@lokapila.bsky.social Put in a request to the Department of Housing under FOI, asking for analysis/modelling of the likely impacts – on affordability and supply – of the government's big, recent rental law changes.
The response? No such records exist.
So I have some news.....
THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM, BABY ✨
At least take the sausage meat out of the casing first. No? No. Okay, but I ain't going there.
And look sure it makes poverty sense. But lots of regional foodways have their start in poverty and don't involve boiling fatty sausages and meat pudding up with potato.
Coddle. Caudle.
Sure, boil it. That's fine. That's...
...not fine, thanks.
(watch this space)
Truly when @maxgladstone.bsky.social & I wrote the book to ostensibly contain the multiverse we did not foresee it finding a mirror in the world of its reception
Shot from the film Mosquito, showing Gunnar Hansen aka Leatherface, a big, beefy white man in a silver ponytail and beard, wearing camo, facing down a younger, smaller (but still jock-ish) white man by a forest at night. Subtitle text (the younger man): You know, if I didn't feel so shitty right now, I'd kick your ass.'
Me to late capitalist global fascism every day:
A piece about Americans coming here to be racist and promote disinfo.
False claims of a stabbing at Connolly Station on Saturday night were shared to millions of people by a US commentator who had travelled to Ireland to cover the fuel price protests.
jrnl.ie/7019035
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The books were originally published by Egmont, which has since been acquired by HC UK.
Can anyone help me? Some of you may have noticed it's taking a long time for the promised republication of Mars Evacuees and Space Hostages to come through.
The issue is we'd like to reuse the original covers. The artist has generously agreed. We CANNOT get an answer from Harper Collins UK.
The problem when I graduated was that there were 200 modern British history PhDs putting in applications for every job, you had to apply for like 50 jobs to get one, and a fair few people left academia before they did. That was unpleasant in its own way, but it wasn’t a death spiral like it is now.
Way to go!
This is going to make the next month even harder. So if you want to do something to help, now is a great time to support my Patreon.
It bears repeating that historically, the #1 thing that keeps people alive in hard times and disasters is “the ability to play well with others”
It's happening, IT'S HAPPENING @sarahgailey.bsky.social (although I know I must be the 100th to tag them for this)
youtu.be/xqI2gsWmPY4?...
Monetisation and algorithmic amplification has turned peddling disinformation, hate speech, and harassment into a for-profit industry.
It will only get worse if it's left unchecked.
- Aidan O'Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social
450 redundancies announced at the Ulster University. The impact of this will be devastating to staff, students & the functioning of the North as a whole. From social sciences speaking truth to power, to art giving this place joy - the decision must be reversed.
Can you sign & share this petition?
announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite
Actually mine was spotted from a blood test, CA 9-99 followed by an immediate operation. 1% survival chance in 2019 but thanks to all find raisers it’s now 13%. Keep going. We’re winning!
Who’s going to tell these councillors that the moment they step out of their cars, they’re pedestrians too? By their own logic, they’d need to be in hi-vis at all times.
Rather than tackling dangerous driving or poor road design, the responsibility gets dumped on the most vulnerable people instead.
All my solidarity to colleagues. Another university 'management team' with zero sense of accountability. All too easy to blame the government. And enough with the rhetoric of 'improved curricula'. Impoverished curricula and skills that will not longer be transmitted - that's the reality.
Today, a lot of people will be talking about the manifesto that Palantir released. In addition to pouring over what those words mean, I invite you to ground the conversation in what Palantir has already done.
Its work with Israel and ICE show us exactly what it stands for.
this sounds kinda like a "who cares" achievement but its a very exciting milestone for rich guys who are extremely invested in a future where robots they control are slavedrivers and prison guards for the rest of the human population
these are immensely self absorbed men who pine for nazi germany and apartheid south africa — stagnant, backwards regimes btw — because they imagine themselves the masters of the universe.
Yes. Please.
EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.
The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.
I mean. A car can also go faster than a human??
Dying 😆