Shona Cook
@shonacook.bsky.social
Swore I'd use the death of twitter to stop scrolling and start writing and yet here I am
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Windows is all "I can help you write that!"
With all due respect, you can't even open the window I want open when I click on that window in Windows. I'm good.
With all due respect, you can't even open the window I want open when I click on that window in Windows. I'm good.
November 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Windows is all "I can help you write that!"
With all due respect, you can't even open the window I want open when I click on that window in Windows. I'm good.
With all due respect, you can't even open the window I want open when I click on that window in Windows. I'm good.
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Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Bought 4 DVDs in the charity shop, watched 3 this evening: Practical Magic; Drive; and Starship Troopers. A lot of death. Very different vibes
November 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Bought 4 DVDs in the charity shop, watched 3 this evening: Practical Magic; Drive; and Starship Troopers. A lot of death. Very different vibes
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Yet again we’re being warned that if we ask billionaires to pay their fair share of tax they might leave. So it’s definitely worth trying.
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Yet again we’re being warned that if we ask billionaires to pay their fair share of tax they might leave. So it’s definitely worth trying.
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Not a half-baked gesture at all. Tidal has much better quality and pays artists four times as much as Spotify.
I just switched from Spotify to Tidal as a half-baked ethical gesture and maybe this is some sort of aural placebo effect but the difference in sound quality is startling, as though Spotify plays everything through a sock. Or am I just imagining this
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Not a half-baked gesture at all. Tidal has much better quality and pays artists four times as much as Spotify.
Weather app: 0% chance of rain.
Window: raining.
Feel we'd got to where weather prediction was reliably accurate and then it started deteriorating again.
Is this climate change making patterns harder to interpret or data analytics being outsourced to a shit algorithm?
My soggy laundry wants to know
Window: raining.
Feel we'd got to where weather prediction was reliably accurate and then it started deteriorating again.
Is this climate change making patterns harder to interpret or data analytics being outsourced to a shit algorithm?
My soggy laundry wants to know
November 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Weather app: 0% chance of rain.
Window: raining.
Feel we'd got to where weather prediction was reliably accurate and then it started deteriorating again.
Is this climate change making patterns harder to interpret or data analytics being outsourced to a shit algorithm?
My soggy laundry wants to know
Window: raining.
Feel we'd got to where weather prediction was reliably accurate and then it started deteriorating again.
Is this climate change making patterns harder to interpret or data analytics being outsourced to a shit algorithm?
My soggy laundry wants to know
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Government’s last chance to keep control of digital
Digital sovereignty isn’t optional anymore. We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data
By Philip O'Brien
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Digital sovereignty isn’t optional anymore. We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data
By Philip O'Brien
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Government’s last chance to keep control of digital
Digital sovereignty isn’t optional anymore. We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Government’s last chance to keep control of digital
Digital sovereignty isn’t optional anymore. We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data
By Philip O'Brien
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Digital sovereignty isn’t optional anymore. We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data
By Philip O'Brien
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
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Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
All this talk of wood chippers has made me pull Tucker and Dale Vs Evil out of the DVD stack. Perfect night to cosy up with some hillbilly vacation home misunderstandings
November 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
All this talk of wood chippers has made me pull Tucker and Dale Vs Evil out of the DVD stack. Perfect night to cosy up with some hillbilly vacation home misunderstandings
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If you're in York this Saturday, there's a "Women in #Geology" day of lectures at Tempest Anderson Hall, Yorkshire Museum @yorkshire-geol-soc.bsky.social @ypsyork.bsky.social. Will be fascinating - starts 10.45, keynote by @toriherridge.bsky.social, free tickets www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-g...
Women in Geology
The stereotypical geologist is a man with beard - this indoor meeting seeks to change this image by celebrating the many women in geoscience
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
If you're in York this Saturday, there's a "Women in #Geology" day of lectures at Tempest Anderson Hall, Yorkshire Museum @yorkshire-geol-soc.bsky.social @ypsyork.bsky.social. Will be fascinating - starts 10.45, keynote by @toriherridge.bsky.social, free tickets www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-g...
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Our tram consultation closes this Monday (17 November).
Visit our consultation hub to read the proposals and have your say: consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/tram-nor...
