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chrisbham.bsky.social
Birmingham UK Interests: Ontology for Data integration, Rail Data, Stage lighting, learning Italian and cycling. Work for University of Birmingham and MoniRail
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In which the importance of not interrupting software engineers when they're trying to work is discussed: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Seriously, don't make us go to meetings / do tours if you also want anything done

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I think I remember this the first time round too. It's certainly true

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

This is an absolutely disastrous framing to adopt. “Immigration beings great gains but it needs to be controlled to maximise benefits” was/is right there on the table. Instead they have opted to lead with the strongest possible “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” headline.

submitted 40 days ago • 28 comments

Update: Students showed up to tutorial meant to be taken by redundant person. This went as well as can be expected (they were on there own)

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Speaking as one who works at a university, I wish this was wrong. (Bham won't be going bust, but they are making redundancies)

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

This from @stephenkb.bsky.social is the best metaphor I’ve yet seen to illustrate Labour’s immigration problem

submitted 47 days ago • 6 comments

This feels like it could be practically a slogan for bcrre

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Very very much my feeling. Things got a bit this way last time round too, though if people were calling themselves blue labour back then I missed it

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

It is in fact possible to cycle both children to nursery.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

This maybe the first time I have had a bottle of wine older than me

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

That's it: I'm moving to France. I just had a meeting where we sorted everything that needed doing in 15 minutes *so we ended the call there and then*. You never see that here

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you to whoever made this

submitted 79 days ago • 619 comments

Turns out Le Pen is not mightier than the fraud.

submitted 81 days ago • 420 comments

Deeply strange entering middle-age at a time in world history where things are getting measurably worse. Just a continual psychic struggle of “is this fogeyism or are things just not what they used to be?”

submitted 86 days ago • 123 comments