Gabe
@reynardinefox.bsky.social
Bioinformatician🧬, Geek🖖🏼, Queer🏳️🌈, he/him👨🏻💻, Mollusc-Fan 🦑, Crafter🧶, Gamer🎲🎮, Bushcraft🏕, Cyclist🚴🏼♂️, Cis trans-ally 🏳️⚧️
Formerly @ReynardineFox
Formerly @ReynardineFox
Me this time of year when anyone asks “What do you want?”
December 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Me this time of year when anyone asks “What do you want?”
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Good as we'll get and I'll take it! 🥧
'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery | Wake Up Dead Man | Netflix
YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Good as we'll get and I'll take it! 🥧
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A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Can we talk about the fact that it’s weird that they made a point of recruiting an Edosian onto the Enterprise and she never turns up again?
It’s not just me right? That seemed weird.
It’s not just me right? That seemed weird.
"Do you want to be the big spoon or little spoon?"
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Can we talk about the fact that it’s weird that they made a point of recruiting an Edosian onto the Enterprise and she never turns up again?
It’s not just me right? That seemed weird.
It’s not just me right? That seemed weird.
This is the perfect time to get out the “Can/Should” diagram.
He claims the bricks were inspired by the block chain. Engineers, please look away now.
The brick in question
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This is the perfect time to get out the “Can/Should” diagram.
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Our campaign for better walking on Mill Road has nearly reached 1,000 signatures – and it's already making an impact at the county council!
Join supporters of Camcycle, Cambridge Living Streets, Mill Road For People & Cambs Families for Sustainable Travel & sign now at tinyurl.com/walkmillroad
Join supporters of Camcycle, Cambridge Living Streets, Mill Road For People & Cambs Families for Sustainable Travel & sign now at tinyurl.com/walkmillroad
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Our campaign for better walking on Mill Road has nearly reached 1,000 signatures – and it's already making an impact at the county council!
Join supporters of Camcycle, Cambridge Living Streets, Mill Road For People & Cambs Families for Sustainable Travel & sign now at tinyurl.com/walkmillroad
Join supporters of Camcycle, Cambridge Living Streets, Mill Road For People & Cambs Families for Sustainable Travel & sign now at tinyurl.com/walkmillroad
You don’t even want to know what the employees have to do if you get within 2 feet.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
You don’t even want to know what the employees have to do if you get within 2 feet.
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And this is why you can’t separate the art from the artist, the artist is actively making you complicit.
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
And this is why you can’t separate the art from the artist, the artist is actively making you complicit.
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October 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
October 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
To me, Wiz’n’Liz is the crowning glory: a chaotic platformer that no one else seems to played 😭
Vector recreation of the iconic Psygnosis logo.
Psygnosis were a video game developer and publisher from '84 to '99, perhaps most famous for Lemmings and WipeOut. At least to me. I was also fond of a mech shooter called Walker. [🧵]
Psygnosis were a video game developer and publisher from '84 to '99, perhaps most famous for Lemmings and WipeOut. At least to me. I was also fond of a mech shooter called Walker. [🧵]
October 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
To me, Wiz’n’Liz is the crowning glory: a chaotic platformer that no one else seems to played 😭
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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
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There's a really great MinutePhysics video about the aesthetics- and physics-based reasons for the number of wind turbine blades: youtu.be/pgqkti7yePk
October 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
There's a really great MinutePhysics video about the aesthetics- and physics-based reasons for the number of wind turbine blades: youtu.be/pgqkti7yePk
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i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked
Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says
1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says
www.independent.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked
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Not the point, but this reminds me of one of my favourite bits of dumb trivia: 978 is the UPC country code for “Bookland”.
Brought in around 2007 to unify old 10 digit ISBNs with 13 digit barcodes, books got their own country with the 3 digit prefix. Bookland! Lovely place to visit.
Brought in around 2007 to unify old 10 digit ISBNs with 13 digit barcodes, books got their own country with the 3 digit prefix. Bookland! Lovely place to visit.
Apparently UK supermarkets aren’t labelling food (like mango and watermelon) with its country of origin…if that country of origin is Israel.
