you know, if you were evil

could absolutely do a fairly compulsive idle-game style thing over just SMS too, I reckon

it's time… to set up my twittr

if i were an entrepreneurial type i'd be putting serious consideration into what teen-focused businesses I can launch which are built around an SMS UX

the fun conversation around smartphones in schools is that no-one is thinking about the mid-term effects, because The Forces Of Capitalism are absolutely not going to stand still and go "yes, a brick phone is boring and undesirable and provides children no compulsion to use it"

yup yup and yup but then also to cut it fine so you can have One More Delicious Meal

the main counter – as an ETTA guy – is that "time in a foreign city" is worth quite a lot of money, in the end. Which is why people pay so much to get there!

sometimes feel like the original sin of this whole shebang was looking at the crime currency and going "yeah seems fine"

Two teenagers arrested over arson attack on synagogue in north-west London Boy, 17, and man, 19, detained as Met says it is investigating claims a series of antisemitic attacks are linked to Iran

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... wonder if the payment was in crypto

Classic one is using them to upgrade your business travel

It was a good playground tho

Nearly posted about the Green Party on a sunny Saturday afternoon but I got better

hm

well,

yes

@kierongillen.bsky.social read TPF TPB THREE and
[exhales]

good work pal

it's very sad! we had a global commons and it was murdered

have you told them they can just leave

At least the people benefitting from wage compression like it and won’t vote for populist wreckers in an attempt to protest the system right

all from here www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Another one! Is it b, testing that he can use the right language to describe what makes artworks similar? or c, testing that he knows what the word "signature" means? A friend argues that if they have the same signature it would be wrong to "think" they're by the same artist, which rules out c.

people suggesting "Rainfall and temperature" as "unlikely to be impacted by the road" which is also true, but a road can have impacts downstream of rainfall and temperature – surface flooding, most obviously, and heat-related impacts.

the other three all have the problem that he has no data from the before period to compare to, so he can't isolate the changes. Rainfall and mapping are extra not useful because it's likely to be redundant collection of data already available.

I _think_ the answer is supposed to be b) but they've written it so poorly that it reads like "vox popping people in the village who don't live there", which is obviously a useful piece of fieldwork to do.

been going mad trying to work out the correct answer here. reckon you can plausibly say all of these things are useless depending on how you parse the question.

You couldn't make it up.

ft.com/content/cf1f...

it's similar to the period on old twitter where people would say "ban the nazis", right-wingers would say "you call everyone you disagree with a nazi" and then people would tag in the accout of Literally The American Nazi Party which was active there for about eight years

just a bleedin council tax mistake

now to be fair, this government service is indeed online and digital by default. they just made an error when I tried to do this digitally, and cheerily emailed me going "we've done [incorrect thing], hope that helps" from a no-reply address

luv local government