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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 1h

Somewhere behind Nick Robinson's voice is a Green party member desperately trying to be heard.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 2h

Noesis Sheherezade UK sff magazines which I don't think ever had an online presence, by virtue of being too early.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 16h

I mean, the "do we prefer the rule of law, or the rule of the mob?" isn't the flex he thinks it is, when Palantir are already up to their necks in (war) crimes, and he's promising that they'll do more on behalf of a Reform government. He'd probably sell us the pitchforks if he could.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 17h

The thing is, I've done plenty of things that I now regret, and have determined not to add to that list. Then there's Watson, seemingly later in life, not giving a shit about being as banally evil as he can.

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 22h

Most important bit of the BBC streaming reporting on the Fonagty report into mental health. #FuckWesStreeting

A photo of a section of the BBCs streaming reporting on the Fonagty report on mental health. It shows Professor Fonagy talking to the BBC with the headline "Wes Streeting 'completely wrong' about over-diagnosis, says review author"

The text below the photo says:
The author of today's report, Prof Peter Fonagy, has been speaking to Radio 4's Today programme.
He starts by saying that former Health Secretary Wes Streeting - who first commissioned the review - was "with respect, completely wrong" when he talked about an over-diagnosis of mental health disorders.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wes Streeting would be afraid of a toddler with sticky hands.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Too many left-handers when I was a kid.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My late mother-in-law was one of the first women in the UK to have a mortgage in her own, and sole, name.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I should have prefaced that with "I have been reliably informed 😉..." But it's the same premise as a mobile phone bomb - the voltage in the device isn't high enough in itself to fire a detonator, but it can be used as a base voltage on a transistor which acts as a switch for the higher voltage.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you don't know how to cook, cooking is expensive. If you do, it's cheap. I hope someone else's parents take her under their wings and teach her, because her own have failed utterly.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Venn diagram with "the King is not English".

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The reason it's used in so many bombs/IEDs is that you can be in the smallest market anywhere in the world, and pick one up still in its blister pack - and critically, its alarm function allows it to be used as a timer: the beeps will trigger a transistor which will set off a detonator.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The best, and pretty much the only, watch you'll ever need.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Was taking part in a medieval reenactment combat, and a child spectator was convinced that one of our shorter reenactors was a, a child and b, that we had actually killed them. He was distraught, and took considerable convincing that our child-actor was definitely still alive.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Perhaps the 13 who preferred not to say are secretly trans?

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He was on R4 Broadcasting House just yesterday, too.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just off for a run. Shorts and t-shirt.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am absolutely certain that those things listed generate far more benefit than the £1bn spent on them in terms of reduced crime, fewer hospital and GP visits, fewer days off work due to stress, increased mental health and better community cohesion.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every time a historical costumer posts that they’ve modified a technique to allow for not getting fucking heat stroke, people have a cow. Gonna let you in on a little secret that is not at all secret, you just don’t get it: Climate change completely aside, it was colder in the past.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have a very fine 12th century wool tunic in madder red, and a lovely half-circle cloak in woad blue, with a white wool lining. I have worn the tunic for precisely *two* shows this year, one in April, and one last week. The cloak just for the first one. Otherwise, I'm just in an undertunic.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm sure she's lovely, but I still won't be listening.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I got another pleading letter yesterday. Straight into recycling.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That only works if you know that the Big 5 Publisher hasn't...

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pretty much everything I've ever written was thieved - including my PhD thesis, ffs - and it's like, just shut them down already, they're crooks and they don't deserve to be in business.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To sum up: My publishers failed to register US copyright on many of my titles I am doing all the work in making the claim on those titles they did bother with They take half of any compensation anyway

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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. #MedievalSky, grab a lifejacket and a seasickness bag, we’re casting off on a thread about the Norman invasion fleet in 1066! 960 years ago, the Normans landed at Pevensey and established a base at the Roman shore fort which was already succumbing to erosion from the sea on its south side. 1/20

Photograph of Pevensey Castle with an information board in the foreground showing an artists impression of how the view may have looked in 1066 when the sea came almost up to the walls.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My mum had it. Complained everything looked very blue afterwards and worried that something had gone wrong. Turns out that cataracts absorb blue light, so be prepared for that!

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And which one of these policies will actually help people?

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why is this not considered terrorism? Either we take these threats at face value, or we treat them as a bad joke. Whichever, Anthropic should be shut down. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.com

Anthropic ‘warns of existential AI risks to humanity’ in IPO document

Reported admission to investors of AI’s ‘self-preserving behaviours’ comes as company prepares for a potential $2tn flotation

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My homebrew D6 has a "Brace with shield" that gives a 2D defence bonus, on top of the shield bonus (Large shield 1D+1). "Brace with spear and shield" on being charged gives the defender the same attack bonus as the attacker gets from charging.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I mean, all the large dinosaurs looked a bit fighty.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In my geology undergraduate year, we had Dave, who was 2m tall, and very handy to stand up against a cliff for scale.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

*not Fumbly fingers have fumbled

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Why just call all of them Alexandria?

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

SIGNED BOOK NEWS. "The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City" by Susanna Clarke is published next month. Delighted to say, we'll be getting some SIGNED copies. Order one HERE! www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

Front cover of Susanna Clarke's new book. It's green and has an image of a tree with a load of birds in the branches.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

tbf, the iterative search pattern worked fairly well this time. Having looked in the places where the keys should have been, where would a distracted idiot have put them? Took ten minutes, which isn't long, but plenty long enough to start working out the cost of a locksmith.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yet again I have had to search for the keys to the safe, because I didn't put them back in the place I'd designated the safe keys to go.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I remember a time when we could express 'mild disappointment' or 'slight irritability' at someone or something. Sheeran has done something that has made me tut and roll my eyes. Perhaps even shake my head and frown a bit. I'll save my fury for those who actually deserve it.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bold of you to assume the gender of my spouse.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Spousal Unit has attended the funerals of so many former colleagues who have essentially drank themselves to death self-medicating work-related stress. Better to seek help now than when your liver packs up all of a sudden, or after you get sacked.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's such an extraordinary book.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So this is the thing - The Exorcist is such a deeply, unwaveringly Christian book, it's hard to imagine one which has a harder "repent or perish" authorial intent written into it.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Oh no, the registrar's failed to turn up! I wonder if there's anyone else who can stand in?"

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What they want is slaves. That's it. That's the story. Anything but pay workers what they're worth.

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Any homelessness here, any 'scrabble for accommodation' is entirely an artefact of capitalism, and not of resources. The rooms are still there. They haven't evaporated because the landlords have gone belly-up. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

theguardian.com

Students scramble for accommodation after provider goes bust in Dundee

Case highlights severe financial strain on sector across UK as string of university housing schemes fail

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