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🐧 IT. Old. Gay. Rejoiner. Essex to Newcastle to London. If I can't make Italy would try Scotland next. @[email protected]

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · Jan 31

What do you do about fascism?

In my early teens I learned about Hitler and Chamberlain and Churchill in a formal education setting.

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 16h

Kemi at the Speccy

If you thought that Boris Johnson was going to be the Spectator's last Prime Minister, then think again: Kemi Badenoch worked at the Conservative Party's journal of ideas from 2015 to 2016, which is a fascinatingly short stint. Intrigued by this, we asked a number of her former co-workers about her tenure at Old Queen Street, where she worked as a digital director.

She was 'unbelievably crap' according to one source, who relays that she was inefficient and idle, who struggled with organisation, loudly declaring that tasks were her 'top priority, my top priority', before leaving them unfinished at the end of the week.

She would make bizarre non-sequiturs in meetings, saying that 'the Spectator is a shop, and the editorial team are the shop window', and advertise that she spent a lot of time on the 'message boards'. She also, in one source's telling, would announce that 'there is no one more right-wing than me' to her colleagues at the magazine. Leaving in 2016 to focus on her nascent political career, she maintains friendships with Fraser Nelson and Andrew Neil, but operated a 'kiss-up, kick-down' policy, and was apparently combative and rude to her junior staff.

All the sources we spoke to are astonished that she is being spoken about as a potential Prime Minister. So what does Michael Gove see in her?

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 19h

Oilfield Units: a Measurement System so Cursed it made me Change Career

youtu.be/sdWEGzWFcCc?...

#IndustrialInsanity

Oilfield Units: a Measurement System so Cursed it made me Change Career

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 22h

⚠️ Rabbit hole alert! ⚠️ 🤣

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 1d

Completely hooked this morning by a website recommended to me. It's called oldmapsonline.org and you can time-scroll through the history of countries, call up information on old & even older states, browse famous people or battles big (& when you zoom in, small). Fascinating! Let me show you:

Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 22h

Crusty!

#Food #Cooking #bread #Sound

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Terence Eden’s Blog @shkspr.mobi · 1d

## How to *actually* test your readme

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/how-to-actually-test-your-readme/

If you've spent any time using Linux, you'll be used to installing software like this:

> The README says to download from this link. Huh, I'm not sure how […]

[Original post on shkspr.mobi]

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 23h

Corporal Bone Spurs?

Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 1d

Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 23h

"L'État, c'est moi" ?

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 1d

Bought some of Waitrose extra strong Canadian bread flour to experiment with. This one yeasted, basic recipe (in the image description) and baked with steam.

Very satisfactory resulting 900g loaf. 🍞 🍽️ 🧑‍🍳 🍜

#food #cooking #bread #breadsky

Large round loaf with crossed scores very widened in the oven spring.

Many shades of golden brown shading to deep brown at the corners where the score lines crossed.

600g Canadian extra strong (14.9% protein) bread flour
400g water (67% hydration)
12g salt
7g instant yeast

Mix and rest 20 minutes. Traditional kneading 12 minutes. Proof until doubled in size. Knock back, shape and proof until doubled again.

Bake at 240°C (475°F) in a covered tray with 4 ice cubes for 30 mins.
Remove cover and continue at 220°C (425°F) for a further 30 minutes.

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 1d

Soss, egg'n'chips.

But the egg wasn't there and the chips are wedges done in the oven.

#food #cooking #dinner

Three well done British style sausages on a plate, backed by a pile of oven roasted potato wedges with herby bits.

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𝕎𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕖𝕩𝕎𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 @wessexweather.net · 1d

This is a huge milestone.

www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

Renewables overtake coal globally for first time on record | ITV News

A think tank has found that the world may be reaching a ‘crucial turning point’ in the shift towards clean energy. | ITV National News

www.itv.com

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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 1d

They shouldn't even have to call in sick. No employer, not even a government agency, should expect workers to turn in for no pay.

There shouldn't be a plane off the ground in US airspace right now.

Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 2d

Having just binged a series with Alan Cumming in mid-forties plus playing an American midwesterner then jumping to Taggart where at 20 years old he's heavily (and natively, I guess) Scottish is somewhat discombobulating. 🤣

#TV #film #drama

Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 2d

www.newsweek.com/judge-diane-...

Judge Diane Goodstein’s home burns to ground after ruling against Trump

Judge Diane Goodstein's husband was among those injured after he jumped from the burning house.

www.newsweek.com

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Hobby baker @kijana105.bsky.social · 3d

I went rogue, made a Bakewell tart with quince pulp rather than raspberry jam (tradition in this house at least). Served with whipped cream.
#hobbybaker #homemade #foodiesky #foodie #Whatscooking 🍽️