Andrew T.

Andrew T.

@spudfish83.bsky.social

Writer, hopefully. Into photography, gardening, Sci-fi, travel lit, travel etc. Bad knees, head like an egg. Northern, European. Everton, sometimes Boro. Same @ everywhere. Same hat everywhere too.

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Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social

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Crosetto: “I used the terms good and evil because when a state crosses another state's border with tanks, bombs hospitals, bombs schools, kills civilians, bombs power plants, and has been doing so for four years, I can only call it evil.”

Andrew T.
@spudfish83.bsky.social

Anyone else remember getting the MMR jab as a kid and trying not to get thumped on the arm? That HURT! For some reason my flu jab is reminding me!

Andrew T.
@spudfish83.bsky.social

Been for a flu jab. Going to get steroid injections in both knees at some point. Trump is still alive. It's just pricks everywhere today.

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Alan Godfrey Maps (3,900+ publications and counting!)
@alangodfreymaps.bsky.social

We include a street directory and a contemporary train timetable; a wonderful view into our forbears’ lives. They also give name to the many workers in the very varied industries the area once saw, from orange and watercress growing to huge gas and sewerage works.

Alan Godfrey Maps (3,900+ publications and counting!)@alangodfreymaps.bsky.social

From small seeds an Empire grew; Beddington & Waddon 1911. John W Brown brings us headless pirates, rum smugglers & the most pernicious of all; the homes of prominent bankers! While for a long time the villages were small, their connections to the wider world were not, as you can read in our text.

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Alan Godfrey Maps (3,900+ publications and counting!)
@alangodfreymaps.bsky.social

This map is part of our excellent coverage of #Cambridge, and our essays across the range highlight the friction between locals & students, workers & tutors, fields & form-rooms, over centuries – while also charting the changes industry and technology wrought upon the landscape and its inhabitants.

Alan Godfrey Maps (3,900+ publications and counting!)@alangodfreymaps.bsky.social

Them & Us; Cambridge 1901. #MatchMap ‘Town Vs Gown’ is mentioned in our text, but it’s not the only faultline in the city; there’s the classic Rich Vs Poor, & the scholastic Oxbridge rivalry of course, but also the collegiate competition played out in sports & courts across the city & country.

Andrew T.
@spudfish83.bsky.social

A memory. Six month later. Exactly. I'm on a school trip. We're about 16. Never been to the USA. Deep in the bowels of a subway station, levels underground. A circle of silent people looking at a wall in a small open space. Names of the lost. 6 months on, people still checking, remembering.

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Alice Roberts
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social

The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.

Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social

An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.

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The Scales ⚖️
@shakethescales.bsky.social

Professional wordsmiths at the BBC are mixing up their modal auxiliary verbs, accidentally positioning Reform as a government in waiting. The use of 'will' signals the future tense carrying implied certainty, rather than the hypothetical scenario suggested by 'would.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukReform says it will prioritise British-born young workers for social housingLabour called the plan "unserious and unworkable" and accused Reform of pushing "gimmicks and division".