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Neil Turner

@neilturner.me.uk

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Millennial Yorkshire queer partially deaf geek dad/husband. Works in university admissions, specialising in PhD and MBA. Likes photography and social media, doesn't like writing in the third person. He/him 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️#LGBwiththeT https://neilturner.me.uk

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · Nov 16

I guess it's time for another #introduction post? I'm Neil, I work in Higher Education and have been *very* online for a long time. Currently a co-chair of LGBTQ+ staff network at work, hearing aid user, interested in transport and live in Yorkshire. Blog at neilturner.me.uk updated every other day.

Hello. - Neil Turner's Blog

I’m Neil Turner, a UK-based queer higher education professional with interests in technology, social media and photography, and this is my presence on the web. I have a blog (here), and I am also on t...

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · 3h

I also can't fully remember our landline number that we've had for 10 years.

Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · 3h

The only phone numbers I know by heart anymore:

My mobile
Parents landline
Work numbers (mine and general)
Live & Kicking (0181 811 8181)
Lombard Direct (0800 2 15000)
Friend from primary school's mum

16 years of being with my wife and I still don't know her number by heart.

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 14h

The only phone numbers I know by heart anymore:

- mine
- my wife’s
- my landline number from when I first moved to LA
- my childhood home
- a Philadelphia community helpline that advertised on local TV with the jingle “CALL for ACT-ION! GREENwood SEVen five THREE one TWO!”

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 16h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 4h

New song: RIYADH

youtu.be/dlhFIrkiDw4?...

Riyadh

YouTube video by Mitch Benn Patreon

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 16h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 23h

The other way of looking at this is that Hackney Council spent £269,950 to get someone to give up their council tenancy

Greg Barradale @gregbarradale.bsky.social · 1d

In 2014, Hackney Council sold a property under Right to Buy for £95,050

In 2021, they bought it back off the ex-tenant for £365k

In ~6 yrs, the council lost £269,950 on a single property

It's not an isolated example. @bigissue.com has uncovered 100+ 'Yo-yo Homes'

www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

How ex-council tenants make over £200k selling homes back to councils

Big Issue investigates the Right To Buy properties sold back to councils for massive profits, just years after being bought at a discount.

www.bigissue.com

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 23h

I've seen people defend bathroom setups like this by saying "yeah but it's only me|my partner living there"

Which is true, right up until you're getting some work done on the house.

Congrats. Now you have to watch your kitchen fitter cracking out a log.

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 1d

regret to inform you all that we have another one

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Check out this 3 bedroom flat for sale on Rightmove

3 bedroom flat for sale in Dolphin House, Smugglers Way, London, SW18 for £1,750,000. Marketed by Knight Frank, Battersea

www.rightmove.co.uk

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Gledster @gledster.bsky.social · 18h

Good job Vodafone hasn't formally merged with 3 to create another mega-provider with multi million customers.

They and the system would look incredibly stupid if this happened after a giant "good for the market, good for customers" merger had gone through.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 19h

Vodafone has stopped working in a huge technical problem

www.independent.co.uk

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 1d

Yesterday, I read that, according to Gen Z, when a Millenial puts "lol" at the end of something, it makes them sound old.

They said nothing about Gen X, but, whatever, lol

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Chris Applegate @chrisapplegate.bsky.social · 1d

A wonderful bit of nominative determinism - the chairman of the Society of Ploughmen is called Stephen Cheeseman

Allesley welcomes Ploughing Championships

Soil sports unearth competitive streak near Coventry.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting polling of 5000 16-40 year olds by J L Partners.

Achieving more 'life milestones' does not make young people much more Conservative
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— Labour
- Reform
— Liberal Democrat
- Green
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Milestones counted as: Having a job, owning a home, living with spouse/partner, being married and having children | JLP

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · 1d

New Post: Windows 10 Extended Security Updates

Windows 10 Extended Security Updates - Neil Turner's Blog

Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 in just two days time. What this means is, if you’re using Windows 10 and don’t take action, you’ll no longer get security updates for your computer. And...

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · 1d

The arbiter has decreed. bsky.app/profile/ianb...

Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 2d

No.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 3d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 2d

One salient point: How have we managed to bring up generations of young men who (1) think this is a good idea, (2) have so little ability to talk to women that they think a machine can do it better, and (3) believe that dating is transactional: input/output, score.

Alex Ingram @nutty.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, dating can be stressful but I can’t think of anything worse than relying on an AI to change how you express yourself.
Mind you, I got so bored on Hinge a while back that I made a poem out of the prompts. Which at least amused me.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 2d

Judy Garland during every song intro.

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · 2d

Wordle 1,576 6/6*

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That could've been a disaster.

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David • 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @discokidnap.bsky.social · 2d

Please do not get too excited that a convicted nonce has been killed or the Bluesky mods will ban you for being mean.

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oooOOOooorbette @orbette.bsky.social · 2d

Just want to make it plainly clear, I absolutely speak ill of the dead. I will happily rap about the dead if the dead in question is a massive fucking piece of shit.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 2d

Ian Watkins’ ex girlfriend reports him multiple times to the police for what he was doing and they treated her as if she was hysterical in every sense of the word. Misogyny is dangerously and deadly, it played a huge role in those poor children’s torment. Hope he went roaring

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 2d

An almost literal milkshake duck appears

Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 2d

ah ffs bsky.app/profile/gemm...

trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 2d

english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

turns out he's a nasty racist btw.

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Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 2d

Britain is rightly proud of its historic architecture.

A sign: THE FIRST (or last)
PUBLIC TOILETS
AS YOU ARRIVE IN (or leave)
THE NORTH OF ENGLAND

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · 2d

Bought a British one on eBay. Was sent a lettuce instead. AAAAAA+++++ for prompt delivery.

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 2d

The dogs in Holland Park are so posh they shit apples.

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Neil Turner @neilturner.me.uk · 2d

Today I learned that there's an author of a series of books who is also called Neil Turner.

I found out because someone emailed me to speak at a literature festival.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 3d

And as ever in @ftweekend.com my restaurant review: I went to Legardo, the new one from Spanish chef Nieves Barragán Mohacho, ate the delicious three week old roast suckling pig and then disappeared down a philosophical rabbit hole about the morality of doing so.

on.ft.com/3VWOnwj

‘Sublime, transcendent . . . and morally complex?’ Jay Rayner reviews Legado, Shoreditch

Beautiful suckling pig served with a side of existential crisis

on.ft.com

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