Friends and enemies of The Infinite Escape Room, We’ve made the difficult, but temporary, decision to take a hiatus from making episodes of The Infinite Escape Room podcast. The reason is that all four of us are in different stages of life than when we started this podcast seven years ago. [1/6]

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000. More than 260,000 will be children. Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

Seventy-five years ago, Britain helped write the European Convention on Human Rights. It protects fairness, liberty and the rule of law. Those attacking it now are not defending Britain. They are trying to free government from accountability. We must defend it.

Community tree planting at The Arboretum, Milton Keynes, on Saturday 22nd November 2025 – planting more than 800 trees www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-...

It's not often you get the opportunity to apply for a job as a Viking

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...

Liza Adamczewski (aka the Accidental Ecologist), artist who has created a series of 'Garden Icons' - mini paintings inspired by local wildlife #womensart

This one is a big deal, in my view. Potentially marks an end to Thatcher-era deregulation of the buses across England. And it's the law as of last night: bylinetimes.com/2025/10/28/a...

Farage: epic grifter

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Airline strands ex-BBC editor, citing Parkinson's www.bbc.com/news/article... Don’t travel with Turkish Airlines- they discriminate against people with Parkinson’s

plato’s man-cave, where prisoners watch shadows on a sweet sixty-five-inch 4k hd tv

Stoke Newington is a good example of the understandable limits of @bgs.ac.uk mapping. Beige polygons are mapped Ice Age sediments, red dot are stone artefacts from the Ice Age. We know Abney Park and Stanford Hill have these deposits, the artefacts help to map their presence.🦣🏺 #FindsFriday

If you're online in 45 mins and are _really_ into virtual reality and / or the Odyssey, tune into ttns.uk where you can hear the full 1 hr 55 mins of me, @dompates.bsky.social and @r3beccaf.bsky.social go through every part of Homer's epic and relate it to VR.

"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral." I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

Just came upon this Tweet from October 2013, when the US government was shut down because Republicans were trying to delay Obama's Affordable Care Act.

It's October and next week the clocks go back as we slowly slide towards the days of shorter light. So we're delighted that next week we'll be launching our Wintering Well Boxes, which are FREE loanable kits containing SAD therapy lamps, activity guides and other resources.

🎓 Curious about the future of learning? Join The @openuniversity.bsky.social ’s H880 course and explore how technology drives education forward. Perfect for leaders, innovators, and lifelong learners! Check it out 👉 www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate... #digitaleducation #OUMAOT @oumaot.bsky.social

I’ve been quiet for much of 2025 as I write Citeog’s next show - if you like cyberpunk, then you’re gonna love WITCHPUNK! We’re so, so close to being ready to go to casting call. Unpaid, unfortunately, but some juicy roles. #castingcall #audiodramacasting #audiodrama

The Open University is seeking a partnership to co.deliver a seminar series on all aspects of Pedagogic Research, Scholarship and Innivation. Let me know if this appeals. @Welspraxis.bsky.social

You can donate 35 USD to add to the costume collection.

'Please give as much information as possible' says the USS pension scheme, restricting me to 1000 characters and forbidding the use of £ signs

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system. Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts Spending is controlled, not spiralling Worklessness is near record lows My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

I help run a discord for audio drama creators! If you make audio drama/fiction podcasts/radio theater/whatever the cool kids are calling it, you're welcome to join! (It doesn't have to be scripted audio fiction either, TTRPG pods I'd love to see ya too) discord.gg/Y4z3FdKG4Z

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

Remember the beautiful, sparkly Book Bench Trail Silver Darlings-inspired Book Bench we had out front all summer? It's being auctioned TONIGHT to raise money for Clan Cancer Support! You can see all the benches, follow the auction live and bid for a bench at: clancancersupport.org/the-book-ben...

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

If anyone is interested I've just updated the myportfolio site with some images from around #MorecambeBay ....a lot of channels, not a lot of sea. Work in progress. michaelhoughton62725.myportfolio.com/channels

I absolutely adore the 404 page for the @financialtimes.com

I remember being told that it would take 193 years to reach legal limits for nitrogen dioxide. I decided this was unacceptable. Thanks to the bold policies we put in place, we've managed to do it in nine years - 184 years earlier than expected.

He’s dead right about that. And walking the byways of Withered Hill might just open another door for you in 30 days time too…

[...] You ask for a poem. And so I write you a tragedy about How a blade of grass Becomes more and more difficult to offer, And about how as you grow older A blade of grass Becomes more difficult to accept. RIP Brian Patten www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Today, two years on from the illegal felling of the Sycamore Gap tree, we're announcing a new, major creative commission. We're looking for ideas on how to breathe new life into the wood saved from the felled tree, and you can get involved. Learn more here: buff.ly/RBYUuRY Photo: John Millar

@mikecollins.bsky.social @markchilds.bsky.social Wondering how/if this fits with Mayer's principles

Trijn van Leemput was a Dutch heroine of the Eighty Year’s War and became a lasting symbol of Utrecht’s resistance against the Spanish. According to legend, in 1577 Trijn led a group of women to begin the demolition of the city’s Vredenburg Castle — hence the pickaxe and the brick.

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

"You must come and see our dugout. It is a treat as we have a wooden floor in it and cover the ceiling and walls with canvas to prevent the mice throwing soil on us." For the rest of this letter from George in a #WW1 #WesternFront #dugout see georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/l...

you know what? fuck it. theremin mode. github.com/samhenrigold...

I was involved in creating a section of this. The report as a whole is based on wide-ranging consultation, as well as extensive review of relevant literature and existing frameworks

I love the fact that my grandfather's regiment contained a pier diver, and that pier divers kept doing crazy things like racing the New Brighton ferry.

Went for a walk round The Open University

Lots of academic papers in there. EC-TEL is in there, LAK is in there, IRRODL is in there. If you're an academic author, it's worth checking.

AI missing the point entirely.

As a welcome last-minute surprise, we now have Harlan Guthrie of @malevolent.ca helping us kick off our streams! If you have any burning questions about Malevolent or any of Harlan’s many other projects, join us at twitch.tv/blackabbeypr... or send your questions to docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Letter from George in the trenches to his seven-year-old brother "The Huns sent a few shells over this afternoon searching for our artillery and smashed our ration cupboard and dirtied our clean plates." georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/l...