Steve Knowles

#netflix #unchained #tdf documentary overdubs are terrible! Ruins it! Keep original language

You haven’t done #easter until you’ve done it in #malaga #Andalusia #spain #holyweek

EMERGENCY LIVESTREAM: Zelensky vs Trump YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics

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'My university course made me who I am - now it's being cut' Universities are cutting jobs to make financial savings, with students and staff bearing the brunt.

good piece on the impact on students BBC News - 'My university course made me who I am - now it's being cut'
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Saw #benelton #authenticstupidity #uk tour at the #floralpavillion. He is as indefatigable as ever! Go and see him #comedy

How to resist the tech overlords Big tech has now made its position clear. It is on the far-right. Here's what happens next.

The dream of technology is now under the control of men who are vain, foolish, self-centred, amoral, desperate for power, and in some cases openly fascistic. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...

How to solve a problem like Elon Musk Let's stop letting the world's richest man set the political and news agenda - and start taking action against foreign interference

Musk’s election interference is a serious threat.

But it can be challenged if governments use their powers and we stop letting the world’s richest man set the news and political agenda

Latest by me on Democracy for Sale

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It’s long been suggested locally that JRR Tolkien’s tree-like warriors, the Ents, may have been inspired in part by this ancient oak at Cannock Chase, where he was based during the First World War.

It’s extraordinary to see in person and well worth finding…

@tolkiensociety.org @digitaltolkien.com

How I beat overwhelm: I deleted my email app – and my sleep suddenly improved Checking my emails at every possible opportunity had become distracting and draining. So I set myself new boundaries As a freelance writer, the structure of my work day can often vary wildly. Sometimes, it feels as if I have too much to do – other days,…

How I beat overwhelm: I deleted my email app – and my sleep suddenly improved

McCarthyism stalked my family. Its paranoia contains a lesson for Trump’s second term | Richard Sennett Trump’s eerily familiar evocations of the ‘enemy within’ may be harder to shake off than the man who targeted my parents The rise of Donald Trump aroused in me an old fear of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Both McCarthy and Trump rose to power as demagogues…

McCarthyism stalked my family. Its paranoia contains a lesson for Trump’s second term | Richard Sennett

My cup of tea was cold by the time #VAR decision was given #livlei

17 thoughts on Paul McCartney gig 17 thoughts on Paul McCartney's gig and his stunning show at Manchester’s Co-Op arena

17 thoughts on Paul McCartney’s recent stunning show at Manchester’s Co-Op arena… louderthanwar.com/17-thoughts-...

Closed my #twitter account and could do with a few more #lfc #journalists coming over to #bluesky as I’m not getting my usual #lfcteamnews as quick as usual. #lfc #souvlfc #carabaocup

The expertise the UK loses when they make researchers and professors redundant is hugely damaging to the UK's economy, reputation and place in the world.
And all because of the bonkers idea of funding universities from international students and then, even more bonkers, cutting family visas.

Author of Late, Great Planet Earth Hal Lindsey has died at 95
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Just back from #sandiego #sblaar. My paper on premill prophecy and Virilio’s theory on speed went down well (I think!) :)