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Thank you - very much appreciated

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First task of the day is to find a way to get onto my Tailscale tailnet, with an exit node, on a seemingly very locked-down eduroam connection.

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Also, I'm totally over the moon to say that the Lever Press publishing board approved my Star Trek Voyager book! This has moved into production for publication in autumn/fall next year.

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I made the transfer to St Mark's successfully! There were many bumps along the way, though, and I did not get dialysis yesterday. I must ensure this is sorted today.

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Thank you. Please do arm yourself with the sporks and prepare!

Thank you. I hope it's an eye-opener for someone, at least.

James Cummings @jamescummings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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An example of how the NHS is already privatised and why it always leads to worse service. If I was this irresponsible in my job, I would be rightly fired. I hate this culture of not penalising or cancelling contracts with 3rd party suppliers when they are routinely unperforming.

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WTAF? That is just truly beyond anything I've heard before. It's ridiculous.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That's trivializing. Of course this whole thing is a disgusting retributive "justice".

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I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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It's absolutely ridiculous and unsafe. It would not take much change in my cognitive state to make this impossible, and I would then be in a difficult and dangerous situation. Others report the same, over and over again.

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Cheers. I'm afraid I'm just stuck in G4S rage hell right now.

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This is totally not unique to me. NHS transfer records and discharge list of meds are often incorrect.

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They should fine these bastards and strip them of their contracts. Nobody has a good word to say about them. I've had to use them before and told myself I would not get stressed by delays this time. I am being sorely tested on that front.

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Impossible to say how much I hate G4S and the NHS's private outsourcing to them for patient transport. They are now 3.5hrs late. Booked for 6:30am, I woke up at 5am to cater for this. I must arrive between 10am and 2pm, which are the admission times. I also require dialysis upon arrival.

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**This is why I don't trust them an inch with my medications.**

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Anyway, I've been kicking up a fuss, and my lovely nurse has got the on-call registrar to amend the list. She has added the buprenorphine patches and tablets, but is unwilling to add the prednisolone.

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Blood transfusion -- Blade vampire squad -- underway.

A picture of a bag of blood, being transfused. The blood is next to an active dialysis machine.

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TIL: Tella is an app to help journalists be stealthy when documenting human rights abuses. tella.app

tella.app

Tella

I'm working this weekend on digital preservation structures at Knowledge Commons. This is because tomorrow, at ~6am, I will be transferred to London for the next treatment stage. Hurrah! Just a fortnight later than planned, though.

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I always hope: this is a guy with an English literature degree. Surely he wouldn't pull the ladder up on the generation below? But it doesn't work like that.

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Research Professional's Sunday newsletter notes that 'he extolled the values of universities, working with local governments and businesses to boost the economy, talking about “developing the triple-helix approach to economic development by entwining business, academia and government”'.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 26/09/2026

Do we know whether Hugging Face, for example, reported the OpenAI 'rogue' hacking incident to the FBI? I believe that the FBI is supposed to bring hacking cases to prosecution. The problem is, under the current administration, the FBI seems very unlikely to do so.

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TIL: Veilid is a peer-to-peer data-sharing network that provides privacy for all parties. veilid.com Cool apps already being built on it include Veilamp for music sharing w/ friends. veilamp.com And Veilpass, a password manager using the network to sync. veilpass.io

veilid.com

Veilid

Veilid is an open-source, distributed application framework.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 26/09/2026

You're talking about species-wide endangerment from lethal diseases, and the EU, that supposed paragon of liberal democracy, is worried that cooperation might jeopardise intellectual property rights.

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 26/09/2026

Call for papers for book chapters in Reimagining Scholarly Communication: Frameworks and Trajectories reimaginingsc.hcommons.org

reimaginingsc.hcommons.org

Reimagining Scholarly Communication

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 25/09/2026

The Politics of Open Infrastructures: Power, Governance, and Justice in Digital Knowledge Practices www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10… >

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 25/09/2026

TIL: PRONOM is an online database that provides clear, reliable information about digital file formats pronom.nationalarchives.gov.uk

pronom.nationalarchives.gov.uk

PRONOM - The National Archives

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 25/09/2026

But basically, it just looks like they have now copied that approach, which was to give everyone a VM and then run the model inside that.

Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reposted by Martin Paul Eve

Disability Rights UK has written to the chancellor ahead of the autumn budget, asking the Government to take short and long-term measures that lift Disabled people out of poverty and combat discrimination and exclusion. Read the full story and letter here: www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/chancel...

disabilityrightsuk.org

Chancellor urged to treat Disabled people fairly

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 24/09/2026

without treatment', I would still opt to take the medication. That's how bad untreated RA is.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 24/09/2026

So now I must urgently find a way to contact the rheumatology department, who do not offer me a phone line or an email address, unlike other departments who treat me, such as immunology and renal. This is a terrifying blunder, as well as ultra-poor communication.

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There's a service here called Patients Know Best that lets you monitor all of your medical tests. I wish it was called Experts Know Lots, Which Is Why Patients Consult Them, But Patients Should Be Able To Know Things About Themselves.

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Excellent to have a social stream of #iPres2026 in the background as I am working on streamlining our digital preservation processes at Knowledge Commons 😁

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In the past week, w/ infections, my weight has reeached a new low. I am skeletal. This induces major shakes and twitches. I accidentally threw my smartphone down the hospital bed while writing this! That all sounds quite amusing, but it's actually extremely debilitating.

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Markup from hell - HTMHell

I really like this Markup from Hell site, b/c it not only shows humorous bad code, but tells newcomers WHY it's wrong www.htmhell.dev

htmhell.dev

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

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