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Jonathan Foyle

@jonathanfoyle.bsky.social

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Lecturer at the University of Bath. Researcher of historic buildings, uses, design solutions: https://soloist.ai/jonathanfoyle Immersed in the arts of the late Middle Ages.

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 44m

A favourite dangle- thanks to wallwalkers.co.uk who called me up one spare lunchtime, a decade ago. Won't get the chance to do that again.

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 49m

A headline to make a conservator wince

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Maxine Beuret @maxinebeuret.bsky.social · 22h

Are you interested in local history? @vch-home.bsky.social @hackney-society.bsky.social @history.dulwichsociety.com

In this free workshop, you will be taught how to produce a short video from the material you have collected to share the stories you are uncovering. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 15h

Great job.

Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 15h

Similar with Alt Text: this isn't Van Cortlandt House Museum, NY- it's 3,500 miles away in Salisbury UK. Van Cortlandt is 5 bays wide but that's about the only similarity. AI = Idiotsville.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Water bills for England households to rise even higher.

Bills already up by 36%. Competition regulator permits another 1%-5%, £556m hike

No curbs on exec pay, dividends, sewage dumping as companies raise capital from customers, shareholders get returns.

End the Scam. Nationalise water

Five water firms provisionally allowed to raise bills by further 1% to 5%

An independent group appointed by the competition watchdog rejected nearly 80% of increases sought by companies.

www.independent.co.uk

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 20h

Boundless garbage!

Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 21h

With one ‘a’

Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 21h

Absolutely

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 21h

A rapacious, giant hallucination.

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 22h

Genuine.

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 22h

I tell my students this the whole time. They didn't ask for it but they're supposed to consider it inevitable; it's a plagiarized mash-up; being derivative it doesn't advance knowledge; and it impedes the desire and skill to think critically/ creatively, debasing our intellectual currency.

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 22h

Newcastle.

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 1d

www.osborneclarke.com/insights/eu-...

EU regulatory activity is driving comprehensive reforms for pharma in 2025

The European Union's regulatory framework for the pharmaceutical sector is undergoing significant transformations

www.osborneclarke.com

Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 1d

It's not perfect but I'm persuaded it was a substantial net benefit and with the UK had extra weight to effect change. www.theguardian.com/world/2012/o...

Nobel peace prize: 10 things the EU has done for us

As critics ponder why the 2012 Nobel peace prize was awarded to the EU, we look at ten ways in which it has improved our lives

www.theguardian.com

Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 1d

Receipts www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

The Trump Foundation-Pam Bondi scandal - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

In March 2016, CREW discovered that the Trump Foundation had broken the law by giving an illegal $25,000 contribution to a political group supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. This would set...

www.citizensforethics.org

Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine an EU collaboration on pharma for the benefit of citizens, that the UK were part of. And that the EU wasn't being picked apart by the transatlantic RW billionaire power grab of false promises and broken economies that Farage represents.

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 1d

Love this review.

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 1d

Does her place only have one dog? Might be a shih tzu

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 1d

Boot scraper!

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 1d

And heading for the UK unless it wakes up

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks- fun to do. Pt II presumably coming up...

Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 2d

Well, cheers.