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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 23/06/2025

This is what Turing’s statue looks like on his birthday ❤️

Alan Turing’s statue in Manchester surrounded by lots of bunches of flowers and some pots of flowers. Most are on the bench and some are on the floor.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 18/06/2025

This is the before of an enormous amount of attacking plants with shears today.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 10/06/2025

Today I keep having to write “masters-level” and “3rd year level” and I am constantly thinking this:

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 09/06/2025

The collar around the Bowden tube keeps pushing out. That again sounds like a blockage right?

The collar around the Bowden tube is pushing out.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 09/06/2025

Tonight I’m fixing my 3D printer and you guys are keeping me interested during the boring bits.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 09/06/2025

I personally think everybody should have to take a new profile picture everytime they want to post so that we can see what they look like when having these moans.

I have stubble, blotchy face, very tired eyes and for some reason today I am very asymmetrical

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 03/06/2025

Please share this thread. It’s about flowers, Alan Turing, and making the internet a little more kind and inclusive. 🧵👇

Alan Turing's statue in Manchester surrounded by flowers.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 22/05/2025

Inbox done for the week! (and I'm on leave next week). As ever, if you are waiting for something from me something has gone wrong and you should yell at me. Also - if you don't believe my OOO, you are welcome to check how often I open my email at joereddington.com/export-histo... #academicsky

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 30/04/2025

Inbox empty! Haven't been here for weeks. Running away to gym now...

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 07/04/2025

I have rehearsed more scary talks here than anywhere else in the world.

Foyer of the BFI at Waterloo. I recommend it as a quiet meeting space in London

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 07/04/2025

I am wearing my best grey suit and so I think I look like Tom Cruise in Collateral but I’m bald and wearing glasses so actually I look like I should present Masterchef

Greg Wallace the Masterchef presenter and I think accused sexual predator? I should check…

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 07/04/2025

I have A Thing I am very nervous about today and so I got off the train and ran here on the basis that this apparently my safe space. #academicsky

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 26/03/2025

All inboxes empty! If you are _still_ waiting for a reply, then I've made a mistake and you should yell at me. If you _just_ got an email from me then yours was the email I was bizarrely awkward about sending. #academicsky

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 25/03/2025

I took a photo of Jupiter. I am extremely proud of myself.

A dim, slightly crappy, photo of jupiter.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 18/03/2025

Like, this is the very best way to eat pb and jam if you like all four combinations. I present: truth table toast.

Toast which has one quater just margerine, one quarter just jam, one quarter just peanut butter, and one quarter both.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 14/03/2025

I have built the Lego ISS that I got for my birthday.

A Lego model of the international space station on a wooden desk.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 02/03/2025

Nova and I went stargazing last night. I've wanted to take her for ages and clouds kept foiling me. It was awesome! We saw Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Sirius, Orion's belt, lots of planes, and a bunch of other stuff, which was pretty good considering it was still quite cloudy.

Small child in snowsuit with hot chocolate on camping chair in the dark.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 27/02/2025

In an attempt to get the kids (7 and 4) a bit more interested in 'tasting' I picked up as many different varieties of apples as I could (6) and we did a full taste test as a family. Bramley was a surprise for everybody 🤣

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 19/02/2025

I love my Swiss Army knife and what I want is a second one for the other pocket which has the rest of the tools with no overlap. But that’s not for sale. This monster is. It looks like a spoof.

A monster £300 Swiss Army knife that is literally as wide as it is long.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 19/02/2025

Half term energy. Both kids in here somewhere

A den made out of blankets and curtains and couches.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 12/02/2025

Inbox empty! As ever: * if you are still waiting for something from me, then I have made a mistake, and you should tell at me. * I will next be fully processing emails after the half-term so no sooner than the 25th (with a brief look tomorrow between meetings)

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 09/02/2025

It sat in the garage for at least two years but I'm finally starting to play with my arduino! I've got a project, a plan, a list of things I need to do and I am looking forward to getting distracted and forgetting about the whole thing for several more years.

A laptop plugged into an arduino surrounded by lots of other electronics

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 08/02/2025

On the way to a meeting the other day I got to walk though this lovely bit of Waterloo which always makes me smile.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 08/02/2025

I went and looked at Proper Art at the National Gallery on Thursday and honeslty I think it was the first time, at age 42, that I have actually properly engaged with it. I am plotting to go back and do the proper tour and things.

