Mick Nagle
@mickn.bsky.social
No longer working, busier than ever
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Fuck and… off, a very long way, off a cliff, into the sea to be trapped in a cave and drown.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
But it’s “not intended for diagnosis or treatment.”
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January 7, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Fuck and… off, a very long way, off a cliff, into the sea to be trapped in a cave and drown.
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“The Huddersfield Open Market is not so grand a site, nor a plan, as Halifax’s Piece Hall – but the concept is clearly sound, the council is trying to do everything right, and they’re still getting the Nimby blowback as if they’d suggested bulldozering the whole thing.”
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Nimbys across Britain are working against the restoration of Huddersfield's open market
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January 6, 2026 at 4:49 PM
“The Huddersfield Open Market is not so grand a site, nor a plan, as Halifax’s Piece Hall – but the concept is clearly sound, the council is trying to do everything right, and they’re still getting the Nimby blowback as if they’d suggested bulldozering the whole thing.”
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'What I Don't Understand Is This ...', the first episode of The Beiderbecke Affair was originally broadcast on this day in 1985.
January 6, 2026 at 5:02 PM
'What I Don't Understand Is This ...', the first episode of The Beiderbecke Affair was originally broadcast on this day in 1985.
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Now that 2026 is for real off and running let's all try and remember that it IS possible to just like and repost someone's post you enjoyed. Not everything needs you to try out your open mic pith in the replies.
January 2, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Now that 2026 is for real off and running let's all try and remember that it IS possible to just like and repost someone's post you enjoyed. Not everything needs you to try out your open mic pith in the replies.
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I talked a bit about my relationship with music after my voice broke for Radio 3's the Essay:
BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, The Little Secrets of Great Works, Sibelius's Fifth Symphony
Financial Times journalist Stephen Bush on the third movement of Sibelius's Symphony No 5.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I talked a bit about my relationship with music after my voice broke for Radio 3's the Essay:
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Little tip for you- if you’re unloading a dishwasher at somebody else’s house this Christmas DONT ask them where things go because it’ll take forever. Just stuff them anywhere and let them deal with it. It’s not your problem and you’re NOT their fucking slave. 😉👍
December 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Little tip for you- if you’re unloading a dishwasher at somebody else’s house this Christmas DONT ask them where things go because it’ll take forever. Just stuff them anywhere and let them deal with it. It’s not your problem and you’re NOT their fucking slave. 😉👍
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My wife is now going through this picture by picture muttering obscenities with the occasional gasp and I’m pretty sure she just denied God
I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
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414 S Main St #10, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 - 3 beds/3.5 baths
(SW Michigan MLS) For Sale: 3 beds, 3.5 baths ∙ 5000 sq. ft. ∙ 414 S Main St #10, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 ∙ $7,000,000 ∙ MLS# 25062388 ∙ This Downtown Ann Arbor penthouse stands among the finest residence...
www.redfin.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
My wife is now going through this picture by picture muttering obscenities with the occasional gasp and I’m pretty sure she just denied God
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Latham and Conway are actually the first opening batters who both scored centuries in both innings of ANY first-class match.
The closest to a previous instance also took place in New Zealand: Bert Sutcliffe (141 & 135) and Don Taylor (99 & 143) for Auckland v Canterbury at Auckland in January 1949.
The closest to a previous instance also took place in New Zealand: Bert Sutcliffe (141 & 135) and Don Taylor (99 & 143) for Auckland v Canterbury at Auckland in January 1949.
Tom Latham (137 & 101) & Devon Conway (227 & 100) are the first opening batters to score centuries in both innings of a Test match. Additionally, Conway is the 10th batter in Test history to score a double hundred & a ton in the same Test match. Well done. #cricketcounts #NZvWI
December 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Latham and Conway are actually the first opening batters who both scored centuries in both innings of ANY first-class match.
The closest to a previous instance also took place in New Zealand: Bert Sutcliffe (141 & 135) and Don Taylor (99 & 143) for Auckland v Canterbury at Auckland in January 1949.
The closest to a previous instance also took place in New Zealand: Bert Sutcliffe (141 & 135) and Don Taylor (99 & 143) for Auckland v Canterbury at Auckland in January 1949.
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Canceling the northern leg of HS2 was an act of insane self-harm
Industry insiders are concerned that fewer, shorter non-tilting trains are on order for HS2 — and that journey times will return to those of the 1990s
Why HS2 may lead to smaller, slower trains on west coast main line
Industry insiders are concerned that fewer, shorter non-tilting trains are on order for HS2 — and that journey times will return to those of the 1990s
www.thetimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Canceling the northern leg of HS2 was an act of insane self-harm
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I asked ChatGPT and it wrote, God rest ye merry - gentlemen.
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I asked ChatGPT and it wrote, God rest ye merry - gentlemen.
