Tom Hawkins
@nekomatic.bsky.social
Wait, what are you doing here? Who let you in?
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In other words, the research literature suggests a much better basis for modern policy:
1. Labor wealth is a scarce, strategic asset
2. Skilled emigration an *investment* in a global network
3. Aid should help manage, not stop, migration
4. Migration is at the heart of successful development
1. Labor wealth is a scarce, strategic asset
2. Skilled emigration an *investment* in a global network
3. Aid should help manage, not stop, migration
4. Migration is at the heart of successful development
December 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
In other words, the research literature suggests a much better basis for modern policy:
1. Labor wealth is a scarce, strategic asset
2. Skilled emigration an *investment* in a global network
3. Aid should help manage, not stop, migration
4. Migration is at the heart of successful development
1. Labor wealth is a scarce, strategic asset
2. Skilled emigration an *investment* in a global network
3. Aid should help manage, not stop, migration
4. Migration is at the heart of successful development
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Then someone turned up with a machine that looked like it was typing, and some of the finest MBA minds in the world were like, crumbs, it must be thinking
December 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Then someone turned up with a machine that looked like it was typing, and some of the finest MBA minds in the world were like, crumbs, it must be thinking
Fine work from the Python reference on down.
Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
December 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Fine work from the Python reference on down.
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This #internationalmigrantsday it's essential to remember pro-immigration policies benefit everyone, anti-immigration policies benefit no-one. It's essential we all work for those, and we don't allow migrants to be thrown under the bus in a hope of combatting the far right, who want just that. 10/10
December 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This #internationalmigrantsday it's essential to remember pro-immigration policies benefit everyone, anti-immigration policies benefit no-one. It's essential we all work for those, and we don't allow migrants to be thrown under the bus in a hope of combatting the far right, who want just that. 10/10
ME (steps out of time machine) You won’t believe the state of progress 30 years from now! Electric cars are a successful proposition and we’re eliminating coal fired power in favour of renewables! Artificial intelligence (if controversial) has blown past the Turing test and generates realistic (1/3)
December 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
ME (steps out of time machine) You won’t believe the state of progress 30 years from now! Electric cars are a successful proposition and we’re eliminating coal fired power in favour of renewables! Artificial intelligence (if controversial) has blown past the Turing test and generates realistic (1/3)
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At some point you have to accept that Labour isn't "combatting Reform" they are actively enabling Reform's growth by embedding Reform's narrative in the public consciousness, and setting the precedent for a potential Reform government to go even further.
December 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
At some point you have to accept that Labour isn't "combatting Reform" they are actively enabling Reform's growth by embedding Reform's narrative in the public consciousness, and setting the precedent for a potential Reform government to go even further.
Assuming the quoted facts are correct, this makes a lot of sense.
December 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Assuming the quoted facts are correct, this makes a lot of sense.
Tom McKinney: You know you’re in for a good day when you’re listening to a Haydn quartet at 7.15 in the morning
Me: I disagree. I think you’re on a HAYDN TO NOTHING
Me: I disagree. I think you’re on a HAYDN TO NOTHING
December 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Tom McKinney: You know you’re in for a good day when you’re listening to a Haydn quartet at 7.15 in the morning
Me: I disagree. I think you’re on a HAYDN TO NOTHING
Me: I disagree. I think you’re on a HAYDN TO NOTHING
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In the episode where Homer adopts a pet lobster it is called Mr Pinchy. In the European French version of The Simpsons, Mr Pinchy is instead called Homard Simpson (homard means lobster in French)
December 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
In the episode where Homer adopts a pet lobster it is called Mr Pinchy. In the European French version of The Simpsons, Mr Pinchy is instead called Homard Simpson (homard means lobster in French)
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HURRAH! Petitions are crap at making gov'ts do things they don't want to. But they are good for two things: First, making them explain why they won't do something, but second (and more important) nudging/giving them permission to do something they DO want, but that's been crowded out bandwidth-wise.
UK to hold inquiry into foreign financial interference in domestic politics
Review, which will focus on effectiveness of political finance laws, follows conviction of former Reform politician for accepting bribes
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
HURRAH! Petitions are crap at making gov'ts do things they don't want to. But they are good for two things: First, making them explain why they won't do something, but second (and more important) nudging/giving them permission to do something they DO want, but that's been crowded out bandwidth-wise.
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Sometimes, the cats are in prison for cat crimes. But on their side of the fence there is a cat, and on our side, there is none. Who is truly imprisoned, and who is the jailer?
December 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Sometimes, the cats are in prison for cat crimes. But on their side of the fence there is a cat, and on our side, there is none. Who is truly imprisoned, and who is the jailer?
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🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
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"[It] is a curious and interesting fact that, among musical games, those invented by women are very complicated and extraordinarily full of detail, while those invented by men are, with very rare exceptions, quite simple and generally adaptations from other games."
The Hidden History of Women Game Designers - JSTOR Daily
Nineteenth-century women turned music lessons into interactive entertainment, complete with spinning wheels and ivory counters.
daily.jstor.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:38 AM
"[It] is a curious and interesting fact that, among musical games, those invented by women are very complicated and extraordinarily full of detail, while those invented by men are, with very rare exceptions, quite simple and generally adaptations from other games."
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More leisure, better health outcomes, less inequality, less carbon emissions, all of which with broadly similar productivity:
The EU can be proud of its development model, and the Trumpists (and European conservatives that echo them) should keep it down a bit
The EU can be proud of its development model, and the Trumpists (and European conservatives that echo them) should keep it down a bit
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
More leisure, better health outcomes, less inequality, less carbon emissions, all of which with broadly similar productivity:
The EU can be proud of its development model, and the Trumpists (and European conservatives that echo them) should keep it down a bit
The EU can be proud of its development model, and the Trumpists (and European conservatives that echo them) should keep it down a bit
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A bigot may remain a bigot in his heart, but it’s still very much a strategic win if he becomes too intimidated to be horrible to others in public. When bigots are afraid, it becomes a lot *harder* for them to recruit others and to brutalize innocent people.
December 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
A bigot may remain a bigot in his heart, but it’s still very much a strategic win if he becomes too intimidated to be horrible to others in public. When bigots are afraid, it becomes a lot *harder* for them to recruit others and to brutalize innocent people.
I don’t think it’s 2, but I’d watch the six-part drama series of it
Scientifically speaking, there are only two possible explanations:
1. Voting Remain was good for your health
2. Someone is methodically hunting down and slaying Leave voters
1. Voting Remain was good for your health
2. Someone is methodically hunting down and slaying Leave voters
At least 2.5x the number of those voting leave Vs remain are now worm food.
Thanks
Thanks
December 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I don’t think it’s 2, but I’d watch the six-part drama series of it
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hi the person you have emailed is not entirely visible at the moment
December 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
hi the person you have emailed is not entirely visible at the moment
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The great thing about comics is they get to play with wild, imaginative ideas that could never happen in the real world, like "too much garlic".
December 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The great thing about comics is they get to play with wild, imaginative ideas that could never happen in the real world, like "too much garlic".
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The logical extension of "education is a moral good" is students occasionally having to take a class they hate.
The logical extension of "school is a pipeline to industry" is kids spending four years watching Amazon training videos before being sent into the fulfillment mines.
I know which I prefer.
The logical extension of "school is a pipeline to industry" is kids spending four years watching Amazon training videos before being sent into the fulfillment mines.
I know which I prefer.
December 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The logical extension of "education is a moral good" is students occasionally having to take a class they hate.
The logical extension of "school is a pipeline to industry" is kids spending four years watching Amazon training videos before being sent into the fulfillment mines.
I know which I prefer.
The logical extension of "school is a pipeline to industry" is kids spending four years watching Amazon training videos before being sent into the fulfillment mines.
I know which I prefer.
iPhone has decided that CHO… sorry, Chorlton, should always be auto corrected to CHORLTON
I know the place has an inflated sense of its own importance but come on!
I know the place has an inflated sense of its own importance but come on!
December 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
iPhone has decided that CHO… sorry, Chorlton, should always be auto corrected to CHORLTON
I know the place has an inflated sense of its own importance but come on!
I know the place has an inflated sense of its own importance but come on!
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The whole of my life, the anti consumerist, anti corporate, anti capitalist message was that we all “owned too much stuff”. But it turns out that owning stuff can actually be both a comfort and a rebellious act, because making you rent it keeps you on a much shorter leash, at their whim.
December 9, 2025 at 6:36 AM
The whole of my life, the anti consumerist, anti corporate, anti capitalist message was that we all “owned too much stuff”. But it turns out that owning stuff can actually be both a comfort and a rebellious act, because making you rent it keeps you on a much shorter leash, at their whim.
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Imagine you're running a university module on active travel. What would you include in the first lecture?
For me, I'd include two related things:
- motornormativity is ingrained in society
- most highway infrastructure is *car* infrastructure
@ianwalker.bsky.social
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social
For me, I'd include two related things:
- motornormativity is ingrained in society
- most highway infrastructure is *car* infrastructure
@ianwalker.bsky.social
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Imagine you're running a university module on active travel. What would you include in the first lecture?
For me, I'd include two related things:
- motornormativity is ingrained in society
- most highway infrastructure is *car* infrastructure
@ianwalker.bsky.social
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social
For me, I'd include two related things:
- motornormativity is ingrained in society
- most highway infrastructure is *car* infrastructure
@ianwalker.bsky.social
@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social
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If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
www.independent.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.