Conor Mc Bride
@pigworker.bsky.social
they/them
I'm Conor. I'm a nonbinary
Computer Scientist. God loves irony.
Femme presenting apartheid target. Cardiac outpatient. Hatstand owner. Tomato grower. Doctor Who fan.
@[email protected] on fedi
I'm Conor. I'm a nonbinary
Computer Scientist. God loves irony.
Femme presenting apartheid target. Cardiac outpatient. Hatstand owner. Tomato grower. Doctor Who fan.
@[email protected] on fedi
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🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
Announcing Unison 1.0
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.
www.unison-lang.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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Yesterday's Paddy Kingsland feature went down well, so here's the huge Radiophonic Workshop feature I wrote for @electronicsound.bsky.social in 2023. I spoke to Paddy, Roger Limb, Dick Mills, Peter Howell, Brian Hodgson and Mark Ayres and joyousness abounds.
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2024/11/19/t...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2024/11/19/t...
The Radiophonic Workshop – Adventures In Time And Space
“I first came across Desmond Briscoe on the moon!” laughs Dick Mills. “Plot On The Moon was a radio serial about two mad scientists who went to the moon and – as you do – fell in love with a Moon M…
hauntedgeneration.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Yesterday's Paddy Kingsland feature went down well, so here's the huge Radiophonic Workshop feature I wrote for @electronicsound.bsky.social in 2023. I spoke to Paddy, Roger Limb, Dick Mills, Peter Howell, Brian Hodgson and Mark Ayres and joyousness abounds.
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2024/11/19/t...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2024/11/19/t...
When they invent AADHD, we really will be fucked.
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
When they invent AADHD, we really will be fucked.
CAMBRIDGE (England) people, I'll be in town for the first TWO weeks of December.
South East of England people, I'll have a loose weekend in the middle in which trips from Cambridge are possible.
South East of England people, I'll have a loose weekend in the middle in which trips from Cambridge are possible.
November 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
CAMBRIDGE (England) people, I'll be in town for the first TWO weeks of December.
South East of England people, I'll have a loose weekend in the middle in which trips from Cambridge are possible.
South East of England people, I'll have a loose weekend in the middle in which trips from Cambridge are possible.
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Happy Doctor Who day! To celebrate here is the greatest of Doctor Who images: Verity Lambert using a Mechanoid as a lighter.
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Happy Doctor Who day! To celebrate here is the greatest of Doctor Who images: Verity Lambert using a Mechanoid as a lighter.
Buildings. I reckon buildings are pretty cool.
It's Doctor Who Day, so let's spend some time celebrating anti-gravity nonsense.
November 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Buildings. I reckon buildings are pretty cool.
It's Doctor Who Day, so let's spend some time celebrating anti-gravity nonsense.
November 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
It's Doctor Who Day, so let's spend some time celebrating anti-gravity nonsense.
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"gender ideology is anti-gravity nonsense that only the desperate, the deluded and the double-dealing grifters still believe": just in case you were still wondering quite how consumed with hatred are Hadley Freeman and The Sunday Times.
November 23, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"gender ideology is anti-gravity nonsense that only the desperate, the deluded and the double-dealing grifters still believe": just in case you were still wondering quite how consumed with hatred are Hadley Freeman and The Sunday Times.
I gather Trump has just made his horse a consul.
November 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I gather Trump has just made his horse a consul.
I am watching a 1977 Crown Court called "Capers Among the Catacombs", and because I am extremely suggestible, there will be capers in my dinner.
November 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I am watching a 1977 Crown Court called "Capers Among the Catacombs", and because I am extremely suggestible, there will be capers in my dinner.
As a trans person, my experience in, say, Nottingham or Newcastle-upon-Tyne, is that if I'm on my own, the mean time between incidents of street harassment is approximately fifteen minutes. If I'm with someone who looks like a cis woman roughly my own age, there's a lot less backchat.
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
As a trans person, my experience in, say, Nottingham or Newcastle-upon-Tyne, is that if I'm on my own, the mean time between incidents of street harassment is approximately fifteen minutes. If I'm with someone who looks like a cis woman roughly my own age, there's a lot less backchat.
