Christopher Lydon 🏳️🌈
@daschrislydon.bsky.social
Music and stuff. 🇪🇺 (He/him)
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Oh, now, *these* crumpets!
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Oh, now, *these* crumpets!
For many, many years, I've thought of my Google username as having a dot in it, between my last name and my first name. Because that's what I chose when I signed up. (Someone else already had the other way around.)
Then years later, I learned the trick that the dot can be ANYWHERE....
Then years later, I learned the trick that the dot can be ANYWHERE....
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
For many, many years, I've thought of my Google username as having a dot in it, between my last name and my first name. Because that's what I chose when I signed up. (Someone else already had the other way around.)
Then years later, I learned the trick that the dot can be ANYWHERE....
Then years later, I learned the trick that the dot can be ANYWHERE....
Reposted by Christopher Lydon 🏳️🌈
Links to petitions for the suspended courses in Biosciences, University of Nottingham:
Plant Biology c.org/d8PQr9Rd9Z
Food Science & Nutrition c.org/Tp7gQBgYwD
Agriculture c.org/CDkdk95LxZ
Microbiology c.org/YXLh57RZyy
Plant Biology c.org/d8PQr9Rd9Z
Food Science & Nutrition c.org/Tp7gQBgYwD
Agriculture c.org/CDkdk95LxZ
Microbiology c.org/YXLh57RZyy
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Links to petitions for the suspended courses in Biosciences, University of Nottingham:
Plant Biology c.org/d8PQr9Rd9Z
Food Science & Nutrition c.org/Tp7gQBgYwD
Agriculture c.org/CDkdk95LxZ
Microbiology c.org/YXLh57RZyy
Plant Biology c.org/d8PQr9Rd9Z
Food Science & Nutrition c.org/Tp7gQBgYwD
Agriculture c.org/CDkdk95LxZ
Microbiology c.org/YXLh57RZyy
Reposted by Christopher Lydon 🏳️🌈
My students have set up a petition to persuade the University of Nottingham not to close our Plant Biology BSc course
c.org/VPhzVVrHPS
Please consider signing
c.org/VPhzVVrHPS
Please consider signing
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
My students have set up a petition to persuade the University of Nottingham not to close our Plant Biology BSc course
c.org/VPhzVVrHPS
Please consider signing
c.org/VPhzVVrHPS
Please consider signing
Not good all round!!
Plant Biology and Agriculture courses too.
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Not good all round!!
Is Traitors supposed to make you cry?
November 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Is Traitors supposed to make you cry?
Not long now til my student loan gets wiped.
‘Xciting.
‘Xciting.
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Not long now til my student loan gets wiped.
‘Xciting.
‘Xciting.
“00” refers to the FINENESS!
All these pizza recipes saying use 00 Flour but it turns out the 00 flour I’ve been buying is the lowest protein flour I have in the fahking cupboard, therefore not a great pizza dough.
My fahking plain flour has higher protein.
I have learnt today.
All these pizza recipes saying use 00 Flour but it turns out the 00 flour I’ve been buying is the lowest protein flour I have in the fahking cupboard, therefore not a great pizza dough.
My fahking plain flour has higher protein.
I have learnt today.
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“00” refers to the FINENESS!
All these pizza recipes saying use 00 Flour but it turns out the 00 flour I’ve been buying is the lowest protein flour I have in the fahking cupboard, therefore not a great pizza dough.
My fahking plain flour has higher protein.
I have learnt today.
All these pizza recipes saying use 00 Flour but it turns out the 00 flour I’ve been buying is the lowest protein flour I have in the fahking cupboard, therefore not a great pizza dough.
My fahking plain flour has higher protein.
I have learnt today.
They’re the best crumpets I’ve made for yonks.
Not quite perfect yet but definitely on the right track!
Not quite perfect yet but definitely on the right track!
November 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
They’re the best crumpets I’ve made for yonks.
Not quite perfect yet but definitely on the right track!
Not quite perfect yet but definitely on the right track!
