Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴
@robertwoolley.bsky.social
Cynical mid-50 something -Gen X'er. British/English/Irish 48er. Personal politics complex. Undiagnosed Aspergers. Transport person who became a software dev in late 40s. Brent, London/Dublin/Kilkenny/ASEAN. (But mainly Brent). Blocks arseholes.
When you are an absolute CUNT you quote tweet someone but disable quote tweets yourself because you are afraid of being seen as a CUNT @foulmouthedcactus.bsky.social
We would be delighted if this researcher would be willing to join our nonprofit research organization!
For the Love of Missy@missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 5d agoResearch shows that humans who adopt their cats from shelters and rescues, rather than buy them from breeders, are 10 times smarter and better looking. The researcher:
In a week of incendiary statements, this from Kevin Lamour, who at least for tonight remains FIFA COO, is incredibly damning in that it is from an insider that goes beyond this one scheme and is an assassination in a few hundred words of the FIFA president as a leader of global football.
👆🎯 We don't do elite accountability in America & haven't since at least Iran-Contra, but really since Appomattox.
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 7mo agoOnce again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.
Burnham, season 4 - step down as PM and challenge for Fifa pres www.ft.com/content/613c...
Andy Burnham says Gianni Infantino is ‘wrong man’ to lead Fifa after stake-sale plan
UK prime minister’s intervention raises pressure on Fifa president after resignation of a top adviser
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🇺🇦 NEW BLOGPOST 🇺🇦 Driving to Ukraine was an incredible, exhausting experience. My lasting memory is of the people there who refused to be cowed. From the institutions adapting to new challenges to people simply embracing life - Ukraine remains strong.
"You shouldn't feel sorry for Ukraine"
The nation is a victim. The people refuse to be.
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The University of Surrey, which was built up to provide for advanced science and technology in the 1950s and 1960s, has been in difficulties since 2019 and is suppressing... science and maths. Britain really is the thickest country in the world. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/course-...
Course closures at University of Surrey raise concerns
Science and maths programmes among those suspended in recent months, with UCU claiming decisions are being made ‘in haste’
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This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.
Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...
"Renewable energy generated 52.1% of the UK’s electricity in 2025, exceeding half of total generation for the second consecutive year, according to government statistics." www.renews.biz/other-news/u....
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Enjoyable evening watching @lincolnproject.us and @quietriotpod.bsky.social teams at the Leicester Square Theatre with @bylinetimes.bsky.social Are you guys going to recreate the video of Ken Paxton with his mistress by County Hall? (South side of Westminster Bridge)
Periodic reminder most politicians -- especially on the right -- don't really thank you for your service. They thank you to shut your mouth and look like you love it when they treat you like crap because they think you're a chump for serving.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoTrump claims he’s going to replace migrant truck drivers with veterans
Releasing a video to promote your new paper about how we should give up on Net Zero against a backdrop of dead grass on a day half of Suffolk is on fire
'Too crooked for Concacaf' is a really impressive bar to clear, congrats to Giovanni Infantino.
Pardeep Cattry@pcattry.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW: Concacaf joins UEFA in rejecting FFE, instead imploring FIFA to find ways to increase funding for FIFA Forward through its current means and asking that "any matter follows the proper governance processes" in future full statement: www.concacaf.com/competitions...
Nichelle Nichols left us on this date four years ago. The television trailblazer was 89.
So Concacaf sides with Uefa. FIFA's financial power grab is done. What's funny is Infantino would probably have just about got away with this if it wasn't for the Balogun thing. As i said at the time, that scared the absolute shit out of the European FAs. So they instantly closed ranks on this.
Statement on behalf of Concacaf and its 41 Member Associations | Concacaf
Statement on behalf of Concacaf and its 41 Member Associations
concacaf.com
Kemi Badenoch, 47, born 2nd January 1980 in London, and comes back to Britain in 1996 in the final year of the Major administration. Joins the Conservatives, aged 25 in 2005. So she is herself in receipt of the intergenerational transmission of this from the Conservatives of the mid-90s & 2000s.
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 6d ago'[Badenoch] accused the new PM of pining for “endless strikes, rubbish not being collected, bodies not being buried, inflation at 25% and a chancellor going cap-in-hand to the IMF." This is more incantation than argument, a ritual fondling of beads on the Tory rosary.' 👏 @rafaelbehr.bsky.social
Allister Heath in 1940: “We’ve lost the war against Germany. Time to scrap the RAF.”
