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Fiona Reeves

@freeves.bsky.social
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Software Engineer. Graphic designer. Mother of two. Electric vehicle driver. Solar panels & batteries. She / her.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 8h
Can you revive a zombie river? Our cities are full of rivers that have been buried in concrete after industrial pollution filled them with filth. But there's a global drive to bring them back: to "daylight" these forgotten rivers. I had a lovely day out in Sheffield today, seeing it actually happen.
Helen and six of the members of the Sheffield Castlegate project team, all in hard hats and fluorescent jackets.A worksite with a 12 metre wide trough dug into the ground, currently reinforced with large yellow metal bars across its width.
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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Travis Knight’s WILDWOOD is such an astounding achievement in stop-motion that even if the story sucked, it would be a “must see.” But the story is wonderful (if a little archetypal), so the effort it took to produce this masterpiece was wholly justified. My review is at @thewrap.com!
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‘Wildwood’ Review: Laika's Fantasy Epic Is One of the Most Astonishing Animated Movies Ever Made
The stop-motion adventure Wildwood, directed by Travis Knight, is so astonishing and intricate that it's hard to even fathom.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So, finally, a PM who admits there **was** Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum — after all the evidence amassed by myself @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social Sergei Cristo, J Patrick et al — dismissed as conspiracy for ten long years Truth is the daughter of Time
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The backstory: Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex supercomputer facility in Vladimir, taking it out. Suddenly, bot activity in US social media fell by 49%, confirming suspicions that this was the site of a massive Russian influence operation targeting US social media—mostly targeting MAGA.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Religion has always been an instrument of state - used to gain and demonstrate power, to gather taxes, create political/military alliances and to ‘other’ groups who compete with the state or stand in the way of imperial expansion.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.
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The Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre plan
Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In the least surprising news of the century, vast majority of racist flag shaggers who go about brandishing crosses and saying that we're a Christian country... don't pray, or go to church or read the Bible www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity
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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.
A plastic dolls house sitting on a wall, taken from an angle which makes it look as if it might be one of the houses on the street.
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Fiona Reeves @freeves.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Just finished playing Shadows of the Afterland by @arumastudios.bsky.social . Fun game with a good storyline - recommended for all lovers of point & click adventure games! My rarest (not that rare!) achievement was “Purse mystery closed” at 41% of players.
Steam achievement photo. Purse Mystery Closed. Solved the case of Pilar’s missing purse. Justice is stylish. 41% of players have this achievement.
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is one reason why you shouldn’t upload work into LLMs during the peer review and grading processes. That work is confidential, and you have no right to share it without permission. You are taking someone’s intellectual property and giving it to the entire world without their consent.
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Fiona Reeves @freeves.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yes! When I first discovered the series I played it on iOS but one of the games in the series was missing so I think I played that one on Steam. Great that you keep on top of it as much as possible. Must be pretty frustrating.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Three thousand years ago, a Greek potter looked at a bowl and thought: ‘You know what this needs? A leg!’ Clay bowl with leg-shaped handle!🦵😆 Early Geometric period 850 BC. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows an ancient Greek pottery bowl with a rounded, deep body, wide open mouth and flared rim. It has a large handle shaped like a human leg, extending from the left side of the bowl in my photo, bending at a right angle and ending in a flat foot. The bowl has a camel-coloured surface decorated with dark brown geometric patterns, which include zigzags and meander motifs arranged in horizontal bands around the body of the bowl and along the leg. From Attica, Early Geometric period, circa 850 BC. It sits on a light stone coloured surface in a display case at the Altes Museum in Berlin.
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Fiona Reeves @freeves.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Margaret Hamilton was a trailblazer in her field, leading the team who developed the software for Nasa's Apollo missions...” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the moon, dies at 90
Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
'The University of Manchester is seeking alternative funding sources to keep scientific work at Jodrell Bank going after hearing that lost UK Research and Innovation funding would not be restored despite interventions by the prime minister.'
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Manchester seeks alternative Jodrell funds despite Burnham pledge
University exploring new revenue streams to continue important scientific research at site, as astronomers remain concerned about the future of facility
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Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Illustration from today’s @theguardian.com to accompany piece by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on the government’s Prepare campaign, which gives the public advice on how to avoid disasters whilst policies that lead us closer to crisis are given the green light www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...
A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover
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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As EV sales surge in Germany and France saving consumers billions of euros and insulating them from the stupid acts of imbeciles, their respective heads of government... Move to slow the transition down?!
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
POV ur inside a baitball of mullet. A lot of Coralheads didn’t get much work done yesterday, mesmerized by the mullet run that blotted out the sun and turned Coral City into a marriage of heaven and hell for predators and prey 🪸🐠👀
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
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Fiona Reeves @freeves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Obviously a typo that should say tram but I’m quite enjoying the image of you travelling home from work on a horse & trap like you’re living in the 1800s! 😆
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The thing that never gets enough attention with big bold deregulation programmes is how implausible the counter-factual is. The idea you scrap some annoying regulators, ditch net zero targets, and stop worrying about schools near new housing developments and all will be fine is laughable.
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Young people having fun. New craze called aura battles, like a dance off, but basically striking a pose (often taken from video games). Here’s a “battle” outside a French school, and then the Headmaster joins in, to everyone’s delight.
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Fiona Reeves @freeves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Command & Conquer represents my time at university playing it solo and multiplayer. Etc. etc. you get the picture!
