Mr. Anderson
@kevglobal.bsky.social
A recovering journalist infinitely curious about our world and working at the intersections of technology, publishing and society. Passionate about wild places, food and music.
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This cartoon gets more and more relevant with every passing day
November 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This cartoon gets more and more relevant with every passing day
Jack o’lantern 2025. From a pattern from Zombie Pumpkins.
October 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Jack o’lantern 2025. From a pattern from Zombie Pumpkins.
I need to repost a picture of one of our cats, Copurrnicus, rather than just posting the neighbour’s cat who has adopted me.
September 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I need to repost a picture of one of our cats, Copurrnicus, rather than just posting the neighbour’s cat who has adopted me.
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The final line of this short 'I knew the shooter' clip really, really needs to be memed and sampled - "This 'internet' shit is seriously no joke" ought to be the defining line of, well, the past three decades really: www.tiktok.com/@1brxnn/vide...
#tylerrobinson #charliekurk
TikTok video by 1brxnn
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September 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The final line of this short 'I knew the shooter' clip really, really needs to be memed and sampled - "This 'internet' shit is seriously no joke" ought to be the defining line of, well, the past three decades really: www.tiktok.com/@1brxnn/vide...
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The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age.
They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
September 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM
The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age.
They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
She gasped so loudly that I almost jumped. Her favourite beer at our local community pub - The Castle Tap. (They are launching a fund to buy it.)
@kevglobal.bsky.social just put this down on the table in front of me and I was so excited that I started the people on the table next to us.
September 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
She gasped so loudly that I almost jumped. Her favourite beer at our local community pub - The Castle Tap. (They are launching a fund to buy it.)
It’s been 20 years since we met. She says she was playing hot or not when one of the cute ones walked right towards her because he was interviewing her about her recently launched digital rights group.
August 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It’s been 20 years since we met. She says she was playing hot or not when one of the cute ones walked right towards her because he was interviewing her about her recently launched digital rights group.
It has been too long since we were in Sheboygan, a place we called home for four wonderful years. And so wonderful to be welcomed back by friends here.
It’s so fabulous to be back in Sheboygan. I’ve really missed it. Lovely evening at the Leavitt Amp gig, then ice cream at the best parlour in the Midwest, South Pier Parlor
August 1, 2025 at 2:56 AM
It has been too long since we were in Sheboygan, a place we called home for four wonderful years. And so wonderful to be welcomed back by friends here.
It is never any fun to have flight delays. But at least we can say we were caught up in the great London radar failure. Will miss a connection in the US and will see if we can get to Chicago tomorrow.
July 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It is never any fun to have flight delays. But at least we can say we were caught up in the great London radar failure. Will miss a connection in the US and will see if we can get to Chicago tomorrow.
@suw.bsky.social and I are enjoying a cool summer evening at our local indie pub, the Castle Tap.
July 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
@suw.bsky.social and I are enjoying a cool summer evening at our local indie pub, the Castle Tap.
Something you don't see (or hear) every day. This plane flew over the house just a while ago. Wow, what a scream its engine made. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havi...
de Havilland Vampire - Wikipedia
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July 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Something you don't see (or hear) every day. This plane flew over the house just a while ago. Wow, what a scream its engine made. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havi...
On a rainy Saturday in York on the wonderful local museum, I tried on an antler headdress found at a Mesolithic village - Star Carr. I think I look like an eccentric pilot. What do you think?
@kevglobal.bsky.social doing his best Frank (Donnie Darko) impersonation.
June 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
On a rainy Saturday in York on the wonderful local museum, I tried on an antler headdress found at a Mesolithic village - Star Carr. I think I look like an eccentric pilot. What do you think?
Me looking very pleased with myself after making a Roman Gin Fizz with @yorkgin.bsky.social Roman Fruit gin we got in York last weekend. Wonderful summer drink with some lovely strawberries from M&S.
@kevglobal.bsky.social made us a Roman Gin Fizz with York Gin's Roman Fruits and some prosecco, and it takes a minute or two to mature, but it's lovely. @yorkgin.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Me looking very pleased with myself after making a Roman Gin Fizz with @yorkgin.bsky.social Roman Fruit gin we got in York last weekend. Wonderful summer drink with some lovely strawberries from M&S.
I hadn’t heard this frame of democratic vs disordered discourse, but it is useful. So much noise is being pumped into the system these days.
In this era, I think it's more useful to sort people by whether they participate in democratic discourse or disordered discourse, rather than left vs right.
Weird how centrists Joe Rogan, Glenn Greenwald and Bari Weiss all solely platform Republican voices, amplify far-right conspiracies and backed Trump in 2024.
May 16, 2025 at 6:11 AM
I hadn’t heard this frame of democratic vs disordered discourse, but it is useful. So much noise is being pumped into the system these days.
As much as I hated doing this, I had to buy a test slot on the black market. I paid more than twice the official rate. Otherwise, there weren’t any test slots in the town I took my training. I can afford this but many can’t. It’s a scandal.
Here's an example of the sort of "deliverism" Labour should adopt. Driving tests. An enormous scandal that is still not fixed. Ministers promised it would be fixed. It hasn't been - and it's causing major problems for many people.
May 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
As much as I hated doing this, I had to buy a test slot on the black market. I paid more than twice the official rate. Otherwise, there weren’t any test slots in the town I took my training. I can afford this but many can’t. It’s a scandal.
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I've written a couple of times, including in a recent book, about about the Global Engagement Center, which worked to expose networks of Russian and Chinese disinformation around the world. As a result, along with many others, I am on what appears to be an enemies list
Scoop:
Trump appointed snr state dept official sought stafff's internal comms w/ journalists, European officials, + critics of Trump for a “Twitter files”-style dump to try + prove that the State Dept's Global Engagement Center censored conservatives.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/01/1...
Trump appointed snr state dept official sought stafff's internal comms w/ journalists, European officials, + critics of Trump for a “Twitter files”-style dump to try + prove that the State Dept's Global Engagement Center censored conservatives.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/01/1...
Senior State Department official sought internal communications with journalists, European officials, and Trump critics
Trump appointee Darren Beattie requested records regarding a large list of high-profile names, organizations, and right-wing buzzwords for a “Twitter files”-style document dump about alleged conservat...
www.technologyreview.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I've written a couple of times, including in a recent book, about about the Global Engagement Center, which worked to expose networks of Russian and Chinese disinformation around the world. As a result, along with many others, I am on what appears to be an enemies list
Watching the footie with @suw.bsky.social Wrexham - we are going up! We are going up! X3
April 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Watching the footie with @suw.bsky.social Wrexham - we are going up! We are going up! X3
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one of the world's top cancer scientists, who works for Harvard, is at risk of deportation to Russia where she might be killed for criticizing Putin, because she allegedly failed to disclose carrying frog embryos at the border. it's upending American medical research: prospect.org/health/2025-...
April 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
one of the world's top cancer scientists, who works for Harvard, is at risk of deportation to Russia where she might be killed for criticizing Putin, because she allegedly failed to disclose carrying frog embryos at the border. it's upending American medical research: prospect.org/health/2025-...
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Well worth reading.
The obvious point here is that some presented "woke" as an existential risk to speech and academic freedom, and some people warned about govt censorship as a bigger threat.
The former were not just wrong but paved the way for govt censorship.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
The obvious point here is that some presented "woke" as an existential risk to speech and academic freedom, and some people warned about govt censorship as a bigger threat.
The former were not just wrong but paved the way for govt censorship.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
Opinion | Naval Academy Censors Ryan Holiday’s Lecture on Censorship (Gift Article)
How a lecture to the U.S. Naval Academy on censorship was censored.
www.nytimes.com
April 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Well worth reading.
