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Winter solstice sunset duly celebrated at 3.53pm at the Big (Sewage) Pipe, Skelmersdale's top visitor attraction on Tripadvisor.
The Big Pipe aligns precisely with solstice sunset at 229 degrees, as its ancient builders intended & we always offer our thanks before going to the Miner's Peg for one
The Big Pipe aligns precisely with solstice sunset at 229 degrees, as its ancient builders intended & we always offer our thanks before going to the Miner's Peg for one
December 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Winter solstice sunset duly celebrated at 3.53pm at the Big (Sewage) Pipe, Skelmersdale's top visitor attraction on Tripadvisor.
The Big Pipe aligns precisely with solstice sunset at 229 degrees, as its ancient builders intended & we always offer our thanks before going to the Miner's Peg for one
The Big Pipe aligns precisely with solstice sunset at 229 degrees, as its ancient builders intended & we always offer our thanks before going to the Miner's Peg for one
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in this moment of universal pleasure over the shellacking of Jake Paul I’m finally agreeing to run for office. My platform:
1. return boxing to network tv & basic cable
2. promote lower weight divisions. return to the glory Pipino Cuevas & Danny Lopez days
3. public money for boxing journalism
1. return boxing to network tv & basic cable
2. promote lower weight divisions. return to the glory Pipino Cuevas & Danny Lopez days
3. public money for boxing journalism
December 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
in this moment of universal pleasure over the shellacking of Jake Paul I’m finally agreeing to run for office. My platform:
1. return boxing to network tv & basic cable
2. promote lower weight divisions. return to the glory Pipino Cuevas & Danny Lopez days
3. public money for boxing journalism
1. return boxing to network tv & basic cable
2. promote lower weight divisions. return to the glory Pipino Cuevas & Danny Lopez days
3. public money for boxing journalism
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It's your birthday, Duane.
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It's your birthday, Duane.
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And speaking of Finns, a Finnish equivalent to “a few sandwiches short of a picnic” is hänellä ei ole kaikki muumit laaksossa. It means “they don’t have all the Moomins in the valley.”
December 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
And speaking of Finns, a Finnish equivalent to “a few sandwiches short of a picnic” is hänellä ei ole kaikki muumit laaksossa. It means “they don’t have all the Moomins in the valley.”
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"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
December 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
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i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
September 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality
"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening
START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't
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And then there’s the story about Alex Karp’s not-at-all-weird interview (for lack of a better word) with Oswald Mosley’s grandson for a senior position at Palantir.
December 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
And then there’s the story about Alex Karp’s not-at-all-weird interview (for lack of a better word) with Oswald Mosley’s grandson for a senior position at Palantir.
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Maternal grandfather would boast that he knew how to make fried rice anywhere, under any condition because that was what was expected of him in the PLA. He carried a collapsible wok paddle everywhere because he “never knew when he’d have to fry rice”
December 17, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Maternal grandfather would boast that he knew how to make fried rice anywhere, under any condition because that was what was expected of him in the PLA. He carried a collapsible wok paddle everywhere because he “never knew when he’d have to fry rice”
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My working theory is that the kind of Christianity currently being adopted by right-wing figures who, a decade ago, were very much of a "all religions are bollocks" conviction, really comes out of their own fears of Islam, what they think Islam is and an envy toward Muslims in general
December 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
My working theory is that the kind of Christianity currently being adopted by right-wing figures who, a decade ago, were very much of a "all religions are bollocks" conviction, really comes out of their own fears of Islam, what they think Islam is and an envy toward Muslims in general
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Happy birthday to Jane Austen, and to this very on-brand Economist chart
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
December 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Happy birthday to Jane Austen, and to this very on-brand Economist chart
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
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The recent release of the Index of Multiple Deprivation by UK Gov. allowed me to indulge my twin interests of psephology and demographics. The results a visualisation of the deprivation profiles of the 296 English local authorities. More info here www.opendatamanchester.org.uk/revisiting-p...
December 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The recent release of the Index of Multiple Deprivation by UK Gov. allowed me to indulge my twin interests of psephology and demographics. The results a visualisation of the deprivation profiles of the 296 English local authorities. More info here www.opendatamanchester.org.uk/revisiting-p...
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Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
December 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
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I can’t believe a technical solution to a complex social problem didn’t work. Ah well, nevertheless
One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I can’t believe a technical solution to a complex social problem didn’t work. Ah well, nevertheless
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Some yeets over the years
November 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Some yeets over the years
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5 years ago today, Pandemic Year. It had been a month since I opened my "side project" (lol) cat rescue in the spare room of my flat in London.
I saw an ad for a male kitten with "balance & walking problems" who urgently needed a home. And so it began. HAPPY SMOL PAUL DAY!
I saw an ad for a male kitten with "balance & walking problems" who urgently needed a home. And so it began. HAPPY SMOL PAUL DAY!
November 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
5 years ago today, Pandemic Year. It had been a month since I opened my "side project" (lol) cat rescue in the spare room of my flat in London.
I saw an ad for a male kitten with "balance & walking problems" who urgently needed a home. And so it began. HAPPY SMOL PAUL DAY!
I saw an ad for a male kitten with "balance & walking problems" who urgently needed a home. And so it began. HAPPY SMOL PAUL DAY!
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Nick, 30, having a bad day factoid actualy just statistical error. average uk voter actually not like that at all Nicks Georg, 30, who lives in cave & posts 10 000 times a day on twitter about hating immigrants and welfare claimaints, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
British politics is now just about making up a guy and assuming he will vote for you
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Nick, 30, having a bad day factoid actualy just statistical error. average uk voter actually not like that at all Nicks Georg, 30, who lives in cave & posts 10 000 times a day on twitter about hating immigrants and welfare claimaints, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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I've just updated the available cats page, we have some REALLY special kitties in and some of them have been waiting ages. Their forever home might be on your timeline, please share? 🥰
Moggies looking for homes
After hearing 50,000 times that we should put the available cats on the website, we’ve made a page! Hooray! However, it is still just me doing most of the work in the shelter. So there’…
hollysmerrymoggies.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I've just updated the available cats page, we have some REALLY special kitties in and some of them have been waiting ages. Their forever home might be on your timeline, please share? 🥰
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you've tweeted 452k times since december 2013. that's 103 tweets a day. assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, that's a new tweet every ten mins for twelve years. talking about how to attract a high value man. brother, you need to attract a HIGH VALUE JOB
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
you've tweeted 452k times since december 2013. that's 103 tweets a day. assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, that's a new tweet every ten mins for twelve years. talking about how to attract a high value man. brother, you need to attract a HIGH VALUE JOB
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they finally made the wearable computer that also sucks your dick www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvCG...
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
they finally made the wearable computer that also sucks your dick www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvCG...
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
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I posit to the class: it’s not that your cycle syncs with all your friends, it’s that you don’t get to see the friends you aren’t synced with because somebody’s uterus is always trying to kill them
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I posit to the class: it’s not that your cycle syncs with all your friends, it’s that you don’t get to see the friends you aren’t synced with because somebody’s uterus is always trying to kill them
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Uh
this is
enormous
this is
enormous
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Uh
this is
enormous
this is
enormous
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You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes – the walls, the walls!
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes – the walls, the walls!
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Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down