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Michael

@shevekuk.bsky.social
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He/him. Gay guy from London, very ex-physicist, into all kinds of science and geeky stuff. Left wing, when's the fully automated luxury communism arriving?

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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 33m
ALLELUYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Move to rejoin EU among options for UK, says Andy Burnham
The prime minister tells the BBC the current Brexit settlement has caused "more harm than good".
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10h
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay “They were men who felt that The Time Had Come. Regimes can survive barbarian hordes, crazed terrorists and hooded secret societies, but they're in real trouble when prosperous and anonymous men sit around a big table and think thoughts like that.”
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 21h
A galactic house of mirrors 🌌🪞 Webb has captured this spectacular view of the galaxy cluster MACS J0454.1-0300. Its gravity is warping & multiplying the images of background galaxies, which appear like they have stepped into a house of mirrors! Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪
A massive galaxy cluster, made of many golden elliptical galaxies with the largest, brightest one in the centre. Heavily distorted orange galaxies appear all around the cluster, the largest concentrated in a large arc around the cluster's centre; these are images of very distant galaxies, created by gravitational lensing. A few galaxies are large and bluish-white in colour; bright, nearby stars are the same colour. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Furtak, S. Fujimoto
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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 22h
Ridiculously there's bugger all to zero compulsory training in the NHS about ME/CFS. If it were, say, MS, people would be in uproar. So I'd appreciate it if you sign this futile attempt at chang- I mean, this petition c.org/t8D7hZ9Lh5
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Sign the Petition
Make ME/CFS learning mandatory for NHS staff
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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*sigh* Trying to do some toy coding with Typst and I've rapidly found the limits of my cognitive dysfunction There's a forum page that gives me the form of the solution, but I don't understand the other thing I need to change in the first place Damn, bugger and blast #MECFS
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Canada's white nationalists are parroting racist, anti-Indigenous talking points that right-wing politicians and media have been normalizing. Second Sons Canada, the fascist fight club, demonstrated on Tk̓emlúps lands over the weekend with a banner that read “got bones?” Here’s how we got here:
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026
This is a photo of our home planet taken only a few hours ago! So what? We have photos of Earth taken from space every day. Ah, but *this* photo was taken by a spacecraft ON ITS WAY TO JUPITER.
From the source: "Mostly black space, most of Earth visible at the top right of the image. Part of a spacecraft visible on the left."
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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hubble Space Telescope image of Arp 25, also known as NGC 2276. The lopsided galaxy has a core offset to the upper left and a spiral arm separated from the others. It is interacting with a nearby galaxy, just out of frame. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, P. Sell Source
Against the black background of space, which has distant stars and galaxies scattered across, is a large spiral galaxy filled with streaks of blue and pink. The galaxy has warped spiral arms that wrap clockwise around its bright yellow core. Toward the upper right, one of its arms appears to be breaking away from the rest of the galaxy.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🔴 NEW Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000 By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh, blast. My two ideas for possessive phrases won't work together at all... I think? #conlanging
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026
he is literally immune from any kind of legal limit, at least when it comes to anything related to his personal actions, thanks to the Supreme Court he installed his administration is constrained on occasion but he personally is not our system of government will not survive if we don’t change this
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Catherine Gogerty @catherinegogerty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My top names from the apple and pear tent at the Autumn show
A pile of 5 apples on a table with a name card saying 'Knobby Russet'Two black plates on a table with pears on, they have name labels behind the saying 'dead boy' and 'dead dog'A pile of pears on a black plate with a sign saying 'butts'
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
photo meme showing a male doctor with glasses, a beard, and a stethoscope pointing a pencil at an X-ray film held up by a colleague, while speaking to a patient sitting across the desk.

Top Text:
"So I know the cracks on the x-Ray imaging may make it seem like you've got fractures but..."

Bottom Text:
"... I think it's just stress so I'll diagnose this as psycho-somatic."

