Alan Rew
@alanrew.bsky.social
UK-based retired software developer.
Art, Photography, Science, Music, Economics, Politics, Geology, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Science, Architecture, Archaeology
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Alan Rew
@alanrew.bsky.social
· Sep 7
Apologies to anyone who's sent me a DM recently: I can't read or send DMs here. I don't trust the security of the third-party verification company. I'm looking at alternatives for private chat.
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Much will be said about this, but I can't help but think that the biggest losers will be seasonal agricultural workers.
The six-month threshold is meaningless since their visa forces them to leave the country before it kicks in. It will remain completely legal to sack them unfairly at any time.
The six-month threshold is meaningless since their visa forces them to leave the country before it kicks in. It will remain completely legal to sack them unfairly at any time.
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Much will be said about this, but I can't help but think that the biggest losers will be seasonal agricultural workers.
The six-month threshold is meaningless since their visa forces them to leave the country before it kicks in. It will remain completely legal to sack them unfairly at any time.
The six-month threshold is meaningless since their visa forces them to leave the country before it kicks in. It will remain completely legal to sack them unfairly at any time.
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Imagine meeting a time traveller from the 80s who only knows the domination of the Murdoch press, explaining the information revolution, the ability to access all the world’s knowledge through our phones, and then explaining the public is still somehow grossly misinformed.
Spoke to the New York Times for their report: the British public think immigration is up. It's actually down, sharply
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
The British Public Thinks Immigration Is Up. It’s Actually Down, Sharply.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Imagine meeting a time traveller from the 80s who only knows the domination of the Murdoch press, explaining the information revolution, the ability to access all the world’s knowledge through our phones, and then explaining the public is still somehow grossly misinformed.
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Absolutely brilliant history of Alternative Comedy from a moment when it was clear they weren't going anywhere but hadn't had enough time to rewrite history or build their own myth yet (even Ben Elton!), with tons on long-lost comedians and stage shows.
timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...
timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Absolutely brilliant history of Alternative Comedy from a moment when it was clear they weren't going anywhere but hadn't had enough time to rewrite history or build their own myth yet (even Ben Elton!), with tons on long-lost comedians and stage shows.
timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...
timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...
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One of the greatest things in the history of everness. Few things as beguiling, fascinating and generally spellbinding as "Masquerade".
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
One of the greatest things in the history of everness. Few things as beguiling, fascinating and generally spellbinding as "Masquerade".
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'This isn't an opinion. This is counting.'
- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
'This isn't an opinion. This is counting.'
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2/ However, the North Sea Future Plan still promotes carbon capture and hydrogen in a big way. Where these are based on gas supply chains (ie gas with CCS, blue hydrogen or hydrogen co-firing with gas), they still lock in fossil fuels and genearte large upstream emissions ...
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
2/ However, the North Sea Future Plan still promotes carbon capture and hydrogen in a big way. Where these are based on gas supply chains (ie gas with CCS, blue hydrogen or hydrogen co-firing with gas), they still lock in fossil fuels and genearte large upstream emissions ...
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🧵 /1 Hi @tessakhan.bsky.social - Thank you for your work. You and Uplift have succeeded here - you deserve huge credit 🙏🙏
Think you are right on North Sea O&G exploration and extraction now ... as long as there is still not a way for Govt to sign-off Rosebank in the small print (still a concern)
Think you are right on North Sea O&G exploration and extraction now ... as long as there is still not a way for Govt to sign-off Rosebank in the small print (still a concern)
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
🧵 /1 Hi @tessakhan.bsky.social - Thank you for your work. You and Uplift have succeeded here - you deserve huge credit 🙏🙏
Think you are right on North Sea O&G exploration and extraction now ... as long as there is still not a way for Govt to sign-off Rosebank in the small print (still a concern)
Think you are right on North Sea O&G exploration and extraction now ... as long as there is still not a way for Govt to sign-off Rosebank in the small print (still a concern)
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It is a historic and hugely welcome development for a significant oil & gas producing country, a G7 economy & a country with significant historical responsibility for the climate crisis to take this step.
Now onto the just transition part of the plan...
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Now onto the just transition part of the plan...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It is a historic and hugely welcome development for a significant oil & gas producing country, a G7 economy & a country with significant historical responsibility for the climate crisis to take this step.
Now onto the just transition part of the plan...
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Now onto the just transition part of the plan...
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The v big news is that the govt has jettisoned the principal objective of "maximising economic recovery of offshore oil & gas" for the O&G regulator (the NSTA), replacing it with objectives that align with the govts broader socio-economic & climate objectives. An eminently sensible, welcome move
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November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The v big news is that the govt has jettisoned the principal objective of "maximising economic recovery of offshore oil & gas" for the O&G regulator (the NSTA), replacing it with objectives that align with the govts broader socio-economic & climate objectives. An eminently sensible, welcome move
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Huge news from the UK today: after UN climate talks in which there was a massive fight over language on fossil fuels, the UK government today announced that it will in fact be keeping many millions of barrels of oil & gas in the ground. Deeds rather than just words for a change! 🧵
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Huge news from the UK today: after UN climate talks in which there was a massive fight over language on fossil fuels, the UK government today announced that it will in fact be keeping many millions of barrels of oil & gas in the ground. Deeds rather than just words for a change! 🧵
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Huge news from the UK today: after UN climate talks in which there was a massive fight over language on fossil fuels, the UK government today announced that it will in fact be keeping many millions of barrels of oil & gas in the ground. Deeds rather than just words for a change! 🧵
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UKTBC Chair Andrew Lewin MP:
"The Brexit deal put up barriers with our closest and largest trading partners. We have 16,000 fewer businesses in the UK exporting to the EU."
