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Tim Green 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💨☀️⚡️💡💻 @otherprofgreen.bsky.social · 11h

Lovely people in the coffee shop drew a heart in the foam. Trouble is, I’m left-handed so it looks more like an arse.

White cup with milky brown coffee with a heart drawn in white in the foam.

But turn the cup around to suit a left-handed and tractor cheeks of an arse.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Jason Wilson 🇺🇦 @whizzo.bsky.social · 1d

"A Pointless Waste of Time, Money and Effort" should be the title of Simon Jenkins' autobiography.

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Tim Green 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💨☀️⚡️💡💻 @otherprofgreen.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not religious at all, but sometimes the bible has an aphorism that springs to mind.

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

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Tim Green 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💨☀️⚡️💡💻 @otherprofgreen.bsky.social · 3d

I think he’s Reinhard Heydrich, who Hitler called the man with an iron heart.

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 3d

Academics and university staff being put on leave because of coordinated campaigns by right wing groups accusing them of criticising Charlie Kirk. I must admit I find the hypocrisy under the current US administration re free speech utterly outrageous.

US professors facing threats, firings and harassment over Charlie Kirk posts

As many as 40 academics have been dismissed in aftermath of shooting, allegedly without due process

www.theguardian.com

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 3d

Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, the world’s largest steerable dish radio telescope at the time (now the third largest). was switched on in 1957 on this day. Built by Bernard Lovell, it was the only radar device that could track the carrier rocket of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik I.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 3d

Call centre worker here. I record a tally when the customer, before providing their email address, state 'all in lower case'. No Doreen, your email address is case-insensitive. Highest count in a day is 24. We need to educating the UK public.

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 3d

No one still alive has seen as much of the Tory party as Heseltine. He was involved in Concorde negotiations… When I research More Jam Tomorrow, he keeps popping up.

Watching the Conservatives’ extinction must hurt him profoundly in ways it’s hard for Bluesky to imagine.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 7d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 3d

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)

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stockfttp.bsky.social @stockfttp.bsky.social · 4d

Since 1986 🤦

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Eric Williams @williamsforoppd.bsky.social · 5d

Talking about 300x more miles per acre on Solar + EV than ethanol + ICE… is my love language.

Calculations vary slightly, but the conclusion is the same: solar is better on all measurable metrics than corn ethanol. No matter how “prime” the farmland is.

Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 5d

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 5d

If you say "we're doing the studies to make the proof" no study you do is valid

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 5d

I got plenty of scorn for this article- but I stand by what I wrote. This is best chance yet to end the current slaughter, free the hostages, and create space, and opportunity for a better future for Gazans. Do I trust all parties, no! Do, I think it has risks, gaps and flaws, yes! But, still 🙏🤞🙏🧵

Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 14d

Cynics will call me naive and stupid. But, it’s always easier to tear things down, and find fault, than try to work through fiendish problems. Of course it lack details, is fraught with risk, and will be attacked by all sides. But, this sickening conflict has to stop. bylinetimes.com/2025/09/30/w...

'Why I Support Trump's Gaza Plan'

Former UK Foreign Office diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall makes the case for why America's 'long shot' strategy could be the best hope of delivering peace

bylinetimes.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 6d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5d

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Tim Green 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💨☀️⚡️💡💻 @otherprofgreen.bsky.social · 7d

What single-point failure? Pretty much everything has redundancy, including full duplicate control rooms and a third emergency control room.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 7d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 7d

There is a decency agenda absolutely in tune with majority feeling in the country that would be an open goal for the government if it wasn't also inclined to lurch towards an unpleasant space. Indeed it is one Keir Starmer could have personified if he could escape "Blue Labour" unpleasantness.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 7d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Tim Green 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💨☀️⚡️💡💻 @otherprofgreen.bsky.social · 7d

I agree it won’t be batteries for that duty. Large scale storage of hydrogen or compressed air. CP2030 anticipates 5% unabated gas for the next several years to buy us time to commission very long duration storage.

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Tim Green 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💨☀️⚡️💡💻 @otherprofgreen.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, remote communities in low-income countries are on a somewhat different path but that doesn’t detract from wind and solar coming to dominate national scale systems around the world when supplemented by storage. I know we still need solutions for Dunkleflaute and similar but we have time to solve

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 9d

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10d

An admirably clear statement from Board of Deputies of British Jews and Jewish Leadership Council

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Chantal Bowman @chantalbb.bsky.social · 11d

The picture in my head every time someone on this platform posts about 'the Mods'

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 12d

Even the Telegraph - yes, the Telegraph - notes the gaping hole in her announcement today that she would, if ever electing into govt, scrap the Climate Change Act...

"It is unclear what plan Mrs Badenoch would put in place instead to help tackle climate change, which she concedes is happening."

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