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icymi, there's a new live recording of the colin currie group doing 'music for 18 musicians' www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWvf...

I note that this headline www.theguardian.com/politics/202... fails to indicate whether the"honest discussion" is with the EU or the "freedom of movement" is with the EU. Reassuringly, it is the latter. The "honest discussion" is with racists. It should consist of a single middle finger.

The Female Of The Species Is Deadlier Than The Male, I Guess

On a train to that London, plotting revels until Sunday morning. Then a day out in Brighton, relocating in the evening to Cambridge.

So my niece tells me her father made her read my "Caroline Miller" oeuvre, whe she was little, before going out there on the internet, because people aren't always exactly who they say they are. From which she concluded, even then, that I probably wasn't exactly who I said I was, in 3D. Correct.

But the BRITISH way is to STEAL OTHER PEOPLE'S. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This also underlines why 'net zero' was always a scam. A fraud. A centrist lie. To cover up uninterrupted fossil fuel expansion for decades. The way to carbon reduction. Is to phase out fossil fuels. And that simply precludes pointless data centres and car-centric transit infrastructure.

Andy Burnham has shit where his spine should be. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

WHY IS MY BRAIN SYNCOPATING SKI SUNDAY?

PEOPLE DESERVE BASIC DIGNITY NAH THAT'S A BIT POLITICAL FOR THE BBC

A trans woman was just murdered by the NHS. They withheld viable cancer treatment from her because they could not place her on either gender of cancer ward. She's no longer a complication: she's dead. Justin Webb killed this woman. J.K. Rowling killed this woman. Sharron Davies killed this woman.

I AM NOT GOING TO DEBATE YOU. Issues are debated. People are not. As a person, I refuse to be debated. Stop asking to be debated, if you know what's good for you.

You can't make chocolate biscuits out of butter beans and breadcrumbs! Nyah nyah nyah!

Your Harry Potter dollars funded this.

TRANS WOMEN ARE JANE DOE.

DETECT THE TROLLS

Generations of Strathclyde undergraduate Computer Science students have experienced the Virtual Learning Environment I wrote, myself, because I can't stand moodle. It's called Marx. After Harpo Marx, my slient partner. And because it does. Nothing serious, nothing political.

- teacher, what does "missing semicolon on line 43" means? - it means there's a semicolon missing on line 43. - oh! thank you very much! - and also you should seize the means of production.

I'll confess I had fallen a little behind with this year's Strictly Come Dancing, crucial inspiration for my puzzles. I have only just caught up with week 3. One of the things which strikes me is that the BBC editors who blanked out Bethany's PROTECT THE DOLLS tshirt were distinctly half-arsed.

I've been having fun rewatching "Game Set & Match" on grainy videos digitised sketchy VHS. And I can't help wondering if @networkonair.bsky.social have noticed that Len Deighton is dead.

YOU CAN PUNCH A WOMAN IF YOU THINK SHE'S TRANS. YOU CAN THINK SHE'S TRANS IF SHE DISAGREES WITH YOU. (neither of these things is true; that's why i said them in all caps)

Occasionally, filthy transphobes tell the truth.

I want the BBC and every single individual human who works for it to understand that their institutional transphobia is not funny but in fact lethal.

Enough people have given me the she even though I only asked for they, and I couldn't help but love it. Trans people are worse than vampires when it comes to feeling needed to be invited in. It took me a while. Anyhow, she/her.

My job, as a teaching mathematician, is to tell stories that change how people see.

"The cost of software failure is truly staggering."

I teach mathematics to first year Computer Science undergraduates. They are even more scared of thinking for themselves than they are scared of me. (I literally give them their first ever lecture. Uni starts with tranny.) I blame school.

Plan for next fortnight goes Glasgow Sheffield Glasgow London Cambridge Glasgow but there is scope for it to get more complicated.

hot take: the people who criticize human space exploration because "we can get robots to do it" are anti-human they treat space travel as if its only purpose is for data collection but the entire point is for PEOPLE to live and thrive and experience the universe not ROBOTS

Have fun, lovelies! I'm afraid I shall have to be in Glasgow, teaching Computer Science by dancing backwards and in high heels.

I just turned down an invitation to serve on the programme committee of an international conference to be hosted in the USA next year. As a trans woman, I would not feel safe attending, so I do not feel it appropriate to give my labour. Moreover, I cannot let my name stand in apparent endorsement.

Have you ever seen a vodka-fuelled polyester fire? Me neither, but I have all the equipment I need to perform the experiment under stringently controlled conditions.