Alice
@creaturesofhope.bsky.social
DFTBA. Statistician and curious about things
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am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
If someone could put together a playlist of this background music, that would be great #TheTraitors
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
If someone could put together a playlist of this background music, that would be great #TheTraitors
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Can’t remember the last time I got this hyped about something on television and it’s some celebs playing a version of a late night drinking game I played as a student #CelebrityTraitors
November 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Can’t remember the last time I got this hyped about something on television and it’s some celebs playing a version of a late night drinking game I played as a student #CelebrityTraitors
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.
Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
October 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.
Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
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I’m sad to hear the news that the wonderful Jane Goodall is no longer in the world. Her work with chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania taught us to look at other apes - and ourselves - differently. I was privileged to meet her later in life and tell her what an inspiration she was to me.
October 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I’m sad to hear the news that the wonderful Jane Goodall is no longer in the world. Her work with chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania taught us to look at other apes - and ourselves - differently. I was privileged to meet her later in life and tell her what an inspiration she was to me.
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Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour
The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91, her institute has said.
The Jane Goodall Institute announced that she had passed away of natural causes while in California as part of a US speaking tour. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
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can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about
good video hands-on with meta's smart glasses. i've been skeptical on smart glasses for a while, but it looks like the hardware side of this is finally becoming feasible? plus, in a world where kids list "creator" as their dream job, POV video recording is v attractive youtu.be/5cVGKvl7Oek?...
Meta Ray-Ban Display hands-on: best smart glasses I’ve ever tried
YouTube video by The Verge
youtu.be
September 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about
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Thank God we don’t have the cancellation of satirical comedy in this country. I can’t wait to see how they deal with the Trump visit on The Mash Report, Mock The Week and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order!
September 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Thank God we don’t have the cancellation of satirical comedy in this country. I can’t wait to see how they deal with the Trump visit on The Mash Report, Mock The Week and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order!
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Expect more silence from the Royal Society in the face of their most notorious fellow advocating for the overthrow of the democratically elected government of a country he is neither a citizen nor a resident of (yet he is a fellow of their most prestigious learned society).
September 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Expect more silence from the Royal Society in the face of their most notorious fellow advocating for the overthrow of the democratically elected government of a country he is neither a citizen nor a resident of (yet he is a fellow of their most prestigious learned society).
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Also the first time the three great offices of state (FCDO, Home, CX) have all been held by women at the same time.
September 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Also the first time the three great offices of state (FCDO, Home, CX) have all been held by women at the same time.
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RIP Allan Ahlberg. Gorgeous, resonant, timeless work that will live forever.
July 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
RIP Allan Ahlberg. Gorgeous, resonant, timeless work that will live forever.
@crosscountry.bsky.social you need to keep your train running when they are at a station. Been at Bristol for 10 mins, with no air con. In this heat that is v dangerous!
July 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
@crosscountry.bsky.social you need to keep your train running when they are at a station. Been at Bristol for 10 mins, with no air con. In this heat that is v dangerous!
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It's maddening to me how much Covid is at the root of so many of today's crises and we just...don't talk about it?
Take the spike in children needing SEND provision. Did anything huge and traumatic happen recently that might have affected thousands of kids? No? Must be parents making it up
Take the spike in children needing SEND provision. Did anything huge and traumatic happen recently that might have affected thousands of kids? No? Must be parents making it up
July 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It's maddening to me how much Covid is at the root of so many of today's crises and we just...don't talk about it?
Take the spike in children needing SEND provision. Did anything huge and traumatic happen recently that might have affected thousands of kids? No? Must be parents making it up
Take the spike in children needing SEND provision. Did anything huge and traumatic happen recently that might have affected thousands of kids? No? Must be parents making it up
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It occurs to me that the narrative that British Jews support the genocide in Palestine might be about as accurate - not very - as the narrative that women support the cruelty of trans exclusion.
June 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It occurs to me that the narrative that British Jews support the genocide in Palestine might be about as accurate - not very - as the narrative that women support the cruelty of trans exclusion.
