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Personal ramblings about the world we live in and life in general, especially science and culture. Frequent puns and dogs. Professor and food scientist at @ucc.bsky.social

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Nice

10.03.2026 22:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s GUBU

10.03.2026 22:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

WTAF? Seriously? Makes Melania look like a little indie movie in cost per minute

10.03.2026 22:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It must be the 1980s because my feed is full of Dire Straits

10.03.2026 21:59 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE.

[This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him].

After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts:

Unloosed, unheralded,
You soar toward me
Across the dying afternoon. 

bright disc of childhood,
Long since thrown wide
Of Youth's green imaginings,

Your slow declining arc
Figures a sky-written truth:
We will all succumb, and soon

To earth's hard oblivion.

[The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground.

[Ends]

LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE. [This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him]. After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts: Unloosed, unheralded, You soar toward me Across the dying afternoon. bright disc of childhood, Long since thrown wide Of Youth's green imaginings, Your slow declining arc Figures a sky-written truth: We will all succumb, and soon To earth's hard oblivion. [The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground. [Ends]

Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore

10.03.2026 20:02 πŸ‘ 293 πŸ” 77 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 3
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10.03.2026 20:58 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah jaysus it’s yourself is it?

10.03.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The origins of the rhetorical Irish greeting β€œ how’s it going?” (to which the correct if confusing response is β€œ how’s it going?”) remain unknown

10.03.2026 19:28 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Abolish ice

09.03.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fair enough!!!

09.03.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man is smiling with the words its bonkers mate above him ALT: a man is smiling with the words its bonkers mate above him
09.03.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The pope’s favorite cheese is Swiss

Because it’s the holiest

09.03.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Me: feeling remarkably like Spring today!
Irish weather: ha ha fooled ya

09.03.2026 19:06 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Some cool trivia…Mount Everest contains marine rocks, proving that the highest point on Earth was once at the bottom of the ocean. πŸ˜ŽπŸ’™πŸ˜Ž

09.03.2026 03:30 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Maybe it’s all a plot to get everyone buying Teslas for Elon?

08.03.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Jeepers but there has been some change in petrol and diesel prices in Cork over the last few days

08.03.2026 22:06 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Just left Oslo yesterday lunchtime so this sent weird shivers.

08.03.2026 22:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean how the hell???

08.03.2026 18:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I watched the Long Walk recently and it feels kind of a bit like that

08.03.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe not actually!

08.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

All makes perfect strategic sense

08.03.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So let me get this straight, if Iran picks a new leader the countries attacking Iran don’t like they will just kill them and keep doing that until they pick someone they approve of? WTAF?

08.03.2026 17:55 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

Died of time travel complications

08.03.2026 13:32 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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'One year of failure.' The Lancet slams RFK Jr.'s first year as health chief In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

08.03.2026 12:30 πŸ‘ 3654 πŸ” 1543 πŸ’¬ 154 πŸ“Œ 97
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08.03.2026 08:58 πŸ‘ 106 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

Be careful, I got seriously taken to task on Twitter once for posting this by people pointing out it was Avebury….

08.03.2026 11:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He already fired Gnome this week so who knows?

08.03.2026 11:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I briefly thought this was a picture of heavily militarised Teletubbies

07.03.2026 23:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bag got lost traveling home today thanks to an expectedly tight connection in Amsterdam. They asked if there was anything dangerous in it and I said well there’s some cheese that might go off.

07.03.2026 21:49 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It really is!

07.03.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0