Graysonscolumn
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
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A first post, and a chance of a fresh start on a still largely untainted social networking service. Pleasure to be here.
Unless you're also in the middle of the rather busy Venn Diagram of interests suggested by my profile, you won't like all of my posts, but you likely won't hate them all either.
Unless you're also in the middle of the rather busy Venn Diagram of interests suggested by my profile, you won't like all of my posts, but you likely won't hate them all either.
November 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
31/10/1517, later on. Henning Luther, halfwit brother of Martin and prone to misinterpreting things, nailed his 95 faeces to the door of All Saints Church, thus inadvertently inventing scatological humour.
October 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM
31/10/1517, later on. Henning Luther, halfwit brother of Martin and prone to misinterpreting things, nailed his 95 faeces to the door of All Saints Church, thus inadvertently inventing scatological humour.
31/10/1517. Martin Luther, professor of theology at the University of Wittenberg, nailed his 95 theses to the door of All Saints Church, thus starting the Protestant Reformation.
He published via the green OA route, with no publisher embargo applied. Metadata wasn't REF or RIOXX compliant, mind.
He published via the green OA route, with no publisher embargo applied. Metadata wasn't REF or RIOXX compliant, mind.
October 31, 2025 at 12:56 PM
31/10/1517. Martin Luther, professor of theology at the University of Wittenberg, nailed his 95 theses to the door of All Saints Church, thus starting the Protestant Reformation.
He published via the green OA route, with no publisher embargo applied. Metadata wasn't REF or RIOXX compliant, mind.
He published via the green OA route, with no publisher embargo applied. Metadata wasn't REF or RIOXX compliant, mind.
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President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo: What a real President does. 🙌
July 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo: What a real President does. 🙌
"A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window (Taylor's Version)"
now that taylor swift now owns all her records, she should start taylor's versioning other albums that arent hers
June 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window (Taylor's Version)"
June 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Last week, I was one of a small number of Sheffield librarians to deliver a morning of online info sharing presentations with our friends at National Technical University of Ukraine. Since which, staff there tell us their immediate vicinity's been subject to constant, heavy shelling. Heartbreaking.
🇺🇦Since the start of the full-scale invasion, 4,063 Ukrainian educational institutions have been damaged, 387 completely destroyed.
May 31, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Last week, I was one of a small number of Sheffield librarians to deliver a morning of online info sharing presentations with our friends at National Technical University of Ukraine. Since which, staff there tell us their immediate vicinity's been subject to constant, heavy shelling. Heartbreaking.
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Traditional breadmaking in Uzbekistan
May 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Traditional breadmaking in Uzbekistan
I didn't get to Cheltenham last Friday, but the running of the memorial race for the late Jonathan Neesom evoked some memories of him, both direct and indirect. I share them here, along with praise for a couple of the evening's winners.
thatracingblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
thatracingblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
May 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I didn't get to Cheltenham last Friday, but the running of the memorial race for the late Jonathan Neesom evoked some memories of him, both direct and indirect. I share them here, along with praise for a couple of the evening's winners.
thatracingblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
thatracingblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
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I know of three snooker equipment shops in Sheffield that Ronnie had a choice of visiting last night.
I understand two of them now have a poster in the window saying it wasn't them.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooke...
I understand two of them now have a poster in the window saying it wasn't them.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooke...
May 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I know of three snooker equipment shops in Sheffield that Ronnie had a choice of visiting last night.
I understand two of them now have a poster in the window saying it wasn't them.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooke...
I understand two of them now have a poster in the window saying it wasn't them.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooke...
My Easter weekend trip to Kimble, a first return for six years to what's now the oldest surviving British pointing line in active use:
thatracingblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/with...
thatracingblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/with...
That Racing Blog: WITH BLUESCAPE, CHUBB IS KIMBLE'S KING OF THE CASTLE
thatracingblog.blogspot.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
My Easter weekend trip to Kimble, a first return for six years to what's now the oldest surviving British pointing line in active use:
thatracingblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/with...
thatracingblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/with...
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This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
mississippitoday.org
April 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
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Bluesky takes the throne as the go-to platform for researchers. Academics are abandoning Elon Musk’s Twitter in droves, flocking to Bluesky to share their work and build real networks, as data confirms the exodus. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/xs-domi...
X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Bluesky takes the throne as the go-to platform for researchers. Academics are abandoning Elon Musk’s Twitter in droves, flocking to Bluesky to share their work and build real networks, as data confirms the exodus. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/xs-domi...
