Andy Woolmer
@razorfish.bsky.social
Marine biologist, oyster farmer, shellfish evangelical. Love a bit of cycling and rugby. Fuelled by tea.
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Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.
December 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.
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Totally worth a repost for Christmas.
December 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Totally worth a repost for Christmas.
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I suspect that this one is unavoidable and just due to old canal workings but I do like the Cameron Clegg coalition big society genius idea of hiving off 2000 miles of these large linear things to an essentially unfunded make do and mend charity
December 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I suspect that this one is unavoidable and just due to old canal workings but I do like the Cameron Clegg coalition big society genius idea of hiving off 2000 miles of these large linear things to an essentially unfunded make do and mend charity
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A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas.
Be a love, and pay it today.
Be a love, and pay it today.
December 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas.
Be a love, and pay it today.
Be a love, and pay it today.
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Jim and I are on the precipice of 13,000 followers here on Bluesky and it seems only fair that we send whoever number 13,000 is, if or when they arrive, a free signed book, right?
December 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Jim and I are on the precipice of 13,000 followers here on Bluesky and it seems only fair that we send whoever number 13,000 is, if or when they arrive, a free signed book, right?
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Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either
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Sometimes I think it is necessary to remind everyone about the diversity of echinoderm ANUSES! this fossil crinoid with its well armed ANAL CHIMNEY for example!! #echinoday echinoblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-...
September 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Sometimes I think it is necessary to remind everyone about the diversity of echinoderm ANUSES! this fossil crinoid with its well armed ANAL CHIMNEY for example!! #echinoday echinoblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-...
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Newspaper property sections are always like "Sebastian, Pancetta and their son Eugenics moved from the city to the country to live their dream" and then there's a picture of them outside their new mansion with their new cow and you can tell the cow is going "I fucking hate my life."
August 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Newspaper property sections are always like "Sebastian, Pancetta and their son Eugenics moved from the city to the country to live their dream" and then there's a picture of them outside their new mansion with their new cow and you can tell the cow is going "I fucking hate my life."
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Today is the Day of the Seafarer
You can read about some of the seafarers who sailed from Cardiff on our blog. Including those aboard the Talca carrying coal to Australia 1869-1870. And the Afonwen, docked in Messina, Sicily, in December 1908 whilst also carrying coal bit.ly/4njd6XW
You can read about some of the seafarers who sailed from Cardiff on our blog. Including those aboard the Talca carrying coal to Australia 1869-1870. And the Afonwen, docked in Messina, Sicily, in December 1908 whilst also carrying coal bit.ly/4njd6XW
Subordination and Devastation: Two Sea Voyages from the Port of Cardiff
Glamorgan Archives holds crew agreements and log books for ships registered at the Port of Cardiff for the years 1863-1913 (ref.: DCA). The following incidents illustrate two extraordinary occurre…
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June 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Today is the Day of the Seafarer
You can read about some of the seafarers who sailed from Cardiff on our blog. Including those aboard the Talca carrying coal to Australia 1869-1870. And the Afonwen, docked in Messina, Sicily, in December 1908 whilst also carrying coal bit.ly/4njd6XW
You can read about some of the seafarers who sailed from Cardiff on our blog. Including those aboard the Talca carrying coal to Australia 1869-1870. And the Afonwen, docked in Messina, Sicily, in December 1908 whilst also carrying coal bit.ly/4njd6XW
Great news from Wales!
Pembrokeshire Rock & Native Oysters have been awarded PGI status 🦪
Legally protected, sustainably farmed, and full of coastal character.
Ask for them by name.
#PGI #WelshSeafood #PembrokeshireOysters #SustainableSeafood #oysterfarm #oysters
Pembrokeshire Rock & Native Oysters have been awarded PGI status 🦪
Legally protected, sustainably farmed, and full of coastal character.
Ask for them by name.
#PGI #WelshSeafood #PembrokeshireOysters #SustainableSeafood #oysterfarm #oysters
April 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Great news from Wales!
Pembrokeshire Rock & Native Oysters have been awarded PGI status 🦪
Legally protected, sustainably farmed, and full of coastal character.
Ask for them by name.
#PGI #WelshSeafood #PembrokeshireOysters #SustainableSeafood #oysterfarm #oysters
Pembrokeshire Rock & Native Oysters have been awarded PGI status 🦪
Legally protected, sustainably farmed, and full of coastal character.
Ask for them by name.
#PGI #WelshSeafood #PembrokeshireOysters #SustainableSeafood #oysterfarm #oysters
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Great comic timing from the Danes here.
April 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Great comic timing from the Danes here.
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Dystopia. I always thought it’d be smarter.
March 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Dystopia. I always thought it’d be smarter.
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The result yesterday might have been a bitter pill to swallow for Wales but this is always a welcome sight in the rugby community
March 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The result yesterday might have been a bitter pill to swallow for Wales but this is always a welcome sight in the rugby community
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Born on this day in 1902, John Steinbeck won two Pulitzers and a Nobel for his fiction. But this existentially profound nonfiction account of a marine biology expedition is in many ways his greatest work:
The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular
“Everything impinges on everything else… Everything is potentially everywhere.”
www.themarginalian.org
February 27, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Born on this day in 1902, John Steinbeck won two Pulitzers and a Nobel for his fiction. But this existentially profound nonfiction account of a marine biology expedition is in many ways his greatest work:
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Seems fair. Now let me take a big sip of coffee and find out what's happening with that asteroid
10% of NASA's workforce has been laid off, according to ABC News
February 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Seems fair. Now let me take a big sip of coffee and find out what's happening with that asteroid
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So they want the tax payer to wipe the debt slate clean so they can start raking in the private profits again. Nationalise the debt. Privatise the profit. Charlatans.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
January 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
So they want the tax payer to wipe the debt slate clean so they can start raking in the private profits again. Nationalise the debt. Privatise the profit. Charlatans.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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There are tons of historic short films (newsreels, corporate videos, documentaries) available to watch for free on the British Film Institute's ‘Britain on Film’ subsite. 🎥🎬
Browse with a map here...
player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-f...
Browse with a map here...
player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-f...
November 17, 2024 at 7:45 AM
There are tons of historic short films (newsreels, corporate videos, documentaries) available to watch for free on the British Film Institute's ‘Britain on Film’ subsite. 🎥🎬
Browse with a map here...
player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-f...
Browse with a map here...
player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-f...
I'd rather see it back in the sea tbh
Japan aquarium cheers up lonely sunfish by taping photos of human faces to its tank
Japan aquarium cheers up lonely sunfish by taping photos of human faces to its tank
Staff had noticed that the sunfish was showing signs of distress after the aquarium was closed for refurbishment
Do fish get lonely? Apparently so, according to staff at an aquarium in Japan, who have provided cut-out human companions for a solitary…
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I'd rather see it back in the sea tbh
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Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
January 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
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Appropriate mix of headlines. Climate change accelerates, while the business world, under pressure from US conservatives, abandons any attempt to stop it
January 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Appropriate mix of headlines. Climate change accelerates, while the business world, under pressure from US conservatives, abandons any attempt to stop it