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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1h

I wonder if this Dr Michael Ridd who denies any human climate heating is the guy who worked for BP then ran his own oil company… collection.tairawhitimuseum.org.nz/persons/7221...

collection.tairawhitimuseum.org.nz

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1h

Obviously Robert Jenrick has a history of financial shenanigans but it’s nice to see that massively-evangelical Danny Kruger can find some moral wiggle room when it’s financially rewarding. Almost as if he’s a massive hypocrite.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1h

Send it to the Tories. They desperately need it.

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Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd / CAWCS @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

📢 Thomas Pennant 300 Lansio golygiadau newydd digidol o’r 'Tours in Wales (1778 & 1781)' / Launching new digital editions of the 'Tours in Wales (1778 & 1781) 🗣️Mary-Ann Constantine, Elizabeth Edwards, Rhys Kaminski-Jones, & Ffion Mair Jones @curioustravellers.bsky.social 🗓️15/10/26 📍@LLGCymru & Zoom

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve listened to some of it. Will be catching up with the rest. I think it’s his 90th.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks Anna. I’m aware the cash doesn’t have to come to us - central administration and faculty have kept almost all of it this time.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks Anna, I’ll look it up.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 22h

Do we know when that date will be?

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 22h

Hi Sarah. My email still works!

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Virtually all my UoA’s submission this time will be people made redundant or fired. Feels deeply dishonest.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Another family birthday ruined by the British railway system. Sigh.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Amazing Steve Reich concert with @thecbso.bsky.social. First time I’ve heard Pendulum Music live (microphones sei ing over monitors), first ever live performance of the Takada, and virtuoso renditions of the Eastman and Reich pieces.

LIVE AT THE CENTRE STEVE REICH AT 90
Steve Reich, Pendulum Music, 10mins (entrance music)
Eastman, Buddha, 10mins
Steve Reich, New York Counterpoint, 11mins*
I. Fast. II. Slow. III. Fast Steve Reich, Runner, 16mins
I. Sixteenths. Il. Eighths. III. Quarters. IV. Eighths. V. Sixteenths
Interval
Steve Reich, Clapping Music, 3mins Midori Takada, Crossing, 9mins
Steve Reich, Vibrations for Vibes, Pianos & Strings, 25mins
I. Fast. II. Slow. III. Fast

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What, even Vonda N McIntyre’s novelisation of Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home???

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ve been enjoying Radio 3’s Steve Reich birthday celebrations but feel he deserves an afternoon slot, perhaps with a catchy jingle.

BBC Radio 2: Steve Wright in the Afternoon. Complete with photo of the cheesy sentiment-monger himself.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A friend gave me Tey when I had Covid and I loved them.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nor me. I never bother trying to work it out.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

From those I’ve read that feels fair.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I like her, Allingham and Sayers a lot. Haven’t read much Christie.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Congratulations. Lovely names too.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Pope has the opportunity for a great gag - name his encyclical (and possibly an IT firm) AnathemAI

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One day I’ll visit my NZ sister and go there.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks. Will put it on the list.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have not. But I think I’ve experienced it.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t think I’ve ever heard it spoken out loud.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That’s definitely what I’d have done, and probably why I wasn’t asked!

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My deepest sympathies. The system is broken.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Currently reading A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh (1934). They’re in a country house and playing Traitors! Except that no doubt it’s about to get very real.

The Dagger
'THe idea is this, began Sir Hubert, as Vassily delicately circulated his mixture: 'you all know the usual version of the Murder Game. One person is chosen as the murderer, his identity being concealed from all the players. They scatter, and he seizes his moment to ring a bell or bang a gong. This symbolizes the 'murder. They collect and hold a trial, one person being appointed as prosecuting attorney. By intensive examination he tries to discover the "murderer"?
'Excuse me, please,' said Doctor Tokareff. 'I am still, how you say, unintelligible. I have not been so happy to gambol in susha funny sport heretobefore, so please make him for me more clearer?
'Isn't he sweet?" asked Mrs Wilde, a good deal too loudly.
'I will explain my version, said Sir Hubert, and I think it will then be quite clear. To-night at dinner one of us will be handed a little scarlet plaque by Vassily. I myself do not know upon which of the party his choice will fall, but let us pretend, for the sake of argument, that Mr Bathgate is cast by Vassily for the part of the murderer.
He will take his scarlet plaque and say nothing to any-body. He has between five-thirty to-morrow afternoon and eleven to-morrow night as the time allotted for the performance of his "murder". He must try to get one of us alone, unknown to the others, and at the crucial moment tap him on the shoulder and say, "You are the corpse." He will then switch off the lights at the main…

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I once represented someone who told his boss that he’d quit if he had to teach on a Friday. Apparently Fridays were inappropriate for thinking about Art.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What a band. I always regret only seeing the terrible second album line-up.

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Niall McAuley @niall-mcauley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And now, here's Mozart's Lacrimosa played by a nun on solo piano at a girls only school céilí.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maybe that’s what happened to Moeran in Kenmare.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just don’t get what it adds. I like what Dvorak, RVW and co did incorporating folk tunes into orchestral work, but draw the line at Tippett’s arrangement of spirituals much as I like his other work. By now people should know better.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I like it when they play actual folk music. But posh people appropriating it brings out the Marxist in me.

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