Andy Gardiner
@andygardiner.bsky.social
Neo-Northumbrian. Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline.
Harmonist. Bad guitarist.
Midnight Baker. Hill walker.
Cricket lover. Company grower.
Bird noticer. Wine hoarder.
Shameless with my bonhomie.
Harmonist. Bad guitarist.
Midnight Baker. Hill walker.
Cricket lover. Company grower.
Bird noticer. Wine hoarder.
Shameless with my bonhomie.
Glasshouse in Gateshead yesterday. Tom Borrow wearing his young fingers to stumps for the first Tchaikovsky piano concerto was fine.
But Shostakovich symphony 10 with @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social under Vasily Petrenko was an absolute thrill. Long time since I’ve seen any music quite so moving.
But Shostakovich symphony 10 with @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social under Vasily Petrenko was an absolute thrill. Long time since I’ve seen any music quite so moving.
February 9, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Glasshouse in Gateshead yesterday. Tom Borrow wearing his young fingers to stumps for the first Tchaikovsky piano concerto was fine.
But Shostakovich symphony 10 with @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social under Vasily Petrenko was an absolute thrill. Long time since I’ve seen any music quite so moving.
But Shostakovich symphony 10 with @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social under Vasily Petrenko was an absolute thrill. Long time since I’ve seen any music quite so moving.
I’m at that point of Super Bowl thinking where I know I shouldn’t. But probably will, knowing that I’ll go to bed at 6-3 on a game that turns out to be an all time classic.
February 8, 2026 at 10:00 PM
I’m at that point of Super Bowl thinking where I know I shouldn’t. But probably will, knowing that I’ll go to bed at 6-3 on a game that turns out to be an all time classic.
Year by year, this album steadily works its way up my list of all-time favourites.
February 7, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Year by year, this album steadily works its way up my list of all-time favourites.
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
‘Of course, we don’t actually have a budget for it.‘
‘Of course, we don’t actually have a budget for it.‘
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"Don't use gerunds in headlines and crossheads, for the love of God."
"Don't use gerunds in headlines and crossheads, for the love of God."
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
“Would you say more about what’s worrying you here?”
“Would you say more about what’s worrying you here?”
February 7, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
‘Of course, we don’t actually have a budget for it.‘
‘Of course, we don’t actually have a budget for it.‘
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That splendid sign-off of the Queen Mother’s – “Tinkety tonk old fruit, & down with the Nazis” – celebrates its 85th anniversary today
February 7, 2026 at 10:50 AM
That splendid sign-off of the Queen Mother’s – “Tinkety tonk old fruit, & down with the Nazis” – celebrates its 85th anniversary today
From a fan’s point of view, I’m delighted to see the Fulham goal disallowed. But VAR is an absolute blight on the game.
February 1, 2026 at 3:31 PM
From a fan’s point of view, I’m delighted to see the Fulham goal disallowed. But VAR is an absolute blight on the game.
‘Everything you know and love is on that dot’.’
This is an up-close photo of Saturn's rings, but it also shows so much more. Those two little dots are actually the Earth and Moon as seen from over 1.4 billion kilometers away by the Cassini spacecraft. Everything you know and love is on that dot.
#Astronomy ⚛️🧪
#Astronomy ⚛️🧪
February 1, 2026 at 12:26 AM
‘Everything you know and love is on that dot’.’
Friday night's whisky spoke to me and said, 'don't ever do that again'.
I will be doing it again tonight.
I will be doing it again tonight.
Burns night is fabulous isn't it. I mean a properly enjoyable celebration of a country's identity and culture and done with so much love - so different to the empty nationalism of the 'raise the colours mob'. And no it's not just last night's whisky talking.... (we celebrated early)
January 25, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Friday night's whisky spoke to me and said, 'don't ever do that again'.
I will be doing it again tonight.
I will be doing it again tonight.
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
One thing about Bluesky: professors are getting younger. Much younger.
January 22, 2026 at 11:27 PM
One thing about Bluesky: professors are getting younger. Much younger.
Genius.
January 22, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Genius.
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
'This last factor, which was not directly investigated, may have been responsible for the scattering of males throughout the entire orchard after the male population rapidly and drastically increased in October.'
