And, as we were all told, many, many times during our childhood, "two wrongs don't make a right"

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Just ordered one. Will make a good activity for the limbo days between Xmas and new year

In the civil service there is a cliff edge at £56k for pension contributions. They are not tapered (i.e. the rate applies to your whole income, not just the bit over the threshold)
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Going from £56000 to £56001 costs a worker 2% of their pay, or £1120

Was in the West end last weekend and attempting to walk around was just horrific / impossible with the volumes of pedestrians squeezed onto tiny pavements while cars and pedicycles happily trundled around on the road. Can't come soon enough.

Great post. I think their plagiarism is lazier then you make out. Doubt they're sitting there with a thesaurus. Tell any LLM "Rewrite this: " and then paste text. And you'll get the almost the same, but a few words and sentences swapped or moved output that is their MO. It's just lazy AI.

The only way Labours strategy makes any sense is if they have been deliberately going soft on Reform in order to hasten the demise of the Tories / further split voters on the right across the two parties. Presumably thinking this leads to an easier GE win in 2029 than doing otherwise

The 5 star review system is broken, both for art, and also (especially) for businesses / products. Should be a 3 star system.
1 - Bad. You'd tell people to avoid it
2 - Average / as expected. Not going to rush to mention to anyone. But did the job
3 - Outstanding. You'd actively recommend to others

Only downside is shops basically have to pay a fee to make sales under the scheme so often will only agree to sell full price items under it. I.e. as a consumer, you often can't use it to take advantage of sales run by bike shops, only full price items. Still good though

This might be the reminder I need to get myself physical copies printed of 11000111, Baroness and 01101010, Dissect.
Just little ones to put in the corner of the office though, I don't want to give myself nightmares