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bevgibbs.bsky.social
Engineer, higher education, music, history, sewing, books, ideas, movies. In a toxic relationship with politics. Day job on LinkedIn Megalithic tombs on Instagram
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The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ Slava Ukraini.

submitted 6 days ago • 95 comments

My god, I feel like apologising to President Zelenskyy and I'm not even American.

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

Why would anyone expect someone who has been through what Zelensky has been though in the past 3 years possibly think he'd be intimidated by a couple of grifters? #c4news

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

@bevgibbs.bsky.social, Director of Dyson Inst, and EPC CEO @johnnyrich.com on innovations in Engineering pedagogy that might be helpful to @beckyfrancis.bsky.social's current review of the curriculum and assessment. Via @hepi-news.bsky.social www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/02/18/a...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Is it true that the British appreciate (nationally celebrate) the underdog more than many other nations? Doesn't every country celebrate figures who have triumphed against the odds?

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Everything about this case is grotesque, but fact that no tracking tag small enough is available is transparently discriminatory design and in breach of Equality Act's coverage of age and gender. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

@gcwood.bsky.social Im foĺlowing you, but does this mean I've signed up for a livestream of train-related complaints?

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

We should be throwing up lab space in places like Cambridge and Tatton Park at a vast rate. Biggest opportunity to recruit scientific talent since the 1930s.

submitted 42 days ago • 54 comments

We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨

submitted 49 days ago • 351 comments

Big day for people selling pretty notebooks today

submitted 64 days ago • 17 comments

My last film of the year was Conclave. And what a film.

submitted 65 days ago • 61 comments

My best book of the year - and I know you're all holding your breaths - was The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard. Time travel, fate, despair, hope...what more could you want? Really stuck with me.

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Fantastic, and brilliant to see participatory methods included 👍

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Wikipedia needs photos of many buildings and places around the world. Here are the requests, sorted by location. Can you help?

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

More often than Im prepared to admit these days.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Today I've taught risk management, decided timing of a capital project, and am prepping portfolio management material but the entire time my inner monolgue has wondered how on earth I can transfer handwriting pattern to navy jersey so I can finish embroidering a gift. Tonight 🫨

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Every day I spend a little time checking (from my sofa-based Wiltshire panoptican) that everything is in order on the Venice Beach boardwalk. The people with the sea moss stall have given up - I'm not suprised, they didn't have a customer in 8 months. I also have a favoutite water hole in Namibia.

submitted 111 days ago • 2 comments

My time here may be short and sweet - hour 3 and I'm already blocking people. My tolerance for misinformation, snark and negativity is zero. It's a good job I myself am a reliable fountain of truth and positivity.

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments