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Stuart Cunningham
@stucun.bsky.social
Speech science & tech (dysarthria, voice, AAC #Augcomm, #A11Y)
University of Sheffield

May occasionally contain #stats, #cricket, #everton, and #sfgiants
It's terrible that Jim Radcliffe has banned United fans from singing. #utft
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I don't often agree with Jamie Carragher, but he's right: ref has to use a bit of common sense there.

And, while Keane has been great this season, but we've all had a moment when we wanted to give him a slap. 😉
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Gary Neville getting pretty close to calling Amorin out of his depth.

Rightly pointing out United have not changed their plans despite being 1 down against 10 men.
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Oh no. An amazing bassist, style icon and a genuinely lovely guy who was happy to hang out with random students in Manchester.

RIP 👑

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield, the Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist, dies aged 63
Ian Brown and Tim Burgess were among those to pay tribute to Mani, whose death was announced by his brother and nephew
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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So sad to hear of the death of Rachel Cooke …I knew her only through her journalism but that was to know a truly fine writer and a really good person….
November 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Beautiful piece by @TimAdamsWrites on the brilliant Observer journalist Rachel Cooke who could write wonderfully about anything, has died tragically young and will be hugely, hugely missed by so many people.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I loved reading Racel Cooke in @theobserveruk.bsky.social So sad that she has died so young. Incidentally a great evangelist for Sheffield too.

Here is a prime example of her work: a lovely profile of another of my cultural gotos.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Jonathan Meades: 'I find everything fascinating and that is a gift'
Jonathan Meades has three books and a new TV series in the offing, yet he is beset by worries that his style of film-making is being marginalised. By Rachel Cooke
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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A beautiful tribute to Observer journalist Rachel Cooke, whose writing I loved. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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We’ve made this investigation free to read because so many people in Sheffield are affected by this story.

Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.

We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”

Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.

Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.

Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.
BREAKING: Amazon Web Services

A massive AWS outage early this morning sent major websites and apps down for several hours

Tracking site Downdetector has received over 8 million reports around the globe
October 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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A final note. This country has amazing people in the private sector, in universities, in charities, in schools and hospitals and the police, in the civil service. And frankly, the lack of clarity, the lack of vision, the lack of basic decency from many of our politicians is letting us all down.
October 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
October 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.
October 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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I like to think of myself as tolerant and open minded. However I do think there should be a swift and brutal police response to stop these young adults playing Quidditch on Clapham Common.
October 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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I can tell you the phone number at the home of my best friend when I was nine years old, half a century ago

So, no, it's not just a movie thing
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"
October 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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George Orwell’s Animal Crossing
October 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Seems like quite a moment. This morning, the UK was powered entirely by low-carbon energy, it seems.

Yes it's windy and sunny. But it's still a milestone.
We could have declared "100% zerocarbon" this morning when renewables+nuclear were generating 100% of UK consumption.

As usual this drove our price down, so exports up, and we had to run gas just to power the exports.

NESO set hard target that ZCO has to include exports as well as UK demand.
September 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
U
Make a band singular:

Ben Folds
Make a band singular:

Panterum
September 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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There are some really neat new features here! Better theme settings! Easier ways to set geom defaults! *Labels from labels stored as column attributes* #rstats
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
September 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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You thought AI was a cool technological development, but ... have you heard about heating up sand?
The world's largest sand battery just went live in Finland
Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's s...
newatlas.com
August 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Don’t know why Carragher gets the Everton gigs, but especially this one today

It doesn't matter that he was a boyhood Blue

Anakin Skywalker was a boyhood Jedi but imagine Darth Vader rocking up on co-comms for the award ceremony at the end of Star Wars
August 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM