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tom flemming

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There's very little we know about how people would have voted if things had been different Recovering philosopher West Riding the A63 East *Bring back the Internet*

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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That is quite something! Feels like the Indian summer is coming to an end though...
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Same, but microwaved
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'll raise a Sonoma AF to that!
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I want you to imagine people deciding you are unworthy of a basic level of standing in general society, based on a belief you hold specifically *because the last 2,000 years of the history of your people has shown, repeatedly, that it’s not just rational, but vital, for you to hold it*.
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Waiting rooms, and television?
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James O'Flynn @jamesoflynn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Is the grass long enough for this kind of thing after such a dry summer?
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Don't e-books still work the "old" way, is there any mileage in those platforms (can't say Amazon inspires any warm feelings but... others?)
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Right on my doorstep, and fine weather too... www.hobsonfarming.co.uk/carrot-demon...
hobsonfarming.co.uk
Carrot Demonstration Day 2026
Hobson Farming is proud to announce that we will be hosting the British Carrot Growers Association Demonstration Day on Thursday 1st October 2026 in the World Ploughing Match Field, at Crockey Hill. ...
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Master though... Ugh. (40+ years ago but unpleasant memories)
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And again...
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Autumn, and the informative "thunk" of horse chestnuts hitting the hot steel roof of the bus shelter outside the Thai restaurant on the edge of the village.
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Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The End Of A Fine Day. 16°C. Rosehips.
The End Of A Fine Day. 16°C. Rosehips
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 20/09/2026
As an aside, if I were currently advising a very wealthy person who wanted good PR "big, public donation to the RNLI" would be high on my list.
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You might have seen the original building, I remember this one from the 80s... www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/broad/buildi...
oxfordhistory.org.uk
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's still there, sort of - acquired by Blackwells, now the art & poster shop. Epic browsing potential...
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Listen to Earl Spencer's sales pitch for his book" says BBC news ..
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Is that a en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh... I see before me?
en.wikipedia.org
Raleigh Twenty - Wikipedia
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Near tie... Great game! playoutlier.com/r/KHN84A
playoutlier.com
OUTLIER · Day 121
thomf scored 839 on Day 121. Can you beat them?
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If someone from Leeds United helps me with this, I will get the Leeds crest tattooed on my body. I am a real fan that is how much I care. I am also going to take this to tiktok. Please help. #alaw #mot
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I managed a ride from Jericho to Horspath on a borrowed chunky-tyre hybrid last weekend and was not impressed by the state of the roads (tho Barracks lane path is good). As bad as York... Kevlar reinforcement justified.
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fearlessly ploughing through drifts of tacks and broken glass?!?!
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh just seen, seems to be errr... Stuck in a rut? Def more of a risk with skinny tyres, ngl
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm mostly on Schwalbe marathon 28s myself, for what it's worth.
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The one about 23 vs 25mm tyres?
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If I've grasped the WRMP process right, we've delegated the formulation of strategic investment plans to the water companies. Is there a case now that for the biggest stuff, govt should commission outright rather than reviewing? And maybe then it all unravels...
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Can a regulatory system account for the credibility of proposals? Seems quite possible TW would be right about the need but have failed to propose a credible programme to meet it. In which case the regulator says, go back & think again? And time passes...
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
(I started on Oracle 8 and as soon as I discovered other RDBMS didn't embed join conditions in the WHERE clause or use (+) for outer joins I was most disgruntled. So wasteful!)
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Apart from serial isolation of competing transactions (allegedly, not used Postgres in anger...)?
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
But they also have to compete with the free Whipple and its unrivalled collection of electronic calculators... www.whipplemuseum.cam.ac.uk/explore-whip...
whipplemuseum.cam.ac.uk
Handheld Electronic Calculators | Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Developed in the 1970s, handheld electronic calculators facilitated some essential advances in the history of computing, including the development of microprocessors and freestanding exchangeable soft...
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fascinating and terrifying to a 12yo. Remember picking it up in a bookshop, could not stop reading despite it making me feel sick.
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
m.youtube.com/watch?v=nggj... "This is British Transport Police..." (automated announcement). Whatever else you think of the see.say.sort.it^3 campaign, it's pretty clear that this is *not*, in fact, British Transport Police. Who/what is it?
m.youtube.com
This is British Transport police announcement
YouTube video by South Western Train Spotter
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I find this works especially well when supporting curmudgeonly acts who refuse to play their biggest hits live. You play them instead! Everyone wins.
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A plague of Spodes...
"It is about time", I proceeded, "that some public-spirited person came along and told you where you got off. The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone. You hear them shouting 'Heil, Spode!' and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: 'Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?'
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Something something, foolish ways?
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Or maybe media covering recent elections have been keen to play up that angle, and he's been happy to go along?
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'd assumed AI was coming up with new languages all the time? Especially dynamically-types variants of COBOL.
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Many such cases?
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Intrigued as to where he gets his data on term premia from
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Britain's very own White Stripes, @psbhq.bsky.social have a sort of "few snaps is good, holding up your phone to film for ages bad, let's not be dicks" announcement at the start of gigs and that seems to work? (Agree, a couple of pics needn't be obtrusive.)
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Was it in a language that sounds almost but not quite entirely unlike Italian?
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Errr... Coupling?
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Given FPTP, definitely. A suitable epitaph for UK parliamentary politics, 2015-19?
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"Two Hangovers" I suspect
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
There's something about this story that makes me think it may not have taken place in Sheffield, if I'm honest. thebearbeer.com
thebearbeer.com
The Bear - Beer Emporium Abbeydale Road, Sheffield
Craft beer shop selling bottles and cans of local, national, and imported beer, wine, cider, and some specialty spirits. We have a range of pale ales, IPAs, stouts, porters, sours and imperials. From ...
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
ask for more enthymemes?
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Denial?
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Tbf said dad gave this exact same advice... bsky.app/profile/jomi... Did not apply to me as I was focusing on...maths ;)
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Always Chromium
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tom flemming @flemn8r.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Need to allow that one of Leave's most potent tactics - the asymmetry between Remain as a concrete thing you can see vs. Leave as a random bag of promises from Singapore to Clacton via Norway - will be much harder for Rejoin to pull off. The options are limited; tradeoffs harder to handwave away?
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