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Simon Wood

@simonwood.info

Lecturer in Medical Education at Cardiff University, lapsed mathematician, garden railway builder & Doctor Who appreciator. Mostly on Mastodon, follow from Bsky at: @mastodon.simonwood.info (and Pixelfed @pixelfed.simonwood.info) https://simonwood.info

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Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 23h ago

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

Daniel Solis@danielsolis.bsky.social · 6d ago

There are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...

Matt@wyrd.systems · last wk.

Thanks for all the reposts, word of mouth is very important. I have told both of my friends about Unch, if we all did that there could be literally dozens of us in just a few short years.

Unch Crosswords@unchcrosswords.com · last wk.

Issue Four is getting printed right now! Pre-sale copies will be posted out as soon as I can once I get them - early next week hopefully. If you’ve not already bought one, now would be a good time. Unchcrosswords.com As ever please do spread the word far & wide thanks xxx

Kieran Madden@kieran-madden.bsky.social · last wk.

I often find myself remembering Cleese talking about how disappointed he was when he met Malcolm Muggeridge for the Life of Brian debate and saw this once-sharply comedic mind he enjoyed growing up reduced to spouting such pitiful, reactionary, conservative nonsense…

Robert Llewellyn@bobbyllew.bsky.social · last wk.

I once had the privilege of sitting on a panel with John Cleese. He was delightful in person, but I have to say I’m not overly staggered he’s voicing support for a proper nightmare extremist.

Screenshot of headline on a British conservative newspaper, stating John Cleese supports some right wing nutbag
Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike@gazza-d.bsky.social · 2w ago

Can you imagine the uproar if someone's legal car was seized and immediately crushed because some woodentop made a mistake? And the Police don't even apologise or accept they made a mistake. It's good to see this go mainstream. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Birmingham man's legal e-bike seized and destroyed by police in error

The BBC finds the bike was legal and supplied as part of a scheme to reduce pollution in the city.

bbc.co.uk

Hugh Jones@hbsj.bsky.social · 3w ago

A note on scansion Thirty years of hurt = five syllables Sixty-four years of hurt = six syllables and the stresses are all wrong Eight squared years of hurt is what you're looking for Or, Four cubed years of hurt if you're feeling fancy

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3w ago

Yes I'm sure taking loads of drugs must be great but what is also quite exciting is going for a walk in remote woodland and stumbling across a lone inexplicable brutalist pillar.

A lone brutalist pillar, possibly the lone surviving remnant of a medieval car park, situated in Dartmoor woodland. The scene is a little reminiscent of the cover of the album Who's Next by The Who (which shows The Who in the aftermath of pissing next to a similar obelisk) but many years on, when the landscape fertilised by The Who has flourished, blissfully unaware that the band are now variously dead or supporters of Right Wing politics. I lived not much more than half an hour's walk away from this pillar during early 2022, when I was finishing my first novel Villager, which, though I'm biased, is a good fucking book, which someone once called "psychedelic Cranford", and the pillar's presence was one of many reminders of the mystery of the British landscape, prompting me to write about Dartmoor not straightforwardly as it is but as a very slightly warped parallel dimension version of itself with new social history, lost music, folklore and ghosts, yet with the same mossy dripping otherworldly feeling I always got during my many many long walks there, during which I always ended up writing novels (many of them now sadly lost forever) in my head, felt like deep history was touchable, and that I was passing through a landscape that had somehow put itself on steroids. It is great when more people discover a love for walking on it and swimming in its rivers but so sad that so many of them, with their selfie sticks and dogs, now contribute to a horrible growing Instagram tourism that I fear might eventually ruin the place, only leading to even more Instagram influencers populating it not because they're truly enchanted by Dartmoor's magic nor what Dartmoor does to them but because they want likes on Instagram from other potential Instagram influencers who will then also visit it, leading to more litter and dog shit and maybe even, eventually, a greater dystopia of people taking selfies of themselves next to this pillar, or chiselling bits of it off as a "souvenir".
Mitch Benn@mitchbenn.bsky.social · 3w ago

… because our technicians and facilities are the best. The creative arts is literally the LAST industry in which the UK is still a global leader but it’s treated like something frivolous and unimportant, rather than the MASSIVE income stream it is.

Mitch Benn@mitchbenn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Exactly. Nobody’s buying British cars, or eating our fish, or importing our food, but they ARE watching our TV shows, reading our books, shelling out hundreds to go see our pop stars and rock bands, our movies punch above their weight and Hollywood still makes half its blockbusters HERE…

Dan Neidle@danneidle.bsky.social · 4w ago

I don't usually write personal stuff, but a few words about my experience of being interviewed by Gary Stevenson. It started with a nice chat, comparing taste in hoodies... then the tone changed. He demanded to know why I'd deleted a tweet criticising him.

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Jay Zedbee@jayzedbee.bsky.social · last mo.

i like unions because i think that they are the best instrument within the bad system we live in to give workers a voice in a power struggle. i dont think they are always right, and i think they are more than perfectly capable to use their power and voice for causes i disagree with