Michael
@shevekuk.bsky.social
He/him. Gay guy from London, very ex-physicist, into all kinds of science and geeky stuff. Left wing, when's the fully automated luxury communism arriving?
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Russian billionaire Alex Gerko is amongst the funders of the Cambridge Union TERF society, reports The Times.
December 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Russian billionaire Alex Gerko is amongst the funders of the Cambridge Union TERF society, reports The Times.
The real story seems to be that the law was ignored...
"This was not unanimous," said Ohio Democratic Representative Joyce Beatty, one of the board's members. "I was muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition to this move."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"This was not unanimous," said Ohio Democratic Representative Joyce Beatty, one of the board's members. "I was muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition to this move."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center, White House says
The board of the performing arts centre, which was appointed by Trump, voted to rename it to honour him, the White House press secretary says.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The real story seems to be that the law was ignored...
"This was not unanimous," said Ohio Democratic Representative Joyce Beatty, one of the board's members. "I was muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition to this move."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"This was not unanimous," said Ohio Democratic Representative Joyce Beatty, one of the board's members. "I was muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition to this move."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH
Atomic Kitten’s The Tide Is High is now further from us than Blondie’s was from them.
::runs away::
::runs away::
December 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH
This is... I cannot say how stupid this is
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This is... I cannot say how stupid this is
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Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
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Holy shit this is good (the speech, not 21 years of pain)
December 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Holy shit this is good (the speech, not 21 years of pain)
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Other crimes are also continuing to fall. Compared to the same time period in 2024/25, in the first quarter of the financial year 2025/26, residential burglary in London fell by 10 per cent, theft from person by 13 per cent and personal robbery by 13 per cent9
December 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Other crimes are also continuing to fall. Compared to the same time period in 2024/25, in the first quarter of the financial year 2025/26, residential burglary in London fell by 10 per cent, theft from person by 13 per cent and personal robbery by 13 per cent9
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London is the safest city I’ve ever lived in. Every other American I know that lives here feels the same way simply by virtue of the lack of gun violence.
Any pundit or public figure (often taking gulf $) trying to paint this city as crime-ridden is plainly wrong and probably lying to you.
Any pundit or public figure (often taking gulf $) trying to paint this city as crime-ridden is plainly wrong and probably lying to you.
The number of murders in the capital in the first nine months (1st January to 30th September) of 2025 is the lowest since monthly records began and represents a fall of almost 60 per cent compared to 2003.
www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...
www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...
London records fewest homicides this year since monthly records began
The number of homicides in London in the first nine months of 2025 was lower than any year since monthly homicide records began in 2003, according to new analysis from the Mayor’s Office for Policing ...
www.london.gov.uk
December 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
London is the safest city I’ve ever lived in. Every other American I know that lives here feels the same way simply by virtue of the lack of gun violence.
Any pundit or public figure (often taking gulf $) trying to paint this city as crime-ridden is plainly wrong and probably lying to you.
Any pundit or public figure (often taking gulf $) trying to paint this city as crime-ridden is plainly wrong and probably lying to you.
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UK study using samples from the UK ME/CFS biobank
Abnormal T-Cell activation and cytotoxic T-Cell frequency discriminate symptom severity in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Screenshot from Science for ME weekly update
#MEcfs #PwME
Abnormal T-Cell activation and cytotoxic T-Cell frequency discriminate symptom severity in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Screenshot from Science for ME weekly update
#MEcfs #PwME
December 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
UK study using samples from the UK ME/CFS biobank
Abnormal T-Cell activation and cytotoxic T-Cell frequency discriminate symptom severity in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Screenshot from Science for ME weekly update
#MEcfs #PwME
Abnormal T-Cell activation and cytotoxic T-Cell frequency discriminate symptom severity in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Screenshot from Science for ME weekly update
#MEcfs #PwME
FOR FUCK'S SAKE - Greater Anglia have a useful expanding scheme of contactless payment touch in touch out between stations... but there's no way to add a Railcard to that
(That's from a very helpful and direct reply from their customer service ppl, I certainly can't fault that though)
(That's from a very helpful and direct reply from their customer service ppl, I certainly can't fault that though)
December 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
FOR FUCK'S SAKE - Greater Anglia have a useful expanding scheme of contactless payment touch in touch out between stations... but there's no way to add a Railcard to that
(That's from a very helpful and direct reply from their customer service ppl, I certainly can't fault that though)
(That's from a very helpful and direct reply from their customer service ppl, I certainly can't fault that though)
I'm reading what I can tell is the one of the best books I'll ever read and I'm not even a third of the way in
A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine
I feel like I'm embroiled in an alien culture that's human, and I bloody love it
A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine
I feel like I'm embroiled in an alien culture that's human, and I bloody love it
December 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I'm reading what I can tell is the one of the best books I'll ever read and I'm not even a third of the way in
A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine
I feel like I'm embroiled in an alien culture that's human, and I bloody love it
A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine
I feel like I'm embroiled in an alien culture that's human, and I bloody love it
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What the absolute shit is this? ACM using AI summaries instead of abstracts in search results?! So, if I understand correctly, instead of the author's own summary of the work (i.e. an abstract) we are better off with some regurgitated slop version of that summary instead? @chi.acm.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
What the absolute shit is this? ACM using AI summaries instead of abstracts in search results?! So, if I understand correctly, instead of the author's own summary of the work (i.e. an abstract) we are better off with some regurgitated slop version of that summary instead? @chi.acm.org
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important to note that "1 in 10" here refers to 84 children. in all of the UK. a country with a population of approximately 12 million children.
