Peter Scandrett
@proogs.bsky.social
Stage lighting guy. Likes puns, technical jiggerypokery, sciencey stuff, good friendship and conversations that engage the brain. Cycles a bit. (he/him)
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November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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45 years ago I made a pitch for the Director-General job. Didn’t get it – mind you, I was only 13. But I did get a reply from Ian Trethowan, who was DG at the time. All these years later I’m proud to work for the BBC.
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
45 years ago I made a pitch for the Director-General job. Didn’t get it – mind you, I was only 13. But I did get a reply from Ian Trethowan, who was DG at the time. All these years later I’m proud to work for the BBC.
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Husband immediately said “they will freeze the headline regulated fares that most people can’t afford anyway. Then all the other fares will go up”.
November 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Husband immediately said “they will freeze the headline regulated fares that most people can’t afford anyway. Then all the other fares will go up”.
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Well I never.
Not RPI+1%, not RPI, not even CPI, just 0%...
Not RPI+1%, not RPI, not even CPI, just 0%...
The Chancellor has announced that regulated rail fares will be frozen next year. A huge win for passengers and the economy, and one of our Budget asks!
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Well I never.
Not RPI+1%, not RPI, not even CPI, just 0%...
Not RPI+1%, not RPI, not even CPI, just 0%...
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Rochdale chippy owners Jimmy and Elsie Greenwood with their coal-fired fryer, May 1973.
November 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Rochdale chippy owners Jimmy and Elsie Greenwood with their coal-fired fryer, May 1973.
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Five years and a huge majority to tackle Reform head on and take control of the narrative.
Yet here we are.....🤷♂️
#ukpolitics
Yet here we are.....🤷♂️
#ukpolitics
Yes, our Labour Home Secretary really did just post this on Twitter.
It's not an AI hoax. More's the pity.
It's not an AI hoax. More's the pity.
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Five years and a huge majority to tackle Reform head on and take control of the narrative.
Yet here we are.....🤷♂️
#ukpolitics
Yet here we are.....🤷♂️
#ukpolitics
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I think @entirelyharmless.bsky.social summed up Sex Matters pretty well with this:
"UK media: every time you quote Sex Matters on anything related to trans people, it’s the equivalent of quoting the Flat Earth Society on anything related to space or air travel.
They’re unqualified cranks."
"UK media: every time you quote Sex Matters on anything related to trans people, it’s the equivalent of quoting the Flat Earth Society on anything related to space or air travel.
They’re unqualified cranks."
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I think @entirelyharmless.bsky.social summed up Sex Matters pretty well with this:
"UK media: every time you quote Sex Matters on anything related to trans people, it’s the equivalent of quoting the Flat Earth Society on anything related to space or air travel.
They’re unqualified cranks."
"UK media: every time you quote Sex Matters on anything related to trans people, it’s the equivalent of quoting the Flat Earth Society on anything related to space or air travel.
They’re unqualified cranks."
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NEW: It’s takes a moment for this to really sink in.
Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.
Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
NEW: It’s takes a moment for this to really sink in.
Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.
Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.
This thread is great. The things people do for science. Also, RIP to a good sieve who died for a good cause.
It’s the seventh anniversary of the publication of ‘Everything is awesome: Don’t forget the Lego’ in the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, which told how six “paediatric health-care professionals were recruited to swallow a Lego head” and measure how long it took to ~ahem~ pass through them
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This thread is great. The things people do for science. Also, RIP to a good sieve who died for a good cause.
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My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My favorite piece of content today.
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"Kindness is a language animals never forget."
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Kindness is a language animals never forget."
Surveys and questionnaires need questions about quality of the survey itself. So many of them are terrible. Just done one for Tesco which wasn't bad, but asked for my clubcard number, but it's in my Google wallet which doesn't reveal the number easily. I had to have a good old rummage to find it.
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Surveys and questionnaires need questions about quality of the survey itself. So many of them are terrible. Just done one for Tesco which wasn't bad, but asked for my clubcard number, but it's in my Google wallet which doesn't reveal the number easily. I had to have a good old rummage to find it.
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This
Twenty years is not a probation period, it is a lifetime. If someone has lived here for nearly two decades, worked, paid taxes, raised children, and built roots, then to say “pack your bags, your country is safe now” is not policy, it is cruelty dressed up as process.
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This
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For the astronomers: I found an accretion disk diagram cheese. A quesar.
November 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
For the astronomers: I found an accretion disk diagram cheese. A quesar.
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And God said I will send them without wings so no one suspects they are angels 👼 🐾🐶❤️💙
October 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
And God said I will send them without wings so no one suspects they are angels 👼 🐾🐶❤️💙
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A High Court judge has forced a six-year-old girl to keep the surname of the man who raped her mother. We think this is an outrage and are putting together a legal team so D's mother can take her case to the European Court of Human Rights.
But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
The law has failed a woman and her child – fight back
No survivor should face harm from the very system that is meant to protect them. No child should have to carry an abuser’s name. It’s time to change the system.
goodlawproject.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
A High Court judge has forced a six-year-old girl to keep the surname of the man who raped her mother. We think this is an outrage and are putting together a legal team so D's mother can take her case to the European Court of Human Rights.
But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
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A cycling influencer nominated for a list of top 100 women cyclists said she has declined the honour due to the decision not to include trans women.
Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻
Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻
Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out - BBC News
Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A cycling influencer nominated for a list of top 100 women cyclists said she has declined the honour due to the decision not to include trans women.
Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻
Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻
OK, I tried AI to give it another chance. I asked it 'In what year was a first class stamp 20p?' and it said it'd never been 20p (it was, in 1989). I tried again, and it said "In 1990, a first-class stamp cost 22.47p" which is also nonsense.
How on earth is this taking over the world? Slop, junk.
How on earth is this taking over the world? Slop, junk.
November 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
OK, I tried AI to give it another chance. I asked it 'In what year was a first class stamp 20p?' and it said it'd never been 20p (it was, in 1989). I tried again, and it said "In 1990, a first-class stamp cost 22.47p" which is also nonsense.
How on earth is this taking over the world? Slop, junk.
How on earth is this taking over the world? Slop, junk.
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Is it milk?
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Is it milk?
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
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Awkward advertising placement ...
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Awkward advertising placement ...
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So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?
MBS claims the murder of Khashoggi was "a huge mistake and we're our doing our best that this doesn't happen again."
November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?
I think about the only things I go out of my way to watch on telly (as broadcast, mostly) are Bake Off, Taskmaster and Doctor Who. Followed possibly by Only Connect.
I have loads of things to catch up on, too. I don't know where people find the time to consume box sets and films!
I have loads of things to catch up on, too. I don't know where people find the time to consume box sets and films!
November 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I think about the only things I go out of my way to watch on telly (as broadcast, mostly) are Bake Off, Taskmaster and Doctor Who. Followed possibly by Only Connect.
I have loads of things to catch up on, too. I don't know where people find the time to consume box sets and films!
I have loads of things to catch up on, too. I don't know where people find the time to consume box sets and films!
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Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"