Nigel Leach
@nigelleach.com
Eventually Consistent.
Pretending to be a Northerner whilst stealthily seeking asylum in Cumbria.
Soft left socialist bookworm, still occasionally hobbling over the fells and around a squash court.
Very very happily partnered btw.
Pretending to be a Northerner whilst stealthily seeking asylum in Cumbria.
Soft left socialist bookworm, still occasionally hobbling over the fells and around a squash court.
Very very happily partnered btw.
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Nigel Leach
@nigelleach.com
· Nov 19
Douglas!
A sausage filled with love (only 5% bark).
Stubborn, proud, plucky, and a bit scared of the big wide world (and who wouldn't be).
A sausage filled with love (only 5% bark).
Stubborn, proud, plucky, and a bit scared of the big wide world (and who wouldn't be).
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Now everyone is (rightly) all aerated about the nudity AI shit on X, can we please do something to stop the Pervert Glasses that will soon be in wide circulation?
January 2, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Now everyone is (rightly) all aerated about the nudity AI shit on X, can we please do something to stop the Pervert Glasses that will soon be in wide circulation?
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In this Year of Reading, a gentle reminder:
The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.
The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.
January 2, 2026 at 7:23 PM
In this Year of Reading, a gentle reminder:
The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.
The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.
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An extraordinary, brilliant line.
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 9:30 PM
An extraordinary, brilliant line.
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Frog got a ladder. He put the box up on a high shelf. “There,” said Frog. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”
“But we can climb the ladder and take the box down from the shelf and cut the string and open the box,” said Toad.
“That is true,” said Frog.
“But we can climb the ladder and take the box down from the shelf and cut the string and open the box,” said Toad.
“That is true,” said Frog.
January 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Frog got a ladder. He put the box up on a high shelf. “There,” said Frog. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”
“But we can climb the ladder and take the box down from the shelf and cut the string and open the box,” said Toad.
“That is true,” said Frog.
“But we can climb the ladder and take the box down from the shelf and cut the string and open the box,” said Toad.
“That is true,” said Frog.
Three minutes into the new year, please please please book burns night
January 1, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Three minutes into the new year, please please please book burns night
Does anyone care that Idris Elba and Jayne Torvill have been Knighted, and surely there are more important Guardian headlines today?
and I like Idris Elba.
and I like Idris Elba.
December 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Does anyone care that Idris Elba and Jayne Torvill have been Knighted, and surely there are more important Guardian headlines today?
and I like Idris Elba.
and I like Idris Elba.
not quite the same mileu but reminded me of Abu Abed staring out to sea, waiting for the wave of pornography
“I walked down a patch in the woods until I came to a corner. I went around the corner to see if spring was on the other side.”
December 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
not quite the same mileu but reminded me of Abu Abed staring out to sea, waiting for the wave of pornography
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
December 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
December 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
yes indeed, top chap
This will piss the right wingers off, but I’d say this chap is far more a patriot that the wankers painting roundabouts and hanging flags.
What a legend!
What a legend!
December 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
yes indeed, top chap
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Yeah this is just what his communications team wants right now
Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?
Caller: I am eight
Caller: I am eight
December 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Yeah this is just what his communications team wants right now
December 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
BBC News - Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
BBC News - Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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It's Trump policy that U.S. tech must be globally dominant.
It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from:
Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation.
All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from:
Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation.
All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators
State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM
It's Trump policy that U.S. tech must be globally dominant.
It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from:
Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation.
All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from:
Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation.
All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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And they say satire's dead. 😂
"Far from the outdated stereotypes, today’s bookmakers are lively community hubs. During the festive season especially, betting shops take on a special atmosphere filled with excitement, companionship and familiar routine that many people look forward to each year."
"Far from the outdated stereotypes, today’s bookmakers are lively community hubs. During the festive season especially, betting shops take on a special atmosphere filled with excitement, companionship and familiar routine that many people look forward to each year."
Betting shops are keeping community spirit alive this Christmas
Walk into a betting shop this Christmas and you will find something Britain is in danger of losing. Laughter, conversation, familiar faces and a re...
www.politicshome.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
And they say satire's dead. 😂
"Far from the outdated stereotypes, today’s bookmakers are lively community hubs. During the festive season especially, betting shops take on a special atmosphere filled with excitement, companionship and familiar routine that many people look forward to each year."
"Far from the outdated stereotypes, today’s bookmakers are lively community hubs. During the festive season especially, betting shops take on a special atmosphere filled with excitement, companionship and familiar routine that many people look forward to each year."
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YouTube AI: awful, but occasionally hilarious
December 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
YouTube AI: awful, but occasionally hilarious
I remember loading reel to reel tape, and punched cards, and paper tape, and removal disks.
UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again
UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again
Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works
Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month.…
dlvr.it
December 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I remember loading reel to reel tape, and punched cards, and paper tape, and removal disks.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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21 December 2025 - Advent IV, also known as Rorate, the last Sunday before Christmas.
BWV 132 & 147.
People having being listening to this for over 300 years, often on this day, but less often via a smart speaker.
Some steaming links here - whichbachcantata.be/cantata-days...
#bach
BWV 132 & 147.
People having being listening to this for over 300 years, often on this day, but less often via a smart speaker.
Some steaming links here - whichbachcantata.be/cantata-days...
#bach
December 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
21 December 2025 - Advent IV, also known as Rorate, the last Sunday before Christmas.
BWV 132 & 147.
People having being listening to this for over 300 years, often on this day, but less often via a smart speaker.
Some steaming links here - whichbachcantata.be/cantata-days...
#bach
BWV 132 & 147.
People having being listening to this for over 300 years, often on this day, but less often via a smart speaker.
Some steaming links here - whichbachcantata.be/cantata-days...
#bach
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great weekend for dipshits being punched in the face
🚨 Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor
December 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
great weekend for dipshits being punched in the face
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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How bad has 2025 been? We broke time.
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
How bad has 2025 been? We broke time.