Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ancient Romans did like a bit of the now extinct Arabian Ostrich 010
Reposted by Simon WatersMarcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“Legitimate concerns” is the new racist fig leaf  45510
Reposted by Simon WatersFared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Around 70% of hospital electricity generators in the Gaza Strip have stopped working due to shortages of fuel, oil, and spare parts, the Health Ministry said. 03124
Reposted by Simon WatersMichael Marshall @mrmmarsh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026While some early mouse studies show promise for a dasatinib and quercetin longevity cocktail, evidence doesn't yet suggest humans can benefit 271
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Still better evidence than most unregulated peptides.... My favourite longevity research is endocrinologists who noted a cocktail of HGH and testosterone increased longevity markers such as grip strength, and muscle mass in middle aged men. Almost Ignobel territory to discover this in the 2020s. 000
Reposted by Simon WatersIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Parliamentary motion against Mahmood's vicious immigration reforms gathering further signatures. Think it's pretty clear there's going to be concessions but they'd need to go very far indeed for the plan to be even halfway acceptable inews.co.uk/news/politic...inews.co.ukMahmood's 'hardline' immigration reforms hit by growing rebellionMore Labour MPs to publicly oppose Home Secretary's changes to indefinite leave to remain 24619146
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The idea that the rich will move is overstated, they were always more mobile. You tax things that are hard to move, hard to hide. The transactions moving money were never more transparent than today, it has never been easier to tax the rich. 110
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Interesting it notes how small the change in homework time is to total learning time, but a big difference in scores. Yet Chinese policy has been to reduce the time spent on homework as students basically had too little life outside of school, maybe they should be cutting teaching time instead?! 010
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Same; if I download the broken one I get a small file, so maybe it got truncated somewhere.. 120
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026That's an unfair characterisation, Romanians (mostly) aren't brown. 000
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Are there any coherent proposals on the future of aviation? Everyone seems to be planning for more flights, whereas sustainable aviation fuels are still largely a pipe dream. Electric planes mostly reveal how energy hungry it is as a mode of transport. 000
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Logic on war seems backwards. If we take it out of the ground for profit now, it won't be there should we need it during any future war. The bigger problem seems to be right wing governments of allies endangering supplies further when there were already embargoes against Russian fossil fuels. 110
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I'm prepared to kink shame that one; guy in a college room next to mine didn't finish his course due to that sort of thing. 🪦😥 000
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026They are called news sites. I remember the first news web page that took over a minute to load it was so weighted down with trackers and adverts. As far as I could tell everything worked as designed. While we were aiming for 0.3s per page load or some such at the time. 0100
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Most of the YouTube ads I notice are likely illegal under UK advertising law, seems to be the home of dodgy heaters. 0120
Reposted by Simon WatersMet Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 11/08/2026⚠️⚠️ Amber weather warning issued ⚠️⚠️ Extreme heat across eastern parts of England Thursday 0900 – 2359 Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️ 710559
Reposted by Simon WatersMet Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 11/08/2026A surge of heat will see temperatures soar over the next few days🌡️ Here's how high they could climb in each nation 53615
Reposted by Simon WatersEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Reform donor Arron Banks urged to set out extent of surveillance of journalists www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comReform donor Arron Banks urged to set out extent of surveillance of journalistsIndustry body says use of private investigators against reporters is ‘attack on our democracy’ after Banks apparently admitted doing so 614155
Reposted by Simon WatersCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 11/08/2026You may have seen I broadcast a message to planet Earth from the edge of space. I thought it was equally important to speak to deep space about you and your lovely little planet. But I thought humans might like to see it too, so here it is. #Clacton #VoteBinface 672477662
Reposted by Simon WatersCallum Anderson MP @callumandersonmp.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I stand by every word I said here. The strength and resilience shown by residents of Newton Longville has been nothing short of remarkable. www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/emergen...bucksherald.co.ukAylesbury Vale MP hails 'extraordinary' community response to suspected gas explosionAn MP, with constituents in the Aylesbury Vale area, has praised villagers’ response to a major suspected gas explosion. 042
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026That probably involves adequate mental health care and prisons partly cater to the lack of same. 040
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026More junk, I don't get the need of companies to produce physical products for virtual services. I was already talking to my phone's AI via my car's microphone & speakers, having it summarise medical research on the way home. Once someone has a convenient microphone and speaker, just roll with it. 010
Reposted by Simon WatersPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Don’t know if this is a real Banksy - but I hope it is 301391308
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026So it wasn't "Good! Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you." ? May have to rewatch it. 010
Reposted by Simon WatersMarcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Globally, millions are on the move - because of climate change, war, poverty etc - and the numbers are mushrooming. Pulling up the drawbridge cannot work. A solution requires rich countries to confront the causes rather than descend into populism. We must find a way to reduce global inequality. 75318
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I'm assured by a housing association they are disposing of more houses that would be expensive to bring up to new environmental standards required of landlords. In fairness they are one of the biggest builders of new social housing in the country. They wouldn't need much encouragement to build more. 000
