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I help people understand things and change them, with data. Views here my own. "I can't quite work out whether you're a tremendously silly man, a tremendously serious man or, as I suspect, a rather unholy combination of both."
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I’m not sure I agree with everything that Ben, the underground rewilding activist, says here, but I’m sure he’s right when he says “You don't want to be caught with a box of beavers in the boot”. (And OP does raise an important concern. Kidnapping beavers from somewhere they’re happy is Bad.)

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More as a bookmark for myself than anything else, but on the headlines I am hopeful the ONS may be in a turnaround phase for what has been a distressing period of decline.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Well done everyone, you've all done really well this week! It's been a tough week in many ways but you are tough cookies and have made it through to the weekend, yet again. Really well done, and all the best for the weekend.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

"Ma'am, I know you are skeptical of international rules, but the one about never pointing a firearm at anything you don't intend to shoot is actually a really good one ..."

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

This is brilliant, a random English placename generator you can run yourself, online. Including rude names toggle. Long-term friends and followers will know I did something similar a good way back now: dougclow.org/2017/07/17/r... But I did not do the extra work to make it available online.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Have to say I thought there’d be more outrage about the porn checks coming in next month than there has been. Either there’s way fewer porn users than I thought, or they’re more relaxed about being identified by pornmongers than I thought, or they simply haven’t realised in any great number.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Low vaccination rates might be a product of NHS incompetence and inflexibility more than vaccine hesitancy: www.bmj.com/content/389/... ...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is cute and heartwarming and funny … and also it is slightly perturbing that bears were able to escape their enclosure and it’s being treated as entertainment (which it is) rather than a major breach of safety (which it may or may not have been).

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Shout out for excellent customer service to The Map Shop of Upton on Severn. www.themapshop.co.uk Old school website so easy to use, and the map arrived quickly and for a very reasonable price. It is an exciting map for planning my summer holiday. You don’t have to be the Map Men to love a good map.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Happy solstice! More light!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Well done everyone, you’ve all done really well this week! It really is extraordinary times and you really have been fantastic, and yet again you’ve made it through another week. Well done, and all the very best for the weekend and the solstice!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Turns out the ONS excludes the biggest stadium gigs from CPI tracking because ticket pricing is so variable between artists. Really pleased that for once we’ve learned something new about what the ONS is doing and it’s very sensible and what you’d have hoped they were doing!

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

submitted 8 days ago • 107 comments

On balance, the British public’s view of politicians and parties is unfavourable, apart from the Greens, who very appropriately are on net zero.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Very much the right choice IMO for Census 2031 to be an actual census. The spending review allocated funding for preparation, but it is still a very expensive choice that will put pressure on all the ONS’s other budgets, which from the outside already appear to be stretched far too thin.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Had the most amazing fun yet again at @bridgecommand.bsky.social. Friends and I took the bridge of a very realistic spaceship on an exciting mission. And I got a promotion for saving the reactor from explosion. Very strong recommend, excellent set, ace cast, really well run immersive experience.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Why does every tech system want to show me (an unreliable guess at) the weather? I want to see the stuff I'm working on. If I want a live weather status report I look out of the window.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment