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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 1d

I keep wondering if they understand that laws just stay on the books, so have to be good for 40 years as well as 40 mins. But then I think of how many Criminal Justice Bills we've had without reflecting on whether tweaking what's illegal is the problem.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 1d

It shouldn't, but the vast majority of graduates do not go into academia and we do actually find what we learned directly useful. I'm all for learning because it's interesting (MA psychosocial studies) but if politicians start on my discipline that it _isn't_ useful, then I would disagree.

Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 1d

I'm obviously going to defend anthropology as a Useful Business Discipline. Learning how groups work together, how to get to the heart of something and think about patterns and trends feels like as much a part of the jigsaw of skills you need in an org as, apparently, theoretical physics(?).

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 1d

I may be a minority audience as well, but there's a level of "I know how to do things in the terminal, but I don't usually compile my own programs" level of Linux user, where I'm trying my best to avoid being rm -rf'd by instructions but not a complete newb.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 2d

What I opened BSky to.

"An error occured" but on Blobby's face.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 2d

What I opened BSky to.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 2d

Yep, blue header. Just thought I'd throw in a field report to the anecdote bin! ;-)

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Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · 3d

DEI officers £2
Woke stuff £1
Essential services £100,000,000
Parks £2

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters

Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 3d

Somerset cider brandy (legally not Calvados) is one of the best spirits in my cabinet if you haven't had a go.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 3d

A thought from seeing the NHS service - the flow for HCP is all past tense "which arm did you jab", but they're filling out the form before the jab because they're doing it with patient to get details.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 3d

Big struggles at the COVID vaccination place this morning as they say the system has changed and they can't find anyone's appointments.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 3d

Any Dutch speakers I know who might be interested in supporting some friends of mine here in Berlin run their non-profit?

Part-time, remote-friendly position with Dutch required

Help Wanted: Operations Assistant - Green Web Foundation

We’re looking for a freelance Operations Assistant to join our small, ambitious and friendly Green Web Foundation team on a part-time basis. We work together on one clear mission: to transition to a…

www.thegreenwebfoundation.org

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Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · 4d

There are weekly, if not daily, criminal offences occurring at every pelican and zebra crossing I use around me, more dangerous (and indeed, occasionally terrifying) than holding a placard, and yet I never see a police presence at any of them

"Mahmood rejects suggestion police should just ignore people holding placards saying they support Palestine Action
Mahmood says she has “no truck” with the argument that people should not be arrested for holding up signs saying they support Palestine Action (a proscribed group – which means just holding a sign in public saying you support them is an offence). She says:
"I have no truck with this argument that suggests that merely holding up a placard somewhere in central London somehow shouldn’t have a police response.

If you’re supporting a proscribed organisation, you are breaking the law of our land.

That organisation has been prescribed. It is an offence to show support for that organisation.

People might not like that decision. They might have questions about the way that the anti-terror laws work in this country. But there is no excuse for holding up placards supporting a banned organisation. That will always be met with a police response.""

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely INSANE use of passive voice in this CNN piece

just incredible

@katmabu.bsky.social “landed on the ground” during the protest???

At least one other person, who identified herself on social media as Kat Abughazaleh, a former journalist also running for Congress, landed on the ground during that same protest after she was pushed by a federal law enforcement agent in a camouflage uniform wearing a full face covering, sunglasses and a helmet, video by CNN affiliate WBBM showed.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 5d

So many memories of the late-open cigarette machine by the stairs when I was 17. The bacon burger was pretty good too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cambridge kebab shop beloved by students shuts after 76 years

A takeaway, loved by Stephen Fry and Michael Portillo, closes for good, says the college landlord.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 5d

They're meant to be doing mine soon too. Hadn't realised there was choice on the upgrade.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 5d

Building a culture of national pride on the things we’re actually good at and the things we make that people actually want would make us look like Tumblr Island and we should absolutely do it

“Britain? The Warhammer porno costume drama academia place that used to be into racism? Yeah, weird dudes?”

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 5d

In her lunch with the FT the OnlyFans CEO says her company pays more tax than the entire British fishing industry. Quite a stat.

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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 5d

hot take: the social norm that "cool" people don’t talk about their jobs is bad for labour organizing because it perpetuates the idea that our work selves are severed from and unrelated to our true selves and it prevents the deepening of community relationships around labour

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 5d

Delighted to bump into a digital government luminary, who is currently digging up a tree.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 5d

Hearing politicians denounce judges interpreting vaguely worded law as a source of authority like, hi, that's our entire legal system there mate. You against cricket and warm beer too?

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 5d

It's ok, it's just the Indie. No one's computer is capable of looking at it for more than a few seconds without the processor melting from adverts.

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 5d

Are you cultivating a successor?

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 6d

Isn't that the same road where they want to route the busway from Coton?

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 6d

This is where the web was a lot better than app stores. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukey

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Alex @blangry.bsky.social · 7d

*Stares, wearily, in 2 kids under 6*.

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