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Andy Brice
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https://www.perfecttableplan.com
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https://www.successfulsoftware.net
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andybrice.bsky.social
Urban deer.
December 31, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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A (rather unwell looking) fox in our garden, this morning.
December 31, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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I have said this before, I will say this again: arming the Ukrainians to defend themselves is the best bang-for-buck in defense spending in decades.

Give Ukraine munitions and they will reliably put those explosives on America's enemies.

Just not on Trump's enemies and thus the problem.
December 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
andybrice.bsky.social
Looking at my water bills since 2007, the cost of a m^3 of water has gone from £0.99 to £2.47 (249%) and waste water has gone from £0.48 to £1.54 (320%). Inflation went up 70% in the same period. Thames Water is taking the piss in more ways than one & the government is letting them get away with it.
December 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
andybrice.bsky.social
Is the evil ash queen in 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' quite hot? Asking for a friend.
December 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
andybrice.bsky.social
Hopefully we have seen the last of Jake Paul's boxing career. But I doubt it. I suspect a broken jaw isn't enough to stop his desparate need for attention.
December 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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My Easy Data Transform and Hyper Plan software is available with 25% off, along with lots of other great indie software for Mac and Windows at:
www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com
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www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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More shots with new lens.
December 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Our local Red Kite, Keith. Taken with my new 180-600 lens.
December 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
andybrice.bsky.social
Sad that the BBC spends so much effort pandering to the people who are determined to destroy it. Infinite Monkey Cage won't be the same without @robinince.bsky.social .
robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 22d
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
andybrice.bsky.social
Stunning drone photography:
droneawards.photo/gallery
Gallery 2025 | Drone Photo Awards
© 2025 Siena Awards
droneawards.photo
December 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Is there a cooler Latin species name than 'Vampyroteuthis infernalis '?
www.sciencealert.com/vampire-squi...
'Vampire Squid From Hell' Reveals The Ancient Origins of Octopuses
The elusive 'vampire squid from hell' has just yielded the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced, a monster clocking in at more than 11 billion base pairs – more than twice as large as the biggest ...
www.sciencealert.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
andybrice.bsky.social
Apparently 'The Liz Truss' show was every bit as bad as you would expect:

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The Liz Truss Show review – hapless ravings from a cupboard
Britain’s briefest PM kept her fans waiting before launching her latest plea for Maga attention in the form of a ham-fisted YouTube talk show
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
andybrice.bsky.social
Scientists have analysed DNA from Hitler's sofa. Can they do JD Vance's sofa next?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Should Hitler's DNA have been studied?
Ground-breaking research has made some fascinating discoveries on the dictator, from his ancestry to possible neurological disorders.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
andybrice.bsky.social
The demographics of China are pretty wild:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogra...
Demographics of China - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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tobyontv.bsky.social
if you’re wondering what TV & radio would look like without the bbc if the right had its way, picture the state of our privatised rivers & seas, but instead it’s raw sewage pumped into your telly & speakers
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
andybrice.bsky.social
'Bugonia' is definately not your average hollywood fare. Worth seeing if you like your dark comedy more dark than comedy.
October 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
andybrice.bsky.social
Yes, car colours really are getting more boring.
October 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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ledbydonkeys.org
Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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ianlandsman.com
I wrote up a few thoughts on HelpSpot turning 20 today ianlandsman.com/helpspot-tur...
HelpSpot Turns 20
ianlandsman.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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brianklaas.bsky.social
One of the better photographs depicting modernity, I'd say:
October 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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"Sometimes you have to ask yourself: How did I get here—sitting in Saudi Arabia, listening to Louis C.K. do jokes about Barely Legal magazine?"

I went to Riyadh to see the transformation of a country with the world's biggest cultural chequebook. Gift link:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
How Many Comedians Does It Take to Change a Country?
What it’s like to watch Louis C.K. do stand-up in Saudi Arabia
www.theatlantic.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Easy Data Transform v2.10.0 is now available, with a new binning transform, improved notes, a 'liquid glass' icon on Mac + more.

www.easydatatransform.com/newsletters/...

Got a data wrangling problem and not sure if Easy Data Transform can help? Message me.
Easy Data Transform Newsletter
Easy Data Transform v2.10.0 is now available, In the forum, Sharing the love, And finally...
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October 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed. After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM