@phlogginganorse.bsky.social
Posting from where the trickle down congeals. Polymaths r us - except for maths & grammar, obvs. Knackered, so not dancing & mostly just minding the drinks nowadays. #FBPE #FND #MCAS #LC was a maker of music/writage/art/video/politics/n'stuff
Liverpool VHS shop faces being shuttered amid fire risk row www.birkenhead.news/liverpool-vh...
New Ferry community regeneration drop-in sessions to take place www.birkenhead.news/new-ferry-co...
The last time I was tooken there.
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Welcome to another writer's edition, a chance for you to peek behind the curtain and see our inner workings. This time it’s the turn of David Lloyd, one of Liverpool’s most beloved writers as he celebrates crime podcasts, punk rock memoirs and the long-awaited return of spring.👇
New Science & Magic out inc. the 1st chapter of my novel ‘All Our Love’, & @wildtwin.bsky.social, Pete Paphides, Alex Pester, Kevin Rowland, Ann Nazario, Victoria Raftery, Matty Loughlin-Day, Eimear Kavanagh, Matt Lockett, Nik Kavanagh, Maya Chen & Fiona Bird. www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
I wrote about these steps for the 20th edition of Science & Magic, Violette’s brilliant magazine. This week’s also includes a brilliant piece from @seventydys.bsky.social
Read it here:
www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...
It be good when there be sweary.
"knows nothing and doesn't care anyway". Indeed.
The #Reaper'sbahn we *expansive gesture* calls it all nowadays. Describes a not geographically limited area, rather a feeling (or lack of).
And yet we could be nationalising for the common good and national security.
Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
Ed Miliband must step in and bar Tesla from holding an energy licence.
Elon Musk is a threat to our national security and clearly not a fit person to operate in our energy industry.
We can’t have the lights go out because he’s having a strop on X.
Health and social care handed to corporations.
Profits of 32%-43% from cataract surgery.
Profit margins of up to 21% for child fostering services.
19% – 25% profit margin for residential care for children.
Money buys less. Corporate profits guaranteed. Who asked the people?
Thespacesinbetween
And yet we could be nationalising for the common good and national security.
Palantir’s NHS England contract ‘opens door to government abuse of power’, health bosses told
Health justice charity Medact says data-sharing potential could be used for UK version of US immigration raids
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.'
Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3
May I suggest a compromise...
A depiction of Winnie actually cuddling a badger...
or having one trapped.
Or just stop making yersel' look daft, Mr Davey. Hush now.
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...or the continuing and grievious injustices of corsetry.
If you lack confidence in conversation choose familiar subjects such as hats, bonnets and gloves.
Bliss Comedy returns with its first gig of 2026 www.birkenhead.news/bliss-comedy...
...or the continuing and grievious injustices of corsetry.
May I suggest a compromise...
A depiction of Winnie actually cuddling a badger...
or having one trapped.
Or just stop making yersel' look daft, Mr Davey. Hush now.
🤫
I’m one of the thousands of authors who have published this empty book, in protest at AI companies stealing our copyrighted work www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I still think about this a lot.
Songwriting duo release album recorded two decades ago www.birkenhead.news/songwriting-...
