Noodlemaz

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Like my Destiny avatar over there says

I'm realistic more than pessimistic, but perhaps that's optimistic?

#VideoGames player: #Destiny2 etc
#Singer in #ReadySingerOne nerd #choir 👾

I have a PhD in #CancerResearch, now in comms

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2025-12-22 09:57:53 CET

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imsorrywhatthefuck

2025-12-18 08:23:42 CET

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maybe instead of repeating Leave-esque rhetoric and assuming, we should do the work to prepare instead of just being defeatist. Please copy me out if that's what you're going to bring to the table.
#RejoinEU

2025-12-17 23:13:38 CET

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I wouldn't expect us to have the same special (absurd, honestly) deal we had before. Simply joining as a normal member would be enough. The EU has been clear that door is open. I agree we are an absolute state and a shitshow and that's the most pressing issue.

2025-12-17 14:47:14 CET

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and how much sense does it make to just #RejoinEU?!?

2025-12-15 00:37:30 CET

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placebo isn't 'an effect', it's a mishmash of biases that people lump into one. It isn't powerful. It will not heal anyone who actually needs surgery.
Studies that report showing 'placebo as good as surgery' typically leave out key facts like people having support care afterwards.
Read/listen to Mike Hall on this! @npub17jx…av36 Skeptics with a K pod, @npub1lm3…jd4u pieces and a good intro talk: https://youtu.be/FL96to_4NYU?si=icBCX8foBH5J1gbu

2025-12-13 20:04:05 CET

What I will always remember of IMC - turning up to a recording the day I heard my dad had died, seeing Brian Blessed up on stage with the panel, being Brian - slamming a fist on the table so hard water jumped out of his glass - laughing.
Seeing Robin after, always so kind and caring.
He always listens.
He is one of the best of us.
https://mastodon.social/@robinince/115712317102483709
#InfiniteMonkeyCage #BBC #BBCRadio #BoycottTheBBC (I don't have a licence for this reason and more - I may resume one day if they improve)

2025-12-12 14:34:29 CET

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love it! The leaves like a big flock of butterflies, or birds spooked

2025-12-08 20:56:24 CET

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I'm not saying we don't have a racism problem. I'm not saying we haven't slid right. I'm saying that claiming we are worse than the US right now is honestly offensive and I stand by it. My US friends aren't hesitant to come here in case they get thrown in a cell. Our government isn't separating families and kids by chucking people on planes (not that the tories didn't try). We have problems but not project 2025 problems. Yet.

2025-12-08 20:20:58 CET

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of course it was. But putting us ahead of the US at this point is still an unfunny joke. We have some semblance of a functioning left, still. Our leader is nowhere near the end of the corruption scale yours/theirs is, though he's right of centre.
We have plenty of problems. But we're not living in fear of our neighbours being stalked, chased, tackled to the ground and disappeared. Ffs.

2025-12-08 19:57:26 CET

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to say the UK is more fascist than the US because our banking system isn't from some decades ago and people mostly avoid cheques (you CAN still use them) is utterly absurd.
US citizens, migrants *and* undocumented people are being kidnapped, trafficked imprisoned, disappeared and killed. What a tone-deaf and offensive thing to say honestly.

2025-12-08 00:51:47 CET

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meat every day is unnecessary for anyone

2025-12-01 08:54:50 CET

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London is still paying through the nose for it
As above, instead of making us fight each other, it's the companies and their theft that's enriched shareholders we should be angry about. Without that, spreading the cost across the country's microclimates and usage would not be painful.
London economically supports much of the country anyway. Not the point..! #socialiseUtilities

2025-11-19 23:02:05 CET

Do all the 'just use Linux' people understand that a lot of us have work laptops, provided by our employers, which we cannot tinker with extensively even if we were capable and wanting to??
'Just use Linux' is not a fucking solution to everything
Stop
#linux #windows #genAI #noAI #copilot

2025-11-17 09:17:39 CET

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that image appears to be genAI, but I hope it's not and I just can't zoom to confirm. I hate that the world makes me question every image/video now.
If it is, if I made a living from visual art I wouldn't feel at all comfortable joining.
I don't as a writer/musician.

