Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 18hI get ELP for my birthplace. Just missed Craig David (whew) but why didn't King Crimson sell more records? 000
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 21hAnd then they went on and had a child. Fell on hard times. They found a solution to their dilemma, however, from the most unlikely source. 000
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Absolutely not. I just thought it was funny that the Astronomer Royal of Scotland made this slip. 100
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I am not sure about the reasoning there. You need to know how many physicists have been named John and how many have been women before you can make this conditional statement. 100
Reposted by Daniel ReadDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on. 3249562742
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I loved the end of The Last Jedi with the little stableboy and the broom. That was a great direction for things to go. The force as something that just happens to ordinary people, and not only to a royal family. I am not sure I will ever watch another Star Wars film 141
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Britain First is planning a "Rally for Remigration" in Coventry where I live. Very depressing that some (unknown) venue has rented them a space. More depressing that this is happening at all. 000
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I rarely laugh at jokes, but I made an exception. 020
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Not wrong, but it won't increase your chances of getting a job and might decrease them. There is a clear answer to what you should do if you want the job. 100
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The UK is joining America's war to defend the Saudi's, but it has not given such support to Ukraine. 110
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 20/09/2026He is playing Thunderbirds or GI Joe or Action Man.theguardian.comTrump claims triumphal arch will serve as a ‘top grade military complex’ to store weaponsUS president on Truth Social claims his new plan for the 250ft arch comes at the ‘strong request’ of the US military 100
Reposted by Daniel ReadMichelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o... 251396531
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Only if service stations can coordinate on higher prices will that work. But then they should be (perhaps are) doing that anyway. Its hard to see how competition will fall if demand drops and the number of service stations remains the same. 100
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Rembrandt The Night Watch Trollope The Palliser Chronicles 000
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Oh no. But fortunately Ted Nugent and The Village People have space in their diaries.bbc.co.ukEd Sheeran's support acts quit tour in support of MacklemoreThe star said he was not responsible for Macklemore being dropped from the line-up after he made pro-Palestinian statements on stage. 010
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Personally, it is just enough above my current income and wealth so that I will never reach it. My impression is that this is the general view, although for each person "my current income" varies. Remarkable consensus. 020
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Some day I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, consider this a gift on your son's wedding day. 000
Reposted by Daniel ReadHumanists UK @humanists.uk · 15/09/2026Nadine Thomas, living with terminal cancer, said: 'We're not worried about dying, we know we're going to die. It's how we die... We are expected to suffer to our very last dying breath which is unfair, it's cruel, it's inhumane.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukWest Country assisted dying campaigners call MPs vote 'inhumane'Terminally ill people in the West Country say they will continue to campaign for assisted dying. 14911
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Rousseau must have been the firsten.wikipedia.orgReveries of the Solitary Walker - Wikipedia 000
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This is very unsettling to read. I have been thinking a lot lately about how Milgram's work and Zimbardo's work, often criticised, still describe the world we see all around us all the time.theguardian.com‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligenceRachel Szor and Yuval Abraham collected the testimony of 24 insiders who helped remotely target Gazans’ homes. They explain how they got these self-professed ‘small cogs’ to talk about the killing 000
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Elisabeth Holmes could play Vera Claythorne in And Then There Were None. 000
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I just want to be assured that there will be no gorillas. 000
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is literally what is happening. The Onion is using mental accounting as a joke, but it's not!theonion.comTrump Promises To Take $5,000 From Every American If Democrats Win Midterm 010
Reposted by Daniel ReadAndrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Dismayed by defeat of the assisted dying bill. Nothing was won today – no new palliative care funding, no new disability support. And the suffering that brought this bill to parliament remains. 13338100
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 10/09/2026One does not rule out the other. This should not be treated as an All Lives Matter moment. 100
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Demonstrating the cruelty of the house of lords. Parliament voted for assisted dying and they left people like Esther Rantzen to suffer.bbc.co.ukEsther Rantzen says she is too fragile to travel to Switzerland to end lifeThe broadcaster and campaigner says she missed her chance to go before living with cancer became "unbearable". 110
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Forgetting where you were on 9/11 is a cognitive failure (minor); confabulating an absurd wish-fulfilment fantasy is a cognitive failure (major). It's the confabulation that needs explaining. 000
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 09/09/2026So Katherine Hawley is in her own little world? Or is it the reverse? I will get the pop book. 100
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I would like to know more about this. What should I read? 210
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Just trying to play the devil's advocate. I really hate these guys. 110
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I kind of agree, but if they were pro immigration and did the same thing what would we be saying? 200
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I hate these guys, but I don't think what they wear determines whether they are "protestors". I am worried about deciding whether someone is a protestor depending on whether I agree with them. 100
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I expect one reason for the different response to these protestors and (say) Palestine Action protestors is the risk to police of intervening.bbc.co.ukWatch: Anti-migrant boat protesters block roads in PortsmouthThe government condemned "the intimidating and thuggish behaviour" of the demonstrators. 000
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I think we should not be concerned about them not being arrested. They have the right to protest. But why are other protestors who did the same thing not being released right now? 350
Reposted by Daniel ReadBrexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Here's another young woman being attacked and beaten by old Reform men consumed by hate. #RefUKkers 76413293
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Got along for millennia without flint tools as well. 000
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Turns out Nigel was at Pizza Express in Woking when all this was going on.bbc.co.ukNigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' in foreign donor talksThe Reform leader also told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his family are "begging" him to leave his job. 37539101
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Use the device to push the scooter to the nearest garage if you wish to avoid injury. 000
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I notice that "pop" museums often have these kind of nonsense origins for words and expressions. 010
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Do you happen to have life tables for a medieval peasant? 210
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This lengthy article lacks the most important number -- how many people appeal a decision compared to how many do not. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukDisability benefit: Two out of three NI Pip decisions overturned at tribunalA woman who has multiple health issues says she was made to feel she was "telling lies" after being turned down for Personal Independence Payment. 010
Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Interesting example concerning the concept of profit.bbc.co.ukVictoria Beckham's company makes its first profit after 18 yearsBeckham's fashion and beauty business makes a £7.3m operating profit after years of losses. 000