@pigsonthewing.org.uk
Man of many talents-some of them useful. Multiple monomaniac. Author, 'Pink Floyd: The Music & The Mystery'. Also Wikipedia, Wikidata &c. OpenStreetMap. Birds. Birmingham. Open data. FoI. Art. Architecture. History. FRSA. Everything is interesting.
My interactions with national Government services are already far less stressful than with banks, supermarkets or (privatised) utilities.
Anything that makes them more like the latter would be to my detriment.
Trump: Iran must remove the mines. But not by using boats.
I'm old enough to remember when Trump's war on Iran was very complete, pretty much.
@lukaslarge.bsky.social You were posting about garments made from feathers, recently, I think?
This 18-year-old Afghan girl had offers from York and Reading – thanks to Shabana Mahmood, she will now never escape the Taliban | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...
Battle of Evermore?
When warriors of old shouted "no quarter" as they went into battle, it meant that they would show no mercy *nor expect to receive any*
Screenshot of geocoded London Borough of Richmond upon Thames address data visualised in Leaflet with background mapping from OpenStreetMap
First #openaddresses of the month:
London Borough of Richmond upon Thames has released its Council Tax address list as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...
I've geocoded the property locations for maps etc.
#UKhousing #geospatial #localgov #opengov #opendata
The BBC’s job is to “inform, educate, and entertain”? Let’s talk about the middle word.
What follows is the story of what we found in an FOI request (per the Observer) about the Corporation killing off plans to launch an online catalogue and failing to deliver ‘learning for people of all ages’. 🧵
Worst hotel chain.
I won't use them, from bitter past experience
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
I wrote a Wikipedia biography of Clemence "Clem" Acland, a pioneering bird photographer and early radio broadcaster
Thanks to @btobirds.bsky.social for the inspiration.
Great thread; thank you.
I've just written her Wikipedia profile. Did you know she also gave radio talks in the 1920s?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemenc...
Ace!
FYI @openbenches.org @edent.tel @summerbeth.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is what we are dealing with as reference archivists. A complete fabrication of the archive.
www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...
Other issues notwithstanding, the President of the United States complaining about _us_ being late to join a war is a little rich.
New tag for "railway"?
"Taken by Library of Birmingham"
Yeah, right.
Great piece, but your footnote "under the Creative Commons licence" is wrong. There is no single CC licence, but a set of them. In this cafe it's "the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence".
Good colour match
Good luck.
"Fug you, melonfarmer!"
"Fug you, melonfarmer".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar...
(esp. the "Tripartite System" and "Current British grammar schools" sections)
I'm not arguing the toss, I'm stating a fact: your edits will be reverted unless you cite such a source.
They will enjoy choosing your nursing home.
And telling the staff there that your name is Maurice.
That's why its been deleted; the dialogue cannot be cited for a negative, that's "original research".
You will need to find a reliable source (magazine, website, radio programme, etc) that says so, and cite that.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
America's politically correct wars of the past.
Like, you know, the My Lai one and the Abu Ghraib one...
