Gillian M Sinton

Ten years on, the Brexiters plan to leave the EU and cosy up with the US looks even more disastrous. That their Brexit was boosted by Putin makes it even more historically catastrophic. We mustn’t forget the people who did this or let them near power again bylinetimes.com/2026/06/23/w...

The new winter of discontent.

I warned 3 years ago that mink farms are a likely route to a new and horrific human pandemic, and once more I'm fervently praying it doesn't map out that way. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The decision we made to leave BC is feeling a lot easier today.

In a green jacket.

"Chris Wickham obituary" Former Past & Present Editor Prof. Matthew Hilton (@qmul.bsky.social) has contributed an obituary of Prof. Chris Wickham to today's @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o... As an ex pat, I’m now allowed to vote in UK elections. Does the BBC have any idea how many of us around the world would also pay for a TV licence just to have access?

Brexit, Russia, Twitter bots – it’s been a good week for finally acknowledging a decade’s worth of malign influences on Britain. But let’s not overlook perhaps the biggest and most hostile troll of all This week’s Nerve column by Stewart Lee

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... I have a head of lettuce in my fridge still going strong.

Such a good podcast today.

On the dogs walk today, everywhere is very autumnal and then there was this the last gasp of summer.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026... It’s not controversial. It’s fucking heinous.

#BlueSky #MedSky #LawSky #Rape

Autumn walk.

This is a message for @andyburnham.bsky.social

Im always losing my keys!

I’ve stopped giving the guardian money because of the increasingly crap reporting. ‘Lifestyle choices’ in this day and age? Bollocks.

The sun was going down near Reykjavik yesterday and not sure if to the side it’s a rainbow or the start of northern lights. Regardless it was a cool sight.

We need more not less bike lanes.

Wonder who picked a photo of women performing domestic labour as an illustration of ‘doing nothing’

Big shout out to this airline ( that doesn’t have a Bluesky acct) for failing to load 300 plus passenger bags on its flight 99 back to Toronto yesterday. We’re out three cases.

Jodrell Bank

A bit of Vivaldi with busker street music.

We can literally lean out and touch the water

Finally arrived, it’s not dark we don’t have half a pack of cigarettes but we are wearing sunglasses.

London with a side of Amsterdam, Manchester and Liverpool. Not off to the best start. Found out our flight was delayed when I got a request to download an app to get money for the delay. No I don’t want another bloody app!

This looks very interesting.

Cool cool. But while you're at it, make them high speed VIA trains, and lay down some high speed rail across the country.

Oh hell no!

When you ignore the fact you have carpel tunnel knowing full well it isn’t going to get better on its own. You end up having an urgent carpel tunnel release.

So, at tonight's Blue Jays game, there could be as many as ~3 people PER SECTION (seats) actively spreading SARSCoV2. Quite probably more. And transmission, due to crowding and yelling, will be astronomically increased. I'll be wearing my respirator because #MasksWork and it's #StillAPandemic.

Membrillo time.

Going to listen to this tonight on a long drive.

My poor spouse.

'This is now getting absurdly serious with the El Niño. The latest OSTIA SST data now has a peak anomaly of 8.1C above normal, with Peru reporting a peak SSTA of 9.5C. What's more concerning is that these anomalies are only going to increase over the next 10+ days.' David Schlotthauer [x]

Just gonna share this again.

Hello my lovely Betwixters! If you enjoy Betwixt the Sheets in your earholes, then you can now have it in your eyeballs too! We have set up shop on YouTube and you can watch me chinwagging historical naughtiness right here. Please subscribe and follow along for more. Xxx youtu.be/UKaPO7aZ_fg?...

Alexandra Macdonald, a postdoc in our department, is giving a workshop on harvesting and processing flax at the Brown homestead, Saturday the 19th.

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.

One of our adult children lives in the beaches and the sky just turned green.