CJ Bill
@cjbill.bsky.social
Tester techie type at, ahem, a major UK media corporation, cyclist, reader of sci-fi and prehistory, dad. Occasional conference speaker on test philosophy, management and all things UAT
Looking forward to shouting into the void on a new platform
Looking forward to shouting into the void on a new platform
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🚨 BREXIT BUDGET🚨
"And Finally, Madam Deputy speaker, we are ramping up sanctions on Russia and we are freezing known Russian assets."
"But let me be clear. I don't actually mean the Honourable Member for Clacton."
"And Finally, Madam Deputy speaker, we are ramping up sanctions on Russia and we are freezing known Russian assets."
"But let me be clear. I don't actually mean the Honourable Member for Clacton."
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🚨 BREXIT BUDGET🚨
"And Finally, Madam Deputy speaker, we are ramping up sanctions on Russia and we are freezing known Russian assets."
"But let me be clear. I don't actually mean the Honourable Member for Clacton."
"And Finally, Madam Deputy speaker, we are ramping up sanctions on Russia and we are freezing known Russian assets."
"But let me be clear. I don't actually mean the Honourable Member for Clacton."
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It was a three-man team that took the Grok hardpoint that day, and two of us were just there to guard the poet.Whistler was a sonnet slinger fresh from the Guatemalan meter wars, still waking up with the taste of a bloody metonym on his tongue.
November 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It was a three-man team that took the Grok hardpoint that day, and two of us were just there to guard the poet.Whistler was a sonnet slinger fresh from the Guatemalan meter wars, still waking up with the taste of a bloody metonym on his tongue.
Just asked someone on the train if they didn't headphones as the video on their phone was intrusive. They don't and turned it down and now I feel like a bully...
November 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Just asked someone on the train if they didn't headphones as the video on their phone was intrusive. They don't and turned it down and now I feel like a bully...
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National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign.
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
Voting results from the AGM
Read about the National Trust's 2025 Annual General Meeting and the results from the day.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign.
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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Just added to my Etsy shop:
🌿final small print run of my '26 calendars
🪶my handmade recycled silver jewellery designs (incl intricate casts of real flowers)
🌸limited ed'n mounted art prints of my photos
💐tiny posy mental health kits
Last orders for📮 in time for🌲: 19 Nov
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
🌿final small print run of my '26 calendars
🪶my handmade recycled silver jewellery designs (incl intricate casts of real flowers)
🌸limited ed'n mounted art prints of my photos
💐tiny posy mental health kits
Last orders for📮 in time for🌲: 19 Nov
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Just added to my Etsy shop:
🌿final small print run of my '26 calendars
🪶my handmade recycled silver jewellery designs (incl intricate casts of real flowers)
🌸limited ed'n mounted art prints of my photos
💐tiny posy mental health kits
Last orders for📮 in time for🌲: 19 Nov
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
🌿final small print run of my '26 calendars
🪶my handmade recycled silver jewellery designs (incl intricate casts of real flowers)
🌸limited ed'n mounted art prints of my photos
💐tiny posy mental health kits
Last orders for📮 in time for🌲: 19 Nov
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
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“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
1
NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
2
[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
3
NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
4
MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
5
NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
6
NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
7
NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
8
KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
9
[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
10
MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
11
[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
12
[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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Open Letter From a Ukrainian Anarchist to An Opponent of Aid to Ukraine
syg.ma/@media-resis...
syg.ma/@media-resis...
Galina Rymbu, An Open Letter to Zarah Sultana
An anarcho-feminist and poet from Ukraine delivers a personal address to the leader of Your Party, inviting reflection on what contemporary anti-fascism and genuine strategies of solidarity might look...
syg.ma
October 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Open Letter From a Ukrainian Anarchist to An Opponent of Aid to Ukraine
syg.ma/@media-resis...
syg.ma/@media-resis...
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playing ‘Guess Who?’ with ICE
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
playing ‘Guess Who?’ with ICE
I now have a BBC radio studio to do some testing in and outside it are bound copies of every Radio Times published...
It's fantastic!!!
It's fantastic!!!
October 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I now have a BBC radio studio to do some testing in and outside it are bound copies of every Radio Times published...
It's fantastic!!!
It's fantastic!!!
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Administrators: are your faculty texting about cloud outages? Know the warning signs:
LMAO: Learning Management (systems) Are Out
LOL: Learning OffLine
ICYMI: In Canvas, You Missed It
NBD: No Blackboard, Dismissed
OMG: Oops, My Grading!
LMAO: Learning Management (systems) Are Out
LOL: Learning OffLine
ICYMI: In Canvas, You Missed It
NBD: No Blackboard, Dismissed
OMG: Oops, My Grading!
October 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Administrators: are your faculty texting about cloud outages? Know the warning signs:
LMAO: Learning Management (systems) Are Out
LOL: Learning OffLine
ICYMI: In Canvas, You Missed It
NBD: No Blackboard, Dismissed
OMG: Oops, My Grading!
LMAO: Learning Management (systems) Are Out
LOL: Learning OffLine
ICYMI: In Canvas, You Missed It
NBD: No Blackboard, Dismissed
OMG: Oops, My Grading!
Just been talking about 90 Belgian gabba to a colleague, funny old day!
Bonzai by Thunderball FWIW
youtu.be/05deyefkRak?...
Bonzai by Thunderball FWIW
youtu.be/05deyefkRak?...
Bonzai Records - Thunderball - Bonzai Channel One
YouTube video by Mascaramama
youtu.be
October 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Just been talking about 90 Belgian gabba to a colleague, funny old day!
Bonzai by Thunderball FWIW
youtu.be/05deyefkRak?...
Bonzai by Thunderball FWIW
youtu.be/05deyefkRak?...
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Releasing some Patreon comics over the next few days.
August 26, 2023 at 4:35 PM
Releasing some Patreon comics over the next few days.
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From Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s Defence Committee:
September 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
From Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s Defence Committee:
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The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it.
ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.
Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.
(c/o Caroline Codsi)
ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.
Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.
(c/o Caroline Codsi)
August 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it.
ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.
Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.
(c/o Caroline Codsi)
ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.
Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.
(c/o Caroline Codsi)
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My second novel, 1983, is now out in paperback. Roscoe and I have decided to give away signed copies to 4 randomly selected people who repost this and pop a reply below.
You might like it if you like:
The old, fun idea of The Future
D&D
Nottinghamshire
Robots
Imaginative children
Aliens
Mining
You might like it if you like:
The old, fun idea of The Future
D&D
Nottinghamshire
Robots
Imaginative children
Aliens
Mining
August 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
My second novel, 1983, is now out in paperback. Roscoe and I have decided to give away signed copies to 4 randomly selected people who repost this and pop a reply below.
You might like it if you like:
The old, fun idea of The Future
D&D
Nottinghamshire
Robots
Imaginative children
Aliens
Mining
You might like it if you like:
The old, fun idea of The Future
D&D
Nottinghamshire
Robots
Imaginative children
Aliens
Mining
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North American Animals: How They Have Changed…
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
August 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
North American Animals: How They Have Changed…
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
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Learning curves should not be something you can fall off.
August 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Learning curves should not be something you can fall off.
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I thought this sounded familiar and it turns out it literally just found an old George RR Martin quote and wrote a short story out of it:
August 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I thought this sounded familiar and it turns out it literally just found an old George RR Martin quote and wrote a short story out of it:
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Really badass graffiti spotted in town
July 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Really badass graffiti spotted in town
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Withholding judgement until Derek Guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social weighs in.
Chimps are sticking grass and sticks in their butts, seemingly as a fashion trend | CBC Radio
A group of chimpanzees in Zambia have resurrected an old fashion trend with a surprising new twist.
www.cbc.ca
July 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Withholding judgement until Derek Guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social weighs in.