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Posts by Dr Darcey Gillie

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Opinion | I Saw Something New in San Francisco

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

This Ezra Klein piece on how the adopters are using— being used by?— LLMs is horrifying.

It hardens my resistance to ever turning one of these toys on at the same time that it makes me more sure that I'm going to be completely out of step and behind as a result.

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Diagram of a bumblebee, the bum is the bum, the rest is the blebee.

Diagram of a bumblebee, the bum is the bum, the rest is the blebee.

A handy guide to the anatomy of springtime garden friends.

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I agree. I stopped being a registered voter in the US for that reason over 25 years ago. I visit for a few days a year, some years not at all, and I didn't think it was right.

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Color Game — How Well Can You Remember Colors? We show you colors. You recreate them from memory. Challenge friends to beat your score. It's harder than you think. Play free at dialed.gg.

I am surprised I am so particularly bad with purple.

Turns out I’m bad at remembering colors. Worse than you?
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#MavisAppreciationSociety

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a woman is holding a small trophy that says " the assistant " ALT: a woman is holding a small trophy that says " the assistant "

I am Jackson Pollock fan, so biased, but that is genius

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#CareersEverywhere

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Save Coul Links! Your voice could help save this precious habitat from a new threat of development.

You can still add your voice to the call to Save Coul Links here 👉 action.rspb.org.uk/page/166270/...

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Great example of Tol Bedford's FIRST model of vocational guidance in Ep 3 of #SmallProphets

#Careers

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The colour purple in the Georgian era I have, in the past, looked at a wide variety of colours worn during the Georgian era, and this article is about the colour purple, which was very fashionable throughout the period. According to Th…

From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'The colour purple in the Georgian era' - wp.me/p3JTNy-7dw

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☹️ sounds awful and I hope you feel better soon.

A hot toddy with lots of lemon and sugar would surely help.

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Have a dram, Tom. It dulls the pain.

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(what's this thing with Herons?)

The Thing is
With Heron
The Things are
Not all they first seem

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🤣🤣🤣 so sorrynotsorry

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Just has a gust of wind that sounded like a freight train!

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Only if they're planning to row across the Dee?

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Good geographying as well👌

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Is it bad weather in Derbyshire today, too, Dale?

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Hourly.

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Well, just get out there and do some jogging or eat a pizza or have a pint. I worry about you permanently becoming an inactive item.

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Don't encourage him, Stiles.

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This mysteriously appeared in my tabs @bigdaveg.bsky.social

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Heads up for you @dribelad.bsky.social before you next visit Chester.

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Isn't it! Love a Ladybird picture.

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It always looks like straight up magic to me how people do that.

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A moment of silence, please, for Hannah's Krazy Kitchen in the B & Q car park. Her bacon rolls nurtured and sustained us during the dark days of the covid pandemic, renovating a semi-derelict house with no kitchen. Requiescat in pace.

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Update: snowing and sleeting and blowing a hoolie

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Seeing that from your point of view 👀, I can get that.

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Living physical geographer dreams, we are.

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