Phil Barker

@philbarker
24 Followers
142 Following
300 Posts

Trying to share in the open.
Metadata, resource description, open education for work; cycling, and random nonsense for play.

tbh, mostly random nonsense

About mehttps://blogs.pjjk.net/phil/
Work bloghttps://blogs.pjjk.net/phil/blog/
Pronounshe / him
LocationEdinburgh, Scotland
Phil BarkerNov 18, 2022
WikidataNov 18, 2022
Hi from #Wikidata   👋
Phil BarkerNov 17, 2022

If you are able, please consider donating to save Edinburgh's art cinema.

Crowdfunder page: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-filmhouse-cinema

News story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-63652842

Save Filmhouse Cinema - Updates

We aim to save Filmhouse, Edinburgh, by buying the building from the administrators of the defunct CMI parent company. TARGET DATE: 2nd Dec.

Crowdfunder UK
Phil BarkerNov 11, 2022
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKNov 11, 2022

Possession within tent: 2 local lads have been nicked and sent to jail for dealing cannabis and cocaine from a tent in the woods - not far from where I live! TBH they were pushing their luck, there are only 2 wooded areas along that road, both immediately adjacent to high schools which would not have counted in their favour at all in Court..

https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/23119632.ipswich-drug-dealers-fabio-de-souza-george-egen-jailed/

Phil BarkerNov 4, 2022
Shrig 🐌Nov 4, 2022
A serious note on #FollowFriday, heavily inspired by @researchfairy toots today, is that your list of X Type of Person can also be Y person's hitlist for harassment campaigns. Much better to discover people more organically or through themselves and their own hashtags unless the person you're intending to Follow Friday has given their consent to be on an additional-exposure list. 1/2
Phil BarkerNov 4, 2022
Unnamed TNG skant beefcakeNov 4, 2022

Fedi was built by queer/leftie/trans/otherwise marginalized people and that still represents a big chunk of the people who are here

So when a bunch of straight cis people show up

People who can't even imagine what online harassment looks like

And they're publicly publishing lists of who we are without opt-in consent

Even if it's "for benign reasons"

That level of clumsiness is a fucking threat

Phil BarkerOct 28, 2022
dkernohanOct 28, 2022
Hello! I've set up a Wonkhe feed at @Wonkhe
Phil BarkerOct 28, 2022
I think that's the last of the a-list original generation of rock and rollers dead. A good day to listen to Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Sister Rosetta, Elvis, Bo Dudley, Little Richard, Gene Vincent, Howlin' Wolf, Carl Perkins, Beach Boys...
Phil BarkerOct 25, 2022

What a headline. What a story...

Pig vomit toxin key to Martian meteorite mystery
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-63385422

Pig vomit toxin key to Martian meteorite mystery

How a vomitoxin which affects pigs may have helped solve the mystery of a Martian meteorites discovery.

BBC News
Phil BarkerOct 20, 2022
Another day of hitting refresh on the news tab just to see who is running the country.
Phil BarkerOct 19, 2022
Micro SF/F stories by O WestinOct 19, 2022
"Our neighbours to the east have such a small army," the prince said. "Why don't we just invade and take over?"
"Their knights carry swords forged from moon dust."
"So? Are those sharper than the swords of our knights?"
"If they are able to go to the moon, what else can they do?"
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic