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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 14h

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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · 14h

www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/interna...

Dubai unveils Twatopolis

A MASSIVE dome full of the horrible things that twats like is to be built in Dubai.

www.thedailymash.co.uk

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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · 14h

We should research Future Tech 2 to get extra points for the UK.

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 14h

Genuinely think the concept of the tech tree has done a lot of damage.

Tech-Based Teaching @edutecheditor.bsky.social · 16h

“Since 1991, the video game Civilization, now in its seventh installment, has become one of the most successful game franchises ever. That means millions of kids have grown up with Civ as one of their formative ways of thinking about history.” (via @jstor.bsky.social) #AcademicSky

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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · 18h

Interesting thought. Yes and no? Main opposition being the Communist Party must have been an easier foe than a standard issue SocDem party, and neofascism was less appealing when there was still recent lived experience of the real thing.

Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · 20h

I guess technically the Conservatives could yet surpass their record, while the DC couldn’t, but it’s not looking great for them right now…

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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · 21h

Fun fact: the Tories have won the same number of elections and been in charge for the same number of years since WW2 as the Italian Christian Democracy party, and they disbanded in 1994.

Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 21h

A small thing, really, but is it typical British exceptionalism to describe the Tories as (until now) the most successful political party in the world? They’re not as successful as Japan’s LDP or Sweden’s SAP. Am I missing something?

economist.com/britain/2019...

Britain’s Tories are the world’s most successful party. Here’s why

How the Conservatives dominated the 19th, 20th and—so far—21st centuries

economist.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Why aren’t more women using the deepfake site? 🤔

Sora 2 is drawing a huge crowd of teenage boys. This doesn't bode well — trust me.

Sora 2 seems to encourage people to make fun of each other. It's also attracting a lot of teenage boys. This could be a nightmare for Sam Altman.

www.businessinsider.com

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 4d

Among other things the reason is apparently "time spent looking at the CCTV footage", indicating that BTP have *still* not understood the binary chop algorithm despite having it explained to them by numerous angry computer science professors.

Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 4d

The British Transport Police (BTP) says it will not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle has been left for more than two hours.

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.

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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · 4d

These are so much better than the e-learning modules I have to do. www.nato.int/60years/post...

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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · 12d

On a somewhat more serious note, a Glastonbury style rush for online booking isn’t necessarily worse, and maybe (?) even is a little bit less bad, as a rationing mechanism, than the 8am scramble isn’t it?

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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · 12d

I’m sure that 👋 ***waves hands***👋 AI will solve this though.

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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · 12d

I used to work in university PR and I’m afraid to say that splashy claims rather often come from the researchers themselves, with the PRs as handy fall guys if they get called out for it.

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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · 23d

The indignity of flying from Stansted

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24d

Sutton Trust report: 'Only three categories were below the national average – male professional footballers at 5%, female professional footballers at 4% and the Northern Ireland assembly, where nobody attended a fee-paying school.' 1/2

Privately educated still have ‘vice-like grip’ on most powerful UK jobs

Those in top roles are five times as likely to have been to private school than general population, study finds

www.theguardian.com

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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · 25d

This is such a banger

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28d

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit

Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture

www.theguardian.com

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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · 27d

This is correct

Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 29d

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Nov 10

The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up

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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · Sep 6

Has there ever been an NI (or pre-1921, Irish) MP in a cabinet position? Walter Guinness, from Dublin, was in Churchill’s war cabinet but in Lords (& had been English MP before). Wellington from Dublin too, but PM from the Lords. The UUP had jnr ministers in Tory govts until they split in the 70s.

Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · Sep 6

Unless I’m mistaken, the last Scottish SoS were Alistair Darling and Douglas Alexander in 2010, The last Welsh was Peter Hain in 2008. This seems… not great.

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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · Sep 6

No ministerial departments led by a Scottish or Welsh MP - not a good look for a government that is supposed to be serious about the union.

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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · Sep 5

So this is my Out of Office auto-reply for the next six months. ojusher.medium.com/out-of-offic...

Out of office

Enough with the excuses. Take shared parental leave.

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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · Sep 5

Only about 1 in 20 new dads in the UK takes up their entitlement to shared parental leave. For themselves, for their kids, and for the gender pay gap that still disgraces our society, I wish more did.

Out of office

Enough with the excuses. Take shared parental leave.

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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · Sep 4

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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · Sep 3

There has to be an In Our Time episode on Melvyn Bragg

Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · Sep 3

Melvyn Bragg has decided to stand down as host of In Our Time, the BBC says.

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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · Aug 28

Net zero because maybe someone very occasionally needs to argue for something, but the newspaper should have to offset it promptly with stuff like “Actually it’s ok, I take it all back, go ahead and build modern buildings, by Simon Jenkins”

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