Bill Cullen
@billcullen.bsky.social
Work in the cybers. Interested in (almost) everything. Living in my own special world somewhere in Australia.
@becauselanguage.com The Guardian Full Story podcast has an episode by Ella Archibald-Binge “Bringing Indigenous languages back from the brink” that you might be interested in.
December 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
@becauselanguage.com The Guardian Full Story podcast has an episode by Ella Archibald-Binge “Bringing Indigenous languages back from the brink” that you might be interested in.
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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Iceland Cricket coming in with the slog over cow corner to clear the fence lol
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Iceland Cricket coming in with the slog over cow corner to clear the fence lol
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November 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute
Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!
www.brailleinstitute.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
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It's an extension of this, been operating for about 5 months. bsky.app/profile/anti...
🧵 A network of 100+ BlueSky accounts pretending to be legitimate news syndication, some impersonating BBC News, @EuroNews.com, and @Meduza.io.
Built upon ≥70 Mastodon instances, then bridged to BlueSky using @ap.brid.gy, it feels like a social-media reinvention of the Portal 🇷🇺Kombat concept.
Built upon ≥70 Mastodon instances, then bridged to BlueSky using @ap.brid.gy, it feels like a social-media reinvention of the Portal 🇷🇺Kombat concept.
November 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
It's an extension of this, been operating for about 5 months. bsky.app/profile/anti...
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Since 15 Sept IFTAS has tracked a network of over 300 Mastodon accounts engaged in a high-volume propaganda campaign, promoting pro-Russian narratives:
https://about.iftas.org/2025/10/05/coordinated-pro-russian-propaganda-network-targeting-activitypub-and-atproto-services/
https://about.iftas.org/2025/10/05/coordinated-pro-russian-propaganda-network-targeting-activitypub-and-atproto-services/
November 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Since 15 Sept IFTAS has tracked a network of over 300 Mastodon accounts engaged in a high-volume propaganda campaign, promoting pro-Russian narratives:
https://about.iftas.org/2025/10/05/coordinated-pro-russian-propaganda-network-targeting-activitypub-and-atproto-services/
https://about.iftas.org/2025/10/05/coordinated-pro-russian-propaganda-network-targeting-activitypub-and-atproto-services/
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Repeat after me: Do not fill in and sync your government ID data to your Google account
blog.google/products/chr...
blog.google/products/chr...
Chrome now helps you fill in passport, driver’s license, vehicle information and more.
Chrome already saves you time every day by securely filling in your addresses, passwords and payment information. Today, we’re making it even more helpful. For desktop u…
blog.google
November 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Repeat after me: Do not fill in and sync your government ID data to your Google account
blog.google/products/chr...
blog.google/products/chr...
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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2nd Nov. 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the ongoing human presence off-world.
That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.
So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.
Image by HEO (from above!)
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That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.
So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.
Image by HEO (from above!)
🔭🧪
November 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
2nd Nov. 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the ongoing human presence off-world.
That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.
So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.
Image by HEO (from above!)
🔭🧪
That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.
So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.
Image by HEO (from above!)
🔭🧪
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First the monkeys, now this. Revenge Of The Medical Experiment Creatures
October 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
First the monkeys, now this. Revenge Of The Medical Experiment Creatures
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Mirror, mirror, reflecting our [LASER] beam...
What is the loudest [gravitational wave] signal that we've seen?
It’s #GW250114!
(Yes, it’s been two weeks since it was announced, but I can still celebrate! 🎉 )
#EinsteinWasRight #HawkingWasRight
@ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social
What is the loudest [gravitational wave] signal that we've seen?
It’s #GW250114!
(Yes, it’s been two weeks since it was announced, but I can still celebrate! 🎉 )
#EinsteinWasRight #HawkingWasRight
@ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Mirror, mirror, reflecting our [LASER] beam...
What is the loudest [gravitational wave] signal that we've seen?
It’s #GW250114!
(Yes, it’s been two weeks since it was announced, but I can still celebrate! 🎉 )
#EinsteinWasRight #HawkingWasRight
@ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social
What is the loudest [gravitational wave] signal that we've seen?
It’s #GW250114!
(Yes, it’s been two weeks since it was announced, but I can still celebrate! 🎉 )
#EinsteinWasRight #HawkingWasRight
@ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social
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This whole section really.
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This whole section really.
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hahah... made me laugh.
September 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
hahah... made me laugh.
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this is a very cool story but also part of a wider and incredible resurgence of the Eurasian beaver, which dropped to approximately 1,200 survivors in the early 20th century and is now up to 1.5 million. Beavers were reintroduced to the UK this March.
imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
September 23, 2025 at 2:52 AM
this is a very cool story but also part of a wider and incredible resurgence of the Eurasian beaver, which dropped to approximately 1,200 survivors in the early 20th century and is now up to 1.5 million. Beavers were reintroduced to the UK this March.
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The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
jamanetwork.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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We need to be very clear about this.
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism: a threat to us all
Scenes on Saturday of Christian preachers denouncing ‘Secular Humanism’ from the main stage of Tommy Robinson’s radical right Unite the Kingdom rally in London may have been surprising to see on the s...
humanists.uk
September 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
We need to be very clear about this.
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
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#apod 2025-09-14 (video)
Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250914.html
Content: https://www.youtube.com/embed/my1euFQHH-o?rel=0
Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250914.html
Content: https://www.youtube.com/embed/my1euFQHH-o?rel=0
September 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
#apod 2025-09-14 (video)
Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250914.html
Content: https://www.youtube.com/embed/my1euFQHH-o?rel=0
Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250914.html
Content: https://www.youtube.com/embed/my1euFQHH-o?rel=0
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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I'M COMIN' FOR YOU MATT HAIG AND HELL'S COMIN' WITH ME
September 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I'M COMIN' FOR YOU MATT HAIG AND HELL'S COMIN' WITH ME
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Best glory I’ve ever seen from a plane! It’s an optical phenomenon that occurs when light interacts in and around tiny droplets of water in the clouds, in the direction opposite the sun. More complex than a rainbow. Here’s a link to some more info: www.zmescience.com/science/phys... #optics #physics
September 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Best glory I’ve ever seen from a plane! It’s an optical phenomenon that occurs when light interacts in and around tiny droplets of water in the clouds, in the direction opposite the sun. More complex than a rainbow. Here’s a link to some more info: www.zmescience.com/science/phys... #optics #physics
They say you know you’re getting old when Police Officers start looking young. Well you know you’re getting really old when Police Commissioners look young.
August 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
They say you know you’re getting old when Police Officers start looking young. Well you know you’re getting really old when Police Commissioners look young.
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As someone who grew up in Flanders Fields, I can concur. We would still find ammunition in our vegetable garden every single year, a century after the war
Over a century later WW1 is still making victims.
July 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
As someone who grew up in Flanders Fields, I can concur. We would still find ammunition in our vegetable garden every single year, a century after the war
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"When you had regional offices you had human awareness, contact and scrutiny that was better suited to pick up cases where things have gone wrong," he says. "A purely sort of automated system isn't really good at doing that."
July 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"When you had regional offices you had human awareness, contact and scrutiny that was better suited to pick up cases where things have gone wrong," he says. "A purely sort of automated system isn't really good at doing that."