Tom Gleeson
@tggleeson.bsky.social
Datasmith (retired) same handle on the Bird Site.
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Tom Gleeson
@tggleeson.bsky.social
· Jul 1
As per tradition, a cat picture for the first post on a new platform. Biscuit aka Ginger Puss
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EXCL: An agreement to rejoin Erasmus – the EU’s student exchange programme – set to be announced on Wednesday as part of UK government’s drive towards closer relations with Brussels.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
EXCL: An agreement to rejoin Erasmus – the EU’s student exchange programme – set to be announced on Wednesday as part of UK government’s drive towards closer relations with Brussels.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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What, was Nick Clegg too busy?
OpenAI hires George Osborne to spearhead global ‘Stargate’ expansion ft.trib.al/kpZiA3a
OpenAI hires George Osborne to spearhead global ‘Stargate’ expansion
Former UK chancellor to lead start-up’s effort to spread ‘democratic’ AI across the world
ft.trib.al
December 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
What, was Nick Clegg too busy?
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Absolutely delighted to see that my article on Catholic chapels in Ireland from the 1790s to the 1820s is now available in Architectural History, the journal of the SAHGB - a real career dream come true to have an article in this journal, I must say! #skystorians www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Development of Catholic Chapels in Ireland Prior to Catholic Emancipation, 1778–1829 | Architectural History | Cambridge Core
The Development of Catholic Chapels in Ireland Prior to Catholic Emancipation, 1778–1829 - Volume 68
www.cambridge.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Absolutely delighted to see that my article on Catholic chapels in Ireland from the 1790s to the 1820s is now available in Architectural History, the journal of the SAHGB - a real career dream come true to have an article in this journal, I must say! #skystorians www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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I would like to let you know that I am reviewing Sarkozy's prison memoir for the Observer and reading it is making me lose my mind, he wrote a 213-page book about being in prison for twenty (20) days, the minutiae of it is exactly as agonising as you'd imagine, fucking *hell*
December 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I would like to let you know that I am reviewing Sarkozy's prison memoir for the Observer and reading it is making me lose my mind, he wrote a 213-page book about being in prison for twenty (20) days, the minutiae of it is exactly as agonising as you'd imagine, fucking *hell*
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well its a great thing that tesla is now taking on a whole new dimension of liability
"data suggests Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles"
that's just really really bad sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...
that's just really really bad sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...
Tesla’s 29 Austin Robotaxis have crashed 8 times since June, as data suggests they perform much worse than human drivers
That’s a lot of crashes for such a small fleet....
sherwood.news
December 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
well its a great thing that tesla is now taking on a whole new dimension of liability
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This is just one part of the larger 'bonfire of the climate laws' that is being undertaken by the EU right now.
There are multiple reasons this is happening. One is the perceived message from last year's 🇪🇺election that voters no longer care about climate change
Two is pressure from the Trump admin
There are multiple reasons this is happening. One is the perceived message from last year's 🇪🇺election that voters no longer care about climate change
Two is pressure from the Trump admin
Von der Leyen's bonfire of the climate laws
Today the EU backs away from its Green Deal, as concerns over near-term security threats overshadow the long-term threat of climate change. But some argue today's reframing will help climate efforts.
davekeating.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This is just one part of the larger 'bonfire of the climate laws' that is being undertaken by the EU right now.
There are multiple reasons this is happening. One is the perceived message from last year's 🇪🇺election that voters no longer care about climate change
Two is pressure from the Trump admin
There are multiple reasons this is happening. One is the perceived message from last year's 🇪🇺election that voters no longer care about climate change
Two is pressure from the Trump admin
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone kills drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.
December 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone kills drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.
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There is no downside to an AI crash. Banks are different. That's people's savings and pensions. Governments have no choice. They have to save them. But massive server halls dedicated to creating fake nudes of Taylor Swift? Absolutely no one loses anything if it goes down.
December 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
There is no downside to an AI crash. Banks are different. That's people's savings and pensions. Governments have no choice. They have to save them. But massive server halls dedicated to creating fake nudes of Taylor Swift? Absolutely no one loses anything if it goes down.
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Calvin Robinson aka Altar Mitty gets ever more radicalised even as he slumps into irrelevance.
December 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Calvin Robinson aka Altar Mitty gets ever more radicalised even as he slumps into irrelevance.
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In French Canada, Santa Claus is Père Noël and sometimes Bonhomme Noël. Traditionally different from Santa Claus, Père Noël's story includes a donkey named Gui and shoes left by the fireplace with carrots as offerings.
This is the story of Père Noël in French Canada.
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This is the story of Père Noël in French Canada.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
In French Canada, Santa Claus is Père Noël and sometimes Bonhomme Noël. Traditionally different from Santa Claus, Père Noël's story includes a donkey named Gui and shoes left by the fireplace with carrots as offerings.
This is the story of Père Noël in French Canada.
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This is the story of Père Noël in French Canada.
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I don't think I'll ever understand the link between buying blue cheese and Christmas.
Is it something newish, contrived by the trade, like De Beers propagating the modern custom of giving diamond engagement rings in 1939?
Is it something newish, contrived by the trade, like De Beers propagating the modern custom of giving diamond engagement rings in 1939?
December 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I don't think I'll ever understand the link between buying blue cheese and Christmas.
Is it something newish, contrived by the trade, like De Beers propagating the modern custom of giving diamond engagement rings in 1939?