Watermark:
The bottom-right corner displays a white logo reading "BAZAART®".
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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dialect differences are all fun and games until you can't agree that Lego is a mass noun, like furniture
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026
Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men
Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet again. I will give you some free advice, though.”
“Will it cost me anything?”
“What? I just said it was free!” said Miss Tick.
“Yes, but my father said that free advice often turns out to be expensive,” said Tiffany.
Miss Tick sniffed. “You could say this advice is priceless,” she said, “Are you listening?”
“Yes,” said Tiffany.
“Good. Now...if you trust in yourself...”
“Yes?”
“...and believe in your dreams...”
“Yes?”
“...and follow your star...” Miss Tick went on.
“Yes?”
“...you’ll still be beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy. Goodbye.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Given the levels of sabotage across Europe, and the Delta alert here over US bases, the MOD’s refusal to respond to our queries on this look more concerning Key UK Nuclear Deterrent Link Destroyed Over Yorkshire – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/09/08/k...
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Key UK Nuclear Deterrent Link Destroyed Over Yorkshire
The Ministry of Defence has refused to clarify whether the catastrophic mid-air failure of the Trident relay system was a weather accident or sabotage
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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The one time Wet Fart says the truth. In other news, Japan as a nation is a huge coward www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2...
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Japan Confused by Trump Calling China WWII Ally
Tokyo, Sept. 26 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government is seeking clarity on Thursday's U.S.-China summit after…
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X626 @x626.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The idea you could ever make Miss Piggy sexier that she already knows she is is quite frankly, heresy of the highest order 😁
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 26/09/2026
The US deported LGBTQ migrants to countries where homosexuality makes them a target edition.cnn.com/2026/09/26/w...
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The US deported LGBTQ migrants to countries where homosexuality makes them a target | CNN
Aylin says she fled her home country after her life was threatened. She sought refuge in the US but was deported to a country where her sexuality puts her at risk.
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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I feel like this word is related to the time you have the most delicious cup of tea, pick it up to finish it, and realise sadly you've already done that
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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
FOR FUCK'S SAKE not this kind of crap again Increasing demand without increasing supply raises prices Take the damn money and build council housing and public developments instead www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Andy Burnham announces scheme to help first-time buyers
The prime minister says he wants people without support from the "bank of mum and dad" to receive help.
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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Huh. Psychology and cognition are weird. I wonder if I am so drawn to visual spectacle and natural visual beauty because I have such a paucity of it in my mind's eye? My memory for music is extremely good and I can replay music at will in my head, and hear myself read 'aloud' But visually v. poor
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Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Kind of grimly fascinating as always, coming from the former director of strategy to a Labour PM. There just isn't a future for a centre-left politics that is this hostile to pretty basic progressive values.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Me: *Donates body to science* Science: *Donates body to a landfill*
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Alem Matthees @alemmatthees.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The most insane thing about this #MECFS scandal, beyond all the suffering and neglect, is that it costs hundreds of times more in economic losses every year than it would to fund the research that could eventually decrease this burden. The degree of short-sightedness involved is astounding.
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just read a linguistic example that uses 'former caribou' for 'caribou meat' and I think I love it What a marvellously economical easy to derive a product from a noun. Maybe 'former tree' means 'wood' Add in nominal TAM and you've got derivation by inflection or syntax! #conlanging
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's Rupert Lowe MP's payments from X Corp over the past year. This man is making serious cash from Musk's platform. Payments surged over the summer, during UK 'unrest', and when Musk was frantically re-sharing Lowe's posts... Bleak, lucrative work if you can get it.
Line chart plotting 21 payments from X Corp to Rupert Lowe MP, as declared in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. The x-axis runs from 3 September 2025 to 16 September 2026; the y-axis shows the value of each fortnightly payment in pounds, from zero to £12,000.

Payments run between roughly £1,100 and £2,200 through late 2025, rise gradually through spring 2026 to around £3,000–£3,800, then jump sharply to £11,724.97 on 10 June 2026 and £10,265.50 in July. From there they fall in five consecutive steps — £4,412.76, £3,126.35, £2,885.36, £2,542.04 — to £2,413.89 on 16 September 2026, a fall of 79% from the June peak.