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026One place I worked was very insistent email not be used as a task inbox, largely because email doesn't have a way for senders or managers to easily see how big the virtual pile of tasks you have is. 050
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Not sure about that, the US federal government spent $1.7 trillion on medicaid and medicare in 2025 for 350 million people, which at today's exchange rate is more per capita than the UK NHS budget £0.2 trillion for 70 million. You get less health care per $ in the US. 010
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I believe US welfare is more generous than the UK's these days, although it is hard to compare. 230
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I know it is nothing like yours, but my skin has just about recovered from the glue they stuck the ECG electrodes on with, they came off two weeks ago. Weirdly my skin didn't react until the electrodes were removed?! 010
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Did they look at the urban/rural split? Guessing rural poor more likely to drive in spite of the cost. Here if you want to go somewhere after 18:00, or on Sunday, there is no bus & we are close to Exeter. The able can walk 30 minutes, uphill, through fields to a different bus which is more frequent. 100
Reposted by Simon WatersIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026It's funny how no-one ever asks where the money is coming from when you announce a cut in immigration. 392394535
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The upside of the publicity, I'd previously missed that Reform were charging potential candidates, alongside how many senior figures in Reform bought their way into the party. Farage might be bad at declaring his sources of money, but you have to admire the way everything funnels money towards him. 110
Reposted by Simon WatersMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22/07/2026Does Not Rhyme -through -cough -though -rough -bough Does Rhyme -pony -bologna 12944751038
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The whole women's chess history is interesting. In some places it looks like it existed to discourage too much fraternisation, when that wouldn't have been acceptable. Then carried on as a separate thing except for a few women who wanted more opposition, because women's chess was never as popular. 040
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Water costs money or needs a license to extract, so if you don't need it. Also you don't want to be shut down due to a water shortage. Refrigerants have been looked at for the closed loop, but water is cheap & easy to get hold of, so takes a lot of beating. I mean we use it in my central heating... 000
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026You know those huge cooling towers with white stuff billowing out, that's the water usage of a power station. Pembroke power station uses direct cooling, so they monitor the discharge site to see if the warm water changes the environment too much. 100
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I believe many data centres are closed loop here. They pump heat to the roof & air cool, they only switch on "misters" (e.g. water) to remove the heat when the external temperature is too high. Most of the water used by data centres is reportedly in electricity generation. 110
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026We already prioritise veterans in a number of key areas which are otherwise underfunded, and segregation reduces what is available to non-veterans, but I think that is the contract we make with our soldiers. But hearing others complain who probably have no idea how these systems work rankles. 020
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I assumed it was never a good faith comment. Veteran here I know complains that in the dedicated veteran facility he's in, the other veterans nick his food from the fridge. Shared accommodation has the same issues everywhere it seems. 110
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Here the complaint is always about student accommodation, never seems to occur to them the number of students housed in the city will be the same after it is built, they'll just free up rooms and flats. 010
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The moral case is strong, but many of those I know had serious mental health issues & I'm not convinced the facilities are easily provided. One once homeless got priority access to a psychiatrist, who switched their meds, result, but had it happened sooner they'd probably have not been homeless. 110
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I fear you don't need to be right-wing or a politician, to retreat into conspiracy theories. 000
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Some of the recent comments about the Fabian Society have been hilarious. Here it is subversively noting that co-operative farming is more resilient, & pursuing their evil socialist agenda of greater food security. 131
Reposted by Simon WatersHumanists UK @humanists.uk · 17/07/2026From William Beveridge's five giant evils to today's populism – Neil Kinnock and Prof. Colin Tyler trace the humanist ideas behind the welfare state, and why building real human contact across communities matters more than ever. #UnholyHistories out now. unholyhistories.humanists.uk 0218
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026We need to close down UK oil & gas, & generate cheap renewables & nuclear here instead. Every US state and Chinese province can say the same thing, we are only a small part of the global problem, this is why we've made no progress in reducing CO2 emissions globally 230
Reposted by Simon WatersEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 11/07/2026There's certain people who have to learn the difference between an organisation "disappearing" vs not posting on X anymore. I just watched a video of two very self-serious people who clearly spend too much time on X talking about how Bellingcat has just vanished. 231112178
Reposted by Simon WatersExeter Observer @exeterobserver.org · 11/07/2026NEWS // Exeter UCU declares trade dispute over University of Exeter job cuts plan Union threatens strike action if university does not abandon scheme to make 150 academic staff redundant while putting more than 500 staff at risk. exeterobserver.org/2026/07/10/e...exeterobserver.orgExeter UCU declares trade dispute over University of Exeter job cuts plan - Exeter ObserverUnion threatens strike action if university does not abandon scheme to make 150 academic staff redundant while putting more than 500 staff at risk and jeopardising 85% of humanities, arts and social s... 075
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I'm the kind of idiot who buys them and just doesn't get around to reading them, whilst listening to other people's podcasts who did read them. Probably should get an audiobook subscription, as the eyes are rebelling slightly. 161
Simon Waters @gnufan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Kind of agree, whoever rewrote it clearly didn't take existing devolution arrangements into account adequately. Seems poor rewriting too, probably best to have left it as was. Also municipal level devolution may take powers from Welsh and Scottish parliaments and push them lower still. 120