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Fiona Reeves @freeves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My dad and I played the first Monkey Island together in the evenings and that’s a really precious memory, it was also the start of my life long love of point & click adventure games. Civilisation represents early SIM games my dad & I enjoyed.
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Fiona Reeves @freeves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My 9 games. I’ve approached this as games that were significant at different times of my life. Chuckie Egg was my favourite game on the BBC Micro and I spent a significant amount of time playing it as a young kid, so much so that I still seem to have some muscle memory for it 😳
Grid of pictures of 9 game covers. Chuckle Egg, Monkey Island, Civilisation, Command & Conquer, Broken Sword, Splinter Cell, Jet Set Radio Future, Thimbleweed Park, The Drifter.
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The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The inside story of a city’s relationship with Abu Dhabi ‘You don’t criticise the council’s relationship with the football club’. manchestermill.co.uk/man-city-bur...
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A very Mancunian scandal: How Man City forced Andy Burnham to face his past
We tell the inside story of a city's relationship with Abu Dhabi, including notes that show a council official saying: 'You don’t criticise the council’s relationship with the football club’
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Fiona Reeves @freeves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So pleased with this Christmas cactus! I bought it 2 years ago, full of buds, but when home all the buds just stopped developing and it did nothing and eventually seemed like it might die. Then this year after moving it and changing watering it is looking healthy and starting to flower - hooray! 😊
Photo of a Christmas cactus plant, in a sunny corner of a bay window, covered in buds and with one bright pink flower open.
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Fiona Reeves @freeves.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Finally sitting down with a hot drink to read the latest Debug magazine @debugmag.com Gorgeous looking cover!
Photo of Debug magazine issue #17. Features a purple and green image related to the new indie game Voidling Bound.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I strongly believe schools should bring children together rather than try to impose one religious identity on them. If you agree - please add your name and call on the Education Secretary to introduce inclusive assemblies for all, and to keep dangerous Christian Nationalism OUT of our schools.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Burnham has called for proportional representation. SV is absolutely not a proportional representation system. It is not clear if Burnham knows this but it is pretty certain that those appointed to an electoral reform commission charged with considering a move to PR will know this.
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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's a bit hard to discern exactly what proportion of new public transport buses are electric (total sales figures seem to include coaches and minibuses), but honestly it should be 100%. There is no reason to still be buying diesel buses.
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Zero-emission buses exceed 2,500 units (+62%) as UK market posts 17-year high - Sustainable Bus
Bus, coach and minibus registrations in the UK increased 10.4 percent in 2025 to 9,259 units, with zero-emission vehicles...
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Fiona Reeves @freeves.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s that time of year when I enjoy seeing lots of conkers on the ground. (Phone doesn’t like the word conkers, kept trying to autocorrect to cookers, which would definitively be surprising to see lots of falling from trees!). Their ‘proper’ name is European Horse-Chestnuts (Aesculus hippocastanum))
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Following her death, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is now expanding to serve more states and countries. buff.ly/24eEPBs
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Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is expanding to serve more kids.
In a bit of good news, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is now expanding to serve more states and countries. Since 1995, the free book service has catered to young readers all over the Unit…
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Adam is my friend, so I'm biased. But he's a darned sight better than the rest of them. Which presumably is why Badenoch fears him. Which is presumably why he's banned.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
that's about £28m a day renewables have saved the UK sending to petrostates since the start of the US-Israel war in Iran
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Pegdeg @pegdeg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"He will continue to be entitled to the annual £26,000 salary from Moray Council while he remains as a councillor." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Moray councillor continues to carry out council duties after moving to Egypt
Independent councillor Neil McLennan has held a seat in the Buckie and Findochty ward since May 2022.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 30/09/2026
If Palantir are so trustworthy, why are they intimidating anyone who criticises them? www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewis-tom…
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'We're watching you': MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel's AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously'. By Carole Cadwalladr
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026
New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Electricity is 23% of global final energy but delivers 37% of useful energy and powers 46% of the global economy. We don't need to replace every fossil joule. We need to replace the services. A much smaller task. Great to see the @iea.org’s new Electrification report finally measure this.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When farms stop yielding, hunger does not knock — it breaks the door. Across the Horn of Africa, soils that once fed nations are turning barren. This is not “bad weather.” This is climate change rewriting our food systems in real time.
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Special Needs Jungle @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We covered the suspension of referrals some time ago. Some NHS ICBs in England have now gone a step further, imposing a two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments
Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses
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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ada Lovelace Day is coming up again on 13 Oct and, as you know, these days it is almost entirely unfunded. I've been invited to speak at or attend a few events, all of which I've said yes to because the mission won't further itself. I'm also still writing my report...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gasoline prices in the US are soaring. EV sales should be booming. They're not. Policy rollbacks have left the US trailing China and Europe just when drivers need an alternative most.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 23/09/2026
“To think that the right to access health and care for some people in this country is now up for debate is unthinkable.” Anthony Slaughter introduces a debate in the Senedd on the pause in gender-affirming surgeries and its impact on Wales’ trans community.
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Fiona Reeves @freeves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Would you expect a non-disabled person to live like this? And if not, why do you think it’s OK for disabled people?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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An effective ban on disabled people leaving Britain? You read that right, and we will not settle for it | Frances Ryan
This scandal shows there are many who don’t expect us to live rich lives – and that paternalism lives on in disability services, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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