Ethics consultant @IDEA_Leeds, host of @EthicsUntangled, occasional singer, disco king.
Sheffield and Leeds
Joined February 2009
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Same applies to this account, including the Ringo vibes.
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Whamageddon is tedious and so I propose: Saviour's Day. The day that you hear Saviour's Day by Cliff Richard is your "Saviour's Day". If you make it to 25th Dec without hearing it you are deemed to have had an "unholy year" and you must leave your village and live on a hillside.
Tune!
After almost 3 decades of making records, it’s still exciting to receive a piece of vinyl with my name on it.
Grab my disco-dub mix of @HARD_FI from @RoughTrade roughtrade.com/en-gb/product…
Come and study with us!
IDEA, The Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds is offering two PhD scholarships, including all fees and student maintenance, to mark our 20th anniversary as a Centre.
phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/383-…
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Zionism is a national movement, remarkably similar to other national movements despite its peculiarities. Like the other ones, it has harbored both good and evil, both crimes and virtue, both wars and culture, both negation of life and affirmation of it.
Hadn't read the story until now, but yes, they do seem to have completely missed the point of the idea they're supposed to have tested.
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1969 Margaret Hamilton, NASA's lead software engineer for the Apollo Program, stands next to the code she wrote by hand that took Humanity to the moon in 1969⠀
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It sounds like I made up this intro from the rural Oxfordshire village where Russell Brand is in a fierce planning row with his neighbours, but I promise I didn’t. A 4x4 carrying dead pheasants really did zoom past! >> theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…
Time for Graham Spinderella to contribute his left arm off breaks.
Uncapped Essex wicket-keeper Michael Pepper has been added to the England ODI squad for the West Indies series.
He will join up with Phil Salt. 🧂
#BBCCricket #WIvENG
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Labour is giving workers more new rights than they’ve had in decades.
It starts today, when MPs debate the Employment Rights Bill for the first time.
7 big changes to celebrate:
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Crazy things from the past 🧵
1. Vampire killing kit
ALT While most vampire-killing kits presented as 19th-century artifacts are believed to actually date from the second half of the 20th century, this particular kit belonged to a 19th-century nobleman named Lord William Malcolm Hailey. Hansons Auctioneers, the New York Post, and several other publications have reported that it dates back to the 19th century.
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Forty years ago today, The Fall played the Hacienda in Manchester. #FallFriday Here's 'Wings' from the night. The final 2/3s of the show can be watched here: youtube.com/watch?v=bpXLXayY…
Jim Baxter retweeted
“What do these two Snapchat ads [micro-targeting swing state areas] have in common?
They are distributed by a fund financed by Elon Musk.
For Muslim users, a poster saying Kamala Harris' supports Israel.
For Jewish users, a poster saying she supports Palestinians.”
—@GrablyR
An Elon Musk-funded PAC is microtargeting Muslim people in Michigan and Jewish people in Pennsylvania with opposite messaging about Kamala Harris using ZIP code targeting, according to data I pulled from Snapchat. Few things from this investigation:
404media.co/this-is-exactly-…
Jim Baxter retweeted
Today would’ve been Rico Rodriguez’s 90th, so let’s all shake a leg to his solo effort on @TwoToneRecs ‘Jungle Music’ which was based on a song which Stevie Wonder had improvised during a jam session at a hotel in Ocho Rio’s, JA.
Video directed by Lizzie Soden & Barney Bubbles