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Angus Sawyer

@aardgoose.info

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Coder and caver with an enthusiasm for Border Collies and maps. Creator of CaveView (3d cave survey web application) https://aardgoose.github.io/CaveView.js/ Occasional contributor to https://threejs.org and Firefox.

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Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info · 1m

Importantly is the beagle ok?

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 1h

Heartening to see the Conservative former secretary of state for Justice pointing out how very unfunded the prisons system is.

Rather a pity his timing wasn't a little better, because just a tenth of the money used on unnecessary pre election tax cuts could have made a huge difference

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Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info · 2h

It's a cult.

Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info · 2h

It wasn't an accident that Cummings hired a eugenics supporter when in No. 10.

Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info · 4h

Someone is going to sneak in a badly drawn cock aren't they.

Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info · 4h

It's the only correct answer.
(Almost in Nottingham)

Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info · 5h

Perfect

Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info · 5h

A ducking stool?

Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info · 9h

@marcmorris.bsky.social

Is this legit?

Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h

In 1066 minarchist monarch William the Conquerer defeated Communist Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, ending Godwinson’s failing Marxist policy of having names with Æ in them

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "For 1,000 years, communism has not worked"

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 12h

The whole "OMG a prisoner has been mistakenly released" thing is such shit. No one gave a toss till it was an asylum seeker released.Last year, 262 prisoners - five a week - were released from prisons/courts before they should have been. Zero front-page reporting.

www.theguardian.com/society/2...

Mistakenly released prisoner Billy Smith turns himself in

Smith, 35, was released in error from Wandsworth prison on same day he was jailed for fraud

www.theguardian.com

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12h

We need more reporting of local government. This is quite a thread...

Ed Jennings @edjennings.bsky.social · 14h

Cllr Daniel Taylor, currently on bail pending trial over allegations that he threatened to kill his wife, has attended today. Given he missed every other meeting since his arrest, he would have been disqualified as a councillor had he not arrived today.

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Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info · 13h

I have an ancestor who was transported to Tasmania where he promptly died, another sent to an industrial school on an old navy square rigger. I was born in an (ex)workhouse too.

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Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info · 1d

Also use the wash from the boat to close an errant gate.

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Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info · 1d

Been there. Get a top paddle open before the gate swings back into its recess or start again ...

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

It's obviously a bad thing if any prisoner is released by mistake, but why is it worse if it's an asylum-seeker?

It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.

Something very dangerous is building here.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 1d

Well, that was a very weird deputy PMQs. James Cartlidge asking the same question five times – could David Lammy guarantee no other jailed asylum seekers have been accidentally released rather than deported – and Lammy each time instead condemning the Tories' record on prisons and justice.

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Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info · 1d

Misread that as badger, and wondered what sort of animal abuse was going on.

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Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info · 1d

Apart from when you don't want them to and they swing open while you are at the other end of the lock.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.

Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government

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Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info · 1d

I don't think he counts anymore, whoever he is.

Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info · 1d

This is the job I want.

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Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info · 1d

Cockfosters?

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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 1d

Today seems a good day to repost this.

It’s also a good day to remember you cannot do anything granular and sensible with Labour Force Survey data at the moment

And the inactivity rate has plummeted since the data work for the Mayfield review was done*

Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 22d

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info · 1d

Bilge.

Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info · 2d

Conspiracy theory nonsense.

Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info · 2d

Because very few economists take it seriously. No theory has accurately modelled the world's economy, people are too irrational for simplistic models to work.

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