Michael Wilcox
@mikeywil.bsky.social
Not for profit advocate. Digital Transformation for ISTD. Kent-based. Graecophile, accidental olive farmer, sailing in and around The Swale (and more)
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Want to help drive economic transformation from theory to practice?
I'm seeking a Project Coordinator and Programme Manager to help lead a growing team and a portfolio of work with governments.
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Project Coordinator (Policy) ➡️ buff.ly/bKHYhwQ
I'm seeking a Project Coordinator and Programme Manager to help lead a growing team and a portfolio of work with governments.
Programme Manager (Operations) ➡️ buff.ly/XvdJc7U
Project Coordinator (Policy) ➡️ buff.ly/bKHYhwQ
December 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Want to help drive economic transformation from theory to practice?
I'm seeking a Project Coordinator and Programme Manager to help lead a growing team and a portfolio of work with governments.
Programme Manager (Operations) ➡️ buff.ly/XvdJc7U
Project Coordinator (Policy) ➡️ buff.ly/bKHYhwQ
I'm seeking a Project Coordinator and Programme Manager to help lead a growing team and a portfolio of work with governments.
Programme Manager (Operations) ➡️ buff.ly/XvdJc7U
Project Coordinator (Policy) ➡️ buff.ly/bKHYhwQ
Well worth thinking about… youtube.com/shorts/vrgtV...
How Amazon Makes Literally Everything More Expensive
YouTube video by Novara Media
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December 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Well worth thinking about… youtube.com/shorts/vrgtV...
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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.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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.
Any recommendations for a Shopify Developer who could help us set up a relatively simple shop, but one that can provide discounts for (logged-in) members. #charity
December 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Any recommendations for a Shopify Developer who could help us set up a relatively simple shop, but one that can provide discounts for (logged-in) members. #charity
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Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems …
December 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems …
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First step (as always) is to re-read, "Doing presentations - How to write good presentations and present them well" gilest.org/doingpresent... by @gilestur.bsky.social.
Doing presentations
gilest.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
First step (as always) is to re-read, "Doing presentations - How to write good presentations and present them well" gilest.org/doingpresent... by @gilestur.bsky.social.
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This is why it's important to have Arts/Humanities courses AND STEM courses. It all fits together, they compliment each other.
There's no such thing as useless education.
There's no such thing as useless education.
Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This is why it's important to have Arts/Humanities courses AND STEM courses. It all fits together, they compliment each other.
There's no such thing as useless education.
There's no such thing as useless education.
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France hosted a large musical flash mob featuring 100 musicians who came together to perform a new orchestral version of Carol of the Bells to mark the ceremonial switching-on of the Christmas lights in the streets of Paris.
November 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
France hosted a large musical flash mob featuring 100 musicians who came together to perform a new orchestral version of Carol of the Bells to mark the ceremonial switching-on of the Christmas lights in the streets of Paris.
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Our work on public value of the arts and culture ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
The Public Value of Arts and Culture
Authored by Mariana Mazzucato
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Our work on public value of the arts and culture ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
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Arts and culture are investments, not costs. Governments need new ways to measure, evaluate and reimagine how cultural industries can shape the direction of economic growth.
This weekend, I’ll be speaking at the CIMAM annual conference in Turin about our work on the Public Value of Arts & Culture.
This weekend, I’ll be speaking at the CIMAM annual conference in Turin about our work on the Public Value of Arts & Culture.
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Arts and culture are investments, not costs. Governments need new ways to measure, evaluate and reimagine how cultural industries can shape the direction of economic growth.
This weekend, I’ll be speaking at the CIMAM annual conference in Turin about our work on the Public Value of Arts & Culture.
This weekend, I’ll be speaking at the CIMAM annual conference in Turin about our work on the Public Value of Arts & Culture.
