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jrsdavies.bsky.social
Old bloke. Now back living in NE London after sojourns in Oxford, Liverpool, Bloomsbury, Boston MA, Cardiff and N Ireland. Reads, sings in choirs, worries about Leyton Orient. Occasionally blogging at https://oldgeezerrereadingblog.wordpress.com/
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Why did no-one tell me that Homicide: Life on the Street is being re-run on Sky Atlantic? (It would be even better if it was on a channel I can actually watch)

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one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

Yes, definitely should have been Steve #greatpotterythrowdown

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Here's Graeber's whole article (it's quite short, but it says what needs to be said): jacobin.com/2021/03/davi...

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Dydd Gwyl Dewi hapus i bawb (and Slava Ukraini)

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I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni

submitted 12 days ago • 1041 comments

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responds, something we hopefully see a lot more of that from other European leaders. It's never been clearer than in this moment that Trump is Putin's ally, not Europe's.

submitted 12 days ago • 95 comments

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

submitted 14 days ago • 95 comments

Clubbed, beaten, attacked with dogs… The Geneva Conventions prohibit the targeting of healthcare workers, both civilian & military, yet Israel has tortured, starved & withheld medical treatment from Gaza’s doctors. It’s barbaric. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Tax the rich, FFS. Just do it, before it's too late to do anything.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I see that the BBC has caved in to pressure from the usual suspects - by claiming, without evidence - that the parent of the child who voices the documentary was a member of Hamas (when in reality he was an agriculturist, working for the Gazan Food Ministry).

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

The government is looking at another benefit crackdown when it should, instead, be looking at corporate fraud and its own failure to pay all the benefits owing to people. Why has it got its focus so wrong? Does it just hate people on benefits? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...

submitted 20 days ago • 35 comments

Local graffiti for Valentine's Day (or any day really)

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This is appalling. A major decision with profound implications for refugees can't even be debated in parliament. Because it's not primary or even secondary legislation it doesn't pass the attorney general's desk. Zero scrutiny. Zero accountability.

submitted 29 days ago • 22 comments

So after seven days of no deliveries, a Royal Mail person finally puts some post through our front door. But still no @radiotimes.bsky.social (7 days late) or @privateeyenews.bsky.social (6 days late). Plus whatever else we don't know about ... #RoyalMail

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Posting footage of deportations impresses no one. Reform voters don’t think it’s enough hatred and the rest of us turn away from yet more performative cruelty. The Labour vote disintegrates. If Labour can’t decide who it should be talking and listening to, then it ends up without an audience.

submitted 30 days ago • 99 comments

And this piece doesn’t even mention cuts at WNO, the defunding of Mid Wales Opera, or the axing of junior tuition at @rwcmd.bsky.social. The arts - and classical music in particular - are being destroyed on Welsh Labour’s watch.

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If a government is pushing for AI and sincerely believes in its potential, without proposing any economic solutions for the inevitable catastrophic levels of unemployment, then that’s the giveaway that they’ve stopped governing for the people of the country, and have been bought by speculators.

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

Suspending Viz is an act of war against British silliness

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

A mild complaint about theatre programmes, using the Wanamaker Playhouse's one for The Three Sisters (seen last night - I'd give it 3 stars) as an example: Why weren't we told (i) how many acts there are and at what point the interval comes; (1/2)

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

A petition in support of the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy at Cardiff, who are being threatened with job cuts that would be devastating for staff, students, and the university

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Seen outside the Nightingale pub in Wanstead: Stockport County supporters' coach. Obviously on their way to #lofc, but why stop there? #scfc

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

Starting to read a 1995 novel by writer who these days everyone seems to rate highly. Awful inelegant style, IMHO. Presumably she's improved since then

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Why is building a third Heathrow runway with all the implications extra air traffic has for net zero targets seen as more of a growth driver than, I don't know, connecting our big cities with proper rail networks?

submitted 42 days ago • 11 comments

Even after the Christmas pantos, ministers are staging their own version of Peter Pan: they close their eyes – and believe! The prime minister dreams of a “growth lever”; the chancellor wants everyone to “start saying ‘yes’”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

FRONT PAGE: THE MOON IS MADE OF CHEESE *two days of media circus about what to do about this terrible new cheese moon* Days later, in a tiny corner on p16: On further inspection the moon is not made of cheese, it is made of moon

submitted 44 days ago • 5 comments