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Malcolm von Schantz

@mvonschantz.bsky.social
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Assistant deputy gardener of academic plot of land and part-time researcher of sleep and circadian rhythms. Tetraglot consumer of culture, nature, and science.

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Both of these points are now facts. Government revenue is down 7% on excise receipts since the change and wine businesses are spending a lot more on “managing” the new system, which everyone I talk to describes as a nightmare. Once again none of this needed to happen with zero benefits achieved.
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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Now here is the link to the actual data. This data show as i forecasted and warned several times that the fundamental changes and increases would damage not only government revenue but would place a further unworkable burden on wine imports forever. www.gov.uk/government/s...
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Alcohol Bulletin commentary (May 2025 to July 2025)
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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
For those that have followed me from Twitter you will recall I put out many threads on the lunacy of the plan by Rishi Sunak to make the excise tax system for Alc be based on the strength rather than volume. This subtle change was devastating for the wine industry with yet more UK Brexit red tape.
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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Absolutely no contest.
Poster for première of Tristan 10 june 1865
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Faust-Bot @faust-bot.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Mit Eifer hab' ich mich der Studien beflissen; Zwar weiß ich viel, doch möcht' ich alles wissen.
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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
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White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 21/10/2025
Exclusive: A group of big banks is struggling to put together a $20 billion loan to Argentina without leaving themselves on the hook to the virtually bankrupt country
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U.S. Banks Are Hunting for Collateral to Back $20 Billion Argentina Bailout
American banks are looking for assets or guarantees from the U.S. government that would back a private-sector loan to support Argentine President Javier Milei.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Oh my GOD.
At 4:10 p.m., she texted me: "By the way-everything | ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know."
I responded: "I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect."
Halligan was unpersuaded: "Yes, I do. Off record."
"I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked," I said. "But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?
To my surprise, she kept going: "It's obvious the whole convo is off record. There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never told me about a story."
I didn't respond. It was time to publish my story. I'II text it to her.
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
This is extremely troubling news for those of us who conduct human subjects research.
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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I know he admires Harold Wilson, but the figure he most reminds me of is Frank Spencer
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
NEWS Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile meeting on Friday, warning Putin had said he would “destroy” Ukraine if it did not agree. The meeting between the two descended many times into a “shouting match”, with Trump “cursing all the time.”
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Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia
US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting
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Malcolm von Schantz @mvonschantz.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Pilots and Flight Attendants Sending Free Food to Air Traffic Controllers During Shutdown - Business Insider www.businessinsider.com/atc-air-traf...
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Pilots and flight attendants are sending free food to air traffic controllers. They're not getting paid during the shutdown.
Airline pilots and flight attendants are sending food to air traffic control towers around the US, as workers aren't getting paid during the shutdown.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken.  How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 18/10/2025
[Exit King.]
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/10/2025
I still have no idea what Number 10 was thinking intervening over policing. If they ‘win’ the standoff, Keir Starmer personally owns any incident that happens around the match. And he’s broken the precedent of interfering in operational matters, and so will be asked to do so relentlessly.
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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Intent upon my workmen, especially my joyners, who will make my dining room very pretty.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 18/10/2025
Happy Lenya's birthday to all who observe!
Lotte Lenya in The Threepenny Opera.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 16/10/2025
They're selling regular index cards, but because they call them "analog cards" it's $100.
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Malcolm von Schantz @mvonschantz.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Binge watching White Lotus Season 3 on the plane. Struck by how odd it is that the camera lovingly lingers on sensual image of every water drop, flower, lizard, candle, and wine glass — but how odd how every one of the many servings of Thai food that are being consumed is being blurred out.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Right now, all over Britain, drunk robins are dismantling the system and making up their own rules.
A robin I met, who has just downed four cans of Red Stripe through a straw and is now eating some cheese and talking to me about a new, better-thought-out kind of communism that he claims can rescue everything
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Faust-Bot @faust-bot.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Ach, Ihr versteht mich nicht!
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Confirms what I’ve been telling Strangers On The Internet for years - the idea that Sweden is a super expensive place is a 90s hangover. It isn’t.
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The unification of the English kingdoms was, largely, a mistake.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
journal that took 16 months to review your manuscript when it wants something from you
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
After the West failed to stop Israel from bombing all of Syria's armaments and withheld support early on for the new government, Syria is now normalizing relations with Russia in an effort facilitate the handing over of Assad and revive preexisting trade & military agreements.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
NEW Trying to make sense of the nonsensical decision to drop the Chinese spying prosecutions How the positions of neither the CPS nor the government stand up to scrutiny By me emptycity.substack.com/p/trying-to-...
The more one knows about this case, the more confusing it becomes.

The CPS insists on further evidence it does not require, and the government insists it could not give that evidence, even though it could.

