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Writer, editor and presenter. QTS via Roehampton PGCE (2022), but older trainee history teachers just aren't hot right now. Ask me to write about business, finance, MR, PM, AI, VC & PE, HR, IT... It's not the platform, it's us; RSS FTW! #1,569,801
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First date with my now wife was to Kevin Bacon death penalty drama Murder In The First. I'm not saying it's the worst date movie, but I cannot imagine a less appropriate one.
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In the 80s I would play computer games and get stuck and then a month later a magazine would publish an "infinite lives poke" and I could cheat my way to the higher levels but immediately they'd had no value, because the path there was easy.
We've infinity lives poked creativity.
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You're better qualified to judge the potential psychologies at play! But this didn't sound to me like a dismissive "honey"; more like a verbal tic one would employ chatting to your partner. Either way, the guy was immediately mortified so I'm not sure we've uncovered a misogynist fifth columnist.
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I bet that's one of the few places that been *really* thoroughly checked for novichock by professionals!
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I can see why it's liked - but apart from the plethora of identikit traumas, the massively over-dressed sets and actors were a real turn-off for me. Unless I'm being very unfair and the Scottish police are getting big discounts on Farrow & Ball paints, achingly trendy clothes and designer haircuts.
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Thanking you for todays procrastination destination. "Prodestination"? Needs work.
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This is nearly 30 years old, and while pub culture has changed a bit in that time (basically, fewer of them, and the prices are much higher, shifting the attendance profile) it's still pretty strong: www.scribd.com/document/127... You can buy copies at all good used bookelling sites
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NOT A DATA EXPERT, but my guess: government IT inefficiency is a combo of massive over-caution about data privacy; and massively uneven tech infrastructure. We're used to Amazon or Google handling literally billions of accounts very effectively and wonder why govt can't. Paranoia and technical debt.
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Dammit, I knew my approach of always trying to mis-time my shots was bound to have a downside...
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My work displacement activity this year has been a GEDCOM family tree of the English monarchy and associated nobility. Trump feels pretty late medieval in his foreign policy, favours and punishments. Can he issue an act of attainder on Musk? A lot of people are saying he should
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Meanwhile, I stumbled on the table from our last promotion, and it's left me feeling happier. Brentford (who didn't even go up that year) and Fulham seem to have secured reasonable EPL safety margins since going up - so the "3 up going back down" narrative in my head has calmed.
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Finding it hard to get worked up - they'll be looking for value and it's probably available in the market, but I'm pleased they're not dumped £40m on a "PL-ready" no-mark. I'd rather got down with a creative side we worked hard to uncover and mould, than go bankrupt (cough*Scum*cough)
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I broadly agree the balance is off and the triple lock, in particular, looks over-generous. But I wonder what happens to the financial and social burden on younger generations if their elderly (grand)parents require more financial and domestic care from them, not the state (i.e. all taxpayers)
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Sorry, just to emphasise: I completely agree that there's something potentially brain-rottingly bad about any web site that's engineered to keep you hooked with (possibly untrustworthy!) content. But being bad in that way doesn't make the platform itself "untrustworthy"
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All true, but I don't know how that affects the *platform's* "trustworthiness". If all I watched on YouTube was serious documentaries about palaeontology on accredited universities' channels and the autoplay kept offering those kinds of things to me, is that in some way inherently "untrustworthy"?
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True. But the trustworthiness of the site is in question, and although I'm generally very wary of algo-suggested further viewing, that's just an amplification mechanism for specific content. Put another way, the end-of-show trails on Radio 4 do the same job. Does that make "radio" less trustworthy?
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I agree: if you go on Truth Social, you're choosing to be with people who are very likely to share a narrow set of beliefs. But even now, Xitter isn't that. (My Xitter feed was very benign, all things considered...) And I wouldn't assume TikTok users are incurious, any more than I would TV watchers.
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I didn't think we could get worse takes on 'race' and 'nation' than they had in the 1890s, but here we are.
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I hate to be that guy, but none of these is a source to be either trusted on not. It's like saying 'paper is more trusted than vellum' or '300Mhz is more reliable for news than 535khz'.
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This, really. It's all performative, and we routinely react in precisely the way they expect and want. I'm just tired of it all (which, I fear, is precisely the eventual reaction they also want...)
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"One small step for an American, one giant leap for Americans." Yeah, doesn't have the same ring.