AdrianAtterbury
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Specialist Biomedical Scientist (Microbiology). - Will science for cash. - Come follow me, you won't learn anything but we'll have a blast.
Can we have more staff? No. Can we have air conditioning? No. Can we have any new equipment? No. Can we get the equipment we do have serviced? No. Can we at least get some roller blinds in the office? No.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2h agoNHS must prepare for annual summer heat pressures, says Yvette Cooper
I put my work id/indentured servitude tag on a lanyard instead of a retracting fob. I don't like it. I don't think I'm a lanyard guy. It's irritating my neck and people keep asking me directions to hospital departments I've never heard of. I direct them to the coffee shop, everyone needs coffee.
Video meetings are fucking awful aren't they? Everything comes across as 10% more aggressive anyway and if you have a spiky meeting everyone just switches off at the end to stew on it with no end of meeting chat about unrelated matters to resolve the emotional side of the interaction.
Someone just walked past me in the lab in a pair of trainers whose soles are so grippy every step sounded like a furious octopus being torn off someone's leg.
More on the Paul Daniels death hoax from @dirtyfeed.org here: www.dirtyfeed.org/2023/04/paul...
BBC100: Paul Daniels Live at Hallowe’en (1987)
For more on this BBC100 series of posts, read this introduction. “Tonight is Halloween when strange things can happen, and even here live on BBC1, all is not what it seems.” And with th…
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Ray Newman@raynewman.bsky.social · 4d agoMy longer-than-usual Letterboxd review of Ghostwatch puts it in the context of Paul Daniels faking his own death on a TV magic show, Alexei Sayle and his false starts and ends, and The Day Today. boxd.it/byUdjh
I watched Spiderman Homecoming for the first time last night. Michael Keaton completely stole it, I was so on his side.
Politicians and Westminster staff drinking at work is a ridiculous situation and easily fixed. You don't have to close the bars or fire anyone, just stop serving alcohol. Petition below if you'd like to sign and share. Make 'em justify it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘MPs have had their stomachs pumped’: concerns over ‘alcohol-soaked’ culture in Westminster
Alcohol is embedded in profession where long hours, loneliness and lobbying are the norm, report finds
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My daughter's first single, After Nothing, is released today! Please do listen and share, thanks open.spotify.com/album/6RSNJ4...
After Nothing/Beò Fhathast - Single by venus wires | Spotify
venus wires · single · 2026 · 1 songs
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Too late to start baking bread, I'm going to have to go and buy some, like some sort of wanker.
Spent the afternoon eating pizza and drinking cider with chums. Little known fact that when Worthing is too busy, there's a quiet gem of a bar tucked away in The Dome cinema.
Top Gun Maverick should have been called Topper Gun. If there's a third it could have been called Toppest Gun.
Maptap achievement, if you're wondering how good my geography is.
I don't like to judge (I do) but this doesn't strike me as an Aston Martin house.
I wonder if we'll look back on the wars of the early 21st century with fond nostalgia for the good times when there were enough people around to have wars. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Ebola outbreak in DRC the fastest growing in the history of the virus
As the death toll rises to almost 1,500, and with a vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain potentially still months away, health workers face a battle to slow the outbreak
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Evening stroll. I deduce someone once enjoyed the Citroën marque, but their enthusiasm has waned in recent years.
Apparently the grave of Ivar the Boneless has never been found. I'm no archaeologist, but I think I see at least one issue.
Horrible day at work. Angry people in the lab, angry people on Teams, angry people on WhatsApp.
I think Donald Trump was Russia's nuclear bomb in the new world of weapons. I hope Nigel Farage turns out to be a misfire.
TensegrityFan🐝🍯@tensegrityfan.bsky.social · last wk.It entirely understandable that the deluge of news about Nigel Farage’s financial affairs means it’s easy to miss key new information and important new reporting. But this latest instalment from the brilliant Dr Ahmed really is worth of all of your attention.
Can't have been all that much of a surprise, surely?
I'm not getting on with Middlemarch. Everyone says it's wonderful, but I'm not feeling it.
The proposed closure of Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope shows how right Jonathan Meades was.
Jonathan Meades says the future happened briefly in 1969
Jonathan Meades writes for the London Review of Books: Concorde was seen in the sky over West London for the first time in late June 1...
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Even Trump can’t spin how bad things are.
Out Of Options
Trump’s Iran humiliation is complete
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