Philip Barrett

Finally got round to bottling last year’s chili harvest!

19.01.2025 19:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

youtu.be/FwGquqiUnfY?...

18.01.2025 16:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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04.01.2025 14:35 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

With 17 days to go until the US takeover by the new Trump (or Musk?) administration, I thought it might be worthwhile to share a number of recent papers published by our team that counter arguments that have been leveled against misinformation research. 1/n

04.01.2025 09:13 — 👍 276    🔁 139    💬 12    📌 19

From the archive: A trip on the new underground The City and South London Railway opens

"Announcing the fact that anybody touching that rail with his umbrella would receive a shock, everybody was promptly seized by a desire to do it. Until the starting of the train, our representative found ample occupation in egging various gentlemen on to the deed."

on.ft.com/4fzqAd0

21.12.2024 13:56 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A British Rail poster from 1957 advertising fixtures at The Oval (the nearest overground station, then as now, is Vauxhall). Interesting to note there were two matches against the touring West Indians as well as the August Test. Playing a county twice was not uncommon

08.12.2024 11:28 — 👍 33    🔁 4    💬 7    📌 0

NEW: Air pollution in England has halved since 2003 after falling substantially during the pandemic, but inequalities in exposure remain.

@lgadenne.bsky.social @leroutierm.bsky.social Rodrigo Toneto and Bobbie Upton’s new report examines how air pollution has changed in England over 20 years:

06.12.2024 07:29 — 👍 48    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 2

1970 - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Kaikan Hall - Kyoto

1970 - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Kaikan Hall - Kyoto
#ArtBlakey (dr), #RandyBrecker (tp), Carlos Garnett (ts), #JoanneBrackeen (p), Jan Arnette (b), Etta Jones (voc)

#jazz jazzsky

05.12.2024 13:58 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Ah, "How to name files", a topic that is near and dear to my 💜

My most recent (and semi-polished) iteration on this stuff was a 5-minute lightning talk for NormConf 2022. Here's the video & the slides:

youtu.be/ES1LTlnpLMk?...

speakerdeck.com/jennybc/how-...

04.12.2024 17:23 — 👍 162    🔁 48    💬 5    📌 7

1956 - Dizzy Gillespie with his 20 piece All-Star Orchestra - Near East tour

1956 - Dizzy Gillespie with his 20 piece All-Star Orchestra - Near East tour

#jazz #bigband #DizzyGillespie jazzsky

30.11.2024 13:19 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0