Chris
@xpic84.bsky.social
Give me a place to sit and I shall watch the world move itself.
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My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.
December 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.
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“the only way to get to the truth is by speaking to one another” no it’s research, you’re thinking of research, that’s why you don’t get given a medical degree for debating whether bones exist
December 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
“the only way to get to the truth is by speaking to one another” no it’s research, you’re thinking of research, that’s why you don’t get given a medical degree for debating whether bones exist
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Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Who has made this 🤣
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Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing
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Flu activity has risen unusually early this season, driven by a new subclade.
On the bright side, our data shows that this year's vaccines offer good protection against the virus - to both children and adults.
Details here: https://bit.ly/47LEXZW
On the bright side, our data shows that this year's vaccines offer good protection against the virus - to both children and adults.
Details here: https://bit.ly/47LEXZW
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Flu activity has risen unusually early this season, driven by a new subclade.
On the bright side, our data shows that this year's vaccines offer good protection against the virus - to both children and adults.
Details here: https://bit.ly/47LEXZW
On the bright side, our data shows that this year's vaccines offer good protection against the virus - to both children and adults.
Details here: https://bit.ly/47LEXZW
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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The very first episode of 'Joe 90' was released 57 years ago today.
Your week won't get any better than this, trust me.
Your week won't get any better than this, trust me.
September 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The very first episode of 'Joe 90' was released 57 years ago today.
Your week won't get any better than this, trust me.
Your week won't get any better than this, trust me.
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I respect Anil so I want to talk seriously about harm reduction and public health messaging.
First let me acknowledge that yes, many regular, not-super-online people are trying out AI tools. Of course they are! It's been aggressively pushed into everything and given heavy institutional support.
First let me acknowledge that yes, many regular, not-super-online people are trying out AI tools. Of course they are! It's been aggressively pushed into everything and given heavy institutional support.
this is the really ineffective head-in-the-sand reaction a lot of folks on Bluesky tend to have if you talk about any harm reduction-based approach to the reality that millions of people are using AI tools today. The current approach to critiquing AI is obviously not working, but they don't care.
September 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I respect Anil so I want to talk seriously about harm reduction and public health messaging.
First let me acknowledge that yes, many regular, not-super-online people are trying out AI tools. Of course they are! It's been aggressively pushed into everything and given heavy institutional support.
First let me acknowledge that yes, many regular, not-super-online people are trying out AI tools. Of course they are! It's been aggressively pushed into everything and given heavy institutional support.
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I think one of the things people misunderstand about being anti-ChatGPT and related products is that they are being forced into institutions and other products and services in ways that affect all of our lives whether they work or *not* and we will all have to deal with the consequences
August 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I think one of the things people misunderstand about being anti-ChatGPT and related products is that they are being forced into institutions and other products and services in ways that affect all of our lives whether they work or *not* and we will all have to deal with the consequences
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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This is exactly what the internet is for.
July 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This is exactly what the internet is for.
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all in on white, huh
July 6, 2025 at 6:15 AM
all in on white, huh
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I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
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Should we all publish our FAILED funding proposals? And what's the deal with every small patch in the NHS having its own bespoke prescribing guidelines?
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/06...
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/06...
OpenFormulary: ahead of its time | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
In 2019, we pitched a national tool to track local formularies. Now the NHS is doing just that! We’re sharing our plans and advice to help it succeed.
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
June 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Should we all publish our FAILED funding proposals? And what's the deal with every small patch in the NHS having its own bespoke prescribing guidelines?
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/06...
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/06...
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Every now and again one is reminded that Robert Frost's The Death of the Hired Man exists and then one cries.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44261/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44261/...
The Death of the Hired Man
‘I told him so last haying, didn’t I? ‘I want him to: he’ll have to soon or late.’ ‘He’s worn out. Wait till you see.’ ‘Where did you say he’d been?’ ‘He didn’t say. Mary, confess He said he’d come to...
www.poetryfoundation.org
June 23, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Every now and again one is reminded that Robert Frost's The Death of the Hired Man exists and then one cries.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44261/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44261/...
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ICYMI: Health Protection Report on the Report a Notifiable Disease Service
The service that I led development of with colleagues @ukhsa.bsky.social has been in National Public beta since September last year, and here is the first public data report on it
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www.gov.uk/government/p...
The service that I led development of with colleagues @ukhsa.bsky.social has been in National Public beta since September last year, and here is the first public data report on it
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www.gov.uk/government/p...
HPR volume 19 issue 5: news (21 and 29 May 2025)
www.gov.uk
June 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
ICYMI: Health Protection Report on the Report a Notifiable Disease Service
The service that I led development of with colleagues @ukhsa.bsky.social has been in National Public beta since September last year, and here is the first public data report on it
🧵 1/6
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The service that I led development of with colleagues @ukhsa.bsky.social has been in National Public beta since September last year, and here is the first public data report on it
🧵 1/6
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”
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February 20, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”
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We have entered the season of no meal rules. Dessert is breakfast. Dinner is lunch. A snack is an entire honey-mustard ham
December 21, 2024 at 6:42 PM
We have entered the season of no meal rules. Dessert is breakfast. Dinner is lunch. A snack is an entire honey-mustard ham