You can do this without boiling a lake by typing =rand() into a word document

He goes slightly further - it's that you just stop even trying to care, even if you know that something's true or not. It's too emotionally taxing to have that argument.

I have no idea of its actual origins, of course.

I’m Russian. Here’s how propaganda really works. YouTube video by Silent East

I watched this the other day and I *cannot* stop thinking about it. youtu.be/BY9uuxC_YAQ Essentially his theory is once you can't trust anything any more, it became too difficult to process anything so you start ignoring it. It's by design.

How Oil Propaganda Sneaks Into TV Shows | Climate Town YouTube video by Climate Town

Climate town (excellent channel) dedicated a whole episode to one scene about wind farms youtu.be/wBC_bug5DIQ

I was wondering this earlier, going through the dead pens in my kids' art box - why hasn't anybody (re?-)invented refillable markers? Or have they?!

If we can't kill foxes, we'll kill our dogs.

Your move.

Also: Right to Roam! Thank you ramblers, you're amazing.

I absolutely agree but a version of this could definitely also end up in a film as a stereotyped "bumbling Brit PM" - "oopsie daisy! Ah, yes, I'll pick that up" vs Big American President moment.

Time will tell what moral/strategic roles each of the characters would play in that film, though.

Shhhhh, don't tell them - we don't need to argue about it - but we have twice as many varieties (and some of them are bloody lovely)

Oooooh. TV: you wouldn't get watercooler numbers on the apprentice like that in an age of streaming/YouTube... Internet: targeted ads, misinformation, "fake news". He's a cusper innee

Horses doovries here

Cyclists - same reputation, and definitely some angry ones. People are people and some of them are pushy

Same. But also we are the teacher's pet (because monarchy/empire) and so I think there's maybe a danger we'd face worse treatment than them if we "disappoint" him.

Can't we just dump him and buddy up to the EU properly please

Social media copies gambling methods 'to create psychological cravings' Methods activate ‘same brain mechanisms as cocaine’ and leads to users experiencing ‘phantom’ notification buzzing, experts warn

It is explicitly designed that way - that's the pull down to refresh/ endless scroll www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I mean he would, wouldn't he. Inner turmoil. "God, they already hate me enough back home for being nice to him. Is this really worth it?"

Same for Clarence House, it seems. Very zoomable! I've never even looked at it before.

I just went back and read a dag blogpost about it; one of his points in the comments was that the vagueness also means you don't know what technicalities you could abuse, so bad actors face risk. Although if you've managed to turn your party into a cult who knows whether that would matter.

Yes, part of our [expletive] constitution is (or was) a letter written to the Times *under a pseudonym* 30th June 2022 This was an amusing exchange today on Twitter between two journalists: Yes, part of our [expletive] constitution is (or was) a letter written to the Times *under a pseudonym*. Becaus…

As always, there's a good law and policy post about it davidallengreen.com/2022/06/yes-...

Cameron won the election with "Broken Britain" and used it as an excuse to make govt smaller and let the "Big Society" fill the gaps. And that top-down reorganisation of the NHS he explicitly said he wouldn't do when the NHS was pretty healthy at the time.
You're right, we could do with de-dooming.

(NB that TikTok account is quite sad really. They've been posting for a while but had no engagement whatsoever)

Cambridge Analytica

Working from home isn’t for everyone and it definitely comes with it’s own challenges for the whole family, but it’s not until you or your partner go back to the office five days a week with a long co... TikTok video by Travel The World Family

www.tiktok.com/@travelthewo... he'd also given up a six figure salary to work from home by 1 Oct 2023, apparently. Impressive

Hopefully it's CAIE, which is the international sister to OCR. The exams are pretty rigorous. But it's an exam board so it doesn't tell you what the year is like, particularly.

Their website is excellent for plain-language info on nearly anything health-adjacent as well. My son wanted to know what vegetables (but not fruit) you could get vitamin C from today. To the NHS website we went...

CBeebies, including CBeebies radio ❤️

So,as a little thought-experiment, tell me something about the United Kingdom that works well and is actually quite impressive. I am not trying to sound like some boosterish politician. I just genuinely believe that making people believe that all is lost is a convenient pretext for shady characters.

A general "safe" vibe, certainly in my area, which may just be privilege of course.
Free lunch and snacks for my KS1 primary-schooler have been great. He came home telling me he now likes sweet red peppers 😄

Even the Lords have pulled all nighters to keep us out of (more) trouble as well

Cambridgeshire Autonomous Metro - Wikipedia

The first Cambridge mayor spent a significant amount on feasibility studies for a "metro" that was kind of an autonomous underground bus-train-tram thing while everyone cried as well en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrid...