drvon2.bsky.social
London based, yoga enthusiast, project manager and cynic.
Last used Twitter 04 July 23 (and that was to DM a Bluesky invite code)
User: #32,221, Reg: 23Apr2023
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The metaphysics of Quantum theory! - sounds like my kind of book.
I'm still disappointed that I didn't notice the word "Unfinished" in Adam Beckers's "What is real?" so I got a lot of history of Quantum Physics and no answer.
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And just like that, The Arakis History podcast was born
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I always have a spare mask in my pocket which I'll wear if the bus or Tube is busy. On Thursday I realised it was a Christmas patterned one, but I still wore it.
(Fewer than 200 days to go 🎄🎅)
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People need to get more comfortable having allies who sometimes do cringey things. Building community isn't about everyone being a perfect extremely cool and hip person. It's about working together towards a common goal. You want the cringey people on your side.
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I'm just gonna go ahead and say it: I don't think King George should sponsor the Army birthday celebration
Apparently they are military contractors and I am apparently not the only person who's mentioned the issue here
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I do not recall the public being asked whether they want to go to war to protect a government that is committing genocide against its subject population
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In case I haven't already recommended this one
The taster menu is quite expensive, but worth it.
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And, of course, you should probably have LOTS of feeds!
Eg Discord, Medievalists, PhilSky, Indie Music, etc
As well as the obvious Following feed. I've heard there's something called Discover but I've never seen it
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The Phene is your wedding pub after you get married in Chelsea registry office.
Three wedding parties there on the afternoon of my son's wedding.
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It's because Reform hasn't is stance on it. Everything on the BBC seems to revolve around Nigel.
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At least the candle is invisible
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Fortunately I still have the @graysky.app (although it's quite annoying that it has the options in black text on a black background)
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I am outraged!
A whole bacon sandwich should more than cover a Tube ride.
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I bought one last week. Not as good value as you might think - smaller than normal size
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Such a shame for poor Al and Alexandra...
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I hope @nataliehaynes.bsky.social has seen this
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Nice to see he's been blocked by thousands of BlueSky users - all of them (including mine) after reading this post.
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I'm so excited...
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📌 bookmark for future reference
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After social-media users pointed out that by this definition neither Winston Churchill nor the king count as white British, the explanatory clause was silently excised.
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When the first version of 3 June's scoop, "White British people will be a minority in 40 years, report claims", went online at 9.04am, it cited research that by 2100 "the white British share of the population defined as people who do not have an immigrant parent could have fallen to around a third".
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"We're all under pressure to churn out endless non-stories just to satiate the editors' unhinged bugbears," says one weary Telegraph hack.
No whisper of all this appeared on the paper's corrections page. And it continues to quietly erase embarrassments.
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Admitting she "should have spotted this myself", she feared "someone has deliberately tried to deceive us and no one spotted it".
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"I can't get hold of the commissioning editor, the picture editor or the freelancer who wrote the story," executive Money editor Lauren Davidson wrote in a panicked email to bosses just after 5pm that day, when she pulled the piece.
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It was staff on the paper who decided, on finding no photos of investment bankers Al and Alexandra Moy and their improbably named kids Ali, Harry and Barry were available, to publish the story with stock photos
"We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can't go on five holidays".
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As Fuller has confided to friends on social media, she worked on it in good faith.
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The freelance journalist whose byline appeared on the article, Georgina Fuller, took much online flak, but her involvement was simply writing up the "case study" passed to her by the Money desk, who claim received from a mysterious "outside party".
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A Telegraph spokesperson eventually admitted to the Eye that the piece in its Money section on 25 May was based on a case study who had provided "false information". It "unpublished" and investigated, admitting that its internal processes had been, er, "not strong enough".
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ALT TEXT:
FAMILY FORTUNES
HOW did the Telegraph come to publish a piece about a high-earning family who didn't exist yet were financially crippled by Labour's imposition of VAT on private school fees - and then abruptly delete it from the website when the fakery was spotted (see last Eye)?
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yes, I think that probably is what you actually said.
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Part of a body?
...of a person who is not yet dead?
"Please cremate my lower left leg which was amputated last week"
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on that basis, listening to the radio would also be lazy. I think you need to think it out again, Amol !