Under EU law, country of origin must be stated…but the UK isn’t in the EU anymore.
Anyway, if the first 3 digits on the barcode are 729, it’s Israeli.
Under EU law, country of origin must be stated…but the UK isn’t in the EU anymore.
Anyway, if the first 3 digits on the barcode are 729, it’s Israeli.
October 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Not the point, but this reminds me of one of my favourite bits of dumb trivia: 978 is the UPC country code for “Bookland”.
Brought in around 2007 to unify old 10 digit ISBNs with 13 digit barcodes, books got their own country with the 3 digit prefix. Bookland! Lovely place to visit.
Brought in around 2007 to unify old 10 digit ISBNs with 13 digit barcodes, books got their own country with the 3 digit prefix. Bookland! Lovely place to visit.
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secret spoiler from next weeks Alien Earth Finale
September 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
secret spoiler from next weeks Alien Earth Finale
Gay men have the lowest divorce rate in the UK 🤷♂️
Nigel Farage:
"Children who have two stable parents have a better chance in life... The most stable relationships, the ones that last the longest, tend to be between men & women... There's an awful lot of kids in the country not getting the kind of start... they deserve."
Farage has two ex-wives.
"Children who have two stable parents have a better chance in life... The most stable relationships, the ones that last the longest, tend to be between men & women... There's an awful lot of kids in the country not getting the kind of start... they deserve."
Farage has two ex-wives.
September 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Gay men have the lowest divorce rate in the UK 🤷♂️
Trying to decide how I feel about the season finale of Foundation. As someone who knows the books well, it’s always nice to be surprised (and that was very surprising), but I’m not convinced it made sense, especially to those who don’t know the books at all.
September 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Trying to decide how I feel about the season finale of Foundation. As someone who knows the books well, it’s always nice to be surprised (and that was very surprising), but I’m not convinced it made sense, especially to those who don’t know the books at all.
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It would be great if VFX artists refused to work with directors who lie and say they don't use VFX.
It would also be fascinating to see how their movies would look if they actually didn't have any VFX.
It would also be fascinating to see how their movies would look if they actually didn't have any VFX.
September 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
It would be great if VFX artists refused to work with directors who lie and say they don't use VFX.
It would also be fascinating to see how their movies would look if they actually didn't have any VFX.
It would also be fascinating to see how their movies would look if they actually didn't have any VFX.
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Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac, best known for his role as an Antedean Ambassador in Star Trek The Next Generation.
September 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac, best known for his role as an Antedean Ambassador in Star Trek The Next Generation.
Iggy Pop, best known for his role as the Vorta Yelgrun in Deep Space Nine
September 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Iggy Pop, best known for his role as the Vorta Yelgrun in Deep Space Nine
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Wow, you could sing this headline to "Girls & Boys" by Blur
Pedestrian walking in road because cyclist riding on sidewalk because car parked in bike lane
Pedestrian walking in road because cyclist riding on sidewalk because car parked in bike lane
TORONTO - Eyewitnesses today confirmed reports that a pedestrian was walking in the road because a cyclist was riding on the sidewalk because a car was parked in the bike lane.
www.thebeaverton.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Wow, you could sing this headline to "Girls & Boys" by Blur
Why is labour cosplaying as reform?
NEW: Keir Starmer has said he hangs the English flag in his home and 'always sits front of a Union Jack'
He told the BBC: 'I'm very encouraging of flags. I think they're patriotic and a great symbol of our nation.'
He told the BBC: 'I'm very encouraging of flags. I think they're patriotic and a great symbol of our nation.'
September 2, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Why is labour cosplaying as reform?
It’s a common misconception that luddites were against technology. What they objected to was the use of technology to impoverish society by employing unskilled workers at low wages in dangerous conditions. Tech needs to be used to enrich our world, not destroy it.
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
August 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It’s a common misconception that luddites were against technology. What they objected to was the use of technology to impoverish society by employing unskilled workers at low wages in dangerous conditions. Tech needs to be used to enrich our world, not destroy it.
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While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
August 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.