2025-11-05 20:04:37 CET

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Here's the thing I meant, if it's useful and/or fun!
Pretty much everyone has experienced this at some point...
https://cdn.masto.host/medmastodoncom/media_attachments/files/115/498/637/081/993/697/original/9fd2f34917db1078.png

2025-11-05 19:01:26 CET

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like "Interesting, might I enquire as to your rational thought process" again I'd be put off.
There are a lot of men in particular who suddenly turn on this very formal-ish (usually it's also got various mistakes, however) almost Shakespeare/knight-like style of writing when they want to appear Rational and therefore Correct, which is extremely off-putting.
There's memes about this (which explain better than I am!), will try to find as I've lost it at the moment... 2/2

2025-11-05 18:58:01 CET

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because I was still tagged in it! Perfectly happy to be copied out when people don't expect engagement (this is something Masto could work on I think, sometimes it's hard to see who's active in a thread and who isn't, it could be easier to identify and remove tags)
This all makes sense, but I'd say it might also be worth being aware of the tone change. If someone's like 'hey holy shit that awful guy finally died' and someone turns up with a very flowery interjection, 1/2

2025-11-05 14:35:43 CET

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or Reply Person, as you like..!

2025-11-05 14:35:06 CET

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honestly I'd prob disengage if someone came to me with that, if I were simply sharing my positive reaction to sth generally agreed to be unproblematic.
Smells strongly of Reply Guy and it suggests that I'm not already having 'real conversations' about that thing with myself or others.
Again, what's your motivation for inserting yourself?
Conversations can be good, but not everyone is looking for them all the time, & framing your entry as The Beginning Of The Real Talk is hmm

2025-11-04 19:39:00 CET

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yeah, I mean, why does someone else need to know what you choose to do with the information? Can just keep it to yourself, eh

2025-11-04 19:01:30 CET

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and to be hoenst, I had a little phase of feeling that way myself. It's the holier-than-thou route you can afford to take when your life is kind enough to you that you're not directly impacted, or you just don't know how it's impacted you.
But especially in this time of rising fascism, it's important to note how the rich and callous trade on suffering and deaths, and on balance I'd say it's fine to enjoy their demise.

2025-11-04 18:59:34 CET

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I'm also against capital punishment, an entirely different beast. It kills innocent people & giving the state the power to murder doesn't result in justice overall and isn't civilised.
But when awful people die, who left terrible marks on the world (so many to choose from), people are well within their right to take solace, joy or whatever in it. Doesn't have to be your own approach, but all 'don't celebrate death' does is show privilege and disregard for suffering, I think.

2025-11-04 18:30:23 CET

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well I think they were right. People are absolutely allowed to celebrate deaths. You don't personally have to, but if people don't want to be shit talked when they die, they should be better when they're alive. Don't police people's feelings about the ways they've been oppressed and harmed by individuals.
It doesn't affect you. Unless you're worried your own death would be celebrated... In which case, see above

2025-10-28 22:17:26 CET

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bleugh. One of many reasons I've stopped looking at FB (except to promote singing stuff and look at our building's group when I remember it exists) - the absurd concentration of people taking bullshit

2025-10-27 00:05:58 CET

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ahh OK, suppose so! Guess I think of it more as absence of almost anything, an emptiness. Perhaps involving some past destruction (haven't looked it up...)

2025-10-26 22:21:01 CET

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interesting definition of desolate, when there's so many types of plants there

2025-10-25 15:04:52 CEST

Hey London! Nerds! Music fans!
Why not come and see Ready Singer One and the Harrow Symphony Orchestra on 29 Nov?
Around ONE HUNDRED SINGERS and an orchestra playing some top nerdy tunes. And maybe something festive...
Check it out 🎶 grab some tickets!
https://shop.cicadamusic.net/products/hso-29th-november-concert-film-tv-and-video-game-music
#choir #choralMusic #choirs #singing #livemusic #orchestra #amateurOrchestra #gigs #LondonEvents #Pinner #Harrow #NorthWestLondon #music #videoGamesMusic #filmMusic #Soundtracks

2025-10-24 18:02:05 CEST

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ooh see you in a bit x

2025-10-08 19:09:48 CEST

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not sure we have nuclear data centres yet...
I assume you were being hyperbolic!
Obviously this is a nightmare as-is

2025-10-06 22:44:40 CEST

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since when is the army made up of tax collectors

2025-09-17 08:29:56 CEST

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well, @npub10gl…seww for a start. :D

