Simon Lucy
@lusaimon.com
A left-angled trapezoid on the graph of political philosophies, apply me no labels.
Other descriptions might include an Architect at Large, occasionally writing complete fiction but mostly working on zettel.io
See also simon_lucy@mastodon.social
Other descriptions might include an Architect at Large, occasionally writing complete fiction but mostly working on zettel.io
See also simon_lucy@mastodon.social
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Simon Lucy
@lusaimon.com
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Time to repeat.
It is abundantly clear that we would have the greatest benefit in rights, market access, regulatory participation as well as influence for progress and change by being a full member of the EU.
It is abundantly clear that we would have the greatest benefit in rights, market access, regulatory participation as well as influence for progress and change by being a full member of the EU.
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Very sad to hear Martin Parr has died. I felt honoured to welcome him into my home just a couple of months ago. A great artist and a true gent.
December 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Very sad to hear Martin Parr has died. I felt honoured to welcome him into my home just a couple of months ago. A great artist and a true gent.
As Avanti West have cancelled 3 trains we're on a train with 3x the number of passengers.
December 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
As Avanti West have cancelled 3 trains we're on a train with 3x the number of passengers.
Without details, an accident involving cars is national news.
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
Heathrow responds to 'incident with emergency services' in Terminal 3 - follow live - BBC News
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
Heathrow responds to 'incident with emergency services' in Terminal 3 - follow live - BBC News
Heathrow responds to 'incident with emergency services' in Terminal 3 - follow live
The airport says its team is responding to an incident in a multi-storey car park in Terminal 3.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Without details, an accident involving cars is national news.
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
Heathrow responds to 'incident with emergency services' in Terminal 3 - follow live - BBC News
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
Heathrow responds to 'incident with emergency services' in Terminal 3 - follow live - BBC News
In my lowly form of cricket I found a method to encourage a chance for caught and bowled.
Gripping the ball across the seam rather than along the seam and bowling with a lot of back spin and placing it on a good length so that with a conventional forward defensive or even drive, the ball pops up.
Gripping the ball across the seam rather than along the seam and bowling with a lot of back spin and placing it on a good length so that with a conventional forward defensive or even drive, the ball pops up.
December 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
In my lowly form of cricket I found a method to encourage a chance for caught and bowled.
Gripping the ball across the seam rather than along the seam and bowling with a lot of back spin and placing it on a good length so that with a conventional forward defensive or even drive, the ball pops up.
Gripping the ball across the seam rather than along the seam and bowling with a lot of back spin and placing it on a good length so that with a conventional forward defensive or even drive, the ball pops up.
Reposted by Simon Lucy
We released this track last year to raise money for Refuge UK. Domestic violence cases always rise at this time of year so if anyone wants to buy a bit of Sabbath-meets-Stevie Nicks filth to help this great charity, today is a good day to do it.
kamien.bandcamp.com/track/p-i-g
kamien.bandcamp.com/track/p-i-g
December 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
We released this track last year to raise money for Refuge UK. Domestic violence cases always rise at this time of year so if anyone wants to buy a bit of Sabbath-meets-Stevie Nicks filth to help this great charity, today is a good day to do it.
kamien.bandcamp.com/track/p-i-g
kamien.bandcamp.com/track/p-i-g
The steward on this Avanti West train is doing his Audition Reel...
To the pleasure of many.
To the pleasure of many.
December 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The steward on this Avanti West train is doing his Audition Reel...
To the pleasure of many.
To the pleasure of many.
I presume it's still much the same but when in Distribution at the BBC, delivery of content went through two services Akamai and Limelight. The proportion of content could be moved between the two.
Smaller orgs can't do that, but Cloudflare could do it for them as part of the contract.
Smaller orgs can't do that, but Cloudflare could do it for them as part of the contract.
December 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I presume it's still much the same but when in Distribution at the BBC, delivery of content went through two services Akamai and Limelight. The proportion of content could be moved between the two.
Smaller orgs can't do that, but Cloudflare could do it for them as part of the contract.
Smaller orgs can't do that, but Cloudflare could do it for them as part of the contract.
Once a pied wagtail visits you have them for life. But they never bring their wife or husband.
December 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Once a pied wagtail visits you have them for life. But they never bring their wife or husband.
