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Neil Turner

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Millennial Yorkshire queer partially deaf geek dad/husband. Works in university admissions, specialising in PhD and MBA. Likes photography and social media, doesn't like writing in the third person. He/him 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️#LGBwiththeT https://neilturner.me.uk

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · Nov 16

I guess it's time for another #introduction post? I'm Neil, I work in Higher Education and have been *very* online for a long time. Currently a co-chair of LGBTQ+ staff network at work, hearing aid user, interested in transport and live in Yorkshire. Blog at neilturner.me.uk updated every other day.

Hello. - Neil Turner's Blog

I’m Neil Turner, a UK-based queer higher education professional with interests in technology, social media and photography, and this is my presence on the web. I have a blog (here), and I am also on t...

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 5h

More water bills rises announced today, on top of those already planned.

Privatisation without competition, arguably the worst of both worlds

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · 3h

We bought a second hand, second gen Leaf in the summer - our first EV. Love it so far - especially e-pedal.

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It's worth listening to @herring1967.bsky.social interviewing Andrew Lownie last week about this book and the amount of lawyering that it needed before publication. www.rhlstp.co.uk/website.cgi?...

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 4h

Useful comparison

A graphic showing the enormous improvements since the launch of the original Nissan Leaf 14 years ago the new one goes four times further charges three times faster has two times more power and is 36% cheaper than the original

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · 4h

One perk of working in a 1960s building which hasn't been completely modernised yet, is that you sometimes see examples of original signage like this.

An old sign which says:
LIFT CAPACITY 10 PERSONS
it is
DANGEROUS
to
EXCEED THIS LOAD"

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 5h

banter timeline is full roflcopter this morning

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · 5h

If you're interested in the Unbound/Boundless Publishing saga, this week's Realms Unknown podcast with @alicefraser.bsky.social is well worth your time.

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We made a hit book, and saw none of the money! Chris and Alice Unleashed!!! B’Ankruptcy Edition — Realms Unknown

Chris and Alice tell the story of their experiences around Alice’s hit book A Passion For Passion. A book that has generated over £50,000 in sales (maybe much more), yet we have barely seen a Penny. W...

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 17h

Due to staff shortages, wizards are developing bad backs.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 15h

A great article from Rachel, who really understands the heart and soul of Dad’s work.

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Philip Lickley @philiplickley.bsky.social · 20h

It's going to take me 75 minutes to walk from Stratford to Canary Wharf.

TL;DLR

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Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 1d

"Eyüpsultan" is what your 1970s Northern Dad used to say when he went in the curry house.

A close up of the Istanbul Metro map showing tram stops called Eyüpsultan.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc.

I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"

People got SUPER mad with it.

Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · 21h

New Post: When you should (and shouldn’t) charge your electric car to 100%

When you should (and shouldn't) charge your electric car to 100% - Neil Turner's Blog

Something to bear in mind about electric cars is that their batteries will degrade slightly over time. As the batteries age, the maximum range obtainable from the batteries on a full charge will go down....

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 22h

If you like tea. Really, an awful lot of tea - then the entire 8,000 teapot collection of the Teapot Museum is to be sold at auction.

That's a lot of tea.

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Spout about it! More than 8,000 novelty teapots up for sale in Kent - Hansons Auctioneers

The world’s second largest collection of novelty teapots – 8,540 in total – is set to sell at Hansons Auctioneers’ Kent saleroom this month. Once displayed at the famous Teapot Island museum and café,...

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 21h

AI is like a Trolley Problem for media CEOs, except they don't realize the options are actually "stop the trolley" or "the trolley runs me over six months after I let it run over my employees."

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 1d

22.00 FILM: EVRI-THING, EVRI-WHERE ALL AT ONCE. Award-winning multiverse adventure when you parcel is somehow at the depot, in transit, in your safe place, left with a neighbour, delayed, returned to sender, in your green bin, all at the same time- but never actually with you.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like we're mentioning this about once a week as the gvt, shadow gvt & Unofficial Shadow Gvt all stick their fingers in their ears & go 'AH LA LA LA LA WE ARE A PROUD COUNTRY OF HOARY HANDED FISHERMEN, METAL BASHERS AND CYBER GUYS AND NOTHING ELSE'

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d

Without one I just couldn’t balance work/kids and would have given in and bought a car. The biggest challenge for mass take-up is everyone’s buying them through regressive Cycle to Work tax dodge. So a £5k bike costs 12 x £241 monthly payments if you’re high earner or 12 x £416 if you’re in poverty.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 1d

Electric cargo bikes can replace many everyday car trips for the average family and “reshape suburban family mobility”, say Oxford University researchers. 49 British households were loaned e-cargo bikes for school runs, shopping trips, family outings and other day-to-day use.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

the wave of weaponized nostalgia for 90s-style multiculturalism and political correctness is gonna hit different

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 1d

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 2d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1d

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 1d

tories have this duality where they will thunder about humanities degrees being rip-off waste of time but will tell starry-eyed how you Boris Johnson is a genius because he memorised the first six lines of the Iliad in Greek, which you can in fact do without even knowing Greek

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 1d

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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