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I'm not that kind of doctor. IT specialist and occasional patient magnet. Currently [email protected]; previously answered to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected].
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Important news: the Weston Library in Oxford (part of the Bodleian) has added a small baby play space. And they've called it the Toddleian.

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New remake of THE TRANSPORTER confirmed.

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Whoops.

imagine waking up and thinking it's a bit cloudy today and looking out of the window and---

"Microsoft Sentinal" "Detender for Cloud" These are not serious people.

A useful unpacking of the various ways that the proposed US FDA restriction on COVID-19 vaccination to the over 65s and clinically vulnerable is fucking stupid.

Sadly, this is a lost clause.

That IS awesome. :)

Had exactly this experience recently. Someone used a generative fully-automatic bullshit generator to produce a plausible solution to a problem which looked initially plausible, with citations. When I followed up on those citations, I found that the claimed solution did not, in fact, exist.

And politically stupid, too. Alienates core vote (& they do have places to go) in pursuit of votes he'll rarely get, & demolishes his core policy agenda of growth, making his re-election more unlikely. Even those (inc. me) willing to cut him a lot of slack feel betrayed. A truly awful day for UK.

@postoctobrist.bsky.social Hope you have a super time at WaaP, know some other great folk who'll be there. :)

POTUS47 possibly thinks he's found a way to squeeze big media in the US to force their news coverage to be more.. compliant. Meanwhile, a massive supply chain shock from the first wave of tariffs is propagating towards the US, and should start being seriously felt in one, maybe two weeks…

Oh, carry forth and autoprocreate, you blithering toerag. bsky.app/profile/impl...

An illustration of how FPP goes from sandbag to springboard - Reform votes and seats in different councils: Oxfordshire: 18% vote, 2% seats Cambridgeshire: 23% vote, 16% seats Devon: 27% vote, 30% seats Leicestershire: 33% vote, 46% seats Derbyshire: 37% vote, 66% seats

My interview with @iandunt.bsky.social on how the UK government got to be so bad. It's not individuals but bad incentives and bad systems that make effective governance impossible. We run through the UK's many institutional absurdities and how to fix them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yfo...

Given that we now really really do seem to have multiparty politics in this country, wouldn't it be great if our voting system reflected that? STV ASAP, plz

Good beans doing important and virtuous work.

This afternoon, our branch voted very strongly in favour of the motion below, expressing support for trans, intersex & non-binary people, & demanding our institution does the same (e.g. by restoring the seemingly vanished uni policies RE trans & intersex people). docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This whole article is worth reading, but this bit in particular jumped out at me.

So, apparently a large fraction of Spain and Portugal are having a snap-to-black moment: "Massive power blackout across Spain" (autotranslated) cadenaser.com/nacional/202...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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