'This last factor, which was not directly investigated, may have been responsible for the scattering of males throughout the entire orchard after the male population rapidly and drastically increased in October.'
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
'Still, despite the obvious advantage of combining distributional, telemetry, and tracer data sets, empirical and statistical studies that do so remain rare in the literature.’
'Still, despite the obvious advantage of combining distributional, telemetry, and tracer data sets, empirical and statistical studies that do so remain rare in the literature.’
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
'Like every other child born precisely eleven years ago on the last Eventide, when the clock struck midnight she would die - the eleven short years of her doomed life complete; her curse finally fulfilled.'
'Like every other child born precisely eleven years ago on the last Eventide, when the clock struck midnight she would die - the eleven short years of her doomed life complete; her curse finally fulfilled.'
January 22, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
'This last factor, which was not directly investigated, may have been responsible for the scattering of males throughout the entire orchard after the male population rapidly and drastically increased in October.'
'This last factor, which was not directly investigated, may have been responsible for the scattering of males throughout the entire orchard after the male population rapidly and drastically increased in October.'
Not really fair to make City play Bodø *and* Glimt.
January 20, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Not really fair to make City play Bodø *and* Glimt.
Reposted by Andy Gardiner
Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
January 18, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
Northumberland laundry (IYKYK)
January 15, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Northumberland laundry (IYKYK)
We have an unseasonable visitor in our living room. Has appeared certainly dead at least twice during today but is now drunkenly fly-staggering around the room.
January 14, 2026 at 5:20 PM
We have an unseasonable visitor in our living room. Has appeared certainly dead at least twice during today but is now drunkenly fly-staggering around the room.
TIL that this was written by Giorgio Moroder
The Tip in Southsea. Love this clip so much
youtu.be/NWI2L1g76Jg
youtu.be/NWI2L1g76Jg
January 14, 2026 at 8:28 AM
TIL that this was written by Giorgio Moroder
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Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.
January 12, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.
I don’t think I’m any more parsimonious than the next man. But I’m thrilled when I manage to light eight candles with a single match.
January 11, 2026 at 7:34 PM
I don’t think I’m any more parsimonious than the next man. But I’m thrilled when I manage to light eight candles with a single match.
Reposted by Andy Gardiner
Newton was no angel. Nonetheless, it's a bit much to equate him with someone knowingly distributing CSAM and trying to foment racial civil war.
I'm not sure throwing Newton under the bus is the best way to defend the Royal Society.....
I'm not sure throwing Newton under the bus is the best way to defend the Royal Society.....
"I think it is naive, frankly, to say that we should get rid of him because he’s a bad person," the new UK Royal Society president says of Elon Musk's membership.
The society would have expelled Isaac Newton if it made judgments on character & behaviour, Paul Nurse says.
www.ft.com/content/088b...
The society would have expelled Isaac Newton if it made judgments on character & behaviour, Paul Nurse says.
www.ft.com/content/088b...
Elon Musk should keep UK Royal Society membership, says president
Paul Nurse tells FT that national science academy should avoid ‘making judgments’ about ‘character’ of fellows
www.ft.com
January 11, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Newton was no angel. Nonetheless, it's a bit much to equate him with someone knowingly distributing CSAM and trying to foment racial civil war.
I'm not sure throwing Newton under the bus is the best way to defend the Royal Society.....
I'm not sure throwing Newton under the bus is the best way to defend the Royal Society.....
It’s a well-known myth that Sisyphus was sentenced to push a boulder up a hill for all eternity. What he really had to do was hoover up pine needles.
January 6, 2026 at 7:05 PM
It’s a well-known myth that Sisyphus was sentenced to push a boulder up a hill for all eternity. What he really had to do was hoover up pine needles.
Oh god! It's going to be Mourinho again isn't it.
January 5, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Oh god! It's going to be Mourinho again isn't it.
Scott Boland looks like the kind of chap that you might come across demanding wittals in a Kentish graveyard.
January 4, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Scott Boland looks like the kind of chap that you might come across demanding wittals in a Kentish graveyard.
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The manager of Hilbert's Grand Hotel, hearing the Christmas story and thinking "Fucksake - it's easy. You move the guest from room one..."
December 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The manager of Hilbert's Grand Hotel, hearing the Christmas story and thinking "Fucksake - it's easy. You move the guest from room one..."