"A surge in food prices, bureaucracy at the border and a hit to our economy of at least £100 billion."
"The Brexit deal put up barriers with our closest and largest trading partners. We have 16,000 fewer businesses in the UK exporting to the EU."
"A surge in food prices, bureaucracy at the border and a hit to our economy of at least £100 billion."
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
UKTBC Chair Andrew Lewin MP:
"The Brexit deal put up barriers with our closest and largest trading partners. We have 16,000 fewer businesses in the UK exporting to the EU."
"A surge in food prices, bureaucracy at the border and a hit to our economy of at least £100 billion."
"The Brexit deal put up barriers with our closest and largest trading partners. We have 16,000 fewer businesses in the UK exporting to the EU."
"A surge in food prices, bureaucracy at the border and a hit to our economy of at least £100 billion."
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) report:
"China Achieves Thorium-uranium Nuclear Fuel Conversion in Molten-salt Reactor"
HT @hossenfelder.bsky.social newsletter:
"Thorium is much more abundant on earth than uranium, which is why it’s widely considered the nuclear fuel of the future".
"China Achieves Thorium-uranium Nuclear Fuel Conversion in Molten-salt Reactor"
HT @hossenfelder.bsky.social newsletter:
"Thorium is much more abundant on earth than uranium, which is why it’s widely considered the nuclear fuel of the future".
english.cas.cn
November 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) report:
"China Achieves Thorium-uranium Nuclear Fuel Conversion in Molten-salt Reactor"
HT @hossenfelder.bsky.social newsletter:
"Thorium is much more abundant on earth than uranium, which is why it’s widely considered the nuclear fuel of the future".
"China Achieves Thorium-uranium Nuclear Fuel Conversion in Molten-salt Reactor"
HT @hossenfelder.bsky.social newsletter:
"Thorium is much more abundant on earth than uranium, which is why it’s widely considered the nuclear fuel of the future".
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A physicist from Japan claims that he has found the first direct evidence for dark matter in very highly energetic gamma-ray emissions from the centre of our galaxy. Let’s have a look at the paper.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQwz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQwz...
Scientists may have detected dark matter.
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A physicist from Japan claims that he has found the first direct evidence for dark matter in very highly energetic gamma-ray emissions from the centre of our galaxy. Let’s have a look at the paper.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQwz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQwz...
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The irony being that all these publications are owned by the biggest scroungers of them all, tax-dodging billionaires. The shills who scribble in them really are scum of the worst kind.
It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The irony being that all these publications are owned by the biggest scroungers of them all, tax-dodging billionaires. The shills who scribble in them really are scum of the worst kind.
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Do we or do we not live in a country where these awful people got their way at almost every major decision point of the century so far? We do! Is it good? No, it is a national calamity. Are they sorry? No they’re not, they’re *absolutely furious* that they haven’t got more and worse.
November 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Do we or do we not live in a country where these awful people got their way at almost every major decision point of the century so far? We do! Is it good? No, it is a national calamity. Are they sorry? No they’re not, they’re *absolutely furious* that they haven’t got more and worse.
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It doesn’t make any difference whether the public are getting second hand inhalation off the BBC and Radio Norwich, or whether they’re honking it pure straight out of the crackpipe. It is all the same. A great Nordstream horseshit incitement pipeline, blasting 24/7 into every home in the land.
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
It doesn’t make any difference whether the public are getting second hand inhalation off the BBC and Radio Norwich, or whether they’re honking it pure straight out of the crackpipe. It is all the same. A great Nordstream horseshit incitement pipeline, blasting 24/7 into every home in the land.
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It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
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This is very intriguing! Must be something circular - stone circle, henge thing, circular building 😯
'The dig team at the Ness, one of the most important Neolithic sites in the British Isles, are not revealing what they believe the find to be until more work is done.
But they say it is like nothing else ever found at the site – and may not even be Neolithic.'
But they say it is like nothing else ever found at the site – and may not even be Neolithic.'
'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic site
Archaeologists are to resume digging at the site after 3D radar technology uncovered a mystery find.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is very intriguing! Must be something circular - stone circle, henge thing, circular building 😯
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Apple Tree, I
https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28554
https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28554
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Apple Tree, I
https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28554
https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28554
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The #SPIEastro call for papers closes on 3 December! ⌛
Join us in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 5-10 July. Share your latest research in telescope design, instrumentation, and technologies shaping the future of astronomy. 🔭 🛰️
Learn more and submit your abstract here: https://bit.ly/49yIi12
Join us in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 5-10 July. Share your latest research in telescope design, instrumentation, and technologies shaping the future of astronomy. 🔭 🛰️
Learn more and submit your abstract here: https://bit.ly/49yIi12
November 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The #SPIEastro call for papers closes on 3 December! ⌛
Join us in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 5-10 July. Share your latest research in telescope design, instrumentation, and technologies shaping the future of astronomy. 🔭 🛰️
Learn more and submit your abstract here: https://bit.ly/49yIi12
Join us in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 5-10 July. Share your latest research in telescope design, instrumentation, and technologies shaping the future of astronomy. 🔭 🛰️
Learn more and submit your abstract here: https://bit.ly/49yIi12
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Sous-chefs ready for their assignments.
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Sous-chefs ready for their assignments.
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You’ve reminded me that I still have the original Masquerade book from 1979.
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
You’ve reminded me that I still have the original Masquerade book from 1979.
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One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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I adored this book and its glorious illustrations
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I adored this book and its glorious illustrations