined, like a wad of seasoning juice. It had survived, and now was juicing the chips.
A flavor-blasted potato, like a gallstone from Satan's own bowels, sits atop the worst bag of Herr's Kettle Chips ever dispersed for public consumption.
January 16, 2026 at 5:31 PM
ebolaphone.bsky.social
@surlyamy.bsky.social I reckon you'll like these ...
alisonfisk.bsky.social Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 9d
Something lovely for the weekend!

Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo collage shows five cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and a slightly flaring rim. Each cup is decorated with a different geometric polychrome motif as follows: Top left: on a black background, a central band delineated by an upper and lower white line contains evenly-spaced dark-orange circles, each orange circle is outlined by a white line. Above and below the central band are swirling white vine-like lines. Top right: on a black background, a large white spiral on the front of the cup and beside it a dark-orange oval with stylised white petals at each end which looks like a wrapped sweet! Middle left: a central band of white and dark orange diagonal lines runs around the cup. Above and below the central band are alternating black and white diagonal shapes, the black ones look like shark fins Bottom left: a central reddish-orange band delineated with a white line. Above the central band are swirling, spiralling white lines against a black background, and below the central band are alternating white and black diagonal lines. Bottom right: all set against a black background. A central band delineated with white lines contains white ‘s’-shaped diagonal white stripes. Above the central band a row of red dots outlined with white circles. Below the central band a single white line on the black background. This type of Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, named after the Kamares Cave on Mount Ida on the Greek island of Crete where this kind of pottery was first discovered. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete. These five cups were excavated at Phaistos and are dated 1800-1700 BC.
January 10, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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@kermodemovie.bsky.social You'll love this -

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nothoodlum.bsky.social Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10d
Jimmy Kimmel dug up a video of Stephen Miller in high school. He’s always been a complete asshole.
January 9, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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@rickedwards1.bsky.social
Octopus-inspired ‘synthetic skin’ changes colour and texture on demand www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Client Challenge
www.nature.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:04 PM
ebolaphone.bsky.social
@rickedwards1.bsky.social @rachelburden.bsky.social Talking about the ending of a new movie - criminal - you'd make bad movie critics!! Him too, spoiling the ending of his own movie
January 7, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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@rickedwards1.bsky.social The Celtic management switch is a great little (rare) case study - Rodgers losing, O'Neill wins most, Nancy loses most - if O'Neill does it again ... all with the same players -- what is the simple magic that makes a team play well. And why couldn't Nancy keep continuity
January 6, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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@rachelburden.bsky.social @rickedwards1.bsky.social Rachel, you gave the answer away there - 200 and sss.... Instant DQ for that
December 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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@davidbflower.bsky.social I was surprised to see it wasn't your post :)
pomarede.bsky.social Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · Nov 10
Astronomy Picture of the Day

Micro Moon vs. Super Moon

Credit: Şenol Şanlı www.instagram.com/snlsanli

www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...

#APOD 🧪🔭
Two views of the full moon: at left captured near apogee when the Earth-Moon relative distance is the greatest, so that the moon appears smaller in the sky, at right captured near perigee when the moon is closest to Earth, so it appears larger. Title reads "2025 Full Moon". The so-called Micro Full Moon pictured on the left was captured on April 13, 2025, when the Earth-Moon distance was 406,006 kilometers. The so-called Super Full Moon pictured on the right was captured on November 5, 2025, when the Earth-Moon distance was 356,979 kilometers.
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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@rachelburden.bsky.social RE: PFAS - watch the movie Dark Waters with Mark Ruffalo - true story of a big case in the US
November 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
ebolaphone.bsky.social
@paulfarmerceo.bsky.social Heard you on 5Live this morning -- if you'd like to hear about my father's care as a perfect case study for some of the failures you were talking about please let me know. :)
October 31, 2025 at 8:20 AM
ebolaphone.bsky.social
@rickedwards1.bsky.social And what are the rules if the first person gets it spot on - then there is no up or down? :)
October 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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@rickedwards1.bsky.social RE: 96 mins. Strategy for your tiebreaker - films are mostly 90-100 mins - what Mitch needed to do was find the best zone of doubt for his opponent, most uncertainty - and that's in the mind-90s. I picked 97; I didn't guess 97.
October 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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@rickedwards1.bsky.social Sumo, Nagoya 1996 - little guy beats big guy ('dump truck'), and i was there. Sad thing that big guy fell on little guy, injured him, put him out of the tournament....

youtu.be/rD8fCRYXkQM...
October 16, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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@rachelburden.bsky.social Well, best to learn to trust chia seeds - good in so many ways.

They get slimy when wet because of their fibre
September 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Nails it: 'New York University bioethicist Art Caplan said it was “the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recycling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies, and dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority.”'
Donald Trump links paracetamol with autism and urges pregnant women to avoid it
Medical experts lambasted Trump, with one bioethicist saying it was 'the saddest display of ... outright lies and dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority'
inews.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 6:39 AM
ebolaphone.bsky.social
@rickedwards1.bsky.social I'm wondering how many times you've said bullshit/liar/idiot/bastard under your breath today, thinking about Trump's medical advice. Countless, I'm sure.
Trump & RFK jr, a pair of absolute fuckheads.
September 23, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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@vicderbyshire.bsky.social Tedious questioning - will you rule out coalitions etc. Boring & pointless - awful to watch - no wonder she doesn't want to answer that
September 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
ebolaphone.bsky.social
@rickedwards1.bsky.social Sounds like you need a power bank for your phone - a back up external battery to charge from
September 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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@rickedwards1.bsky.social @rachelburden.bsky.social I don't like that doctor's advice - RE: healthy fats -- be aware of eating too much omega-6 fat. It takes some effort to avoid it - but extra cashew butter would be the wrong answer. And sunflower seeds are loaded with it too.
September 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
ebolaphone.bsky.social
@rickedwards1.bsky.social @rachelburden.bsky.social Technical problem - the sports rights recording just started up - for no reason - so us listening online outside of the UK can no longer hear you. Please tell your tech guys. Thanks
August 25, 2025 at 7:13 AM
ebolaphone.bsky.social
@rickedwards1.bsky.social Sprinters don't actually have big calves -- I was also surprised to learn that listening to a physiology expert a while back. Huge quads maybe, with skinny calves.
August 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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@rickedwards1.bsky.social Trump is making the script of Idiocracy reality -- of course there will be UFC at The White House
August 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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@jimsciutto.bsky.social How come you can't say quorum correctly - you've invented your own version there 😉
August 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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@gregjenner.bsky.social Maybe you can do an ep on the history of arthroscopic surgery -- I'm happy I got my ACL fixed in the 90s not the 80s, when I tore it -

www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
James Maddison: Tottenham out for significant period with torn ACL
Tottenham midfielder James Maddison will miss a significant period of the 2025-26 season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament injury.
www.bbc.com
August 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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@rachelburden.bsky.social @rickedwards1.bsky.social BMI is perfect ... for identifying who really knows what they are talking about RE: health and fitness. And who can't figure out the difference between a jelly belly & rock hard muscle man! It's obviously an appalling equation but is a handy guide.
July 31, 2025 at 6:42 AM