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Still from the film Haul out the Holly.

Still from the film Haul out the Holly.

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #2: Haul out the Holly.

A Hallmark Christmas film, but thankfully not one of the really cheap feeling ones. Has the other one from Mean Girls in it, who obviously goes to a small town to celebrate Christmas.

๐ŸŽ„๐ŸŒจ๏ธ๐Ÿ“œ๐ŸŒจ๏ธ๐ŸŽ„/5

3 months ago 2 1 1 1

Def spoof territory

3 months ago 0 0 0 0
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #2: Haul Out the Holly.

Single woman returns to parents' huge house for Xmas. HOA insists she decorates the street. Instead of leaving, she falls for HOA president. Painful. Talent wasted on the script. Clearly summer. Is it a spoof? Took me 3 days to watch.

โ˜€๏ธโšช๏ธ๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ’…๐Ÿšฏ/5

3 months ago 3 1 1 0
Young white woman in a pinstripe suit holds up a glass of champagne as though making a toast. Setting is a boardroom meeting.

Young white woman in a pinstripe suit holds up a glass of champagne as though making a toast. Setting is a boardroom meeting.

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #1: Champagne Problems.

Idk why but this reminded me of Emily in Paris even though main girl is competent at her job. Maybe it's because of the scenes where French people talk to each other in French. Anyway I liked it, nice Christmassy escapism. ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿพ๐Ÿฅ‚๐ŸŒฒ๐ŸŽ„โ„๏ธ/5

4 months ago 3 2 0 0
The poster for the film Champagne Problems.

The poster for the film Champagne Problems.

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #1: Champagne Problems.

I've already forgotten the plot of this one. Although I do remember the montage of moments from earlier in the film about 2/3 of the way in - the sign of a true blockbuster.

๐Ÿพ๐Ÿฅฑ๐Ÿ˜ด๐Ÿ˜ด๐Ÿ˜ด/5

4 months ago 2 2 0 0
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #1: Champagne Problems.

Workaholic American goes to Paris; gets involved in a champagne business; falls for a Frenchman. Itโ€™s Emily in Paris + tinsel. Starts weak but side characters improve over time and I actually laughed at points. A strong start.

๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿฅ‚๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿš„๐Ÿ“š/5

4 months ago 4 2 1 0

We're back for 2025! Let's gooooooo โ„๏ธโ„๏ธโ„๏ธโ„๏ธโ„๏ธ๐ŸŽฌ๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿคฎ

4 months ago 1 0 0 0
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Chalkdust: Read Issue 22 now A magazine for the mathematically curious. Issue 22 now available: DNA origami, tracks and an interview with El Nombre feature in our AW25 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.

๐Ÿฆ‚๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿฆ‚ New Chalkdust alert! ๐Ÿฆ‚๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿฆ‚

DNA origami, tracks and an interview with El Nombre feature in our AW25 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.

Read the entire new issue now at
chalkdustmagazine.com

4 months ago 13 13 0 1
Microsoft Forms

We're working on some exciting new features for VisualPDE, but we want to hear from you!

Whether you're a regular user or just tried it once, we'd love your feedback on how you use the tool. Itโ€™s a super short survey (promise)!

๐Ÿ‘‡Fill it out here:
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7 months ago 6 4 0 1

Comma comma comma comma comma cater-pillar

9 months ago 1 1 0 0
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Photos of the four people in the Finite Group, along with the FG logo

Photos of the four people in the Finite Group, along with the FG logo

FYI: I'm part of the Finite Group, a friendly bunch of mathematicians with a free Discord community and monthly livestreams about cool bits of maths. Our next is 23rd May, when I'll be chatting with @Ayliean.bsky.social about maths & Rubik's cubes! Find out more and join at finitegroup.co.uk

11 months ago 10 5 0 0
Standing in front of a low bridge sign marked 1.4m 4โ€™9โ€

Standing in front of a low bridge sign marked 1.4m 4โ€™9โ€

Came to Bedford. Was not disappointed. #heighthunt

11 months ago 8 2 1 0
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Read Issue 21 now! - Chalkdust Sudoku, potatoes and crossnumber's biggest secrets finally revealed in our spring 2025 issue. Plus all your favourite columns!

๐Ÿšจ New Chalkdust alert ๐Ÿšจ

You can read about sudoku, potatoes and crossnumber's biggest secrets right now in issue 21!

chalkdustmagazine.co...

1 year ago 13 9 1 2

I think Issue 21 is up there with the best issues of Chalkdust (and that's not just because I wrote an article for it)

1 year ago 4 1 1 0
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Want to put more of *you* into your mathematical modelling? Soon you'll be able to do this through your webcam and VisualPDE!

