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National Oceanography Centre@noc.ac.uk · 3d ago

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I really don't understand why people are celebrating this when it shows that around 100 million people still approve of him. How can that happen in any functional country?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last wk.

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While this may be Boaty's first adventure under a glacier, its predecessor, Autosub2 surveyed under ice in the same area over 20 years ago. www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/in...

British Antarctic Survey 🐧@bas.ac.uk · last wk.

Boaty McBoatface has returned from its first expedition under glacial mélange! Our friends at @noc.ac.uk sent the UK's favourite submarine on a 23hr mission from the RRS Sir David Attenborough. This data will help show how Greenland's glaciers interact with the fjords and oceans.

Another lazy politician using the "rent a pensioner" lady. She's unlikely to be really struggling - but she has a good PR agent. Poverty is an important issue but please use real people to illustrate your story because using professional pundits won't help the cause.

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 2w ago

I can't afford to turn the oven on': 7.4m households struggling to buy essentials. Result of low income; high water, energy, housing costs, profiteering, frozen income tax personal allowance. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Can't build better future without redistribution

Tegan and I are going to be playing at The Newtown Pippin Acoustic Cafe tonight. Also looking forward to seeing NUNK on the same bill.

@grahamsteel.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Newtown Pippin – This Week We have some fantastic live music coming up at The Newtown Pippin, Bracknell this week with the Acoustic Café tonight (Wednesday) at 7.30pm and our Saturday Showcase starting at 3pm, to reserve a table email grahamsteelevents@gmail.com

The fridge that I inherited when I moved here seems to have turned into a freezer - just tried to cut up a melon and it was more like sorbet!

It was really interesting to read what one well known author thought about writing radio plays 100 years ago.

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · last mo.

Morning! Time for a deliciously waspish 1926 attack on the way writers are treated, by A A Milne. It's a broadside at the nascent BBC, but it's even more timely now it's "all just content". "Hush hush Whispers be stayed Alan A Milne Is throwing some shade." open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...

Can anyone make sense of this graph? Shouldn't the end point of one year line up with the start point for the following year?

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · last mo.

🌎 🌡️The world's oceans just experienced their hottest June on record and could set fresh highs in the months ahead as El Nino and climate change drive temperatures even higher, scientists said on Wednesday ➡️ u.afp.com/SKpq

I had a great night on Friday at the acoustic music night at Gallery No30 in Petersfield. I thought this James Brown classic went really well for us. youtu.be/mRl-KzIjUjA Thanks to Keith Burbidge for the video.

It's A Man's Man's Man's World

YouTube video by The Cutting Room Music

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I have a working wind up gramophone that is nearly 100 years old although the 60 year old Garrard turntable sees more use. However, my son has a Britannia musical box with metal discs from the early 1900s which he plays regularly.

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · last mo.

I always like thinking about: what is the oldest object you regularly use, the oldest thing you're using in your normal everyday life

Indeed, and that is why we need everyone to pull together in working towards genuine climate mitigation and adaptation. Astronomically expensive techofantasy concepts are distractions, not solutions, and giving them free, unbalanced publicity is not helpful.

This is an excellent article that isn't behind a pay wall.

Purple Larley@purplelarley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There is an absolutely terrific article in the FT today: 'How sentencing of 3 child rapists ignited public anger' by @georginaq.bsky.social I am generally of the opinion that the justice system should be more about protection than punishment and this article explores that tension. Well worth a read

Latest gig announcement - we'll be playing at the South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknell in October.

@grahamsteel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Posts like this about the Belfast riots are really starting to annoy me. There seems to be no recognition from these left leaning commentators that we are coming up to the marching season where tensions are always hightened. I've fed up with facile takes on the situation.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

History shows us there are 2 options when faced with a rising far right. 1. Deal with it quickly and decisively. 2. Let it win. The great majority reject it. But it doesn't need majority support: just enough thugs to intimidate everyone else. Weakness and indecision by government let it rise.

Guildford area Bass player wanted for August gigs - battle of the bands coming up on 14th August (first prize £10k) and a warm up gig at the Fiery Bird in Woking on either 31st July or 7th August - TBC. Would ideally love someone whose bass style is inspired by the Pixies, New Dad, Wet Leg.

