Louisa Noel
@lnoel.bsky.social
Not in fact a ginger pig, but not far off. Lawyer. Mother of two boys. Human to two cats.
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If you can “sneak onto” a signal chat, prolly shouldn’t have used signal right?
March 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
If you can “sneak onto” a signal chat, prolly shouldn’t have used signal right?
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Dear UK employers, I would not be trying to argue that failure to respond to an email amounted to a deemed resignation.
February 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Dear UK employers, I would not be trying to argue that failure to respond to an email amounted to a deemed resignation.
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Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.
Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods
YouTube video by CBC News
youtu.be
February 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.
Well
sort of a side note as don't know if it's applicable to the US but was speaking to a friend with a teen daughter yesterday and have to say I'd missed the fact that UK schools are now a lot stricter and more rigid than they were one or two decades ago, and I'm not convinced that's great
Some terminal Ted Talk Brain in the NYT today:
If it's true that millions of young people is not prepared for the workforce, we're probably going to need a more meaningful solution than teachers slightly changing the phrasing of their classroom instruction.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
If it's true that millions of young people is not prepared for the workforce, we're probably going to need a more meaningful solution than teachers slightly changing the phrasing of their classroom instruction.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
January 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Well
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Likewise. I'm really hoping that the zeitgeist will have changed before my kid gets to secondary. Already had to dodge a strict infants school(!). This article was a bit of an eye opener. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
George Duoblys · One, Two, Three, Eyes on Me!
Highly qualified but often inexperienced young teachers deliver carefully structured content to students, pushing them...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Likewise. I'm really hoping that the zeitgeist will have changed before my kid gets to secondary. Already had to dodge a strict infants school(!). This article was a bit of an eye opener. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
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"Last year I went to Bedford, which as opening lines go is not quite up there with “Last night I dreamt of Manderley”, but you work with what you’ve got...."
Why do so many British towns basically suck?
The not-so-strange death of the high street.
jonn.substack.com
November 30, 2024 at 10:08 AM
"Last year I went to Bedford, which as opening lines go is not quite up there with “Last night I dreamt of Manderley”, but you work with what you’ve got...."
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When we ignore the role of curiosity and motivation in learning, we make it harder for children. Learning isn't just a process of remembering information. It starts with a desire to know and that drives everything which follows.
November 21, 2024 at 3:20 PM
When we ignore the role of curiosity and motivation in learning, we make it harder for children. Learning isn't just a process of remembering information. It starts with a desire to know and that drives everything which follows.
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Seeking Trainee Solicitor to assist in our conveyancing department.
Have you passed the LPC and working as a paralegal? The training contract carrot 🥕 dangled hasn't turned into a contract?
We are in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
Apply [email protected]
Have you passed the LPC and working as a paralegal? The training contract carrot 🥕 dangled hasn't turned into a contract?
We are in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
Apply [email protected]
September 9, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Seeking Trainee Solicitor to assist in our conveyancing department.
Have you passed the LPC and working as a paralegal? The training contract carrot 🥕 dangled hasn't turned into a contract?
We are in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
Apply [email protected]
Have you passed the LPC and working as a paralegal? The training contract carrot 🥕 dangled hasn't turned into a contract?
We are in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
Apply [email protected]
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People say right wing commentators damage Britain but without them, where would be? A society where words mean what they actually mean? Don’t make me live that way.
November 17, 2024 at 11:24 AM
People say right wing commentators damage Britain but without them, where would be? A society where words mean what they actually mean? Don’t make me live that way.
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A fireworks company went and let an AI choose the music for a public event. The AI is actually a 13 year old boy, says “Shit yeah, let’s f***in’ go!!”, and goes for all its favourites.
Anger as explicit songs played at South West firework display
Some of the lyrics mentioned strippers, drugs and there was also some choice expletive language in songs on the playlist.
www.somersetlive.co.uk
November 16, 2024 at 6:24 PM
A fireworks company went and let an AI choose the music for a public event. The AI is actually a 13 year old boy, says “Shit yeah, let’s f***in’ go!!”, and goes for all its favourites.
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Oh great.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Second oarfish, mythical harbinger of doom, found washed up in California
Roughly 10ft-long specimen discovered on Encinitas beach shortly after August spotting of the ‘doomsday fish’
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Oh great.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Very significant change in tone on CNN tonight 'so, this mass deportation of illegal immigrants Trump has proposed, how exactly will that work?'
'Well, rapists...'
'I'm not talking about them, I'm talking about the people who work in catering etc, how will you deport them?'
'Well, rapists...'
'I'm not talking about them, I'm talking about the people who work in catering etc, how will you deport them?'
November 7, 2024 at 2:27 AM
Very significant change in tone on CNN tonight 'so, this mass deportation of illegal immigrants Trump has proposed, how exactly will that work?'
'Well, rapists...'
'I'm not talking about them, I'm talking about the people who work in catering etc, how will you deport them?'
'Well, rapists...'
'I'm not talking about them, I'm talking about the people who work in catering etc, how will you deport them?'
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The election result feels like a Superman plot in which his mind is controlled and he exercises his enormous power for evil. Often it falls to Batman to stop him. Who is Batman in this situation? I'd assumed it was Taylor Swift, but that is obviously wrong.
November 6, 2024 at 9:27 PM
The election result feels like a Superman plot in which his mind is controlled and he exercises his enormous power for evil. Often it falls to Batman to stop him. Who is Batman in this situation? I'd assumed it was Taylor Swift, but that is obviously wrong.
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Me: struggling to fit a simple small claim into the limited space on the court-approved claim form.
Craig Wright: fitting a claim for £911bn into the same space.
h/t Bitcoin Archive
Craig Wright: fitting a claim for £911bn into the same space.
h/t Bitcoin Archive
October 12, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Me: struggling to fit a simple small claim into the limited space on the court-approved claim form.
Craig Wright: fitting a claim for £911bn into the same space.
h/t Bitcoin Archive
Craig Wright: fitting a claim for £911bn into the same space.
h/t Bitcoin Archive
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UK: We can't afford to give primary school children lunch.
France: We already give children 4-course lunches, but research found them hungry at end of day too, with parents giving ultra-processed snacks because they're working — so let's give an after school snack now too
fyi @nigella.bsky.social
France: We already give children 4-course lunches, but research found them hungry at end of day too, with parents giving ultra-processed snacks because they're working — so let's give an after school snack now too
fyi @nigella.bsky.social
September 9, 2024 at 8:40 PM
UK: We can't afford to give primary school children lunch.
France: We already give children 4-course lunches, but research found them hungry at end of day too, with parents giving ultra-processed snacks because they're working — so let's give an after school snack now too
fyi @nigella.bsky.social
France: We already give children 4-course lunches, but research found them hungry at end of day too, with parents giving ultra-processed snacks because they're working — so let's give an after school snack now too
fyi @nigella.bsky.social
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It's fascinating the amount of fast data we get from the visual shape and relative alignment of things. Think of the extra processing power needed to manually count all of those randomly-arranged dots afresh...
Did I just order some visually upsetting dice? Yes. Yes I did.
September 2, 2024 at 6:43 PM
It's fascinating the amount of fast data we get from the visual shape and relative alignment of things. Think of the extra processing power needed to manually count all of those randomly-arranged dots afresh...
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Me arriving in Mongolia:
Customs: Name?
Me: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Customs: Occupation?
Me: No, just a short visit.
Customs: Name?
Me: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Customs: Occupation?
Me: No, just a short visit.
September 3, 2024 at 5:59 AM
Me arriving in Mongolia:
Customs: Name?
Me: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Customs: Occupation?
Me: No, just a short visit.
Customs: Name?
Me: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Customs: Occupation?
Me: No, just a short visit.
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My personal & subjective €0.02 as someone inside the Brussels machine is that non-Brit colleagues have v rapidly adjusted to the UK as a 3rd country in every respect, for good & ill. No special status as former member; no expectation or appetite for ‘re’join; but no bitterness or negativity either.
September 1, 2024 at 3:11 PM
My personal & subjective €0.02 as someone inside the Brussels machine is that non-Brit colleagues have v rapidly adjusted to the UK as a 3rd country in every respect, for good & ill. No special status as former member; no expectation or appetite for ‘re’join; but no bitterness or negativity either.
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During the Brexit negotiations some part of me refused to believe that the macho, zero-sum aggression of our posture + our apparently delusional, exceptionalist assessment of the strength of our hand was anything other than window-dressing for domestic consumption. But the same fools are still at it
September 2, 2024 at 7:20 AM
During the Brexit negotiations some part of me refused to believe that the macho, zero-sum aggression of our posture + our apparently delusional, exceptionalist assessment of the strength of our hand was anything other than window-dressing for domestic consumption. But the same fools are still at it
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I think the most obvious use for generative AI is coming up with names for Daily Telegraph journalists.
August 26, 2024 at 11:53 AM
I think the most obvious use for generative AI is coming up with names for Daily Telegraph journalists.
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Would welcome a warning - like the “mild peril” ones that kids have on their movies - that let me know whether the adult-aimed arthouse film that I’m about to watch has a plot.
August 24, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Would welcome a warning - like the “mild peril” ones that kids have on their movies - that let me know whether the adult-aimed arthouse film that I’m about to watch has a plot.
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"Thanks chiefly to the legacy Twitter LBO debt, Barclays senior M&A team were informed last year their annual compensation would shrink by 40% over the previous year. The cut was so severe that almost a quarter of the bank’s 200-plus managing directors quit once they had collected it."
Elon Musk’s Twitter deal may be the worst leveraged buyout deal for banks since Lehman, raising risks to Tesla
Banks had hoped to package and sell Musk's LBO debt to investors. Instead, it's sat on their balance sheet, tying up capital, for almost two years.
fortune.com
August 20, 2024 at 8:34 PM
"Thanks chiefly to the legacy Twitter LBO debt, Barclays senior M&A team were informed last year their annual compensation would shrink by 40% over the previous year. The cut was so severe that almost a quarter of the bank’s 200-plus managing directors quit once they had collected it."