The thing is, most of England is, in its thoughtless moments, a great deal more racist than most of London. And the trouble is that, by accepting these terms of debate without thought, Labour is campaigning to be replaced by the fascists.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A question to the few remaining Labour supporters: is this refugee-bashing what you voted for? | Owen Jones
The government’s callousness has won it respect – from Tommy Robinson and the hard right, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The thing is, most of England is, in its thoughtless moments, a great deal more racist than most of London. And the trouble is that, by accepting these terms of debate without thought, Labour is campaigning to be replaced by the fascists.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We are disappointed that, due to legal pressure from transphobic campaign groups following the For Woman Scotland decision, two eminently reasonable quotas in our party's election regulations have been suspended. These suspensions are profoundly anti-queer, anti-trans and anti-feminist...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
We are disappointed that, due to legal pressure from transphobic campaign groups following the For Woman Scotland decision, two eminently reasonable quotas in our party's election regulations have been suspended. These suspensions are profoundly anti-queer, anti-trans and anti-feminist...
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Kings Cross has sprouted a transphobia kiosk should supplies run low over the festive period.
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Kings Cross has sprouted a transphobia kiosk should supplies run low over the festive period.
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Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it).
"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out
Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it).
"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
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…Now stop cowering with your mouth shut and do the same against transphobia today!
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
…Now stop cowering with your mouth shut and do the same against transphobia today!
Dear UK. Be less Shabana Mahmood. Be more Kenmure Street.
November 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Dear UK. Be less Shabana Mahmood. Be more Kenmure Street.
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
The UK Labour Party has this day destroyed itself.
November 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The UK Labour Party has this day destroyed itself.
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The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.
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"Please stop pointing out the consequences of the massively racist right wing baiting thing I've done, that's actually offensive to me actually."
Get absolutely fucked. You made this choice. Nobody forced you. You sowed. You get to reap.
You're Tommy Robinson's favourite Home Secretary. Eat it.
Get absolutely fucked. You made this choice. Nobody forced you. You sowed. You get to reap.
You're Tommy Robinson's favourite Home Secretary. Eat it.
Shabana Mahmood asks MPs to stop mentioning Tommy Robinson's name (in relation to his support for her policies) as "he doesn't even think I am English. I find that offensive."
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"Please stop pointing out the consequences of the massively racist right wing baiting thing I've done, that's actually offensive to me actually."
Get absolutely fucked. You made this choice. Nobody forced you. You sowed. You get to reap.
You're Tommy Robinson's favourite Home Secretary. Eat it.
Get absolutely fucked. You made this choice. Nobody forced you. You sowed. You get to reap.
You're Tommy Robinson's favourite Home Secretary. Eat it.
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so sad how expensive transitioning is becoming in america 😔. glad zohran could raise enough for it, but many of us arnt so lucky.
We just raised $1 million dollars for our transition to City Hall. The groundwork to make this city a fairer and more affordable place is happening because of you.
November 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
so sad how expensive transitioning is becoming in america 😔. glad zohran could raise enough for it, but many of us arnt so lucky.
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Two quickies!
1. if any organisations (or individuals) are looking to submit to #GANHRI, we have a working group that can help with the technicalities (👉 ganhri.org/wp-content/u...)
2. Can folk ping me details of any organisations who’ve formally disavowed the #EHRC as a human rights organisation?
1. if any organisations (or individuals) are looking to submit to #GANHRI, we have a working group that can help with the technicalities (👉 ganhri.org/wp-content/u...)
2. Can folk ping me details of any organisations who’ve formally disavowed the #EHRC as a human rights organisation?
elvis presley is dancing in a black and white photo with a group of men playing drums and guitars .
Alt: elvis presley is dancing in a black and white photo with a group of men playing drums and guitars and the caption reads “thank you very much”
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Two quickies!
1. if any organisations (or individuals) are looking to submit to #GANHRI, we have a working group that can help with the technicalities (👉 ganhri.org/wp-content/u...)
2. Can folk ping me details of any organisations who’ve formally disavowed the #EHRC as a human rights organisation?
1. if any organisations (or individuals) are looking to submit to #GANHRI, we have a working group that can help with the technicalities (👉 ganhri.org/wp-content/u...)
2. Can folk ping me details of any organisations who’ve formally disavowed the #EHRC as a human rights organisation?
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Something to ponder. Which of these people is more morally repugnant?
• The politician who makes scapegoats of immigrants and refugees because he is a racist.
• The politician who makes scapegoats of immigrants and refugees because she thinks it's the only way to defeat the racist.
• The politician who makes scapegoats of immigrants and refugees because he is a racist.
• The politician who makes scapegoats of immigrants and refugees because she thinks it's the only way to defeat the racist.
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Something to ponder. Which of these people is more morally repugnant?
• The politician who makes scapegoats of immigrants and refugees because he is a racist.
• The politician who makes scapegoats of immigrants and refugees because she thinks it's the only way to defeat the racist.
• The politician who makes scapegoats of immigrants and refugees because he is a racist.
• The politician who makes scapegoats of immigrants and refugees because she thinks it's the only way to defeat the racist.