2025-09-13 20:11:48 CEST

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We finally got out
Followed the group and police for a bit then peeled off to traipse towards a train.
That was eye-opening in a bad way. We have a serious problem with these people.
They threw a lot of alcohol-missiles at people on the north end of the #StandUpToRacism group. They attacked the police. They screamed and swore at us and shouted nonsense like ENGLAAAND as we passed.
We had a street party waiting for the police to clear a path through their violent bullshit.
#London #antiracism

2025-09-13 19:18:14 CEST

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Sorry about the #birdsite link, especially given Musk fucking teleconferenced in to address all the racists earlier
But the Met use it
We are stuck in the blue bit still.
https://x.com/metpoliceuk/status/1966894521276371019
#antifascist #antiracism #London #RefugeesWelcome #standuptoracism

2025-09-13 19:08:57 CEST

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We need more people to come turn out.
If they're going to ship in tens of thousands of people? #LONDON, get the fuck onto the streets.
There's people from all over the country here. Why are we so vastly outnumbered? Complacency isn't it now. We have to stand up.
#standuptoracism #antiracism #antifascist #RefugeesWelcome #womenAgainstFascism

2025-09-13 18:55:56 CEST

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Still waiting to leave. #standuptoracism #London #antiracism #antifascist
https://cdn.masto.host/medmastodoncom/media_attachments/files/115/198/035/701/559/647/original/c4ef3e35f7de71dd.jpg

2025-09-13 18:40:18 CEST

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We are starting to leave.
Fingers crossed we don't get descended upon...
#London #antiracism #antifascist

2025-09-13 18:06:27 CEST

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My feet hurt, I am hungry, damp (it's big-rained twice so far), tired and... Bored
There's some dance partying happening, which is cute, and does reinforce the whole On The Right Side bit (over there they're hurling beer cans into the air and threatening people)
I really want to be back on the sofa 😬
#standuptoracism #London #protest #antiracism #antifascist

2025-09-13 17:32:10 CEST

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Stuck on Whitehall with the leftovers of the protest because we can't get out.
Fash in Trafalgar sq. Police telling us to wait until there's a way out. What way will that be..? They've blocked all the side roads because... More fash.
Ugh.
#antifascist #antiracism #London #stopTheFarRight
https://cdn.masto.host/medmastodoncom/media_attachments/files/115/197/707/845/650/767/original/94020bd20d76232b.jpg

2025-09-13 14:00:06 CEST

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Smoking at protests is antisocial, exclusionary bs honestly. Keep your addiction at bay in a way that doesn't harm all the people around you.
How are we not past this shit. #stopSmoking

2025-09-13 13:20:49 CEST

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Made it and near the big COUNTERFIRE banner if anyone else is near! #protest #antiracism #standuptoracism #smashTheFarRight

2025-09-13 12:22:54 CEST

Trying to go to the anti-racism march but, somewhat ironically, the bus route is fucked because of the racists marching.
Might get there eventually.
#antifascist #London #protest #antiracism

2025-09-05 13:48:12 CEST

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I read it in my twenties because a guy I fancied loved it
Thought it was rubbish, personally

2025-09-03 13:07:30 CEST

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a very understandable response but of course one rather avoided! Hope you have some support close to home. Reach out to friends, people will be happy to help. It's not a burden, worst response is 'can't sorry, busy'. People can bring a meal, sit and chat, run an errand etc!

2025-09-03 12:40:16 CEST

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ugh I'm sorry, that's such a nightmare. Not helpful to just commiserate but... I hear you. Hugs.

2025-08-31 18:09:45 CEST

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so sad that people did (and do) this. And let it happen. Wildlife should always be respected, not persecuted for fun, even if thought to be dangerous or a pest.
If people don't like the local wildlife they could just leave.
I knew kids whose parents let them murder animals for fun, too.
Unfortunately in a lot of cases it's also something people do before graduating to violence against other humans. Not a thing to encourage :(
🐍💛

2025-08-29 11:21:08 CEST

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and not having chicken pox as a child = not risking shingles as an adult.
I will be paying for a shingles vaccine as soon as I can. I have chicken pox scars.
It's a gift to spare children from these diseases and the suffering they entail.

2025-08-23 16:14:54 CEST

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boo! Fingers crossed your vaccines continue to do their job, despite everything... I'm going to have to just fking buy one this autumn. Useless pharmacy.

