Matthew Adams

As always, there's a Yes Minister scene for this.

I didn't know this. This is not how science is supposed to be done.

All the new miniatures in our Heroes of the Dutch Resistance Kickstarter - look at them there. Each figure is based on a real person who risked it all to fight fascism. Please help me spread the word. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bad... All hand sculpted & hand cast in pewter

Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

Alfred the Great died #OnThisDay 899. The story of how he became king of Wessex is quite complicated, so I made a short explanatory video.

Introducing the ‘spokeometer’ to show the progress being made on the appeal for £5000 to enable veterans to build an Iron Age chariot with Time Team at the wonderful Butser Ancient Farm . Still plenty of time to donate!! gofund.me/def2eb4ac

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Remi Dekker, son of resistance fighter Freddie Oversteegen has this to say about our minis! 😍 I am blown away! Also pic of when we met up recently, he got a special painted one by John Morris. (KS on now www.kickstarter.com/projects/bad...)

My last oven but one had a missing button that made it literally impossible. The oven after that had settings menus and hid the option deep within configuration. This oven has a button you press to set/advance, then plus and minus buttons to change the hour, then the minutes. #ovenClockBulletin

I would like to thank @unamccormack.bsky.social for reading my contribution to Target Book Day. It was beautifully read. I shall endeavour to overcome my stage fright should there be a next time! An explanation of what Una read - it was a DW 'story' made up of chapter titles from Target Books.

I know lots of people get very miserable as the nights draw in and the days are short, but I always feel cosy in the autumn and winter. Also, I never like BST. My brain constantly recalculates the "right" time. All of which means "happy clocks going back day" for those who celebrate.

"a distinctly British approach to artificial intelligence."

Also paper tape is way easier to work with than plastic. I live off paper tape acquired for the house move. It is particularly great at resealing packets of dry goods.

My debut short story collection comes out one week from today, and I'm a bit excited about it! faerypolitic.substack.com/p/wait-but-w...

460 Squadron had another bash at it?

Archaeological dating techniques.

Here's another post I wrote shortly after I was told to pick which staff I'd need to keep on. Several of us took voluntary pay cuts so that we could keep most of them. This is one of the reasons I feel for all those in the games industry at the moment. They're not the only industry run by sharks.

I am very much enjoying Kill Jackie. It is not at all what I was expecting and all the better for it. I think there is probably slightly too much live-action gore for the daughter which is a shame because they'd probably enjoy it too. (No more gore than the Anime they watch but that's animation.)

Just round the corner from us, someone had a yellow TR7. We used to look at it a lot. We had no taste.

Can you help #DoctorWho #TargetBookClub? BBC Books had organised a Target Book Shop but it's fallen through. Do you know a cuddly trader who'd like a free table to sell Dr Who books? Maybe old Targets like the market stalls of our childhood?

My guess is that they have failed to understand how to run something like R4 Extra for 2s6d a day. Because they have to run it like the BBC with layers of editors, management, engineering etc etc.

The posts about this project are getting so suppressed on Facebook, can you give me a hand? Launching Wed 21st October, 20 brand new miniatures - hand sculpted and hand cast. Deeply researched non conventional members of the Dutch Resistance! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bad...

Happy 97th birthday to that splendid actor Colin Jeavons. I was delighted to meet him just under a year ago (something I thought would never happen) and he was an absolute delight! So many terrific performances - Blue Remembered Hills, House of Cards, Kinvig, Sherlock Holmes, Blackeyes, etc etc

If you're going to shit on anything it's any Labour MP claiming that the country is still a bastion for LGBT right because, fuck me, fucking hell, what do you think is going on

#OnThisDay, 19 Oct 1944, President Roosevelt announces Black women can join WAVES: the US Navy's women's service. Lt Harriet Pickens and Ensign Frances Wills become the first Black women officers within weeks. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #AmericanHistory 🗃️ 1/5

I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment. With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording: youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0?...

Looks like this week is the "we are going to have to turn the heating on" week - it doesn't get over 13C outside and that means it will drop under 18C inside.

Between April 2019 and February 2021 excavations at Round Church Street/Park Street, Cambridge explored archaeology relating to a 1st/2nd-4th century roadside settlement, medieval occupation and 12th–16th-century phases of the town boundary, known as the King’s Ditch.

I keep meaning to ask @cambridgearch.bsky.social if there is a report for the dig in the fields south of Madingley Road/The American Cemetery (somewhat west of Coton) that I could see from my office window back in the mid-2000s. This might now constitute my ask.

The French trashed the McDonalds, looted the Apple Store and Luis Vuitton's hand bags. All run by global billionaires. But they left the French Chicken shop untouched.

Nerdy/booky friends: Just throwing it out there that my debut story collection is coming out on Halloween: a spooky season treat. I'm currently reaching out to people active in the SFF review space to offer e-arcs so if that's you and you'd like one - let me know! www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

Another amazing thing about Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester is that, when her circuit was incredibly worried that she'd be blown, she didn't go back to England. Instead she went to stay with her mum in Paris, and got interned in a spa Hotel. Which indicates that the Gestapo had no idea she was SOE.

New from me on Political Sandbox: No Lying! I asked for the first single you bought with your own money. 934 of you answered with 737 different records, most of them unique. And there were some corking stories. Awards time. https://politicalsandbox.substack.com/p/no-lying

Who needs anything other than Zarch, Lemmings, Art Works, and a good text editor? (I had an Amiga and was still envious of my friends' Archimedes; it was such a nice machine.)