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  1. A couple of recent polls out for the next UK general election that’s only a measly…4 years away (it’s never too early for the horse race is it) is showing almost a 5-way tie, with the Green Party (a minor party that was only founded in 1990, only got its first MP in 2010 and only got an additional three MPs last year) polling almost at the same level as Labour and the Conservatives. This might seem completely normal to you if you’re used to multiparty coalition politics with proportional representation, but for the UK it’s absolutely mad. It would quite possibly be the biggest upheaval to the political system since women got the right to vote. Exciting but also slightly scary times.

    On a side note, what do you think Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry talk about?

  2. [Yesterday’s prompt was skeletal.](https://www.deviantart.com/tereyaglikedi/art/Inktober-2025-Day-28-Skeletal-1257735094) This one was simple, but I think it looks nice.

    Today is the birthday of our republic. This day, no matter who is trying to fuck it up for the whole nation, is still a good day.

    Yesterday I was sitting at a machine in the lab and listening to the [Dessner violin concerto](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVCtYIKEA9s) ad my colleague asked me if I’m listening to metal, because apparently I was headbanging a bit. But it’s such a perfect one for headbanging.

    Pekka Kuusisto is so cool. I wish he were my cousin or something.

    Every now and then I wonder if I should somehow get into science politics. I don’t talk about my work a lot (better for you guys and for me, too) but as negotiations of treaties (such as the one about plastic pollution in Geneva in August) collapse or they’re signed but not adhered to and without and repercussions, I wonder if the work I do as a scientist is ever good for anything. In the end, it is not like we don’t know what to do.

    Meh.

  3. I believe I just found the most unfortunate phrasing I have yet seen on an election poster this morning. It read: “children can go f themselves”

    The literal translation of the phrase that was used is “children should run and jump.” But a quite colloquial usage of “run and jump” is somewhere between “get lost” and “go f yourself”

    Maybe it was a poor attempt at a pun, or maybe someone just didn’t think of it. But still

  5. There’s a series called “Tech Support” on Youtube where experts answer questions from the internet in their field. There’s some about music theory, palaeontology, cooking, you name it. It’s really cool but I hadn’t watched it a while. They used to get the questions from Twitter, but I’ve seen that since a while they stopped doing that, and instead source the questions from Reddit, Quora etc. Are people still using Twitter/X whatever?

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