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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

[To the tune of Eleanor Rigby] Buckinghamshire Archives Finds in a box an old thing that nobody has seen Turns into a meme

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Ian Moules @ianmoules.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

@helenebismarck.bsky.social Just a quick note to say how much I enjoyed your conversation with @robertsaunders.bsky.social last night. I expected it to be interesting from your posts here, but in the end it was enthralling. I look forward to reading the book.

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Ian Moules @ianmoules.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

So much this - there is time; spacetime; and washing machine time.

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Ian Moules @ianmoules.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

God, how often could this be said about men?

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Ian Moules @ianmoules.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Gladstone was the Blue Brother of politics - he was on a mission from god. Brilliant @robertsaunders.bsky.social

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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

It's time to remove laptops from classrooms. 24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images. The pen is mightier than the keyboard.

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Ian Moules @ianmoules.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

You are a graduate student. You have a cutting-edge theory and are asked to present it. It is your first such presentation. It's OK, the audience only includes: Einstein, Pauli and von Neumann. That was Richard Feynman's experience in early 1941.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Budget time saving pro-tip: anyone whose argument amounts to go “The fiscal mess is largely due to spending money on (people and things I don’t like) and can be solved by raising taxes on (people and things I don’t like)” is not a serious person and their views can be ignored.

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

48 years to the daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

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Ian Moules @ianmoules.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Quote of the week. Scene: The Alhambra, Granada. Tourist to friend: They keep talking about Muslims a lot.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

You don't need to have read it to get the joke www.worldofmoose.com/products/tri...

Cartoon. Venn diagram of two circles intersecting. The left circle contains the text 'Tristram Beer', the right circle contains the text 'Tristram lemonade'. There is no text in the intersection, leaving the reader to fill in the gap.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Photo of a vertical driftwood sculpture inlaid with rainbow coloured stained glass, the sculpture is sited on a wet looking shoreline by the sea under a sky with silver clouds and pale blue light

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Ian Moules @ianmoules.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I am late re #tonyharrison death. But these lines from Long Distance still chill me I believe life ends with death, and that is all. You haven't both gone shopping; just the same, in my new black leather phone book there's your name and the disconnected number I still call.

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Ian Moules @ianmoules.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Evidence that Christmas starts earlier every year

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petey @peteypayless.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

A map titled United States High Speed Rail System showing a theoretical high speed rail system in the United States. Some lines also connect north to Vancouver or the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor, or south to Tijuana or Monterrey. The map is credited to First Cultural Industries AKA Alfred Twu, dated from February 2013, and is downloadable at www.californiarailmap.com

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Ian Moules @ianmoules.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Oops, someone argued with Dr Rutherford re genetics....

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Ian Moules @ianmoules.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Love the Yellow Taxi reference

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

”…and pray you'll never know, The hell where youth and laughter go.” Siegfried Sassoon, English war poet, born #OTD 1886. National Portrait Gallery London

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Timeline cleanse

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

“As the clever hopes expire, Of a low dishonest decade… The enlightenment driven away, The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again…” September 1 1939, by W.H. Auden, poet 1907-1973 Portrait by Cecil Beaton 1930, National Portrait Gallery London

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Ian Moules @ianmoules.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Reading @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social brilliant book "What We Cannot Know" and discovered the mind blowing definition of a second. I will never look at the caesium-133 atom in the same way again.

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Ian Moules @ianmoules.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

@sarahchurchwell.bsky.social Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed "The Wrath to Come". Not only did you provide a devastating critique of Gone With the Wind, I found the information about the antebellum fascinating. Especially as I had just finished Percival Everett's "The Trees".

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Ian Moules @ianmoules.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

@drfernriddell.bsky.social I enjoyed last night's discussion with @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social. To me (as a graduate of History) I found the story of finding and evaluating documents as intriguing as the subject (which was fascinating).

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Ian Moules @ianmoules.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

@shannonvallor.bsky.social I know you are resting from Bluesky,but I wanted to say how thought provoking your discussion on @ppfideas.bsky.social about Tech was. It made me change some of my assumptions.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

NEW: Cheaper batteries mean near-24/365 solar is now economic☀️ We analysed 18 years of hourly insolation data at 12 places, to see how close to 24/365 electricity it was possible to get. The sunniest places get over 90% - and up to 99% - of the way... from just $100/MWh. 🧵

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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Perhaps a tweak of the algorithm is in order.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 19/06/2025

Rail recovery almost complete. With the caveats: the network has changed and travel patterns have changed.

