Conor Mc Bride
@pigworker.bsky.social
they/them
I'm Conor. I'm a nonbinary
Computer Scientist. God loves irony.
Femme presenting apartheid target. Cardiac outpatient. Hatstand owner. Tomato grower. Doctor Who fan.
@[email protected] on fedi
I'm Conor. I'm a nonbinary
Computer Scientist. God loves irony.
Femme presenting apartheid target. Cardiac outpatient. Hatstand owner. Tomato grower. Doctor Who fan.
@[email protected] on fedi
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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The only white Americans who are angry about immigration today are people who have forgotten and lost touch with their own immigrant past.
November 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The only white Americans who are angry about immigration today are people who have forgotten and lost touch with their own immigrant past.
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The best description of the Telegraph you'll read this week.
I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
November 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The best description of the Telegraph you'll read this week.
My ETA in Euston is 1719, so if you fancy a pint in the Euston Tap, hit me up.
November 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
My ETA in Euston is 1719, so if you fancy a pint in the Euston Tap, hit me up.
QPK-GLC-EUS-TOM-CBG
November 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
QPK-GLC-EUS-TOM-CBG
I'm alive and well and drinking a cup of coffee in Queen's Park (Glasgow). Gotta get ma butt to Cambridge. The trains look...entertaining. At the moment, it looks like I'll be bouncing off London. It would take very little to persuade me to the Euston Tap, when the time comes.
November 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I'm alive and well and drinking a cup of coffee in Queen's Park (Glasgow). Gotta get ma butt to Cambridge. The trains look...entertaining. At the moment, it looks like I'll be bouncing off London. It would take very little to persuade me to the Euston Tap, when the time comes.
As an Ulsterperson, I don't think our voices are heard on British telly nearly enough. Those of us you do see, you hear hiding behind RP. I miss John Cole.
Starting a campaign to bring back the On The Record crocodile
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
As an Ulsterperson, I don't think our voices are heard on British telly nearly enough. Those of us you do see, you hear hiding behind RP. I miss John Cole.
People choose names for organisations to cover up what they are afraid they are not. I call this phenomenon DDR, after the Deutsche Demokratische Republik. I'm looking forward to what Your Party choose. Will they be Popular or United or both?
November 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
People choose names for organisations to cover up what they are afraid they are not. I call this phenomenon DDR, after the Deutsche Demokratische Republik. I'm looking forward to what Your Party choose. Will they be Popular or United or both?
Do *you* support Your Party? If so, I hope your basic dignity is upheld by your choices. I don't have that luxury, because I'm trans. If you want a politics of dignity, your party is not Your Party.
November 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Do *you* support Your Party? If so, I hope your basic dignity is upheld by your choices. I don't have that luxury, because I'm trans. If you want a politics of dignity, your party is not Your Party.
The single thing Your Party had to do to escape from the Labour-Tory-Reform quagmire was to be explicitly trans positive.
They failed to do that, but they also failed to retain the people they were hoping to please by being nasty to the transes.
What utter shitwits.
They failed to do that, but they also failed to retain the people they were hoping to please by being nasty to the transes.
What utter shitwits.
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The single thing Your Party had to do to escape from the Labour-Tory-Reform quagmire was to be explicitly trans positive.
They failed to do that, but they also failed to retain the people they were hoping to please by being nasty to the transes.
What utter shitwits.
They failed to do that, but they also failed to retain the people they were hoping to please by being nasty to the transes.
What utter shitwits.
I see Your Party. I see rats fighting in a sack.
I see Your Party. I'm trans and I feel unsafe.
I see Your Party. Now I don't.
I see Your Party. I'm trans and I feel unsafe.
I see Your Party. Now I don't.
November 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I see Your Party. I see rats fighting in a sack.
I see Your Party. I'm trans and I feel unsafe.
I see Your Party. Now I don't.
I see Your Party. I'm trans and I feel unsafe.
I see Your Party. Now I don't.
I see Your Party. I run away.
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I see Your Party. I run away.
I started this year rewatching the BBC Television Gormenghast for the first time in many moons…
Out walking tonight with an older radio version by Brian Sibley before it evaporates from Sounds.
It’s hard not to imagine this Steerpike in a wingéd jockstrap of the period.
Out walking tonight with an older radio version by Brian Sibley before it evaporates from Sounds.
It’s hard not to imagine this Steerpike in a wingéd jockstrap of the period.
November 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It's to be Coronation Chicken, is it?
"Coronation": the latest thinking on how to overcome the fact the Labour membership would never choose Wesley.
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
It's to be Coronation Chicken, is it?
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🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
Announcing Unison 1.0
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.
www.unison-lang.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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Yesterday's Paddy Kingsland feature went down well, so here's the huge Radiophonic Workshop feature I wrote for @electronicsound.bsky.social in 2023. I spoke to Paddy, Roger Limb, Dick Mills, Peter Howell, Brian Hodgson and Mark Ayres and joyousness abounds.
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2024/11/19/t...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2024/11/19/t...
The Radiophonic Workshop – Adventures In Time And Space
“I first came across Desmond Briscoe on the moon!” laughs Dick Mills. “Plot On The Moon was a radio serial about two mad scientists who went to the moon and – as you do – fell in love with a Moon M…
hauntedgeneration.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Yesterday's Paddy Kingsland feature went down well, so here's the huge Radiophonic Workshop feature I wrote for @electronicsound.bsky.social in 2023. I spoke to Paddy, Roger Limb, Dick Mills, Peter Howell, Brian Hodgson and Mark Ayres and joyousness abounds.
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2024/11/19/t...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2024/11/19/t...
When they invent AADHD, we really will be fucked.
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
When they invent AADHD, we really will be fucked.
CAMBRIDGE (England) people, I'll be in town for the first TWO weeks of December.
South East of England people, I'll have a loose weekend in the middle in which trips from Cambridge are possible.
South East of England people, I'll have a loose weekend in the middle in which trips from Cambridge are possible.
November 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
CAMBRIDGE (England) people, I'll be in town for the first TWO weeks of December.
South East of England people, I'll have a loose weekend in the middle in which trips from Cambridge are possible.
South East of England people, I'll have a loose weekend in the middle in which trips from Cambridge are possible.
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Happy Doctor Who day! To celebrate here is the greatest of Doctor Who images: Verity Lambert using a Mechanoid as a lighter.
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Happy Doctor Who day! To celebrate here is the greatest of Doctor Who images: Verity Lambert using a Mechanoid as a lighter.
Buildings. I reckon buildings are pretty cool.
It's Doctor Who Day, so let's spend some time celebrating anti-gravity nonsense.
November 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Buildings. I reckon buildings are pretty cool.
It's Doctor Who Day, so let's spend some time celebrating anti-gravity nonsense.
November 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
It's Doctor Who Day, so let's spend some time celebrating anti-gravity nonsense.
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"gender ideology is anti-gravity nonsense that only the desperate, the deluded and the double-dealing grifters still believe": just in case you were still wondering quite how consumed with hatred are Hadley Freeman and The Sunday Times.
November 23, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"gender ideology is anti-gravity nonsense that only the desperate, the deluded and the double-dealing grifters still believe": just in case you were still wondering quite how consumed with hatred are Hadley Freeman and The Sunday Times.
I gather Trump has just made his horse a consul.
November 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I gather Trump has just made his horse a consul.