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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sometimes you run and you learn that Shipley Park is in Amber Valley. Today's XC. Not a lick of mud. That's unusual for Shipley Park.

Garmin activity.
Today's Activity.

Amber Valley Running
8.15 km in 1:05:16 8:01/km

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Before Frank Castle was The Punisher he compiled one of the best selling booklets of the 20th century - it had many titles including logarithmic and other tables for schools. Sales were ruined by the scientific calculator. Frank wanted revenge - in this lfe and the next.

Logarithmic Tables for Schools by Frank Castle

A green front page of a booklet.

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In my local library, Bromley House, for John Sweeney talking about the real Nigel Farage.

A library shelf of well loved books including G. B. Shaw's Back to Methuselah

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Asking America gov to release the Epstein files.

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm reading Scarlett Thomas' The Runner (2026) and there's a mention of hypnogogic jerks. So, I explore. Google emphatically says "No, you cannot die from a hypnic jerk" That's not true. It depends what you're doing at the time. If you're falling asleep ascending a mountain a hypnic jerk is bad.

Google Gemini emphatically saying "No, you cannot die from a hypnic jerk"

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A day running around Nottingham

2026 Robin Hood Marathon result.

A slow, steady run in 2:38:12.

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What have the Gallagher brothers got to say about the Tory ban on cigarettes and alcohol?

BBC

Tories would prevent long-term jobless spending benefits on alcohol and cigarettes

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's the Metro Bank One Day Cup Final between Leicestershire Foxes and Middlesex.

Inside Trent Bridge cricket ground looking toward the Radcliffe Road End

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In Wiltshire you have Swindon's infamous magic roundabout.

Swindon's Magic Roundabout on a road sign.

Five small roundabouts together making one big roundabout to rule them all and get everyone anxious and lost

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

7.52 easy, too darn slow, run along the River Trent

A 7.52 km easy, slow (8.04/km) run along the River Trent

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Department for Culture, Media, and, for some reason, Sport. Why is there no Oxford, Serial, Comma on the official sign?

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Great day out yesterday. Had breakfast in a great, art deco café, E Pellicci on Bethnal Green Road. Then caught the Windrush Line, from Whitechapel to Crystal Palace to see the newly renovated, and still anatomically incorrect, dinosaurs. And a trip to the brilliant Crow on the Hill bookshop.

A view of the City of London from Upper Norwood.

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Gotham is served by the #1 bus from Nottingham, via Trent Bridge. Pronounced Goat-em - Old English for "goat homestead" google tells me - believe that and I have a Qatari jumbo jet to sell you.

Rear of #1 bus to Gotham, Nottinghamshire.

Bus is advertising a batman film, partly filmed at local Wollaton Hall.

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In UK HE there is long-standing confusion over the Oxford MA. "It has no subject or class, and the nominals 'MA' should be represented in place of, not in addition to, the 'BA' in the holder's signature and on documents such as CVs." The Oxford MA | New College share.google/uVx0L4YwcgN1...

The Oxford MA

In most UK universities, the Master of Arts is a free-standing graduate degree awarded by examination. In Oxford (as in Cambridge), the status of Master of Arts is a mark of seniority within the University which may be conferred 21 terms after matriculation. Please note the Oxford MA is about reaching a new status within the University and not an upgrade of your BA or an additional qualification. It therefore has no subject or class, and the nominals 'MA' should be represented in place of, not in addition to, the 'BA' in the holder's signature and on documents such as CVs.

If you have completed a BA or BFA you will be eligible to take an MA in or after the 21st term since you matriculated (i.e. seven years after matriculation). This is not an automatic process and to obtain your MA you must apply to graduate at a degree ceremony (either in person or in absentia). You must have had your BA or BFA conferred in order to take your MA. They can be conferred at the same ceremony provided that sufficient time has elapsed since you matriculated.

You are not at any point eligible to take an MA if your undergraduate degree is an undergraduate Masters degree (MBiochem, MChem, MCompSci, MEng, MMath, MMathCompSci, MMathPhil, MPhys, MPhysPhil).

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Pure apple juice is vegan. Really!

Innocent
Pure fruit juice
Apple

Bottle front label

Innocent
Pure apple juice

Vegan

Reverse of label

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Franz Fanon on the origin of wealth

The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people are no longer respectable people; they are nothing more than flesh eating animals, jackals and vultures which wallow in the people's blood.

Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Last night's 4 mile run was slow, stop-start, in the heat.

Strave map of a 4 mile run around Rushcliffe Country Park as race 3 of the 2026 Holme Pierrepont Running Club Grand Prix

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

There's a host of books on science for babies. Here's BAYESIAN PROBABILITY for babies.

Waterstones bookshop.

BAYESIAN PROBABILITY for babies

Chris Ferrie and Dr Sarah Kaiser

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Footpaths to the left of me Footpaths to the right of me Here I am About to run 5 miles

Countryside fingerpost with public footpath going North, East, South, and West

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Tonight's 5 mile run on a glorious sunny evening.

Strava map of a 2 lap, 5 mile, route around Colwick Country Park, Nottingham.

53 minutes 21 seconds.

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A very stop start 5k today. But I did get to cross a new bridge. Yay!

A new foot bridge over the Erewash Canal.
Finger post signs pointing left to Local Nature Reserve, follow the canal to Kong Eaton Town Centre, and right to Sandiacre.

The new pre-rusted foot bridge over the Erewash Canal

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Today I did my 373rd parkrun, slow and steady. It was the 500th parkrun at Beeston and my 250th at Beeston. I think Beeston feels like my home parkrun. It's like Cheers - everyone knows my name.

Parkrun results email.
Beeston parkrun results for event #500.
Your time was 32:10

My 373rd parkrun with 250 at Beeston

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It is a great piece of writing. Alt-text added

My husband plays the trumpet, which is a sort of loud pretzel originally invented to blow down the walls of fucking Jericho and, later, to let Civil War soldiers know it was time to kill each other in a river while you chilled eating pigeon in your officer's tent twenty miles away, yet some-how, in modern times, it has become socially acceptable to toot the bad cone inside your house before 10:00 a.m. because it's "your job" and your wife should "get up." What a world! If one was feeling uncharitable, one might describe the trumpet as a machine where you put in com-pressed air and divorce comes out, but despite this-despite operating a piece of biblical demolition equipment inside the home every bright, cold morning of his wife's one and only life-the trumpet is not the most annoying thing about my husband.

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The double decker bus has arrived in the conversation.

A red London double decker Routemaster bus

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Revolucion de Cuba for sale

Photo of Revolucion de Cuba in Harrogate.
The restaurant site is up for rental

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Miss Otis regrets she is unable to lunch today

A paper sign saying: due to circumstances beyond our control

We are unable to
serve sandwiches
today

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Gemini/Google AI says that the AI bubble is expected to burst sometime in 2026 or 2027. In other news: 50,000,000 Elvis fans can be wrong.

Google AI suggesting that "the precise moment the AI bubble might burst is unknown, but financial analysts and economists expect a market correction, or significant reckoning between 2026 and 2027.
Insiders warn that the massive disconnect between colossal infrastructure spending and actual revenue makes the current tech investment cycle highly unstable ...

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

AI is breaking the concept of common knowledge

A Google result of asking: "who came first: Pelham Warner, the chicken, or the egg?

In the grand timeline of history, the egg arrived first by several hundred million years, followed by the chicken, and then Pelham Warner much later

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A steady 5 mile last night. The Beeston AC Trent 5 is always a great sunny evening. It's also my local parkrun, extended and in reverse.

Strava map of The Trent 5 mile race along the River Trent in Nottinghamshire

Not very impressive stats.

53:56 for 8.13 km

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A quick google shows that tinned lentils are a thing. Quick. Convenient. Questionable taste.

