Sharpe's Seagull
@redtim.bsky.social
Your friendly neighbourhood seagull enthusiast.
Author of a poor design.
(He/him)
Author of a poor design.
(He/him)
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Paddington Bear becoming the UK's go-to psychopomp is one of the very weirdest things to happen in this very weird decade.
December 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Paddington Bear becoming the UK's go-to psychopomp is one of the very weirdest things to happen in this very weird decade.
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Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74
Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74
Middlesbrough-born musician had hits with Driving Home for Christmas, On the Beach and The Road to Hell
Chris Rea, the British singer-songwriter whose hits included Driving Home For Christmas, has died at the age of 74, a spokesperson for his family said.
The statement said that he died “peacefully in hospital … following a short illness”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74
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No shit, Sherlock
December 21, 2025 at 1:11 AM
No shit, Sherlock
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To be clear: Maccabi Tel Aviv’s supporters do not only *sing about* sex crimes, murder and genocide. Plenty of them have been personally doing that stuff for at least two years.
December 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
To be clear: Maccabi Tel Aviv’s supporters do not only *sing about* sex crimes, murder and genocide. Plenty of them have been personally doing that stuff for at least two years.
This weekend I learned that boxers are called that because of their ability to put jumped up little shits back in their boxes.
December 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This weekend I learned that boxers are called that because of their ability to put jumped up little shits back in their boxes.
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Tbh I assumed that if your paper referenced another one it meant you had read the paper, understood it, and were relating its content to your ideas. It turns out it actually meant "this paper exists" and now it doesn’t even mean that.
One thing I'm finding surprising about this whole thing about AI hallucinating academic references which are then cited and enter the "evidence base" is how many authors seem willing to cite material that they haven't even verified exists, let alone got as far as actually reading. V poor practice.
December 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Tbh I assumed that if your paper referenced another one it meant you had read the paper, understood it, and were relating its content to your ideas. It turns out it actually meant "this paper exists" and now it doesn’t even mean that.
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Mr Beast next, please.
December 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Mr Beast next, please.
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It’s not just that destroying this one country’s government and installing criminals to help you loot their resources makes this war look bad. It shows what most of the other wars were, and what the people who sold them to the public are.
December 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
It’s not just that destroying this one country’s government and installing criminals to help you loot their resources makes this war look bad. It shows what most of the other wars were, and what the people who sold them to the public are.
Welcome To Derry has been absolute garbage, hasn't it?
December 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Welcome To Derry has been absolute garbage, hasn't it?
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My man is innocent lol
UPDATE: in September, Luigi's bogus terrorism charges were dropped and he was cleared off all terroristic allegations. Today, the judge ruled the interrogation of Luigi Mangione inadmissible due to failure of police to Mirandize him and Luigi's repeated statements that he did not wish to talk.
December 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
My man is innocent lol
It's mad how fundamental we think of as something like the tomato in pretty much all of global cuisine, but it wasn't introduced into Europe until the 16th century, and even then the British (of course) didn't eat them at first because they thought they were poisonous.
December 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
It's mad how fundamental we think of as something like the tomato in pretty much all of global cuisine, but it wasn't introduced into Europe until the 16th century, and even then the British (of course) didn't eat them at first because they thought they were poisonous.
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
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It saddens me to say that I’m sure we’ll see an incident like this again, as more people with unnecessarily enormous vehicles succumb to car-brain
December 16, 2025 at 7:29 AM
It saddens me to say that I’m sure we’ll see an incident like this again, as more people with unnecessarily enormous vehicles succumb to car-brain
Yeeeeeeaaaa-no
December 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Yeeeeeeaaaa-no
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what a confusing time to be a piece of shit
December 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
what a confusing time to be a piece of shit
True Detective S1-3: There is a deeply unsettling supernatural element to the show, an undercurrent of life and death, past and future, a sense of piercing the veil, but always in the context of extremely unreliable narrators and allegory.
True Detective S4: Yeah, there's ghosts. Ghosts everywhere.
True Detective S4: Yeah, there's ghosts. Ghosts everywhere.
December 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
True Detective S1-3: There is a deeply unsettling supernatural element to the show, an undercurrent of life and death, past and future, a sense of piercing the veil, but always in the context of extremely unreliable narrators and allegory.
True Detective S4: Yeah, there's ghosts. Ghosts everywhere.
True Detective S4: Yeah, there's ghosts. Ghosts everywhere.
Near where I live there's a model of a Spitfire that was paid for by local people who did a whip round for it, because you could do that then. You could build a Wellington bomber in 24 hours. You would however struggle to do the same for an F-35, and that's because IT'S NOT WORLD WAR 2 ANYMORE.
Sean Bell, Skys military analyst, says we are unprepared for war & he cites as an example WW2 when we had 400 RAF squadrons compared to less than 10 squadrons today. I guess we need more squadrons!
Entirely coincidentally Bell is a former RAF fighter pilot & Air Vice Marshal
Entirely coincidentally Bell is a former RAF fighter pilot & Air Vice Marshal
December 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Near where I live there's a model of a Spitfire that was paid for by local people who did a whip round for it, because you could do that then. You could build a Wellington bomber in 24 hours. You would however struggle to do the same for an F-35, and that's because IT'S NOT WORLD WAR 2 ANYMORE.
The combination of flu and strikes could collapse the NHS, according to Wes Streeting.
Good thing you could stop one of those things happening right this second then, isn't it Wes?
Good thing you could stop one of those things happening right this second then, isn't it Wes?
December 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The combination of flu and strikes could collapse the NHS, according to Wes Streeting.
Good thing you could stop one of those things happening right this second then, isn't it Wes?
Good thing you could stop one of those things happening right this second then, isn't it Wes?
Setting Madeley aside for a moment, I think part of the issue is that once people realise *just how much* wages have been allowed to fall away from where they should be, the figure seems insurmountable and therefore ridiculous to ask for, but that's our fucking money, stolen from us by capital.
Richard Madeley "How realistic is it for any profession to expect to be paid in real terms what they were paid in 2008?"
The UK is the 6th largest economy in the world & the rich have never been richer, but Madeley thinks the rest of us should just accept being poorer #GMB
The UK is the 6th largest economy in the world & the rich have never been richer, but Madeley thinks the rest of us should just accept being poorer #GMB
December 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Setting Madeley aside for a moment, I think part of the issue is that once people realise *just how much* wages have been allowed to fall away from where they should be, the figure seems insurmountable and therefore ridiculous to ask for, but that's our fucking money, stolen from us by capital.
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If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
www.independent.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.
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just seen this photo of mangione on twitter, this man is innocent i'm telling you
December 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
just seen this photo of mangione on twitter, this man is innocent i'm telling you
The Fallout 3 radio playlist makes a surprisingly good Christmas tree decorating accompaniment.
December 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The Fallout 3 radio playlist makes a surprisingly good Christmas tree decorating accompaniment.