The obvious point here is that some presented "woke" as an existential risk to speech and academic freedom, and some people warned about govt censorship as a bigger threat.
The former were not just wrong but paved the way for govt censorship.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
The obvious point here is that some presented "woke" as an existential risk to speech and academic freedom, and some people warned about govt censorship as a bigger threat.
The former were not just wrong but paved the way for govt censorship.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
@suw.bsky.social and I first had Barolo Chinato at a hotel just outside of Bologna (the restaurant at a Holiday Inn if you can believe it). It is high end aromatised wine - the same family of wines as Vermouth. We struggle to find it, but I found a bottle in Perugia. I had to buy it for her birthday
@kevglobal.bsky.social bought me this Barolo Chinato for my birthday, which he found when he was in Italy the other week. We haven't had it for *years*, and I am super excited. The aroma is divine, as is the taste. And it goes amazingly well with chocolate.
April 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
@suw.bsky.social and I first had Barolo Chinato at a hotel just outside of Bologna (the restaurant at a Holiday Inn if you can believe it). It is high end aromatised wine - the same family of wines as Vermouth. We struggle to find it, but I found a bottle in Perugia. I had to buy it for her birthday
Phony Stark says parents are for the weak. I would like to know what he means by the weak. Non-billionaires who can’t pay for top shelf legal teams, or those too poor to buy their way into government?
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Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and
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April 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Phony Stark says parents are for the weak. I would like to know what he means by the weak. Non-billionaires who can’t pay for top shelf legal teams, or those too poor to buy their way into government?
techcrunch.com/2025/04/13/j...
techcrunch.com/2025/04/13/j...
The United States is threatening Italy with 25% on automotive imports due to this non-tariff barrier limiting the sales of American cars because they are too fat for Italian streets. 😉
April 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The United States is threatening Italy with 25% on automotive imports due to this non-tariff barrier limiting the sales of American cars because they are too fat for Italian streets. 😉
Rand Paul warns tariffs could cause GOP ‘decimation.’ He has a point. From the Washington Post.
After Trump’s hero McKinley rolled out tariffs, Republicans lost 50% of their seats in the next election. After the 1930s tariffs, the GOP lost Congress for 60 years, Paul said.
After Trump’s hero McKinley rolled out tariffs, Republicans lost 50% of their seats in the next election. After the 1930s tariffs, the GOP lost Congress for 60 years, Paul said.
April 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Rand Paul warns tariffs could cause GOP ‘decimation.’ He has a point. From the Washington Post.
After Trump’s hero McKinley rolled out tariffs, Republicans lost 50% of their seats in the next election. After the 1930s tariffs, the GOP lost Congress for 60 years, Paul said.
After Trump’s hero McKinley rolled out tariffs, Republicans lost 50% of their seats in the next election. After the 1930s tariffs, the GOP lost Congress for 60 years, Paul said.
Republicans in the US have settled on the sound bite that President Trump's tariff strategy is akin to having your kitchen remodelled. It will be a bit messy and disruptive, but it will be better in the end. My fellow Americans, here is your remodelled kitchen.
April 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Republicans in the US have settled on the sound bite that President Trump's tariff strategy is akin to having your kitchen remodelled. It will be a bit messy and disruptive, but it will be better in the end. My fellow Americans, here is your remodelled kitchen.
My friends and I are mourning Val Kilmer's Chris Night. As nerds in the 80s, we dreamed of growing to become Real Geniuses who used our powers for good. Instead, we have Evil Geniuses in Silicon Valley who hate democracy and whose brains have been poisoned by neo-monarchist nonsense.
April 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
My friends and I are mourning Val Kilmer's Chris Night. As nerds in the 80s, we dreamed of growing to become Real Geniuses who used our powers for good. Instead, we have Evil Geniuses in Silicon Valley who hate democracy and whose brains have been poisoned by neo-monarchist nonsense.