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williamheath.bsky.social
Semi-retired social entrepreneur based in Bath, England. Current projects include Kelston Roundhill farm, Fairfield House (former home of HIM Haile Selassie I), Bath inter-faith work. Residual interest in digital public services.
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Two days in a row I've rung NHS services, spoken to cheerful receptionists and got an appointment NEXT DAY: one dentist, one GP. What is happening? Am I confabulating? Is this a fluke? Is this Starmerism? #Baffled #Weird #Inagoodway

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

It's as if the whole of life is now computers locking people out of services to which they're entitled.

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If you want to pledge something to help Fairfield House acquire this noble model bust of HIM by one of the UK's finest sculptors... message me bonhams.com/auction/...

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I rarely attend auctions but today I'm attending one (Frome, a friend selling family items) but listening in to another (Bonhams London, where a Haile Selassie bust is coming up, which would be perfect in Fairfield House...but Jacob Epstein...won't come cheap)

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Jacob Epstein HIM study up for auction tomorrow: it's a gem. What chance Fairfield House puts in a winning bid? To help: pledge now to [email protected] tinyurl.com/HIM-bust

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@natjdyer.bsky.social see also this piece from 2020 by Chris Yapp (via LinkedIn) #Ricardo #ComparativeAdvantage

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Nice of the FT to publish my letter www.ft.com/content/1328...

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Fairfield House: Tripadvisor now saying #6 of best things to do in Bath Still time to book your tour 1200 or 1330...Sundays till Christmas www.ticketsource.co.uk/fairfield-house

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Oi. @Google If we're trying to log into a little used GMail account then what's the point of sending a verification code to the GMail account we're trying to log into? Just asking...

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Lengthy long sanctimonious callcentre waiting list lecture from @Ecotricity about all the good things they do. And "great news" about something apparently (I'm too seething to listen to what it is). The only GREAT NEWS will be when you get round to answering the **** phone

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Call me a dumbass techno-ignoramus but...why does my mobile say it has no internet until I turn the Wifi off, when it seems to work? Can't it work out for itself that there's a mobile signal but no wifi?

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Another top tip from resilient and good-natured Melissa Ryan at Ctrl-Alt-Right-Delete: save your headspace from daily Maga2.0 clowncar crash news; just check the WTF Just Happened Today newsletter - whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

Author Nat Dyer points out that even the saintly Isaac Newton ended up getting rich minting guineas out of gold mined in South America by enslaved Africans. Comparative advantage at work... #RicardosDream

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

New book - Ricardo's Dream, by Nat Dyer - published this month which points out the enormous human cost of crude adherence to "comparative advantage" economist thinking. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/ricard...

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Stuart Kirk today advocating Ricardo's comparative advantage theory to the COP folk - www.ft.com/content/e574... (paywall, whatever)

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Blowhard Stuart Kirk writes in #FT COP delegates should remember comparative advantage theory. Meanwhile new book Ricardo's Dream shows very clearly the monumental damage caused when policymakers fail to take into account the human cost of adherence to David Ricardo's idea.

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"How James Dyson’s farming empire may land his estate with £120mn in death duties" Couldn't happen to a nicer tax-avoiding Brexiteer...

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First mistletoe on the new #KelstonRoundhill plantation. Wasn’t expecting that. (New as in only 10 years old that is)

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

What have economists missed for all these years? Great talk by Nat Dyer launching his book "Ricardo's Dream" at Bath's #BRLSI, about the influence and limitations of the ideas David Ricardo (who married a Quaker, and came to Bath).

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

The Koran loves uncertainty, we learn. The state of doubt means your heart is alive. #BathInterFaith

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Diving into Bath Inter Faith work. We’re really blessed to have a really learned and enlightened Imam, tonight in dialogue with Michael, Bishop of Wells about science and religion.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

USians be all like "who cares about ethics as long as we stick it to the libs". Cue suffering on a global, industrial scale.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

I expect there's some Schadenfreude to be had as Trump's deplorables fall out with each other in a sequence of fireworks displays of mutual loathing. But it'll be scant consolation for all the horrors...

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I literally thought once the Tories were booted out we'd stop having these ludicrous "See it say it sorted" announcements at railway stations. Who's responsible for them? How do we get them to stop? I know there are more important things, but that's how naive an optimist I was...

submitted 110 days ago • 2 comments

We all wish #LedByDonkeys' work had never been necessary. But's needed now, more than ever

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#Whydontyougetbackintobed? Now, more than ever: Ian Dury's Reasons to be cheerful youtu.be/1injh4-n1jY?...

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List of things which might survive the cruelty of years of kakistocratic Drumpf presidency enabled by the vile Musk: - music - comedy Needs something bigger. #IanDunt expresses it well: love will prevail. iandunt.substack.com/p/cruelty-ha...

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Get The Blessing live at #TheBellInn Bath, livestream, right now in our local #cooperative Srsly. Just what we need right now (with a brandy maybe) www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4jJ...

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[This for a school class, or your friendly local AI]: Draft a speech for President Biden to say what he does next. Bear in mind he has immunity for all acts done in an official capacity.

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

Oh Lord. Clicking the "AI Assist" button in a scheduler just generates reams of formulaic garbage and sends it out in quadruplicate. No one wants to have to read that. Do we need some sort of "this was actually written by a human being" watermark?

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So...have I got this right? Character limits: - 280 ex-Twitter (still huge, owned by the loathsome Musk; fatally flawed) - 300 on Bluesky (13.5m users; some good people on it) - 500 on Mastodon (Tweetdeck-like, 10m users, seem nice people) - 3000 on LinkedIn... (this post 277)

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Lesson 1: word lengths on different platforms. #scheduler

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Social media. What a thicket in a complex life. Just like I've had to hire in a demon brushcutter to hack through the brambles in our plantation I've taken some advice on using a #scheduler to tackle the matrix of projects versus platforms. Projects would be Kelston Roundhill farm, Fairfield Hous

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