Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains
James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains
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North-East England, helps people do useful things with data, currently reading Lost In The Funhouse
James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · last wk."What would England winning the World Cup even mean? What message would it express? This is how you win a World Cup? Neglect your coaching culture. Produce no managers..."
Barney Ronay@barneyronay.bsky.social · 3w agoTuchel: the divvying up www.theguardian.com/football/202...
"Labour won the election and then it treated being in government like a temporary interruption to the next election campaign"
Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · last mo.No joy to be found today. No satisfaction. Just frustration and a profound sense of squandered opportunity iandunt.substack.com/p/the-traged...
Just a quick note to remind you that the American word for "swede" (the giant turnip thing), "rudabaga", is one of the most enjoyable words in the world to say in a dog voice.
Matt Goodwin, a month ago, said - he knew the area v well himself esp after his [losing] campaign nearby - said Burnham not as popular as thinks - Reform pretty certain to win & he didn't exoect Labour to get close to Reform
I printed this exact strip off when my older kid was a baby and stuck it on my bedroom wall in front of my desk as a reminder. One of the most important things I'd say to anyone having kids is "do the thing", have the time with them. Because you'll be a long time missing it when they're older.
Ceinwen Langley@ceinwenlangley.bsky.social · 2mo agoI know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.
Farage looks like someone's just given him this bit of data www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/reform-...
Reform-controlled areas have higher uptake of solar panels
Council areas controlled by Reform UK have some of the highest uptake of home renewables in England, according to a new analysis.
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This week on No Expectations, I interviewed one of my favorite songwriters and guitarists, Meg Duffy of Hand Habits, about the three formative things in their life and the three things they're into now. Also rec'd four other new LPs for your week www.noexpectations.fyi/p/meg-duffy-...
No Expectations 118: Bluebird of Happiness
A Taste Profile interview with Meg Duffy of Hand Habits. Plus, four more stellar albums for your week.
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just so weird that people think that if you need to borrow a lot of money, the lender somehow doesn't set the terms
Katie Martin@katie0martin.ft.com · 2mo agoOk so don't borrow from them then, that's fine. Do it all with taxes, knock yerself out
Not many things change the way that I view the world. This podcast did. My copy of the book is awaiting collection at my local independent bookshop open.spotify.com/episode/4rTI...
How to Win a Trade War
Paul Krugman Podcast · Episode
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It's Monday. Why tho? In a new series for Radio 4, alongside the brilliant Sam Peach, I've been talking to researchers, farmers, engine plant managers, brewers and waiting staff to explore where the working week came from, how it works now, and whether it doesn't. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Tick Tock: The Working Week in 5 Days, Monday
Phil Tinline charts the progression of the Mon-Fri work week over five days.
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“Because I Don't Know (feat. Mitch Sanders)” by Tricky #nowplaying #6music
Today feels a good day to repost my most popular blog of last year www.freewheeling.info/blog/swiss-hs2
This is how the Swiss would have done HS2 — Freewheeling
HS2 has become a case study in how not to build infrastructure. But what if we’d taken a different path entirely? In this post, I imagine how the Swiss would have done it: starting with the timetabl...
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lmao get ready for 87 insane truth social posts attacking Australia
"Removing Keir Starmer is a remedy to the condition of having Keir Starmer as leader.Nothing else.It isn’t a diagnosis of what the country has been lacking or a destination it should be reaching.Anyone imagining they could replace the incumbent should have the confidence to express those things now"
Rafael Behr@rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 3mo agoOn the obvious problem that removing Starmer solves and the host of other problems that confront any replacement who thinks Starmer is the biggest problem www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
On the obvious problem that removing Starmer solves and the host of other problems that confront any replacement who thinks Starmer is the biggest problem www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour needs a battle of ideas now, not a scramble to snatch the keys to No 10 | Rafael Behr
Removing Starmer solves the problem of an unpopular leader, but without a coherent alternative agenda his successor won’t fare much better, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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I dunno, probably decent wages, secure housing at a fair price, being able to see a GP, less anti-social behaviour etc etc
New idea. Next time we publish a report on a politician, I’ll keep the politician’s name blanked out for a week, and let everyone take positions before they find out who it is.
It's hard to understate how extremely difficult it is to tell if an LLM is analyzing data you feed it, or just predicting a likely response based on its training data. I've had so many problems with analysts doing this and not realizing the LLM just guessed the answer.
Wtf is this framing? Why isn’t the headline “Britain more vulnerable to Putin and climate change, thanks to campaigners”? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Campaigners overjoyed solar farm plans for Morton rejected
The solar farm would have been across an area the equivalent to about 90 football pitches.
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The entire right wing ecosystem, from politics to media to business, is just for-profit contrarianism. The formula is: they name a real shortcoming of the imperfect status quo and once they got you they sell you horseshit that's much, much worse
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 3mo agoAside from the embrace of Wellness Eugenics I think RFK jr's moves all make sense if you are trying to destroy actual medical industries and replace them with wellness snake oil. We can all agree on the greed of the former but at least they create actual usable products
Incredible chart (from otherwise depressing news story about bad advice being given to new parents) showing how cot deaths fell by 50% in the first year after the 'Back to Sleep' campaign was launched, and have continued to fall since. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Fascinating that British political discourse is still haunted by the ghost of The Dinner Party: an event that's shifting, protean, always happening somewhere, capacious enough to hold all your enemies' decadent iniquities, and never happening either at your house or that of any your friends
So I see this banded around quite a bit like France passed the legislation and that was it...well not quite. First there were legal challenges and then the exemptions starting rolling in...the legislation is quietly dead. France has also downgraded PV targets in PPE3 roadmap. More detail below.
Andy Muirhead@andymuirhd.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn France, legislation came into effect recently for all car parks that have over 80 spaces to be covered with solar panels. Estimated to add around 11GW of renewable energy capacity to the national grid. Why not do likewise in Scotland? Braehead, Silverburn, Glasgow Fort etc.
