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tenisonblue.bsky.social
Started in Sunny Nunny. Cambridge for the last 30 plus years. Lived some other places between. These days do some tech related stuff and go to the pub.
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Didn’t see that last one coming. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Good Science xkcd.com/3101/

submitted 8 days ago • 25 comments

I actually only write books so I can do the dedications

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

Please take my job! I'm going on adoption leave soon so the Greater London Authority has a 12-month vacancy for my role as housing research & analysis manager. I think this is a brilliant job in a wonderful team, so please circulate widely and let me know if any Qs www.london.gov.uk/take-part/wo...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The question for those opposed to 20mph speed limits in urban areas is very simple: why do you want to kill children?

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

Deliciously brutal from @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social on podcasts 😆 (yes, there's a paywall). www.thetimes.com/article/ea1d...

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Starmer is correct. We can't tax our way to growth. But we can *tax reform* our way to growth. Some ideas:

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

More of this please. Co-designing play spaces with children and young people near their homes led to “what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind”

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

"Cummins, who is not Mexican, had committed the grievous sin of imagination."

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

@telegraphnews.bsky.social columnist Zoe Strimpel's opening sentence in a column this weekend states: "Ed Miliband is obsessed." [with net zero] The Telegraph has written over 110 articles with "Miliband" in the title so far this year That's one article every 30ish hours Who's obsessed now?

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

This looks very nasty - a cyber attack has apparently compromised the Legal Aid Agency’s online digital services, involving a "significant" amount of personal data from those who applied online for legal aid since 2010 www.gov.uk/government/n...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

So a patient known to be unable to speak being sent repeated telephone appointment letters. Number to call on the letter is of course not correct. Given an alternative that just rings out. No email address. This is simple stuff that magnified across the NHS has huge impact.

submitted 34 days ago • 10 comments

Funny, absolutely lovely with an important message. Plus, it makes me respect Louise even more! (Listen to it and you’ll get the joke)

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

This is an awful lot of pre-summer before actual summer. It’s making me worry what actual summer will be like. It’ll either be far too much actual summer, or not much actual summer at all.

submitted 38 days ago • 17 comments

When I am head of the world, all columnists - every single last one of them, including FT columnists I generally like - will be absolutely banned from writing about smartphones. Because they all just repeat each others' half-baked, evidence-free misinformation.

submitted 38 days ago • 10 comments

Apparently some folks are still confused about how much CO2 in the air has grown due to human activities. It's increased by more than 50%, which means over one third of all CO2 in the air is due to us.

submitted 41 days ago • 23 comments

True

submitted 42 days ago • 50 comments

If you read the testimonies of the people starving to death in Gaza you'll realise that they had normal lives and jobs two years ago. They worked in IT, they were chefs or nurses, they had small businesses, they underwent IVF, they cooked big family meals. They are no different to you or me.

submitted 43 days ago • 13 comments

This tells you what you need to know.

submitted 43 days ago • 6 comments