Matthew Wright 👨🏼🦼
@mcmwright.bsky.social
Acoustics, Folk Music, Disability, not necessarily at the same time. OHMI trustee.
A latex screed has been poured in our hallway and, predictably, I'm finding it an effort to pronounce the x
January 16, 2026 at 7:49 PM
A latex screed has been poured in our hallway and, predictably, I'm finding it an effort to pronounce the x
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I’ve had dates like that
January 15, 2026 at 10:06 AM
I’ve had dates like that
The inverse, i.e. West End Girls to the tune of The Wild Rover is still up for grabs
January 14, 2026 at 8:23 PM
The inverse, i.e. West End Girls to the tune of The Wild Rover is still up for grabs
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Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark, didn't mess about in a letter to Farage explaining Parliamentary procedure...
January 14, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark, didn't mess about in a letter to Farage explaining Parliamentary procedure...
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Lily Allen’s West End Girl but it’s The Wild Rover
January 14, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Lily Allen’s West End Girl but it’s The Wild Rover
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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.
Quiz: which string quartet was dedicated to a mathematician?
January 14, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Quiz: which string quartet was dedicated to a mathematician?
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Starmer has the opportunity to do the easiest, most wildly popular thing apart from with the nazi & nonce community, that will actually make him look tough & decisive. Watch as he declines to take it
January 11, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Starmer has the opportunity to do the easiest, most wildly popular thing apart from with the nazi & nonce community, that will actually make him look tough & decisive. Watch as he declines to take it
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When there is nuclear armageddon I'd back Peter Mandelson to survive over any cockroach.
January 11, 2026 at 2:34 PM
When there is nuclear armageddon I'd back Peter Mandelson to survive over any cockroach.
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Was reading about how they made a “smooth miles Davis” for the cover of the 2020 reissue of in a silent way and losing my fucking mind?!
January 10, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Was reading about how they made a “smooth miles Davis” for the cover of the 2020 reissue of in a silent way and losing my fucking mind?!
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This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.
Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them
Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them
Bose speakers un-bricked
buff.ly
January 8, 2026 at 3:20 PM
This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.
When I was young the idea of owning one of these was as distant and unattainable as owning a Ferrari, and far more desirable. But now I've got one.
January 8, 2026 at 11:14 AM
When I was young the idea of owning one of these was as distant and unattainable as owning a Ferrari, and far more desirable. But now I've got one.
Quite an achievement for a Labour government to decriminalise CSAM
January 7, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Quite an achievement for a Labour government to decriminalise CSAM
@drmcarley.bsky.social you should start your aero lectures with a song, accompanying yourself on one of these
January 6, 2026 at 5:01 PM
@drmcarley.bsky.social you should start your aero lectures with a song, accompanying yourself on one of these
Not me, but my father tore his cartilages playing chess - it was a school tournament, he'd wound his legs round the table, won unexpectedly and leapt up in triumph
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.
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January 6, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Not me, but my father tore his cartilages playing chess - it was a school tournament, he'd wound his legs round the table, won unexpectedly and leapt up in triumph
Bloke across the bay who's got infection delirium was just asked what year it is and said 1973 (when he would have been 20). He was stunned, understandably, to be told what it really was
January 5, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Bloke across the bay who's got infection delirium was just asked what year it is and said 1973 (when he would have been 20). He was stunned, understandably, to be told what it really was
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A very long and important THREAD -
The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.
And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.
Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/
The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.
And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.
Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/
January 4, 2026 at 9:40 AM
A very long and important THREAD -
The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.
And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.
Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/
The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.
And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.
Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/
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[starmer at home, curtains drawn, riverdancing expressionlessly as the phone rings off the hook]
January 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
[starmer at home, curtains drawn, riverdancing expressionlessly as the phone rings off the hook]
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Can magnetic fridge poetry show contrition. Do dice feel pain. Is this calculator my friend.
An AI chatbot does not have PERSONHOOD. It has no agency. It cannot meaningfully apologise. It cannot speak on behalf of another. It cannot speak for itself; it has no self. Stop asking it for quotes for articles. Stop printing its quotes.
January 2, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Can magnetic fridge poetry show contrition. Do dice feel pain. Is this calculator my friend.
Looks like I'll be here for the weekend - team treating me for the original problem were ready to send me home but physio agreed I wouldn't be safe there till stronger
In what seems to be turning into a new-year's tradition, I'm back in hospital
January 2, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Looks like I'll be here for the weekend - team treating me for the original problem were ready to send me home but physio agreed I wouldn't be safe there till stronger
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not auld acquaintance should be be forgot they didn't stop to think if it could
December 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not auld acquaintance should be be forgot they didn't stop to think if it could
Some modest, and entirely uncynical, predictions for the evolution of 'Estuary English' over the next few decades:
December 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Some modest, and entirely uncynical, predictions for the evolution of 'Estuary English' over the next few decades:
At a science festival I sat at tables next to, at various times, Alan Moore, Robin Ince and Martin Rees, but I didn't bother them
Please quote this with the time you didn’t interact with someone famous - eg one time I was in Cardiff the same weekend as Willem Dafoe (but I didn’t see him or even know he was there until he appeared on the telly later)
Please quote this with your major interactions with massive celebrities. eg “I was married to the pope for fifteen years”
December 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
At a science festival I sat at tables next to, at various times, Alan Moore, Robin Ince and Martin Rees, but I didn't bother them
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and even more "deeply" than that. no technique nor technology is "neutral". this idea, of this neutrality that is only broken by use-intent, is so hard to get past for a lot of people, even at the higher levels of "intellectuality" (meaning: academia).
for the love of god, AI systems aren't "just tools that are neither good nor evil in and of themselves". AI systems *are* tools of capitalism. they exist as tools of capitalism. there is no AI system "in and of itself" outside of capitalism
December 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
and even more "deeply" than that. no technique nor technology is "neutral". this idea, of this neutrality that is only broken by use-intent, is so hard to get past for a lot of people, even at the higher levels of "intellectuality" (meaning: academia).