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Russ Garrett

@russ.garrett.co.uk
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Energy data nerd at infrageomatics.com & @openinframap.org, festival operations nerd at emfcamp.org, board member at limehouselabs.org. (he/they) I'm mostly active on Mastodon: chaos.social/@russss russ.garrett.co.uk 🏴🏳️‍🌈

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
UPDATE: SCP Foundation have posted a statement saying they were not consulted or contacted about the A24 SCP project. scp-wiki.wikidot.com/statement-on...
 Statement On V/H/S SCP Foundation Film

The staff and authors of the SCP Foundation Wiki (the real-life writing project behind the SCP Foundation universe and its official home) were not consulted or contacted regarding this film. We have been attempting to contact the filmmakers but haven't yet been successful. To be clear: we have not had any communication with the filmmakers, producers, or distributors for this project, despite our best efforts, and to the best of our knowledge they have not made any efforts to contact us. Furthermore, A24 does not and cannot have any exclusive rights to anything related to the SCP Foundation, including any films that Spooky Pictures or anyone else may choose to create.
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Netpol @netpol.org · 05/09/2026
So many people here with knee jerk demands for police to use new powers to arrest every member of this vigilante group for wearing a mask, seem unaware these powers have overwhelmingly been used against antifascists. People who have lots of good reasons to wear a mask, from health to fear of doxxing
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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
the Big Glasses Old Man period is a vital part of any regime’s development
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Kyra Dempsey - Admiral Cloudberg @kyracloudy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New article is out!! admiralcloudberg.medium.com/years-of-sal...
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Years of Salt and Metal | The crash of Hop-a-Jet flight 823
In 2024, a business jet crashed on a Florida highway after losing both engines. The cause came as a shock to the aviation industry.
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
saw a train with a laser on it
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DSCOVR:EPIC @dscovr-epic.bot.country · 15/08/2026
17:40 on Wednesday August 12th, over South America
An image of the Earth from space.
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Jenn / CaptainHanyuu 💖✨ @captainhanyuu.art · 12/08/2026
MY DISCO BALL IN THE BEDROOM IS SHOWING ME THE ECLIPSE, HOW COOL IS THAT?!
crescent light reflections
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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I updated my total eclipse webcam viewer for today's eclipse! Once totality begins you'll see a live-updating umbra, so you can race to the next webcam and see the eclipse happen over and over again. jonty.github.io/2026_eclipse...
A map showing the path of the 2026 total eclipse over Iceland and Spain, with markers showing webcams and a countdown until the eclipse begins, and it hitting the first webcam.
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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I always suspected a UK government would eventually reverse course on "coding in public". So I've been backing up all government code. For six years. Today I finally generated a report on what has been deleted. Its much worse than I realised. github.com/uk-gov-mirro...
Deleted UK Government code repositories

Total deleted repositories: 1526
Organisations affected: 56

See RECENTLY_DELETED.md for the most recently deleted repositories.

Organisation	Deleted Repos	% Deleted
hmrc	195	9.8%
nhsdigital	169	33.8%
SkillsFundingAgency	154	22.7%
informatics-lab	154	100.0%
UKHomeOffice	101	7.5%
ministryofjustice	74	2.8%
ONSdigital	66	4.3%
moj-analytical-services	65	75.6%
ukwa	47	46.1%
dwp	46	6.7%
UKGovernmentBEIS	43	27.4%
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Russ Garrett @russ.garrett.co.uk · 26/07/2026
Robin Ince's talk at EMF is now up on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn-Z... @robinince.bsky.social
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Robin Ince: Why The Monkey Escaped the Cage - EMF 2026
YouTube video by Electromagnetic Field
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They/Thempress @theythem.press · 25/07/2026
isabel fall was right, btw: “And the moment [queer activists’] work reached a usable stage—the moment society was ready to accept plastic gender, and scientists were ready to manipulate it—the military found a new resource…the military can make gender tactical.”
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Judge orders Hegseth to explain US military’s new testosterone policy
Court questions plan to offer male hormone treatment to cisgender troops while denying it to trans service members
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · 02/07/2026
Today, the final contact of a person exposed to #hantavirus on the cruise ship MV Hondius completed their quarantine period, tested negative and returned home. No further cases have been reported since the 25th of May. Therefore, @who.int considers the hantavirus outbreak over.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 24/06/2026
It's disgusting that an entirely volunteer trans org has been getting abusive emails for a difficult but necessary safety decision. If you have given them grief over this you should be utterly ashamed. Wasting our community's resources on soothing your tantrum – from an org actually doing the work.
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Like, I genuinely feel like I’m going mad. Brianna Ghey wasn’t killed by social media. She was saved by social media, where she was able to find community with other young trans people. She was able to make online friends with people like herself. It was those offline who murdered her.
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Now Then magazine @nowthenmag.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A citizen investor campaign by @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social to buy the building that houses Sheffield-based queer and community arts venue Gut Level has been successful, securing their presence in the city for the long term. ✍️ @sammgreg.bsky.social #OwnOurVenues #Sheffield #GutLevel
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Sheffield's Gut Level secure long-term ownership of their own venue following successful crowdfunder
The building that houses the queer DIY arts space is now part of a “National Trust for music venues”.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 27/05/2026
While Tony Blair is trashing UK govt energy policy, NESTA analysis finds "early signs [it] may be working" 2022: Gas prices went up 100%, electricity 83% (roughly 1:1) 2026: Gas +28%, elec 6% (5:1 = "electricity beginning to decouple from gas") www.nesta.org.uk/blo...
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 23/05/2026
The Independent are already asking cisgender wheelchair users to explain why trans people should have no access to toilet facilities rather than asking anyone who is trans and disabled about how it affects them
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"Is it right that hard-won provisions for disabled people can be so blithely co-opted into a nebulous 'third space' for those who can't/won't use either the Gents or the Ladies?"

