Michael Maibaum
@mike.maibaum.org
Home: Husband, Parent, Carer, Reading, History, Home automation, Photography.
Work: Exec leader, strategist, change & transformation, enterprise architecture - started out in Genetics/Immunology, bioinformatics and now garden variety techie
Work: Exec leader, strategist, change & transformation, enterprise architecture - started out in Genetics/Immunology, bioinformatics and now garden variety techie
I dunno the phrase “that email was a waste of electrons” has been around for ages. A lot of slang is performative anyway so.. so what? So many real things to worry about…..
November 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I dunno the phrase “that email was a waste of electrons” has been around for ages. A lot of slang is performative anyway so.. so what? So many real things to worry about…..
It is just slang for electricity. Might be all kinds of real reasons to be worried but slightly stupid slang isn’t one of them.
November 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
It is just slang for electricity. Might be all kinds of real reasons to be worried but slightly stupid slang isn’t one of them.
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Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
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There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
@lizzicollinge.bsky.social I hope to see you also objecting to this abject pandering to the far right.
November 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
@lizzicollinge.bsky.social I hope to see you also objecting to this abject pandering to the far right.
Dismal appeasement of the far right.
November 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Dismal appeasement of the far right.
Yes but also a bank would do AML checks and slow down the transfer as a result (this is not a bad thing)
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Yes but also a bank would do AML checks and slow down the transfer as a result (this is not a bad thing)
See also podcasts. Especially tech ones.
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
See also podcasts. Especially tech ones.
Submarine on the surface island…
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Submarine on the surface island…
Yep. Not happening that easily - but designed molecules are quite exciting (see Google AI designed molecule for increasing immune response to cancer). Much like other tech will open new possibilities and approaches- but no magic wands either. Just like sequencing didn’t answer everything
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Yep. Not happening that easily - but designed molecules are quite exciting (see Google AI designed molecule for increasing immune response to cancer). Much like other tech will open new possibilities and approaches- but no magic wands either. Just like sequencing didn’t answer everything
Yes. Shame they increasingly sacrifice that for false balance and fear of upsetting the right. This is an opportunity (change of leadership) but the cause risks reinforcing the fear - especially with current BBC board
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Yes. Shame they increasingly sacrifice that for false balance and fear of upsetting the right. This is an opportunity (change of leadership) but the cause risks reinforcing the fear - especially with current BBC board
Ignoring the actual apparent appeasement of right wing viewpoints, the journalism has got worse and worse even if the job to be done was attack the left!
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Ignoring the actual apparent appeasement of right wing viewpoints, the journalism has got worse and worse even if the job to be done was attack the left!
It is so depressing. My lifetime has been watching greats like the Today programme, Panorama, Newsnight et al. gradually turn into 'false-balance' wrecked shells of their former selves. And interviewing turn from actual questions to attempts to generate few-second gotchas instead of actual insight
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
It is so depressing. My lifetime has been watching greats like the Today programme, Panorama, Newsnight et al. gradually turn into 'false-balance' wrecked shells of their former selves. And interviewing turn from actual questions to attempts to generate few-second gotchas instead of actual insight