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So finally this weary football supporter looked to see what “xG“ - “expected goals” - actually meant.
What were these impressive sounding, precise statistics being banded about by ever-so-earnest, knowing pundits?
The answer?
Utter pseudo-scientific subjective flapdoodle.
What were these impressive sounding, precise statistics being banded about by ever-so-earnest, knowing pundits?
The answer?
Utter pseudo-scientific subjective flapdoodle.
December 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
So finally this weary football supporter looked to see what “xG“ - “expected goals” - actually meant.
What were these impressive sounding, precise statistics being banded about by ever-so-earnest, knowing pundits?
The answer?
Utter pseudo-scientific subjective flapdoodle.
What were these impressive sounding, precise statistics being banded about by ever-so-earnest, knowing pundits?
The answer?
Utter pseudo-scientific subjective flapdoodle.
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Can I just shock you? I think public transport infrastructure is good and these people should fuck off.
‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2
‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2
The long read: Ten years after I first followed the proposed route, I retraced my steps to see what life was like along the world’s most expensive, heavily delayed railway line
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Can I just shock you? I think public transport infrastructure is good and these people should fuck off.
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'Winter hares in conversation' by UK contemporary printmaker Angela Harding #WomensArt #ArtAdvent
December 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM
'Winter hares in conversation' by UK contemporary printmaker Angela Harding #WomensArt #ArtAdvent
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Generate a heartwarming advert for your bookshop:
December 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Generate a heartwarming advert for your bookshop:
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Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.
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Me talking about books in The Guardian. As usual, the piece is a bit more nuanced than the headline.
Jonathan Coe: ‘I was a Tory until I read Tony Benn’
The author on getting hooked on Flann O’Brien, reassessing Kingsley Amis, and why his grandfather was outraged by Watership Down
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Me talking about books in The Guardian. As usual, the piece is a bit more nuanced than the headline.
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"One of the novels that showed me the kind of writer I might aspire to be was Joseph Heller’s Something Happened, with its combination of mordant wisecracking and overwhelming melancholy."
Jonathan Coe on the books of his life:
Jonathan Coe on the books of his life:
Jonathan Coe: ‘I was a Tory until I read Tony Benn’
The author on getting hooked on Flann O’Brien, reassessing Kingsley Amis, and why his grandfather was outraged by Watership Down
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"One of the novels that showed me the kind of writer I might aspire to be was Joseph Heller’s Something Happened, with its combination of mordant wisecracking and overwhelming melancholy."
Jonathan Coe on the books of his life:
Jonathan Coe on the books of his life:
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Why can't we just grow up+be less selfish? We know #flu and respiratory #viruses eg #Covid put enormous pressure on the #NHS+can be v harmful to the vulnerable. Why can't we consider it a duty to get vaccinated, stay at home when ill+wear proper masks if necessary to protect others?
December 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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At what point did being completely wrong start counting as an “opinion”? Claiming vaccines cause autism isn’t an opinion. It’s utter bullshit. And then they say, “Well, that’s my opinion, you have to respect it.” No. I don’t have to respect stupidity. Fuck off.
December 12, 2025 at 6:16 AM
At what point did being completely wrong start counting as an “opinion”? Claiming vaccines cause autism isn’t an opinion. It’s utter bullshit. And then they say, “Well, that’s my opinion, you have to respect it.” No. I don’t have to respect stupidity. Fuck off.
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AI tech bros promising to allow you to talk to a digital simulacrum of your dead relatives as a false comfort during your natural process of grief are, I’m afraid, in contravention of the 1736 Witchcraft Act, the 1951 Fraudulent Mediums Act, and should be hanged. I don’t make the rules.
December 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
AI tech bros promising to allow you to talk to a digital simulacrum of your dead relatives as a false comfort during your natural process of grief are, I’m afraid, in contravention of the 1736 Witchcraft Act, the 1951 Fraudulent Mediums Act, and should be hanged. I don’t make the rules.
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This is a photo of all the workers who have spent more than five years restoring the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
December 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This is a photo of all the workers who have spent more than five years restoring the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
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10. Ah, I love a lullabye carol. The mediaeval text 'Lullay, My Liking' has been set (under different titles) time and time again. There are some absolutely cracking versions, including Thomas Hewitt Jones' extremely beautiful one from 2017. Night night.
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Thomas Hewitt Jones: Lullay My Liking
YouTube video by Jervaulx Singers
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December 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
10. Ah, I love a lullabye carol. The mediaeval text 'Lullay, My Liking' has been set (under different titles) time and time again. There are some absolutely cracking versions, including Thomas Hewitt Jones' extremely beautiful one from 2017. Night night.
youtu.be/Z8iX3gONxBE?...
youtu.be/Z8iX3gONxBE?...