Graph shows rail passengers from 1945 to present day. A nearly symmetrical V dip in the graph shows the drop in passenger during the pandemic.

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Ian Moules @ianmoules.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

"They would not have been seen dead in the same coffin." Great line @robertsaunders.bsky.social

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Wholesale Brussels: art nouveau depot for wines & spirits merchant Pierard Lesuisse, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode. 1902 by Léon Govaerts.

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Bravo, secondhand French bookshop, bravo👏👏👏

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Teodor Grama @teodorgrama.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

How many EDI roles are there in the civil service? Cabinet Office data released yesterday (from a review commissioned by the previous govt) tells us - about 350 (FTE) between July 2022 and July 2023. Or the equivalent of ~0.07% of the whole civil service over that period. Quick 🧵

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 28/05/2025

The TUBE sign looks so brash, but the Metropolitan looks almost Parisian.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Sarah characteristically turning a bonkers story into a fascinating one.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Vanity 1. Vanity 2. Vanity 3. The objects of passing time, lined up on a stone table in 1671 by Philippe de Champaigne. Today was his day.

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Juan Luis Jiménez @juanluisjimenez.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

La degradación de la juventud y la mejora de las rentas de los jubilados en los últimos 20 años en España en un solo gráfico. (Autor: @Jongonzlz)

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Juan Luis Jiménez @juanluisjimenez.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

El Gobierno implementó en 2007 un cheque-bebé que concedía 2.500€ a cada madre por hijo nacido, independientemente de su renta. Estimaciones causales encuentran que NO tuvo efecto sobre la salud y/o la educación de los niños. En cambio, aumentó el gasto en electrodomésticos y reformas del hogar.

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Ian Moules @ianmoules.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

@ottoenglish.bsky.social Talking about insults, saw this classic from Tony Harrison. GH had criticised his poem V.

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Juan Luis Jiménez @juanluisjimenez.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

⚠️Recordatorio: mientras que la pensión media real en estas dos últimas décadas ha aumentado un 35 por ciento, el salario medio real es similar al del año 2007. www.funcas.es/wp-content/u...

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Fair comment, apart from the first thing. And the second thing. And the third thing. And the quoted comment. And everything else. So apart from 100% of the claims made being fact-free assumptions, great article.

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Tom Whipple @whippletom.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

In honour of Francis, here is Tom Lehrer's classic, Vatican Rag. Includes 3 finest couplets in song: "Do whatever steps you want if/you have cleared them with the pontiff" "The guy who's got religion'll/tell you if your sins original" "2 4 6 8/Time to transubstantiate" t.co/ltBeZMbzdF

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 21/04/2025

Once widespread, smoking is now uncommon in Great Britain 🧵

Line chart showing the decline in smoking among adults over age 16 in Great Britain from 1974 to 2023. In 1974, around 51% of men and 41% of women reported smoking cigarettes. Over the decades, these rates fell steadily. By 2023, only about 12% of men and 10% of women reported smoking. The gap between men and women remained fairly consistent, with men having slightly higher rates throughout the period. The chart illustrates a dramatic and sustained decline in smoking for both sexes.

The data is sourced from the GLS & OPN surveys (2023) and published by OurWorldinData.org under a Creative Commons BY license.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

'Southbank Puddles' linocut by contemporary UK printmaker and artist Alexandra Buckle #womensart #April

Print in mostly brown and white looking down a street with railings and old fashioned street lamps on one side and trees in a row on the other, the pavement is wet causing reflections

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Kate Kirkpatrick @philosofemme.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Tamara de Lempicka, La Sagesse or ‘Wisdom’, 1940–41 Care to share some #WomensArt for #WorldArtDay?

Painting of a woman turning the pages of a book on a table, inspired by the Old Masters but in Lempicka’s signature style

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 14/04/2025

The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly NO it's not due to net-zero YES it is due to GAS Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵

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