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This conference at the White House is the Peppa Pig World moment of this presidency

TIL Handel's Messiah does not begin with "Come for tea, come for tea, my people. Seth is your God"

The irony of a paedophile being angry at the BBC...

We live in an age where the US government shutting down is bad for science, but also the US government operating is bad for science

Thanks - I just tried from my desktop and it worked fine. I was trying from an Android tablet before.

I entered my email and yes, it was a captcha type test - it looked like this

Fwiw I tried to read, but a pop-up asked me hold a button for a few seconds, which I did. This failed twice, so I gave up trying to read the article.

Google's search has gotten so bad I've subscribed to a paid-for search engine.

It's 2025 and I'm still writing stuff in C++. What went wrong?

C# is pronounced as "C tic-tac-toe"

Expert takedown of latest burst of Neuralink hype, from ever-reliable @garwboy.bsky.social.
So frustrating that media keep falling for this, especially at a time when Musk & co are in midst of vandalizing the science research infrastructure of the US, damage that will reverberate across the world. 🧪

we're in our "drink whisky? why not have some cocaine?" era, if Colombia gets its way

I told you to read Hannah Arendt.

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

I've just heard about New World screwworm. It took me a second to figure out, but turns out it's not an article about Trump.

All I'm saying, @royalsociety.org, is that your one of your Fellows giving Nazi salutes is never going to be a good look for you.

Trump is delivering a speech like he's on his way to open pork markets in Beijing

A horrific image of a someone who seems to have his hands tied behind his back. A big cat (the predator kind, not the overfed pet kind) has jumped up at him and is devouring his face. Blood splashes on the floor.

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.

#MosaicMonday

"We're in the rotunda for the ceremony. Speaking of rotund, here's president elect Trump"

Trump is going to die in office, the absolute state of him

Yumurtalık - Wikipedia

There's a place in Turkey which means "like an egg" and this has amused me no end

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumurta...

2025 is just around the corner and I just can't wait for the bubble around LLMs to burst so that Silicon Valley can move on and ruin quantum computing for everyone...

Hope you enjoy it!

I tried a clamato beer when I was in the US but not knowing what to expect. I'm still scarred tbh.

Jupiter is one of the largest bodies in our Solar System, dwarfed only by the Son of Gary Barlow

TV Show: "This began before any of us were born, a long long time ago"

A transition to a new scene follows, with text displaying my year of birth...

fml

#SlowDecay #GettingOld

One of the most life changing things I've bought this year is a hot water bottle with a pouch to put your feet in. A persistent ache in my calves has gone in an instant.

Despite its appearance as a bustling metropolis, Leeds is in fact inhabited by just four people moving at great speed.

Cover of the "Solid state Physics" textbook by Ashcroft and Mermin. (Source|: Wikipedia)

#PhysicsFactlet:
The "Ashcroft/Mermin Project"
I will try to (likely very slowly) make one or more visualization per chapter of "Solid State Physics" by Ashcroft and Mermin, with the hope that they will be useful to people teaching/learning solid state Physics.
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Non-alcoholic gin tastes* like gin without alcohol in a way that is not true for non-alcoholic beers, which taste like a mistake

* based on my sample of one non-alcoholic gin

Why is Nate Silver?