Bart Crisp
@crispybart.bsky.social
Aspiring Renaissance dude, special interests include education, politics, history, heavy metal, tabletop roleplaying, being a massive nerd in general, and a bit of rugby here and there. Views entirely my own* (subject to conditions)
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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York's Clifford’s Tower is to be given a new setting. York Council approved plans for a £10 million redevelopment of the surrounding area, replacing the Castle car park with green parkland, walkways and "spaces for reflection." The mound beneath the tower was the site of the 1190
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
York's Clifford’s Tower is to be given a new setting. York Council approved plans for a £10 million redevelopment of the surrounding area, replacing the Castle car park with green parkland, walkways and "spaces for reflection." The mound beneath the tower was the site of the 1190
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Part of the Problem is that people want a whistleblower martyr but when the Inevitable Fate of Whistleblowers hits that person like a freight train at full speed it becomes a lot more Common to blame nebulous hitmen than "Wow, fucking sucks trying to rebuild your life in your 30/40s huh"
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Part of the Problem is that people want a whistleblower martyr but when the Inevitable Fate of Whistleblowers hits that person like a freight train at full speed it becomes a lot more Common to blame nebulous hitmen than "Wow, fucking sucks trying to rebuild your life in your 30/40s huh"
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Bring back reading comprehension
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Bring back reading comprehension
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Seeing so many posts about who “Starmer and Nandy” will appoint as director general. Easy mistake but the government does not appoint the director general! The BBC board, whose members are appointed for rolling terms by the culture secretary, appoints the director general.
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Seeing so many posts about who “Starmer and Nandy” will appoint as director general. Easy mistake but the government does not appoint the director general! The BBC board, whose members are appointed for rolling terms by the culture secretary, appoints the director general.
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
Kind of incredible that Tim Davie found the one way to resign that makes me annoyed he's resigned, given how crap I think his tenure has been
November 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Kind of incredible that Tim Davie found the one way to resign that makes me annoyed he's resigned, given how crap I think his tenure has been
I've rarely been more fortunate than I was to get to work closely with Steve Higgins and Rob Coe early in my career, and am very glad to be able to count both as professional friends. Incredibly thoughtful, kind, hard working and generous people
Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight?
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
November 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I've rarely been more fortunate than I was to get to work closely with Steve Higgins and Rob Coe early in my career, and am very glad to be able to count both as professional friends. Incredibly thoughtful, kind, hard working and generous people
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We have eaten
The pants
That were in
Your garden
The pants
That were in
Your garden
Jesus fucken Christ. I ordered some undercrackers, lads. Nothing came. No despatch email, no delivery confirmation, nothing.
So today I check tracking online. Evri "delivered" them to my side garden (just chucked randomly).
AND THEN THE FOXES
THE FOXES
(breathe)
ATE
MY
FUCKEN
PANTS
So today I check tracking online. Evri "delivered" them to my side garden (just chucked randomly).
AND THEN THE FOXES
THE FOXES
(breathe)
ATE
MY
FUCKEN
PANTS
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
We have eaten
The pants
That were in
Your garden
The pants
That were in
Your garden
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The entire project here is so cynical. "We have to end foreign aid until we fix unemployment and bad schools!"
ok are you working to fix those problems?
"No."
ok are you working to fix those problems?
"No."
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The entire project here is so cynical. "We have to end foreign aid until we fix unemployment and bad schools!"
ok are you working to fix those problems?
"No."
ok are you working to fix those problems?
"No."
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The BBC should have values more similar to my own not because my values are good or correct but because lefty lib people like me are huge idiots who love the concept of the bbc and alienating us leave it with no defenders
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The BBC should have values more similar to my own not because my values are good or correct but because lefty lib people like me are huge idiots who love the concept of the bbc and alienating us leave it with no defenders
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You get a #Necromunda gang.
Oz gets help with his vet bills.
Everyone feels better.
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9 humans and 2 cyber-mastiffs
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Oz will get the money, not me.
DM me if you have any questions.
#Nerdlings
#Necromunda
1500 credit Orlock gang.
9 humans and 2 cyber-mastiffs
(Scenery not included)
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/39722454...
Starting at £50.
Oz will get the money, not me.
DM me if you have any questions.
#Nerdlings
#Necromunda
November 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
A little over 48 hours left to bid.
Help me help a dog!
You get a #Necromunda gang.
Oz gets help with his vet bills.
Everyone feels better.
Help me help a dog!
You get a #Necromunda gang.
Oz gets help with his vet bills.
Everyone feels better.
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This is a manifestation of one way that social media is corrosive of liberalism is that it directly attacks a really important part of liberalism, which is going “that seems like a mistake, but crucially, it’s not my mistake”.
there's an entire sub culture of middle age men who are so impervious to other views that at no point have they ever read any of the many comments pointing out that an obsessive interest in student politics is deeply fucking creepy? anyway, this is worse.
The hatred the youth parliament gets is just so out of proportion. Can these people hear themselves. It’s creepy.
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This is a manifestation of one way that social media is corrosive of liberalism is that it directly attacks a really important part of liberalism, which is going “that seems like a mistake, but crucially, it’s not my mistake”.