More exciting things coming soon too! Let us know how we can support your science at hello@visualpde.com.

1 year ago 6 3 0 1

Three excellent people and a great project. You will learn mathematical modelling and how to interact with our experimental colleagues, proper interdisciplinary science. Plus we do excellent cookies at lunch time meetings ๐Ÿ˜Ž

1 year ago 3 1 0 0

Hmm OK. DM me and we'll try to figure it out.

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

Hi @wynke.bsky.social โ€“ Do you want to try again now?

1 year ago 0 0 1 0
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Chalkdust Book of the Year 2024 - Chalkdust We announce the shortlist of our favourite maths-themed books of last year

The shortlist for the Chalkdust Book of the Year 2024 is out now. View the list and vote for your favourite book at chalkdustmagazine.co....

We'll be publishing short reviews over the next couple of weeks, including notes relating to our four judging criteria: style, control, damage and agression.

1 year ago 12 9 2 0
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What a great calendar!

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

All these people going around living their lives writing \frac{\partial y}{\partial x} all the time

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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #13: Our Little Secret.

A disappointing end to #NetflixChristmas season. Lindsay Lohanโ€™s bfโ€™s sisterโ€™s bf is her ex-bf. They hide this to impress Kristin Chenoweth (wasted). LL gets stoned; everyone swaps partners. ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ Not silly enough. #BringBackHudgens2025.

๐Ÿคซ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿคซ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿช/5

1 year ago 1 1 0 0
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #12: A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter.

Sabrina sings some OK new Christmas songs and takes part in some OK sketches with guests. But itโ€™s charming and sheโ€™s obviously a great singer, even if it made me feel very old.

๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽฅ๐ŸŽ„๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐ŸŽค๐ŸชŸ/5

1 year ago 2 1 0 0
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #11: Carry-On.

A cross between Die Hards 2 and 3. A TSA agent resembling Terminator 2 is blackmailed into getting a case on a plane. Starts well, but plot gets silly quickly. Worst is the belief you could have a car chase round LAX ๐Ÿ˜‚. Watch Die Hard instead.

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธโœˆ๏ธ๐Ÿšจ๐ŸŽ’๐Ÿฆ /5

1 year ago 1 1 1 0
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #10: Christmas as Usual.

Uncomfortable: a Norwegian woman brings her fiancรฉ home for Christmas but somehow her family donโ€™t know heโ€™s Indian and they are really weird about it. Supposedly a real story, but if I were the real womanโ€™s family, Iโ€™d be mortified.

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด๐ŸŒถ๏ธ๐Ÿ•ณ๏ธโ›ช๏ธ๐Ÿฅ›/5

1 year ago 1 1 0 0
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #9: That Christmas.

An animated adventure with a stellar cast that is less than the sum of its parts. Tired jokes. Strangely features lots of current Xmas songs. But agreed that Santaโ€™s a Scotsman. Bill Nighy wears Redditโ€™s favourite watch.

๐ŸŽ…๐Ÿผ๐ŸšŒโ›ธ๏ธ๐Ÿ”Ž๐Ÿฆƒ/5

1 year ago 1 1 0 0
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Coming soon: a modern take on an old paper by William Newman and Carl Sagan postulating a simple wave-like model of interstellar travel and colonization (link below). Now with inter-galactic heterogeneity, stochasticity, and more!

ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation...

1 year ago 5 4 1 0
Setting is a carnival. Indian man holds pink candyfloss whilst an Indian woman looks at him sceptically.

Setting is a carnival. Indian man holds pink candyfloss whilst an Indian woman looks at him sceptically.

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #999: Merry Christmas (Hindi)

Starts almost as a romance (woman meets man, takes him back to her place), turns into Hitchcockian thriller when she finds her husband's dead body... then it disappears, then reappears again?? Great film, will leave you guessing. ๐Ÿ˜ต๐Ÿ˜ต๐Ÿ˜ต๐Ÿ˜ต๐Ÿ˜ต/5

1 year ago 2 2 0 0
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #8: Merry Christmas.

Occasionally we stumble across a really good film while doing this: this is one of those. As usual, it starts meet cute but quickly turns into a Hitchcock-like thriller.

๐ŸŽ„๐Ÿงธ๐Ÿ’ƒ๐Ÿ”ซ๐ŸŽ…/5

1 year ago 1 1 0 0
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #8: Merry Christmas (Hindi/Tamil).

An unexpected gem. Set in Bombay, a man back in town meets a woman at a restaurant and they hit it off. Then it turns into a completely different mystery movie. Great fun, if a little long (mostly the intro credits).

๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿฝโ€๐Ÿณ๐Ÿช‘๐Ÿฆœ๐Ÿ’/5

1 year ago 1 1 0 0