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Daz

@dazwright.com

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Here for video games, cats, and the popular music of the day. I live in Moseley in Birmingham. I make electronic music as Indolent Child. When earning money, I work for The Health Foundation & work on quality improvement https://indolentchild.bandcamp.com

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Daz @dazwright.com · 9m

Are these the same pubs that can't find enough customers to stay open beyond 10pm?

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 11h

Why are the vibes so off with this government. The whole culture at the moment is about moderation and harm reduction, especially among the young and middle aged voters that Labour needs to cling on to if it's going to retain a coalition of support.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

www.theguardian.com

Daz @dazwright.com · 23h

Is that the same performing arts which is one of the UK's most productive industries?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Daz @dazwright.com · 1d

It is a big bubble and it poses massive risk but the one mitigation that hasn't applied to other bubbles is that it's largely being underwritten by the enormous cash reserves of companies that have too much money and no real idea of what to do with it.

Wider markets might be sheilded

Daz @dazwright.com · 1d

When Kemi Badenoch tells @channel4news.bsky.social that in Birmingham we elected "sectarian MPs" who is she talking about?

Perry Barr elected Ayoub Khan as an independent but he's a historic Lib Dem. Does she mean someone else?

Daz @dazwright.com · 2d

There are two things that irritate me about this:

1) Why does it matter who he saw? That’s just racist

2) It’s not true. The idiot filmed himself while he was there. In the video there are obviously all ethnic groups right in front of him

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

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Daz @dazwright.com · 2d

I completed a form yesterday, to book a blood test, and someone rang me back within two minutes of me pressing submit.

The system can work

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 2d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Daz @dazwright.com · 4d

I sort of agree. I feel like I can avoid most of this stuff in my life but that seems to be changing. Last week we had the police protecting people putting up flags on lamp posts with a cherry picker because the community was vocally protesting about them doing it.

It feels like a real thing

Daz @dazwright.com · 4d

Because no political party is trying to please the population as a whole?

All politics seems to have reduced to the narrow part of the population that can actually swing an election.

The election we are not having for many years

Daz @dazwright.com · 5d

Cutting it a bit fine for that peace prize announcement

Daz @dazwright.com · 7d

The Government persistently, and deliberately, misreprents how the asylum system works and the social context around it.

Everyone should listen to @snellarthur.bsky.social talking to @zoejardiniere.bsky.social in his most recent podcast

open.spotify.com/episode/2I1W...

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Daz @dazwright.com · 7d

Less the strong words more the bold choice of starting on a tongue twister

Daz @dazwright.com · 7d

Me looking at the Ring app thinking "what do they want?"

TerrorLeopard🎃 @terryleopard.bsky.social · 8d

I don't think I've done any of these things.

When is my deportation date?

A pic from the labour party X account

Painting a fence, running the raffle, cutting the half time orange or even just that gentle knock on the door which checks your neighbour is alright. That's real Britain.

Daz @dazwright.com · 9d

I think what he means is a bigger conference will solve division

Daz @dazwright.com · 9d

Millions though

Daz @dazwright.com · 9d

Having worked with volunteers and people managing volunteers it is true to say that people who are made to volunteer are not useful. They end up being a cost to an organisation

Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 9d

So, compulsory volunteering!

Also, what counts as community volunteering? How will it be recorded and verified, and at what cost? A lot of community volunteering is very informal by its nature.

Daz @dazwright.com · 10d

This is what they've been wary of but you can't contort national policy in case a paper tells about 900k people something you don't like

Daz @dazwright.com · 11d

Fair enough. He understands that you have to get stuck in to the root cause of the problem

Daz @dazwright.com · 11d

It just means, say “thanks” to bus drivers doesn’t it?

Do we have any other customs?

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Daz @dazwright.com · 11d

There is an odd contradiction in telling migrants that they have to have a "BritCard" whilst also telling them we will make it as hard and as expensive as possible for them to achieve citizenship

Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 13d

"Great, you made it over! Come and work in my restaurant. You can sleep in the room at the back. Free food. And maybe a little bit of pocket money too."

"Sounds great."

"But first, let's see your BritCard digital ID showing your right to work."

"Foiled!"

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Daz @dazwright.com · 11d

I still won't be able to read it

Daz @dazwright.com · 12d

Do you still have access to Messenger?

Daz @dazwright.com · 12d

@supergm.bsky.social I replied to your DM yesterday but now realise that the only reason I could see it was because I was outside of the UK.

Do you have any of my other contact details?

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 13d

Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

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Daz @dazwright.com · 12d

There are going to be vanishingly few people, going into the next election saying "at least I've got an ID card"

Especially if it costs money which we keep getting told isn't available for hungry kids

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