Christopher Lydon 🏳️🌈
@daschrislydon.bsky.social
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?
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
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?
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?
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
It’s _possible_ that lip balm I just finished (Blistex MedPlus, fact fans) was opened ten years ago…. Value for money!
Accidentally made a delicious stir fry, with random bits I need to use up from the fridge.
#delicious
#delicious
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Accidentally made a delicious stir fry, with random bits I need to use up from the fridge.
#delicious
#delicious
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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.
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.
Fuck me, it would be nice if just one of them back in the affirmative.
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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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
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
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
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
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...
Can you help us over the line??
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stories-on...
November 23, 2025 at 6:13 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...
Can you help us over the line??
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stories-on...
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
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
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...
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
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...
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...
Oh yeah it didn’t fit but it was delicious.
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Oh yeah it didn’t fit but it was delicious.
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…
Constantly. On loop.
Beautiful — but I do tire of this motif…
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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…
Constantly. On loop.
Beautiful — but I do tire of this motif…
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
Probably should get around to watching that Making of Do They Know it’s Christmas Documentary that was on last November.
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
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
*grabs a broom*
November 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
*grabs a broom*
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
To the websites that don’t let me use my text replacement shortcut for my email address in your login form: f*ck you.
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
#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 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
#wefearchange
I suppose I’m trying yet another crumpet recipe tomorrow, then.
Damn reels.
Damn reels.
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I suppose I’m trying yet another crumpet recipe tomorrow, then.
Damn reels.
Damn reels.
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
#growth
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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
#growth
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
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.
Oh, now, *these* crumpets!
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Oh, now, *these* crumpets!
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....
Then years later, I learned the trick that the dot can be ANYWHERE....
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 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....
Then years later, I learned the trick that the dot can be ANYWHERE....
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
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
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
Plant Biology c.org/d8PQr9Rd9Z
Food Science & Nutrition c.org/Tp7gQBgYwD
Agriculture c.org/CDkdk95LxZ
Microbiology c.org/YXLh57RZyy
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
c.org/VPhzVVrHPS
Please consider signing
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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
c.org/VPhzVVrHPS
Please consider signing
Not good all round!!
Plant Biology and Agriculture courses too.
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Not good all round!!
Is Traitors supposed to make you cry?
November 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Is Traitors supposed to make you cry?