uldqq
@uldqq.bsky.social
Restless Northern returnee. Urban wanderer. Terrace dweller. Backyard gardener. Incorrigible dabbler. Likes beans, bookshops, Radio 4, boxes that make bleeps.
Thinking that the festive period playlist chez uldqq should consist entirely of Black Dog tracks
It’s with great sadness and a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Ken Downie on 20/12/25. Rest In Peace brother, you will be deeply missed and never forgotten. Our condolences to Sheena and his family.
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Thinking that the festive period playlist chez uldqq should consist entirely of Black Dog tracks
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Well golly gee, the Office for Students is too busy policing “wokeness” and corporatising universities to actually pay any attention to large-scale fraud. Who’d have thunk it? www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Regulator ‘asleep at the wheel’ over University of Greater Manchester investigation, MP says
Office for Students accused of ‘glacial’ response to allegations of fraud, bullying and mismanagement
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Well golly gee, the Office for Students is too busy policing “wokeness” and corporatising universities to actually pay any attention to large-scale fraud. Who’d have thunk it? www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Statin' the bleedin' obvious, but there's nothing quite like the banal Gemini-generated, bullet-pointed "album reviews" at the head of a Google search for draining the life out of a musical work.
December 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Statin' the bleedin' obvious, but there's nothing quite like the banal Gemini-generated, bullet-pointed "album reviews" at the head of a Google search for draining the life out of a musical work.
Being reminded what an infuriating experience it is to attempt to perform a simple operation on nsandi.com
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December 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Being reminded what an infuriating experience it is to attempt to perform a simple operation on nsandi.com
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🚨 BREAKING | Former Labour Mayor Jamie Driscoll has defected to Greens.
In a statment Driscoll said: "I’m joining the Green Party because I see an organisation that’s serious about running our country in the long-term interests of all our people.”
In a statment Driscoll said: "I’m joining the Green Party because I see an organisation that’s serious about running our country in the long-term interests of all our people.”
December 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🚨 BREAKING | Former Labour Mayor Jamie Driscoll has defected to Greens.
In a statment Driscoll said: "I’m joining the Green Party because I see an organisation that’s serious about running our country in the long-term interests of all our people.”
In a statment Driscoll said: "I’m joining the Green Party because I see an organisation that’s serious about running our country in the long-term interests of all our people.”
"Kast has openly praised Chile's former right-wing dictator, Augusto Pinochet."
"Kast's brother was a minister during Pinochet's dictatorship, and his father was a member of the Nazi party."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Kast's brother was a minister during Pinochet's dictatorship, and his father was a member of the Nazi party."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Chile elects far-right José Antonio Kast as next president
Many believe Kast will be the most right-wing president since Augusto Pinochet, who oversaw a 17-year dictatorship in Chile from 1973.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
"Kast has openly praised Chile's former right-wing dictator, Augusto Pinochet."
"Kast's brother was a minister during Pinochet's dictatorship, and his father was a member of the Nazi party."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Kast's brother was a minister during Pinochet's dictatorship, and his father was a member of the Nazi party."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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When the credit received from my provider for hitting my energy-saving challenge target is £0.03 (a new record low for me!), it's difficult not to conclude it's really not worth the effort.
December 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
When the credit received from my provider for hitting my energy-saving challenge target is £0.03 (a new record low for me!), it's difficult not to conclude it's really not worth the effort.
Well, today's supermarket visit disabused me of any naive notion that the current bout of media flu-fretting might at least prompt just the teeniest bit of polite informal "distancing".
Don't mind anyone else, sir, as you push through, coughing as you go.
Don't mind anyone else, sir, as you push through, coughing as you go.
December 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Well, today's supermarket visit disabused me of any naive notion that the current bout of media flu-fretting might at least prompt just the teeniest bit of polite informal "distancing".
Don't mind anyone else, sir, as you push through, coughing as you go.
Don't mind anyone else, sir, as you push through, coughing as you go.
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If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
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A free roll-up cigarette to whomever can guess the author of this ominous manifesto
December 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
A free roll-up cigarette to whomever can guess the author of this ominous manifesto
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Ain’t life wonderful: all these people who have never given a shit about autistic people suddenly becoming experts on ‘over diagnosis’
December 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Ain’t life wonderful: all these people who have never given a shit about autistic people suddenly becoming experts on ‘over diagnosis’
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Signed, "Yours, turning up the bunsen burner flame under the stoppered test tube full of my regards"
Nothing worse than signing an email "warm regards" and getting a reply with "warmest regards". Oh, now it's ON.