Visit our consultation hub to read the proposals and have your say: consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/tram-nor...
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Our tram consultation closes this Monday (17 November).
Visit our consultation hub to read the proposals and have your say: consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/tram-nor...
Visit our consultation hub to read the proposals and have your say: consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/tram-nor...
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The Trump administration is expanding its deep-sea mining ambitions to the region around the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific.
The move disregards unified opposition from Indigenous leaders in American Samoa, who imposed a moratorium on seabed mining last year.
The latest from @grist.org:
The move disregards unified opposition from Indigenous leaders in American Samoa, who imposed a moratorium on seabed mining last year.
The latest from @grist.org:
Trump eyes mining of Pacific seafloor near the Marianas Trench
The administration wants to open up an area bigger than Peru, alarming scientists and Indigenous leaders.
www.motherjones.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The Trump administration is expanding its deep-sea mining ambitions to the region around the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific.
The move disregards unified opposition from Indigenous leaders in American Samoa, who imposed a moratorium on seabed mining last year.
The latest from @grist.org:
The move disregards unified opposition from Indigenous leaders in American Samoa, who imposed a moratorium on seabed mining last year.
The latest from @grist.org:
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting says that the British Medical Association, which represents Britain's doctors, is a threat to the NHS. Streeting took a record £225k from private healthcare-related donors in just two years.
British Medical Association ‘threat to future of NHS’, says Streeting ahead of doctors’ strike
Health secretary accuses doctors’ union of ‘cartel-like behaviour’ and tells it to ‘get real’ over pay demands
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.
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now whenever someone rings the doorbell it acoustically zaps her like an electric shock. we now know when someone's at the door when my mother leaps up suddenly
November 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
now whenever someone rings the doorbell it acoustically zaps her like an electric shock. we now know when someone's at the door when my mother leaps up suddenly
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Banning VPNs not only compromises privacy, but it compromises safety. Being forced to use public wifi when travelling without the option of a VPN to make that safe will just lead to compromised computers. All in pursuit of the so-called "Online Safety Act", which achieves the opposite of safety.
The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
www.techradar.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Banning VPNs not only compromises privacy, but it compromises safety. Being forced to use public wifi when travelling without the option of a VPN to make that safe will just lead to compromised computers. All in pursuit of the so-called "Online Safety Act", which achieves the opposite of safety.
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ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
Know it's only Tuesday but it's already been a weird week so I'm watching Cop Car because I can, and evil Kevin Bacon being driven nuts by a couple of cheerful delinquents feels like exactly the medicine I need
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Know it's only Tuesday but it's already been a weird week so I'm watching Cop Car because I can, and evil Kevin Bacon being driven nuts by a couple of cheerful delinquents feels like exactly the medicine I need
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Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.
grist.org/accountabili...
#Oklahoma #Water #OK #Gas #Climate
grist.org/accountabili...
#Oklahoma #Water #OK #Gas #Climate
Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground. Oklahoma regulators failed to stop it.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from Oklahoma oil wells.
grist.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
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Caught two minutes of the BBC stuff on the news and feel sick at the idea of this pillar falling. Farage and the other cunts chomping at the bit will take the NHS next and we'll be sat listening to Third Reich FM hoping our minor injury infections take us sooner than later.
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Caught two minutes of the BBC stuff on the news and feel sick at the idea of this pillar falling. Farage and the other cunts chomping at the bit will take the NHS next and we'll be sat listening to Third Reich FM hoping our minor injury infections take us sooner than later.
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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Two-day-old zebrafish larvae, as seen through a scanning electron microscope
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Two-day-old zebrafish larvae, as seen through a scanning electron microscope
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In 'How They Broke Britain', I do a pretty good job of detailing the depth & breadth of Tufton Street/Tory/Murdoch/Mail attempts to scupper the BBC, even as I castigate some presenters for going too easy on precisely the people who seek the Corporation's abolition. But I should have done more. 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
In 'How They Broke Britain', I do a pretty good job of detailing the depth & breadth of Tufton Street/Tory/Murdoch/Mail attempts to scupper the BBC, even as I castigate some presenters for going too easy on precisely the people who seek the Corporation's abolition. But I should have done more. 1/2