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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"just the one naan bread for me, tonight"

Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I can only watch them because I have issues with concentration. I can focus better on what people are saying when I can see them whereas when I can only listen, my mind wanders and I miss most of it. I don't need them to perform to the camera though.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Abraham Lincoln flinched at this joke.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nah our police said he's not been briefed and, to paraphrase, "needs to stop talking about things he knows nothing about".

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"...that the State should provide the means of living. But what sort of life can they lead with one leg, as, after all, the pleasure of life is to have sufficient health to enable one to do a fair day's work" Who said it, Kemi Badenoch or the Chairman of the Birmingham Gas Dept in 1918? Tough one.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No I hadn't! I'd love to tear done AI posters but that would mean basically removing the entire parish notice board in my village.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Loughborough had an art show with an AI poster. Was up for ages so assume none of the exhibitors complained.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Like one of those lofi YouTube videos "night on bald mountain from another room"

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Disney animatronics are getting more and more realistic. This one is still in Beta mode but still, amazing

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

£30 to never struggle in an icebreaker is money well spent.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A catering pack of borders biscuits, some engine oil, 200 6x8 photos, and a haircut (location depending)

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Overheard at the Space Centre a dad explaining to his kid that this space suit had been all the way to space and back. Didn't have the heart to tell him it was the one worn by Matt Damon in The Martian

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I did that with the Shambles when at uni in York. Once hit my head on the second storey of a building whilst trying to get in a shot. (Couldn't happen anywhere else)

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Going through the Birmingham Gas Department Magazine from WW1 and dotted around the edition are small phrases of "Wisdom". My current favourite: Eat, Drink, and be Sorry.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

No AI in your books but AI in your advertising...sure...

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Joseph Wright of Derby when he left the Royal Academy...

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

But be careful as the story unravels under the slightest scrutiny

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I kinda assumed he had gotten the actual Kriss Akabusi to cameo. He seems like he would for a laugh.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Joining the chargers is hazardous to your health

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

There's a video that keeps popping up on my YouTube recommended that's him and another guy called "historian Vs religious scholar" and I still have no idea who is who.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Them: there's been a water leak Me: oh no where? Them: upstairs Me: where upstairs? Them: the floor Me: Which floor? Them: at the end of the building Me: omg is the library collection a mass of soggy paper or not? I've now learnt to be far more direct and not try and mask my librarianness.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A fire engine pulling up to a library is a jumpscare librarians don't need.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Muse doing Verdi, and Verdi doing muse would be a great crossover.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I was part of the Cameron trial for this back in 2013. Worked 36 hour weeks for 8 weeks as admin for a social enterprise to keep my £50 a week benefit. Completely destroyed me as a person to the point where coming off benefits was the far better option.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Had my fantasy draft today and someone took him at 8th pick. Dudes draft report was an F.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Researching Gas Industry KIAs from WW2 I realised that a big proportion were RAF. Thought due to engineering background. Then realised that it may be because those easiest to identify have more initials, more initials usually indicates wealth, the wealthy were more likely to join the Air Force.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I was really lucky that I checked the ukas portal before I left home as my uni let me in even though I didn't get the grades. I managed to limbo under what was already a pretty low bar.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Because whilst my wife was looking at the eclipse through our lounge window, I was wrestling my toddler to the ground because as soon as I told him we couldnt look at the sun, it's all he wanted to do.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Renovated my works library this year and found the old card catalogue upstairs. Manage to find space for it on the new space. Cards are mostly useless sadly due to several re-catalogues but it looks good!

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

just ask for a little bit off the top

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Then use them. If paying taxes has you so hard up, you too can benefit from reduced pricing. What you're saying is "I don't want to pay for something I'd never be seen dead using because it benefits poor people"

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Getting sick of Google AI. Trying to find info on gas industry employees who fought in the world wars using IWM memorial register. But Google AI will pull information from multiple military records and create a totally new person...or tell you your search is wrong...I have biblical levels of rage.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Market Place is a firey graveyard of cultural buildings.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

When I say "I wouldn't know I don't use it" I don't mean in a high and mighty way, I've just avoided it like the plague. Rest of my company use it though so hoping for some vindication!

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Man if they get copilot too that'll be amazing.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We usually BBC news on the TVs in reception. Not sure our receptionist realises she's put GB News on. She was telling me about what meetings there are today whilst a dude in a bow tie and big glasses said "I think many people around the world would agree that the British empire was a force for good"

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Death of Stalin meets weekend at bernies meets cats.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

My Uncle's Grandnephew (Nick Cannon) was married to Mariah Carey.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

After studying in America for two months they had a British night. The pizza had medium cheddar on and it was so strong after weeks of plastic American cheese it gave me a headache.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Trump's next speech "the teleprompter is a great guy, in fact I'm issuing a complete pardo...wait what are you doing...get your hands of me sir...sjjjejeioamamnsbxbss...................................."

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"my my...that is a lot of em dashes isn't it?"

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Glad to know I'm ranked though probably not high enough for seeding. Hoping for a wildcard spot at next years conference.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Only problem I had with it is that for some reason I thought all 5 armies had their own mountain rather than all fighting for 1. In my head it was like a sea of termite mounds.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

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Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I ofcourse cannot find the reference but Sir Henry Harpur lost an election in 18thC. Derby because the voters accused him of only caring for them during canvassing time...

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