Mark Hillen

Mark Hillen

@markhillen.bsky.social

Equal mix of scientist, editor, and espresso.

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Who is the CDU’s Andy Burnham to their current Keir Starmer?

Valentin Kreilinger@vkreilinger.bsky.social

CDU primarily lost voters to the AfD (83,000). CDU lost 19.9 percentage points while it had gained votes in most other recent elections since 2023. Only 2% of all voters and 5% of CDU voters think that Friedrich Merz is helpful for the party performance in Saxony-Anhalt 😂 7/9

Is it me, or is Google Photos (on iOS) really broken these days? Face recognition is now a disaster, and the process of labelling a person is frustrating, inconsistent and doesn’t work most times.

Meta’s AI is still a bit odd (certainly for medical content) and perhaps a bit horny? Prompt: “Patient receiving a slit lamp exam” Hmm. Did the technician also superglue the eyepiece on first?

Received yet another set of peer review comments that were clearly a case of reviewer ran it through ChatGPT. Takes a phenomenal amount of time to rebut this nonsense.

It’s also astonishing when you are pretty certain you know who the reviewer is (essentially a jobbing physician) and suddenly they (at first glance) are also an expert in physics.

Has anyone else noticed on Apple Music that sometimes the music skips and jumps exactly a like a scratched CD might? Did they rip my old CD collection or what?

“As our flight today is fully booked, we kindly ask you to place any small bags under the seat in front of you, and to use the overhead bin primarily for your larger carry-on baggage. Please try to keep the passage clear for the following passengers.” [No list of passengers comes] 
“Please note…”

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It rocks to tell people their shit rocks. Every single person who has ever been nice about my work has been appreciated for doing so. I take time to say I love stuff and it’s always the right time to remind somebody you value their work! You don’t need to get into detail either. Just say it rocks

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Flying into Edinburgh Airport, baggage reclaim had carousels for flights from both “mad” and “pis”. Pisa’s IATA code is PSA, if anyone cares.

This is top shitposting.

David Roberts@volts.wtf

All right, y'all, help me out. This is a bidet, right? (It's in my airbnb.) So, the idea is, you poop in the toilet and then...crab walk a few feet to your left, with your pants down? And stick your butt down in this thing? There's no seat, as such, so you're just...hovering your butt down into it?

I had a few loyalty cards stored on the Stocard app. Stocard has been bought by Klarna. If I want to see, let’s say, my Tesco Clubcard data (physical card left my wallet long ago), I now have to install this micro-borrowing app AND sign up for a Klarna account. Which is very hard to then delete.

(If you need to, it involves interacting with an AI customer support agent, and 30 days later, your account should be gone). But hey, they got a boost in users. Although I wonder, if I get a drop in my credit rating.

If someone in Glasgow said to me “Ahm gantin’ furra pêche”, I’d wonder why : 1. They have started using fancy French words 2. They are wanting to eat fruit And I’d definitely start to suspect that they’re actually an undercover English.

Anon Opin@anonopin.bsky.social

The French for "peach" sounds identical to the Scottish for "piss"

As my wife is watching #gntm - Germany‘s Next Top Model, it occurs to me that the theme music - Madonna‘s Vogue - is fundamentally incompatible with their Media Partner magazine… Harper’s Bazaar.