Is it something newish, contrived by the trade, like De Beers propagating the modern custom of giving diamond engagement rings in 1939?
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Italian government has taken €3.5bn away from the Messina Strait bridge project to cover holes in this year's budget. Money previously diverted from other projects in the south on the excuse that the bridge would be the miraculous solution to all the south's problems, now to be spent all over Italy.
Ponte, «riprogrammati» 3,5 miliardi: il governo li userà per coprire il buco degli incentivi
Nel pacchetto di modifiche al Senato c'è l'uso dei fondi in emergenza per finanziare il boom di istanze delle imprese per Transizione 4.0 e 5.0 e per il credito d’imposta Zes
www.lasicilia.it
December 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Italian government has taken €3.5bn away from the Messina Strait bridge project to cover holes in this year's budget. Money previously diverted from other projects in the south on the excuse that the bridge would be the miraculous solution to all the south's problems, now to be spent all over Italy.
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horrendous company
"data suggests Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles"
that's just really really bad sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...
that's just really really bad sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...
Tesla’s 29 Austin Robotaxis have crashed 8 times since June, as data suggests they perform much worse than human drivers
That’s a lot of crashes for such a small fleet....
sherwood.news
December 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
horrendous company
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"[T]his National Security Strategy is not really a strategy document. It is a suicide note. If the ideas within it are really used to shape policy, then U.S. influence in the world will rapidly disappear, and America’s ability to defend itself and its allies will diminish."
The Longest Suicide Note in American History — The Atlantic
The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.
apple.news
December 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"[T]his National Security Strategy is not really a strategy document. It is a suicide note. If the ideas within it are really used to shape policy, then U.S. influence in the world will rapidly disappear, and America’s ability to defend itself and its allies will diminish."
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This watercolour of a pond at Lolworth became even more impressionistic because I went away from my easel and the wind blew it face down into the water. A brave lady rescued it and it was propped up in the sunshine to dry. I started another one leaving this one as it was. #art #pleinair #ponds
December 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Watched Some Like It Hot with the 10-year-old Saturday night.
Had to pause it to explain the plot point that Daphne /Jerry marrying Osgood was impossible because men couldn’t marry men here until the year she was born.
Uncle Rob changed that.
Had to pause it to explain the plot point that Daphne /Jerry marrying Osgood was impossible because men couldn’t marry men here until the year she was born.
Uncle Rob changed that.
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Watched Some Like It Hot with the 10-year-old Saturday night.
Had to pause it to explain the plot point that Daphne /Jerry marrying Osgood was impossible because men couldn’t marry men here until the year she was born.
Uncle Rob changed that.
Had to pause it to explain the plot point that Daphne /Jerry marrying Osgood was impossible because men couldn’t marry men here until the year she was born.
Uncle Rob changed that.
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Driving 162km in a 60km zone, kills his friend and then walks away from the scene and leaves his friends dead body in the car.
Speeds this high resulting in death should be almost classed as murder, there's clear knowledge that you have a extremely high chance of a collision causing death.
Speeds this high resulting in death should be almost classed as murder, there's clear knowledge that you have a extremely high chance of a collision causing death.
Man who left dead friend in crashed car jailed for more than six years
Jake Kelly walked away from crash near Celbridge in which Ross Rice was killed
www.irishtimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Driving 162km in a 60km zone, kills his friend and then walks away from the scene and leaves his friends dead body in the car.
Speeds this high resulting in death should be almost classed as murder, there's clear knowledge that you have a extremely high chance of a collision causing death.
Speeds this high resulting in death should be almost classed as murder, there's clear knowledge that you have a extremely high chance of a collision causing death.
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Never forget the time in 2020 Charlie Kirk (dead now) pretended to be a black guy on Twitter but forgot to switch accounts when giving himself a nice compliment.
December 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Never forget the time in 2020 Charlie Kirk (dead now) pretended to be a black guy on Twitter but forgot to switch accounts when giving himself a nice compliment.
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Another datapoint for the argument that we are living through an increasingly ludicrous market bubble
December 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Another datapoint for the argument that we are living through an increasingly ludicrous market bubble
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Narrator: Bessent is unelected.
BESSENT SAYS FED IS AN UNELECTED INSTITUTION THAT LOST TRUST
December 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Narrator: Bessent is unelected.
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One thing that becomes clear when a post breaks containment and catches some general heat on this website is that reading comprehension isn’t a lot of people’s strong suit
December 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
One thing that becomes clear when a post breaks containment and catches some general heat on this website is that reading comprehension isn’t a lot of people’s strong suit
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Father and children, showing costumes, Ramallah, Palestine (1905)
Image: Boston Public Library
Image: Boston Public Library
December 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Father and children, showing costumes, Ramallah, Palestine (1905)
Image: Boston Public Library
Image: Boston Public Library
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16 Dec: feast of St Adelaide of Italy, Holy Roman Empress, who died #otd in 999. Supporter of Cluny & conversion of the Slavs, she'd retired to a convent she'd founded at Selz in Alsace in 991. (Adelaide and her second spouse Otto I at Meissen Cathedral. Kolossos)
December 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
16 Dec: feast of St Adelaide of Italy, Holy Roman Empress, who died #otd in 999. Supporter of Cluny & conversion of the Slavs, she'd retired to a convent she'd founded at Selz in Alsace in 991. (Adelaide and her second spouse Otto I at Meissen Cathedral. Kolossos)