i have chaperoned field trips with more children than this
i have chaperoned field trips with more children than this
Hannah Barnes wearing a hot dog suit "we're all trying to find the person that did this."
December 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
important to note that "1 in 10" here refers to 84 children. in all of the UK. a country with a population of approximately 12 million children.
i have chaperoned field trips with more children than this
i have chaperoned field trips with more children than this
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This is absurd! It's not as though anyone has been caught taking bribes from Russia, or accepting £9m donations from people living in Thailand, or allowing donations in crypto so their origin can't be traced, or...
December 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This is absurd! It's not as though anyone has been caught taking bribes from Russia, or accepting £9m donations from people living in Thailand, or allowing donations in crypto so their origin can't be traced, or...
I swear this unpasteurised kimchi is already doing me good and I only just ate it
December 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I swear this unpasteurised kimchi is already doing me good and I only just ate it
People in my phone: what's the polite way to refer to someone who was somewhat famous whilst living as one gender but has now transitioned (and is still famous)?
Do I use their current name when refer to old media or their then-current name?
Do I use their current name when refer to old media or their then-current name?
December 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
People in my phone: what's the polite way to refer to someone who was somewhat famous whilst living as one gender but has now transitioned (and is still famous)?
Do I use their current name when refer to old media or their then-current name?
Do I use their current name when refer to old media or their then-current name?
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And, of course, let's not forget that the members of Kenwood Ladies' Pond recently voted overwhelming to continue to welcome trans women in this space.
So, as well as Sex Matters, Sanchez Manning and The Times being bigots, they're also trying to deny the members control over their own space.
So, as well as Sex Matters, Sanchez Manning and The Times being bigots, they're also trying to deny the members control over their own space.
December 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
And, of course, let's not forget that the members of Kenwood Ladies' Pond recently voted overwhelming to continue to welcome trans women in this space.
So, as well as Sex Matters, Sanchez Manning and The Times being bigots, they're also trying to deny the members control over their own space.
So, as well as Sex Matters, Sanchez Manning and The Times being bigots, they're also trying to deny the members control over their own space.
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Reform being a explicitly racist party should be reflected in coverage
I'm been at a Richard Tice press conference at which he:
• Refused to say whether he still believes Nigel Farage's school accusers made up their claims, calling the row "old news".
• Refused twice to condemn a Reform candidate who said David Lammy should "go home" to the Caribbean.
• Refused to say whether he still believes Nigel Farage's school accusers made up their claims, calling the row "old news".
• Refused twice to condemn a Reform candidate who said David Lammy should "go home" to the Caribbean.
December 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Reform being a explicitly racist party should be reflected in coverage
Us millennials are so old, kids these days won't believe this is how we originally heard this Kylie classic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWqE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWqE...
I Can't Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue on a Mechanical Organ
YouTube video by The Mechanical Music Man
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Us millennials are so old, kids these days won't believe this is how we originally heard this Kylie classic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWqE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWqE...
It's always cute when someone accidentally writes function words like 'the' and 'and' in their native language when writing in another
In this case, it's Dutch with 'de' and 'en'.
We've all done it!
In this case, it's Dutch with 'de' and 'en'.
We've all done it!
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
It's always cute when someone accidentally writes function words like 'the' and 'and' in their native language when writing in another
In this case, it's Dutch with 'de' and 'en'.
We've all done it!
In this case, it's Dutch with 'de' and 'en'.
We've all done it!
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No discourse about white men and what is going on in their communities and male violence in that case of that man who drive his car into the crowd of football fans in Liverpool 🧐
December 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
No discourse about white men and what is going on in their communities and male violence in that case of that man who drive his car into the crowd of football fans in Liverpool 🧐
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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December 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM