markruddy
@markruddy.bsky.social
Data science and Geospatial @Arup.
Liveable cities.
Music!
Ex-palaeo and archaeo person. Views from my brainbox.
SUFC:UTB; CCFC:Tons
Liveable cities.
Music!
Ex-palaeo and archaeo person. Views from my brainbox.
SUFC:UTB; CCFC:Tons
Loving the post match broadcast from bbc sport on the Scotland game. Refreshing. Good stats.
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Loving the post match broadcast from bbc sport on the Scotland game. Refreshing. Good stats.
Peck with good vision for an assist in Slovakia v England U21 to make it 0-2. Also had a shot scrambled off the line and a good save from the SVK keeper from distance #sufc #bskyblades
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Peck with good vision for an assist in Slovakia v England U21 to make it 0-2. Also had a shot scrambled off the line and a good save from the SVK keeper from distance #sufc #bskyblades
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Is it milk?
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Is it milk?
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
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Excellent and courageous investigative journalism.
The fact that it is (apparently) legal to do this to people is utterly disgusting.
The fact that it is (apparently) legal to do this to people is utterly disgusting.
“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...
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 4:12 PM
Excellent and courageous investigative journalism.
The fact that it is (apparently) legal to do this to people is utterly disgusting.
The fact that it is (apparently) legal to do this to people is utterly disgusting.
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Cross posted from Mastodon. If you have lost a distinctive ring in the Woodseats area of Sheffield....
#Sheffield #LostAndFound
mastodon.social/@Vibracobra2...
#Sheffield #LostAndFound
mastodon.social/@Vibracobra2...
Chris Bond (@[email protected])
I found a gold and diamond ring found today on Chesterfield Road in Woodseats, Sheffield, somewhere near the Woodseats Fisheries and Mr Personality tattoo shop area. If anyone knows anyone who's lost ...
mastodon.social
November 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Cross posted from Mastodon. If you have lost a distinctive ring in the Woodseats area of Sheffield....
#Sheffield #LostAndFound
mastodon.social/@Vibracobra2...
#Sheffield #LostAndFound
mastodon.social/@Vibracobra2...
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If you have any questions for Oliver and Adrian, now is the time!
Tonight on my Soho Radio show, it's a Beatles Anthology spesh in which I'll be joined by Oliver Murray, producer of the new #Beatles Anthology episode and assistant editor and archive producer Adrian Winter. I'll be on air from 6pm, with Ollie and Adrian joining us from 7pm.
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
If you have any questions for Oliver and Adrian, now is the time!
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Interested studying human evolution at @ucl.ac.uk with a dedicated MSc in palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology, Ice Age fauna, isotopes, aDNA, ancient environments & more?
Get in touch for a chat or even a tour of the department with me.
@uclarchaeology.bsky.social #PaPa
🏺🦣🧪
Get in touch for a chat or even a tour of the department with me.
@uclarchaeology.bsky.social #PaPa
🏺🦣🧪
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Interested studying human evolution at @ucl.ac.uk with a dedicated MSc in palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology, Ice Age fauna, isotopes, aDNA, ancient environments & more?
Get in touch for a chat or even a tour of the department with me.
@uclarchaeology.bsky.social #PaPa
🏺🦣🧪
Get in touch for a chat or even a tour of the department with me.
@uclarchaeology.bsky.social #PaPa
🏺🦣🧪
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New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
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Assorted mascots
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Assorted mascots
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Jupiter again. I love it when the big moons all spread out like this. Can't get my head around how fast they move.
November 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Jupiter again. I love it when the big moons all spread out like this. Can't get my head around how fast they move.
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The World Character Summit 2025 in Hanyu City today
November 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The World Character Summit 2025 in Hanyu City today
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It's the first time an official comet trajectory is determined using data from another planet! 🔭 @science.esa.int @operations.esa.int
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
It's the first time an official comet trajectory is determined using data from another planet! 🔭 @science.esa.int @operations.esa.int
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While this budget psychodrama is playing out, my LinkedIn feed is full of heat pump engineers worrying their business is doomed because of an HMT briefing yesterday, and there’s a prominent story about the imminent collapse of the SEND system.
Bad fiscal policy has real world consequences
Bad fiscal policy has real world consequences
November 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
While this budget psychodrama is playing out, my LinkedIn feed is full of heat pump engineers worrying their business is doomed because of an HMT briefing yesterday, and there’s a prominent story about the imminent collapse of the SEND system.
Bad fiscal policy has real world consequences
Bad fiscal policy has real world consequences
Miffed my life didn’t head to this end point. Onwards.
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Miffed my life didn’t head to this end point. Onwards.
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Nothing is quite absolute and whether
you’re seeking or fleeing, all roads lead
home. Move far enough in one direction,
landfall always rolls around again like
dawn.
'Hemisphere'
@petegreensolo.com
A short book
A long poem
An impossible journey
A snip at £6:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
you’re seeking or fleeing, all roads lead
home. Move far enough in one direction,
landfall always rolls around again like
dawn.
'Hemisphere'
@petegreensolo.com
A short book
A long poem
An impossible journey
A snip at £6:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
November 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Nothing is quite absolute and whether
you’re seeking or fleeing, all roads lead
home. Move far enough in one direction,
landfall always rolls around again like
dawn.
'Hemisphere'
@petegreensolo.com
A short book
A long poem
An impossible journey
A snip at £6:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
you’re seeking or fleeing, all roads lead
home. Move far enough in one direction,
landfall always rolls around again like
dawn.
'Hemisphere'
@petegreensolo.com
A short book
A long poem
An impossible journey
A snip at £6:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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Lots of stuff here that you won't read in most of the legacy media which seems completely uninterested in the backgrounds, associations and possible motivations of those behind the BBC crisis.
Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?
Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Lots of stuff here that you won't read in most of the legacy media which seems completely uninterested in the backgrounds, associations and possible motivations of those behind the BBC crisis.
Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?
Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?
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OTD 1978 THE BATTLE OF BRISBANE ROAD - #Referee Ken Baker sent off #sufc defender Tony Kenworthy and booked six others - Div 2 Orient 1-1 Sheffield United Att 5,540 #LOFC Kitchen #twitterblades Anderson
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
OTD 1978 THE BATTLE OF BRISBANE ROAD - #Referee Ken Baker sent off #sufc defender Tony Kenworthy and booked six others - Div 2 Orient 1-1 Sheffield United Att 5,540 #LOFC Kitchen #twitterblades Anderson
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New article, definitely something for the social history fans - the monkey parade (or 'monkey run'). Teenagers promenading in towns and cities on Sunday evenings, flirting, cruising. It was dubbed the “monkey parade” or the “monkey run”.
davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
Before Tinder, there was the Monkey Parade…
How our grandparents and their parents found romance.
davehaslam.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
New article, definitely something for the social history fans - the monkey parade (or 'monkey run'). Teenagers promenading in towns and cities on Sunday evenings, flirting, cruising. It was dubbed the “monkey parade” or the “monkey run”.
davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...
Went for a PhD at Cambridge. Simon Conway-Morris interviewed. Asked me about palaeontological record of this symbiosis. Fuxked up the answer. Don’t hold it against the crabs or the anemones. Good for them.
Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Went for a PhD at Cambridge. Simon Conway-Morris interviewed. Asked me about palaeontological record of this symbiosis. Fuxked up the answer. Don’t hold it against the crabs or the anemones. Good for them.
Tonight. I am again drawn to thinking about an NME compilation. And how, somewhere along the many house moves and ‘lending people things’, I no longer own this cherished VHS.
youtu.be/U7_6Juc6H98?...
youtu.be/U7_6Juc6H98?...
Various Artists - Video Clips (Carry on Disarming 1989) #2
YouTube video by tooolest32
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Tonight. I am again drawn to thinking about an NME compilation. And how, somewhere along the many house moves and ‘lending people things’, I no longer own this cherished VHS.
youtu.be/U7_6Juc6H98?...
youtu.be/U7_6Juc6H98?...
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On Saturday, apropos of nothing in particular, we walked down into Bowie Country. So, this is the site of the house on Southend Road, Beckenham, in which David lived from October ’69 to May ’73 and passed the time writing The Man Who Sold The World, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane. [1/5]
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
On Saturday, apropos of nothing in particular, we walked down into Bowie Country. So, this is the site of the house on Southend Road, Beckenham, in which David lived from October ’69 to May ’73 and passed the time writing The Man Who Sold The World, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane. [1/5]
This has been in my stairwell for weeks now and it makes me lol every time I pass it.
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Sandwiches are the new (legal) Molatov cocktails
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Sandwiches are the new (legal) Molatov cocktails
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Brussels 1665 looking E. Blue dot: la Chapelle. Red dot: Grosse Tour, built 1420s, blown up 1807. A terrace was built here for Waterloo tourists to enjoy sundowners with a view. The area became popular with English immigrants, who built a church, now a nightclub. Avenue Louise now starts here
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Brussels 1665 looking E. Blue dot: la Chapelle. Red dot: Grosse Tour, built 1420s, blown up 1807. A terrace was built here for Waterloo tourists to enjoy sundowners with a view. The area became popular with English immigrants, who built a church, now a nightclub. Avenue Louise now starts here
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Only the second radiolarian I’ve seen in my life, and this one is a chonks!
#marineplankton #protistsonsky 🦑
#marineplankton #protistsonsky 🦑
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Only the second radiolarian I’ve seen in my life, and this one is a chonks!
#marineplankton #protistsonsky 🦑
#marineplankton #protistsonsky 🦑