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Still legit find it funny though that, in effect, the thing that prevented a serious fire was their cat going:
"Well. This place is burning down. Guess i'll move next door."
"Well. This place is burning down. Guess i'll move next door."
November 7, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Still legit find it funny though that, in effect, the thing that prevented a serious fire was their cat going:
"Well. This place is burning down. Guess i'll move next door."
"Well. This place is burning down. Guess i'll move next door."
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I say this as someone who only just realised this, but I think those of us who spend large portions of our leisure time following/commenting/joking about politics underestimate the big ways that politicians are not more successful versions of ourselves but actually a very different type of person
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I say this as someone who only just realised this, but I think those of us who spend large portions of our leisure time following/commenting/joking about politics underestimate the big ways that politicians are not more successful versions of ourselves but actually a very different type of person
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You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
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Update on that super-professional candidate vetting process Nigel Farage used to boast about:
Nigel Farage's favoured Mayoral candidate for Doncaster said black people cannot be English.
Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’.
The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’.
The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
Nigel Farage's Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English
The party's candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon 'lineage' and attacked 'third world cultures' in now-deleted posts
bylinetimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Update on that super-professional candidate vetting process Nigel Farage used to boast about:
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left-winger wins: BUT WILL HE DELIVER
right-winger wins: WHY ARE THE LEFT SO OUT OF TOUCH
right-winger wins: WHY ARE THE LEFT SO OUT OF TOUCH
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
left-winger wins: BUT WILL HE DELIVER
right-winger wins: WHY ARE THE LEFT SO OUT OF TOUCH
right-winger wins: WHY ARE THE LEFT SO OUT OF TOUCH
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A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
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Dems just won everything remotely winnable. But I expect the British derp on “we must understand Donald Trump’s popularity and/or imitate Trump” to continue. He’s popular when opposing. He’s deeply unpopular when required to run anything. There’s your lesson.
This is insane. Is there *any* race that was expected to be at all close that the GOP won?
What we know, final edition of the night:
[Now in 3 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
[Now in 3 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
November 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Dems just won everything remotely winnable. But I expect the British derp on “we must understand Donald Trump’s popularity and/or imitate Trump” to continue. He’s popular when opposing. He’s deeply unpopular when required to run anything. There’s your lesson.
Feels like there's a major infection point happening in writing teaching in England. I'm currently at an amazing event in Worcestershire and the emerging theme is that teachers are a) desperate for all the support they can get and b) cracking on and trying things out themselves
November 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Feels like there's a major infection point happening in writing teaching in England. I'm currently at an amazing event in Worcestershire and the emerging theme is that teachers are a) desperate for all the support they can get and b) cracking on and trying things out themselves
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“The sad truth is that reader interest in African stories is very low; whereas in Israel and Gaza it is high. Data analysis allows media outlets to count these views and clicks very carefully — and take them into account when deciding whether to commission expensive foreign assignments.”
This is a really good piece from @joshglancy.bsky.social. Far from “whataboutery“, it’s a genuine attempt to to wrestle with a disturbing and peculiar feature of contemporary politics, namely “why is the world quite so obsessed with Israel and Palestine?” www.jewishnews.co.uk/the-world-wa...
The world was outraged by Gaza. So why doesn’t it care about Sudan? - Jewish News
Sudan’s horror is plain to see. The hypocrisy and indifference is harder to watch
www.jewishnews.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“The sad truth is that reader interest in African stories is very low; whereas in Israel and Gaza it is high. Data analysis allows media outlets to count these views and clicks very carefully — and take them into account when deciding whether to commission expensive foreign assignments.”
Reminded of that Russian concept of bullshit that everyone knows is bullshit but still feels obliged to pretend is not. I've spoken to window washers who've known that the revenue/expenditure picture doesn't work for months. Maybe we can pretend to respect ordinary people's intelligence for once?
Raise income tax and Reeves must resign | ✍️ Daniel Finkelstein
Like Jim Callaghan in 1967, this chancellor will have to pay the political price for going back on her oft-repeated pledge
Like Jim Callaghan in 1967, this chancellor will have to pay the political price for going back on her oft-repeated pledge
Raise income tax and Reeves must resign
www.thetimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Reminded of that Russian concept of bullshit that everyone knows is bullshit but still feels obliged to pretend is not. I've spoken to window washers who've known that the revenue/expenditure picture doesn't work for months. Maybe we can pretend to respect ordinary people's intelligence for once?
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It is also worth saying that everyone who mocks some supposedly fake discipline like “gender studies“ or “Africana studies“ is also really excited about degree programs in things like “AI prompt engineering.”
Nothing wrong with a “fake” discipline if it flatters your world view and bank account!
Nothing wrong with a “fake” discipline if it flatters your world view and bank account!
It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today)
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
November 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It is also worth saying that everyone who mocks some supposedly fake discipline like “gender studies“ or “Africana studies“ is also really excited about degree programs in things like “AI prompt engineering.”
Nothing wrong with a “fake” discipline if it flatters your world view and bank account!
Nothing wrong with a “fake” discipline if it flatters your world view and bank account!