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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Man/Woman/Chainsaw being excellent at The Globe, Cardiff.

Man/Woman/Chainsaw performing at The Globe in Cardiff

Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Nice to see interest in thermal storage, but this shouldn’t be news. 20 years ago in Munich a thermal store was built, using 6000 m³ of water to store around 450MWh of seasonal heat. Integrated into the landscaping, it doubled as a tobogganing hill.

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It’s that day again. I think we’re fairly safe from a deluge this year. Any excuse, though, to enjoy the genius of @billybragg.bsky.social… youtu.be/Bl0cXwSa6VY?is=LnpzjvJixZ4…

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

@ianwalker.bsky.social Have you done anything on what you might call “aeronormativity”, i.e., the identification of medium/long distance travel with flying? As a non-flyer, I feel I encounter it quite a lot.

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Please consider sharing this information; it’s important and it costs nothing.

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

@karlwiderquist.bsky.social I thought you’d like this quote from jacobin.com/2022/04/socialist-femin… I’m sure you’re already across it, but I saw it and thought of you.

A quote from Charles Fourier: “Philosophy was right to vaunt liberty; it is the foremost desire of all societies’ creatures. But philosophy forgot that in civilized societies liberty is illusory if the common people lack wealth. When the wage-earning classes are poor, their independence is as fragile as a house without foundations. The free man who lacks wealth immediately sinks back under the yoke of the rich. The newly freed slave takes fright at the need of providing for his own subsistence and hastens to sell himself back into slavery in order to escape this new anxiety that hangs over him like Damocles’ sword.”

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Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Grandad, grandad. Why didn't you do anything to stop it all? Yeah in hindsight we should have done more. Also in foresight. But I think we just hoped someone else would sort it out for us. Felt like they should. But they must have been waiting for us to do it. Sorry.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

BILLY ELLIOT 2 (2028) -Da, I wanna be an offshore welder -No son o' mine is gonna weld! Look, lad, just study finite element modelling. It's not fancy, but it's an honest life -It's over, da. Keir Thatcher's closin' all t'unis -You'll feel different once your first grant-- -THERE ARE NO GRANTS!

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

If this Lammy/Vance/celebrity/Cotswolds nexus isn’t an argument for sortition and deliberative democracy, then I’m not sure what is www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr68vd…

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The business secretary Jonathan Reynolds says the racist protesters intimidating asylum seekers in Epping are "upset for legitimate reasons.” I don't remember any Labour frontbencher saying the same about people protesting the genocide in Gaza. On the contrary, they've criminalised peaceful dissent.

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

@mattpagefilm.bsky.social Finally this comes good, with Front Row heralding Absolute Beginners as an unacknowledged classic AND quoting Scorcese to the same effect! Where’s your Prince of Thieves now, eh!? x.com/mike_page/status/127260690075…

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Heroes ✊👏

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

There's been a bigger scandal over a BBC documentary about the horrors inflicted by Israel against Palestinian children, over an irrelevant detail, than the horrors inflicted by Israel against Palestinian children. The world turned on its head. Depraved. Deranged.

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

“Snapping up US researchers”, while making UK academics redundant, is not a very strong look.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Mass starvation. Ethnic cleansing. Genocide. That is what our government is enabling — and it should be eternally ashamed. End all arms sales to Israel now.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Netanyahu is openly gearing up to commit a crime of unthinkable proportions - the forced ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, with the continued backing of the US. Every sane and civilized country must oppose this.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Every day that this barbarism is committed, and let to pass, further destroys our collective humanity.

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

@skeetsapp.com Hi. Keeping reading position has been working well up until now, but has gone peculiar the last couple of days: It has been setting back several hours, so I end up rereading posts. I wonder if anyone else is experiencing similar?

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

A former director of Labour Friends of Israel (@lfisrael.bsky.social) endorses Trump’s genocidal plan for Gaza. Astounding.

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

@jurajmikurcik.bsky.social Hi Juraj, nice to meet you at Futurebuild today, and to chat about Old Holloway. Your stand was looking excellent. Many congratulations.

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus. Happy St David’s Day.

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

If you see this, repost with a quote from one of your favourite books. “They’d hardly have taken the pie”

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

the last point is very clever

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The government was right to welcome Ukrainian refugees fleeing war. There is only one reason that people in Gaza, displaced by a genocide that our government abetted, are treated differently. That reason is anti-Palestinian racism.

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

At last a part-realization that VCs are responsible for the lamentable situation in UK HE. Even with a virtual monopoly on degree-awarding powers, they refused to use that power to force the Government to maintain real-terms payments, preferring to slash staff pay while hoarding their huge salaries.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Why are politicians talking about the destruction of Gaza as if it’s some random disaster? They know the truth: they spent 15 months rejecting our calls to stop arming Israel. Gaza must be rebuilt for Palestinians — and those responsible for its demolition must face justice.

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

It appears (from other reports) that Andrew Gwynne made some antisemitic remarks, among others in his WhatsApp messages. But that allegation has been dropped from the BBC report www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7zpe… though. Why, I wonder?

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

How about if everyone bigging up “sustainable aviation fuel” pledged only to fly on planes using such fuel, where the airline has purchased it at an unsubsidised market price? Then we wouldn’t need a third runway.

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It’s hard enough to listen to accounts of the terrible events in Southport, without BBC Radio 4 Today presenters opining that the perpetrator is “obviously an unconscionably vile individual”. This is not helpful. Maybe they should listen to their own Reith Lectures.

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Currently on my TV, a man with a balloon phobia is being put into a room full of balloons. The fact that this is described as being based on the “the latest developments in neuroscience” means I’m reacting worse than he is.

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Horrible news. Shortly before the pandemic, Eleanor gave a wonderful, erudite, and thoughtful talk to our Dept, staying on afterwards to discuss the talk, and much else. We shall remember her as a brilliant, original, provocative thinker, friendly and approachable to all. May she rest in peace.

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Oh look, some of the people who failed to use their effective monopoly in degree-awarding powers, to secure proper University funding and fair pay for staff, have taken their money anyway.

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Magnificent evening of panto at the Astor Theatre in Deal. Great cast, with our favourite Dame, Andrew Lambe.

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

@skeetsapp.com Hi. I’ve subscribed to Pro, but have a couple of questions: Can I preserve my place in the timeline while app is in background or closed? I thought so but, if that’s right I must be missing something, as that is not current experience … 1/2

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

@rhifirth.bsky.social Just writing to congratulate you on your excellent contribution to the Moral Maze. There is no finer accolade than upsetting Tim Stanley.

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Very happy to have this recent work published in a Special Issue of QJEP, celebrating 50 years of the Baddeley & Hitch Working Memory model. See @jntowse.bsky.social’s thread for other papers in the issue. The work was carried out with our late, much-missed friend, Andy Johnson.

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Mike Page @mikepage.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Hello, everyone. Quick procedural question: Is there a decent Bluesky reader app yet, e.g., one that takes you by default to the last post you read, rather than the latest post in your timeline? Or maybe there’s a setting? It’s a bit clunky otherwise.

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