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Stuart Grieve
@sgrieve.bsky.social
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Geomorphologist, trade union member, tired.
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Posting my UCU ballot reminded me of posting one back in 2022. It's nice to see the postbox has had a glow up.

#WeAreTheUniversity
Posting a UCU ballot into a shiny red postbox in 2025 Posting a UCU ballot in 2022 into the same postbox, but it's very rusty and the paint is cracked
October 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Just piss off. There is no world where I am letting the machine that lies to you control my terminal.
A screenshot of "whats new in version 3.6" of iterm, advertising an AI chat feature.
October 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Screenshot of a classic dril tweet reading: turning a big dial taht says 'Racism' on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right.
July 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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New diet just dropped:

🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
bALaNcEd bRiTiSh DiEt
🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Chip shop flyer advertising itself as an important part of a "balanced British diet"
May 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Next stop #EGU25!
April 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Behold! My Mental Health Fence ™️ is complete! My brain is still absolutely fucked, but now I have a fence.
A face on view of my new fence, which has a snazzy chevron design An oblique view of the fence, looking up my drive
April 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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famous Dril tweet about candles and the economy
January 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
Photo of a mixed use building with several windows. In two adjacent windows are Chelsea and Arsenal flags
January 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Found this in a charity shop. Back then I was more of a Lotus SmartSuite fan. Should I pick this up so I understand the backstory of the current edition of word?
A photo of a cd ROM of Microsoft works 2002
December 13, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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Are you having #AGU24 FOMO? Why not submit an abstract to our biogeomorph session for #EGU25?

meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
An image summarising the session details for our biogeomorphology session at EGU25: full details in an accessible format can be found at https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/session/52639 (the link in the post)
December 10, 2024 at 11:59 AM
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Well it's great to know that AC Grayling thinks I should kill myself.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...
Screenshot from the linked article, reading: He added: "If as an act of compassion you wanted to help somebody escape suffering, then why only in the last six months of a terminal illness? Why not for somebody who simply cannot come to terms with being wheelchair bound let us say? Or who is clinically depressed and is never going to be independent of medications for the rest of their lives?" Where I have highlighted the line "Or who is clinically depressed and is never going to be independent of medications"
November 25, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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I bought a large amount of screws today at an excellent price, if anyone was wondering how I was doing.
A box containing smaller boxes of assorted screws in a range of sizes
November 23, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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IBM PS/1

I spent ages reading all the manual pages and playing shareware games like Commander Keen.
Photo of an old IBM PS/1 computer
November 17, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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I am thrilled that we are boiling the oceans for this shit
Google AI crap informing the user that 1000 characters of text is equal to 6000 words, assuming an average word length of 6 characters. It goes on to say that the exact word count depends on how long the words are.
October 31, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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Nibs approves of the idea of a holiday in his honour.

Here he is just after being fed some tuna as compensation for having to take some pills.
October 27, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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A photo of my black fluffy cat sitting in a pile of leaves An image of Nibbler from Futurama
October 21, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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Steamed hams Simpsons meme edited so that Chalmers is saying "good lord what is happening in there?" While pointing at a door labelled "Scientific Reports"
October 20, 2024 at 9:04 AM
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Starmer 🤝 a busy charity shop
Screenshot of BBC news article stating that starmer will no longer accept clothes donations
September 20, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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Nibs is assisting me in pulling cables today.
The worlds fluffiest black cat pulls string through a cable conduit
September 20, 2024 at 10:43 AM
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Just missed out on first half million! #502,407!
September 17, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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Spending my week's holiday the only way I know how: digging a big hole
Photo of the growing trench I am digging in my garden
September 17, 2024 at 10:56 AM
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It's days like today that really remind me why I became an academic
A photo of an empty computer lab. Taken by a very tired lecturer who could've stayed in his nice warm bed.
December 1, 2023 at 10:15 AM
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His winter floof is coming in
A very fluffy black cat lies on a yellow bed, looking fluffy.
October 17, 2023 at 8:01 AM
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What is happening?
Creepy door nonce admits his crimes
September 21, 2023 at 11:54 AM
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I was trying to come up with an amusing portmanteau for when you are tired and sad. Then I realised there is already a word for that.
Closeup of a map that says depression on it
September 1, 2023 at 3:33 PM