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Richard J
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Tax nerd, still atrocious at amusing profiles
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I’m sorry, but There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day is a modern invention pushed by card companies. I only observe A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day on the 14th.
ianzpotter.bsky.social Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 20h
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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regimecpa.bsky.social
It can't be defined but the evidence it's bad for you is piling up, experts warn against enjoying life.
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!

Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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@jacktindale.bsky.social I see they’re writing games for you again father

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Save 17% on Bonaparte - A Mechanized Revolution on Steam
1789, Paris. Take Napoleon’s place in an alternate history as Céline or César Bonaparte in this ideology driven, turn-based strategy journey. Defend, reform or oppose the monarchy and write your own a...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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@jacktindale.bsky.social I see they’re writing games for you again father

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Save 17% on Bonaparte - A Mechanized Revolution on Steam
1789, Paris. Take Napoleon’s place in an alternate history as Céline or César Bonaparte in this ideology driven, turn-based strategy journey. Defend, reform or oppose the monarchy and write your own a...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
preachypreach.bsky.social
Physicists never living down the reputation
Choro and his companions had gathered around Professor Seiki and were engaged in heated discussion. "Who on earth really perfected this work? Was it Compton? Or was it Lawrence?" "You can be sure that Einstein played an important role. And then Bohr and Fermi and the other scientists who were exiled from Europe to the United States." "Then the British scientist Chadwick who discovered the neutron-and the French, the Joliot-Curies." "We've been cut off from scientific research for years now and the important literature hasn't been published. So I don't really know. But quite certainly new scientists have emerged. And then, knowing the United States, you can be sure that thousands of scientists were mobilized. No doubt they divided up the research and worked with tremendous efficiency." Takashi Nagai The Bells of Nagasaki: A first-hand account of the catastrophic atomic bombing #kindlequotes
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
preachypreach.bsky.social
At a secret gathering in May south of London, the head of Britain's domestic security service asked Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, for help. British security officials rely on the bureau for high-tech surveillance tools - the kind they might need to monitor a new embassy that China wants to build near the Tower of London. The head of MI5, Ken McCallum, asked Mr. Patel to protect the job of an F.B.I. agent based in London who dealt with that technology, according to several current and former U.S. officials with knowledge of the episode. Mr. Patel agreed to find funding to keep the posting, the officials said. But the job had already been slated to disappear as the White House moved to slash the F.B.I. budget. The agent moved to a different job back in the United States, saving the F.B.I. money but leaving MI5 officials incredulous. Slated to land at Stansted Airport outside London, he sought to fly to an airport closer to the hotel. British officials denied the request, making clear that dignitaries must use Stansted for security reasons, according to one of the former officials and another person familiar with the interactions. They said that during the trip, the Royalty and Specialist Protection Command of the Metropolitan Police told the F.B.I. that Mr. Patel's security detail could not be armed. Britain has strict gun-control laws, and the police limit armed details based on risk assessments. The police assessment on Mr. Patel found he didn't meet the threshold for an exemption. The details for the heads of the C.I.A. and the National Security Agency were armed, another U.S. official said. That discrepancy prompted an emergency meeting between the F.B.I. and British security officials. The British officials held firm. The conference had a detailed agenda. Mr. Patel complained about the number of meetings, one of the former officials said, a well-known gripe of his. The F.B.I. official said Mr. Patel did not object to meetings but rather was trying to figure out which ones were essential so he could fit in other important work.
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
preachypreach.bsky.social
In the intervening 75 years, Luxembourgs population has doubled and it is one of the world’s richest countries per capita. Obviously an anomalously small case, but it does sort of show why there is a very simple solution to the problem that the right are v much in the active denial phase of
What can make depopulation difficult to fathom is the different timescales on which it operates. In one way, it has come about very quickly. In 1950 Luxembourg was the only country in the world with a TFR of less than 2, which is the magic number above which human populations grow and beneath which they start to shrink (the cut-off is actually closer to 2.1 because of infant mortality and gender imbalances, but the round figure is still a useful marker). A TFR under 2 - even if it's 1.9, Luxembourg's figure in 1950 - is called a 'below-replacement fertility rate'. ' Today roughly
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
preachypreach.bsky.social
"It comprises a distinct set of motifs with two colours in every row and was popularised by Edward VIII."
One for the 'every tradition is a Victorian invention' file.
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
preachypreach.bsky.social
FINALLY
Senshya, the Kanji for Tank
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
preachypreach.bsky.social
If you've not played this, you're missing a treat.
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
preachypreach.bsky.social
good, but also locked on for an income tax rise now then
pippacrerar.bsky.social Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 16h
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*

"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
preachypreach.bsky.social
Having finally finished Final Fantasy VII Arbitrary Adjective, it's onto FFXVI.

Kind of weird that they decided to make Veilguard a spiritual Final Fantasy game and FF XVI a spiritual Dragon Age game.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
preachypreach.bsky.social
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC... what a suspiciously bland account of a successful appeal against criminal conviction.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
preachypreach.bsky.social
You shouldn’t make fun of people for their apparence but
That fucking moustache
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
preachypreach.bsky.social
huh, this chart of where relative non-compliance with the NMW occurs is slightly odd. I'd have guessed NW England and maybe Greater London, but the compliant areas are odd.
A trend map showing where non-compliance with the national minimum wage occurs in the UK
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
preachypreach.bsky.social
Come the changing of the seasons, come the Pret Christmas menu
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
preachypreach.bsky.social
Unzoomed #662 6/6 🔴🔴🔴🟡🟡🟡
unzoomed.com I just don’t know the geography of that part of the world enough annoyingly
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Identify cities using satellite images in this daily puzzle game, where each guess zooms out for enhanced clues.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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This (not from that piece) is one of those charts where I am completely aware of the data but my mental map of how the global economy works still almost refuses to update to the new reality. Because the pace of change has been so rapid.
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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depsidase: cubosh: realization: the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs was technically the highest ratio of killing birds to one stone in earths history 1800oxycodone: "average rock kiss 2 birds" factoid actually just statistical error. average rock kills 0 birds. chixulub georg, which killed 3/4 of all life, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
preachypreach.bsky.social
Huh, is this over that report?
stephenkb.bsky.social Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d
Tim Davie and Deborah Turness both resigning at the BBC. 💥
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Unzoomed #661 2/6 🟡🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️
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November 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
preachypreach.bsky.social
Star Wars chat has meant I have introduced the lad to Spaceballs at the right age (12); it’s shit but still strangely charming regardless
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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PRC: if Sun Yat-Sen were alive today he would support the mainland

ROC: no! If Sun Yat-Sen were alive today he would support the Taiwanese government

Sun Yat-Sen if he was alive today: I’m required by law to inform you that I am a sex offender
November 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
preachypreach.bsky.social
I will do by best, in return, not to sigh a bit when it turns out another kanji is just kou or shi again in another hat
alvaromontoro.com Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 2d
The struggle is real.

#esl #bilingual?
Meme from an edited picture from the Simpsons divided into two parts vertically. The first one shows an older man (Mr Burns) with text over him: "Me, a non-native English speaker who is trying to learn the phonetics in order to sound almost like a native." The second part shows many hands holding ketchup bottles with a different word on top of them: peace, peas, piece, piss, pees.
November 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM