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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 20/11/2025

Pulp being announced as headliner at next year’s @endoftheroadfestival.com is exactly the news I needed to see today 🥳🥳🥳

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 15/11/2025

What. A. Game. 😍 33-19, first time England have beaten New Zealand on home ground in 13 years, and only the 9th time they’ve beaten them in 120 years! All thanks to my lucky socks. 🥳🥳🥳

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 15/11/2025

Lucky pants and socks deployed for #ENGvNZL today 🏟️🏉🤞🤞🤞

Si looking hopeful dressed in a white England rugby top. Behind him is a green wall with a dark brown shelf on it. On the shelf is a rainbow nightlight, a random goat toy, a mostly red print that reads “SW12 Balham (gateway to the south)”, to the left is a red umarell that stands in constant judgement, and a festival poster for Krankenhaus music festival.

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 20/10/2025

This morning’s outage shows just how many Internet sites, services, and SaaS can be affected in one go:- Atlassian, AWS, Canva, Lyft, Ring, Signal, Zoom to name just a few. This is where good BC and DR planning comes in, what would your business do if *everything* is down?

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 14/10/2025

“I hope this email finds you well” How your email finds me…

A modern art interpretation of an Easter Island head (I think?!) outside 555 Mission St San Francisco. It’s a big grey head with sunken eyes and a manic toothy grin. This is how your email finds me.

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 07/10/2025

Meanwhile in America, this headline has very “ugh, why won’t disabled people and asthmatics just die” vibes about it ☠️

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 07/10/2025

Saw Sigur Rós last night in Amsterdam, a very different experience than the Royal Albert Hall, much more intimate compared to last week and easier to hear the orchestra (being deaf). Great venue too, a theatre originally built as a permanent horse circus space!

Sigur Rós and orchestra receiving a well deserved standing ovation

Decoration above the stage at the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam. Two prancing horses are shown either side of a red shield with a lion on. Below this is what looks like a royal crown.

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 07/10/2025

10/10 no notes 👏

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 01/10/2025

Ridiculously excited to see Sigur Rós at the RAH tonight 😍😍😍

View from my seat in row 1 of the Rausing Circle across the Royal Albert Hall towards the stage.

Close up of the stage where Sigur Rós are going to perform with the London Contemporary Orchestra.

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 26/09/2025

The Venn diagram of people who can’t understand why many fear how ID cards could be used in the UK and people who are white cis-het and non-disabled is a perfect circle. If you’re part of one or more minority groups then the fear is real in the current global political climate. #DigitalID #IDCards

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 25/09/2025

Ticket queuing system for Nick Cave was a lot less painful than I expected, although maybe I was just super-lucky. Joined the queue at 10:00, 10:02 had bought tickets 😮

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 17/09/2025

If you are concerned about the impact of the EHRC’s proposed guidance, please do write to your MP. Trans+ Solidarity Alliance have created a great template, it takes just a couple of minutes to do.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Genocide is not solely about the murder of a people, but about the systematic destruction of their intangible cultural heritage, so as to make it as though they never existed at all. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

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Gaza City mosque blown up by Israeli air attack

Israeli forces bombed and destroyed a 13th century mosque in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City on Tuesday.

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 15/09/2025

Question for gardeners / allotment people: we’ve successfully grown a melon, if I save some of the seeds am I likely to be able to use next year, or are they like pumpkin and not as likely to fruit? #allotment #gardening

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 14/09/2025

This is brilliant! I’d used the red pins to save stuff, the migration tool worked like a dream and all my pins were migrated in under a minute! Thanks @rafael.my and @samuel.bsky.team 👏👏👏

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 13/09/2025

Having seen a prime time Fox News anchor calling for the murder of homeless people in America, it looks like the Overton Window has been moved so far to the right it has defenestrated itself.

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 08/09/2025

Taxing pensioners is an attractive “quick-fix” headline. The reality is much different with the days of rich-retirees on final salary pensions long gone. Pensions pots continue to shrink, so taxing pensioners with relatively low income isn’t going to be the tax receipt boom the headlines suggest.

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 08/09/2025

Dealing with glut of produce from the allotment, been busy making soups, jams, sauces, kimchi, and apple butter to use over the winter. #allotmentlife #gardening

A shelf in our larder filled with jars. From left to right, jars containing a red tomato and basil sauce, then jars containing green pea and ham soup, then some plum jam with jars of blackberry & raspberry jam on top, then some jars of kimchi, and finally some small jars of dark brown spiced apple butter!

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 07/09/2025

Went to a Deaf Rave DJ workshop today, and it was *brilliant*. Run by Troi Lee (DJ Chinaman - played Glasto, Boomtown, has run Deaf Raves for years), taught us the basics of mixing, and the Woojer haptic vests were 🤯 a whole new music experience!!! 10/10 would recommend 👌

Troi Lee (right) showing two workshop attendees) how to sync tracks, mix, and fade. In front of them is a big projection screen with Rekordbox DJ software shown on it

Me, wearing a white shirt, a white beard, and glasses. Over my shirt is a Woojer haptic vest. Every single beat I can feel through it. Behind me is a Panasonic mixing deck, a speaker, and a very large projection screen showing Rekordbox DJ software.

