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jinty comixminx wildebeest the third
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sewing and comics, comix and sewing. Reading and silliness. Getting more hair-trigger at blocking transphobes and reporting hate
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I see some other people doing ongoing threads of stuff they listen to or have read; seems like a good thing, share knowledge of good stuff and enjoyment of what’s out there. Here’s something I’ve just finished:
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If anyone wants an already up and running test case for the insanity that already is right to work checks - just ask anyone who works for a university and has the godawful task of trying to pay people for things like one off guest lectures and external examining.
Interesting factlets about Digital ID...

Government is proposing a massive extension of right to work checks, to sweep up not just employees but all individuals providing services otherwise than to consumers. So the whole gig economy and even including eg barristers (shock!)... /1
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Can't DM but have found your councillor email address and will ping you on that
WANT
Public transport often treats bikes as a luxury—or worse a competitor—but without them leaves revenue on the table.

For 25 years, the Dutch have extended the reach of their railways through investments in (300,000) parking spaces and (25,000) shared bikes. The result? A doubling of train ridership.
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Comics and more, answering the question 'WTF Can Artists Do During a Fascist Takeover!?' vitalconversations.squarespace.com/episodes #comics
I lied, one more photo as we approach the cutoff of 9 am. Slightly busier in that I did see one car waiting to pass the van parked on the on street parking (which they shouldn’t actually use until 9:30 am) and a couple of bikes, plus the start of the driving instruction sessions for the day.
Yes, Spires used up a whole lot of INSET days in one go eh!
Some state schools also have Insets, certainly Cheney does
Also I thought I’d try to remember to take photos for the whole of this first week if possible - not that it’s anything more than an indication but still.
I also don’t quite know if the private schools have gone back yet - I assume so but haven’t checked. Spires doesn’t have an INSET day today tho I know Cheney does.
One more, at 8:30 (the charge is only active on our road between 7 am to 9 am and 3 on to 6 pm on weekdays, so this is the last one for the morning).
First Monday of the congestion charge here in Oxf: Hollow Way is seeing clear roads with a smallish amount of free flowing traffic, no stationary cars queuing to get to the junction of Hollow Way with Cowley Road. Last week the charge started during half term, today it’s a school day.
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I often say that Westerns do not and cannot really understand the Soviet Union or Russia. Prime example right here. This was literally the norm and it trickled all the way down to every member of the proletariat.

I literally owe my life to блат.
Healthcare but only for my friends
oh no… hopefully things will be better in the new week…
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It really is time that the UK Government…

1. Stopped using X.
2. Banned it.
I know this won't surprise anyone here but Musk's reprogrammed artificial intelligence is spreading misinformation about yesterday's attack on a train
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Today's your last day to stop LinkedIn using your account to train AI. More details here: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/h... Obviously this will only stop it _this_ time, and while they still give you the option to opt out. I've just closed my LinkedIn account.
LinkedIn gives you until Monday to stop AI from training on your profile
If you thought your postings on LinkedIn were safe from the AI-training arms race, think again.
www.bitdefender.com
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Iê!
Brazilian garbage man at Hallowe'en.

I don't care if it's staged; it's still full of joy and damned impressive.
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Ooooh now this looks like an interesting labeler
Flipped this on earlier and holy god do some of you post a lot

bsky.app/profile/stec...
bsky.app
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So so so good.
Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Edge of Darkness - Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave
Thriller set in a world of obsessive state security. Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.
www.bbc.co.uk
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All that's wrong with the EHRC "guidance" in one paragraph
“There was no consultation with stakeholders – or even their own staff. It included legal inaccuracies and has since been withdrawn. And while it was big on how to exclude, it had nothing to say on how to include trans people in public life”
Whereas this I like considerably, thanks!
I don’t like the vocals, what are they, superautotuned as a style? PS I am old
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