"kindest regards" alright alright calm down
December 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Signed, "Yours, turning up the bunsen burner flame under the stoppered test tube full of my regards"
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“In the new age of magic, when reality is labile and can be recoded by the power of signs, by narrative and memes and vibes and compelling images, art becomes a truly political technology. “ I wrote about AI slop, truth, politics, art and magic www.artforum.com/features/yea...
Slopocalypse Now
Hari Kunzru surveys the AI slop that dominates our feeds and likens the way it drowns out information to a new form of censorship.
www.artforum.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“In the new age of magic, when reality is labile and can be recoded by the power of signs, by narrative and memes and vibes and compelling images, art becomes a truly political technology. “ I wrote about AI slop, truth, politics, art and magic www.artforum.com/features/yea...
That's Farage at the age of "about 17" to a nine-year-old.
Repeatedly.
Just "banter", obviously.
Repeatedly.
Just "banter", obviously.
Former Dulwich college pupil alleges Farage told him ‘that’s the way back to Africa’
Former Dulwich college pupil alleges Farage told him ‘that’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to dismiss hurt of alleged targets
A former Dulwich college pupil who claims a teenage Nigel Farage told him “that’s the way back to Africa” has said he felt compelled to speak out after the Reform leader’s attempt at “denying or dismissing” the hurt of his alleged targets.
Yinka Bankole, who claims he had just started at the school when a 17-year-old Farage singled him out for abuse, said he had decided to tell his story in full after watching the Reform leader’s press conference on Thursday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
That's Farage at the age of "about 17" to a nine-year-old.
Repeatedly.
Just "banter", obviously.
Repeatedly.
Just "banter", obviously.
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I didn't exactly have high hopes for the next iteration of Nigel Farage's defence against allegations of racism, but even I expected better than 'I can't be a racist because Bernard Manning was on telly in the seventies'
December 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I didn't exactly have high hopes for the next iteration of Nigel Farage's defence against allegations of racism, but even I expected better than 'I can't be a racist because Bernard Manning was on telly in the seventies'
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December 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
BBC World at One slaloms from very moving interview with student from Gaza grappling with adjusting to life in London to rather boggling exchange with man promoting relocation to Russia on the basis that it offers "anti-woke" values.
December 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
BBC World at One slaloms from very moving interview with student from Gaza grappling with adjusting to life in London to rather boggling exchange with man promoting relocation to Russia on the basis that it offers "anti-woke" values.
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Chris Mason sounds utterly absurd, trying to turn the screws on Rachel Reeves while acknowledging that she has done nothing that one wouldn't expect a politician to do.
December 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Chris Mason sounds utterly absurd, trying to turn the screws on Rachel Reeves while acknowledging that she has done nothing that one wouldn't expect a politician to do.
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If you're trying to get your head round Mahmood's idiotic "earned settlement" proposals that aim to keep refugees in limbo 20 years, & offer a sliding scale of crulety to all immigrants based on their pay packet, this is a great, clear explainer by @praxisprojects.bsky.social & @gmiau.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If you're trying to get your head round Mahmood's idiotic "earned settlement" proposals that aim to keep refugees in limbo 20 years, & offer a sliding scale of crulety to all immigrants based on their pay packet, this is a great, clear explainer by @praxisprojects.bsky.social & @gmiau.bsky.social
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The version of the Gospels where the Samaritan crossed the road to kick the robbery victim in the head and go through his pockets for loose change was suppressed by the woke fathers of the early church.
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The version of the Gospels where the Samaritan crossed the road to kick the robbery victim in the head and go through his pockets for loose change was suppressed by the woke fathers of the early church.
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Heard on Radio 4 just now - a quite extraordinary documentary about smuggling old cassettes of music out of Afghanistan:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Artworks - Omid's Tapes: The Afghan Memory Keeper - BBC Sounds
Afghan-American archivist Omid races to save rare Afghan cassettes from the Taliban.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Heard on Radio 4 just now - a quite extraordinary documentary about smuggling old cassettes of music out of Afghanistan:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1