If you can “sneak onto” a signal chat, prolly shouldn’t have used signal right?

Dear UK employers, I would not be trying to argue that failure to respond to an email amounted to a deemed resignation.

Oh, what? No!

Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods YouTube video by CBC News

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

Even the bank account from which I’ve been funding vision therapy would concur. It’s worth it.

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George Duoblys · One, Two, Three, Eyes on Me! Highly qualified but often inexperienced young teachers deliver carefully structured content to students, pushing them...

Likewise. I'm really hoping that the zeitgeist will have changed before my kid gets to secondary. Already had to dodge a strict infants school(!). This article was a bit of an eye opener. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

Why do so many British towns basically suck? The not-so-strange death of the high street.

"Last year I went to Bedford, which as opening lines go is not quite up there with “Last night I dreamt of Manderley”, but you work with what you’ve got...."

When we ignore the role of curiosity and motivation in learning, we make it harder for children. Learning isn't just a process of remembering information. It starts with a desire to know and that drives everything which follows.

Seeking Trainee Solicitor to assist in our conveyancing department.

Have you passed the LPC and working as a paralegal? The training contract carrot 🥕 dangled hasn't turned into a contract?

We are in Oldham, Greater Manchester.

Apply sonya@nlr-solicitors.co.uk

The Tories were not “right wing.” They increased welfare, tax, immigration and debt and vastly expanded bailouts and money printing. Isn’t this called socialism?

People say right wing commentators damage Britain but without them, where would be? A society where words mean what they actually mean? Don’t make me live that way.

Anger as explicit songs played at South West firework display Some of the lyrics mentioned strippers, drugs and there was also some choice expletive language in songs on the playlist.

A fireworks company went and let an AI choose the music for a public event. The AI is actually a 13 year old boy, says “Shit yeah, let’s f***in’ go!!”, and goes for all its favourites.

Second oarfish, mythical harbinger of doom, found washed up in California Roughly 10ft-long specimen discovered on Encinitas beach shortly after August spotting of the ‘doomsday fish’

Oh great.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

All done and dusted within the hour usually. Booking one 10-minute session for primary is more complicated, somehow.

Ours has a thing where you say you’ll take the most efficient appointments (and you can deselect subjects you’re not that bothered about) and it does it all for you!

Very significant change in tone on CNN tonight 'so, this mass deportation of illegal immigrants Trump has proposed, how exactly will that work?'
'Well, rapists...'
'I'm not talking about them, I'm talking about the people who work in catering etc, how will you deport them?'

The election result feels like a Superman plot in which his mind is controlled and he exercises his enormous power for evil. Often it falls to Batman to stop him. Who is Batman in this situation? I'd assumed it was Taylor Swift, but that is obviously wrong.

Me: struggling to fit a simple small claim into the limited space on the court-approved claim form.

Craig Wright: fitting a claim for £911bn into the same space.

h/t Bitcoin Archive

Photograph of a primary school lunch menu displayed outside a school in France, showing a 4-course lunch every day, plus after school snack.

UK: We can't afford to give primary school children lunch.

France: We already give children 4-course lunches, but research found them hungry at end of day too, with parents giving ultra-processed snacks because they're working — so let's give an after school snack now too

fyi @nigella.bsky.social

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I am going to use this in the coming years. “Is the licence required because it’s mightier than the sword, or because you like to make a dreadful fuss about handwriting even though secondaries don’t care as long as it’s legible?”

It's fascinating the amount of fast data we get from the visual shape and relative alignment of things. Think of the extra processing power needed to manually count all of those randomly-arranged dots afresh...

Me arriving in Mongolia:
Customs: Name?
Me: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Customs: Occupation?
Me: No, just a short visit.

My personal & subjective €0.02 as someone inside the Brussels machine is that non-Brit colleagues have v rapidly adjusted to the UK as a 3rd country in every respect, for good & ill. No special status as former member; no expectation or appetite for ‘re’join; but no bitterness or negativity either.

During the Brexit negotiations some part of me refused to believe that the macho, zero-sum aggression of our posture + our apparently delusional, exceptionalist assessment of the strength of our hand was anything other than window-dressing for domestic consumption. But the same fools are still at it

Extract from Daily Telegraph email: "Last month a leaked video showed Charlotte Dujardin, an Olympic equestrian, whipping a horse. Boudicca Fox-Leonard explains why this incident and other equine controversies are part of a much wider debate over whether we should ride horses at all."

I think the most obvious use for generative AI is coming up with names for Daily Telegraph journalists.

Would welcome a warning - like the “mild peril” ones that kids have on their movies - that let me know whether the adult-aimed arthouse film that I’m about to watch has a plot.

Mine does this. Just enough claw that it’s ready to grip if the paw slips, but not a hint of actually scratching. Very deliberate.

Elon Musk’s Twitter deal may be the worst leveraged buyout deal for banks since Lehman, raising risks to Tesla Banks had hoped to package and sell Musk's LBO debt to investors. Instead, it's sat on their balance sheet, tying up capital, for almost two years.

"Thanks chiefly to the legacy Twitter LBO debt, Barclays senior M&A team were informed last year their annual compensation would shrink by 40% over the previous year. The cut was so severe that almost a quarter of the bank’s 200-plus managing directors quit once they had collected it."