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🔤🌐The Earth spells it out🌐🔤
#YourNameInLandsat uses lookie-likie letters in satellite images from @NASA_Landsat over the last 50 years managed jointly with @USGS
#EarthObservation #RemoteSensing
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
🙏 @thenasaearth.bsky.social
#30DayMapChallenge Day 29: Raster
#YourNameInLandsat uses lookie-likie letters in satellite images from @NASA_Landsat over the last 50 years managed jointly with @USGS
#EarthObservation #RemoteSensing
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
🙏 @thenasaearth.bsky.social
#30DayMapChallenge Day 29: Raster
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
🔤🌐The Earth spells it out🌐🔤
#YourNameInLandsat uses lookie-likie letters in satellite images from @NASA_Landsat over the last 50 years managed jointly with @USGS
#EarthObservation #RemoteSensing
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
🙏 @thenasaearth.bsky.social
#30DayMapChallenge Day 29: Raster
#YourNameInLandsat uses lookie-likie letters in satellite images from @NASA_Landsat over the last 50 years managed jointly with @USGS
#EarthObservation #RemoteSensing
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
🙏 @thenasaearth.bsky.social
#30DayMapChallenge Day 29: Raster
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.
This is a lovely read about the practice of 'weeding' in libraries. Look out for earthquakes, the meaning of MUSTY, what some thought the burgeoning internet meant for libraries as long ago as 1984. Oh, and Guerilla Librarians. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/weed...
Weeding is Fundamental - 99% Invisible
On October 17th, 1989, the Oakland A’s were playing the San Francisco Giants in the World Series, but just as the game was kicking off—the television broadcast cut out. When the signal came back, it w...
99percentinvisible.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This is a lovely read about the practice of 'weeding' in libraries. Look out for earthquakes, the meaning of MUSTY, what some thought the burgeoning internet meant for libraries as long ago as 1984. Oh, and Guerilla Librarians. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/weed...
Terrence and Lesley Bridges have seen their energy bills drop dramatically, from £375 a month down to as low as £40, since they swapped their gas boiler for a HeatHub – a small data centre containing more than 500 [Raspberry Pi] computers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'I heat my Essex home with a data centre in the shed'
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Terrence and Lesley Bridges have seen their energy bills drop dramatically, from £375 a month down to as low as £40, since they swapped their gas boiler for a HeatHub – a small data centre containing more than 500 [Raspberry Pi] computers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@mercoglianos.bsky.social I’d love to hear your insight on this ship which left Libya 139 days ago and is being tugged in circles off Kalamata. www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/deta...
Googling shows a likely cause, but what’s the ongoing story - for those on board both vessels? Will it ever dock!?
Googling shows a likely cause, but what’s the ongoing story - for those on board both vessels? Will it ever dock!?
VILAMOURA, Crude Oil Tanker - Details and current position - IMO 9529293 - VesselFinder
Vessel VILAMOURA (IMO 9529293, MMSI 538010255) is a Crude Oil Tanker built in 2011 and currently sailing under the flag of Marshall Islands.
www.vesselfinder.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
@mercoglianos.bsky.social I’d love to hear your insight on this ship which left Libya 139 days ago and is being tugged in circles off Kalamata. www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/deta...
Googling shows a likely cause, but what’s the ongoing story - for those on board both vessels? Will it ever dock!?
Googling shows a likely cause, but what’s the ongoing story - for those on board both vessels? Will it ever dock!?
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November 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
📊 Quick survey: Are AI summaries affecting your website traffic?
We've put together a short survey (just three multiple-choice questions) to gauge the impact that AI summaries are having on charities' web traffic. All responses are anonymous.
Access the three-question survey here 👉 buff.ly/cYs7zat
We've put together a short survey (just three multiple-choice questions) to gauge the impact that AI summaries are having on charities' web traffic. All responses are anonymous.
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
manchestermill.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
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this man hacked into the mainframe of his roomba codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day...
The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me
Would you allow a stranger to drive a camera-equipped computer around your living room? You might have already done so without even realizing it.
The Beginning: A Curious Experiment
It all started ...
codetiger.github.io
October 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
this man hacked into the mainframe of his roomba codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day...
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EHRC anti-trans campaign loses its momentum - a week of absolute scenes has left the organisation in limbo. Here's what happened, why it happened, and what it all means iandunt.substack.com/p/frightened...
Frightened and desperate: EHRC anti-trans campaign loses its momentum
A week of absolute scenes leaves the organisation in limbo.
iandunt.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:24 AM
EHRC anti-trans campaign loses its momentum - a week of absolute scenes has left the organisation in limbo. Here's what happened, why it happened, and what it all means iandunt.substack.com/p/frightened...
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Today is the 89th anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street when the people of the East End of London halted the march of Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts through Stepney.
October 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Today is the 89th anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street when the people of the East End of London halted the march of Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts through Stepney.