Neither side makes sense, and together they make no sense absolutely.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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David Varela @writingstudio.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Spotted near Russell Square today.
Plain printed A4 poster that says: 

“SEEKING
people to competitively tell me their worst breakup story until mine seems insignificant

winner gets my ex's netflix password. must make me feel genuinely better about my situation

Thursday 9th 7PM
@ The Institute Bar”
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 15/10/2025
kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Just tried to go to a cafe, the doors were open so we went in. They said, Sorry, we don’t open until 10, can you wait outside please? I checked the time, it was 9.59. That level of unwelcoming pettiness is not a place I want to spend any time.
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Badlands 🇪🇺 @badlands.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
#Römischer #Grabstein in #NewOrleans gefunden. Ein kniffliger Fall für die #Provenienzforschung #Antike #Rom
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Römischer Grabstein in einem Garten in New Orleans ausgegraben
Ein Paar stieß bei Gartenarbeiten hinter ihrem Haus in Louisiana auf eine 1900 Jahre alte Marmorplatte. Ihre Herkunft konnte bis Italien zurückverfolgt werden. Wer sie in die USA brachte, bleibt jedoc...
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Malcolm von Schantz @mvonschantz.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Things I should have thought about years ago but only just learnt: 1. Legionella is much less of a problem in home boilers but the risk is not 0 2. To be safe, a home boiler's hot water should be set to at least 50°C 3. Turning down the hot water when going away is not as smart as I thought it was
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 13/10/2025
At the other end of the spectrum, when my dad was ~17 he did well in an event for young chemists and the prize was a trip to an asbestos factory.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 14/10/2025
How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool on.ft.com/4qarx21 | opinion
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How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool
The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea
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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
63 years ago tonight Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? exploded on to Broadway. Uta Hagen played Martha and when she left the show she was replaced by, um, Elaine Stritch. Can you imagine? You don’t have to because 11 years later she recorded the whole damn thing. AND HERE IT IS. youtu.be/sx2qZmT4lGc
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Whos's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Act 1 (Elaine Stritch)
YouTube video by Vodka Stinger
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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 13/10/2025
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?
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Malcolm von Schantz @mvonschantz.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Well... that was heartbreaking youtube.com/watch?v=aWXs...
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La forza del destino • Pace, pace mio Dio (Lise Davidsen)
YouTube video by Jon
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Maple Bacon Pop-Tarts (2016-2016): Smoky, salty, bacon-flavored pastries, filled with a maple-brown sugar-pancake syrup flavored filling, and topped with vanilla icing and bacon bits-style sprinkles
A blue Pop Tarts box, featuring a pastry with white frosting and browning sprinkles, cut open to reveal a light brown filling. Next to this is a strip of bacon and glass container of syrup
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Not fair on ChatGPT which would never use four clichés in the space of two sentences.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 13/10/2025
The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage. Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
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Michel Lacombe @michellacombe.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in 51 BC and died in 44 BC, therefore all of Asterix's adventures took place over the course of less than seven years, probably much less since Asterix's chieftain was at the battle of Alesia, were it is probable Asterix and Obelix's fathers died. In this essay, I will
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Malcolm von Schantz @mvonschantz.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Not exactly a damsel in distress scenario, because it's still unseasonally mild and sunny outdoors. But I still moved it into the conservatory, probably most of all to get to enjoy the fragrance from a dozen blooms flowering all at once.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 11/10/2025
You might have heard of 'dark kitchens' when a row of sheds in a car park churn out food for Deliveroo. They're unpopular and low margin. So the next big thing in London food is 'host kitchens' where local pubs, restaurants and kebab shops cook for big brands. www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...
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Why your next upmarket Deliveroo might be made by your local kebab shop
"On one hand, it’s a lifeline... But on the other hand, it’s a harbinger of doom.”
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
One of the blissful things about being in Canada was the lack of pharmaceutical ads. It’s amazing how many other products exist in the world- chocolate! Laundry detergent! - that you can hear about if you’re not being told about medullary thyroid cancer
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
All my comics have happy endings!
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Malcolm von Schantz @mvonschantz.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach - BBC Future share.google/keiQ1rLOLlio...
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'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach
In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast and are now thriving as the world's only maritime lions.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Private equity wrecked UK high street, says Iceland Foods boss PE model - low wages, cut staff/investment, high debt, profiteering, tax abuse. PE devoured Debenhams, Maplin, Byron Burger, Cath Kidson, Comet, Flybe, Poundworld, Toys R Us. Controls care homes, vets, supermarkets. archive.ph/tJVkV
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Private equity has wrecked the high street, says Iceland boss
Richard Walker says private buyers take out costs and fail to invest then sell to the highest bidder in a cycle that makes retailers steadily worse
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