Chris
@drchrisdillon.bsky.social
A thoroughly leftie, Guardian-reading chap, but of the champagne socialist variety.
Recovering Stellar Physicist. Fan of cardigans. Unrepentant Bibliomaniac. Moustache haver. He/Him.
Recovering Stellar Physicist. Fan of cardigans. Unrepentant Bibliomaniac. Moustache haver. He/Him.
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After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
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What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.
October 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.
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If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.
Every adult in Britain to require new ‘Brit Card’ ID
Every adult in Britain to require new ‘Brit Card’ ID
www.independent.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.
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Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
August 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
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Zelda snubs, lost gaming communities, and the great ‘is this even a video game?’ debate.
In this special correspondence episode, @simonparkin.bsky.social answers your questions on the state of educational games, surprising omissions from the Perfect Console, and more.
Listen here: bit.ly/45DHqop
In this special correspondence episode, @simonparkin.bsky.social answers your questions on the state of educational games, surprising omissions from the Perfect Console, and more.
Listen here: bit.ly/45DHqop
August 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Zelda snubs, lost gaming communities, and the great ‘is this even a video game?’ debate.
In this special correspondence episode, @simonparkin.bsky.social answers your questions on the state of educational games, surprising omissions from the Perfect Console, and more.
Listen here: bit.ly/45DHqop
In this special correspondence episode, @simonparkin.bsky.social answers your questions on the state of educational games, surprising omissions from the Perfect Console, and more.
Listen here: bit.ly/45DHqop
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Family of Southport stabbing victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspects
Family of Southport stabbing victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspects
Exclusive: Michael Weston King, grandfather of Bebe King, warns government against ‘kowtowing to the likes of Farage’
The family of Bebe King, one of the three girls killed in the Southport attack last year, have urged ministers to reconsider their support for disclosing the ethnicity of serious crime suspects, saying this information is “completely irrelevant” and that “the propensity to commit crime happens in any ethnicity, nationality or race”.
Bebe was six when she was murdered by 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana, a Welsh-born black Briton from a Christian family who had lived in the local area for a number of years. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Family of Southport stabbing victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspects
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Just a reminder that if you're working on the HBO Harry Potter show, or the audiobook, or making/buying licensed Harry Potter products, or covering *any* of the previously noted without mentioning JK Rowling's virulent and non-stop transphobia, this is what you're supporting:
The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.
August 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Just a reminder that if you're working on the HBO Harry Potter show, or the audiobook, or making/buying licensed Harry Potter products, or covering *any* of the previously noted without mentioning JK Rowling's virulent and non-stop transphobia, this is what you're supporting:
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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter:
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
June 27, 2024 at 2:17 PM
einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter:
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
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Maybe it’s because I’ve been holding a newborn for two weeks but it has occurred to me a lot that nihilism is not actually tenable long term - eventually someone will come along and try to rebuild a lot of things because that’s just what people do
feel like this goes beyond politics and into tech and maybe culture. there's a kind of future blindness it feels like. a focus on both tearing down structural things/institutions and replacing them with nothing. or building things that disrupt institutions/infrastructure w/ little thought to future
This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them
July 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Maybe it’s because I’ve been holding a newborn for two weeks but it has occurred to me a lot that nihilism is not actually tenable long term - eventually someone will come along and try to rebuild a lot of things because that’s just what people do
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Look, speaking as a physicist, it is hard for me to put into words how batshit crazy this is.
"I’ll go down this thread with GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,” said Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber.
gizmodo.com/billionaires...
gizmodo.com/billionaires...
July 16, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Look, speaking as a physicist, it is hard for me to put into words how batshit crazy this is.
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Guys, there’s no chance of the Irish becoming a minority in their own country. Do you know how many generations it would take for that to even be possible? If that’s something you’re worried about ahead of healthcare, housing, wealth inequality, climate change etc you might just be a racist
July 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Guys, there’s no chance of the Irish becoming a minority in their own country. Do you know how many generations it would take for that to even be possible? If that’s something you’re worried about ahead of healthcare, housing, wealth inequality, climate change etc you might just be a racist
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It's not even a "people are instinctively good" thing. I wish that were true, but people are... everything. But I do think selling kindness is more frictionless than selling hatred. It's just less useful for the kinds of people who might have the money to wage either kind of propaganda campaign.
April 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
It's not even a "people are instinctively good" thing. I wish that were true, but people are... everything. But I do think selling kindness is more frictionless than selling hatred. It's just less useful for the kinds of people who might have the money to wage either kind of propaganda campaign.
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Think about this a lot. My most hippy-dippy belief is this: constant, expensive, powerful right-wing hate campaigns do a lot of damage, but properly packaged decency sells quicker, and for a lot less, cf. my 77yo dad is solid on trans issues cos of a single sympathetic Corrie plotline from 20yrs ago
April 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Think about this a lot. My most hippy-dippy belief is this: constant, expensive, powerful right-wing hate campaigns do a lot of damage, but properly packaged decency sells quicker, and for a lot less, cf. my 77yo dad is solid on trans issues cos of a single sympathetic Corrie plotline from 20yrs ago
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3 months ago, I wrote this about centrist parties aping the far right, and how it's not just immoral, but suicidal. This is not secret knowledge. It's the most reliable effect in world politics. It's watching 40 guys getting killed by the same gorilla, one by one, and stepping up to take your turn.
May 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
3 months ago, I wrote this about centrist parties aping the far right, and how it's not just immoral, but suicidal. This is not secret knowledge. It's the most reliable effect in world politics. It's watching 40 guys getting killed by the same gorilla, one by one, and stepping up to take your turn.
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No matter what you do, the far right will always want the next cruelty, and their torch-bearers in the press will attack you for not delivering it. All while priming voters to conceive of far right concerns as newly moderate.
Again, this has happened in every single place this has ever been tried.
Again, this has happened in every single place this has ever been tried.
May 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
No matter what you do, the far right will always want the next cruelty, and their torch-bearers in the press will attack you for not delivering it. All while priming voters to conceive of far right concerns as newly moderate.
Again, this has happened in every single place this has ever been tried.
Again, this has happened in every single place this has ever been tried.
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Every interview with Yvette Cooper
May 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Every interview with Yvette Cooper
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Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.
The entire administration is going to be staffed by Fox News hosts
May 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.
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the gordon brown 'bigotted woman' incident broke the brains of labour centrists so completely that 15 years later she is literally the only voter they can conceive of trying to appeal to
April 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
the gordon brown 'bigotted woman' incident broke the brains of labour centrists so completely that 15 years later she is literally the only voter they can conceive of trying to appeal to
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SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
April 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
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No trans people were consulted on this decision that only affects trans people. In fact trans people were actively barred from consulting on this decision that only affects trans people. But transphobic bigots? Oh they got consulted for days.
Fucking grim. I'm absolutely fuming.
Fucking grim. I'm absolutely fuming.
The UK Supreme Court has unanimously decided that the definition of sex under the Equality Act 2010 refers solely to biological sex, and does not include people with a Gender Recognition Certificate.
April 16, 2025 at 9:08 AM
No trans people were consulted on this decision that only affects trans people. In fact trans people were actively barred from consulting on this decision that only affects trans people. But transphobic bigots? Oh they got consulted for days.
Fucking grim. I'm absolutely fuming.
Fucking grim. I'm absolutely fuming.