Phil B
@holyzarquon.bsky.social
So it’s Sept ‘23 and I’ve decided to start with a couple of hobbies. Have invested in some watercolour paints, brushes and paper. But why stop there, I’ve also bought a woodworking bench and some tools.
March ‘25: anyone got a duster?
March ‘25: anyone got a duster?
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This is Pulitzer Prize winning photography, I’m really not kidding..
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This is Pulitzer Prize winning photography, I’m really not kidding..
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Seems bad. Anyone yet factoring in 10m of sea level into infrastructure planning?
Up to 59% of Antarctic ice shelves may be at risk of disappearing under high-emission scenarios by 2300, according to an analysis of the effect of ocean warming in Nature. This could result in up to 10 m of global sea-level rise. go.nature.com/47Ag4k1 🌊 🧪
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Seems bad. Anyone yet factoring in 10m of sea level into infrastructure planning?
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🧪 I have a new TV offering: a 2-part Horizon special on BBC2 going out on 29th Sep and 6th October. It is called Secrets of the Brain. See
See www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
See www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Two - Secrets of the Brain, Series 1, Episode 1
Jim Al-Khalili reveals how the staggeringly complex human brain evolved.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
🧪 I have a new TV offering: a 2-part Horizon special on BBC2 going out on 29th Sep and 6th October. It is called Secrets of the Brain. See
See www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
See www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.
June 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.
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What idiot called it "The masculine tendency to suppress all emotional and nurturing impulses" and not "Scrotal eclipse of the heart"?
May 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
What idiot called it "The masculine tendency to suppress all emotional and nurturing impulses" and not "Scrotal eclipse of the heart"?
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If you try to lecture me on climate science yet lack any formal training therein then, yeah, I'll block you.
#MannSplaining
#MannSplaining
May 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
If you try to lecture me on climate science yet lack any formal training therein then, yeah, I'll block you.
#MannSplaining
#MannSplaining
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“Brexit means we can make our own agreements with the EU, as we pick and choose!”
- UK chooses to make agreement with EU on a handful of issues.
“Brexit Betrayed!”
- UK chooses to make agreement with EU on a handful of issues.
“Brexit Betrayed!”
May 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“Brexit means we can make our own agreements with the EU, as we pick and choose!”
- UK chooses to make agreement with EU on a handful of issues.
“Brexit Betrayed!”
- UK chooses to make agreement with EU on a handful of issues.
“Brexit Betrayed!”
Amazing that they can keep a 1970s space craft going outside of the solar system, but kettles only seem to last about 2 years.
Science at its finest! reawakening the Voyager 1 thrusters.
www.yahoo.com/news/dead-th...
@physgal.bsky.social @starstryder.space
www.yahoo.com/news/dead-th...
@physgal.bsky.social @starstryder.space
Once ‘dead’ thrusters on the farthest spacecraft from Earth are in action again
NASA engineers have revived old thrusters on Voyager 1 to prevent a clog from endangering the mission during a planned communications blackout.
www.yahoo.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Amazing that they can keep a 1970s space craft going outside of the solar system, but kettles only seem to last about 2 years.
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As always, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social says it best
Island of Strangers - by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
May 15, 2025 at 6:21 AM
As always, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social says it best
UK weather trolling the public as always… weekday weather vs bank holiday weather
April 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
UK weather trolling the public as always… weekday weather vs bank holiday weather
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Here's my battery panel session from @fullychargedshow.bsky.social ExCeL, hosted by the ever excellent Dave Borlace, featuring fellow Bruce Group alumni @ntapiaruiz.bsky.social and Varnika Agarwal, alongside @aaron-wade.bsky.social from Gaussion and Volta Foundation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R1u...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R1u...
From Solid State to Sodium - THESE are the next Big Battery Breakthroughs!
YouTube video by Everything Electric Show
www.youtube.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Here's my battery panel session from @fullychargedshow.bsky.social ExCeL, hosted by the ever excellent Dave Borlace, featuring fellow Bruce Group alumni @ntapiaruiz.bsky.social and Varnika Agarwal, alongside @aaron-wade.bsky.social from Gaussion and Volta Foundation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R1u...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R1u...
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Oh for a good network of chargers and fewer apps that are erratic in Scotland
April 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Oh for a good network of chargers and fewer apps that are erratic in Scotland
I appear to have recreated the Quatermass experiment in my search for a soufflé…
April 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I appear to have recreated the Quatermass experiment in my search for a soufflé…
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I get that people like me have been saying "make closer ties with Europe" since the day after the referendum and for much of that time there were political arguments against. But if Starmer can't see that he now has full top-cover to do that, he really isn't very smart.
April 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I get that people like me have been saying "make closer ties with Europe" since the day after the referendum and for much of that time there were political arguments against. But if Starmer can't see that he now has full top-cover to do that, he really isn't very smart.
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It's a scandal.
We cannot create reliefs like R&D tax relief. I's generous, vague, and impossible to police - a dangerous combination. Better to have narrowly focussed reliefs which are only available to a much smaller number of businesses doing really serious R&D.