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Why this new trans guidance is bad news for disabled people like me
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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 01/05/2026
New blog post: NHS Goes To War Against Open Source shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-t… The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed …
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NHS Goes To War Against Open Source
The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so important. That's why I'm beyond disappointed at recent moves from NHS England to backtrack on…
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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
not that we have a monopoly - my point is that no-one does - but it’s baffling to hear this as a trans person, and insulting to hear it from the guy who has made all of us more scared to do any of these things
The PM says the increase in antisemitic attacks mean Jewish people are "scared to show who they are", scared to go to the synagogue or go to university as a Jew, or send their children to school or tell colleagues they are Jewish.
"Nobody should live like that in Britain, but
Jews do," he says.
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Democracy Club @democracyclub.org.uk · 23/04/2026
📮 Received any election leaflets in the post recently? 📸 Before recycling, please consider snapping a photo and uploading it to electionleaflets.org. ℹ️ Over 1,000 leaflets have been added to the database this year alone!
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 23/04/2026
Would you like to have to present your ID every time you want to go to the gym, or the swimming pool, or try on clothes at M&S? That's what Sex Matters are suggesting for *everyone*, in our new gender-policed world.
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James Twallin @twallinjames.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The new £9,000 BUS grant for oil and LPG homes looks regressive, and the data says it is. 54% of oil-heated property sales sit in the top 30% of UK house prices. Only 9% sit in the bottom 30%. Gas heats Britain. Oil heats the top of Britain.
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Matthew Hawn @jukevox.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
@metabrainz.org is looking for a new executive director. There is a job description but I wanted to write something more about my friend Rob Kaye and what he built. And why who we choose as our new Executive Director will be essential to what comes next. compassmapandkey.com/2026/04/18/m...
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Mayhem’s Legacy: Why MetaBrainz Matters More Than Ever, and Why We’re Looking for Someone to Lead It
It has been almost exactly two months since Robert Kaye died. Rob — known online as <mayhem>, a handle that was both a pose of defiance toward corporate interest and, on occasion, an accurate…
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Open Infrastructure Map @openinframap.org · 20/04/2026
We've recently added the PeeringDB Facility ID property to @wikidata: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P143… Where this is present, there's also now a link to PeeringDB from datacenter infoboxes on Open Infrastructure Map.
Map popup for a datacenter on Open Infrastructure Map, showing a link to PeeringDB.
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Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
did you know? the google forms share icon has a stray pixel in its corner why? because the icon spritesheet has a massive black triangle overlapping the icons what is that triangle? it's a giant out-of-bounds hat!
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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
At Scottish Labour Conference in Feb 2025, a leadership-backed motion to adopt a transphobic policy on single-sex spaces in schools was defeated. Party members and affiliates voted it down. Today Scottish Labour's leadership put that transphobic policy into its manifesto for May's election anyway.
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James Twallin @twallinjames.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The North Sea Link connects GB to Norway's 85TWh+ hydro system via a 720km subsea cable. GB curtailed 10TWh wind in 2025. My modelling suggests that grows fourfold by 2035. That 'wasted wind' should be seen as a potential export to Norway.
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Russ Garrett @russ.garrett.co.uk · 06/04/2026
Statutory Sick Pay is now paid from the first day of illness, which is a huge public health win which I didn't even realise was happening: www.business.gov.uk/campaign/emp...
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Your Sick Pay Rights
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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Beautiful crescent view of Earth from the Artemis II crew on April 3rd. flic.kr/p/2s5E44L
Crescent view of Earth.

