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Hat-wearing devourer of chickpeas, Manchester vegan, manager of identities, developer of obscure software, Green inactivist, Elixir & Ruby coder, watcher of K-dramas, daft-apeth. Alignment: Quixotic-Good https://binary-ape.org

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Percentage of European Adults Over 15 Who Smoke France really living up to its stereotype here. Which country surprises you the most (either higher or lower)? Stats for all countries in the world: brilliantmaps.com/european-...

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Fly-tipping escalates

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I'm sorry Brendan but it's for the best

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I'm not totally against ID schemes, and some are much better than others - I'm not one of the people who refuse anything national ID related - but the long-running enthusiasm for ID cards from parts of the Labour Party has always been rather murky when you look beyond the marketing.

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"I didn't expect public services to demand MY identity card", says person who believes ID cards make public services more efficient

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

He's one of the least authentic working class politicians. He's a very successful con artist, making the ill-informed vote for a party that doesn't give a shit about them.

submitted 14 hours ago • 5 comments

Also it will be run by someone like Palantir and be subject to a massive data breach. You cant have an electronic database that governs the rights you are allowed to have in this country. It is such a bad idea and solves no problem that isn't better solved by telling the Home Office to chill out.

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

I have a small additional grumble which is that "Britcard" is a bad name that sounds like it's from Judge Dredd, but also maybe not very inclusive of Northern Ireland

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Live footage from the Tony Blair Institute

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If I was selling compulsory ID cards I simply wouldn't make my pitch: "we are going to make you all carry compulsory ID that will cost you £100+ so we can give the police and immigration enforcement Trump-style powers. This is progressive." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Child casualties almost halved, child deaths down by 3/4… All the other stats don’t really matter

submitted 17 hours ago • 24 comments

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

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My hope is that they both continue taking stimulants in order to stay awake and have the last word, and then both die as a result. It's a simple, pure hope.

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I still think this is one of the most gutting notes I’ve ever read.

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not such a long process after all www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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If you didn't know that you can curl a live parrot then I think you need to reevaluate your priorities as an engineer.

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As a contrast, I've just had a random B2B email politely enquiring if I would like to advertise on buses in one Lancashire town, which I do not, but it did not make me pull a sour face or want to do the Darth Vader Force-choking thing.

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God I hate chatty, jokey over-familiar business-to-business spam. Regular spam: emotionless deletion. B2B Patter: Utter Disgust

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Oh, come on, Leafblower Man, be fair, I don't deafen you with my project update meetings via Zoom when you're working

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Futurama had a throwaway joke about how, in the future, "Smell you later" replaced "Good bye" I think we're soon at the point where "Hello" is replaced by "Sorry, I've no idea what's going on with Teams"

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Salem's Parking Lot

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I have opinions.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

This story is free to read, like all WIRED stories based on FOIA.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

I'm rewatching the Mushi-Shi anime and it's just as good as I remembered. It may have even somehow improved with age. It helps that I've forgotten what happens in each episode, but even if I did still it's still such a thoughtful, beautiful, melancholy work of art.

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Matt Goodwin, leading intellectual: "If we start from these nonsensical assumptions, make two marks on a piece of paper and then take a ruler... draw a line, keep drawing a line... Oh My God!"

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Can we stop with the Billie Piper's ex thing? She shouldn't be defined by him & she divorced him for her own good and sanity. She's not her ex.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments