Andrew Weatherall
@andyweatherall.bsky.social
Paeds anaesthetist. Helicopter doc. Other things.
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Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
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Bind fast his corky arms.
November 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Bind fast his corky arms.
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This is utterly outrageous by the Group of Eight unis, and deeply insulting and undermining for environment and climate experts trying their hardest to achieve a more sustainable future for society. Shameful stuff.
1/ No surpirise that Business Council of Australia's leading the charge for further regressive changes to Watt's already regressive EPBC package
But 🤯 that the Group of 8 Unis (ANU, Monash, UAdelaide, UMelb, UNSW, USyd, UQ, UWA) have signed the 'Letter from the Alliance of 26 industry Groups' 🤬🤬🤬
But 🤯 that the Group of 8 Unis (ANU, Monash, UAdelaide, UMelb, UNSW, USyd, UQ, UWA) have signed the 'Letter from the Alliance of 26 industry Groups' 🤬🤬🤬
Alliance of Industry Groups: Letter on EPBC - Business Council of Australia
www.bca.com.au
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 AM
This is utterly outrageous by the Group of Eight unis, and deeply insulting and undermining for environment and climate experts trying their hardest to achieve a more sustainable future for society. Shameful stuff.
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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I think his broad brow to be full of a prairie-like placidity, born of a speculative indifference as to death.
November 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I think his broad brow to be full of a prairie-like placidity, born of a speculative indifference as to death.
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TIL Australia used to have 'drop crocs', crocodilic ancestors that would (probably) climb trees then jump down on unsuspecting victims. Shame they died out really. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
55m-year-old eggshells unearthed in Queensland may be older relative of infamous ‘drop crocs’
Scientists believe new discovery to be the oldest crocodilian eggshells ever found in Australia
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
TIL Australia used to have 'drop crocs', crocodilic ancestors that would (probably) climb trees then jump down on unsuspecting victims. Shame they died out really. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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this must've been so annoying before computers
March 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
this must've been so annoying before computers
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Delivering on an election promise by handing over my 2008-2025 election night tie to the Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House, Canberra. When I paid $20 for it in 2008, never thought it would end up in a museum.
November 3, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Delivering on an election promise by handing over my 2008-2025 election night tie to the Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House, Canberra. When I paid $20 for it in 2008, never thought it would end up in a museum.
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Banao, a banana-headed boy who loves bananas comes from Kirishima City, Kagoshima, where bananas are grown.
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Banao, a banana-headed boy who loves bananas comes from Kirishima City, Kagoshima, where bananas are grown.
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An excellent story. Five stars.
An Antarctica story.
Once upon a time in Club 90 South, an inebriated apprentice from Wyoming revealed a family fact. One that, at other times, might be an amusing "degrees of separation" bon mot. However the key to wit and humor is not just timing, but reading the room.
He did not.
Once upon a time in Club 90 South, an inebriated apprentice from Wyoming revealed a family fact. One that, at other times, might be an amusing "degrees of separation" bon mot. However the key to wit and humor is not just timing, but reading the room.
He did not.
November 6, 2025 at 6:21 AM
An excellent story. Five stars.
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Sorry but this is fake news, Wyatt's got this
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Sorry but this is fake news, Wyatt's got this
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If you attentively regard almost any quadruped’s spine, you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebræ to a strung necklace of dwarfed skulls
October 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
If you attentively regard almost any quadruped’s spine, you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebræ to a strung necklace of dwarfed skulls
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the duality of man
October 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
the duality of man
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Komakiyama, a powerful green sumo wrestler, is the mascot of Komaki City in Aichi Prefecture.
October 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Komakiyama, a powerful green sumo wrestler, is the mascot of Komaki City in Aichi Prefecture.
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The Big Data fallacy 😱
Research by Vosgerau et al suggests decision-makers tend to interpret correlational relationships as causal when sample sizes are large (vs small)—even when given experimental evidence showing no or opposite causal effect:
buff.ly/5ZjWJ8E
Research by Vosgerau et al suggests decision-makers tend to interpret correlational relationships as causal when sample sizes are large (vs small)—even when given experimental evidence showing no or opposite causal effect:
buff.ly/5ZjWJ8E
October 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The Big Data fallacy 😱
Research by Vosgerau et al suggests decision-makers tend to interpret correlational relationships as causal when sample sizes are large (vs small)—even when given experimental evidence showing no or opposite causal effect:
buff.ly/5ZjWJ8E
Research by Vosgerau et al suggests decision-makers tend to interpret correlational relationships as causal when sample sizes are large (vs small)—even when given experimental evidence showing no or opposite causal effect:
buff.ly/5ZjWJ8E
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Managed to introduce "synergistic frictivation" into the company lexicon after using it in a strategy document to test if anyone reads them. Now, senior management uses it in presentations as if it's gospel. Last week, someone suggested we "frictivate our verticals".
October 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Managed to introduce "synergistic frictivation" into the company lexicon after using it in a strategy document to test if anyone reads them. Now, senior management uses it in presentations as if it's gospel. Last week, someone suggested we "frictivate our verticals".
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I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
October 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
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This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
October 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
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Saturday. Take hope. Take cheer.
Take a spoonful of lemming.
Take a spoonful of lemming.
October 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Saturday. Take hope. Take cheer.
Take a spoonful of lemming.
Take a spoonful of lemming.
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Kanoya Kanpachirou (PR chief of Kanoya City) is a skilled dancer with the head of an amberjack.
October 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Kanoya Kanpachirou (PR chief of Kanoya City) is a skilled dancer with the head of an amberjack.
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As unofficial town sorcerer, I'm sending out a mild, almost ineffective charm that will encourage any geese you come across to be slightly friendlier than they would have been otherwise.
October 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
As unofficial town sorcerer, I'm sending out a mild, almost ineffective charm that will encourage any geese you come across to be slightly friendlier than they would have been otherwise.
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Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first
Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
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RBA says companies will have to accept lower profits growth. Doesn't quite have the same ring does it.
October 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
RBA says companies will have to accept lower profits growth. Doesn't quite have the same ring does it.