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“Wallace Shawn from DS9”

* mind blown*

This weekend, reflecting on the Louvre case, I think I came up with a get rich quick scheme.

From today's lecture: as good physicists we know we can just divide both sides by dx

Spring bulbs planted 💐🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻💐

Age has reached me. I now need reading glasses.

Not to make light of the editorial failure, but look how far Twitter lies now permeate in to normal discourse. We think we know about the racism but the utter contempt for truth since Musk bought the platform is deliberate & very dangerous. You can’t foment racism with fact checkers in the building.

Welcome to the Panopticon!

I remember getting a random message from a friend when we were at uni who was excited that she'd met Ming, and found him to be kind, smart, and funny.

25 September 1942 | A German Sinti girl, Theresie Hellberg, was born in Rostock. In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 15 March 1943. No. Z-3915 She perished in the camp on 28 March 1943. --- The fate of the Roma in Auschwitz: Podcast: https://youtu.be/eb31osDbyk0

Vaughan Williams. Quarter zips.

Being non-partisan, unbiased, and information- and knowledge-led now feels like a partisan position. I think that's part of the issue the BBC has.

Quietly self-radicalising by listening to Grace Petrie on repeat.

No comment. Anyway, they still could come in useful. newsthump.com/2025/09/18/m...

My back hurts

The neighbourhood committee welcomes me home after two weeks away

I've said it once, I'll say it again: music peaked with REM.

Farewell to Durham and the STFC HEP summer school...my hotel probably had one of the best views of any hotel room I've had.

I know why the caged bird rings

Omg I love themmmmm 😭

It's not that my taste in music is predictable...

Durham: a blessed city with TWO WATERSTONES NEXT TO EACH OTHER.

Can anyone recommend what to do with a day out in the Durham area? My current plan for tomorrow is getting the train to Alnwick.

Something about this speaks to me. Not sure what. Maybe just that it's a giant globe.

Today's random obsession: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unq...

It's literally been announced that there is a bull and it won't back down.

Good old Durham Cathedral - one of the finest in the world!

imagine coming up with the allegory of the cave and all you get for it is some children's clay named after you

Pleased to be in Durham for the STFC HEP summer school!

Use of TMO in Rugby is something football really should aspire to in VAR. All about helping the ref, giving the information for a more informed decision.

Please read this and understand why what has been done and is being done to trans people is beyond dehumanising. And then change your beliefs, your vote and your activism accordingly.

Here we go again

Perceptions have real effects www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-insti...

Find out more about the consultation and how to have your say on our website: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article...

Anyway, if they ever want to make a TV series about another William crossing the channel and seizing the throne, I'm available to do my pitch for a 1685-89 series. You can even use the lack of cultural knowledge of the period to your advantage by having Monmouth as your S1 dashing hero.

My hot science take is that I think conferences should be held in the most boring possible venues & places. Prioritize accessibility by sustainable transport & keeping costs down over having things in nice locations. ☄️🧪

Fair play to Palace, it's always going to be difficult to win against a side like Forest - after all, Forest legitimately qualified for the Europa Conference League.

Shakespeare in Love. there's a tiny moment in rehearsals where he says to his scene partner "are you going to do it like that?" and it makes me laugh 10/10 times

Good Will Hunting. A tragic masterpiece of how you can fail being the best possible academic when the whole world is open for you.

This is a real problem. If my chat transcript leaked people would realise that most of my questions are variants on "Who is Dr William Barter?", "What does Dr William Barter do?", "Why is Dr William Barter so great?". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

Came up with a great phrase yesterday that I plan to use again and again: "I am consequently informed in addition to being opinionated."

i think about this tweet every single day

With the right BBC sounds subscriptions you too can achieve this

Because I'm fun

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪 The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs. That is *pure fantasy*. Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

Yodel: Your parcel will be delivered between 13:33 and 15:33 Me: oh, okay, good job I can rearrange plans this afternoon Yodel (@ 13:20): The driver failed to find your address, the delivery will happen tomorrow

Slightly diminish a band Puddle