@watty62.bsky.social
Open Data advocate. Wikimedia Board Member. Data scientist. Tinkerer with Python, LLMs etc. Enthusiastic reader. Wikimedia UK trainer. #Jazz lover. Drawer, painter, photographer. Whisky afficionado. #FRSA #FIoL Burgess of Guild of #Aberdeen, OSS Taisho.
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06.03.2026 16:04 — 👍 25769 🔁 9302 💬 849 📌 373
Spoiling a lot of takes but begging a large number of other questions... "Worsening graduate fortunes, it turns out, are a particularly British problem"
www.ft.com/content/649d...
Private Eye cover: ANDY'S FRIEND RESCUES FERGIE! Epstein is prepared to give you £15,000 Is that for Eugenie or for both of them?
2011.
13.02.2026 08:56 — 👍 303 🔁 103 💬 15 📌 5
Screenshot showing 1500 completed wordles with a breakdown of results, and 1494 correct - despite the "100% win" which is a rounding error!
A mild brag. Having completed 1500 #Wordle puzzles, and got 1494 correct. #smug
11.02.2026 08:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Vetting: some actual facts. This is a genuinely cracking read about how we filter – and fail to filter – those with access to our state secrets. If you're new to this, prepare to be somewhat surprised
10.02.2026 13:41 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
No. But it reminds me of Microcosmic God by Theodore Sturgeon. A great story.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microco...?
Something magnificent about Kemi Badenoch's self-confidence, and her claim that the Mandelson affair is entirely down to her asking questions at PMQs. Like a toddler who thinks their plastic steering wheel is controlling the car.
09.02.2026 08:07 — 👍 2743 🔁 541 💬 76 📌 19
Just beyond parody at this point
08.02.2026 19:52 — 👍 2830 🔁 877 💬 85 📌 31If you're a business owner who fires someone you have assigned to an overseas job and you don't buy them a plane ticket home you should actually go to prison
08.02.2026 13:44 — 👍 4493 🔁 1203 💬 1 📌 27
ICYMI:
950+ Google workers signed a petition demanding that executives "disclose all contracts and collaboration with DHS, CBP, and ICE, and to divest from these partnerships."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
The shots from it are really cool!
07.02.2026 18:19 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
Three linocut prints of a black cat with a wonky ear, having stomach drying clips
Having been gifted a printing press for Christmas, and tried using it for intaglio prints, I'm back to #linocut printing to test it. This is Buddy our rescue with a wonky ear.
Just a quick bit of carving, but happy with the results.
#reliefprinting #reliefprints, #linocutprinting
INBOX: Robert McCartney, who worked for 39 years at The Washington Post, including as a Metro columnist and editor, before retiring in 2021, claims on X that he has heard the Post has laid off *all* its photojournalists.
04.02.2026 21:05 — 👍 837 🔁 332 💬 38 📌 76
Etta James, John Lee Hooker and Carlos Santana team up for a live version of the classic James tune "Tell Mama" live in San Francisco in 1986. The driving title tune of Etta's 1968 Chess album. m.youtube.com/watch?v=b34y...
04.02.2026 04:15 — 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1@developers.google.com @newsfromgoogle.bsky.social where has Google books gone?
03.02.2026 18:17 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
I just finished this new #Wikipedia article on Sir William Noble who discovered last week.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...?
Another remarkable native of #Fraserburgh, he was a key figure in the early history of the #BBC.
WHAT THE F--K!!!
The DOJ has JUST DELETED these Epstein Files again, after a NYT's article from 2016 was shown to corroborate much of it!
Share Everywhere: We Screen-Grabbed what they just deleted:
krassencast.com/p/urgent-doj...
Private equity owns lion’s share of children’s foster services in England, ‘bleeding the sector of money’.
Profits margins of 19%. Money extracted in interest payments, intragroup charges. Children suffer.
Ban profit-taking entities from foster services.
Wouldn't work so well now with Thames Water etc....
02.02.2026 09:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Translation I & II. Linocut print, 115cm-82cm, Diptych. 2024.
#linocutprint #print #adeadesina #linocut #printmaking
This thread! 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
29.01.2026 08:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Looks like a house sparrow.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_s...?
Just 45 more Tory MPs joining Reform and Ed Davey becomes leader of the opposition
26.01.2026 12:54 — 👍 82 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Table showing gendered ratios of English-language Wikipedia pages and pages for Classicists
In 2016 7% of biographies on #Wikipedia about classicists were about women. Now @richardnevell.bsky.social's wonderful analysis shows that 10 years later, that number is now almost 20%. That's a huge achievement! #WCCWiki
23.01.2026 11:22 — 👍 24 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
Yeah it’s 50k now. Have you signed yet? Even Nigel Farage agrees.
Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
t.co/GhzzDCOB3T
The government is living in an alternate reality. During WW2, Michael Foot and others wrote Guilty Men about the disastrous failure of the British elite’s appeasement policy: their inability to grasp the world they were living in. He’d have a field day with this lot.
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NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct.
He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…
🇨🇦PM Carney just schooled our cowardly European leaders at #Davos. This speech was clearly aimed at them:
"We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be."
"What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)