2025-08-18 00:38:00 CEST

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I love them. So wonderfully weird

2025-08-17 17:18:02 CEST

Absolutely disgusting and embarrassing that #London police are happy to arrest anti-genocide protesters by the hundreds while leaving the fucking fash alone, so long as they stay on one side of the road while they're intimidating people who've come here trying to find safety.
Fuck off, racists. We don't want you.
#CanaryWharf #IsleaOfDogs #rightToAsylum #fuckTheFash #ACAB #metropolitanpolice #centralLondon #racism #terrorism
https://cdn.masto.host/medmastodoncom/media_attachments/files/115/044/761/571/984/541/original/af24adc47441f0a4.jpg

2025-07-31 10:13:52 CEST

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the child labour-exploiting fast fashion industry making a token gesture? Incredible!
(Agree it's something, but... Yeah)

2025-07-23 16:50:12 CEST

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whenever I see it mentioned, I always recommend this piece https://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2013/may/09/evolutionary-theory-gone-wrong-darwin

2025-07-23 14:49:44 CEST

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horrible for their staff, though. Four fucking days notice, bastards

2025-07-10 00:58:01 CEST

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I'm not convinced it's an age thing, more a personality thing. Some boomer-age folks are absolutely attached to their phones, and utterly inconsiderate with it. None of them grew up with them.
I'd say it very much depends on the person. Also you don't see them all the time, so be wary of generalising your experience (are they in a situation they'd rather not be in..?) to their whole life.
Also give @npub1f2t…y7ng a follow

2025-07-07 08:17:12 CEST

This is my thesis
FUCK. OFF.
I DID NOT consent to this
I DO NOT want people reading this garbage instead of asking me a question.
#AcademiaEdu, you can get in the effing bin
https://www.academia.edu/ai_review/104785815
@npub1f2t…y7ng I got got, too.
#scientistsAgainstGenerativeAI #artistsAgainstGenerativeAI #writersAgainstGenAI #AI #genAI #noToAI #cancerResearch #PhDThesis #MyPhD
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2025-06-29 00:18:15 CEST

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I sort of have that but I also watched my dad literally be eaten from the inside by so much cancer, it eventually got through his skin. He wasted away in front of us, only quitting just before an emergency diagnosis.
A product that kills *HALF* of all its users should not be available anywhere on the planet.

2025-06-06 17:22:28 CEST

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hair regrowth therapy and implants are absolutely gender-affirming treatments.

2025-06-04 09:44:16 CEST

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poor wildlife that comes into contact with it :/ we treat the ocean like a dump and it's paying the price. Not quite as dispiriting as seeing balloons flying around but.
#buzzKillington

2025-05-31 19:44:47 CEST

Uhhm
What the fuck, academia.edu??
Is there no opt-out for this? I'm not a first author on this but I do NOT want my papers fed into this bullshit. Any help..?
#scientistsAgainstGenerativeAI #artistsAgainstGenerativeAI #writersAgainstGenAI #aiSlop #ai_slop #AITheft #science #publishing #research #academia #AcademiaEdu
https://cdn.masto.host/medmastodoncom/media_attachments/files/114/603/677/237/235/438/original/73199e9a6dc7aeda.png

2025-05-27 21:19:24 CEST

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yeah, like people are going to go get on their plane anyway. Whatever you do to piss them off. It's still effectively cost saving to make their experience shitter

2025-05-27 21:17:49 CEST

I'm on holiday, so I'm reading more than usual.
I'm on an @npub1e3a…kl4s binge.
I've done Service Model (a while ago, highly recommend), Shards of Earth, Elder Race, And Put Away Childish Things, and now I'm on Firewalkers
None I wouldn't recommend really. Our Adrian rarely disappoints!
First book of Shadows of the Apt is ready to go for the plane home this weekend...
#bookstodon #books #scifi #SFF #bookRec

2025-05-26 09:03:33 CEST

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And while I'm on holiday in a hot place, seeing all the bright red Brits (and others but it's mostly us) is so very stressful.
If you won't do it to prevent cancer, how about that sun damage ages your skin super fast? You'll regret it later. All for a tan..?
Cover up. Seek shade. Always. Wear. Sunscreen.
#sunscreen #sunSafety #BeSunSmart #cancerPrevention #skinCancer

2025-05-26 09:02:09 CEST

Seeing so much sun-related conspiracy lately. Who benefits from it?! People saying they make their own 'sunscreen' with vinegar, oil & other things that just cook them faster.
"Sunglasses are bad for you. Sunscreen causes cancer."
It's all bullshit. We KNOW that UV from the sun (and sunbeds) causes skin cancer. Melanoma is particularly dangerous. But people are out there putting people at more risk with these nonsense lies.
Sunburn hurts bc it is *skin damage*!
#cancer #conspiracyTheories

2025-05-24 13:54:51 CEST

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preventable stat is debated and depends where you live (as any risk stat does). Some studies are more at 4 in 10 than 5. We can't say for sure and it's all estimates.

