BoxOfRain
@aboxofrain.bsky.social
Cyclist, meadow walker, music enthusiast. Deadhead.
Interested in the environments we make for ourselves.
Drinker of coffee & sometimes beer. Often tired these days.
Work involves identity, assurance & distributed scientific computing.
Work involves identity, assurance & distributed scientific computing.
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we did once think minute-taking was an actual job
and chairing meetings an actual skill
and chairing meetings an actual skill
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
we did once think minute-taking was an actual job
and chairing meetings an actual skill
and chairing meetings an actual skill
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Timeless information-management skills
We need some research into how much time is spent trying to make sense of the gobbledegook that gets churned out. Not to mention the time spent arguing about what was actually said. We just need to train people to take a decent short minute.
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Timeless information-management skills
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If you would like a signed Everything Will Swallow You hardback for RRP + P&P, I have a fabulous selection of art by my mum, Jo, which I'm sending out for free (one linoprint with each book). Let me know your address via hello@tom-cox.com while stocks last.
Sorry, this is just for UK folk, BUT...
Sorry, this is just for UK folk, BUT...
November 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
If you would like a signed Everything Will Swallow You hardback for RRP + P&P, I have a fabulous selection of art by my mum, Jo, which I'm sending out for free (one linoprint with each book). Let me know your address via hello@tom-cox.com while stocks last.
Sorry, this is just for UK folk, BUT...
Sorry, this is just for UK folk, BUT...
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I’m a mum that chose homebirth for three of my children after a traumatic hospital birth for the first, so you might think I’d lean towards ‘freebirth’ - but the dangerous bullshit on show here is terrifying.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I’m a mum that chose homebirth for three of my children after a traumatic hospital birth for the first, so you might think I’d lean towards ‘freebirth’ - but the dangerous bullshit on show here is terrifying.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Just catching up with this amazing bit of London Centric reporting and this is such an excellent description of the weird epistemic ambiguity produced by AI: "There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is." www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Just catching up with this amazing bit of London Centric reporting and this is such an excellent description of the weird epistemic ambiguity produced by AI: "There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is." www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
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I honestly don't know what we're all doing here, I really don't.
"I love a tree."
SMDH.
"I love a tree."
SMDH.
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I honestly don't know what we're all doing here, I really don't.
"I love a tree."
SMDH.
"I love a tree."
SMDH.
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Starmer increasingly appears to be holding his Labour Party upside down.
Why is the UK government offering energy subsidies to the richest companies on the planet?
www.thenational.scot/news/2563567...
www.thenational.scot/news/2563567...
Labour plot to slash electricity prices for AI companies while families struggle
LABOUR are planning to cut electricity prices for tech companies while energy bills continue to leave families struggling, The National can reveal.
www.thenational.scot
November 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Starmer increasingly appears to be holding his Labour Party upside down.
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Richard Hawley calls his music “a league away from most things in any genre". Rufus Wainwright says he was “so lucky” to work with him at an impressionable age. One of Billy Bragg's most famous covers came about because of him. But have you heard of Dick Gaughan?
November 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Richard Hawley calls his music “a league away from most things in any genre". Rufus Wainwright says he was “so lucky” to work with him at an impressionable age. One of Billy Bragg's most famous covers came about because of him. But have you heard of Dick Gaughan?
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It'll always be Winterval to me.
As we move into “foreigners are cancelling Christmas in the name of political correctness” season it’s worth remember that Christmas was indeed once banned in England, by Christians and the man who enforced the ban has a statue in his honour outside the Houses of Parliament.
November 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
It'll always be Winterval to me.
