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Christopher Lydon 🏳️‍🌈
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Music and stuff. 🇪🇺 (He/him)
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In this day & age, technologically... this is weak.
Having submitted some details to someone, as a vital part of a financial process...

"If you do not hear from the XYZ Team within 5 working days, this means your details have been approved."

Well.... why can't I get a confirmation message?
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It’s _possible_ that lip balm I just finished (Blistex MedPlus, fact fans) was opened ten years ago…. Value for money!
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Accidentally made a delicious stir fry, with random bits I need to use up from the fridge.

#delicious
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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I've lost track of how many applications I've submitted for various things this calendar year. Perhaps note quite into double digits yet, but considering it's only March.... thatsalot.

And fuck all of them are paying out, so far.

Bastards.
Submitted two (2) funding applications today.

Fuck me, it would be nice if just one of them back in the affirmative.
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
3 days left on our Crowdfunder for #StoriesOnTheLoose - we’re at 91%.

Just £65 to go!

It’s an "all-or-nothing" Crowdfunder, so we need to hit £750 by Thurs 27 Nov, 11:59pm...

Help us bring music & storytelling to libraries in 2026!
👉 crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stories-on-the-loose
Stories on the Loose!
To celebrate reading as a door to adventure — taking stories, songs & conversation on the road across Britain.
crowdfunder.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
We’re super close to our target for our library/community tour project for #NationalYearOfReading

Can you help us over the line??

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stories-on...
November 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Reposted by Christopher Lydon 🏳️‍🌈
Geology and palaeobiology at the University of Leicester are under threat, with at least 14 staff expected to be made redundant. Support them, their postdocs, and their students by signing this petition: c.org/SK8Xm8dhqK
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
c.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Reposted by Christopher Lydon 🏳️‍🌈
This isn’t “efficiency” it’s an ideological shift towards a Little England university system.

Nottingham is set to become the only Russell Group university with no modern languages or music degrees.

48 courses on the line. We’re fighting it.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees
Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Oh yeah it didn’t fit but it was delicious.
I fear this v tall crumpet won’t fit in my toaster.

#ooer
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The current music perpetually haunting me right now? “Stranger in Paradise” from Kismet. (Actually by Borodin, originally.)

Constantly. On loop.

Beautiful — but I do tire of this motif…
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Probably should get around to watching that Making of Do They Know it’s Christmas Documentary that was on last November.
November 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I’m standing against Farage’s politics. Join the Never Nigel movement and help show that Reform UK isn’t the answer: hopenothate.org.uk/are-you-a-never-nigel/ @hopenothate.org.uk
Take the Pledge: “I’ll never vote for Nigel Farage”
Join thousands across Britain taking the Never Nigel Pledge. Say no to hate and division and help stop Reform UK from tearing apart our communities. Let's show there is strength in standing together f...
hopenothate.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
*grabs a broom*
November 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
To the websites that don’t let me use my text replacement shortcut for my email address in your login form: f*ck you.
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I have only just realised the bl**dy Government-enforced change to my accounting practice as a self-employed person - ie an unexpected change to previously consistent events! - resulted in a six-month delay to me actually achieving the task of submitting my tax return.

#wefearchange
Having started work on my tax return literally 3 days ago I finally, at 5am on the third day, have got to the point where I feel like I can start filling in the f*cking form.
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I suppose I’m trying yet another crumpet recipe tomorrow, then.

Damn reels.
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Nine-year-old me would be horrified to hear that 41-year-old me has not only gladly made a homemade leek and potato soup, but is also absolutely delighting in eating it.

#growth
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Having started work on my tax return literally 3 days ago I finally, at 5am on the third day, have got to the point where I feel like I can start filling in the f*cking form.
November 14, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Oh, now, *these* crumpets!
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
For many, many years, I've thought of my Google username as having a dot in it, between my last name and my first name. Because that's what I chose when I signed up. (Someone else already had the other way around.)

Then years later, I learned the trick that the dot can be ANYWHERE....
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Reposted by Christopher Lydon 🏳️‍🌈
Links to petitions for the suspended courses in Biosciences, University of Nottingham:

Plant Biology c.org/d8PQr9Rd9Z
Food Science & Nutrition c.org/Tp7gQBgYwD
Agriculture c.org/CDkdk95LxZ
Microbiology c.org/YXLh57RZyy
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Reposted by Christopher Lydon 🏳️‍🌈
My students have set up a petition to persuade the University of Nottingham not to close our Plant Biology BSc course
c.org/VPhzVVrHPS

Please consider signing
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Not good all round!!
November 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Is Traitors supposed to make you cry?
November 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM