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Murray Chapman

@mugski.bsky.social
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Ordinary old bloke

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Murray Chapman @mugski.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Child trust fund, at least it was 18 years ago. Bear in mind they may spend it on something inappropriate. A friend spent his inheritance money on a 350LC back in the day, luckily he didn't waste it.
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Singletrack Magazine @singletrack-world.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Be back soon. Forum 3.0 is loading. Stress levels at 100%
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Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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All Kinds Of Nope @woozleweasels.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I've started investing in stocks : beef, chicken, vegetable... One day I hope to become a bouillonaire.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Poohsticks From the new Private Eye, out now.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Front cover of Private Eye.
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Singletrack Magazine @singletrack-world.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Islands In The Mud You know how there are islands in the Galapagos where there's a finch that's perfectly adapted to eat just that one seed that grows on that one island? And then on the next island there's another finch that's perfectly adapted to eat just that one seed that grows on the island…
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Islands In The Mud
You know how there are islands in the Galapagos where there's a finch that's perfectly adapted to eat just that one seed that grows on that one island? And then on the next island there's another finch that's perfectly adapted to eat just that one seed that grows on the island where it lives, and so on? I think that mountain biking, or mountain bikers, can be a little bit like that.
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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.northsky.social · 14/01/2025
Did you know we're all placed onto different Bluesky servers, and they're named after mushrooms?? You can find out what mushroom server you're on by looking yourself up on Clearsky clearsky.app I'm team oyster mushroom. 🦪🍄
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
🎉🎙We are excited to announce our new partnership with the @disordershow.bsky.social podcast. RUSI experts will regularly join host (and RUSI Associate) Jason Pack to bring order to the disorder and explore some of the most important and urgent global issues. More details below!
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RUSI Announces Partnership with Disorder Podcast
The Disorder Podcast - a top 20 UK Podcast currently co-produced by Gary Lineker’s Goalhanger Podcasts and dedicated to understanding the 'novel historical era of The Global Enduring Disorder' - has r...
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Murray Chapman @mugski.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Chapeau! The funniest thing I've read in ages!
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Murray Chapman @mugski.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I always used to ask the receptionist what she thought of candidates I was interviewing. She was right more often than I was in judging people.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Challenge accepted! 🎤I am the very model of a modern crashed economy I've underperformed vegetables like lettuces and broccoli I know the cheese of England, and I want a Keir apology From pork markets to pensions too, my life is tragicomedy
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Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Just in from mammoth interview session to two bits of news. One that a DV perp got locked up because of something I did and that a vulnerable constituent had a a massive wrongful debt written off after our intervention. This is why I came to politics, this is why I'll just keep cracking on.
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Murray Chapman @mugski.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
There's good and bad use cases - good, I want to knock up a PowerShell script to do something slightly strange, rather than finding something close using Google, a few rounds with Copilot gets me what I need. Bad, Google giving me an AI summary of the weather forecast which is no better.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/01/2025
‘Grief doesn’t bend’: professional big mountain skier Hadley Hammer on moving forward past loss
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‘Grief doesn’t bend’: professional big mountain skier Hadley Hammer on moving forward past loss
The American big mountain skier has experienced more loss at 38 than most humans will in a lifetime. She opens up about how she’s learned to navigate the highs and lows For the last five years, Hadley Hammer has been fighting to stay above water. Only…
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Murray Chapman @mugski.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Interesting, the canal construction machine might be useful in e.g. Finland to pre-prepare defences. No use when shooting starts though!
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James Watson CEng, FIET @engineerlondon.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Happy Christmas! And a particularly Happy Christmas to the 27 guys in national control and 57 standby engineers covering the England & Wales supergrid today so all parts of the network are under our watchful eyes. No ‘planned’ work today- just powering your Christmas 🎄 🦃🎅🏻💡🥂
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Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
This article depicts a battle ‘within the National Trust’ but RT2021Ltd or Restore Trust is a private company with 4 directors, The National Trust is a 129-year-old charity which has 5.5m members, all of whom have democratic voting rights. www.thetimes.com/article/26a1...
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Battle over National Trust decision not to restore ruined Clandon Park
Charity plans to showcase country house, which was gutted in a devastating 2015 blaze, as a fire-damaged shell but traditionalists demand it be restored
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Zion Lights @zionlights.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I’ve cross posted it > zionlights.substack.com/p/all-we-wan...
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Dear Ed, all we want for Christmas is clean and affordable electricity
An open letter to the UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
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Murray Chapman @mugski.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
That really is good news
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Think Defence @thinkdefence.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
NEW BLOG POST A look at above ground protected shelters www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2024/12/abov...
