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Step stool with warning "DO NOT REMOVE Step Stool From Wellness"
February 10, 2026 at 5:29 PM
This woodpecker is in the robin 'hood. #birds
Photo of a woodpecker and robin on a bird feeder.
February 9, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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pigworker.bsky.social
So farewell then, Mandy McSweeney,
Let's be blunt,
Your overweening
Rightward leaning
Wasn't just a stunt.
I'm really quite ashamed of you
Because, of course, I'm Irish, too,
So I know you knew better
Than to do the things you chose.
Your bones will not lie easy in repose.
February 8, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Dear email providers ( #gmail #proton ...): in my inbox, I would prefer you just showed me my specific email address that was used in each email, rather than the rather useless and unhelpful my-name or "me".
February 7, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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helenshang.bsky.social
I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌
February 6, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Suryavanshi masterclass in Vaibh coding: www.espncricinfo.com/series/men-s...

#Cricket #U19
Ind vs Eng live score, U-19 World Cup final - India strike regularly after Sooryavanshi 175 sets England 412
Follow our live cricket update for in-depth match coverage and exciting highlights from England Under-19s vs India Under-19s Final at Harare on ESPNcricinfo.
www.espncricinfo.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Wrong link above! Right one here. Please share with any WaPo journalists you know/follow

pressgazette.co.uk/comment-anal...
A letter to the 300 axed Washington Post staffers from Carole Cadwalladr
There is life for journalists after being sacked by a major brand, says Cadwalladr.
pressgazette.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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xanlopez.xyz
La alcaldesa de París se va de X y lo llama “gigantesca cloaca global”. www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
Paris mayor quits X, calling social media platform a 'vast global sewer'
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Monday she was quitting Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, which she described as a "global sewer" and a tool to disrupt democracy.
www.france24.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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firdosem.bsky.social
T20 World Cup mode activated!

My weekend long read on Corbin Bosch including:
🧱 his obsession with lego!
🇦🇺 why he moved to Australia and came back
🏏 his cricketing goals for the next two years

Read here:⬇️

www.espncricinfo.com/story/how-la...
Bowls fast, hits hard, like dad: late bloomer Corbin Bosch is making up for lost time
The South Africa allrounder talks about his dream debut and looks ahead to the T20 World Cup
www.espncricinfo.com
January 31, 2026 at 5:49 AM
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satnam6502.bsky.social
I am giving a talk about automatic formal verification of computer hardware using Harmonic's Aristotle system at the University of Cambridge at their CS department on Thursday 26 February 2026 at 2PM in room FW26. The talk is open to the public.
talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...
talks.cam : Automatically Formally Verified Hardware using Aristotle
talks.cam.ac.uk
January 29, 2026 at 8:00 PM
On the Northeastern University campus.
Art on a building wall, black and white, portraits of Edgar Allen Poe and John Lee Hooker?
January 27, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Northern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys Sabrinus) visiting our bird feeder last night at about 3am during the snow storm.
January 26, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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mattmfm.bsky.social
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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margaret.bsky.social
Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
January 24, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
NEW: this is how the US press would report on this if it was happening in a ‘shithole country’. It’s an execution. But it also reveals how weak Trump really is
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Death Squads Execute Second Dissident
Or what the US press would say if this was happening on the streets of a "shithole" country overseas
open.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
Brilliant idea by @arjenlubach.bsky.social:
The NAAGGA hat.
‘Naagga’ means ‘No’ in Greenlandic.
Sold out already!

lubach.shop/product/naag...
Arjen Lubach, a Dutch comedian, wearing a white chortle and a dark tie, putting on a red cap with white letters NAAGGA, meant to look like a MAGA cap worn by Trump supporters. More red caps on the desk.
January 19, 2026 at 6:56 AM
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sarahchurchwell.bsky.social
It’s truly a special kind of unhinged psychotic who will come up with “You didn’t give me the Nobel Peace Prize so I’m going to start World War 3.”
January 19, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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eff.org
Happy 25th birthday to Wikipedia, the world’s most trusted and widely used encyclopedia, with users around the world accessing its wealth of information and participating in free information exchange.
wikimediafoundation.org Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org · 27d
Twenty-five years ago, Wikipedia was an unlikely idea: a place where anyone could share free knowledge.

