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Malcolm Wilson

@malcolmwilson01.bsky.social
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Retired. Queer. Trans. Quaker. Flâneur/se. Teacher. Perennial student. If you’d like to get in touch, my email address is my Bluesky handle at Hotmail dot com. Born at 319.08 ppm CO2

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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 6h
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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We’re just innocent men
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 6h
I’d rather visit my shed.* * which is packed with tools and has no spectacular views or space for me to sleep or shower or any food…
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h
do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 12h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 19h
I can’t afford Scandi Kitchen smørrebrød every day so here’s my attempt at herring, beetroot, sour cream and egg on ryebread. tldr: it’s not as tasty or as neat as theirs…
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 21h
My mouth is watering.
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sleepynaut @grovewalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 21h
The trailer already made me hate the film.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Piddington Parish Council - of the anti-asylum 'village that roared' fame - appears to have been flying (or endorsing flying) drones over a local gypsy & traveller site, their July minutes suggest
38. Widnell Lane Gypsy/Travellers site
Reports suggest that the land immediately adjacent to the permitted site is
being developed and the number of pitches has increased significantly. It was
agreed that the activities would be reported to the CDC Planning Enforcement
team, and they would be sent copies of the drone footage.
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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happiness Raymond Carver 🖤
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 23h
Ada, Countess of Lovelace, 1815-1852, daughter of Lord Byron, mathematician & a pioneer of computing. Painted by Margaret Sarah Carpenter 1836. UK Government Art Collection
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William Sheehan @willsheehan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is who these people are. But please remember many in Israel would be disgusted by this conduct and utterly reject this.
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'The Tube Station', Bank Station (c.1932) by Cyril Power
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The older I get, the more sociable I become. As @jowolff.bsky.social, @malrog.bsky.social, @mcculloughp.bsky.social, @nguthrie.bsky.social, @matthewhodson.bsky.social (and hopefully soon @neilmackay.bsky.social and @naomialderman.bsky.social) will attest, I love meeting people and talking a lot. ❤️
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How I invite my daughter to dinner…
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My friend’s fiancé had one eyebrow shaved off just before his wedding. Just saying.
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Impunity
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Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amazing
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can’t wait for Mick Herron to bring together the Danny Tommo A-plot and the RAF Fairford B-plot in an unexpected but satisfying way.
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is Mick Herron's world, we're just living in it
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Drumcree Orangemen desecrate the memory of the dead Seven people - three men, one woman & three children - were killed by loyalist terrorists because of Drumcree in the 1990s. I covered the terrible events. Is this forgotten? What’s happening now mocks their loss. In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
heraldscotland.com
Shame on them: Drumcree Orangemen desecrate the memory of the dead
Our Writer at Large covered the Northern Ireland Troubles extensively. Here, he remembers the lives lost over Drumcree and says Loyalist protestors…
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My sister had cats when we lived together in the late 80s. I had to pick the bodies of two of them, one a kitten, off the road outside our house. It still tears me up to remember them.
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’ve been to see Colours of Time (La Venue de l'avenir) tonight and it was simply lovely. And that’s it! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colours...
en.wikipedia.org
Colours of Time (film) - Wikipedia
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah. I have just digested the 1961 paper by JR Lucas: 'Minds, Machines and Gödel' and now have mindburn. My conclusion? Lucas is way above my intellectual paygrade, but he ends with a “gotcha” that, were a machine to pass the Gödel test, it would no longer be a machine but a mind. I don’t buy this.
"I conceive of a thinking machine thus; if any thinking machine defies my definition, it is no longer a thinking machine. Therefore my system cannot prove a formula that is unprovable in my system.”
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Apropos of nothing…
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In the spirit of John Milton’s sympathetic Satan, I wonder if he ever looks at the growing number of evildoers in the world and thinks “fuck, where are we gonna put them all?!” Is there a Housing crisis in Hell?
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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
20. Finally, it is so important to respect the water and acknowledge the dangers involved for those crossing the English Channel in open boats and rough weather today. The hostility towards RNLI crews selflessly preventing loss of life must be utterly condemned. Support the RNLI here: rnli.org 20/20
rnli.org
RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.
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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1. #MedievalSky, grab a lifejacket and a seasickness bag, we’re casting off on a thread about the Norman invasion fleet in 1066! 960 years ago, the Normans landed at Pevensey and established a base at the Roman shore fort which was already succumbing to erosion from the sea on its south side. 1/20
Photograph of Pevensey Castle with an information board in the foreground showing an artists impression of how the view may have looked in 1066 when the sea came almost up to the walls.
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I saw this and thought it was the United Kingdom mainland.
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Emma Williams @emanemz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Please boost as my posts aren’t reaching anyone.
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Trisha Elliott @trishaelliott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is awful. Thank you @bladeofthes.bsky.social for sharing it. #Gaza
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Brilliant! Naomi Alderman is on Radio 4 Woman’s Hour! She’s wonderful and the book is great - surely Woman’s Hour can’t still be that bad…” Fuck.
The Woman’s Hour page in BBC Sounds - with Naomi Alderman and then more bloody terfery.
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Leah Torres, MD @leahntorres.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They are TERBs. The “B” is for bigot.
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The only time I’ve been entertained by country music.
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Blues Brothers: Country & Western Music
ALT: Blues Brothers: Country & Western Music
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For the “Oh everyone was doing it” people, may I offer you Thomas Coram, a sea captain who opposed slavery in the early eighteenth century. coramstory.org.uk/explore/cont...
coramstory.org.uk
Thomas Coram's time in America - Coram Story
Find out how Thomas Coram’s trailblazing work for children was influenced by his time spent in colonial America.
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m a history graduate and an English graduate. I’ve also worked on a dozen major infrastructure projects, latterly for a contractor, and I can talk for hours about diaphragms, caissons, cold joints, pre-tensioning, post-tensioning, cantilevers, CFA piling, settlement, heave, compensation grouting…
Me in the Chiltern Tunnels beneath one of our two TBMsMe talk about the exciting bits of engineeringMe in my graduation gear after gaining a first in HistoryMe in my hi-viz play-suit with Coralie, my favourite project director, on the day of my retirement.
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On 27th September 2026, thousands of people assembled to prevent the Orange Order from marching through their community.
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Brian Nisbet @natural20.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wouldn't matter if it was just 1 Orangeman looking to parade down the Garvaghy Road. The community have made their wishes perfectly clear, and what the Orange order wants to do is hold their hand up really close to the community's face and say "I'm not touching you" only a million times worse.
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Could we please have a Hunger Games-style fight for just two presenters on #BBCStrictly?
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Aodhán Ó'Coileáin @werslabber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Perhaps Heather Humphreys can explain the nuance of why Orange men need to march through a Catholic housing estate where they are not wanted? A cultural necessity? A coat-trailing excercise? Why?
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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you read about a 39yr old Clacton woman getting arrested for cannibalism next week, please note there is NO truth to the rumour that my son got a scratch on his face because "Mama eated the nose off", even if he insists on telling everybody this with confidence. Thanks. I shall clear my name.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
PSNI tells Orange Order not to march down Garvaghy Road "The PSNI has dramatically told the Orange Order that it will not be able to march on Garvaghy Road in Portadown this morning, because there are too many Nationalist protestors on the road who are refusing to move, Mark Hennessy reports."
irishtimes.com
PSNI tells Orange Order not to march down Garvaghy Road amid blockade by protesters
Belfast appeals court overturns ban on Protestant organisation marching through mainly nationalist area of Portadown
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Uh huh.
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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Another irritating cunt.
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why? Because you’re an irritating cunt.
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