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Keith Williams

@keithwilliams.bsky.social
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Tech person, gardener, former historian, sometime artist, lives in Old York. Really just here to read interesting threads and articles!

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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So, the missile strikes on the Yandex data centres show that we can, actually, turn This Shit off?
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Not a bad steak night, now to pass out by the fire with a glass of red
Plate of steak, chips and greens
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tank museum was great. Unfortunately the hotel is not serving food, and only has Madri on tap 😭
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Father and son tank geek-out day whilst Mrs W sleeps off a well-deserved hangover
Selfie in front of a T-34 at Bovington tank museum
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Morning sky being needlessly dramatic
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Well, that’s the dining room done. Just over a month end to end - quickest room so far. Still hate the white uPVC windows but that’ll have to wait.
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Really OneDrive? You couldn’t put an `if` clause around this date?
Screenshot of a notification from OneDrive labelled “September 11! Today over the years. See what made this day special over time.”
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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The single most effective argument against Mosley’s BUF in the 30s, the one that really broke through with the masses, was that all the creepy fash stuff (esp. the uniforms) was *un-British*. That is the angle to keep pounding away at - the foreign donations, the obvious mimicry of the 🇺🇸 alt-right.
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
27 years in this town and it’s the first time I’ve sat on the beds in this establishment #York
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What is he burning on his fire? He’s a miser shivering over a lump of coal, not a blacksmith
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Nice to see tram proposals for York, but I’m not optimistic fyfy.org.uk
fyfy.org.uk
FYFY — a tram and rail plan for York and North Yorkshire by 2040
FYFY is an alternative integrated transport plan — tram, tram-train, bus and active travel. See how much faster your own journey gets.
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
At least someone at Microsoft still has a sense of humour
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Ladies and gentlemen, I present: the Frankenhaus, or, a parable of incoherent overextension www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...
rightmove.co.uk
Check out this 5 bedroom semi-detached house for sale on Rightmove
5 bedroom semi-detached house for sale in Almsford Drive, Acomb York YO26 5NR, YO26 for £524,000. Marketed by Bishops Personal Agents, York
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Settling in for the #eclipse
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“This window trim is loose, I wonder…” Later: “Hello daylight my old friend.”
The consequences of my actions
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
And they say there are no more heroes…
The Celegraph
German bus driver kicked
Semtex drone out of the air
'Daring and courageous airport worker may have stopped suspected Russian terror attack
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Last evening in Porthleven for this holiday! Next year in Scotland!
Photo of Porthleven harbour looking out to the clock tower, on a sunny evening at high tide
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Historians! What should I read on why France was so late to women's suffrage? And in particular, on why the First World War didn't have the same accelerating effect as in Britain? (Ideally in English, but French not impossible...)
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
An idle “what’s that ship over there” has led us down a rabbit hole and now we have VesselFinder and we’re questioning our life choices. @dreadships.bsky.social how do we get out of this?
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Going to be sad when this holiday is over…
Pint overlooking the sea
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Back in Cornwall!
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
First home-grown salad of the year!
Sausage pasta with a leafy salad
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
If nothing else, the Binface vs Farage contest shows that our best cultural defence against fascism is, despite its drawbacks, a refusal to be serious.
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Nothing like running a blame-free post incident retrospective to get the juices flowing on a morning. Smells like… continuous improvement.
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Despite 25 years’ experience and a senior management role, I still feel like a naughty schoolboy whenever I have to speak to IT and ask them to please stop blocking something our developers need to use
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
In my experience, scholars of a particular historical period are the LEAST uptight about "accuracy" in fictional representations of their period, which is why, as a medievalist, I can assure you that A Knight's Tale is the greatest movie set in medieval England that has ever been made.
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Work trips have to have some perks
A large glass of dark beer
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“UK houses are just not built for forced air heating!” Well they kind of are - they’re built around chimney flues, often very intricate, which carry hot air as a secondary heating mechanism. Built to take advantage of cheap coal just as AC took advantage of cheap power next century.
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Chicken curry with dates and toasted almonds. Very full now but will happily take on any American food discoursers.
Dish of chicken curry taken from above
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Very grateful that we live on a tree-lined street this week. Next job: take up some of the paving on the front (it’s 100% paved, but we have plans…)
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
First day of a new job - well actually, going back to an old one after 10 years). Actually drove to the office and sat at a desk. I’m only going in 1-2 days a week but surprised how much I’d missed just being around people. In sure the novelty will wear off eventually…
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
And that’s a wrap for the week.
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Lovely morning for a change
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Oh, they made another series of The Night Manager, I wonder how they’ll do without a source book… Ah. They made a stock BBC drama where people exposit at each other and something blows up each episode. Yawn.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/06/2026
A generation of children confined to exclusively posting on LinkedIn, humbled to share that they have been recognised as thought leaders in vertically integrating your mom's supply chain.
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Turmut Hoer @4u5t0.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Grant Naylor: In my tv series I invented the Talkie Toaster as a cautionary tale. Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Talkie Toaster from classic sci-fi TV episode Don't Create The Talkie Toaster.
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
If you’re not prepared to treat voters like adults, they’ll eventually react like toddlers
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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I think the root of this, and almost all other problems the government has, is that they don't believe that the public can be persuaded. A tax rise to pay for national security in a changing world should be an easy argument to make but the PM seems uninterested in even trying
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Listening to @robertsaunders.bsky.social on Parliament Matters yesterday and it occurred to me that journalists talk about covering the Brexit years like spies in a 1970s John Le Carré novel talking about The War
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
David Austen “Wildeve” #rose
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Well, #Kefalonia is *lovely*
Photo of Asos village from its castle
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Dramatic skies!
Cloudy evening skies over a swimming pool
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Holiday kitty scavenging food at breakfast
Tortoiseshell cat looking up at us
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The only kind of Mythos I want to hear about on holiday
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
First rose of the year!
Pink/purple rose in bloom
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
So the result of making a mess yesterday was a tip run today, sat in a car reeking of old person bathroom carpet
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Today, we make a mess.
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
At least the lilacs are in bloom! (Actually, everything’s looking good this year thanks to the rains - last year it was a desert and even the Alchemilla Mollis struggled)
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Mistakes were made. Send for my elasticated pantaloons.
An unwise choice of bbq given how full I now feel
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Keith Williams @keithwilliams.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Love this time of year for the colours of Pieris Japonicus
Pieris Japonicus, photographed up close with pink leaves and white flowers
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