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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 20h

Where do you come from? Where do you go? Where do you come from Henry Thoreau?

Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Missed book club last night and so missed the mapping out of the next three books and so am landed with Nigel Biggar for December.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Huh, I see God has entered the debate

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

TIL! This is a lovely, clear explanation of the difference between Equinox and Equilux.

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The most important seasonal food is on the supermarket shelves

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Another new (to me) daily map quiz for those who like such things

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just about to watch Odyssey at the IMAX. Won’t be live posting. Already reminded by the noisy snacks why I don’t come to the cinema

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Aside from everything else one might say about Danny Tommo, his chosen name keeps reminding me of the blokey laddish guy I once worked with who insisted on calling me Stevo. The only person that ever did and I can’t say I ever felt comfortable with it

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I like* the fact the government website includes, as if a kind of warning, that a certain document was published under a previous government. *I don’t like.

Policy paper on national quantum strategies mission.

“This was published under the 2022 to 2024 sunak conservative government”

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22/09/2026

The White House launched 'Trump TV' as major networks suspended the television pool covering the US president aje.news/sn8dyg

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On my way to Birmingham. A city I know a little bit but not well. What I do know mostly harka back to the early 90s when my girlfriend went to uni there while went to Oxford. Close enough that we visited and stayed with each other a bit. I think the Bull Rong has changed since then

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Surrey Nuclear Theory Group @surreynuctheory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Congratulations to Khlood Alharthi on the successful completion of your viva exam, passing with some corrections to be done. Great work! (and a much smaller but finite amount of congratulations to supervisor @pdstevenson.bsky.social) blogoftheisotopes.blogspot.com/2026/09/cong...

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Congratulations Khlood

Last Thursday, my PhD student Khlood Alharthi had her viva. I'm pleased to say that she did well, and has passed, subject to corrections. ...

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Will keep boringly saying this (no disrespect to OP): it's not a health surcharge. It's not hypothecated to the NHS; you can't choose not to pay it and thereby eschew healthcare. You could equally call it an education or roads surcharge. It's using the NHS's sanctified status to rip off immigrants.

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Okay. Don’t think I will finish Middlemarch before book club on Friday

Middlemarch with a bookmark only a little over half way through its 850p length.

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Phone videos of bright, multi-colored lights over Tehran, Iran, went viral overnight. Iranian authorities have not issued any official statement treating the object as a threat.

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wondering if placement news story advertising some aristo's book is really the most interesting thing today, and clearly no it is not. Anything is more interesting. Look, water voles

headline "more water voles released into River Wey"

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don’t believe a word a politician says Unless it is on a piece to camera, while they are walking somewhere.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

'The University and College Union (UCU)’s Edinburgh branch said staff had been called into “informal meetings at less than 24 hours' notice” and told not to bring union representatives.'

heraldscotland.com

Fear and anger as university set to announce 'massive course and programme closures'

Asked to respond, a university spokesperson said that staff and students were recently informed of changes to “our future academic offering across…

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's that time again, National Trust members. Please use the QuickVote or make your own choices but avoid Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing and Omrani. Hopefully one day "Restore Trust" will give up trying to Restore Empire and deny our full and honest history as a nation.

Restore Trust
@RestoreTrustNT Sep 10
"The National Trust, too quick to bend in the wind of fashion, is making historical mistakes and confusing visitors."

Lawrence Goldman on Dyrham Park.

Vote Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing and Omrani. Leave the Quick Vote unticked.

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking of my old schoolfriend Paul Bristow today voicescenter.org/sites/defaul...

Paul Gary Bristow 15th Jan 1974 - 11th Sep 2001

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In other news, thousands of climate scientists say for decades that climate change could kill huge numbers of people and destabilize the world, and experience shows they were right all along, but it's deemed less thrillingly doomy to tackle seriously, so here we are.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When blackshirts are marching through the streets of Dover and Portsmouth, the focus shouldn’t be on the disruption they cause, but on their fascist ideology and deliberate intimidation of migrants and people of colour. [1/2]

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In the 1920s Los Angeles had the world’s most extensive electric railway system en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific...

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Pacific Electric - Wikipedia

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns.

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Have advised my kids to go for “counter-terrorism police wouldn’t let me do my homework” line.

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Looking at Sunday paper front pages at supermarket and seems not much going on. Oasis (the band) makes from page on a couple of them.

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onlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Say what you like about them but they do make the trains run on time and return dead emperors to France.

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Is it legitimate to not read a work email from a senior manager because it is called “monthly cascade”? Asking for a friend

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Will never not find this double meaning funny

Article headline: “the jizz of doves in the Sahel and how to remember their calls”

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Dylan Neri reviews @jimalkhalili.bsky.social’s new book, On Time (out tomorrow, 1 Sept!), in @financialtimes.com and says "[It] is not just worthy of your time, but demands it." Read the full review here (£/$): www.ft.com/content/3a04...

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On Time by Jim Al-Khalili — at the border of science and philosophy

An attempt to reconcile the experience of time with physics comes up against the limits of what we know

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Thought this Douglas Adams post was just part of @philipcball.bsky.social ‘s thread at first. Sort of followed on

It’s all text. Will an app convert this for you?

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

York Minster have their own police service, or “God Plod”

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That, then, is evidently a priority for the US administration. Precisely that. This, I guess, is not really news. To see a group of academics abet that process is another matter.

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The family rule when playing sevens seems to be that different suits can be laid in different directions

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oh Apple photos app. You are spoiling me with your romantic suggestions

“Days in Hounslow” “my south Croydon experiences”

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hi Faecbook. Your image database is corrupted.

John Lewis advert for an iPad, using the Surrey police badge as an image

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