Have you seen this, @chemcommando.bsky.social?

Flashbacks to 2018ish

My understanding is that they are most accurate around the middle of the range which is why they go so high. I have no idea where I got this from so it could be rubbish.

*Hides phone from @nanosizedrainbow.bsky.social

Health, education, etc famously have highly satisfied workforces and fill vacancies with ease. I cannot foresee any problem with reducing their remuneration.

Yes, the marmalade thing makes a lot of sense - I just wondered about other examples of changes that were basically made for British sensibilities.

Are you able to give a couple of examples? To be clear, I’m not doubting what you say is true, but it is useful to be armed with such facts when explaining to others that this was never a them vs us phenomenon.

Yes, tbh, they’re something I take with as standard now

I thought I had good grasp of the French way of doing things but I don’t get how they make such little use of a shallow Swiss roll-type tray. Judging from shops, this is not just about gîtes - last May, I nipped into IKEA, Reims assuming I’d get that and a cheap tin opener and failed on both counts.

I have bought many a tin opener, chopping board and cheap baking tray and left it in a French gîte for the next person.

I don’t disagree with the thrust of this but there are more constructive ways to fund places of learning to educate future leaders than adding to the coffers of the wealthiest educational institutions in the country

Of course this is all ridiculous as it’s so close that it shouldn’t matter to the wider future of politics which eventuality happens to be the one that is actually realised. Schrödinger’s ballot and all.

I think a Labour win is the worst scenario.

Green win —> Labour have to rebalance to avoid haemorrhaging progressive voters.

Reform win —> new impetus for progressive parties to cooperate in some way to avoid similar in future.

Labour win —> no change.

From a secondary perspective, the deterioration over recent years aligns with the abolition of Sure Start. That wouldn’t explain the changes across the sector, though so I wonder whether it’s just confirmation bias on my part.

I do take pleasure from reading articles on a range of topics. Perhaps that’s a love of reading, but if so, I’ve never heard this interpretation used in schools.

Maybe this is off-putting to and counterproductive for some students too - suggesting reading about their interests is somehow inferior.

I feel my life is fulfilled, though maybe I don’t know what I’m missing. However, I can’t see why this is any different to my lack of interest in fine art, or jazz, or various other art forms.

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Tangential, I know, but I find wanting to foster a love of reading somewhat frustrating.

I am fully literate but read no more than a couple of non-fiction books a year. I never read fiction.

I feel no shame in this though the way some talk suggests I should.

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Around 90% of pupils go to comprehensive schools. Does this mean at most 10% get an education that can be described as “academic”?

You said:

“Thomson’s background is far from academic: he went to comprehensive school in Worthing, West Sussex, and got a taste for physics … He became the first in his family to go to university, reading physics at Oxford.”

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The man taking over the Large Hadron Collider – only to switch it off Next head of Cern backs massive replacement for world’s largest machine to investigate mysteries of the universe

@iansample.bsky.social I want to give the benefit of the doubt and am sorry that what I’m about to question comes across as somewhat confrontational but I’ve just read www.theguardian.com/science/2025... and something annoyed me about it that I’d be interested in clarification on:

Thank you

Thank you for this - hard to argue with.

I don’t know where Alaa Abd El-Fattah was when he tweeted but does this make any difference legally? Can he be prosecuted using UK law if the tweet were posted while in Egypt?

If you accept those in poverty make just as good decisions as you, it forces you to come face to face with the fact that you are not where you are on merit and you could have been in their position but for good fortune, which is an uncomfortable truth for many.

Cooked Christmas dinner today. Guests coming the next two days. Was concerned I won’t have enough cooking oil but still have half a bottle which will be plenty.

Forget the birth of the son of god - oil lasting longer than expected is like a true miracle for the festive season.

#ProperJewishMiracle

I obviously don’t know your age, but we millennials pretty much invented this kind of thing to fit as much information as possible into a 160 character 10p SMS.

Plus ça change…

Surveys reveal how we remember opposing the Iraq war - but at the time 54 per cent of people said they backed the invasion of Iraq in 2003, but just 37 per cent of people polled today recall supporting it

Yes! I’ve been predicting the same for long time - strong echoes of Iraq: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The defendant referred to his friend coming round and them having chicken and rice before doing something. One of the barristers (it might have been the defence, I don’t remember) referred to this as a “dinner party” and even at that age, I remember thinking “you haven’t got a clue”

My concern is not for me but for those who live significantly less similar lives to the average legal expert and so whose lived experiences and so cases may be less well understood.

I’m reminded of going to court as a child or young teenager to watch a case that my magistrate grandpa was trying. >>

That’s true & there are decisions the government might take that I would disagree with but can see justification for - they may do some harm but are justifiable in the long-term on utilitarian grounds.

But there has to be an ethical line - things with no benefit you won’t do because they are wrong

What I have no truck with is mean-spirited tacking to the authoritarian right on immigration, trans issues and the like, neither of which have any benefit to the country and the former of which will do us economic harm.

That isn’t about time. It’s about leading on simple matters of humanity.