Ben Pine
@yafizicist.bsky.social
Electromagnetic simulations, mostly magnets, sometimes superconducting. C++, Python, Fortran. Gadgets. Coffee. Not recovering runner. Fantasy and science fiction.
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DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
February 2, 2026 at 3:58 AM
DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
So the singularity has started
January 9, 2026 at 9:58 PM
So the singularity has started
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Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.
January 4, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.
Days are getting longer
December 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Days are getting longer
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These are a few of my favourite words …
December 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
These are a few of my favourite words …
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Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.
Kung Fu Hustle
Flash Gordon
What’s your favourite movie that YOU KNOW is fantastic, and you couldn’t care less if movie snobs would say it “isn’t real cinema?”
December 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Kung Fu Hustle
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I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
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This nation would be a better place if just one White House reporter had the courage to ask "what the hell are you rambling about, old man?"
December 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This nation would be a better place if just one White House reporter had the courage to ask "what the hell are you rambling about, old man?"
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In case you missed it
Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
In case you missed it
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I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
This article is fascinating: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Meet CoreWeave, the AI industry’s ticking time bomb
The debt-laden AI compute company has been boosted by Nvidia.
www.theverge.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This article is fascinating: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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New idea for an AI agent that just goes around turning off all the annoying AI features and agents like some sort of AI Highlander
October 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
New idea for an AI agent that just goes around turning off all the annoying AI features and agents like some sort of AI Highlander
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ATTENTION PARENTS: is your child texting about stealing from the Louvre? know the signs:
RTFM: robbing the famous museum
LMAO: looting my ass off
LSTCDTS: let's see Tom Cruise do this shit
MLM: Mona Lisa's mine
RTFM: robbing the famous museum
LMAO: looting my ass off
LSTCDTS: let's see Tom Cruise do this shit
MLM: Mona Lisa's mine
October 20, 2025 at 4:56 AM
ATTENTION PARENTS: is your child texting about stealing from the Louvre? know the signs:
RTFM: robbing the famous museum
LMAO: looting my ass off
LSTCDTS: let's see Tom Cruise do this shit
MLM: Mona Lisa's mine
RTFM: robbing the famous museum
LMAO: looting my ass off
LSTCDTS: let's see Tom Cruise do this shit
MLM: Mona Lisa's mine
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7 years this month since I bought an iPencil, decided to try and learn to draw.
I was 47, had never drawn anything outside of scribbling stuff with our youngster. Still lots to learn.
I draw every day. Can't imagine a day *without* drawing now.
It has brought me so much joy :)
#digitalart
I was 47, had never drawn anything outside of scribbling stuff with our youngster. Still lots to learn.
I draw every day. Can't imagine a day *without* drawing now.
It has brought me so much joy :)
#digitalart
October 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
7 years this month since I bought an iPencil, decided to try and learn to draw.
I was 47, had never drawn anything outside of scribbling stuff with our youngster. Still lots to learn.
I draw every day. Can't imagine a day *without* drawing now.
It has brought me so much joy :)
#digitalart
I was 47, had never drawn anything outside of scribbling stuff with our youngster. Still lots to learn.
I draw every day. Can't imagine a day *without* drawing now.
It has brought me so much joy :)
#digitalart
Not just lying scumbags, actually villainous lying scumbags.
September 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Not just lying scumbags, actually villainous lying scumbags.
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To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.
September 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.
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JUST DROPPED: Ember’s new slide deck from Kingsmill Bond and the Ember Futures team lays out how manufactured, modular technologies are rewriting the physics, economics, and geopolitics of energy.
A treasure trove of visuals and storytelling.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
A treasure trove of visuals and storytelling.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
The Electrotech Revolution | Ember
The annual slidedeck from Kingsmill Bond and the Ember Futures team unpacks how electrotech is rewriting the economics and geopolitics of energy.
ember-energy.org
September 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
JUST DROPPED: Ember’s new slide deck from Kingsmill Bond and the Ember Futures team lays out how manufactured, modular technologies are rewriting the physics, economics, and geopolitics of energy.
A treasure trove of visuals and storytelling.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
A treasure trove of visuals and storytelling.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
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A must-read from @mliebreich.bsky.social.
Rest assured, you will not agree with everything he says.
But as Michael says “This is surely a moment for frank talk, given what is going on in the world.”
about.bnef.com/insights/cle...
Rest assured, you will not agree with everything he says.
But as Michael says “This is surely a moment for frank talk, given what is going on in the world.”
about.bnef.com/insights/cle...
Liebreich: The Pragmatic Climate Reset – Part II: A Provocation | BloombergNEF
As the debate on transition deepens, Michael Liebreich details how a pragmatic climate and energy reset might unfold.
about.bnef.com
September 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
A must-read from @mliebreich.bsky.social.
Rest assured, you will not agree with everything he says.
But as Michael says “This is surely a moment for frank talk, given what is going on in the world.”
about.bnef.com/insights/cle...
Rest assured, you will not agree with everything he says.
But as Michael says “This is surely a moment for frank talk, given what is going on in the world.”
about.bnef.com/insights/cle...
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September 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Saddles were developed around 800 BCE but stirrups weren’t invented until 1,000 years later (in 2-300 CE). And over 1,500 years later still, in the US, came the invention of a small lamp (attached to the pommel) for reading maps while riding a horse at night. It was called saddle light navigation.
August 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Saddles were developed around 800 BCE but stirrups weren’t invented until 1,000 years later (in 2-300 CE). And over 1,500 years later still, in the US, came the invention of a small lamp (attached to the pommel) for reading maps while riding a horse at night. It was called saddle light navigation.