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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 7h

possibly suffering from ergotism from untreated rye flour

Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 7h

Aside from the most obvious thing, the poor partner asking a simple request, and having to figure out the way to rephrase and reframe to just get things done. It's utterly exhausting (I know)

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 10h

people flow in long haul from faraway->Manchester with a change at LHR as a hub?

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 11h

I see the story talks about making “difficult decisions”. Seems fair as I, too, would have found it difficult not to scrap The Moral Maze.

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 12h

No-one dies in America. They just “pass”. Happens here too tbf. I try to avoid death euphemisms, though probably fail.

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Well if it starts selling poutine …

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ah an email from school that there are nits in child No.2’s class. Already my own head is itxhing from reading the email.

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Same. Whistling and noisy food eating guarantee me to move train carriages

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I might just have to become a billionaire or a king so I get invited to a private viewing

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes! Was just looking west towards Guildford cathedral from my house

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have noticed this happening across the piece. And across the piste

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My records, if they date back to when I was 9

7” record sleeve for Gazebo’s I Like Chopin with “belongs to: Paul Stevenson (exelent (sic) person)” written on it in pen

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

Aha cool. A uni friend of mine was there!

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

I have cascaded your request to my team

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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

Don’t forget about Nagaland when you’re on Pointless Celebrities answering about Indian States

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

Huh, I see God has entered the debate

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

Missing a single letter can really change the meaning

food label with Chinese writing, translated as "Small peasant cock"

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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 · 24/09/2026

That first graph said it was an annual net change, so first derivative(?). Might explain why it went slightly negative too.

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

A prize for anyone who can find a similar one mentioning the Truss government

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

I ordered one of these last year from RBL in the hope that it gave the message that I wasn’t one of *those* poppy-wearers www.poppyshop.org.uk/products/pri...

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RBL Pride Poppy Badge

All profits from the Royal British Legion Pride Poppy Badge will go towards the Royal British Legion's work in supporting the Armed Forces community.

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

Turns out trains around Reading are a bit if-you-see-kate’ed

All trains from Reading to Birmingham cancelled

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

Back at the time of Cumberbatch's Sherlock, I took trip to China & many young Chinese were enthused about Sherlock & were excited to meet someone from the UK. They thought I was vicariously cool because of Benedict Cumberbatch. Right there, the reason why public broadcasting should be well funded

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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 · 22/09/2026

I have not. my communication from LNER was by email, and I responded that way. I don't really want to sit at the back of two queues.

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

There was a time (before the death of One Nation Conservatism) that Tories used to claim to be free of ideology as if they were the neutral state of politics. Sort of infuriating then but I almost yearn for those days

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

(8 is unbelievable! I thought I had it bad)

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