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chriskeene.bsky.social
Brighton, UK. Sometimes Higher Education, Research policy, tech and environmental stats
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I've subscribed to The Economist for years (did you know Indonesia is at a crossroads?) and I think this explains why

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Thing I only recently learnt, why is it called the North Sea when it is to the east of us? Because it was named by the Dutch.

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Mega niche rant. Office scripts in Excel (ie javascript macros) seem to have stopped working answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi... I have many I've written to save hours tidying up export data and I can't use them

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As an aside I've noticed a lot of green energy transition charts (EVs, heat pumps etc) essentially showing things starting to take off 2020

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New Report From Jisc : “Open Data About Research Management: A Landscape Review” www.infodocket.com/2025/02/04/n... #opendata @jisc.bsky.social

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Charing Cross Road, pedestrianised today. Glorious. Because whenever you take cars away, cities get better.

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Andropov’s Ears, (1983), Tbilisi, Georgia. Architects: O. Kalandarishvili, G. Potskhisvili r/brutalism

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Wherever I go I can't escape the boy

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I've written this thread up as a blog post with some more details: Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2025/wh...

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Roger Moore's final Bond film A VIEW TO A KILL has a bad reputation but in hindsight Christopher Walken’s plan to destroy Silicon Valley with floods and earthquakes now looks eerily forward-thinking

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Ok Musk is crazy but perhaps others around him will have a more gown up approach.... Oh

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Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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Elon Musk’s claims about grooming have reignited the sex grooming scandal this week. Our former chief investigative reporter, Andrew Norfolk, first revealed the abuse in 2011 and spent years uncovering the investigation ⬇️ 🔓 This story is free to read www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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The BBC have nailed putting on shows that keep you watching after University Challenge ends on a Monday.

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Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…

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Quite literally every other post on my feed here mentions 'that rich guy who runs Twitter'. Stop! we stop talking about him, he disappears.

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There is no part of this article that isn’t outright evil or flatly horrifying

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If you have access to the FT, this is a great article: How America First will transform the world in 2025 - on.ft.com/40daBwI

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Busiest Preston park Brighton parkrun ever. Over 1.2k runners I think. Photo taken 20 min before start

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NEW GAME - THE BURGLAR ALARM GAME www.monkeon.co.uk/the-burglar-...

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