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 07/09/2025

Love Dan’s 🧵on his autistic lived experience. Reminds me of Dr Stephen Shore’s famous quote “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism.”

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 07/09/2025

Think you know what a “benefit” is when you see headlines like this? I’m pretty confident most people wouldn’t know it includes stuff like the NHS and state education 😮 Great breakdown as always by Emma Monk —>

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 05/09/2025

Hot Chip talking on BBC 6 Music earlier about their music and new best of album (Joy In Repetition) was great! Seen them several times now and, for me at least, they’re the kind of band that deliver pure joy at their gigs! Good to hear they’ll prob tour next year, I need to hear Flutes live again!!

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Flutes

YouTube video by Hot Chip - Topic

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 04/09/2025

Got up to the allotment between the storms, it’s gone nuts over the last few days!! Courgettes, carrots, another kilo of beans, and several kilos of tomatoes. This weekend will be making and canning roasted tomato sauce, and cooking a batch of apple butter 😍 #allotmentlife #gardening

A large wicker trug overflowing with vegetables! The truth is filled to the brim with tomatoes, beans, and courgettes, and over the top lay some multicolour carrots (some orange, some white, some purple).

A large green bowl is sitting on a wooden worktop, the bowl is filled and piled high with lots of red apples.

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 02/09/2025

This is great news. Congratulations @zackpolanski.bsky.social it is very refreshing to hear a politician answer questions authentically and to not shy away from talking about difficult subjects.

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 23/08/2025

Fourth out of fifth festival this year, the teeny tiny @krankenhausfest.bsky.social held at Muncaster Castle in the Lake District. 1,500 people, great line up, walks, talks, bands, and friends. Very much smug festival face 😁

Si, looking a bit smug, lolling up against the sounds about to see Sea Power

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 20/08/2025

Had the privilege of seeing Nick Cave perform a solo show at the Ancient Theatre of Philippopolis, a Roman amphitheatre in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Over two and a half hours and one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to. Every song he writes has intent and means something to him and the audience. Wonderful 😍

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 18/08/2025

I’d normally say “never click on random QR codes”, but this is both safe and quite brilliant 👌👏

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 18/08/2025

Wandering around Sofia today, dropped in to the Church of St Nicholas the Miracle-Maker, a stunning and small Russian Orthodox Church, and then on the opposite end of the scale the St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, which is big enough to give service to 5,000 people 😮

The Russian Church (Bulgarian: Руска църква, romanized: Ruska tsarkva), officially known as the Church of St Nicholas the Miracle-Maker (Bulgarian: църква „Св. Николай Чудотворец“, romanized: tsarkva "Sv. Nikolay Chudotvorets", Russian: Церковь Святителя Николая Чудотворца (София)), is a Russian Orthodox church in central Sofia, Bulgaria situated on Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard.

(Alt text from the Wikipedia page for the church: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Church,_Sofia)

St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is a Bulgarian Orthodox cathedral in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Built in Neo-Byzantine style, it serves as the cathedral church of the Patriarch of Bulgaria and it is one of the 100 largest Christian church buildings by volume in the world. It is one of Sofia's symbols and primary tourist attractions. St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia occupies an area of 3,170 square metres (34,100 sq ft) and can hold 5,000 people inside. It is among the 10 largest Eastern Orthodox church buildings. It is the largest cathedral in the Balkans. It is believed that up until the year 2000 it was the largest finished Orthodox cathedral.
(Alt text from Wikipedia page for the cathedral: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Alexander_Nevsky_Cathedral,_Sofia)

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 18/08/2025

I don’t know how often this needs to be said, but: if you don’t know what data an LLM is restricted to use, then you should not use the output without first verifying.

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LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

If the snooker championship was like this they’d get a lot more viewers

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 08/08/2025

Mind-boggling that the Labour MP for homelessness would evict tenants and re-list for £hundreds more a month whilst knowing your department has drafted legislation that will stop landlords evicting and immediately re-listing rental properties 🤯 The Labour Party are definitely no longer socialists.

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 07/08/2025

Furthest I've been: N: Helsinki, Finland E: Shanghai, China S: Mauritius W: Vancouver Island

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 05/08/2025

Picked up some smoke haddock today, so Kedgeree for dinner tonight and it ticked many “comfort food” boxes whilst being fairly healthy too.

A bowl of kedgeree, large flakes of haddock, four halves of boiled egg, and splashes of green from peas

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 05/08/2025

Of all the use cases for an AI service agent, a virtual MP feels particularly risky. What happens if the agent gives bad/inappropriate advice? Where in the world is data processed? How is any information provided by constituents used?

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 05/08/2025

This is a great example of a poor use of AI and is very misleading, e.g. doesn't show the view of the train station opposite or the hairdressers connected to the house, plus there are internal inconsistencies between AI and actual pics. Possibly breaches the Property Ombudsman code of conduct.

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 05/08/2025

TIL that other people’s Popular With Friends is partially populated with my likes. I apologise for all the cat, food, and allotment pics that may have ended up in your TL 😁

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 05/08/2025

Remember the “Labour will sell off allotments” story from the other day? Unsurprisingly, this wasn’t exactly a fair and honest summary of what’s actually happening. TL;DR: Allotments are still protected, the only sales happening are ones where the NAS is involved and alternatives provided to people

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 04/08/2025

This (from State Of The Nation 2024 report) is, well, “interesting”. No creative occupations, massive gaps between categories (eg you’re either a CEO of a large company or for the next category down your an Office Manager), and no shade on roofers but most I know would be fiercely working class.

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 03/08/2025

Can hear Andy Bell singing Stop! all the way over at our house - nice!!! #BrightonPride

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 03/08/2025

Agree with Simon, the parade was predominantly community, charity, and protest groups. No glossy / glitzy corporate parade floats, the small number of corporates that were there felt like they were represented by LGBTQ+ staff rather than old style “we need to have a float, who will volunteer”

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 03/08/2025

Hot takes about #BrightonPride being commercial are 🙄 It’s the UK’s biggest Pride event, hundreds of thousands watch the (free) parade, tens of thousands attend the Pride on the Park and Pride Street Party. There is something for everyone, and an event this size costs money to put on.

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 30/07/2025

This is quite a thing that Nationwide has done. It’s quite sad that the Government didn’t do something like this, particularly as they often talk of user-centric design. A cynical view is this was a deliberate choice by Government as it discouraged people from making claims.

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 30/07/2025

Chest shaved ready for the first of several ECGs over the next few weeks, and forgot just how itchy it gets 😱😱😱 On the plus side, it really makes my tattoos pop 👌

Picture of me, a middle aged white man, after I’d shaved my chest for medical tests and my brightly coloured tattoos.

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 30/07/2025

Tonight’s the night for the big nuclear holocaust double bill 🍿🍿🍿 Only the eighth time Threads has been broadcast on UK terrestrial TV and, as far as I can tell, only the second time The War Game has ever been broadcast here 😮 The War Game - BBC Four 22:10 BST Threads - BBC Four 23:15 BST

Promotional picture for the film The War Game, a docudrama about the effects of a nuclear attack on the UK. The picture is black and white and shows someone staggering down a street. It’s difficult to see the backdrop, in big black letters THE WAR GAME is in the top left of the picture.

Promotional picture for the film Threads, a drama about a nuclear attack on the British city Sheffield. In the centre of the picture is a man who is wearing a black traffic warden uniform and hat. His face is covered in bandages. He has a gun over his soldier. Behind him is a montage of broken buildings and a mushroom cloud.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 28/07/2025

If you're going to use a consumer VPN, for God's sake use a decent service and pay for it. Free VPNs are probably sharing your data, will log your activity, will prob only give you access to a small number of servers and thus won't work very well, and might even be a scam.

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 26/07/2025

Threads. Growing up through the Cold War was scary times, the shooting down of KE007, the increasing tensions between Reagan, Thatcher, Brezhnev / Andropov, the three minute warning. We watched Threads at school, and it still haunts me now 😱

A movie poster for "Threads" (1984), featuring a man in a uniform with a bandaged face, holding a rifle, against a backdrop of a mushroom cloud and destroyed buildings. The title "THREADS" is prominently displayed in white text at the top.

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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 26/07/2025

Happy #Caturday from Ms Gertie Bassett

A black cat (with a hint of ginger in the sunlight) lazes on a beige platform that sits on top of a sisal-wrapped scratching post. The wall behind her is a dark blue, there’s a glimpse of a curtain to her right, also dark blue but with pops of acid orange and green. She looks very pleased with herself as her tail and back leg hangs off the side of the platform.

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Mags @magnumificent.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Disposable Barbecues are made with no consideration for safety or the environment. As a consequence we have a near constant stream of… - catastrophic environmental destruction - life changing injuries - needless landfill Minimum standards for their production are essential #LegsLiftLid

Boy with heavily bandaged feet lies in a hospital bed

Wildlife graze in the foreground of a rural landscape while enormous fires rage in the back ground

An urban park littered with dbbqs and waste heading straight to landfill

Sign advising against the 3 D’s (Damage to people, Destruction of the environment & Disposal of single use waste) from Disposable barbecues and to choose something with the 3 L’s (legs to avoid heat transfer into the ground, Lid to contain flames, heat, ash and residue, Lifting handles to aid removal/movement)

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