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True. Mine is a milkmaid I believe. I seldom see her as the milk arrives around 4am.

Milkmen and farmers are the militia of the countryside

@mazzucatom.bsky.social very interesting on Channel 4. Particularly enjoyed Michael Gove’s expression as she set out the damage of Brexit. Interesting on debt vs GDP and austerity too.

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Giving Archives | Giving to Cornell | Cornell University

Can we encourage news organisations to always ask Cornell donors whether they are donating to cover up a sexual assault allegation. That should encourage a more robust response pretty quickly. giving.cornell.edu/category/giv...

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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have a PhD in theoretical physics. I can remember equations, theorems and principles but couldn’t name one of them. The only reason I passed my degree is because 75% of undergraduate stuff is named after Einstein.

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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Adding to the Trump assassin hiring pool : ICE employee fired before their two year anniversary and forced to pay back their signing bonus.

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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Seemed to capture the original rather well but only season 1 available without paying a streaming service subscription

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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Note: This also cured my horrific hayfever and asthma. I spent a year checking that was completely fixed before trying kittens; irritant load or something.

Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was allergic to cats for 20 years. Moved out of the city pollution, got rid of any carpets in my house , and adopted two cats selected by sniffing the whole litter and picking the ones that didn’t irritate. Now lying in bed scrolling bsky and stroking a long haired purr machine.

Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This applies to many things that don’t need an opposite. - Sexist - Racist - Rapist - Fraud - Genocidal psychopath

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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Is anyone else listening to Andy Burnham talking about Russian interference in elections and thinking it is a precursor to Brexit reversal, as well as a subtle threat to Trump that he knows where the bodies are buried? www.gov.uk/government/s...

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PM speech at UNGA: 22 September 2026

Prime Minister Andy Burnham delivered a speech at the UN General Assembly last night.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🔥 This video is approaching 1 million views collectively across social media. Pretty please use this tool to write to your MP - whoever they are - it all counts. And then share this link everywhere to family, friends, groups —> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...

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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I thought it was Sticky Fingered Dicky Ticky but happy to adapt.

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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My less happy take is that a number of FBI candidates have previously been involved in enhanced interrogations involving muslim women and dogs in the eastern mediterranean area.

Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

SAP and other CMS have a lot to answer for - you know every one of those guys is getting 50 nudges a day to follow up. Getting beyond the sales folk to the technical ones is such a relief.

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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The ultimate question of science has been answered and the answer is “kind of nautilus shaped” www.youtube.com/shorts/Elf4c...

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Scientists Create Perfect Urinal, Win Ig Nobel Prize

YouTube video by Dr Ben Miles

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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Not sure if the concept of a tea dance exists over there - 2pm dance, usually on a Sunday

Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There is a lovely thing that happens when they can read your lips or you develop your shared personal sign language. You can whisper sweet nothings in public from the other side of the room.

Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Giving people who like fixing things permission to fix things is a source of happiness for everyone involved.

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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Big eighteenth century barn exposed to the weather on top of a hill. Heat pumps for heating. Electric car. It adds up. Hopefully the IWI will get it down to <10MWh per annum.

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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Surely it’s just the “climbing Everest with every bone broken except for one finger” idea from Hitchhikers.

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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hmmm! 25,000 x 20p = £5,000 per year Payback in less than 4 years for a 54kWh battery …which I am spending on internal wall insulation because 25,000kWh a year is too much.

Well some journalists certainly feel that they are above proof-reading based on “really behaved worse”

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Sadly, I presume that means she is on the “enemy combatants” list.

Did you watch the two Masterminds that were on after (current and 1977 repeat on BBC4)? Amazingly obvious level of dumbing down of the questions.

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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Is this a really subtle Dolly Parton tribute?

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Ha! Somewhat prophetic me saying I didn’t understand the letter decorations.

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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Isn’t there another type called aa-aa (no idea about the letter decoration)?

Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

At the risk of expIaining the joke, this joins “is he dead yet?” as a generic phrase where everyone knows who you mean.

Think early about “stretchers”. Never put a stone down without using it.

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Any sources? I am not used to tracking US company ownership.

Might be interesting to monitor Conservative and Restore coverage as Reform implode/get arrested. That should give a hint whose pocket the board are in.

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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot

Well this might actually make the first day of the Reform conference interesting….assuming Farage hasn’t been arrested before then. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXut...

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YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Used to love NCIS. I can’t watch it any more because of the normalisation of Israel’s behaviour.

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…and I obviously still don’t get lede vs lead.

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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is hopeful, depressing, amazing and offensive depending which paragraph you read. It also buries the lead which is, to paraphrase… Whole world working on methane leaks helpfully identified by the UN except for the USA which said “fuck you”. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Breakthrough’ as Turkmenistan starts fixing ‘mindboggling’ methane mega-leaks

Secretive state begins repairs on ageing facilities after being revealed as worst country for leaks of potent greenhouse gas

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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I was thinking the same but then realised it was 21C in my house, a temperature that I would previously have called stiflingly warm. Multiple heatwaves have messed up my baseline.

Could rejoining the EU save the UK economy?

Probably helped by “cautious” estimates like this one. Much better estimate (with workings) in this podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yn3...

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YouTube video by The Rest Is Money

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I can only imagine that it reduces the emergency response so it does no-one any good.

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I remember watching the Twin Towers come down and reporters saying similar when anyone could estimate the number of people in two, hundred storey buildings.

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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

What is it about human nature (or reporting rules) that minimises things it can’t deal with. News channels reporting dozens of dead in the Nepal disaster when it is patently obvious there will be thousands.

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Not even slightly. The gloop being a bit chilly was the worst of it. The images are surprisingly rubbish though.

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Andy Chapman @andychapman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

…and isn’t 8 in Norwegian “en” (it isn’t unfortunately)