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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 20h

Never uses shampoo, presumably...

Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 20h

"Brimful of Asha"

bsky.app/profile/mary...

Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 21h

"Set up", obviously

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James Elder @jameselder.bsky.social · 21h

Archives folk: is anyone involved in this Wikidata project? It certainly seems like a good idea.

Wikidata:WikiProject Archival Description - Wikidata

www.wikidata.org

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 21h

Sweet up a second, secret account, used only for reading, not posting.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1d

Here's a genuine risk to free speech in UK universities – from overseas states – that the government is doing little to prevent. @indexoncensorship.org have highlited the case of Roshaan Khattak, a Pakistani human rights defender and film maker:

www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/10/inde...

Index joins call for robust protections against transnational repression in the higher education sector - Index on Censorship

Film maker and postgrad researcher Roshaan Khattak was targeted after researching enforced disappearances in Balochistan

www.indexoncensorship.org

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 1d

Bit scraper with missing metal.

Without the hole, there wouldn't be room for your toes.

Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 1d

"Frauds" on ITVX started well but just got sillier and sillier. A wasted opportunity.

Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 1d

More good things than I can list.

But not least I arranged the rescue a friend, and her friend, who tweeted that they were locked in the emergency stairwell of a building, after taking the wrong turn through a one-way door.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 1d

I sympathise with the museum, and the IDF's behaviour is reprehensible, but taking down #OpenLicence content is not the answer.

Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 1d

The IDF are problematic for a number of reasons – mass murder, other war crimes – but I'm disappointed to see they are also poisoning the digital commons:

The Israel Defense Forces used a Scottish museum's 3D models in propaganda videos theferret.scot/idf-scottish...

#opendata #dataforevil

The Scottish Maritime Museum confirmed some of its models are available online through Creative Commons licensing, but stressed it has no control over how the data is used. Following our request for a comment the museum's 3D scans used by the IDF are no longer publicly available.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 1d

Looking forward to Stewart Lee's new routine, "These days, you can't even study English..."

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 1d

ITYM "I was 21 years when I wrote this fess. I’m 22 now and my knees are a mess."

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 1d

Great post by @gralefrit.bsky.social about one of the greatest TV title sequences of all time - and the mysterious identities of all those people boozing away the day and night.

joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...

Where nobody knows your name...

Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.

joelmorris.substack.com

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 1d

No-one wants to hear from you until you have removed Musk's fellowship.

Until you do, you are making yourselves irrelevant.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 2d

"If you see something that doesn't look right, report it to staff or British Transport Police".

Okay then: I'd like to report the entire rail network. That's not right at all.

Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 2d

A paean to privatised public transport.

Today I had to go from Stockport to Salisbury. So I bought a ticket

Stockport > Bristol > Salisbury

The drive to Stockport should have taken 35 minutes. Satnav said it would take 2 hours, and I'd miss my train.

So I went to Macclesfield, where I found...

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 2d

This is some thread...

Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 2d

A paean to privatised public transport.

Today I had to go from Stockport to Salisbury. So I bought a ticket

Stockport > Bristol > Salisbury

The drive to Stockport should have taken 35 minutes. Satnav said it would take 2 hours, and I'd miss my train.

So I went to Macclesfield, where I found...

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SocietyWorks @societyworks.org · 2d

Along with our parent charity @mysociety.bsky.social, we're pleased to now formally sponsor OpenStreetMap and MetaCPAN – two key external pieces of digital infrastructure that help us to run our services.

www.societyworks.org/2025/10/07/w...

We are now sponsoring OpenStreetMap and MetaCPAN

Along with our parent charity mySociety, SocietyWorks is now formally sponsoring OpenStreetMap and MetaCPAN – two key external pieces of digital infrastructure that help us to run our services.

www.societyworks.org

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 2d

When writing alt text, focus on what is actually in the image. Any relevant information that isn't describing the image itself should be in a caption below the image, not in the alt text. This includes photo credits, permissions, and copyright information.

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 2d

Reminds me of the time I invoiced Times Radio for a five-minute interview appearance and they replied with about a dozen documents, mostly long, one of which I was supposed to sign to say I had read all the others.

An hour or two's work, for which I was not offered payment.

I did not.

Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 2d

Ah: "Personal list, used for syncing my blocks between accounts."

I wonder why.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 2d

'[user handle] has added you to the "🛡️" moderation list'

Any ideas what that is?

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 2d

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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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 2d

Superb!

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 2d

Have you let IWM know?

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Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk · 2d

Could be