Widdersbel
@widdersbel.bsky.social
Mostly baking and crosswords
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I viscerally hate Trump and all that he stands for. And he can check my social media history as much as he likes - I have no intention of going to the US while he is president anyway.
December 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I viscerally hate Trump and all that he stands for. And he can check my social media history as much as he likes - I have no intention of going to the US while he is president anyway.
“Post a favourite work of art from the year exactly 50 years before you were born.”
December 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
“Post a favourite work of art from the year exactly 50 years before you were born.”
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I grew up in the 70s and 80s.
If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece.
Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis.
Hope that helps.
If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece.
Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis.
Hope that helps.
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I grew up in the 70s and 80s.
If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece.
Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis.
Hope that helps.
If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece.
Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis.
Hope that helps.
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I've written about the Farage antisemitism allegations - and my dismay at the behaviour of some who, now that the accused is more to their political liking, seem keen to sweep this all under the carpet.
www.jewishnews.co.uk/farages-scho...
www.jewishnews.co.uk/farages-scho...
December 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I've written about the Farage antisemitism allegations - and my dismay at the behaviour of some who, now that the accused is more to their political liking, seem keen to sweep this all under the carpet.
www.jewishnews.co.uk/farages-scho...
www.jewishnews.co.uk/farages-scho...
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December 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Letters in the Times - expressing disgust at anti-immigrant racism and the “Trump doctrine”- a meddling, authoritarian plan to undermine European democracies in order to have us all at the mercy of his USA or Putin’s Russia.
For all our sakes and futures, that *must* not happen.
For all our sakes and futures, that *must* not happen.
December 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Letters in the Times - expressing disgust at anti-immigrant racism and the “Trump doctrine”- a meddling, authoritarian plan to undermine European democracies in order to have us all at the mercy of his USA or Putin’s Russia.
For all our sakes and futures, that *must* not happen.
For all our sakes and futures, that *must* not happen.
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"Sony is defending against the claim. Its lawyer, Robert Howe KC, told the court in his written submissions that the producers of the albums owned the original recording copyright, not the musicians".
The record industry defined in one paragraph.
The record industry defined in one paragraph.
Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell ‘died in relative poverty’, the High Court was told ⬇️
Estates of Jimi Hendrix’s bandmates sue over streaming rights
Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell ‘died in relative poverty’, the High Court was told
www.thetimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"Sony is defending against the claim. Its lawyer, Robert Howe KC, told the court in his written submissions that the producers of the albums owned the original recording copyright, not the musicians".
The record industry defined in one paragraph.
The record industry defined in one paragraph.
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Really interesting piece, plus the work done could be titled „imagine if Google gave a shit about its ratings”
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Really interesting piece, plus the work done could be titled „imagine if Google gave a shit about its ratings”
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The NHS is under pressure to adopt Palantir software. Its founder openly despises the NHS.
You can push back: use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir
https://goodlaw.social/658abc
You can push back: use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir
https://goodlaw.social/658abc
December 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The NHS is under pressure to adopt Palantir software. Its founder openly despises the NHS.
You can push back: use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir
https://goodlaw.social/658abc
You can push back: use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir
https://goodlaw.social/658abc
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pals you gotta quit spotify
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
pals you gotta quit spotify
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Lots of people were overtly racist in the 1970s and 80s is such a weird line. Ok, but not everyone saw it as permission to be racist themselves. Lots of people saw it as something that needed to be changed. It’s the latter that I admire.
December 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Lots of people were overtly racist in the 1970s and 80s is such a weird line. Ok, but not everyone saw it as permission to be racist themselves. Lots of people saw it as something that needed to be changed. It’s the latter that I admire.
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Breaking: Jeffrey Archer awarded FIFA Prize For Literature
December 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Breaking: Jeffrey Archer awarded FIFA Prize For Literature
Back when I worked on a restaurant guide in the late 90s, the editor’s line was “having a no-smoking area in a restaurant is like having a no-pissing area in a swimming pool”
I'm old enough to remember when you'd go into a restaurant and the first thing they'd say was "smoking or non" as if cigarette smoke would stay on one side of an enclosed space. The cultural shift on tobacco use over my lifetime is really remarkable and I don't think it could be replicated today.
it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.
