Katy Newbold

Mother, grandmother, sometime IT freak. Never take anything at face value - always question. What seems to be obvious is probably not the right answer.

[🟢 Dave @void_if_removed]

@glosswitch In which a humble man endures the great burden of leisure: https://t.co/prRsbciERW

[Katy Newbold @NewboldKaty]

@QcWynter A different calibration might have been required in Yorkshire, where "not bad" is high praise indeed.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

My favorite capture of the night: The moment the moon's shadow split the sunset in half, leaving a diamond ring in the sky and a breathtaking view. I call it "Shadows on the Balearic Sea".

I'll have prints available for this one linked in my bio for a few days only.

[Katy Newbold @NewboldKaty]

@thefempire50 You lost them at "unless you think".

[Katy Newbold @NewboldKaty]

@intel_lady I love his tidy desk, but I there really should be a little collection of pens, pencils and stationery items carefully positioned and ordered by size.

[feministsinglemum @rachelsfletcher]

To ensure my scold’s bridle is fastened tightly my ex-colleagues and friends from work are now banned from keeping in touch with me on account of my dismissal for gross misconduct. Some have had to send goodbye messages today.

[Katy Newbold @NewboldKaty]

@TwisterFilm She seems to be describing herself. Having risen to the top in the world of Academia she would do well to explore her own psychopathy.

Unfortunately her views are prevalent, very much to the detriment of our education system.

[Katy Newbold @NewboldKaty]

@andrewdoyle_com Hmm. Dropped the ball?

Sounds more like the ball was out of play, but they decided to pick it up and run with it, while the Ref turned a blind eye.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Dr. Gregory here to remind you that if you watch the upcoming solar eclipse, make sure you’re wearing appropriately rated safety glasses for anything less than 100% totality.

9 days until totality. I’ll be traveling to the center line to hopefully bring you a unique photo!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A council banned its own county's meat and dairy to cut food miles, then served flown-in pomegranate.

Oxfordshire County Council voted it through in 2021, on a motion from Green councillor Ian Middleton, for the health of our planet and our people. All catered council events, entirely plant-based. No beef from the county's fields. No milk from the county's cows. Nothing that had ever met a farmer.

The photos of the inaugural vegan lunch, posted by the man who proposed it, showed melon, mango, kiwi and pomegranate.

Pomegranate. In Oxfordshire. In a county so drenched in dairy you could raise a heifer in the car park, the planet was saved with a fruit that has never once ripened within nine hundred miles of Banbury.

The council later admitted it also serves imported oranges and bananas, since there have been occasions, particularly in the winter months, when food has been sourced from further afield.

Further afield. In winter. There is a cow eight miles away, standing in the December drizzle, producing milk, and the answer arrived by aeroplane.

Then the Countryside Alliance checked, and found the vegan lunches cost the taxpayer more than the meals they replaced, and that the council could not say where any of the food came from. Not wouldn't. Couldn't. The authority lecturing a county of farmers about supply chains had lost track of its own.

The mango came four thousand miles to make a point about distance.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

I left a video camera WAY too close to the launchpad.

My first time capturing a launch in high resolution video. Definitely exceeded my expectations! This was captured at 120fps, interpolated 2x, stabilized, and played back at 30fps.

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

Colour films are incredibly rare in the 1920s, which makes this 26-part travelogue of the UK truly exceptional. Filmed in colour in 1924 by Claude Friese-Greene using his father's own bespoke colour film process, it utilised an ingenious camera with red and green spinning filters. The full colour travelogue runs for 180 minutes.
The pioneering film tours the UK just 5 years after the end of WWI. In this preview, it visits Aberdeen, Liverpool, Cardiff, Stirling and London amongst others.
I've edited this little trailer for you using the jaunty title music from the 'Jeeves & Wooster' TV series. A section of the travelogue (running 64 minutes) is available on a DVD entitled "The Open Road", restored by the BFI.

(Claude Friese-Greene's famous grandson is the English musician, songwriter, and record producer Tim Friese-Greene, best known the new-wave/synth-pop band Talk Talk)

[Katy Newbold @NewboldKaty]

@iwontwheesht @tribunaltweets But they haven't actually got any good examples, have they 🤷‍♀️
It's just relying on a scattergun approach.

[Katy Newbold @NewboldKaty]

@tribunaltweets So we have the HR EDI team, inclusive practice teams and the wider EDI community completely absorbed with issues arising from the "culture of networks and community groups".

Does anyone do any actual work?

[Dr Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2]

Before the Cass Review was published, I had the opportunity to talk to Dr Cass about my research. I outlined how young children think that putting on a dress turns a boy into a girl and the relevance of this to younger children who think they have changed sex.

[Katy Newbold @NewboldKaty]

@roseveniceallan Well, I cannot see why we should have much faith in "the clinicians looking after her".

They don't seem to have been of much benefit to this poor child so far.

[Katy Newbold @NewboldKaty]

@KonstantinKisin The Labour Party have to believe it will make things better because they hold Keir Starmer responsible.
They can't see it's their policies causing the problems.

The only hope is that at least some things could be improved by not having a "forensic" human rights lawyer in charge.

[Katy Newbold @NewboldKaty]

Most people will have no idea about this.

Read it.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

In July 1985, over a billion people watched Live Aid.

Months earlier, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie had written "We Are the World." All of it was a response to a famine in Ethiopia.

Almost nobody remembers who actually caused the famine. 🧵

[Katy Newbold @NewboldKaty]

@fearnley_n https://t.co/1PyEAWjbZf

[Katy Newbold @NewboldKaty]

@francesweetman This is not a screen shot of the survey, though it is similar to a version of Q6.

There were 35 questions, including whether you would support age restrictions. Sadly 89% were in favour.

It's more of an issue about the self selected participants.

https://t.co/1PyEAWjbZf