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Ian Williams
@ianwilliams.bsky.social
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Horror film fanatic, lover of noisy music, player of MTG and hater of brexit
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Oh, how was Cannibal Mukbang? I have The Cat waiting for me tonight
Cover art for the DVD release of Lam Nai Choi's The Cat featuring a woman holding a cat, a monster of some sort and a man firing 2 sub machine guns simultaneously
September 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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3 guesses on Plagdle!
www.plagdle.com
Screenshot of a successful guess in today's Pagdle disease
September 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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From @newscientist.com bacteria and archaea living together symbiotically like a micro version of Alien Clay by @aptshadow.bsky.social
An article from New Scientist magazine titled Is This How Complex Life Began about bacteria and archaea living symbiotically
August 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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A picture of a postcard o received after joining the NHS Our Future Health research trial to help tackle diseases like dementia, cancer, diabetes and strokes
February 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Great review of @aptshadow.bsky.social's new book Shroud in this week's @newscientist.com magazine. Also mentions the rerelease of the Murderbot Diary books, which is great as they were impossible to find when I last looked
Screenshot of a page from New Scientist magazine featuring a very positive review of Adrian Tchaikovsky's new book Shroud. Its summary is that he's at the top of his game and fizzing with ideas
February 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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If you see this, post with a horror movie you love!
#filmsky #moviesky #horrorsky #movies
Poster image for the film Near Dark
December 14, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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@briantylercohen.bsky.social wow, there are a lot of accounts claiming to be yiu already
A bluesky search for briantykercohen showing the actual account and 7 fake ones
November 24, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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Screenshot from a New Scientist article from Sept 2024. The headline is "Evidence points to Wuhan market as source of covid-19 outbreak"
November 22, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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Ah, the newborn rat, such a classic yardstick
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Clipping from a Guardian article about the Fen raft spider which reads "According to London Zoo, the stretched out leg span of a fen raft spider is typically 65-70mm - roughly the width of a human palm or the length of a newborn rat"
November 5, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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Went to see #Michael at Moor Beer Vaults last Friday courtesy of @babayagashut.bsky.social. they were nothing short of immense, a wall of riffs, best gig I've been to this year!
Michael play at Moor Beer Vaults last Friday, they were amazing
October 25, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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fox cubs playing in our back garden
September 14, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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I do use mouthtape occasionally, if the snoring gets bad
Mouthtape used to reduce snoring
September 10, 2024 at 11:29 AM
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New Scientist magazine picks @premeemohamed.com's The Siege of Burning Grass as one of the best scifi books of the year so far
A very positive book review of Premee Mohamed's The Siege of Burning Grass
July 13, 2024 at 8:33 AM
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Great reviews of 2 new @aptshadow.bsky.social books in New Scientist!
New Scientist reviews of 2 new Adrian Tchaikovsky sci-fi books, Alien Clay and Service Model. The reviewer concludes with "they are both vibrant novels bursting with life (be it artificial or alien) and I am glad to recommend them to you.
April 14, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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Been doing a jewellery course and made this ring
A ring made of 4 sheets of silver soldered together
February 12, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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According to Christina Pagel, 6% of Londoners currently estimated to have covid and the PN.1 variant has shot up to a prevalence of 43% in the country
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-in...
Graph and accompanying text showing that the coronavirus PN.1 variant has shot up to 43% of current infections in the UK
December 21, 2023 at 1:52 PM
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Hmm, do you think I have some kind of heterochromia? Here's a pic of my eye I took for an eye hospital when I developed a naevus
Close up picture of an eye showing the details of the iris and a naevus
November 29, 2023 at 4:19 PM
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Something on it in this week's New Scientist too
Photograph of an article in New Scientist titled "DeepMind AI predicts the weather"
November 19, 2023 at 2:16 PM
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Fantastic photo of Trump in the Guardian today
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
Photograph of Trump in the Guardian framed in such a way that a circular light behind him makes it look like he has devil horns
November 11, 2023 at 3:55 PM
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I just keep on seeing tapeworm scolex in it which makes it worse
The head of a tapeworm as seen in a microscope. At the top is a ring of hooks, below is a ring of suckers. Together their scientific name is a scolex
November 10, 2023 at 9:23 PM
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I don’t like them very much, but I hardly think this is headline news.
A news headline saying "Czech village priest sorry for smashing pumpkins "
October 20, 2023 at 3:22 PM
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There's a setting they added in this week's release to view replies in a threaded mode
Screenshot of how to enable threaded mode in replies
October 4, 2023 at 12:14 PM
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Reminds me of Aphex Twin
Picture of Aphex Twin grinning in a menacing way
October 1, 2023 at 5:30 PM