John Speakman
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Academic/health data and technology. Views mine. He/him. See also @speakman.bsky.social.
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Joined April 2008
‘Abandoned - But Drawing What’s Left’ is an apt description for much of Peter Brook’s work. The old farmhouse, with its TEAS sign still visible, appears overwhelmed by the vast snow-covered landscape, featureless save for the traditional network of now broken-down drystone walls.
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Absolute peach by the hugely talented, Anthony Marn from October 2023 🍻 Two Drunks And The Last Bus Home
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Rush Limbaugh died 4 years ago today. This is a perfect description of his life’s accomplishments.
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The problem is people like Reeves (read the political establishment) look at the economy as a giant machine with inputs and outputs and don't have any time for the details of little people. As I get older I realise its more intelligent to say: pubs shouldn't close.
The UK could lose up to 9000 pubs. From April, pubs with a rateable value of £100,000, will see business rates jump by £19,000 per year. They will need to sell an additional: 60,000 pints a year. Thats 1200 pints a week. Thats 170 extra pints a day. Thats before rising energy
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In ‘February Fill Dyke in Wigan’, from Peter Brook’s ‘Twelve Months of the Year’ series of lithographs, it is the minutiae: the milk bottles on the step, the letter in the door and the aspidistra in the window which catch the eye and lift the image. (Published by Agnew’s in 1978)
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The thunder in nyc rn is crazy
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Snow scenes are often magical, not so ‘Hannah Hauxwell Last Winter’, one of Peter Brook’s bleakest of some 50 portrayals of the Baldersdale farmer living and working alone at Low Birk Hatt, a truly cold painting with no sign of the usual touch of colour or brightness in the sky.
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Support us on #GivingTuesday ❤️Help provide #waterfront experiences all year 🌊 daily #TankerTime, visiting vessels like CLEARWATER and MAIDEN, #resiliency flood prep, school programs, #RedHook WaterStories virtual museum, African American #Maritime Heritage #afammh, advocacy
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Mathematics, physics, astronomy. Pringles are examples of hyperbolic paraboloids, one model for the shape of our universe. Image source: https://t.co/8iTp2DzlIL
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For Waterfall Wednesday we're back in Wensleydale and this classic view of Lower Whitfield Gill Force. If you've never visited these falls, they're just a short walk out of Askrigg village 🚶♀️🚶♂️ 📸 Wendy McDonnell | #YorkshireDales #WaterfallWednesday #Wensleydale
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Leeds 675260. Sigh.
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Great day for looking out of the window with a cup of tea and your hand on your hip.
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