Liz
@lizlansdown.bsky.social
🌈♾️ Neurodivergent | 🏳️🌈 Queer
🐈⬛🐈 Cat parent to Tiffy & Milli | 👩❤️👨 Partner to Bod | Loves: 📚🌳🧶 🎮 🎨
🐈⬛🐈 Cat parent to Tiffy & Milli | 👩❤️👨 Partner to Bod | Loves: 📚🌳🧶 🎮 🎨
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“A collapse into government control under a special administration regime (SAR) – a form of temporary nationalisation – ‘could occur in the very near term’”
It should’ve happened at the start!
https://bit.ly/3MfTFBp
It should’ve happened at the start!
https://bit.ly/3MfTFBp
Thames Water half-year profit leaps to more than £400m after it raises bills by third
Debt-ridden utility warns of ‘material uncertainty’ with potential for a rapid collapse despite profit rise
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“A collapse into government control under a special administration regime (SAR) – a form of temporary nationalisation – ‘could occur in the very near term’”
It should’ve happened at the start!
https://bit.ly/3MfTFBp
It should’ve happened at the start!
https://bit.ly/3MfTFBp
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“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read”.
Wintersmith is in a @Librofm sale this week. UK customers can get it for £4.99 until 1/12. Select your local bookshop and profits from your purchase will be shared with them: lnk.to/Wintersmith
Wintersmith is in a @Librofm sale this week. UK customers can get it for £4.99 until 1/12. Select your local bookshop and profits from your purchase will be shared with them: lnk.to/Wintersmith
November 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read”.
Wintersmith is in a @Librofm sale this week. UK customers can get it for £4.99 until 1/12. Select your local bookshop and profits from your purchase will be shared with them: lnk.to/Wintersmith
Wintersmith is in a @Librofm sale this week. UK customers can get it for £4.99 until 1/12. Select your local bookshop and profits from your purchase will be shared with them: lnk.to/Wintersmith
So my decision to switch to Linux is now moved up my to-do list. My laptop that has been fine until recently encountered a fatal Windows error and will no longer boot as of this morning (it's W11 btw). Glad I have a fairly recent external back up of stuff. Not a stress I needed today.
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
So my decision to switch to Linux is now moved up my to-do list. My laptop that has been fine until recently encountered a fatal Windows error and will no longer boot as of this morning (it's W11 btw). Glad I have a fairly recent external back up of stuff. Not a stress I needed today.
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The UK Covid-19 Inquiry confirms what our communities have lived for years: the government’s pandemic response wasn’t just a failure - it was a historic abandonment. “Too little, too late” doesn’t capture the scale of the harm. /1
November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry confirms what our communities have lived for years: the government’s pandemic response wasn’t just a failure - it was a historic abandonment. “Too little, too late” doesn’t capture the scale of the harm. /1
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If exclusively Christian RE is indoctrination, then so is collective worship ‘wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character' – a legal requirement in ALL state schools.
End collective worship. Introduce educational assemblies that all children can participate in. humanists.uk/2025/11/19/s...
End collective worship. Introduce educational assemblies that all children can participate in. humanists.uk/2025/11/19/s...
November 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
If exclusively Christian RE is indoctrination, then so is collective worship ‘wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character' – a legal requirement in ALL state schools.
End collective worship. Introduce educational assemblies that all children can participate in. humanists.uk/2025/11/19/s...
End collective worship. Introduce educational assemblies that all children can participate in. humanists.uk/2025/11/19/s...
Been following this series and it's been cool to see it come together and to see the sheer quality of the skill of all the crafts people involved. 🪡🗡️
I always enjoy a @bernadettebanner.bsky.social video and this was no exception. 😊
youtube.com/watch?v=15MW...
I always enjoy a @bernadettebanner.bsky.social video and this was no exception. 😊
youtube.com/watch?v=15MW...
Making a Joan of Arc-Inspired Armor Dress (Finale!)
YouTube video by Bernadette Banner
youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Been following this series and it's been cool to see it come together and to see the sheer quality of the skill of all the crafts people involved. 🪡🗡️
I always enjoy a @bernadettebanner.bsky.social video and this was no exception. 😊
youtube.com/watch?v=15MW...
I always enjoy a @bernadettebanner.bsky.social video and this was no exception. 😊
youtube.com/watch?v=15MW...
Currently reading "What You Are Looking for is in the Library" by Michiko Aoyama. I picked it up on a whim when I got to go to a bookshop in the summer. So I've been reading a short story from it on and off since. This morning has been absorbed in its pages while I sip coffee, highly recommend. 😊
October 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Currently reading "What You Are Looking for is in the Library" by Michiko Aoyama. I picked it up on a whim when I got to go to a bookshop in the summer. So I've been reading a short story from it on and off since. This morning has been absorbed in its pages while I sip coffee, highly recommend. 😊
Spent a cozy morning with homebrewed coffee and a new video from Rachel Maksy. I love her creativity and seeing the process in which she pulls things together, even for "just a photoshoot". youtu.be/LzX9bMM0gRc?...
Building a "Phantom of the Opera" Set *cuz ai sucks*
YouTube video by Rachel Maksy
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October 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Spent a cozy morning with homebrewed coffee and a new video from Rachel Maksy. I love her creativity and seeing the process in which she pulls things together, even for "just a photoshoot". youtu.be/LzX9bMM0gRc?...
Thanks to HMV, a random search for Katherine Hepburn I now own the Criterion Collection release of "The Philadelphia Story", which is full of extras that have been fascinating. One is rare interview with Hepburn from 1985. She will always be inspiring to me.
www.criterion.com/films/29029-...
www.criterion.com/films/29029-...
The Philadelphia Story
With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era’s most iconic leading lady—thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestration...
www.criterion.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Thanks to HMV, a random search for Katherine Hepburn I now own the Criterion Collection release of "The Philadelphia Story", which is full of extras that have been fascinating. One is rare interview with Hepburn from 1985. She will always be inspiring to me.
www.criterion.com/films/29029-...
www.criterion.com/films/29029-...
My nice chill soundtrack for the evening is the curated playlist "80s Synth-Pop" by Qobuz UK on Qobuz open.qobuz.com/playlist/222...
And I can't get over how many songs I know, but also ones I didn't if it weren't for samples used by artists I follow in the Breaks/DnB scene from the mid 2000s.
And I can't get over how many songs I know, but also ones I didn't if it weren't for samples used by artists I follow in the Breaks/DnB scene from the mid 2000s.
Open Qobuz
open.qobuz.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
My nice chill soundtrack for the evening is the curated playlist "80s Synth-Pop" by Qobuz UK on Qobuz open.qobuz.com/playlist/222...
And I can't get over how many songs I know, but also ones I didn't if it weren't for samples used by artists I follow in the Breaks/DnB scene from the mid 2000s.
And I can't get over how many songs I know, but also ones I didn't if it weren't for samples used by artists I follow in the Breaks/DnB scene from the mid 2000s.
Just found that @neocities.org exists by complete accident, and at first I thought I clicked onto the way back machine as the site had a blinking gif starry background, stamps and banners. Turned out I wasn't on a passion project or virtual time machine but a cool open source place of personality!
October 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Just found that @neocities.org exists by complete accident, and at first I thought I clicked onto the way back machine as the site had a blinking gif starry background, stamps and banners. Turned out I wasn't on a passion project or virtual time machine but a cool open source place of personality!
New music! "Better Broken" by Sarah McLachlan is out on Qobuz, and it was really nice to listen to on the sunny weekend, and I'm just happy she's still making music when she wants to. 😊 open.qobuz.com/album/wl2a3q...
Open Qobuz
open.qobuz.com
September 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
New music! "Better Broken" by Sarah McLachlan is out on Qobuz, and it was really nice to listen to on the sunny weekend, and I'm just happy she's still making music when she wants to. 😊 open.qobuz.com/album/wl2a3q...
We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name
notinourname.org.uk
September 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
Just stumbled across this video and it is a gorgeous love letter to Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the 80s TV series adaptation and book is my preferred version, so this was even more special to watch: youtu.be/IGuooLe8MW8?...
Making a working Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy prop from junk
YouTube video by Greig Johnson Making
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September 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Just stumbled across this video and it is a gorgeous love letter to Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the 80s TV series adaptation and book is my preferred version, so this was even more special to watch: youtu.be/IGuooLe8MW8?...
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Seeing public critics of a government getting fired so mergers will be approved, while a dude who talks about “involuntarily euthanising” the homeless just has to issue an apology, is the most dystopian crap I’ve ever seen.
September 18, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Seeing public critics of a government getting fired so mergers will be approved, while a dude who talks about “involuntarily euthanising” the homeless just has to issue an apology, is the most dystopian crap I’ve ever seen.
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JK Rowling is threatening to sue our founder Jo Maugham unless we back down. We look forward to seeing them in court.
September 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
JK Rowling is threatening to sue our founder Jo Maugham unless we back down. We look forward to seeing them in court.
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Terry Pratchett wrote of Golems with no sex who chose to be identified as men … and Gladys … the Golem that identified as a woman … and was respected for *her* identity …
and wrote of the importance of words we *choose* for ourselves …
And making up our *own* mind on what that means.
and wrote of the importance of words we *choose* for ourselves …
And making up our *own* mind on what that means.
August 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Terry Pratchett wrote of Golems with no sex who chose to be identified as men … and Gladys … the Golem that identified as a woman … and was respected for *her* identity …
and wrote of the importance of words we *choose* for ourselves …
And making up our *own* mind on what that means.
and wrote of the importance of words we *choose* for ourselves …
And making up our *own* mind on what that means.
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Please share our NEW blog!
Also, please do use any of our images to promote this petition.
#KeepCovidBoosters
www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/keep-nh...
Also, please do use any of our images to promote this petition.
#KeepCovidBoosters
www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/keep-nh...
Protect Clinically Vulnerable People #KeepCovidBoosters
From autumn 2025, millions of people at higher risk from COVID-19 will be denied an NHS COVID booster. This includes many who were once officially told to shield because of their risks.
Vaccines wil...
www.clinicallyvulnerable.org
August 31, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Please share our NEW blog!
Also, please do use any of our images to promote this petition.
#KeepCovidBoosters
www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/keep-nh...
Also, please do use any of our images to promote this petition.
#KeepCovidBoosters
www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/keep-nh...
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On 27th August 2015, The Shepherd's Crown, the last book Sir Terry Pratchett completed before he died, was published.
To mark the ten year anniversary, we have a message from Rob Wilkins:
To mark the ten year anniversary, we have a message from Rob Wilkins:
August 27, 2025 at 8:35 AM
On 27th August 2015, The Shepherd's Crown, the last book Sir Terry Pratchett completed before he died, was published.
To mark the ten year anniversary, we have a message from Rob Wilkins:
To mark the ten year anniversary, we have a message from Rob Wilkins:
Was evaluating MobiSystems Office suite to replace M$, as I've used their File App for years on Android. Plus feature similarity to Office365. Today I used the Docs app for the first time in months, it's now got AI I can't turn off. It got uninstalled. Users should have control over feature on/off.
August 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Was evaluating MobiSystems Office suite to replace M$, as I've used their File App for years on Android. Plus feature similarity to Office365. Today I used the Docs app for the first time in months, it's now got AI I can't turn off. It got uninstalled. Users should have control over feature on/off.
youtube.com/watch?v=s-0b...
I will not be available when this game comes out. It may prove a problem for things like work, sleep, food... Needless to say I am very much looking forward to this. 🤩
I will not be available when this game comes out. It may prove a problem for things like work, sleep, food... Needless to say I am very much looking forward to this. 🤩
Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown | Announcement Teaser
YouTube video by Daedalic Entertainment
youtube.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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I will not be available when this game comes out. It may prove a problem for things like work, sleep, food... Needless to say I am very much looking forward to this. 🤩
I will not be available when this game comes out. It may prove a problem for things like work, sleep, food... Needless to say I am very much looking forward to this. 🤩
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Word of the day is ‘forwallowed’ (15th century): extremely weary from tossing and turning all night.
July 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Word of the day is ‘forwallowed’ (15th century): extremely weary from tossing and turning all night.
Tiffany enjoying the shaded & cooler air in the patio garden (it stops getting sun in the afternoon so cools down enough to use).
We were also cleaning up & put her favourite felt playmat out to air on the airer. She loves sitting on it & it's become her favourite evening spot to watch the birds.
We were also cleaning up & put her favourite felt playmat out to air on the airer. She loves sitting on it & it's become her favourite evening spot to watch the birds.
June 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Tiffany enjoying the shaded & cooler air in the patio garden (it stops getting sun in the afternoon so cools down enough to use).
We were also cleaning up & put her favourite felt playmat out to air on the airer. She loves sitting on it & it's become her favourite evening spot to watch the birds.
We were also cleaning up & put her favourite felt playmat out to air on the airer. She loves sitting on it & it's become her favourite evening spot to watch the birds.
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“It is possible to meet our carbon budgets for 2030 and 2050, provided we take steps forward [on policy]. It’s very important that our country steps up to deliver our commitments” – CCC Chair @piersforster.bsky.social on their latest optimistic report:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK can reach net zero by 2050, climate report finds
Climate Change Committee says current targets could be met provided country takes ‘steps forward’ to achieve them
www.theguardian.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“It is possible to meet our carbon budgets for 2030 and 2050, provided we take steps forward [on policy]. It’s very important that our country steps up to deliver our commitments” – CCC Chair @piersforster.bsky.social on their latest optimistic report:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Well this is interesting. In a study of 428 cities, it was found that street lighting and the urban heat island worked together to extend the growing season, starting it 13 days earlier and finishing it 11 days later. Big impacts on phenology #UrbanPlants #UrbanBotany
Not only are streetlights extending the growing season and complicating species phenologies, but this effect can worsen with LEDs. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/06/stre...
Streetlights are artificially extending the growing season in cities.
What’s more, researchers found that the phenomenon will increase further as street lighting is converted to energy efficient LEDs.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
June 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Well this is interesting. In a study of 428 cities, it was found that street lighting and the urban heat island worked together to extend the growing season, starting it 13 days earlier and finishing it 11 days later. Big impacts on phenology #UrbanPlants #UrbanBotany