Profile avatar
aeonmach.bsky.social
I LIKE a *lot* of shit: sci & tech (my day job!), environment & energy (ecomodernism), politics (~moderate, social-liberalism), culture & language(s), outdoors (mountains, cycling/MTB, sailing), travel, nuance & irony. 
I HATE black-&-white simplism!
2,681 posts 1,693 followers 1,929 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 14 Comments 36

This sort of prejudice against Irish is exhausting from The Economist. It's not the first time. The Irish language is no more or less "unfathomable" than French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Portuguese etc. All languages are "fathomable" when you take the effort to learn them. Cc @shashj.bsky.social

submitted 23 hours ago • 30 comments

Interested that coverage of the M&S cyber attack doesn't ever seem to mention Ocado doing online M&S's online grocery fulfilment, which (as a customer) doesn't seem to have been hugely affected. Wonder if this kind of diversification is the future? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

@robertshrimsley.bsky.social having fun as usual but there’s actually a serious point and aome good advice here!

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

It really is! But then Sarah Vine’s book must have provided endless material to be so masterfully lampooned 😏

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The Russian government is operating at Tolstoyian levels of bullshit.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Number soup from all sides at the SR: - Quite a lot of the numbers from the the Treasury weren't meaningful; - But per person , spending in Scotland was treated no different than comparable UK departments - in line with Barnett formula. Read our weekly update:

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Happy birthday to #physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)! He dreamt up his demon to deal with the very odd 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (which is not a law like others, and can not be derived from first priciples). 🧪🐡 #histsci 🎢 It states that two bodies of different temperature brought together 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

NEW CHART: Nuclear renaissance? The rise, fall and rise of UK nuclear power over eight decades (Thanks to Ho Woo Nam for pulling the data together & Tom Prater for making such a cool chart) www.carbonbrief.org/...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

We now cross over to BBC Radio Derby.

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

A *very* minor issue in all this (but given there is some definite overlap in the discourse): EHRC vs ECHR is one to be careful when skim-reading!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

As most people are pointing out, despite the sneering comment, it’s a perfectly fine guide to pubs for Americans (written by a Brit)… …you could even give it to a naive British teenager leaving home and going to uni. And there is some subtle humour - especially re flat-roofed murder pubs. 😏

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

All set for tomorrow

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Given ongoing discussion over where Reform UK supporters in Scotland are switching from, he's a Sankey diagram showing voter flows between the 2019 GE, 2024 GE, and constituency voting intention for the 2026 SE. 84% of Reform UK voters have switched from the Tories or Labour, just 12% from the SNP.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

I saw Lewis Capaldi looking for the bogs in the CalMac ferry terminal in Oban. (I didn’t bother him bc that wouldn’t have been cool. And besides fella was wanting the toilet…)

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments