Conor Mc Bride

Announcing Unison 1.0 After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.

🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed!

After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!

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Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

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The Radiophonic Workshop – Adventures In Time And Space “I first came across Desmond Briscoe on the moon!” laughs Dick Mills. “Plot On The Moon was a radio serial about two mad scientists who went to the moon and – as you do – fell in love with a Moon M…

Yesterday's Paddy Kingsland feature went down well, so here's the huge Radiophonic Workshop feature I wrote for @electronicsound.bsky.social in 2023. I spoke to Paddy, Roger Limb, Dick Mills, Peter Howell, Brian Hodgson and Mark Ayres and joyousness abounds.
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On long haul flights (back when I did flying) I would always seek out 2001, because I've never been awake past Leonard Rossiter.

But Nightmare of Eden really needed Tryst to be British.

The plan is thus far a lunch plan. Afternoon is good. I have to get back to KGX at a sensible time unless there is rare as hens teeth London crash space.

I am currently plotting lunch in London on Saturday 6th, and otherwise being around in London that afternoon and early evening. Options. I already have company, but compatible company, I hope.

When they invent AADHD, we really will be fucked.

CAMBRIDGE (England) people, I'll be in town for the first TWO weeks of December.

South East of England people, I'll have a loose weekend in the middle in which trips from Cambridge are possible.

The most iconic of all Doctor Who pics: Verity Lambert, the show's first producer, uses the flamethrower of the robotic baddies, the Mechanoids, to light her cigarette.

Happy Doctor Who day! To celebrate here is the greatest of Doctor Who images: Verity Lambert using a Mechanoid as a lighter.

Buildings. I reckon buildings are pretty cool.

It's Doctor Who Day, so let's spend some time celebrating anti-gravity nonsense.

"gender ideology is anti-gravity nonsense that only the desperate, the deluded and the double-dealing grifters still believe": just in case you were still wondering quite how consumed with hatred are Hadley Freeman and The Sunday Times.

I gather Trump has just made his horse a consul.

beehive hairstyles

I am watching a 1977 Crown Court called "Capers Among the Catacombs", and because I am extremely suggestible, there will be capers in my dinner.

Did I tell you I've redefined the adjective "chipper", as in "I feel chipper!"?

As a trans person, my experience in, say, Nottingham or Newcastle-upon-Tyne, is that if I'm on my own, the mean time between incidents of street harassment is approximately fifteen minutes. If I'm with someone who looks like a cis woman roughly my own age, there's a lot less backchat.

A question to the few remaining Labour supporters: is this refugee-bashing what you voted for? | Owen Jones The government’s callousness has won it respect – from Tommy Robinson and the hard right, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The thing is, most of England is, in its thoughtless moments, a great deal more racist than most of London. And the trouble is that, by accepting these terms of debate without thought, Labour is campaigning to be replaced by the fascists.
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They broke the mould *before* they made me.

Statement on the Suspension of Trans-Inclusive Quotas 19 Nov 2025 "We are disappointed that, due to legal pressure from transphobic campaign groups following the For Woman Scotland decision, two eminently reasonable quotas in our party's election regulations have been suspended. These suspensions are profoundly anti-queer, anti-trans and anti-feminist, and those threatening to sue clearly care about trans exclusion and not women’s liberation. Several months ago, well before the elections, we advised the party that we supported the existing trans-inclusive gender quotas and that the only viable alternative in the face of legal threats would be to suspend gender quotas, despite this being completely against our values. The attempt to instead third-space trans people has wasted a huge amount of staff and volunteer time and effort, not to mention money that should have been spent on Liberal Democrat campaigning. We continue to advocate for changing the law to reverse the effects of the For Women Scotland decision. We are also working across the party to develop constitutional proposals to bring back the suspended quotas, particularly the LGBT+ quota, to the fullest extent possible." LGBT+ Liberal Democrats Executive Comittee

We are disappointed that, due to legal pressure from transphobic campaign groups following the For Woman Scotland decision, two eminently reasonable quotas in our party's election regulations have been suspended. These suspensions are profoundly anti-queer, anti-trans and anti-feminist...
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Does it have a good view of the bathrooms?

A wizard lady kiosk in a railway station concourse. It tries to look like it is made of stone. It has pink signs on it. The roof is very pointy. It menaces with spikes of sad obsession.

Kings Cross has sprouted a transphobia kiosk should supplies run low over the festive period.

Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.

Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it).

"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".

…Now stop cowering with your mouth shut and do the same against transphobia today!

Dear UK. Be less Shabana Mahmood. Be more Kenmure Street.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

The UK Labour Party has this day destroyed itself.

The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.

"Please stop pointing out the consequences of the massively racist right wing baiting thing I've done, that's actually offensive to me actually."

Get absolutely fucked. You made this choice. Nobody forced you. You sowed. You get to reap.

You're Tommy Robinson's favourite Home Secretary. Eat it.

BAAAAAA