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willavery.net

Retired IT bod from Bristol.🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 Interested in science, open source tech, 中文.

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If the online right decided that the value of pi was 3, the BBC would ban circles for treading on a matter of public controversy.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Some side hustles are ok, some are not, seemingly.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

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submitted 7 days ago • 234 comments

Paul Harris was the 2021 Hong Kong Bar Association chair. He left Hong Kong around the time that Article 23, Hong Kong's SECOND national security law (after the one that China imposed on the city in 2020) was passed in March of last year.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

1/ It particularly looks like "normal" to tourists/visitors. A friend from the US who's been to Hong Kong multiple times before -- but previously all before 2019 -- visited over the weekend. The biggest differences he noticed: there's more street graffiti and fewer neon signs in Hong Kong now...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

That is not what the visa application process looks like

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Aping Farage working out well for Labour here, I see

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

Monday: "We have finally found a Brexit benefit" Wednesday: "Nope, lost it again"

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

Absolutely damning. Seems that the British government made not attempt to find out if the Russians had interfered in the EU Brexit referendum.

submitted 15 days ago • 105 comments

“vietnam has been very unfair to america and owes us compensation” is a wild take

submitted 16 days ago • 127 comments

w w w . no fucking shit . c n

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Current Starmer policy re tariffs and ‘end of globalisation’ etc risks not just being wrong but severely damaging the government’s credibility with the financial markets and other states.

submitted 19 days ago • 32 comments

submitted 19 days ago • 65 comments

Bizarre from Darren Jones: Trump is upending economic order but trade war so far is US versus everyone else, that's still a lot of global trade left. And hypocrisy of Tories quoting jobs 'saved' from 10%tariff, when many times bigger economic damage from brexit. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Can governments everywhere please stop listening to people who want to go back to the 1950s.

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

Indeed. This isn't the end of globalisation, as I may have said about a million times. It is populist trade politics ignoring the world as it is. And if the UK is afraid of the US then we can't be an open trade leader or significantly deepen EU trade relations.

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments