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#trysil #ski 1st day with some snow and only 1 lift working. What a joke.
December 30, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Someone can be you @amanda.swifties.social
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amanda.swifties.social Amanda Nemo ✨ @amanda.swifties.social · 17d
Someone clip the audio of Taylor saying “You’re such a pop star, Amanda.” so I can put it on my phone.
December 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
There's always an XKCD

xkcd.com/1053/
drewtoothpaste.bsky.social drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 21d
when someone hasn't heard, or heard of music you like, your reaction should be "this is a fantastic day for you, this is the day you get to hear this for the first time." the first time hearing new music you love is the best part of listening to music. how lucky you are to share this with someone
December 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Bad News: I dropped my 12 year old kindle one too many times and it broke.

Good News: the physical TBR pile had this thing of beauty waiting to be picked up:

#books #reading
The book of dust by Phillip Pullman, volume 3: The Rose Field
December 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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barristersecret.bsky.social
NEW BLOGPOST

Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?

thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...
Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?
Today, the government has confirmed that it intends to remove the right to trial by jury in the vast majority of cases in the Crown Courts. Serious criminal allegations, carrying up to three years …
thesecretbarrister.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I was confused by @sexomarxist.bsky.social argument until he posted this image. Now I understand he is just an idiot who doesn't understand that he is a fascist. It doesn't seem to be a conscious choice, it's seems to be the result of him being mentally retarded, like so stupid he likes trump.
November 2, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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druidcat.bsky.social
From Private Eye 😂
October 31, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
@ursulakleguin.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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danneidle.bsky.social
I'm on a panel 6pm, Thursday 23 October with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, discussing taking on Britain's fiercest libel law firm...
October 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
@rubycentral.org any explanation for the hostile takeover of ruby-gems? As a ruby dev this makes me fear for the ecosystem around Ruby. You seem to be alienating a lot of the devs with this behaviour. I would like to hear you reasons because at present this appears to be a hostile manoeuvre
September 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
My to be read pile is getting too big, 2nd hand book stores @scalzi.com and #booksky have a lot to answer for.
A picture of my to read pile: Cyberpunk volumes 1 &2, this city and it's uncertain walls, the art of Kenny who, it's lonely at the centre of the world, civil war, a stroke of the pen, stiff upper lip Jeeves, barbarian days, Dr no, drugs without the hot air, the left hand of darkness, a life without footnotes, dead set, the caves of steel, nova express, foundation series, the ring world throne, the more in gods eye, the forge of god, the complete to it by asimov and mercury
September 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
@danneidle.bsky.social
www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/barrist...

Another first. You seem to be racking these up. 👏👏👏
Barrister named in tax avoidance first
Former solicitor designed four schemes which HMRC says 'do not work'.
www.lawgazette.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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honorlaoiss.bsky.social
Nasties on Sunday thugging First Aussie women.
This charge was planned and coordinated.
There should be a number of criminal charges.

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September 2, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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gailmyerscough.co.uk
If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business.

It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI.

Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk
A selection of illustrations and commissions including an album cover design of a vintage radio, a book cover design with an illustration of George Harrison, architecture illustrations, a Listening Party turntable design, a music pattern design and a photo of me wearing glasses.
September 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Sunday evening baking with my daughter to see who makes the best cinnamon plaits.

As with all cinnamon based baked goods, there is no loser.
August 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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garethw1.bsky.social
August 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
“Iran’s predicament is a cautionary tale about what happens when loyalty to a ruling ideology—rather than capability—determines who runs a society, and when conspiracies, rather than reality, shape decision making.”
Yair Rosenberg
June 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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trackerdoug.bsky.social
ESSAY: A bad parade is a good sign
I am a veteran. I learned how to march, stand at attention, salute, and how to recognize and address superiors. But serving was never about pomp and circumstance. Serving was about duty, readiness, and a devotion to the image of the military. Not parades.
ESSAY: A bad parade is a good sign
A society can either invent things like jazz and kimchi tacos or stage awe-inspiring lockstep parades. It cannot do both
the.ink
June 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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pfbvan.bsky.social
Big Peter Watts morning over here. In place of a new SUNFLOWER story, this long interview. PW tied with M John Harrison in my personal "peerless SF stylist" pantheon; his BLINDSIGHT and ECHOPRAXIA two of the toughest, densest SF novels I know.

archive.ph/sxDhF#select...
June 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
The importance of ther tear gas defuser
June 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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gabrielmj1.bsky.social
This photograph shows us the other side of the Moon, which we usually do not see. It was captured by the Chinese Chang'e 5-T1 spacecraft.
June 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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scalzi.com
I see some discourse about ditching the former Twitter, and so I'll remind folks that the best reason to there is that it's a fucking Nazi bar and we all deserve better. I'm on social media to enjoy conversation with cool folks. Bluesky does a bang-up job of that. The former Twitter doesn't.
June 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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cst.cam.ac.uk
From today, @theguardian.com's new Secure Messaging system will generate dummy messages as 'air cover' for real messages sent by whistleblowers. This is to stop adversaries seeing that they're contacting journalists. The new system builds on security research carried out here: shorturl.at/Et0Rf
The Guardian's new Secure Messaging service for whistleblowers wanting to contact journalists was developed in collaboration with security reseachers at Cambridge University.
June 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM