Paul Stevenson
@pdstevenson.bsky.social
Nuclear physicist and quantum computerer &c. J'habite le sarf of England
What next? Legislating that pi is 3? War is Peace? Freedom is Slavery?
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 11:40 PM
What next? Legislating that pi is 3? War is Peace? Freedom is Slavery?
My shortlist for ambassador to Washington: Hugh Grant, Nigella Lawson, Alice Nutter
My shortlist for UK ambassador in Trump's Washington would have been Tina Brown, Daniel Craig or Vinnie Jones
This piece in The Spectator by @shippersunbound.bsky.social has an absolutely mad detail that I was not previously aware of spectator.com/article/auth...
February 12, 2026 at 1:43 PM
My shortlist for ambassador to Washington: Hugh Grant, Nigella Lawson, Alice Nutter
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Ooh an email! How exciting! … hmm its from Waitrose. What can it be!? Oh oh thank GOD. There’s still time for me to leave a review of my groceries.
February 11, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Ooh an email! How exciting! … hmm its from Waitrose. What can it be!? Oh oh thank GOD. There’s still time for me to leave a review of my groceries.
On my way to Teddington, which sounds like a CBeebies show about a delightful small town populated by soft toys
February 11, 2026 at 8:19 AM
On my way to Teddington, which sounds like a CBeebies show about a delightful small town populated by soft toys
Waiting for the Lower School Concert to start. Glad to see they have precautions in case the drum kit explodes
February 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Waiting for the Lower School Concert to start. Glad to see they have precautions in case the drum kit explodes
Confected free speech wars against Universities will come with any Reform victory
This is pretty menacing.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
February 10, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Confected free speech wars against Universities will come with any Reform victory
Maybe Oakeshott is used to just inviting herself along to other people's things and thinks it is the norm?
February 10, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Maybe Oakeshott is used to just inviting herself along to other people's things and thinks it is the norm?
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In case you want a prestigious certificate on your wall theagat.co
The AGAT - The Adventure Game Aptitude Test
Can you beat an 80s adventure game without a walkthrough? Prove it by taking the world's first standardized gaming exam.
theagat.co
February 9, 2026 at 8:28 PM
In case you want a prestigious certificate on your wall theagat.co
(from Sky News website, BTW)
February 9, 2026 at 1:22 PM
(from Sky News website, BTW)
A sad story on the BBC News website about scammers, but I had to laugh at this line www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
February 9, 2026 at 9:12 AM
A sad story on the BBC News website about scammers, but I had to laugh at this line www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It’s nice that Labour has a leader. He’s doing a great job as mayor of London
February 8, 2026 at 3:11 PM
It’s nice that Labour has a leader. He’s doing a great job as mayor of London
I found it a bit much when I heard an AI version of Frank Sinatra singing Still I Dream of It, but then I learnt that they wrote it for him, apparently
February 7, 2026 at 2:22 PM
I found it a bit much when I heard an AI version of Frank Sinatra singing Still I Dream of It, but then I learnt that they wrote it for him, apparently
mine love the new train station there, with the big escalators, then there's that big wind turbine by the football stadium, and when she was in Y6 my now Y7 girl enjoyed a scuba diving experience in a swimming pool there. Best place in berkshire probably.
February 6, 2026 at 7:22 PM
mine love the new train station there, with the big escalators, then there's that big wind turbine by the football stadium, and when she was in Y6 my now Y7 girl enjoyed a scuba diving experience in a swimming pool there. Best place in berkshire probably.
Also, we delight in calling this (excellent) game "Soc(k) lover"
February 4, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Also, we delight in calling this (excellent) game "Soc(k) lover"
Yes! I always read our Miracle Moist shampoo as Miracle Maoist.
And Marc Francois as Marc Francoist.
And Marc Francois as Marc Francoist.
February 2, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Yes! I always read our Miracle Moist shampoo as Miracle Maoist.
And Marc Francois as Marc Francoist.
And Marc Francois as Marc Francoist.
Better than in somebody else’s
February 2, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Better than in somebody else’s
I can only think of this upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...
February 2, 2026 at 1:42 PM
I can only think of this upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...
Hertfordshire, where I grew up, is rarely in the news, but we've just had Matt Goodwin's origin story and now this. It's all happening in Herts (Herts CC, you can have that slogan for free).
As and adult, I live in a radically different place. Surrey.
As and adult, I live in a radically different place. Surrey.
February 2, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Hertfordshire, where I grew up, is rarely in the news, but we've just had Matt Goodwin's origin story and now this. It's all happening in Herts (Herts CC, you can have that slogan for free).
As and adult, I live in a radically different place. Surrey.
As and adult, I live in a radically different place. Surrey.
Tonight’s Pick of the Pops part 1. What a year 1983 was
February 1, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Tonight’s Pick of the Pops part 1. What a year 1983 was
Plenty of seats (all of them) still available for the two screenings of Mel*nia at the Guildford Odeon tomorrow
January 31, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Plenty of seats (all of them) still available for the two screenings of Mel*nia at the Guildford Odeon tomorrow
I think back fondly to the time when the right (in the form of Norman Tebbitt) considered getting on a bike a moral good.
January 30, 2026 at 6:04 PM
I think back fondly to the time when the right (in the form of Norman Tebbitt) considered getting on a bike a moral good.