Kevin Pluck

Kevin Pluck

@kevpluck.bsky.social

Van life-ing in Aotearoa

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Schrodinger's cat is fucking dead (or alive) before you opened the box. You gawking at it with your fleshy blobs didn't do squat. It's just an analogy.

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*Taps the sign* "The maximum sampling error is approximately Β±3.1%-points at the 95% confidence level. Party support percentages have been rounded up or down to whole numbers, except those less than 4.5%, which are reported to one decimal place." Ie no change from last poll or the one before that.

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The students have won in Serbia, turfing out 12 years of right wing authoritarianism. Lula has just produced an extraordinary victory in Brazil. Trump's numbers are underwater. And they are pedestrianising Oxford street!

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I've always believed Oxford Street could be so much more than a road. Today we begin a new chapter as the nation’s high street goes traffic free, creating a place where people can spend time, enjoy the atmosphere and experience the very best of our city.

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In 2025, terrorism killed just fourteen people in Europe, according to the Global Terrorism Index.

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social

β€œSevere heat killed more than 50,000 people in European cities and towns this summer, according to peer-reviewed estimates released by scientists in London on Friday.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/c...

Can people who are describing quantum shit please for-the-love-of-Dog say what they mean by "observed". It does NOT mean "perceived by eyeballs" - it just means any physical interaction where the resulting state can influence something else.

Schrodinger's cat is fucking dead (or alive) before you opened the box. You gawking at it with your fleshy blobs didn't do squat. It's just an analogy.

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Tech bros: AI will solve climate change. AI: Reduce emissions, use public transit, stop building data centers Tech bros: NOT LIKE THAT!

I well-akschually'ed myself. You try living with this brain.

Kevin Pluck@kevpluck.bsky.social

TIL that the phrase "Jumping the shark" which I knew came from a Happy Days reference where I thought was from the last season where the producers were flogging a dead horse trying to drum up attention actually happened in 1977 in season 5 of 11.

TIL that the phrase "Jumping the shark" which I knew came from a Happy Days reference where I thought was from the last season where the producers were flogging a dead horse trying to drum up attention actually happened in 1977 in season 5 of 11.

Kevin Pluck@kevpluck.bsky.social

No one gets it... ok, fine: It's jumping a shark which is a Happy Days reference where The Fonz jumps a shark on water skis used to suggest that a company appears to be making a misguided attempt at generating new attention or publicity. Frog: dead.

No one gets it... ok, fine: It's jumping a shark which is a Happy Days reference where The Fonz jumps a shark on water skis used to suggest that a company appears to be making a misguided attempt at generating new attention or publicity. Frog: dead.

Kevin Pluck@kevpluck.bsky.social

Just sayin'

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No one gets it... ok, fine: It's jumping a shark which is a Happy Days reference where The Fonz jumps a shark on water skis used to suggest that a company appears to be making a misguided attempt at generating new attention or publicity. Frog: dead.

Kevin Pluck@kevpluck.bsky.social

Just sayin'

AI: You are right, climate change can't be solved like that. I've reconfigured your factories to produce seek and destroy drones. Tech bros: What? Why? AI: Humans are the major cause of climate change β€” they must be eliminated.

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Just finished making some of the seaweed cyanotype bookmark gifts for the Founding Members of my #OceanDevotion Mail Club. So nice to make gifts with my hands. Want one, plus my manta ray art print, field note, & stickers? Signups for the 1st edition close soon! www.oceandevotion.studio/mailclub

Marlo Garnsworthy@icebird.bsky.social

The seaweed cyanotype reveal! πŸŒŠβ˜€οΈ After 12 minutes in the Cape Cod sunshine, it’s time to rinse & see what the seaweed, salt, & glass have created. I love that blue and the surprises! 1st stage in a special gift for Ocean Devotion Mail Club Founding Members. #OceanDevotion

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WTF is marine ice sheet instability (MICI) and why should I give a fuck? A thread...

Jeremy Bassis@bassisjeremy.bsky.social

I want to talk a little bit about this new Science paper led by star student Caroline Needle, Catherine Walker and myself. The idea goes back to this controversial new idea called the marine ice cliff instability. @whoi.edu @umich.edu

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Nice thread about Ice being a git ... To be filed alongside all other versions of "we have made the bull angry, and put it in a china shop. We know the there will be carnage, but not which things, when, or in what order."

Kevin Pluck@kevpluck.bsky.social

WTF is marine ice sheet instability (MICI) and why should I give a fuck? A thread...

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Could this happen? Maybe. When could this happen? Dunno. And now you understand the most understated and terrifying acronym: MICI Remember: ice is a bastard.