Notjarvis
@notjarvis.bsky.social
Still a mediocre software engineer, father and husband. I aspire to be a mediocre hockey player.
I'm watching the Hundred, and it's clearly a mismatch game. A result that seemed pretty locked in since the Birmingham Phoenix seemed well below par from the first 40 balls in their batting performance. The rest of the games has seemed muted, peoceeding to the inevitable result.
we are at the point where huge swathes of the media sees their only job as getting attention from the public and giving nothing back and you're supposed to juuust tell enough truth that you can't be called an outright liar, just get the click anyhow, it is used car sales masquerading as journalism
Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell@garethlpowell.bsky.social · 11h agoIt’s like how there was that one professor who thought the recent interstellar asteroids were likely to be alien spaceships, and even though the rest of the scientific community disagreed with him, it was reported as “scientist says…”
Sure 1) Probably Night Watch By Terry Pratchett. But I'm an inveterate re-reader of books I like as comfort reading. So there are quite a few down the years.
Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago1 like = 1 book question 📚💙
"Niche" - my entire class was joking about it in the 90s in grammar school in the Midlands in the UK. No one had heard of it. Sure
聖☆Alex Degen@adactivity.bsky.social · 5mo agoSure
Today in Warley Woods at the artisan market we have Morris dancers
Don't know how it was in other places, but in my kids' urban school, it was already useless before it closed. Multiple teachers were off with suspected covid, and more than half of the parents decided to keep them home. Classes were merged and not really taught anything. Was kkndof glad when closed
The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 5d ago“I’m glad we live in a country that is deferential to expertise - but at times in the pandemic, that did go too far.” “I’m not sure school closures were a price worth paying.” Lewis on how ‘legitimate questions’ have emerged - and should be asked - about how we handled Covid.
"O Brother where art thou" for film. But on TV there is 1 answer
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 4d agoWhat’s YOUR 🫵 favorite film adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey?
Deliberate misinformation designed to produce an outcome that would discredit the Spanish government. The deaths mean absolutely nothing to the scumbags playing such geopolitical games.
Sally Davies@allthingsbarna.bsky.social · 5d agoSixty-seven people have died as a result of a campaign of misinformation on social media. That's the story here.
To be clear, Restore, even more than Reform, are the party of open white supremacists. Rupert Lowe was on Joe Rogan recently implying Enoch Powell was right all along. There should be soul searching across society about this, like we did when the BNP had breakthroughs, but there is no appetite.
James Ball@jamesrball.com · 5d agoDespite the endless talk in Westminster about how well Kemi Badenoch is doing, the Conservatives were beaten into *fifth* place here, and were over 5,000 votes behind Restore UK. At some point delusions around Badenoch need to make contact with reality.
Despite the endless talk in Westminster about how well Kemi Badenoch is doing, the Conservatives were beaten into *fifth* place here, and were over 5,000 votes behind Restore UK. At some point delusions around Badenoch need to make contact with reality.
Remember when the reflecting pool was top of the news and was a national scandal in the US? Absurdly, this won't be. The frivolous sabotage claim and case has served a purpose.
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5d ago🤡 Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool case, blaming damage on ‘botched’ installation www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
On both sides of the pond you get responses like this to people correctly saying “hey given that liberals can’t win every election forever, we really need a non-extremist right of centre party here” because they can’t see past the ends of their noses.
As far as I can see, the success of Chelsea FC's appeal against a 6-point penalty hinged on the appeal board finding that having players like Eden Hazard and Willian (173 goals for Chelsea combined) did not confer a sporting advantage.
A "Software" engineer. I stand by what I said in the bad place, this alone should make her unsuitable for high office
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 5d agoHonest to God, her banging on about being an engineer is getting to be as grating as Starmer droning on about his dad being a toolmaker. #AmIRite?
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, LotR, Marvel. - I mean Alien 3 is the obvious one. But we had a relatively low number of Videos when I was a kid, so Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, The Fugitive, Ghostbusters 1&2, Total Recall could all be in
a close up of a man drinking from a mug
ALT: a close up of a man drinking from a mug
media.tenor.com
Twlldun@twlldun.bsky.social · last yr.Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, LotR, Marvel.
The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.
I know people like to take the p*ss out of Adrian but this is a great piece of writing.
I’d never cried during a live broadcast – then three poignant words had me sobbing | Adrian Chiles
I couldn’t help choking up when the writer Katriona O’Sullivan told me her life story. Now I’m on a mission to get everyone to read her memoir, writes Adrian Chiles
theguardian.com
I suspect my grandparents' job 100 years ago was gurgling, crawling and filling nappies. I could manage that I think.
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d agoEnough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
This all sounds very unlike- Putin is great. The war in Ukraine is going excellently and to plan. The Russian economy is booming -ly to me.
Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 7d ago
I can barely enjoy Amleth anymore. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/hashtag PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
Kenneth Branagh performs the epic War Poem "The German Guns" by Private S. Baldrick
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Things have changed, but when I was over there, this system was used to shunt off ethnic Italian/Turkish/non-white kids to “vocational” training whilst the white kids were much more likely to be sent to the equivalent of a grammar school.
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · last wk.Germany, Switzerland etc... not only have a different balance of manufacturing vs services but also a corporate model in which companies support vocational ed at scale. We have neither. Schools/colleges aren't the problem.
Yeah this is true. Could you imagine the upper middle class parents of a Petronella or Tobias allowing their children to go into vocational training rather than academic qualifications, even if that's what the school deems would fit their skills better?
Jon Connorton @jonconnorton.com · last wk.Of course it would be different in the UK. We also have class issues to deal with as well.
I’m trying to re-home a small poodle that barks a LOT. If interested DM me and I'II jump over my neighbor's fence and get it for you.
Everybody upset about this, but cutting funding for scientific infrastructure has been policy for a decade now. They'll fund new ideas, but won't fund the costs of maintaining the infrastructure to support them.
James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk · last wk.Terrible news. Aside from learning more about the universe, we're not going to get much economic growth by cutting science funding. (If only we had a Prime Minister who was interested in supporting the north, and Manchester in particular, who could stop this.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
