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Iain AF Fleming

@legalweasel.uk

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Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines Computer scientist (compilers & networks), lawyer, urban geographer, bassist, and beer drinker. Francophile/phone. Quoad ultra denied [Uphall, Scotland]

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 26m

Ones that sound like jobs?

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 34m

Living the American Dream would not seem to have much relevance to a debate on education policy in the UK.

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 40m

Yes! She has the same zealous, absolutely rock-solid, unshakable, and utterly delusional, self-belief as Liz Truss. Badenoch just hadn't had the power of government office to demonstrate how wrong she really is. And Truss still thinks she was right...

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 51m

You don't "HAVE to" -- but not going is no guarantee, either.

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 57m

"All degrees must sound like jobs -- but English, Drama and Music sound like hobbies" is their thinking.

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 1h

Quite; my youngest studied, and loved, astrophysics - she now works for the prosecution service!

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 14h

Also, in more recent years "family wipe-outs".

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 16h

Funny looks from you SVP are a goal, aren't they?

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 16h

I've got expensive tax law qualifications, so I'm arrogant enough to want to use them, and tight enough to do so. I let my financial guy do the pension stuff, as that's some weird shit.

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 16h

I'm doing the sensible thing, as fast as CGT allows.
In a very annoyed way.

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 16h

It's okay, I can get AI to read the thing nobody cared to write.
I dunno what the fuck the point would be -- but I could.

(Still pissed that all this AI bubble shit is making me wealthy.)

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 21h

Sandy Dildo? Didn't he play for Third Lanark in the 50s?

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 23h

"Someone might get something they don't deserve."

Those who object to social spending would willingly spend $1.50 to prevent someone "undeserving" geting $1.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 1d

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"

We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Highlights
For marginalised street users mode separation is the key to human-scale movement.
Streets conducive to walking and cycling have functional, safe and accessible design.
Professionals must approach street design, regulation and user behaviour holistically.
Combinations of influencing factors persuade people to either use or avoid a street.
There are no easy fixes to the public realm that will work for all non-drivers.

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 1d

But like Johnson, her main strength is her self-delusion.

“I never have gaffes... I never have to clarify, because I think very carefully about what I say” -- Kemi Badenoch.

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 1d

Period products? Aren't we always being told that they are all "fighting age men"?

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 1d

Apparently, they are functional, or were, and are relics of the rosettes and ribbons that formerly held the gowns together, but are now simple decoration. Red and white are their High Court (criminal) robes; in the Court of Session (civil) the robes are all red, also with crosses on.

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 1d

College of Justice, in the High Court and Court of Session.

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 1d

The de-Scottification of Canada - once the Jock's arm of the Empire (along with Burma and Hong Kong) - this is how Senators of the Court of Justice are kitted out

Lady Hood of the Supreme Court and Senator in the Court of Justice in red and black regalia

Lady Ross of the Supreme Court and Senator of the Court of Justice in red and white regalia

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 1d

Scotland's senior judges (the Senators of the College of Justice, to give them their full Sunday name) look like the come from Alice in Wonderland. And, yes, those are tricorn hats they're carrying.