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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 8h

We don't have a sponsor for #FFConf 2025 scholarship programme (we didn't last year too) I really don't want to have to add this terrible sticker again…

The sponsorship allows us budget not only for ticket allocation, but also travel and hotel for under represented groups.

💌 [email protected]

A crappy 90's style clipart that reads "Rem & Jules" being the scholarship sponsors.

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 5h

“I feel like web developers are constantly being gaslit into thinking that complex over-engineered solutions are the only option. […] That’s not good for users, and I don’t think it’s good for us either.”

Mic drop by @adactio.com 👏
adactio.com/journal/22178

Simplify

Reminding myself just how much you can do with CSS these days.

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Tammy Everts 🍁 @tammyeverts.com · 1d

I've been exploring @speedcurve.com's new Vitals Overview dashboard with some customers for a week or so now, and all I can say is WOW.

Not only is it fun to play with, it also halves the time it takes to investigate #webperf and #ux issues.

👉 Take a quick tour: www.speedcurve.com/blog/a-smart...

SpeedCurve | NEW! A smarter way to spot performance issues

We’re excited to announce the launch of the Vitals Overview dashboard in SpeedCurve. It's your new starting point for exploring the performance of your site.

www.speedcurve.com

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Pumpkintronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 1d

Our immigration policy is already predicated on cruelty. We ALREADY live under a policy that was literally introduced under the name "The Hostile Environment for Immigrants".

Let's not make it even worse.

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Pumpkintronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 1d

That's enough time to fall in love, have kids, get divorced, fall in love again, find a career, get burnt out, change careers, grow, succeed, thrive.

Imagine doing all of that with uncertainty hanging over you about whether you'll be forced to move to another country at some arbitrary point!

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Pumpkintronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 1d

If you're in the UK, this is important.

Indefinite Leave to Remain is ALREADY an expensive and laborious process for people looking to build a life here.

Migrants have no access to benefits during this time, and pay a surcharge for access to the NHS.

petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

Petition: Protect Legal Migrants: do not implement the 10-Year ILR proposal

We urge the UK Government to scrap plans to extend ILR from 5 to 10 years. We feel that legal migrants, especially care workers, followed the rules and built lives here under the 5-year promise. We th...

petition.parliament.uk

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 1d

1982 was definitely not a leap year!

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 1d

If the government really wants to scrap degrees which deliver no value to the UK and indeed have led to £ billions in damage to the economy and culture of the UK then it just needs to scrap the Oxford PPE degree and arrest everyone who has taken it.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 1d

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 2d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 2d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 3d

In 🇨🇳, HSR makes airlines bleed

On Beijing - Shanghai 🚄 has 83% market share against ✈️ (17%)

1,200km, 4hrs18min at the fastest.
100 daily return services

+CR450AF at 400km/h from 2027:

evidencenetwork.ca/this-wave-ca...
@garethdennis.uk
@jonworth.eu
@taras-grescoe.com
@ryukyu-hsr.bsky.social

With its high-speed train, China has achieved what seemed impossible: flying is not profitable on an 808-mile route. - Evidence Network

With ultra-fast journeys, connected comfort and exemplary punctuality, the Chinese high-speed train is redefining travellers’ priorities, to the point of suffocating domestic air traffic between ... R...

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Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 6d

"a company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is"

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 5d

🔴NEW🔴

Thread 🧵

@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Stuart Gray @sgray.bsky.social · 5d

So, that Discord data breach? The headlines *should* have focused on the Age Verification angle.

It affected a 3rd party service Discord uses for Age Verification appeals.

It took 3 months from the start of the UKs OSA age checks for the first known data leak.

www.theverge.com/news/792032/...

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

www.theverge.com

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 4d

Saving lives, saving you money, improving the flow of traffic, there’s no downside to switching to 20mph default limit.

20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 4d

It would be great if we could take a whole country and change the default speed limit to 20mph and then compare it to one left at 30mph. What if it reduced casualties by 25% and with lower risk reduced insurance premiums by £45 a year? Well it did! bit.ly/4gIBPlJ

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 4d

My Dad was quite surprised when he insurance went down by 50 quid on renewal

I had remind him that he lives in West Wales and that the positive impact of 20mph limit has made a huge reduction to insurers costs

It’s a message that needs spreading far and wide

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 5d

There were a pair of twins in SCIBU at the same time who were there for a quite a while too

Funnily enough when Jon was a young child we had to take him to an ophthalmologist and it turned out to be the twins mum

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 8d

The Hampstead ponds have REPEATEDLY voted to include trans women. But the officious pricks at Sex Matters don’t care what other women think and are forcing a public consultation anyway. Throw the ponds some support.

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 Consultation survey launched on whether trans people should be able to access Hampstead Heath ladies' pond following Supreme Court ruling

The consultation is open until 12:00 on Tuesday 25th November 2025.

(Survey link in next post)
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

Survey launched on trans access to Hampstead Heath ladies' pond

The ladies’ pond at Hampstead Heath currently admits biological women and transgender women

www.standard.co.uk

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 5d

For the short time he was in SCIBU it was amazing to see all the photos of the prem babies who’d grown up healthy

We knew we weren’t going to term so they gave my wife steroids to develop his lungs and when was delivered his APGAR scores were pretty good

Modern medicine is a amazing

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 5d

20yrs ago today got a call from Mrs D to say they were going to let her out of hospital… by the time I got there it had become a case of we need to deliver this baby (at 33 weeks)

He's changed a bit in those 20yrs (he’s on the right)

Forever grateful for the care we got from GRH

Small baby about one week old, but still six weeks before due data. Baby is being cradled in parents arms and has a nasal gastric feeding tube plus arm splint for IV line

Two men standing on the side pf a rugby pitch in blue and white striped kit (it’s covered in mud)

Jon is on the right and it slightly smaller than the man on the left who has a beard (and is our next door neighbour)

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 5d

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years.

This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 5d

This amazing article from @vic-parsons.bsky.social via @wearequeeraf.com shows the absolute criminal state of trans healthcare in the UK.

Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right.

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...