I picture of my amazing face. Also in shot: van Gogh's 'Sunflowers"

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 26/01/2025

I make outstanding roast potatoes.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 25/01/2025

I mention my email about once a week, but I also think it's important (indeed, more so) to make sure I have replied to, like, my actual friends? And like it's strange that we talk about 'inbox zero' and not 'I have probably emotionally connected to the thing that was festering in my dms'

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 25/01/2025

I’m reasonably underwhelmed by the Juicy marbles vegan things. Like, the packaging and price very much oversell the taste.

Plate of food. Chips, veg and a juicy marbles cutlet thing.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 24/01/2025

All inboxes empty! As ever if you are still waiting for something from me then I have forgotten and you should yell at me. Next proper processing will be Tuesday or so. If you *just* got an email from me, then yours was the one I was super awkward about. #academicsky

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 23/01/2025

I have a speeding offense (which I am mortified about) and so had to fill out the online form for Single Justice Procedure. It turns out if you put in a link to dashcam footage into the 'mitigations' box you get this message, which doesn't feel like the _best_ approach to evidence gathering.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 21/01/2025

Technically the university library has online access to this book but I have to honestly ask... Does it? I'm downloading the relevent app (1.2 of 5 stars on the app store...) but am very ready to be angry about it...

"Screenshot showing the availability of an online book through an institution. The options include: 'Read Online,' 'Download Book,' and 'Download PDF Chapter.' For 'Read Online,' it mentions 23 pages remaining for copy out of 23. For 'Download Book,' it allows downloading all pages for up to 1 day using third-party software. For 'Download PDF Chapter,' it allows downloading up to 92 pages, which can be used with any PDF software and does not expire. The 'Download PDF Chapter' option indicates 92 pages remaining out of 92."

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 21/01/2025

I genuinely think this would be useful for feeds like #academicsky that are work related. (In practice of course this is 'just a 24 hour period during the weekend' because of timezones)

A tweet saying "Imagine if social media closed every day at 6pm like a shop"

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 18/01/2025

From 1953. Could have been written today but not because today is worse: it’s because it’s very human to confuse “the world is falling apart” with “I have entered my thirties”

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 18/01/2025

Struggling to believe that apparently no proofreader was like “isn’t everybody going to just think ‘ice’ immediately?”

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“I may not, perhaps, be forgiven for introducing sober matters with a frivolous notion, but the problem of making sense out of the seeming chaos of experience reminds me of my childish desire to send someone a parcel of water in the mail. The recipient unties the string, releasing the deluge in his lap. But the game would never work, since it is irritatingly impossible to wrap and tie a pound of water in a paper package. There are kinds of paper which won’t disintegrate when wet, but the trouble is to get the water itself into any manageable shape, and to tie the string without bursting the bundle.”

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 18/01/2025

This foreword continues to be wild.

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“Where the Buddha refused to answer questions about the existence of God, Watts is more inclined to smash idols. He uses modern physics as proof that there is no evidence for the physical existence of God, arguing that no such proof will ever be offered (a reckless prediction, but how could Watts have anticipated post-quantum theories that posit a universe imbued with infinite intelligence?).”

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 18/01/2025

Amazing paragraph (the book is from the 1950s, but this is a forward to a later edition)

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“For an eccentric to dabble in Eastern thought was acceptable in his native England. Because it possessed India and strong footholds in China, England produced some minds who were willing to delve deeper into Vedanta and Buddhism than the usual blinkered colonialist.”

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 10/01/2025

And that library (and only that library) has ‘read with Kindle!’ Result!

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 10/01/2025

Wait wait wait. The American library I paid to join (I am ‘out of state’ 🤣) has this!

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 10/01/2025

Ooooh. So you have a “kindle” option. But I have these (also iOS) :

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 10/01/2025

Bonus email clear out as I'm away part of next week.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 09/01/2025

Ubuntu people what the hell is this? Google is giving me nothing. Some sort of passwordy screen saver?

A small blue circle in a white background with veritifying written on it.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 07/01/2025

I just had to find a 'serious academic' picture for something and so you can all enjoy this.

It's me, but ten years younger, having a confident opinion about something on a panel.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 07/01/2025

Right, holiday inbox has been processed and emptied. I next plan to process it on Friday. As ever, if you are still waiting for something from me then something is wrong and you should yell at me.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 03/01/2025

Ooooh. Same app now has venue sneaking in. This is exciting.

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Joe Reddington @joereddington.com · 03/01/2025

FWIW this is the screenshot I took when answering but my guy on Facebook is also talking about Venus…

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