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Above Ground Protected Shelters - Think Defence
Above ground protected shelters are used for rest areas, medical facilities, HQ and CP functions, storage, and equipment care.
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Murray Chapman @mugski.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Malwarebytes reports "Website blocked due to trojan"
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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 20/12/2024
What if Hasbro took over the US government and Monopoly money became the official currency? Your strange economics questions, answered... (1st 300 clicks free - enjoy) on.ft.com/41Dm8H0
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What if DogeCoin becomes the US currency? And more of your wild proposals answered
[FREE TO READ] What if Bitcoin got adopted as the only way of paying for coffee?
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Good morning - it’s day 19 and the penultimate advent on my top 20 worst fox hunting crimes with @huntsabs.bsky.social – please watch . And then email your MP , this nightmare belongs in the past . Thank you . #RealBanNow
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Ye Olde Punk @nehoc.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Possibly the best live album ever. #nowspinning #vinyl #vinylcollection
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Murray Chapman @mugski.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Principles of law. I was doing a mechanical engineering degree. I've found in normal life knowing the principles of law makes it much easier to navigate life.
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Murray Chapman @mugski.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I work for a bank. If I used an unauthorised channel for business purposes I'd be sacked and the bank would be fined a large amount - see Deutsche Bank being fined $2 billion for people using Whatsapp.
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Murray Chapman @mugski.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Thanks, a really good article
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18/12/2024
"Since the early ‘90s, the cost of a lithium-ion battery has fallen by more than 97% per kilowatt-hour" www.construction-physics.com/p/how-we-got...
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How We Got the Lithium-Ion Battery
It took decades of research, performed around the world, before a practical lithium-ion battery was possible.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
"Siri, find me a very small violin. Nano-scale"
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Murray Chapman @mugski.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Planck length
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Murray Chapman @mugski.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Thanks, interesting article
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Nir Kahn @nirkahn.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Finally had the patent granted on this endoskeletal composite car structure that I wrote about years ago when the patent was first filed. Working right now on implementing it because it’s high time that cars stopped being giant steel turtles heading for extinction www.linkedin.com/pulse/bones-...
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Into The Bones of Composite Cars
In Part 3 of a series on new paradigms in car design, Nir Kahn explains how composite cars need to be designed from the inside out Last week I was cycling up the beach and I came across a rather large...
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Murray Chapman @mugski.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Much better idea than the Ami, it's make a good first car for 17 year olds or a second car for local trips
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The correct pronoun of Russian general is "was/were".
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
So apparently the correct response to shopping centre Santa ringing his bell is not to shout "bring out your dead!" No sense of humour, some people...
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
We started a history TV channel in 2018 with nothing but a crowdfunder & enthusiasm. We were playing in a world of billion dollar giants. This year we won a Best Channel award, attracted ever more subscribers and made these stunning original documentaries Join us! www.historyhit.com/gift-subscri...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/12/2024
WHAT
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Mike Scott @mickpuck.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I can find no flaw in this proposal
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 06/12/2024
Nothing quite as exciting as deploying a change with a decent sized diff that makes the service more stable and less scary to deploy in the future. I hate systems that are intimidating to deploy and we've had a few since we had to scale up fast but we're slowly making them boring again :)
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
My Nature column on tear gas is here. Should be non-pay-walled media.nature.com/original/mag...
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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Heidi Alexander’s appointment as transport secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history - great stat from @georgeeaton.bsky.social
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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Absolutely, I’m just singling out people who did something for me and didn’t want anything in return. That’s when it makes a difference
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Asked by Sky News whether his fellow Reform MP previously being jailed for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend, and then subsequently lying to voters about it, should be grounds for his expulsion from the party, Nigel Farage replies that "I've got a million followers on TikTok" and storms off
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Murray Chapman @mugski.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Primo Levi wrote about the German woman who gave him a boiled egg when he was a slave labourer in the concentration camp. It really stood out to him because it was such a rare example of compassion.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
It's Black Friday. 25% of all Rubles. @antitankiator.bsky.social
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Murray Chapman @mugski.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Is the Skyline the best car in the world?
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Murray Chapman @mugski.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
What a great article! Thanks for writing the Murderbot books
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 26/11/2024
So Wired Magazine did a profile of me! www.wired.com/story/murder...
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How Murderbot Saved Martha Wells' Life
Martha Wells created one of the most iconic characters in 21st-century science fiction: Murderbot, reluctant savior of humanity. Then she faced an existential threat of her own.
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Eleven Films @elevenfilms.com · 26/11/2024
Did you know BlueSky only has 20 employees? We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to those 20 warriors (who are working 24/7 to keep up with the incredible growth) for giving us a space to share. We escaped hell to be here. Thank you, @bsky.app & Jay Graber CEO (not a billionaire)
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