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Neil Turner

@neilturner.me.uk

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Millennial Yorkshire queer partially deaf geek dad/husband. Works in university admissions, specialising in PhD and MBA. Likes photography and social media, doesn't like writing in the third person. He/him 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️#LGBwiththeT https://neilturner.me.uk

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · Nov 16

I guess it's time for another #introduction post? I'm Neil, I work in Higher Education and have been *very* online for a long time. Currently a co-chair of LGBTQ+ staff network at work, hearing aid user, interested in transport and live in Yorkshire. Blog at neilturner.me.uk updated every other day.

Hello. - Neil Turner's Blog

I’m Neil Turner, a UK-based queer higher education professional with interests in technology, social media and photography, and this is my presence on the web. I have a blog (here), and I am also on t...

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David • 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @discokidnap.bsky.social · 3h

Please do not get too excited that a convicted nonce has been killed or the Bluesky mods will ban you for being mean.

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oooOOOooorbette @orbette.bsky.social · 2h

Just want to make it plainly clear, I absolutely speak ill of the dead. I will happily rap about the dead if the dead in question is a massive fucking piece of shit.

✌️

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 2h

Ian Watkins’ ex girlfriend reports him multiple times to the police for what he was doing and they treated her as if she was hysterical in every sense of the word. Misogyny is dangerously and deadly, it played a huge role in those poor children’s torment. Hope he went roaring

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 4h

An almost literal milkshake duck appears

Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 4h

ah ffs bsky.app/profile/gemm...

trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 4h

english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

turns out he's a nasty racist btw.

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Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 6h

Britain is rightly proud of its historic architecture.

A sign: THE FIRST (or last)
PUBLIC TOILETS
AS YOU ARRIVE IN (or leave)
THE NORTH OF ENGLAND

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · 7h

Bought a British one on eBay. Was sent a lettuce instead. AAAAAA+++++ for prompt delivery.

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 8h

The dogs in Holland Park are so posh they shit apples.

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · 7h

Today I learned that there's an author of a series of books who is also called Neil Turner.

I found out because someone emailed me to speak at a literature festival.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 12h

And as ever in @ftweekend.com my restaurant review: I went to Legardo, the new one from Spanish chef Nieves Barragán Mohacho, ate the delicious three week old roast suckling pig and then disappeared down a philosophical rabbit hole about the morality of doing so.

on.ft.com/3VWOnwj

‘Sublime, transcendent . . . and morally complex?’ Jay Rayner reviews Legado, Shoreditch

Beautiful suckling pig served with a side of existential crisis

on.ft.com

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · 11h

oh no, please don't threaten us with a good time

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Dr Dean Burnett @garwboy.bsky.social · 21h

I'll not even consider paying attention to anything Farage has to say about what happens in primary schools until *every* member of his party is legally allowed to be within 50ft of one

Nigel Farage says Britain's
eachers 'poisoning our kids' and
predicts a teachers' strike as PM
GlAean

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 13h

You might have heard of 'dark kitchens' when a row of sheds in a car park churn out food for Deliveroo. They're unpopular and low margin. So the next big thing in London food is 'host kitchens' where local pubs, restaurants and kebab shops cook for big brands. www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...

Why your next upmarket Deliveroo might be made by your local kebab shop

"On one hand, it’s a lifeline... But on the other hand, it’s a harbinger of doom.”

www.londoncentric.media

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · 1d

Yeah. Deciding to parody a (then) 17 year old autistic girl was a sign of desperation.

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 1d

My car insurance is 18% lower this year

Nothing has changed except the effect of the 20mph speed limit in Wales: fewer accidents, less cost, fewer injuries and lives lost

And practically speaking it doesn't cause noticeably slower journeys

A good policy

A screengrab showing comparative car insurance costs: £304.11 this year; £371.58 last year

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 1d

All my comics have happy endings!

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 1d

The Oregonian Frogs are missing a trick not playing Paul McCartney’s Frog Chorus as their song, “we all stand together” is a perfect sentiment all things considered

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · 1d

Most places just seem to put on a YouTube playlist now. In my day, if you wanted to control what music video played, you had to call a premium rate number for The Box.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

Radio killed the video star

MTV to axe its music TV channels in the UK

The broadcaster will stop showing music videos in December, but its main channel will remain on air.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · 1d

New Post: Haden 4-in-1 Air Fryer Microwave review

Haden 4-in-1 Air Fryer Microwave review - Neil Turner's Blog

It may surprise you to hear that we haven’t owned an air fryer until recently. They’re really popular, especially as, when compared with a regular convection oven, they can cook food faster and more...

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 4d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out