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One reason the revolt on disability benefits is looking so substantial is the line being used to defend it lacks any integrity.
To claim that the purpose of cutting PIP - a non-means tested benefit - is to help people back into work requires saying something untrue.
To claim that the purpose of cutting PIP - a non-means tested benefit - is to help people back into work requires saying something untrue.
June 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
One reason the revolt on disability benefits is looking so substantial is the line being used to defend it lacks any integrity.
To claim that the purpose of cutting PIP - a non-means tested benefit - is to help people back into work requires saying something untrue.
To claim that the purpose of cutting PIP - a non-means tested benefit - is to help people back into work requires saying something untrue.
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I want to see non-disabled people shouting about the disability benefit cuts. If you spoke out about trans rights, abortion rights, or migrant rights in recent weeks? Good on you! If you aren’t doing the same for disabled people, ask yourself why.
June 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I want to see non-disabled people shouting about the disability benefit cuts. If you spoke out about trans rights, abortion rights, or migrant rights in recent weeks? Good on you! If you aren’t doing the same for disabled people, ask yourself why.
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“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport”
By @rubenbolling.bsky.social, after Richard Scarry.
Genius.
Click in.
By @rubenbolling.bsky.social, after Richard Scarry.
Genius.
Click in.
June 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport”
By @rubenbolling.bsky.social, after Richard Scarry.
Genius.
Click in.
By @rubenbolling.bsky.social, after Richard Scarry.
Genius.
Click in.
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
Literally less than a day after the episode, the BBC has spoiled the main twist to Doctor Who yesterday with ever increasing spoiler pictures on the news homepage as well. It’s extremely annoying
June 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Literally less than a day after the episode, the BBC has spoiled the main twist to Doctor Who yesterday with ever increasing spoiler pictures on the news homepage as well. It’s extremely annoying
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Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"
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you know. I bloody agree with this. the BBC is FAR FROM PERFECT & does fuck up.
the reason I keep making programmes for it is: as an organisation it is still *basically trying* to give a truthful view of the world. which, as their billionaire owners tell us, much US media has basically given up on.
the reason I keep making programmes for it is: as an organisation it is still *basically trying* to give a truthful view of the world. which, as their billionaire owners tell us, much US media has basically given up on.
NEW: With the media landscape is changing around our ears, what's the point of the BBC?
Tim Davie's answer - it's the thing that will stop us falling into polarised crisis where there are no shared facts.
Expect more beeb on YouTube/TikTok.
Story: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
Tim Davie's answer - it's the thing that will stop us falling into polarised crisis where there are no shared facts.
Expect more beeb on YouTube/TikTok.
Story: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
BBC boss says disinformation ‘trust crisis’ putting social fabric of UK at risk
Tim Davie pitches BBC as unifying force as he announces plans to make more news content for YouTube and TikTok
www.theguardian.com
May 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
you know. I bloody agree with this. the BBC is FAR FROM PERFECT & does fuck up.
the reason I keep making programmes for it is: as an organisation it is still *basically trying* to give a truthful view of the world. which, as their billionaire owners tell us, much US media has basically given up on.
the reason I keep making programmes for it is: as an organisation it is still *basically trying* to give a truthful view of the world. which, as their billionaire owners tell us, much US media has basically given up on.
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This is spot on on the distinction between Powell and Starmer's speeches and the much more meaningful criticism of the latter.
To be clear, Robert *is* a supermodel. But apart from that it's all entirely correct
To be clear, Robert *is* a supermodel. But apart from that it's all entirely correct
Starmer's language was deplorable.
It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy.
But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵
It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy.
But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵
May 15, 2025 at 7:05 AM
This is spot on on the distinction between Powell and Starmer's speeches and the much more meaningful criticism of the latter.
To be clear, Robert *is* a supermodel. But apart from that it's all entirely correct
To be clear, Robert *is* a supermodel. But apart from that it's all entirely correct