Hugh Pumphrey

Hondootedly Mossis Thotcher . . .

( (c) @privateeyenews.bsky.social )

BTW, if you are baffled about the "necromanced potato" remark, you need to start listening to "The Naked Week" with @andrewhunterm.bsky.social on #BBCRadio4 ; it takes a slightly different line to the Mason/Kuensberg wing of the BBC.

I have generally found that Motorolas in about this price range have been entirely adequate for normal phone use and ordinary grade snapshot photography. Some of them are even still sold with a headphone jack so you don't have to fanny about with bluetooth headphones.

That's a cracking one!

<pedant mode> This is technically a 22° halo caused by hexagonal ice crystals. (A moonbow is a rainbow caused by water drops and the moon instead of the Sun; it would be the other side of the sky from the moon.) </pedant mode>

bsky.app/profile/hugh...

Why they cannot bring themselves to take that line with Farage the fagash führer is anybody's guess. (Probably it goes back to Robbie Gibb, the necromanced potato and 4th BeeGee.)

Teaching atmospheric science in a university: "What will the weather be like tomorrow?"

(The correct answer is "Ask the <redacted>ing @metoffice.gov.uk --- they are the ones with the forecasting model and the gigantic computer to run it on.)

Brrrrdump-tishshshsh. Well played, ma'am.

Bam! Well done, @fdmadsen.bsky.social . (See, not everything at Uni of #Edinburgh is rubbish . . . )

Did you complete the crossword and find out that there were no rude clues or answers?

Advent calendar consisting of a wooden scale of numbers with a Santa Claus figure to mark the date; it is set to "1".

Slidey Santa says that Christmas is on its way.

Uh, hello to Matt. It is rare to run across another one of us.

. . . but you will vote for us because we are racist and so are you.

It is a pity that @thechrismasontv.bsky.social never uses his @bsky.app account.

(Also why this is effectively not a snitch-tag 🫤 )

Particularly disgusted with my alma mater for cosying up to the fagash führer and his loathsome gang. Sure, they have to plan for a variety of futures, but I do not think that this is the way to do it.

Yup. Me. (Jesus @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social (1983))

For the avoidance of doubt I consider reform to be loathsome, racist, and to have already caused irreparable damage to the UK by being a major cause of Brexit.

Rachel Reeves did not tell me that my employer was shovelling cash at a vampire consultancy www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...

A ratio not merely cursed, but cursèd.

In my experience, that season is where the voice of sulking teenagers becomes a deafening silence because none of them can be arsed to complete the feedback form.

OS benchmark (horizontal line with arrow pointing up at it) on a beige sandstone wall. A mobile phone in the photo shows an app giving the OS grid reference NT 56950 79518

It is #BenchmarkMonday ! This is www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm236332 . Not a first log; I was beaten to it by someone else.

A cubic medieval castle keep made of pinkish sandstone, glowing in late afternoon sunlight.

Sunday outing to Berwick for lunch, with a quick look at Norham castle on the way home. (Keep currently closed off for repairs, but the afternoon sunlight on it was very striking.)

‘Nousferatu’: the notorious consultancy advising Edinburgh uni amid 'huge' cuts Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.

Oh, look: a bit of actual reporting about what is going on at my dear employer, the University of #Edinburgh:

www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...

(Tagging @ucu.org.uk @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social )

Agreed that it is far more important that he is a racist and a tool of Russia and the Trump-ist movement right now. But the fact that he was a bully and a racist as a schoolboy has some importance in understanding the sort of person he is, especially as 30% of voters want him as PM.

Stewart Lee: Had youthful Farage’s youthful alleged racism story concerned a leftist figure, it would not have been disappeared You would think the alleged indiscretions of the youthful Nigel Farage would have drawn outrage from a just and impartial British media. Strangely, it seems they have not

More good stuff from Stewart Lee at @thenerve.news .

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

ShakeNet image showing signal from quake in the Highlands detected in #Edinburgh

I didn't feel it, but the @raspishake.bsky.social at the University of #Edinburgh did.

She has been awesome most weeks. The cha cha did not agree with her.

I am massively of this opinion. The meeja should also stop referring to the chancellor of the exchequer as "Rachel".

Up to 92000! Come on, #UnitedKingdom @bsky.app ! We can have this over 100000 by Monday! And will Farage the fagash führer turn up to the resulting debate? I am guessing not . . . petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

CS Lewis was wrong.

What do these £1100 phones do that my £150 motorola doesn't?

(One answer is "play resource-intensive games" but if you don't do that, why are you buying an expensive phone?)