I've had a couple of fairly well known musicians tell me that I look like Albert Lee.

Phil Harrison@mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So who's the most/least flattering person you've ever been compared to? I once got mistaken for Hugh Grant. I also once got told I looked like Bob Geldof...

I'm finding it hard to take this @theguardian.com newsletter seriously these days. They seem obsessed by AI to the exclusion of almost everything else. Maybe it is just another example of the dumbed down state of journalism these days. www.theguardian.com/technology/s...

Less than 10 to go at the time of writing...

Tori Herridge@toriherridge.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happy centenary Sir David! Are there one hundred things named after David Attenborough? Surely we should be able to compile a list… I will start: 1. Attenborosaurus a plesiosaur from the Jurassic Coast en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenbo... Let’s see if we can get to 100! /🧵

Today really shows how few music people there are here. Keith Morris died last night - not the photographer, but they keyboard player with The Green Hornets, promoter of 5 Bands for a Fiver at the Wedge and general all round good guy. There's nothing at all about him on Bluesky 😔 RIP Keith

Now only 2 days to go!

James Perrett@jamesperrett.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our next gig is less than 2 weeks away in Bracknell. Get there early if you want to see us as we are on first and, as there are 5 artists playing that night, it will be starting on time.

The last time I went to the cinema, to see the Bob Dylan movie, there was someone singing along with all the songs. Normally this would be disastrous, but she was actually really good.

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How loud eaters and phones nearly spoiled my cinema trip

This thread seems to confirm the recent decline that I've noticed - particularly in personal posts on Facebook. Nowadays social media seems to be about publicity rather than genuine connections.

Petter Törnberg@pettertornberg.com · 4mo ago

Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed Here are the key take-aways 🧵 Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!

Is this the end of the road for hydrogen powered vehicles? It seems like another dead-end technology promoted by the fossil fuel industry who are refusing to accept that their days are numbered.

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Aberdeen's failed hydrogen bus fleet cost almost £14m

As a 6 year old staying in hospital on my own, I found everything very daunting. So when a nurse asked me if I wanted to "spend a penny" I thought she wanted money.

Emma Monk@monkemma.bsky.social · 4mo ago

For the love of God, could the "common sense" brigade PLEASE develop some actual COMMON SENSE?! No, the NHS has not ordered staff not to use the term "it's raining cats and dogs" for fear of either upsetting or offending anyone... Please engage your brains for a minute🙏 🧵1/15

It isn't just governments making the switch. My son and his teenage friends are using the same decentralised open source alternatives to the well known apps.

Jacob Öberg@profjacob.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨🚨Welcome news: European governments are getting #WhatsApp and #Signal out of their system in a move which is part of Europe's search for alternatives to American technology, sparked by fears of being strategically dependent on Washington. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Our next gig is less than 2 weeks away in Bracknell. Get there early if you want to see us as we are on first and, as there are 5 artists playing that night, it will be starting on time.

I think Bruce possibly paints an over-romanticised view of America but how did no-one see those subtitles? Is this more AI crap because surely every sane person should know the words to that song.

Doug Johnson 🇨🇦@smikooman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Bruce Springsteen is making me a fan... Opening his concert in Los Angeles yesterday, worth the wait to see the transition to the opening song 90 seconds in. ✌️❤️🇺🇸 #Resist

Harry Grindell Matthews didn't only develop early wireless telephony - he was involved in the early talking pictures, rocketry and possibly even invented Gotham's Bat Signal! There's more at www.frenchaymuseumarchives.co.uk/Archives/Pag...

Bexhill Museum@bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Telephone Without Wires. Mr. Matthews' Marvellous Invention. A short time ago we announced that Mr. H. G. Matthews, electical engineer, of the Arcade, Marina, had been experimenting in connection with a marvellous invention which he called a telephone without wires." #Bexhill Chronicle 6.4.1907.

Acoustic recording of The Goat God (made a couple glasses of wine in so I didn't do a Taco). One of the tracks we're playing on 16th April at Guildford City Club. youtu.be/7Juu4E5d6nY?... #newmusic #guildford #indie #unsigned

The Goat God - Larley acoustic recording

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My son: I've got 15,000 flip-flops His friend: Where do you keep them all? My son: they're on this chip!