Today, it’s one of the most visited sites on Earth, not powered by corporate ads, but by people.
At the top, a participant of the Mascara Festival smiles while wearing traditional attire. In the bottom, people smiling and dancing during the Sandurot Festival. Text says: Happy 25th birthday, Wikipedia!
January 16, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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fpindia.bsky.social
Announcing our first offline meetup for 2026! #FPIndia #Bangalore #Meetup! Talk submissions are also open.

Please RSVP if you wish to attend: hasgeek.com/fpindia/bang...

#Haskell #PureScript #Elixir #Erlang #Scala #Clojure #India #FunctionalProgramming
Bangalore FP January 2026 meetup
Bangalore FP January 2026 meetup
hasgeek.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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profrachelgan.bsky.social
Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.
Dear Sir Paul, Re: Royal Society Code of Conduct I am sure that many scientists have written to you about the specific question of Elon Musk’s Fellowship and whether, under the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct, his retaining that Fellowship is appropriate. I will not rehash these issues. Instead, as a female scientist with extensive experience of activities aiming to increase equality, diversity and inclusion in the engineering and physical sciences sector, I am writing to you (in a personal capacity) to ask you to reconsider the statements you have recently made in this context to the UK press about the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct and how it is applied. A 2018 report from the joint National Academies of the United States of America, concluded that “sexual harassment is common in academic science, engineering, and medicine” and that “greater than 50 percent of women faculty and staff and 20–50 percent of women students encounter or experience sexually harassing conduct in academia”. This report described codes of conduct that make clear that sexual harassment is unethical and will not be tolerated as a “powerful incentive for change”. The authors also noted that sexual harassment can have significant and damaging effects on the integrity of research. In my own praxis, I have found that clear and consistently-implemented codes of conduct that address these issues make female scientists and engineers safer, and allow them to focus more effectively on their research. For codes of conduct to have such a positive effect, it is vital that sanctions for actions which transgress the code are meaningful and substantial. I was hence aghast to realise that in an interview with the Financial Times published on 9/1/26, you appear to have suggested that the Royal Society “should only expel fellows if their science proved “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective””. Moreover, in a further interview with the Guardian on 11/1/26 you suggested that the code “may need to be looked at again”, with the implication that your aim would be to remove the option of sanctions on Fellows for reasons not strictly related to faults or defects in their research. I suggest that changing the Royal Society’s code of conduct so that the likelihood of serious sanctions for sexual harassment is reduced, would directly endanger women who interact with the Royal Society at events or otherwise, and would provide a licence to harass to the already powerful people on whom the Society bestows fellowship. The implications of your words - that under your leadership the only infringements of the code which are likely to receive the sanction of the Fellowship being removed are those related to research misconduct - already risk empowering harassers. You stated, in the Financial Times interview, that “there’s many bad people around, but they have made scientific advances”. Given this awareness of the possibility of bad actors in our scientific community, it is wholly irresponsible to suggest that the Royal Society would not act to sanction these people if they harass more vulnerable scientists. I am hence writing to request that you retract any suggestion that the Society’s Code of Conduct should be changed so that the only reason a Fellow might be sanctioned by the removal of their Fellowship is “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective” research. This action is necessary to safeguard female scientists, a requirement placed on the Society by safeguarding legislation and UK statutory guidance. Yours sincerely, Professor Rachel A. Oliver.
January 12, 2026 at 8:59 AM
There's beauty everywhere, if we pause to notice it.
Winter leafless tree branches silhouetted against the early morning light.
January 9, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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iccl.bsky.social
ICCL and Digital Rights Ireland are calling on An Garda Siochana to investigate X under the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1988, after its Grok AI chatbot generated non-consensual and sexualised deepfake images of children and women. Read more ➡️ www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
January 6, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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akapugs.bsky.social
R.I.P. Mike Flynn, processor architect and professor.
One of the designers of the awesome IBM 360 model 91.
In Memoriam: Remembering Mike Flynn
Michael J. Flynn is a widely respected contributor—indeed a giant—in the field of Computer Architecture.  He made highly significant and impactful contributions throughout his career, both in indus…
www.sigarch.org
January 6, 2026 at 10:07 PM