Two things worth carrying with the graphic whichever version you use.

The July point is marked with an asterisk because the register gives its received date as 7 August 2026 while recording it as registered on 15 July. Plotted it at the likelier 7 July.
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VictoriaQOTD @victoriaqotd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I must be getting old. I passed a display of Dr Scholl sandals and thought, "Mmm, they look comfy."
Victoria Wood doing standup in a purple coat and blouse.
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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This kind of shit is why people know architects are on a different planet to the rest of us I wish they'd bloody well stay there www.reddit.com/r/architectu...
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From the architecture community on Reddit: Farnsworth House in Plano, IL
Explore this post and more from the architecture community
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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A week to go before my phone appointment I needed to rebook I requested a rebooking 7 working days ago Have they rebooked it? Haha. Hahahhahaha. HahahhahahahahhahhaHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHA
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 24/09/2026
Do we?
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Kinda wild to see candidates tacking right to an imagined center when gas is on track to cost infinite dollars by election day
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here it is.
diet. Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel and ate their carrots raw?
Yes, it would, but the point is that no ordinary human being is ever going to do such a thing. The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on brown bread and raw carrots. And the peculiar evil is this, that the less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food. A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn't. Here the tendency of which I spoke at the end of the last chapter comes into play.
When you are unemployed, which is to say when you are underfed, harassed, bored and miserable, you don't want to cat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit "tasty". There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you. Let's have three pennorth
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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Rather a strange request for me, but I'm looking for a non-skip yoga mat at a good price in the UK I need to do gastrocnemius stretches and my rear foot keeps bloody well slipping
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
lol
A series of tweets that reads "we didn't have a measles outbreak until we let in four years of millions of people pour over our border" 

"I live in Honduras. We vaccinate" 

"I live in American we can choose if we want the shot or not" 

"I know and that's why you have measles and we don't"
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Mort
The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.
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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mary is merry because she is to marry, and caught a cot This message from "your vowel mergers sound hilarious"
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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Laaaaaaaand of the free www.404media.co/woman-arrest...
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Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting
Citizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city council...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Anyone else finding the 'new and improved' All Bran recipe inedible? It's like soggy shavings of corrugated cardboard. Foul texture, unpleasant taste
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Also the fact that Carlos Cuevas isn't naked in my life is deeply homophobic
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
5. After around 30 hours at sea, the dinghy was intercepted by the RNLI and those on board transferred to two lifeboats. Two lifeboat personnel tried to secure the empty dinghy. Thomas yelled abuse and knifed the dinghy to deflate it - with a rescuer still on board.
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Owen Blacker @owen.blacker.me.uk · 22/09/2026
This was 3 hours ago and the BBC "News" website doesn't have it on its homepage, nor the England homepage nor the Politics homepage. I wish the BBC would just stop pretending that it attempts meaningful journalism anymore — certainly not political journalism.
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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I love waiting for time-critical bureaucracy where you can't contact a human, don't you? In other news, it turns out that patients exist for the convenience of the NHS bureaucracy
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VictoriaQOTD @victoriaqotd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Would this be a good moment to talk about Scottish country dancing?
Celia Imrie as Phillipa in dinnerladies, all scarves and wire rimmed glasses and enthusiasm.
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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ah, Reform. Showing their true selves. 'Council leader Chris Eynon said the authority would not support "politically charged organisations with an agenda" and accused charity chief executive Ged Grebby of "stark political bias" in comments about Reform.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sunderland's Reform Council ends Show Racism the Red Card support
Reform ends Sunderland Council support for Show Racism the Red Card in a row with the charity's head.
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Michael @shevekuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We should all be as brave as Admiral Jarok :-( parade.com/news/80s-sit...
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'80s Sitcom Star, Who Played Madeline Kahn's Husband, Dies at 85; James Sloyan Also Appeared in 'Star Trek' and 'Xanadu'
The veteran actor starred opposite Madeline Kahn and appeared in an Oscar-winning movie before becoming a familiar face to ‘Star Trek’ fans.
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