So where the fuck is my favourite half tspn measuring spoon?!
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
So where the fuck is my favourite half tspn measuring spoon?!
I think I’ve known for a while that the original lyrics to “Let’s Do It” (the Cole Porter song) are….. problematic. (The one we _now_ know as “Birds do it, bees do it…”)
But seeing them in stark black and white on the page is still jarring!
(They were swapped out many decades ago, though.)
But seeing them in stark black and white on the page is still jarring!
(They were swapped out many decades ago, though.)
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I think I’ve known for a while that the original lyrics to “Let’s Do It” (the Cole Porter song) are….. problematic. (The one we _now_ know as “Birds do it, bees do it…”)
But seeing them in stark black and white on the page is still jarring!
(They were swapped out many decades ago, though.)
But seeing them in stark black and white on the page is still jarring!
(They were swapped out many decades ago, though.)
Made a “use everything in the fridge up” curry & it was surprisingly nice.
Continuing my love affair of “leeks with everything”.
Chicken, leeks, peppers, green beans, coconut cream, chicken stock, an old red chilli, ancient spronions, a singular small carrot, even some fuckin sun dried tomatoes.
Continuing my love affair of “leeks with everything”.
Chicken, leeks, peppers, green beans, coconut cream, chicken stock, an old red chilli, ancient spronions, a singular small carrot, even some fuckin sun dried tomatoes.
November 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Made a “use everything in the fridge up” curry & it was surprisingly nice.
Continuing my love affair of “leeks with everything”.
Chicken, leeks, peppers, green beans, coconut cream, chicken stock, an old red chilli, ancient spronions, a singular small carrot, even some fuckin sun dried tomatoes.
Continuing my love affair of “leeks with everything”.
Chicken, leeks, peppers, green beans, coconut cream, chicken stock, an old red chilli, ancient spronions, a singular small carrot, even some fuckin sun dried tomatoes.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Pay Manchester Pride workers what they're owed
After the collapse of the organisation running Manchester Pride, dozens of workers have been left unpaid for the work they have already done during the festival, to the tune of £50,000 (and counting)....
www.megaphone.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Ugh mixed feelings about having the need to take the fascia off my freezer door just now.
(I spilled yogurt and some went betwixt fascia and freezer door… requiring clean up.)
Turned into a bigger job than I’d at first thought.
Ugh.
(I spilled yogurt and some went betwixt fascia and freezer door… requiring clean up.)
Turned into a bigger job than I’d at first thought.
Ugh.
October 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Ugh mixed feelings about having the need to take the fascia off my freezer door just now.
(I spilled yogurt and some went betwixt fascia and freezer door… requiring clean up.)
Turned into a bigger job than I’d at first thought.
Ugh.
(I spilled yogurt and some went betwixt fascia and freezer door… requiring clean up.)
Turned into a bigger job than I’d at first thought.
Ugh.
Well, now, *these* crumpets are much thiccer than last time.
Much.
Doesn’t necesssssssssarily mean they’re any better, though.
Much.
Doesn’t necesssssssssarily mean they’re any better, though.
October 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Well, now, *these* crumpets are much thiccer than last time.
Much.
Doesn’t necesssssssssarily mean they’re any better, though.
Much.
Doesn’t necesssssssssarily mean they’re any better, though.
Fuck me I love Claudia’s approach to telling them off at the end of a round table.
It’s like she is cursèd to have to keep on picking these traitors from poor groups of suckers that end up at the castle, and the only way for the curse to be broken is for her witless faithfuls to find the traitors.
It’s like she is cursèd to have to keep on picking these traitors from poor groups of suckers that end up at the castle, and the only way for the curse to be broken is for her witless faithfuls to find the traitors.
October 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Fuck me I love Claudia’s approach to telling them off at the end of a round table.
It’s like she is cursèd to have to keep on picking these traitors from poor groups of suckers that end up at the castle, and the only way for the curse to be broken is for her witless faithfuls to find the traitors.