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enjoyable little video on how wool gets graded and sorted
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
enjoyable little video on how wool gets graded and sorted
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
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THE MAINSTREAM JEWISH COMMUNAL DEVIL'S BARGAIN WITH WHITE SUPREMACY HURTS EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE AND AS MAGA HAS MADE CLEAR IT ALWAYS BACKFIRES
Solidarity is the only way home
has always been
collective liberation or bust loves
Solidarity is the only way home
has always been
collective liberation or bust loves
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
THE MAINSTREAM JEWISH COMMUNAL DEVIL'S BARGAIN WITH WHITE SUPREMACY HURTS EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE AND AS MAGA HAS MADE CLEAR IT ALWAYS BACKFIRES
Solidarity is the only way home
has always been
collective liberation or bust loves
Solidarity is the only way home
has always been
collective liberation or bust loves
Distinguished
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Distinguished
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"the user is closed within the loneliness of his own inner torment."🤣🤣
ROFL. Eco is not wrong. He's not wrong at all.
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"the user is closed within the loneliness of his own inner torment."🤣🤣
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I thought this was going to turn into a story needing its own True Crime Netflix series, but no.
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
'We invited a homeless man for dinner - he stayed for 45 years'
The man was only meant to stay for a day.
metro.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I thought this was going to turn into a story needing its own True Crime Netflix series, but no.
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
This is quite something.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/18/w...
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Be warned: Not only is this piece great, but there are embedded links to even MORE great work. If you’re not careful, you can go down the link-clicking rabbit hole and totally forget you have a job and actual work to do.
Did you know that, in so many ways, the Book of Deuteronomy is... liberation theology?
And that it's actually crafted as a bit of a 🖕 to the Assyrian Empire?
And that its power -- and its limits -- can teach us a so, so much about where we must be as we face down the Empire before us today?
And that it's actually crafted as a bit of a 🖕 to the Assyrian Empire?
And that its power -- and its limits -- can teach us a so, so much about where we must be as we face down the Empire before us today?
Deuteronomy's Liberation Theology
how it can teach us to expand our vision for tomorrow
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Be warned: Not only is this piece great, but there are embedded links to even MORE great work. If you’re not careful, you can go down the link-clicking rabbit hole and totally forget you have a job and actual work to do.
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good, solid motto. one for the ages
Just preaching my message of "wanting to do less more often" we all have our reasons.
November 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
good, solid motto. one for the ages
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Was talking to reps of a homelessness charity today and, apparently, its the coldest night since March.
November 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Was talking to reps of a homelessness charity today and, apparently, its the coldest night since March.
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BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
Just this.
Risotto is not work. It is meditation, followed by self care.
My issue with risotto is 40 minutes of work gone in a couple of minutes ! I do love it though this looks v good . Dried mushroom so flavourful
November 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Just this.
Of course he does.
Labour MP Luke Akehurst says he "wholeheartedly welcomes" Mahmood's plans "which I believe will tackle a failure by the previous government to maintain one of the most basic fundamental functions of government, which is control of our borders."
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Of course he does.
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Yes, yes, yes. Drag their scumbag asses. For what's left of your party's honour.
Labour MP Olivia Blake tells Shabana Mahmood that her rhetoric about asylum seekers being handed a "golden ticket" is "deeply offensive" and "feeds division" "and will only strengthen Reform not beat them".
November 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Yes, yes, yes. Drag their scumbag asses. For what's left of your party's honour.
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if you liked @greatdismal.bsky.social Zero History you should listend to @trufelman.bsky.social Gear series
Gear (Articles of Interest) - 99% Invisible
If you’re a longtime 99PI listener, Avery Trufelman needs no introduction, and all you need to hear is: there’s a new season of Articles of Interest. But for those who aren’t familiar, I guarantee, i...
99percentinvisible.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
if you liked @greatdismal.bsky.social Zero History you should listend to @trufelman.bsky.social Gear series
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Another Labour MP goes public with concerns.
A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
November 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Another Labour MP goes public with concerns.
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Who do you remember on this World Day of remembrance for road traffic accidents? I remember my aunt and my childhood friend.
Remembering our sister Jennifer Barrett on “World Day of remembrance for road traffic victims”. The car accident happened 49 years ago and we still mourn her loss. We also lost her unborn child that day. PLEASE take care on the roads and always be alert to the unexpected. #speirgorm
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Who do you remember on this World Day of remembrance for road traffic accidents? I remember my aunt and my childhood friend.