I see the Question Time audience which is claimed to be broad in opinion is so far narrow with a narrow minded host.
December 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I see the Question Time audience which is claimed to be broad in opinion is so far narrow with a narrow minded host.
In a normal White House Hegseth would be gone by Sunday, but in this White House the heat will have to intensify on Trump and then Hegseth will be thrown to the wolves.
But he'll still be gone.
But he'll still be gone.
December 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
In a normal White House Hegseth would be gone by Sunday, but in this White House the heat will have to intensify on Trump and then Hegseth will be thrown to the wolves.
But he'll still be gone.
But he'll still be gone.
Reposted by Simon Lucy
I know it can be a bit cringey to put your children on social media but I've decided to change my banner and include my seven youngest in it. They've had a fucking rough year, and it was touch and go for a while back the start, and I'm proud they've made it through it.
December 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I know it can be a bit cringey to put your children on social media but I've decided to change my banner and include my seven youngest in it. They've had a fucking rough year, and it was touch and go for a while back the start, and I'm proud they've made it through it.
Amongst other long lived civilisations, the Egyptians, when appropriate, wiped out the laws and mention of a Pharaoh who were found to transgress against state and people that they had sworn to protect.
The same could be done when the pathetic reign of Trump is over.
The same could be done when the pathetic reign of Trump is over.
December 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Amongst other long lived civilisations, the Egyptians, when appropriate, wiped out the laws and mention of a Pharaoh who were found to transgress against state and people that they had sworn to protect.
The same could be done when the pathetic reign of Trump is over.
The same could be done when the pathetic reign of Trump is over.
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
Now if they'd surrounded him with a football pitch all would be well.
BBC News - Italian town freezes Pavarotti statue knee-deep in Christmas ice rink, angering widow
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Italian town freezes Pavarotti statue knee-deep in Christmas ice rink, angering widow
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Italian town freezes Pavarotti statue knee-deep in Christmas ice rink, angering widow
The opera legend's widow said the town had made an "absurd decision" after it also encouraged skaters to high five the statue.
www.bbc.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Now if they'd surrounded him with a football pitch all would be well.
BBC News - Italian town freezes Pavarotti statue knee-deep in Christmas ice rink, angering widow
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Italian town freezes Pavarotti statue knee-deep in Christmas ice rink, angering widow
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Well that was horrible. I now have a One Login and it's verified, but there's only one service that uses it, there's only one document that the mobile app stores and the service verification fails for the one Service.
If anyone from the development team saddled with this wants to talk...
If anyone from the development team saddled with this wants to talk...
Though this also reminds me I have to do the change to the unified thing for HMRC and Companies House.
December 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Well that was horrible. I now have a One Login and it's verified, but there's only one service that uses it, there's only one document that the mobile app stores and the service verification fails for the one Service.
If anyone from the development team saddled with this wants to talk...
If anyone from the development team saddled with this wants to talk...
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The lovely @johnfinnemore.bsky.social (and he won’t mind me saying that as he’s not REALLY on here) has got some pallets of this diamond (by which I mean excellent and harder than rock) puzzle back from the Unbound catastrafuck. He got zero from them for reasons. buy this and he gets deserved cash!
The Researcher's First Murder
A new Cain's Jawbone puzzle by John Finnemore.
johnfinnemoreshop.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The lovely @johnfinnemore.bsky.social (and he won’t mind me saying that as he’s not REALLY on here) has got some pallets of this diamond (by which I mean excellent and harder than rock) puzzle back from the Unbound catastrafuck. He got zero from them for reasons. buy this and he gets deserved cash!
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Like everyone else caught up in the Unbound “drama”, John Finnemore is working out what to do with a book that was terminated with incompetent prejudice by people who vanished.
If you would like a lovely Xmas gift, he’s opened a shop, announced in this post here!
open.substack.com/pub/johnfinn...
If you would like a lovely Xmas gift, he’s opened a shop, announced in this post here!
open.substack.com/pub/johnfinn...
The Unbearable Torment of Bear Bear Bear
Concerning an unexpected window, an unchristmassy fuhrer, an unlucky publisher, and an unaware bear.
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Like everyone else caught up in the Unbound “drama”, John Finnemore is working out what to do with a book that was terminated with incompetent prejudice by people who vanished.