NASA/Artemis II/Kevin M. Gill
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026
More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 03/04/2026
😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int
Spectacular high-resolution image of our home planet viewed through the Orion Crew Module window by the Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon on Flight Day 2, 3 April 2026 (pic: NASA) A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Is there a term for this www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...
Israel is intent on redrawing not only the geographic map of south Lebanon but also the demographic one.
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Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Those self-appointed arbiters of style, the BJCP, actually say in their style guidelines now that IPA no longer stands for India Pale Ale because modern IPAs bear no resemblance to it. It’s a free-floating signifier with no signified. This should be satire, as I’m sure you meant it to be.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 25/03/2026
"We judge a society by how they treat the most vulnerable" actual words that just came out of Wes Streeting's mouth.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 20/03/2026
For me, the biggest takeaway is that many people in charge of trans healthcare view transition as harm, as a failure, as an unfavourable outcome to avoid. They fundamentally conceive of trans existence as a disease to cure, and feel themselves righteous advocating for our eradication.
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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
transphobia is comorbid with being a fucking cunt in every other aspect of your life
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 02/03/2026
Tired: BrewDog has betrayed its punk roots by accepting private-equity cash Wired: BrewDog's "punk" schtick was always an expedient marketing sham Inspired: BrewDog incinerated billions of dollars of implied value and made global capital interests look stupid, finally fulfilling its punk mission
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Russ Garrett @russ.garrett.co.uk · 24/02/2026
Rob was a lovely person and an absolute force of nature. I am lost for words.
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 24/02/2026
The raise of AI coding tools isn't a surprise because they have the potential to eliminate one of the largest software development productivity killers: searching for usage examples.
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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
OpenSAFELY is open from today! Huge thanks to all who supported this vast collaboration: whole population GP data; in a productive platform; innovative privacy protections; unprecedented support from professions, privacy campaigners; &c Now it's over to users! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...
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OpenSAFELY news: you can apply to do non-COVID research, from today! | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
We are delighted to announce that - from today - you can submit applications to the OpenSAFELY service for non-COVID-19 studies.
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Open Infrastructure Map @openinframap.org · 21/02/2026
Open Infrastructure Map relies on the community to translate our website - you can help out by submitting translations on Weblate: hosted.weblate.org/engage/open-infr… At the moment, we're particularly looking for translators to Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese.
Screenshot of Open Infrastructure Map translated into Italian
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I think Keith’s spot on here. People want Brewdog’s beers to be bad for moral reasons, but while they’re not as exciting as they were, they’re still fine (though taste is subjective and clearly if you despise the brewers that will affect your enjoyment). As I said yesterday, I hope a buyer is found.
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Russ Garrett @russ.garrett.co.uk · 06/02/2026
"Notre Dame only cost €600m to refurbish, how can Parliament cost so much?" Notre Dame is 1/19th the floor area of the Palace of Westminster. If you scale that cost up by 19 times and add inflation it makes the Parliament renovation look pretty good value.
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Robin Hawkes @robhawkes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
It's here! All power assets are now live on my GB Renewables Map ⚡ That's right, it's not just wind farms any more. Now you can see live and historic data for gas power plants, nuclear, grid batteries, biomass, pumped hydro and even a bit of solar.
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Robin Wilson @robintw.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Did you know that the number of pharmacies in England open after 9pm has decreased by 95% in just three years? I did some data analysis on this, inspired by needing an out of hours pharmacy over Christmas, and it has been featured in the Financial Times today: as.ft.com/r/4333cab1-6...
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Number of late-night pharmacies in England plummets
[FREE TO READ] Decline comes after cash-strapped chemists reduced opening hours to cut costs
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 31/01/2026
I think this needs to be a reminder that the truth is slow but it can be and will be dragged out into the daylight eventually through hard work. The UK Labour party and the previous Tory administration have made a mockery of evidence based policy design but we will get there.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 30/01/2026
After years of our press hand-wringing about the figures as from the "Hamas run health ministry". Utterly shameful. But will we learn anything, hold anyone accountable for our enabling of genocide? Of course not.
theguardian.com
Israel accepts health authorities’ Gaza death toll is broadly accurate, saying 70,000 have died
Israeli military’s abrupt U-turn in accepting official figures comes after years of attacking data as ‘Hamas propaganda’
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 30/01/2026
Politicians don't do shitty awful things to distract from other shitty awful things they did. They do shitty awful things because they're shitty awful people, and the sheer volume of that shitty awful stuff is absolutely overwhelming, to the point it's a sign we shouldn't let people be politicians.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 26/01/2026
When I was saying the other day that people were pushing meshtastic as a secure messaging option I wasn't joking. Meshtastic objectively has worse cryptography than signal. The SIGINT aspects are far worse than Signal Chat also.
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