We cannot create reliefs like R&D tax relief. I's generous, vague, and impossible to police - a dangerous combination. Better to have narrowly focussed reliefs which are only available to a much smaller number of businesses doing really serious R&D.
April 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
It's a scandal.
We cannot create reliefs like R&D tax relief. I's generous, vague, and impossible to police - a dangerous combination. Better to have narrowly focussed reliefs which are only available to a much smaller number of businesses doing really serious R&D.
We cannot create reliefs like R&D tax relief. I's generous, vague, and impossible to police - a dangerous combination. Better to have narrowly focussed reliefs which are only available to a much smaller number of businesses doing really serious R&D.
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During the Falklands War, the SAS insisted on landing on Fortuna Glacier while trying to retake South Georgia.
This was against the advice of scientists of the British Antarctic Expedition familiar with the island, including several who had avoided capture on South Georgia until relieved /1
This was against the advice of scientists of the British Antarctic Expedition familiar with the island, including several who had avoided capture on South Georgia until relieved /1
April 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
During the Falklands War, the SAS insisted on landing on Fortuna Glacier while trying to retake South Georgia.
This was against the advice of scientists of the British Antarctic Expedition familiar with the island, including several who had avoided capture on South Georgia until relieved /1
This was against the advice of scientists of the British Antarctic Expedition familiar with the island, including several who had avoided capture on South Georgia until relieved /1
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What about “Fucking Stupid Thursday”?
April 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
What about “Fucking Stupid Thursday”?
These hundreds of people who didn’t want to contribute to society through their taxes. Part of me thinks “yeah well, fuck ‘em”.
One of the country’s most incompetent and damaging tax advisers, Chris Bailey, has just filed for bankruptcy.
His firms, SKS Bailey, OCG and Less Tax for Landlords sold a deeply incompetent landlord tax avoidance scheme. Hundreds of people face financial ruin.
His firms, SKS Bailey, OCG and Less Tax for Landlords sold a deeply incompetent landlord tax avoidance scheme. Hundreds of people face financial ruin.
April 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
These hundreds of people who didn’t want to contribute to society through their taxes. Part of me thinks “yeah well, fuck ‘em”.
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Too right. It’s obviously different from petrol stations, which are typically completely unobtrusive, fit perfectly with the surrounding environment and are architectural marvels that would make Frank Lloyd Wright weep.
Plans for an 8-bay EV charging station on the A40 at Eynsham have been turned down by local planners. West Oxfordshire District Council said “the proposal will be of an urban nature which will appear incongruous and result in a marked change in the character and appearance of the site”.
March 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Too right. It’s obviously different from petrol stations, which are typically completely unobtrusive, fit perfectly with the surrounding environment and are architectural marvels that would make Frank Lloyd Wright weep.
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The wild thing is that we're still in the "fun" era of fascist decline, with techno-enthusiasm and ironic "art"
Studio Ghibli in the age of A.I. reproduction
Fiat Ghibli slop--pereat mundus
maxread.substack.com
March 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The wild thing is that we're still in the "fun" era of fascist decline, with techno-enthusiasm and ironic "art"
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America is now allied with Russia and locking up dissidents in concentration camps in Louisiana.
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
America is now allied with Russia and locking up dissidents in concentration camps in Louisiana.
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2. Curiosity-driven research isn't just fun; it led us to develop tools that thousands of scientists use to find meaningful patterns in massive datasets (e.g. www.mapequation.org).
Separately, I've had the opportunity to be part of the largest collective intellectual effort in human history.
March 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
2. Curiosity-driven research isn't just fun; it led us to develop tools that thousands of scientists use to find meaningful patterns in massive datasets (e.g. www.mapequation.org).
Separately, I've had the opportunity to be part of the largest collective intellectual effort in human history.
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This.
Those with power do not want others to have human rights - the rights you have because you are human.
That is why they sneer at human rights, use the media and propaganda to deride those rights, and cut off legal aid so the rights cannot be asserted.
And some unwise people clap and cheer.
Those with power do not want others to have human rights - the rights you have because you are human.
That is why they sneer at human rights, use the media and propaganda to deride those rights, and cut off legal aid so the rights cannot be asserted.
And some unwise people clap and cheer.
The assertion of human rights is normally unpopular with those in power. That’s why we have them.
March 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This.
Those with power do not want others to have human rights - the rights you have because you are human.
That is why they sneer at human rights, use the media and propaganda to deride those rights, and cut off legal aid so the rights cannot be asserted.
And some unwise people clap and cheer.
Those with power do not want others to have human rights - the rights you have because you are human.
That is why they sneer at human rights, use the media and propaganda to deride those rights, and cut off legal aid so the rights cannot be asserted.
And some unwise people clap and cheer.
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🧵 1/11 📚 Our new rapid systematic review, led by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social in @bmj.com examines the role of physician associates (PAs) and anaesthetic associates (AAs) in the UK. This is a crucially important question in light of the Leng Review
March 7, 2025 at 5:25 AM
🧵 1/11 📚 Our new rapid systematic review, led by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social in @bmj.com examines the role of physician associates (PAs) and anaesthetic associates (AAs) in the UK. This is a crucially important question in light of the Leng Review