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thealansmith.bsky.social
Northern Irish, but Cambridge is home. I work in tech with strong opinions on agile and engineering management. Also into government - especially the local kind. Skiing, gym, gin, and video games. 🏳️‍🌈 🇮🇪 🇬🇧
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submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

American bluesky: the Nazis are in charge British bluesky: shh I’m stacking pigs

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

I’m all for being self sufficient with electrics at home. But gosh. 🤯

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is it - automation may take your work, the CFO takes your job.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Really torn how to vote in the Mayoral CPCA elections. I want @anna4labour.bsky.social to win. For sure. But even more than that I want the Tory Clown to lose. I hate voting like I’m in Northern Ireland again.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

LIDAR survey of Cambridge last night 🤔

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

LIDAR survey of Cambridge last night 🤔

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

If you’re a Frasier fan, take a few minutes out to read this, you won’t regret it: open.substack.com/pub/archerpa...

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

Wallace Shawn Emerges As Frontrunner To Replace Daniel Craig As James Bond

submitted 8 days ago • 454 comments

Anyone got any restaurant recommendations for Barcelona? Sounds like a city where we'll struggle to eat badly, but it's always nice to get the odd suggestion.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Britain's productivity puzzle is turning into a crisis... ... if you can believe the data (you can't, but don't be falsely reassured by that) on.ft.com/41lgCrV

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Genius, I say, genius.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 13 days ago • 540 comments

My son threw a snowball at me and I instinctively blocked it with my daughter. The look of betrayal on her snow covered face has haunted my dreams for years

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

Paul Bristow says he’ll ‘keep politics out of the workplace’ - yet his campaign is already mired in scandal, linked to a Tory WhatsApp group using an ableist slur. His ex-aide says she was bullied and smeared, while he threatens legal action instead of addressing it. Not great at politics, is he?

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Paul Bristow claims he’ll ‘leave politics to the Mayor’ - then launches a culture war wishlist. No EDI officers? No flexible working? No pronouns? This isn’t governance; it’s posturing. Mayor should focus on housing, transport, and jobs, not performative nonsense www.cambsnews.co.uk/news/bristow...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

As the former Sea Tree restaurant is transformed to be Buren at 13-14 The Broadway, Mill Road, #Cambridge there's a brief reminder of when in the 1960's it was W F Webb and Son, radio, television and electrical dealers. #History

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Checked out Buren; really good! Steak Haché with creamy peppercorn sauce was spot on; fries top-notch (expected from Leo of Steak & Honour). Service was a bit odd; bantery with strange upselling (who starts with two bottles of wine?). Looking forward to next week; meatballs or hake?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

“While SAF has a role to play in decarbonisation, growth sits in clear opposition to its impacts and potential. If the UK has any hope of meeting its climate targets, it should instead be seeking alternatives to flying where possible.”

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

In general. Nobody cares more than you.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Fined on the spot, too. Cough up or get off the train/tube/whatever. Also, phone manufacturers should ship USB-C earbuds with phones. Part of the problem is that Bluetooth earbuds are expensive and many people just don't own headphones/earbuds these days

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

Elon Musk has usurped Donald Trump as the far-right's leader of choice www.wired.com/story/far-ri...

submitted 23 days ago • 17 comments