Sam
@samdolan.bsky.social
Dad and son. Lecturer in Sheffield, UK. Physics, astronomy, maths, football (#ITFC), folk, fun and anti-fascism. D&D. Black holes and gravitational waves.
Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
I would pay an extra £5 on the BBC Licence Fee to remove the half-hourly immigration-hype reports on 6 Music that masquerade as news.
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I would pay an extra £5 on the BBC Licence Fee to remove the half-hourly immigration-hype reports on 6 Music that masquerade as news.
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I’m old enough to remember when the Director General of the BBC categorically didn’t resign after one of its flagship politics shows literally photoshopped Jeremy Corbyn with a Soviet hat and painted red with the Kremlin in the background like some kind of Cold War-era communist mural.
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I’m old enough to remember when the Director General of the BBC categorically didn’t resign after one of its flagship politics shows literally photoshopped Jeremy Corbyn with a Soviet hat and painted red with the Kremlin in the background like some kind of Cold War-era communist mural.
Re-watched "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" tonight. It really is a one-off. With an innocent, hopeful vision of a different world at its heart. It has influenced some much in film and TV since 1977, from Jurassic Park to Stranger Things.
November 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Re-watched "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" tonight. It really is a one-off. With an innocent, hopeful vision of a different world at its heart. It has influenced some much in film and TV since 1977, from Jurassic Park to Stranger Things.
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International students are not unwanted migrants. They’re wanted, needed & required for the survival of UK academia as it stands. Yet they’re constantly scapegoated in anti-immigrant political rhetoric. They’re falsely taken for granted. It’s not only unfair but also stupid & destructive.
November 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
International students are not unwanted migrants. They’re wanted, needed & required for the survival of UK academia as it stands. Yet they’re constantly scapegoated in anti-immigrant political rhetoric. They’re falsely taken for granted. It’s not only unfair but also stupid & destructive.
if the US Government bails out tech companies while also letting people starve, well ... it's going to get very ugly indeed
"I'm making billions, and, if it fails, taxpayers will bail me out"
November 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
if the US Government bails out tech companies while also letting people starve, well ... it's going to get very ugly indeed
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Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
How's work, you kindly enquire?
Well, when I received this all-staff missive from the Vice-Chancellor, I nearly threw my laptop across the room.
Otherwise all good, apart from all the redundancies.
Well, when I received this all-staff missive from the Vice-Chancellor, I nearly threw my laptop across the room.
Otherwise all good, apart from all the redundancies.
November 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
How's work, you kindly enquire?
Well, when I received this all-staff missive from the Vice-Chancellor, I nearly threw my laptop across the room.
Otherwise all good, apart from all the redundancies.
Well, when I received this all-staff missive from the Vice-Chancellor, I nearly threw my laptop across the room.
Otherwise all good, apart from all the redundancies.
every day the world gets stupider
Optimus robots will just kinda follow criminals around and make sure they don't commit crimes again, so we can eliminate prisons.
These are all things Elon Musk is literally saying.
These are all things Elon Musk is literally saying.
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 AM
every day the world gets stupider
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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
"Baloney" rules court on sandwich charges
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"Baloney" rules court on sandwich charges
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Heartbroken to share the news that recruitment to Undergraduate Music courses at the University of Nottingham has been suspended.
Please do contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to support us.
Please do contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to support us.
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Heartbroken to share the news that recruitment to Undergraduate Music courses at the University of Nottingham has been suspended.
Please do contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to support us.
Please do contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to support us.
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'Music and modern foreign languages degrees are among courses being suspended at the University of Nottingham, with the institution saying it “cannot rely on additional income” from the coming tuition fee rises.' 1/3
Nottingham suspends music, language and nursing courses
University says financial uncertainties continue as government’s proposed student levy will ‘wipe out any benefits’ from rising tuition fees
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
'Music and modern foreign languages degrees are among courses being suspended at the University of Nottingham, with the institution saying it “cannot rely on additional income” from the coming tuition fee rises.' 1/3
now, about Cummings, the thing about him is, the one thing to bear in mind, the key thing to remember about Dominic Cummings is ... he's just an absolute c*nt
Dominic Cummings has this racialised take on David Lammy
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
November 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
now, about Cummings, the thing about him is, the one thing to bear in mind, the key thing to remember about Dominic Cummings is ... he's just an absolute c*nt
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I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
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good morning gang, let’s all suffer together
November 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
good morning gang, let’s all suffer together
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Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969
Whoomp! (There it is)
Turnout in the NYC mayoral election is the highest since 1993.
November 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Whoomp! (There it is)
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Lairmore testifies that other agents gave him a plush sandwich toy, which he placed on the shelf in his office, and a patch that said "Felony Footlong," which he put on his lunch box.
Lairmore has chuckled with the rest of us at times. Defense really trying to underscore the unseriousness of it all
Lairmore has chuckled with the rest of us at times. Defense really trying to underscore the unseriousness of it all
November 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Lairmore testifies that other agents gave him a plush sandwich toy, which he placed on the shelf in his office, and a patch that said "Felony Footlong," which he put on his lunch box.
Lairmore has chuckled with the rest of us at times. Defense really trying to underscore the unseriousness of it all
Lairmore has chuckled with the rest of us at times. Defense really trying to underscore the unseriousness of it all
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The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
November 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
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Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
Bravo Samir - the very best of us!
Wishing you a gentle and full recovery, hero.
PS. Suck it, racists
Wishing you a gentle and full recovery, hero.
PS. Suck it, racists
Train worker hero credited with saving lives in the Huntingdon knife attack named as Samir Zitouni.
November 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Bravo Samir - the very best of us!
Wishing you a gentle and full recovery, hero.
PS. Suck it, racists
Wishing you a gentle and full recovery, hero.
PS. Suck it, racists
me: look Greg, you can't just point at random things and shout 'tariff!'
him, pointing at New York: TARIFF!
him, pointing at New York: TARIFF!
They’ve all gone mad.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott: “After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott: “After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.”
November 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
me: look Greg, you can't just point at random things and shout 'tariff!'
him, pointing at New York: TARIFF!
him, pointing at New York: TARIFF!
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Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
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Just a thought tonight.
Thousands of train services now run without guard.
The reason, money saved for privately run train companies.
Thousands of train services now run without guard.
The reason, money saved for privately run train companies.
November 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Just a thought tonight.
Thousands of train services now run without guard.
The reason, money saved for privately run train companies.
Thousands of train services now run without guard.
The reason, money saved for privately run train companies.