December 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Back when I worked on a restaurant guide in the late 90s, the editor’s line was “having a no-smoking area in a restaurant is like having a no-pissing area in a swimming pool”
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Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
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Spotify wrapped 2025:
Funded research into AI military drones
Allowed AI generated music
Used Ghost artists
Had a dodgy market share based model
Didn’t pay artists adequately
Funded research into AI military drones
Allowed AI generated music
Used Ghost artists
Had a dodgy market share based model
Didn’t pay artists adequately
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Spotify wrapped 2025:
Funded research into AI military drones
Allowed AI generated music
Used Ghost artists
Had a dodgy market share based model
Didn’t pay artists adequately
Funded research into AI military drones
Allowed AI generated music
Used Ghost artists
Had a dodgy market share based model
Didn’t pay artists adequately
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Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?
December 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?
Seen in window of local second-hand music/dvd/memorabilia emporium - wonder if it includes Ed Reardon’s episode…
December 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Seen in window of local second-hand music/dvd/memorabilia emporium - wonder if it includes Ed Reardon’s episode…
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Must have: ability to carry a trombone.
Must not have: fixed gear.
Take that, hipsters!
👏 @cyclinguk.bsky.social
Must not have: fixed gear.
Take that, hipsters!
👏 @cyclinguk.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Must have: ability to carry a trombone.
Must not have: fixed gear.
Take that, hipsters!
👏 @cyclinguk.bsky.social
Must not have: fixed gear.
Take that, hipsters!
👏 @cyclinguk.bsky.social
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The lovely @johnfinnemore.bsky.social (and he won’t mind me saying that as he’s not REALLY on here) has got some pallets of this diamond (by which I mean excellent and harder than rock) puzzle back from the Unbound catastrafuck. He got zero from them for reasons. buy this and he gets deserved cash!
The Researcher's First Murder
A new Cain's Jawbone puzzle by John Finnemore.
johnfinnemoreshop.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The lovely @johnfinnemore.bsky.social (and he won’t mind me saying that as he’s not REALLY on here) has got some pallets of this diamond (by which I mean excellent and harder than rock) puzzle back from the Unbound catastrafuck. He got zero from them for reasons. buy this and he gets deserved cash!
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Proffsssor Plummm, in the master roksn, with the candlcstrikk
December 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Proffsssor Plummm, in the master roksn, with the candlcstrikk
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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May we never stop trying to write cricket bats.
![HENRY: Shut up and listen. This thing here, which looks like a wooden club, is actually several pieces of particular wood cunningly put together in a certain way so that the whole thing is sprung, like a dance floor. It’s for hitting cricket balls with. If you get it right, the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds, and all you’ve done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout, and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly… (He clucks his tongue to make the noise.) What we’re trying to do is to write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might … travel … (He clucks his tongue again and picks up the script.) Now, what we’ve got here is a lump of wood of roughly the same shape trying to be a cricket bat, and if you hit a ball with it, the ball will travel about ten feet and you will drop the bat and dance about shouting ‘Ouch!’ with your hands stuck into your armpits. (Indicating the cricket bat.) This isn’t better because someone says it’s better, or because there’s a conspiracy by the MCC to keep cudgels out of Lords. It’s better because it’s better. You don’t believe me, so I suggest you go out to bat with this and see how you get on. [quoting from the play] ‘You’re a strange boy, Billy, how old are you?”Twenty, but I’ve lived more than you’ll ever live.’ Ooh, ouch! (He drops the script and hops about with his hands in his armpits, going ‘Ouch!’ ANNIE watches him expressionlessly until he desists.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tfusco6lurhflepbh3g7m7s5/bafkreihts3fxnflkahxc7f6q4gpmjmbfxxkoeerd7ksiqmqvgl2mvgerbe@jpeg)
November 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
May we never stop trying to write cricket bats.