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2026-02-12 12:01:54 UTC

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the BBC has form on this - South Cambs DC has used a four-day week to solve a really bad recruitment and retention problem with positive results, but the article spends most of its time trying to find negative voxpops from people who don't know anything about it:
BBC News - Can South Cambridgeshire council do five days' work in four? - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0l97gnpyd5o?app-referrer=search

2026-01-26 18:32:58 UTC

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on the same theme, Ed Zitron has just done a piece on how enshittification has moved up to the next step into the stock markets. He hasn't mastered the art of succinct writing but TL;DR - the US stock bubble is propped up by tech stocks and none of the analysts have any motivation to be honest with their analyses. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/

2026-01-17 23:26:23 UTC

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personally (again, UK so this might look different locally), I've watched this building for decades. Bush v Gore. Gerrymandering and voter discouragement. Education decisions in red states. Militarisation of the police. Everything Mitch McConnell ever touched. Citizens United.
Self-correcting will take a heck of a lot more than voting in a Democrat (otherwise Biden would have been enough). It will take decades of work and electeds willing to make radical change.

2026-01-17 19:41:58 UTC

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Amanda's Mild Takes on YouTube is very clear on this. https://youtube.com/shorts/cIHkd0YutTA
She points out in another one that even when Hawaii had martial law after Pearl Harbour, elections still happened.

2026-01-17 19:32:23 UTC

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not only that but from what I understand don't individual states administer their own elections? So Trump doesn't have power over how they're held. The controls he has are things like USPS (making postal voting harder) and terrorising people from showing up. But he can't directly do anything to stop them happening.

2026-01-05 18:25:49 UTC

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Chinese dragons always have moustaches don't they? But they are usually far more twirly and gravity-defying. This poor dragon is a bit droopy.

2026-01-05 17:53:05 UTC

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don't forget the rash of chatbot ads at the moment for bots that can "look like your neighbour or colleague" and "never say no" that I keep seeing on YouTube. It's abuse fantasies all the way down.

2026-01-05 17:48:15 UTC

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I am old enough to have lived through "spell check will replace human editors" (and I still get asked what the point of my job is from people who think spell check does the same thing).

2025-12-18 16:32:33 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115741101886219666
This article crystallises a lot of the thoughts I have had about the financial markets since I graduated during the crash. I distinctly remember, a few months before it became clear what was happening, going to an interview in Canary Wharf (that I didn't take) and discussing sub-prime mortgages. Even then, it was clear we had a global gambling addiction.
Many of my friends went into finance or finance-adjacent fields at the time. We now live *very* different lives.
#note1jkq…gzu7

2025-12-18 10:02:44 UTC

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oooh, bookmarked - thanks!

2025-12-16 19:49:28 UTC

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alas, it doesn't look like it'll be the UK. Starmer seems determined to remain supine.

2025-12-08 15:59:23 UTC

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the only two things I know Patrick Dempsey from are not things generally targeted at men: he was the love interest in Grey's Anatomy, and the love interest in that half-animated Disney film with Amy Adams.
Of course maybe he's been in "men's stuff"! But I would not have seen that stuff.

2025-12-08 10:00:48 UTC

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same in the UK, of course. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08/14/the-wealthy-have-not-gone/
I always hate this argument. If you're that rich you can choose where you live. One assumes you want to live here or you'd already have moved: so why are you against contributing.

2025-11-29 20:14:33 UTC

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there are those things you put under your tongue too. Maybe fully ingesting it is too strong/dangerous?

2025-11-29 20:10:40 UTC

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I assume it tastes absolutely rank

2025-11-29 20:02:55 UTC

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suddenly recipes for cigarette brownies start popping off

2025-11-13 16:02:23 UTC

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limescale! You'd think it's white but it can also be orange or brown. I don't know what the Uruguayan equivalent of Viakal is but if you don't mind the smell you can just use vinegar...

2025-11-04 13:04:56 UTC

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the use of the phrase "hard working families" which came in *hard* with Cameron and is now standard. The govt only ever cares about "hard-working families". Yes, it *is* ok to deny support to those you deem unworthy! Yes, we *have* chosen a nebulous definition - why don't *you* decide what "not hard-working" means and decide we spend too much on them? Great idea! Disabled people? Sure! Asylum seekers? I mean, they're not allowed jobs so that seems accurate! Single mums? Why not!

2025-10-20 09:52:28 UTC

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the Prime ads in the UK at the moment are mindboggling. One of them is a mum and daughter playing with a singing cactus toy that runs out of batteries. It shows their house and they live in an old terrace, which means they live within walking distance of shops. But they use Prime to same-day batteries. For a toy cactus. WTF.
Tldr: I find the convenience argument incredibly grating. You'll be paying more and the driver who brings it will be getting screwed over too.

2025-10-20 09:39:10 UTC

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have some AWS methadone suggestions lined up, I suppose.
Side note: I've boycotted Amazon for nearly 20 years now so it's crazy annoying when a company I've gone to the effort of seeking out to buy direct from, then uses AWS or Amazon logistics. Their grip is insane.

2025-10-16 18:53:57 UTC

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https://www.linguno.com/wordComparison/esp/acera-vereda-banqueta/ does this help? Or are there other words as well...!

2025-10-16 18:32:41 UTC

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i think what I mean is there is no established umbrella term (? I don't know, this is theoretical) so they *only* use more specific terms? I don't know enough about Spanish but it sounds like they don't have a dominant term for "next to road", which allows for less focus on where the path is and more on its other characteristics. Closer to BrE (although "pavement" is used mostly for "next to road" it doesn't *only* mean that).

2025-10-16 18:25:33 UTC

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I assume it's more that they don't have a specific word for a paved route next to a road?

2025-10-09 18:58:57 UTC

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my spine would turn to gravy.

2025-09-26 19:20:50 UTC

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it's all endlessly dog-whistled by politicians - the phrase "hardworking families" makes me bristle every time. As though single or childless people and the unemployed (including with disabilities) are somehow undeserving. Although as you point out, unemployed/underpaid people have to be ridiculously hardworking of course.

2025-04-14 19:07:00 UTC

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not worked through them for decades, but I used to go through Office Angels. Looks like they've got a Brighton office https://www.office-angels.com/locations/brighton-england-oagb_20027

2025-04-10 09:09:53 UTC

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Anglophone politics (and political media) seems to be entirely dominated by US cultural norms. You'd think Labour would see that Democrat tactics *don't* work but strategy seems to always be "the US does it better, let's copy"

2025-04-09 19:05:01 UTC

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I think the special deal we had was ultimately damaging as it fed the exceptionalism and meant we were always one foot out, us vs those silly bendy banana people. Having the euro would be a good thing.

2025-03-13 21:50:34 UTC

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you can in the UK. Maybe not globally? https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/good-to-know/in-our-restaurants/my-mcdonalds-app.html
https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/157/322/341/795/138/original/13bca148d1d222e2.png

2025-03-02 21:57:04 UTC

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useful to follow [@50501_movement](https://events.pol-rev.com/@50501_movement )

2025-02-27 18:07:03 UTC

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(and 20 Feb 2014)