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CJ Bill
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Tester techie type at, ahem, a major UK media corporation, cyclist, reader of sci-fi and prehistory, dad. Occasional conference speaker on test philosophy, management and all things UAT

Looking forward to shouting into the void on a new platform
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sundersays.bsky.social
National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign.

35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee

12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate

Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
Voting results from the AGM
Read about the National Trust's 2025 Annual General Meeting and the results from the day.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
Just added to my Etsy shop:
🌿final small print run of my '26 calendars
🪶my handmade recycled silver jewellery designs (incl intricate casts of real flowers)
🌸limited ed'n mounted art prints of my photos
💐tiny posy mental health kits
Last orders for📮 in time for🌲: 19 Nov
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
My individually handmade recycled silver jewellery including intricate casts of real flowers (snowdrop, bluebell etc), casts of dragonfly Wongs & jay feathers & my tiny wearable sculptures of much-loved British bird species One of my best-selling mounted art prints of flowers I grew & bought from an honesty florist Victorian ink bottles that form part of my tiny posy-making mental health kits-they make great gifts The 12 photos that make up my 2026 botanical calendar-each image is designed to improve mental health
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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angryblacklady.blacksky.app
lmao
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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sheffieldtribune.bsky.social
“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”

Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS] 1 NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]: Hello there 2 [A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk]. DAD: Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids? 3 NT EMPLOYEE: Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail! 4 MUM: That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids? 5 NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]: Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot! 6 NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]: Listen - that's their call [Calls emanating from the landscape]: tut-tut woke-woke 7 NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]: They are extremely sensitive and fragile... But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery. 8 KIDS [pointing]: There they are! [Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure]. [Little people noises]: woke-woke tut-tut woke-woke 9 [Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]: Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house. [Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]: tut-tut woke-woke 10 MUM [pointing]: What's that one doing there? NT EMPLOYEE: Oh, that's so sweet… 11 [We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away]. NT EMPLOYEE: I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph… 12 [We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]: Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE? [ends]
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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thissmallplanet.bsky.social
Open Letter From a Ukrainian Anarchist to An Opponent of Aid to Ukraine
syg.ma/@media-resis...
Galina Rymbu, An Open Letter to Zarah Sultana
An anarcho-feminist and poet from Ukraine delivers a personal address to the leader of Your Party, inviting reflection on what contemporary anti-fascism and genuine strategies of solidarity might look...
syg.ma
October 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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davejorgenson.bsky.social
playing ‘Guess Who?’ with ICE
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
cjbill.bsky.social
I now have a BBC radio studio to do some testing in and outside it are bound copies of every Radio Times published...

It's fantastic!!!
October 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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colinmbrown.bsky.social
Administrators: are your faculty texting about cloud outages? Know the warning signs:

LMAO: Learning Management (systems) Are Out
LOL: Learning OffLine
ICYMI: In Canvas, You Missed It
NBD: No Blackboard, Dismissed
OMG: Oops, My Grading!
October 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
cjbill.bsky.social
Just been talking about 90 Belgian gabba to a colleague, funny old day!

Bonzai by Thunderball FWIW

youtu.be/05deyefkRak?...
Bonzai Records - Thunderball - Bonzai Channel One
YouTube video by Mascaramama
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October 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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hausofdecline.bsky.social
Releasing some Patreon comics over the next few days.
Lucy pulls the football away from Charlie Brown and he is sent flying into the air. He shouts "AAUGH!" Instead of falling, Charlie Brown continues flying into the sky. He says "ha ha yes, it is finally happening..." He continues upward "I am ascending to the realm of God to take my fated place at his right hand." He goes up even further "this the reward for my endless suffering! This is my reward!!!" Lucy looks on in disbelief.
August 26, 2023 at 4:35 PM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
From Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s Defence Committee:
Map showing Cambodia v Armenia battleground
September 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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thenakeddgardener.bsky.social
www.techdirt.com/2025/09/04/s...
Some Federal Judges Appear Done With SCOTUS’s Shadow Docket Bullshit
When federal judges with decades of experience start publicly mocking the Supreme Court’s lack of clarity, you know the system is broken. This week brought us two remarkable examples of lower…
www.techdirt.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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michaelstipe.bsky.social
I can
I can
August 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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denisedwheeler.bsky.social
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it.

ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.

Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.

(c/o Caroline Codsi)
August 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
My second novel, 1983, is now out in paperback. Roscoe and I have decided to give away signed copies to 4 randomly selected people who repost this and pop a reply below.

You might like it if you like:
The old, fun idea of The Future
D&D
Nottinghamshire
Robots
Imaginative children
Aliens
Mining
Miss Roscoe the cat - aka The CEO - posing with four paperbacks of my book 1983 and looking kind of pissed off after I told her a cat only appears very briefly in it
August 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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privateeyenews.bsky.social
North American Animals: How They Have Changed…

From the latest Private Eye, out now.
August 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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parsingphase.dev
Learning curves should not be something you can fall off.
August 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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elkmovie.bsky.social
I thought this sounded familiar and it turns out it literally just found an old George RR Martin quote and wrote a short story out of it:
George R.R. Martin > Quotes > Quotable Quote (?) George R.R. Martin “I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect.” ― George R.R. Martin
August 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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naomihofficial.bsky.social
Really badass graffiti spotted in town
July 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
Withholding judgement until Derek Guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social weighs in.
Chimps are sticking grass and sticks in their butts, seemingly as a fashion trend | CBC Radio
A group of chimpanzees in Zambia have resurrected an old fashion trend with a surprising new twist.
www.cbc.ca
July 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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vatniksoup.bsky.social
In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’m going to talk about… Vatnik Soup (www.vatniksoup.com)! As some of you know, we also have a website where you can find every soup ever published. The site also has other useful resources, making it the most comprehensive resource on Russian disinformation & vatniks.

1/15
July 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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henrymance.ft.com
Astonishing story. Huge questions over the company culture that allowed this. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
July 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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sharon43302.bsky.social
June 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM