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Nick Brown
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English/Irish/EU in Spain. PhD in psychology & self-appointed data police cadet. Interested in the lower tail of many distributions. Not yet disabled. ID confirmation: https://x.com/sTeamTraen/status/1858181372126408774
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 16h
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 22h
When you bank sends an e-mail saying "Please ignore the e-mail we sent earlier asking whether it was you who had connected a new payee to your account. The reason you weren't then able to contact us by phone or app was because we had sent the same e-mail to several thousand customers".
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 1d
Those Jenrick guidelines in full...
a man in a military uniform is standing in front of a room with people sitting at tables .
ALT: a man in a military uniform is standing in front of a room with people sitting at tables .
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1d
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 2d
Copy-editor: You had one job
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 2d
FFS Google, look at the calendar
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 3d
Gotta say, my money is on the sailors.
Headline: 5,000 U.S. sailors and 400 British travel agents set for Magalluf
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 3d
The UN continues to be the world's biggest chocolate teapot.
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 5d
It's almost as if they have something to hide.
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 7d
The wheels are coming off at Gmail.
An e-mail from Google Docs saying that a document has been shared with me. The e-mail has been marked as spam by Gmail.
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 7d
It works for entering the UK from the EU and the EU from the UK. For entering the UK it is explicitly mentioned on the UK government website. For entering the EU, any proof of EU citizenship is valid.
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 7d
Also, I enter the Schengen area several times per year with my Irish passport card and it is even accepted by the e-gates at Spanish airports (as long as you know which corner of the scanner to place the card so that the scanner finds the chip!).
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 7d
This is absolutely incorrect. All EU citizens (IE now, UK pre-Brexit) can enter the Schengen area with proof of citizenship, and an ID card is fine for that. UK citizens with ID cards were able to do so from 11/2009 to 01/2011. See Article 8 para 2 of Regulation(EU)2016/399. /
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 8d
@benansell.bsky.social

You have a typo ("as a horny handed sons of toil")
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 8d
On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n
British Politics' Midlife Crisis
Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 8d
Today in construct validity, we're going to be looking at...

qz.com/work/1225213...

(Presumably listing the same author twice is just a snafu!)
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 8d
I've heard of cases where what were very obviously the same data were published in 2 journals with 2 different results, but because neither journal could tell which was first, they let both articles stand. 🤷‍♂️
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 9d
Many Christians don't regard Mormons as Christians. But also, a Mormon killed their beloved Charlie.
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 9d
TIL that HIGNFY has been exported to the US and I really, really want to know who plays Ian Hislop.
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 9d
And the more-patriotic-than-Farage politicians are named something like Carlos García, or perhaps Maureen Hernandez.
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 9d
Shoppers from La Linea in M&S buying English goods from shop assistants from La Linea.
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 9d
Have you ever been there? If not, don't bother.
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 9d
I don't think I've ever taken a case to editors where the issue was a pattern that (only) showed a problem if you considered multiple papers.

There was a pair of Wansink papers where he recycled tables but I don't think we went to the editors with that. Or maybe we did and they were useless. 🤷‍♂️
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 10d
When you finally send the 11,000-word analysis document and the 1,300-word cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief, detailing some very strange patterns in the data from two articles in his journal, after working on it for almost a year.
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 10d
I assume he had dessert. 🙄
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 10d
I carried my passport every day for about 6 months, then realised that the chance of needing to show it was minimal. That was 44 years ago. Still only been stopped once, and it cost me 20 minutes and no fine. I'd probably have lost 3 or 4 passports in that time if I'd carried it everywhere.
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