@vodafonegroup.bsky.social Your roaming settings/spend caps/controls are an absolutely confusing mess, and contradictory. It really needs some UX love.
Channing Walton
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Scala software developer, unison-lang wannabe dev, amateur pianist, dad, husband, and keeper of six small furry beasts.
Brexit is costing the UK £11.7bn a year in lost exports according to findings by Logistics UK. And a business survey by the European Movement UK has revealed that 73% of firms say that Brexit has had a negative impact on their businesses - with 98% wanting the UK to rejoin the EU’s single market.
True cost of Brexit on UK trade revealed as calls to rejoin single market grow
Exclusive: The damning findings comes as a major new survey shows that 98.2 per cent of businesses want access to the EU single market restored
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Millions of oat milk drinkers worldwide are about to learn that a global super-majority of people want stronger climate action. Oatly, the largest oat drink company in the world, is printing summaries of what it calls “the ultimate climate solution” on every carton it produces.
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ISAAC ASIMOV
A 19-year-old in Texas has spent nearly a year raising her 13-year-old sister after their parents were detained by ICE and deported to Honduras. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
U.S. citizen teens left behind when ICE deported their parents
After their mom and dad were deported, two Fort Worth teens went nearly a year before seeing their parents.
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“IPP prisoners need justice, not another empty promise” Kim Johnson MP www.independent.co.uk/voices/ipp-p...
IPP prisoners need justice, not another empty promise
IPP sentences were abolished more than a decade ago, yet hundreds of people remain trapped in their consequences. The government must not raise hopes again without delivering a clear route to justice,...
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Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 4w agoUnited Nations working group has condemned UK over endless IPP sentences. It’s been described as state sponsored torture and it’s happening in this country right now. My film from March explains more about one of the greatest injustices of the past half youtu.be/-Uo6dXX2oeg?...
As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?
As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations
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“So far, we hear a stream of seemingly disconnected stories: floods, droughts, food prices, energy bills, migration, and insurance. Rarely are we shown how they fit together in the bigger picture.” ✍️ Mike Berners-Lee
Not the ‘New Normal’ Educating the Public on the Nature and Climate Crisis is a Step to Putting it Firmly on the Political Agenda – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
Professor Mike Berners-Lee, chair of the National Emergency Briefing, sets out the ‘civic moment’ he is trying to create as extreme weather events show no sign of slowing
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Watching Reacher. We have pirates day. We should have Reacher day in which everyone speaks dramatically without expression. The winner is the person that gets through the day without losing it.
🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
The Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...
Last week, there were two alleged plots to attack Muslim mosques and events uncovered by police in the UK. So why did they not grab national headlines or force government ministers into action? My latest for @zeteo.uk. Read/share/subscribe: zeteo.uk/p/people-are...
People Are Trying to Murder Muslims and the Response From Our Political and Media Elites Is a Deafening Silence
Last week, there were two alleged plots to attack Muslim mosques and events uncovered by police in the UK. So why did they not grab national headlines or force government ministers into action?
zeteo.uk
Join pianist Ariel Lanyi this evening with a thoughtfully-crafted programme, concluding with the character studies and atmospheric impressions of Debussy's second book of Préludes 🎹 🕰️ 7.30pm 🎶 Beethoven, Debussy, R Schumann and Respighi 🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202607181930
Yes take standing charges off gas but also do it for electricity - in both cases it’s regressive. But don't just reduce VAT, take it away completely. Energy is not a luxury, how often do we hear of this choice between heating and eating - neither are luxuries.
There's gonna be a new PM. What he needs is an op-ed telling him what to do, of which there's no doubt a lamentable absence. Here's the time-hallowed method for creating one: 1. Set out the problem cleanly, as if the PM had literally no idea that growth, the cost of living and deficit matter. 1/
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
ICE killed someone else this morning. A Maine man aged 26 who was killed in front of his 3 year old child. That’s now 11 people ICE have killed on the streets of the US. A reminder that both Farage and Badenoch have said they’d introduce a similar style force here in the uk if they were PM.
Free Mac app WhatCable tells you what each of your USB-C cables can really do
Free Mac app WhatCable tells you what each of your USB-C cables can really do
We’ve talked on a number of occasions about the problem with USB-C cables: namely, they all look alike but can have very different capabilities. Google addressed this issue in Chrome OS several years ago, and we suggested at the time that Apple should copy it. That hasn’t yet happened, but there’s now a free Mac app, WhatCable, to turn your Mac into a hardware cable tester …
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Recordings of many of the talks of FLOPS 2026 are now available! functional-logic.org/events/flops...
Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming 2026 - Schedule | Functional Logic Programming
18th International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming - Schedule
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Due to overwhelming public backlash, Meta abandoned its invasive AI feature, which would have allowed public profiles to be used in AI-generated images unless users proactively opt out. Big Tech wanted to strip away our right to privacy. But the people spoke up, and we won.
View from 🇬🇧, having spent decades as a criminal lawyer including prosecuting. I cannot tell you how shocked I am at the handling of the investigations (or not) into these two killings. I don’t know how 🇺🇸 will recover from what looks like state corruption this deep & at a very senior level
Quinta Jurecic@qjurecic.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anyway
Small Dorset Town stands up to racism. Local anger in Wimborne is through the roof. But nothing reported anywhere. Meanwhile - six flag waving idiots turns up outside a hotel in Epping and its front page news.
Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo I'm told a crowd of about 100 people turned up in Wimborne to protest against Katie Hopkins appearing there. Really impressive demo for such a small town showing the strength of feeling. Well done Wimborne.
Stunning Schubert 🎹 Pianist Lukas Sternath performs the opening of the third movement of Franz Schubert's Piano Sonata in B flat D960 as part of our 125th Anniversary Festival 🎶 You can listen back to this concert on BBC Sounds 📻
Andy Burnham is set to ban Palantir from the NHS if he becomes Prime Minister 👏 www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Burnham set to ditch Palantir from NHS
Left-wing critics have called for deal to be axed over US tech giant’s work with Israeli Defense Forces and US immigration
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