Technically correct - but just invest in a spatula and don't leave leaflets hanging out of letterboxes. Much easier than complaining when they get swiped.

(I can absolutely write you a dumbell workout for the posterior chain, but that isn't really the point! 😉)

If you're someone who can tolerate gyms, then having a larger selection of equipment available can give you more options. But isn't necessary - and I have a lot of clients who are pathologically averse to them.

This is only really an issue if you feel the need to use dumbells for *everything*.

A decent pair of adjustable dumbells, a selection of resistance bands and something to hang off covers a lot of bases.

But that still presupposes that you know what you're doing.

100% - I can empathise!

Sounds like fantastic and important work. Sending regulating vibes! ❤️

I love this thread. Also - not just PhDs! I think *everything* takes longer because of all that bonus processing.

Look, at this point *everyone* agrees we should spend more time away from screens, children and teens especially, outdoors even.

But it's not going to work if you say teens should never do physically boisterous stuff in large groups. They're gonna do it anyway because it's thrilling and fun!

Something's got to give.

You have to either stop pretending you genuinely want teens to go outside and do things, or you have to massively increase the amount of funding and, crucially, *space* for activities for young people – some of which will be self-organised and, yes, a little bit scary.

What's the largest animal you could beat in a fight?

When people use AI for writing assistance, it can shift their political attitudes by autocompleting sentences in biased ways.

Yet people are often unaware of the AI bias & it's influence

This is not merely about the facts presented, but how autocomplete worlds
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Yorkshire Dales school using AI to mark mock exams Headteacher Julia Polley says students get quicker and more detailed feedback, without teacher bias.

Students own the copyright in their work. Unless they have given explicit individual consent to share that copyrighted material with a commercial company we simply do not have the right to do this. I doubt the company points this out.

Article via @risu.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fluffy grey and white cat curled up on a dressing gown

A cat who dined sumptuously at the free range buffet last night and woke his hoomans up in the early hours chomping a crunchy mousey breakfast... 😭

everyone is understandably insanely stressed out right now. we could all probably use a little extra grace in our day to day interactions

Precisely. It needs urgent revision before it breaks the party entirely.

The whole process needs to be streamlined - when there's that many attendees, and anyone can call a procedural motion at any time it's just completely unworkable.

This. It's absolutely wild that a relatively small self-selected group can override the expressed wishes of a wider ballot of the membership for no good reason.

Thanks Rob!

@robfordmancs.bsky.social Hi Rob - what's the best way to drop you a message?

The real issue here is that Tice has not, as far as we know, broken any law, & has paid the tax HMRC says he owes.

If you and this Labour govt think "aggressive tax avoidance" should be stopped, as you all said before the election, it is now in your power to end it.

But you won't.

Why?

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

"Targeting" is doing a lot of work there.

My mean error was 1.6.

0.5 of that was due to my pessimism about accurately identifying Adam's first paper (perhaps biased by my recent negative experiences of trying to locate references 😂)

The distribution of answers seems to suggest that's unlikely.

Interesting that the average prediction is quite close to the actual answer! I'd be really interested to see the distribution of individual estimate averages as well as the mean. Do people generally have a good sense of this, or is optimism balanced by pessimism...?

When the Greens talked about the environment, loads of people said "oh, I'm not voting for the Greens, they're a single issue party", despite all the other policies the Greens have that never got covered. Now, it's "you never talk about the environment". 🤷‍♀️

The policies haven't changed.

The baffling thing about this age is how this utter chump gets routinely held to much lower standards than anybody else anywhere just by normalising being an utter chump & everyone just accepting that's how it is and who he is

For sometime now the arguments against renewable energy have been almost entirely motivated by narrow, greed driven interests. If you can reduce dependency on fossil fuels for more stable, less scarce, cleaner alternatives, it’s really very hard to see the downsides IMO

Home Office Home Office refuses to exempt exceptional students from tough immigration rules Exclusive: Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper concerned about student visa ban on female Chevening scholars from volatile countries such as Afghanistan Pippa Crerar Political editor Tue 10 Mar 2026 The Home Office rejected an appeal from the foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, that would have protected outstanding students in some of the world's most dangerous countries from changes to the UK's immigration system, the Guardian understands.

That Starmer keeps Mahmood in post shows this is not just the actions of an inhumane Home Secretary, but a deeper rooted ideology of hostility and xenophobia within this government. No-one benefits from blocking Chevening scholars. This is cruelty for sake of it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

FACTS:

Net Zero barely nudges your bill.

Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof.

So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?