2025-05-23 09:10:31 CEST

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and people will blame women for this I assume? Like no, it's not innocent to participate in the thing. But I doubt many of the milliners were women. I'd be surprised if a woman had the idea for it (how many of the major fashion designers are men even now..?)
I'm sure the book gets into it!

2025-05-22 17:26:25 CEST

Who's got an MRI scan of their own brain in a video file?
Would you be happy for people to use it for a broadcast TV bit? You wouldn't have to be in it, but we'd obviously like to credit you (if you want).
Let me know..?
#WeirdRequests #scicomm #ScienceCommunication #MRI #brain #brainHealth #cancerResearch

2025-05-17 13:36:36 CEST

Wes Streeting suppressing information on the life-saving nature of gender-affirming care
#labour #transphobia
https://bsky.app/profile/goodlawproject.org/post/3lpecvbz73c2o

2025-05-16 16:10:41 CEST

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usually #IDAHOBiT isn't it?

2025-05-12 12:26:26 CEST

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ugh was that only last summer 😑

2025-04-27 19:13:04 CEST

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one thing to understand is that it's not new at all! People are people and all kinds of people have existed since humanity began.
Many cultures embraced, for example, third gender spaces. Revered those people, even, or at least they were highly respected. Then Christian colonialism, missionary 'work' and brutal oppression destroyed many of those cultures, and didn't teach people about them.
Anthroplogists can still teach you if you're interested, though 😊

2025-04-23 10:22:14 CEST

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I remember in Moscow 2010, the pavements were melting it was so hot that summer.
I don't know why we haven't upped the albedo/reflectiveness/lightness of them everywhere already.
It's terrible for trees, heating up the ground and harming roots and no doubt more issues besides, the pitch-black stuff.

2025-04-23 10:20:07 CEST

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how can there ever be one for buildings with shared space?
It's always hard to live with people.
But if we could get rid of shitty management companies, or at least control their extortionate fees and address lack of accountability, that would be something.

2025-04-18 13:27:06 CEST

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California's 'safety' laws aren't really that, though. Prop 65 is absurd, it's not informative or helpful. It means nothing clinically relevant whatsoever.
Is the amount you get from 10 seconds likely to do anything at all? I would suspect not.

2025-03-26 08:55:32 CET

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what the fucking bullshit

2025-03-20 23:47:03 CET

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or
Hear me out...
https://cdn.masto.host/medmastodoncom/media_attachments/files/114/197/186/577/965/838/original/eb09a6fff884c569.mp4

2025-03-07 22:24:37 CET

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didn't loads of scientists move to blueSky? I'm not on it but I had that impression from people who are

2025-02-28 21:43:10 CET

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remained popular in Russia
"This is one of the two ways to make internet calls to PSTN numbers in Russia; combined they are available like 75% of the time, skype going away makes it much less predictable." - friend from there.

2025-02-26 08:58:21 CET

My neighbours are going on holiday today. Yay! I hope they have a lovely time.
I'm also VERY much looking forward to not hearing snoring through the wall whenever I wake up (in the night or morning, or when I'm working at the desk during the day...)
This place was built with ZERO insulation
It's a good job we all get on or I'd have lost my mind months ago
#architecture #building

2025-02-23 09:51:59 CET

Please sign this if you can
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_aXOaZH-H54ACPkylAfOXi6Syghy1LL_smxC7GGCQre6LVA/viewform
Open to comment only til 25 feb
Tell the UK government that creative work matters, that art should not be exploited just because some rich techbros started doing so - safeguard livelihoods.
#artistsAgainstGenerativeAI #genAI #art #theArts #UKlaw #uklabour #protest

2025-02-21 12:16:07 CET

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what's the former about?

