alonzoswhitebeard.bsky.social
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That is hardly the sort of pettifogging detail which would restrain the bold, crusading Sunday Times.
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I trust the torrent and piracy ecosystem to provide continued access to media for the rest of my life, even though individual services will be closed down and alternatives will spring up along the way.
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Deliberate Dexy’s callback surely
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The shillings that lurked around for decades after decimalisation pretending to be five pence pieces.
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Deilocracy?
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It’s terrifying that there are people at the top of the media tree not old enough to remember perfectly well that Thursday was Media Guardian day.
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Post-legislative scrutiny doesn’t prevent some applicants in obvious and immediate need making use of the legislation, so you have pipecleaner projects and an evidence base to inform clinical practice. Which would result in more effective scrutiny and governance than an a priori “review”.
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It’s absolutely not feasible for an independent assessment of palliative care to conclude, after which a public consultation and an independent review are to be commissioned and completed, within the lifespan of this government, never mind by the second year of the parliament.
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The only real rationale for this is to kick it into the long grass and avoid upsetting voters who are either pro or anti. Cynical politics at its finest.
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Lovely stuff. I feel very silly not to have searched for your account the moment I signed up.
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The answer turned out to be something called #Graysky which delivers a much better version of this platform, and has a pleasantly gloomy icon to boot.
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This, but also excruciating because it’s all jolly gossip between Shipman and his mates, and he spills excerpts all over the Times, as if we are all in on the joke and think these dreadful, dreadful people are endearing rogues.
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But civilians absorb mores and shibboleths from our social superiors. That’s why we vaguely think you’re not supposed to call voters stupid, and that people’s concerns are legitimate even if they are arseholes. We think it because pols observe those rules out of self interest, and hacks follow suit.
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I don’t think there’s much evidence that people outside of London really want tax breaks for agricultural investors, or even that people who live in the countryside like farmers all that much. Sentiment about English yeomen is just rightist London bubble stuff.
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Was it the one about the dog who was resistant to every form of hypnotism, even when you cranked up the bow tie to 300 rpm? I heard that told of Derren Brown, and he doesn’t even specialise in your field.
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That’s a very cunning way of expensing your lunch for the next week or so.
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299. A trip to Cockfosters. Shop at the Greek bakery. Stroll through Trent Park, a hot chocolate and a pikelet at the animal centre cafe, then the same bus back from the 1930s to inner outer London.
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102 to Brent Cross.
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But it downloads fine, it’s not like WhatsApp where it’s simply not available to us. Might try a third party app though. Thanks!
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A proper plate. That one has had lip fillers for an exaggerated pout, it probably follows lots of bowls on TikTok and felt inadequate.
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The jaguar in profile has always been much nicer than the snarling beast on the grille. I like everything about this rebrand, even though their decision to ditch the I-Pace has buggered resale values to the point that ours would be an immediate write-off if anything went wrong with it.
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So are posters with fewer than 100 followers honest workers, precariat or underclass?
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This is excellent news for anyone who yearns to tear down the bastions of capitalism: Jay’s seductive praise of everything laden with fat and stodge and salt will now be directed at people who can afford, like him, to order any eaterie’s entire menu. Half of the City will expire like Mr Creosote.
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You can look at the feast days, and the phases of the moon and stars, and double-check against the French Revolutionary Calendar and be pretty sure you have it right, but the Spotify haruspices just have to be upset by a single entrail for all that work listening to highbrow playlists to be wasted.
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Quite a few!
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Wednesday 27th looks most likely, it is usually four days before a new moon.
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To be fair, corporate X users like HMG likely need to post their content on both platforms simultaneously. The market for COTS/FOSS tools that achieve this could take at least six months to stabilise, so perhaps the Govt Digital Service is counselling caution before Whitehall transitions en masse.
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Always tricky when people in disability-adjacent communities appear to meet the criteria for ME/CFS but say proudly that they have finally been diagnosed with a functional neurological disorder. Should one explain that no, they’ve just fallen into the clutches of a dreadful neurologist? Or not?
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Polling data is essential for informed tactical voting in jurisdictions with ludicrous FPTP systems.
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* Laughs in Aylesburian *
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Getting people unnecessarily worried about inheritance tax is a smart trick, but scaring them about the terrible impact of VAT on school fees when their kids get free education is even more impressive.
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It’s nice to see a Guardian headline where “police chief” actually means CC, though, rather than a PCC or the chief executive of a PCC’s office or a chief super or the chair of a local fed.
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Orwell, rather than osmosis. His essay on boys’ comics is unforgettable.
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I’ll need some information first.
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I saw a theory somewhere that politicians should never fuck with anyone who is depicted in Richard Scarry books, but IIRC he mainly drew cows and pigs and other farm animals, albeit engaged in human occupations. Don’t farmers feed swanburgers to pigs? Surely they’re at more risk from the Scarry law?
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“let nonsense like this go out in their name” - does an unremarkable backbencher like BO-J really have a socials team busily creating content for his legions of fans?
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There are just as many disability and chronic illness activists who are strongly in favour of assisted dying. We can be forgiven for being more vocal than healthy able-bodied people on this subject, but not for pretending that our particular viewpoints are shared across the disability community.