A search result for "tinned lentils" showing tins of:
Tesco Green Lentils in Water"
Sainsbury's Green Lentils in Water

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Chesterfield May Day Rally 2026

Chesterfield May Day rally march in front of St Mary & All Saints Church with the crooked spire.

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

A great sunny May holiday Saturday. A solid parkrun. Then off to meet friends at Grace Road to see Leicestershire struggle against Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire 490 Leicestershire 220/8 www.leicestershireccc.co.uk/livescore/c5...

Rothesay County Championship - Division 1

Day 2: Leicestershire Men trail by 270 runs with 2 wickets remaining

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Had a great day yesterday watching the London Marathon at the 10 mile point in Rotherhithe. It was a gloriously sunny day. It was very busy on trains in that part of town. Now my Half Marathon PB is slower than the Marathon record. Sub 2 hours is fantastic.

London Marathon runners on a sunny day in Rotherhithe on Sunday 26th March 2026

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Here's an interesting letter on the "whim of iron". A passing comment from a government minister soon becomes an essential, must have, by the time it reaches those who have to implement it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Sorry seems to be the hardest word. Spotted in Nottingham city centre.

SORRY graffitied in black paint on white washed column against a white wall on a city street.

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Sobar, Nottingham, has some fancy murals. It almost rivals the Works Progress Administration in 1930s USA!

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Lunchtime interval session. 8 * 500m with a 49 second walking recovery between each run. Now hummus, falafel, and flatbread at our local Lebanese restaurant. Support your local Lebanese restaurant.

Strava map - runch - 8 * 500 m intervals

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

An image from Glasgow: DON'T CAST YOUR REVOLUTIONS BEFORE SWINE

A print of 6 red pigs across and 7 pigs deeps creating a frame for text:

DON'T CAST
YOUR REVOLUTIONS
BEFORE SWINE

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The Swiss Army knife enters the conversation

A red Swiss Army knife with all of its many tools on display.

One of those tools is for getting boy, or girl, scouts out of horse's hooves

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Zeke explains what it's all about. Brad is not so sure.

A Short History of Western Philosophy.

Two cowboys.

One cowboy says: 'The way I see it, Brad, somewhere between the puritanical practice and the hedonistic gullibility is the fusion of permanence and change, madness and cool reason - yeah?'

Brad thinks 'this geezer's totally ga-ga'
Brad says 'Absolutely, Zeke'

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

For how long do I need to retain this ticket? Is 35 years long enough?

ROCK CITY ticket

Tuesday 2nd April 1991

NEDS ATOMIC DUSTBIN

To be retained - is printed on the right hand side of the ticket.

To be retained for how long is a fundamental question.

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

A note from The Enemy Within Seumas Milne, Verso, 1994. Does this address, and slightly mangled phone number, still work?

The Secretary
PO Box 500
London
SW1P 1XH

Tel: 471 491 4488

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The past creates the present and the present creates the past.

A handwritten extract from "The Enemy Within" by Seumas Milne, Verso, 1994.

British and U.S. electronic espionage networks have systematically breached the security of banking transactions throughout Europe in an effort to track the secret movement of NUM cash ... The surveillance drive had begun during the miners strike of 1984-5, but had continued for several years afterwards.
This vast electronic eavesdropping - using GCHQ and its outstations, as well as U.S. NSA facilities across Europe (its 'C-group' network) led to growing friction with the banks, which rely on an increasingly fragile international confidence that all transactions are genuinely private (p253)

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Neil @nudgecloud.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Privacy concerns are not what they were. This is a photo of actual high school students. If you would like their names and addresses, send a post card to W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co, Fort Madison, Iowa

An advertisement on a postcard for Sheaffer cartridge pens.

A teenage boy is sat at a table with a teenage girl.
The boy, on the right, offers his pen to the girl "Here ... use my Sheaffer"

At the right hand top of the postcard is text "This is a photo of actual high school students. If you would like their names and addresses, send a post card to W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co, Fort Madison, Iowa"

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