2025-02-10 13:28:43 CET

Upcoming Skeptics in the Pub talk, Greenwich, London
Deets on website! https://sitp.online/sitp/greenwich
"Genes, Environment, Chance and Free (?) Will"
Professor Yulia Kovas,
Goldsmiths, University of London
12 February 2025 Wednesday 19:30
https://mas.to/@chrisfrench/113979392000504935
#London #LondonEvents #SouthEastLondon #skeptics #sitp #genetics #genes #Freewill #Philosophy #science #londonTalks

2025-02-09 11:13:45 CET

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there's quite a lot more to it than 'dopamine and acquaintances', this feels very facile.
It's people's incomes, it's their jobs, for many a sole window to the outside world (people who are housebound, some disabled folks, those who struggle severely with social anxiety) and way to make friends.
Boiling down the positives of badly run social media to 'people you barely know and a buzz' seems to me like deliberately ignoring a hell of a lot of people's experiences.

2025-02-08 13:41:31 CET

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looks fake. Blue whale flukes aren't serrated like that and it's too wide and the wrong colour for humpbacks.

2025-02-05 09:49:42 CET

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ayurveda is alternative to not actual medicine, is unproven and often actively dangerous.
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2021/01/ayurveda-ancient-superstition-not-science/
Many herbal ayurvedic remedies contain active toxic and otherwise harmful (eg carcinogenic) ingredients and by definition are not measured accurately so dosage is a gamble. And the dose makes the poison.
Without evidence-based assessment, medicine cannot be effective.
Also why is this white woman using it to sell books

2025-02-01 15:02:39 CET

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people can do good without amassing obscene wealth to levels no one is capable of earning.
People don't have to own and use private jets.
Billionaires should not exist
Doesn't mean I want anyone to kill Dolly 🙄 just don't let people amass and keep that wealth.
If it comes to French rev type situations, she's back of the line and I'm sure would give away plenty so it wouldn't even be needed.

2025-02-01 14:32:19 CET

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except for polluting the planet extensively, far more than individuals who aren't loaded.
It should be, it can be, possible to share art without endless private flights

2025-01-30 22:29:56 CET

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Slow Horses edges past for me I think

2025-01-30 21:14:25 CET

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I looove Severance

2025-01-28 14:11:42 CET

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funny, saw one just yesterday in the middle of SE London, pointed out to my partner! Usually only see them around rivers

2025-01-27 20:52:50 CET

Be careful what kind of nonsense you're sharing, people. Just had to block this clown because someone boosted it.
https://med-mastodon.com/@noodlemaz/113902055071023388

2025-01-27 16:20:20 CET

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c'mon that is a cartoon/comic panel not a meme! Not every pic on the Web is a meme (it needs to spread around and be iterate on for that to make sense)
A bug bear #pedantry

2025-01-24 14:21:59 CET

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goodo
Ditto anything with a sheer drop or bodies of water generally :p

2025-01-24 14:06:38 CET

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pls don't go near the sea

2025-01-23 20:46:13 CET

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my other half reads so much faster than me, and loads of books. But he's not American, so.

2025-01-22 08:33:41 CET

Please don't incredulously share this 'all embryos are default female' stuff. Like so much in bio, it's really not that simple.
Both sex development paths in the foetus are active, requiring gene expressions that add and remove physical features.
Female is not default.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aai9136
And a more accessible write-up
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/09/21/embryos-arent-female-default-study-shows/
Re https://flipboard.com/@pinknews/trans-lives-qeto8msrz/-/a-yj4uGcUBSw6YvL29rA7qCw%3Aa%3A2382343751-%2F0

2025-01-15 09:04:11 CET

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'are taken'? By whom? Why is their definition more important than the original (being cgnisant of societal injustice, particularly but not limited to racism)?
And do you feel that in the past you might have used 'social justice warriors' or 'PC police' or similar in its place?
Do any of those have functional definitions? I don't expect answers but if your consideration leads you to 'not really', perhaps it's... Worth more consideration.

2025-01-14 19:02:08 CET

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I was vigorously agreeing... I'd still like your definition of 'wokeness' though, since you used it

2025-01-14 18:56:09 CET

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love that show. Tempted to rewatch but I don't want to ruin the feeling of seeing it the first time... And I've read the books since... Hmmm

2025-01-12 01:02:26 CET

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second murderbot, wonderful series! And all of this
Also Space Opera by Catherynne Valente
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
Not 'hard' but one comedic and one deeply moving.

2025-01-12 01:00:07 CET

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absolutely not any of the M Banks scifi
I will never read Surface Detail ever again, it's utterly gruesome.
And while Use of Weapons is a brilliant book, it all centers around horrible violence.

2025-01-11 20:53:13 CET

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never been.. Eep! Need to fix, and go see @npub1dxj…9g96