If you would like a lovely Xmas gift, he’s opened a shop, announced in this post here!
open.substack.com/pub/johnfinn...
If you would like a lovely Xmas gift, he’s opened a shop, announced in this post here!
open.substack.com/pub/johnfinn...
Ah, the OBR web site is on WordPress, so no wonder.
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Ah, the OBR web site is on WordPress, so no wonder.
I vote for using beslutte as the usage for a political decision in English.
Trump har besluttet sig for ny Fed-chef Læs mere👇 #dkbiz
Trump har besluttet sig for ny Fed-chef
- Jeg ved, hvem jeg vil vælge, ja, sagde Trump til journalister om bord på Air Force One på vej tilbage til Washington. Hvem det er, løftede han dog ikke sløret for. - Vi vil annoncere det, lød det fr...
finans.dk
December 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I vote for using beslutte as the usage for a political decision in English.
Quantum Mechanics are Zeno's Paradoxes for the Modern Age.
And Parmenides is laughing up his sleeve.
And Parmenides is laughing up his sleeve.
December 1, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Quantum Mechanics are Zeno's Paradoxes for the Modern Age.
And Parmenides is laughing up his sleeve.
And Parmenides is laughing up his sleeve.
Last night in exultant bad behaviour which included peeing in the box of Christmas wrapping paraphernalia, the Daughter's cat who is residing with us dropped a large gold fish/carp (5" from nose to tail) on the bedroom carpet.
Thankfully J found it and we got it into a bucket of water.
#Fish
Thankfully J found it and we got it into a bucket of water.
#Fish
December 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Last night in exultant bad behaviour which included peeing in the box of Christmas wrapping paraphernalia, the Daughter's cat who is residing with us dropped a large gold fish/carp (5" from nose to tail) on the bedroom carpet.
Thankfully J found it and we got it into a bucket of water.
#Fish
Thankfully J found it and we got it into a bucket of water.
#Fish
Surprise gift from J, from the Charity Emporium that has largely replaced the Co-op.
The Cricketer's Weekend Book by Eric Parker along with evidence of a Murder.
The Cricketer's Weekend Book by Eric Parker along with evidence of a Murder.
November 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Surprise gift from J, from the Charity Emporium that has largely replaced the Co-op.
The Cricketer's Weekend Book by Eric Parker along with evidence of a Murder.
The Cricketer's Weekend Book by Eric Parker along with evidence of a Murder.
Measures like turning all roads into toll roads for electric cars tend to get a battering in the Finance Debates and I wouldn't be surprised that they turned into a single averaged licence.
That's for all the rural reasons and the explicit unfairness of relative battery size, the lack of charging
That's for all the rural reasons and the explicit unfairness of relative battery size, the lack of charging
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Measures like turning all roads into toll roads for electric cars tend to get a battering in the Finance Debates and I wouldn't be surprised that they turned into a single averaged licence.
That's for all the rural reasons and the explicit unfairness of relative battery size, the lack of charging
That's for all the rural reasons and the explicit unfairness of relative battery size, the lack of charging
The fall in migration isn't really migration but a large part of the Labour force and that is why the OBR tags it as a loss of GPR, actually a loss of growth, a shrinkage in the Economy.
That Labour force is mostly EU citizens going back to the Freedom of Movement of the EU.
£7B a year.
That Labour force is mostly EU citizens going back to the Freedom of Movement of the EU.
£7B a year.
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The fall in migration isn't really migration but a large part of the Labour force and that is why the OBR tags it as a loss of GPR, actually a loss of growth, a shrinkage in the Economy.
That Labour force is mostly EU citizens going back to the Freedom of Movement of the EU.
£7B a year.
That Labour force is mostly EU citizens going back to the Freedom of Movement of the EU.
£7B a year.
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For #LancashireDay, a view along the Billinge-Parbold ridge, looking north from Billinge towards Upholland and beyond. It is a gentle, accessible haven from the nearby towns, and one of my favourite spots in my home county. Three cheers for it. #Lancashire
November 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
For #LancashireDay, a view along the Billinge-Parbold ridge, looking north from Billinge towards Upholland and beyond. It is a gentle, accessible haven from the nearby towns, and one of my favourite spots in my home county. Three cheers for it. #Lancashire