I don't know how many commentaries John Hunt will have delivered in his career.
None will have required the bravery of today's impact statement in court to deliver.
None will have mattered as much.
Articulate. Angry. Beautiful. Dignified. Powerful. Unbowed.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
None will have required the bravery of today's impact statement in court to deliver.
None will have mattered as much.
Articulate. Angry. Beautiful. Dignified. Powerful. Unbowed.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kyle Clifford jailed: John Hunt's victim impact statement in full
The racing commentator directs his victim statement to the man who murdered his wife and two daughters.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I don't know how many commentaries John Hunt will have delivered in his career.
None will have required the bravery of today's impact statement in court to deliver.
None will have mattered as much.
Articulate. Angry. Beautiful. Dignified. Powerful. Unbowed.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
None will have required the bravery of today's impact statement in court to deliver.
None will have mattered as much.
Articulate. Angry. Beautiful. Dignified. Powerful. Unbowed.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More writtings, this time on last Sunday's Duncombe Park ptp:
thatracingblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/for-...
thatracingblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/for-...
FOR THE LOVE OF HELMSLEY, COME POINTING
Helmsley races, or the Sinnington point-to-point (whatever your preference) at Duncombe Park, Sunday, February 16th. Two days after Valenti...
thatracingblog.blogspot.com
February 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
More writtings, this time on last Sunday's Duncombe Park ptp:
thatracingblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/for-...
thatracingblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/for-...
For which, see also people of colour, people of specific faiths, the neurodiverse, and and and.
February 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
For which, see also people of colour, people of specific faiths, the neurodiverse, and and and.
Well. Hadn't updated my racing blog for over eight years, much less remembered it still existed, then all of a sudden was moved to knock up almost a thousand words for it last night.
TL:DR - I dids a writings about the horses, with all words and that.
thatracingblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
TL:DR - I dids a writings about the horses, with all words and that.
thatracingblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
That Racing Blog: THE PERFECT START TO SUMMERVILLE'S AUTUMN YEARS
thatracingblog.blogspot.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Well. Hadn't updated my racing blog for over eight years, much less remembered it still existed, then all of a sudden was moved to knock up almost a thousand words for it last night.
TL:DR - I dids a writings about the horses, with all words and that.
thatracingblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
TL:DR - I dids a writings about the horses, with all words and that.
thatracingblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
I understand that it's THIRTY FIVE YEARS to the very day since this defining statement in turn-of-the-80s-to-90s jangly pop was released. Goodness. As taken from the EP The Autumn Store, which came out many weeks after autumn had finished.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8ba...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8ba...
THE FIELD MICE - If You Need Someone
YouTube video by Noise Records
www.youtube.com
January 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I understand that it's THIRTY FIVE YEARS to the very day since this defining statement in turn-of-the-80s-to-90s jangly pop was released. Goodness. As taken from the EP The Autumn Store, which came out many weeks after autumn had finished.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8ba...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8ba...
Stevie Jackson with the assist there.
January 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Stevie Jackson with the assist there.
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was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch
January 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch
The wisdom of eschewing a weight-carrying assignment over Xmas with Ahoy Senor, one which could have informed his prospects doing similar in the National, seems all the more misplaced after today's struggles around a too-sharp 2m6f. Please God these reverses don't sour him.
January 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The wisdom of eschewing a weight-carrying assignment over Xmas with Ahoy Senor, one which could have informed his prospects doing similar in the National, seems all the more misplaced after today's struggles around a too-sharp 2m6f. Please God these reverses don't sour him.
Kitty's Light had already dropped to within 3lb of his Eider-winning mark before today, and we all know what happened after that. Always the risk these 33 chase starts over five seasons might catch him up eventually, though. The next three months will tell us everything.
January 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Kitty's Light had already dropped to within 3lb of his Eider-winning mark before today, and we all know what happened after that. Always the risk these 33 chase starts over five seasons might catch him up eventually, though. The next three months will tell us everything.
Not sure which artificial surface they use at Turfway Park, nor whether the demonstrably freezing conditions have a bearing, but they're walking over the line tonight there as if having completed three miles, not a maximum of one. It could make one nostalgic for the days of Fibresand yet.
January 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Not sure which artificial surface they use at Turfway Park, nor whether the demonstrably freezing conditions have a bearing, but they're walking over the line tonight there as if having completed three miles, not a maximum of one. It could make one nostalgic for the days of Fibresand yet.