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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 7h

Nigella saying "I love an opportunity to wield a blowtorch" 🥰😆

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Went down a rabbit hole of digging into the Edinburgh council budget and wow do people not understand the budget pressure from social care for the elderly when they spend their whole time complaining about potholes and bins

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 12h

I've spent the afternoon, in and amongst trying to work, WhatsApping my mum, trying to get her access to her emails. She now tells me she's looking at her email inbox 🤬

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 12h

Whenever I hear these stories from France about the school riots, where they are describing schools as dilapidated as those I attended in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s, I just think that rioting was the very last thing on our 15-year-old minds as we dealt with the tree growing through our classroom

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 12h

Oh, I'll need to bring in the shitty, disease-ridden twig* in off the balcony! * a bonsai jacaranda I was fooled into purchasing by an episode of Gardeners' Question Time

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 22h

I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 18h

This was REALLY delicious. However, you can imagine what the after-effects of a baked bean curry are 😬💨

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 20h

I just switched off the radio, so I'm not 100% sure, but did our galaxy-sized brain LOTO just say "government is not about winning elections"? 🫪

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jeffrey Archer's death has oddly reminded me that in my Cambridge days, we used to walk to Grantchester to do some rubber-necking at the Old Vicarage after he was imprisoned

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#RIP

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The fourth season of Ted Lasso is so bad, and yet we're still watching it....

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Graeme Beale @midfyffe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A few series ago Victoria C-M said that they had done that analysis and it had broadly the same accuracy/ response rate sad the other question types. IIRC picture clues were slightly less well answered.

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Someone should do a statistical analysis as to whether the musical questions on Only Connect are actually more difficult (i.e. more commonly answered incorrectly) than the other questions

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm having the "equivalence isn't the gotcha that you think it is" thought again while looking at my TL today....

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'd been wondering what had happened to King Lear/Brian #TheArchers

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've ended up cycling through Kirkliston a lot over the last few years, and I can see why the residents are complaining. This seems to be the impact of new development at South Queensferry and Winchburgh

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I do love Morrison's business model borrowed from Soviet states in the 1980s of reducing costs by not purchasing stock to sell. Such an innovative approach to grocery retailing. Not sure of its long-term viability though

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Watching Sounds of Scotland at the BBC and I'm quite amazed that trousers that revealed that much were acceptable on Pebble Mill at One in 1984 🫣

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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"My length of bone!" #scd #strictly

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Were they being especially harsh on Dani Dyer because there's no way she'll be voted out? #Strictly

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I forgot to mention earlier, I was stood next to someone vaguely famous in Scotland at the start of Parkrun this morning 😊 I won't disclose their ID because they seemed quite shy and the not in the mood for people going "oh it's you off off xxxxx"

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 03/10/2026

Electricity generation per person in the United Kingdom has fallen by a third from its early-2000s peak. Globally, electricity generation per person has grown by more than 50% this century. In the United Kingdom, things have moved in the opposite direction.

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I was thinking of trying out a new hairdresser, as the guy I've ended up going to mentioned he listens to the Joe Rogan podcast. But the chat over my haircut today was very enlightening in terms of the view from a small business owner. He was angry about how he'd just been audited by...

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And back onto #TOTP to watch Legs & Co dance to Heavy People in their negligees 😁

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Steak frites is the best Friday tea 😁 (We are having steak frites for tea)

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Did they just sing "double-fisting Geminis"?!?! #TOTP

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 02/10/2026

Yes diesel is expensive at £2 a litre but a milkshake IPA works out at about £18 a litre and tastes an awful lot worse.

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ooooft, almost described myself as "a tad busty lately" in an email just then...

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Man Wearing a Bra

ALT: Man Wearing a Bra

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 01/10/2026

all buildings are kind of brutalist when it rains

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Amol Rajan is such an irritating, arrogant *extremely rude word*

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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/10/2026

40-Year-Old Has Spiky Hair

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have noticed the Williams that were in your name and which you were probably hoping Carlos would hide forgive me your name is William Williams so unnecessary and so William

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm 15 minutes behind, but LOVE Richard E Grant 🤣🤣🤣

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The BBC does genuinely seem to be trying to save money where it can; they scrapped an undercover investigation where Amol Rajan went out clubbing with a view to exposing the easy access to poppers because they didn't want to pay for the Amol night rate

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That grey plague house opposite tonight's Grand Design is proper 🤢

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This less than 5% chance of rain in Stirling is very wet, it has to be said

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a train spotter I even agree with this. I think the rivet-counters who are building new steam engines to replace ones that were lost can get in the sea

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This says an awful lot about the closure of UK govt departmental libraries after 2010...

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Listening to French pop music on my streaming service of choice and sighing, yet again, about the fact if I was doing GCSE French these days I'd just spend my days immersed in yoof videos on YouTube and listening to funky pop

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This was already happening in other areas too: the changes to employment support in England are a lot like that happens in Scotland; and the Timms review of PIP looks like it will create something that looks like Adult Disability Payment

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I can see effff beeee peee eee slowly coming back to life...

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The way the technical challenges on Bake Off get more difficult every season, they're going to end up being presented with a cow and a bucket of freshly harvested wheat and told to get on with it

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was shot at (I don't know why.)

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Agree with this. My dad died last July, and Sunday would've been his 80th birthday. This bit of Burnham's speech really resonated with me, and it can't be easy for him to do

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