Bill Anderson
butchandriley.bsky.social
Bill Anderson
@butchandriley.bsky.social
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Old git in rural Wiltshire. Durhamite in exile. Likes evidence, facts. Likes Lowdens and Naim, Good food, wine and real beer. Atheist.
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Crossed with 'No Luke, I am your father'.
Griftarama!

Marvelous.

Makes you proud.

Silly Bunt.
Kwasi Kwarteng, the former UK chancellor whose infamous “mini” Budget under then-Prime Minister Liz Truss triggered a crisis in the gilts market, is backing the launch of a bitcoin investment company. 

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Former UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng backs bitcoin investment company
Ex-politician infamous for 2022 mini-Budget will become non-executive director of Stack Bitcoin Treasury
www.ft.com
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I've joined Substack to share more thoughts on my reading, writing and thoughts on the history that helps explain our political moment. Subscribe here, if you like.

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What I'm reading and writing
Welcome to my Substack
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What's on the hifi...
... tonight's delights.
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Who needs an autopen when the king will sign whatever.
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Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.
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The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢
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Bottom line of systematic assessment of studies on Covid vaccinations/boosters:
~50% reduction of hospitalization, across all adults (not just older) who are not immunocompromised
Real data on vaccine-induced myocarditis: occurred in 1-3 per 100,000 male adolescents
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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The brain drain that this administration’s policies are resulting in will hobble us as a nation for generation. Say goodbye to our leadership in science. Before you know it, China and the EU will lap us.
A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country.

Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
www.pbs.org
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This is heartbreaking 💔 to read. Thank you 🙏 for sharing this with us. I want to apologize to you on behalf of real Americans. It’s a painful reminder that we must keep resisting these harmful policies so we don’t lose more people like @wwenneuro.bsky.social, whom we spent over a decade training.
After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.
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What's on the hifi*....

... tonight's running order.

Naim may be cranked up to 11 for Black Sabbath. Structural damage may occur.
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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If the Tories were a bit smarter*, I think they'd use this attack line.

*Look, it could happen.

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Yeah, or "Labour councils have attached so many secret taxes that not even a Labour chancellor can keep track of them all!"
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A fellow furloughed coworker posted this. Laugh so you don’t cry.
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🔴 Reform UK Just Won Britain’s Least-Prestigious Award – For ‘Promoting Pseudoscience’

Nigel Farage’s party was recognised for “widespread embrace of climate change denialism and antivaccine misinformation.”
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/29/r...
Reform UK Just Won Britain's Least-Prestigious Award – For 'Promoting Pseudoscience'
Nigel Farage's party were recognised for “their widespread embrace of climate change denialism and antivaccine misinformation.”
bylinetimes.com
"You don't want to look in there.....
Into disrepute, eh?

Now, that's a high bar with those wee, murine fuckers
Excited by the possibility that over the four-year local election cycle Reform will end up expelling so many councillors that it gets back to zero.
Two Kent Reform councillors have been formally expelled from the party.

Cllr Robert Ford and Cllr Bill Barrett have been kicked out after being suspended over the last fortnight for "bringing the party into disrepute."
Sheer ignorance or pure malice?
Only 7 out of 71 employees at the Los Alamos NNSA field site are working, the rest furloughed.

At the Albuquerque site (overseeing Sandia NM), only 7/81.

"The furloughs are the [NNSA's] first since its creation in 2000, as none occurred during previous shutdowns"
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