It’s like she is cursèd to have to keep on picking these traitors from poor groups of suckers that end up at the castle, and the only way for the curse to be broken is for her witless faithfuls to find the traitors.
It’s rare an episode of Traitors goes by that I don’t squeal, with delight, “this is soooo sillllyyyyy!”
Within minutes, tonight.
Within minutes, tonight.
October 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
It’s rare an episode of Traitors goes by that I don’t squeal, with delight, “this is soooo sillllyyyyy!”
Within minutes, tonight.
Within minutes, tonight.
I haven’t been a student for twenty years, but sure. Do that.
October 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I haven’t been a student for twenty years, but sure. Do that.
ukmusic.yourmovement.org/p/studio-bus...
Recording studios are vital to UK music but face rising costs. Like venues, they boost local spending – yet get none of the Retail, Hospitality & Leisure support. We urge Chancellor Rachel Reeves to give studios their own RHL rates classification.
Recording studios are vital to UK music but face rising costs. Like venues, they boost local spending – yet get none of the Retail, Hospitality & Leisure support. We urge Chancellor Rachel Reeves to give studios their own RHL rates classification.
Studio Business Rates
There are c. 500 recording studios in the UK. Like Grassroots Music Venues, recording studios are really struggling. Like venues, they require huge investment in a physical premises and are facing inc...
ukmusic.yourmovement.org
October 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
ukmusic.yourmovement.org/p/studio-bus...
Recording studios are vital to UK music but face rising costs. Like venues, they boost local spending – yet get none of the Retail, Hospitality & Leisure support. We urge Chancellor Rachel Reeves to give studios their own RHL rates classification.
Recording studios are vital to UK music but face rising costs. Like venues, they boost local spending – yet get none of the Retail, Hospitality & Leisure support. We urge Chancellor Rachel Reeves to give studios their own RHL rates classification.
Very sad news that Manchester Pride is going into liquidation - sad for the small artists and workers who will absolutely lose out on money, because the liquidators will pay bigger fish first, I expect.
And what happens to the city-wide pride event? (There are plenty of small local ones!)
And what happens to the city-wide pride event? (There are plenty of small local ones!)
October 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Very sad news that Manchester Pride is going into liquidation - sad for the small artists and workers who will absolutely lose out on money, because the liquidators will pay bigger fish first, I expect.
And what happens to the city-wide pride event? (There are plenty of small local ones!)
And what happens to the city-wide pride event? (There are plenty of small local ones!)
Put some graphite lubricant in my front door lock and, fuck me, it's changed my life.
(In a positive way.)
(In a positive way.)
October 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Put some graphite lubricant in my front door lock and, fuck me, it's changed my life.
(In a positive way.)
(In a positive way.)
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The adventure continues… 🌟
4 shows. 47 performances. From Fringe Festivals to rural tours, libraries to livestreams — we’re taking flight this year!
4 shows. 47 performances. From Fringe Festivals to rural tours, libraries to livestreams — we’re taking flight this year!
October 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The adventure continues… 🌟
4 shows. 47 performances. From Fringe Festivals to rural tours, libraries to livestreams — we’re taking flight this year!
4 shows. 47 performances. From Fringe Festivals to rural tours, libraries to livestreams — we’re taking flight this year!
Just plugged my desktop USB keyboard into a USB-to-lightning adapter, to plug into my iPhone, so I could more easily enter the shitty McDonald's Monopoly codes into the app because the code scanner is fucking next-to-useless.
Having done a fair bit of driving recently, I have gathered some tokens.
Having done a fair bit of driving recently, I have gathered some tokens.
October 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Just plugged my desktop USB keyboard into a USB-to-lightning adapter, to plug into my iPhone, so I could more easily enter the shitty McDonald's Monopoly codes into the app because the code scanner is fucking next-to-useless.
Having done a fair bit of driving recently, I have gathered some tokens.
Having done a fair bit of driving recently, I have gathered some tokens.