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Mary Branscombe@marypcbuk.bsky.social |
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Omnivorous technology journalist. girl with the USB earring; author of the Cassidy At Large technomysteries. Buy me a ☕ @ lnkiy.in/IV9SD. she/her. Warning: contains opinions.
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Alastair Meeks
@alastairmeeks.bsky.social
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Reform were kept to single digits in Jeremy Hunt’s constituency, lower than in any adjacent constituency. This probably made the difference in his result. Given Jeremy Hunt isn’t exactly a darling of the right, if I were a Conservative I’d be absorbed right now in how he did that.
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Katie Martin
@katie0martin.bsky.social
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*taps sign*
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Mary Branscombe
@marypcbuk.bsky.social
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Yeah, I find people who don't understand risk and want to inflict their ignorance on the rest of us scary
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bisou bisou miaow miaow
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i had a customer at work lecture me about how wearing a mask meant that I was still traumatized by the pandemic and I needed to "heal." well ma'am I'm going to find healing a lot easier if I don't have brain fog and fatigue from long covid
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Shireen Anne Jeejeebhoy
@shireenj.bsky.social
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This conversation reminds me of when smokers used to justify why we should not complain about inhaling their second-hand smoke. The blowback when I objected was intense.
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Mary Branscombe
@marypcbuk.bsky.social
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Might be a path to testing for microclots?
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Annie Bellet
@anniebellet.bsky.social
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Want to know how you go overnight from grip so strong you accidentally break stuff a lot (like hangers, jar tops etc) to not being able to open Tupperware some days? Covid. And peeps pretend this is a cold. My infection had no symptoms beyond dry cough btw
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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In all meanings of the phrase, the press has decided that Biden cannot win. I don't mean the election. I mean they decide what winning means and there is nothing he can do to win with them.
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Mary Branscombe
@marypcbuk.bsky.social
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I think I came across something tc39 is incubating in this space the other day, but it's slipping my mind
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Mary Branscombe
@marypcbuk.bsky.social
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Timpson stores will dry clean your suit for free if you are unemployed and going to a job interview. Imagine programmes with that kind of intent at scale that help people into work without shaming or denigrating them
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Stephen Bush
@stephenkb.bsky.social
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Granted I’m a big prisons nerd, but still, it’s been a whole day, and I’m really surprised at how happy this has made me. A day on and I’m elated by it. (Timpson was also chair of the Prison Reform Trust.)
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J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்) ☮️🕊️🏳️🌈
@jgownder.bsky.social
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I don't know. The NYT (aside from your excellent work on the op-ed page) seems intent upon whitewashing and normalizing Trump. It seems very calculated and overt.
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Mary Branscombe
@marypcbuk.bsky.social
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We already know Trump is a crook and a liar, that's priced in
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Linda Holmes
@lindaholmes.bsky.social
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It’s always funny to me when people think masking means you are constantly terrified and living in fear. I wear a seatbelt in the car, and nobody accuses me of constantly thinking about having a car accident.
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Mary Branscombe
@marypcbuk.bsky.social
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Or at least arrested the way a poor person would be for distributing counterfeit currency
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Ricardo J. Méndez
@ricardo.bsky.social
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“Are you saying we should execute your fellow Americans who disagree with you!” “Well, I wouldn’t say they are *my* fellows, Bob.”
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Mary Branscombe
@marypcbuk.bsky.social
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But we might have put some baling wire on the sub!
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Mary Branscombe
@marypcbuk.bsky.social
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Far enough away and a smaller target than Australia
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Stephen Bush
@stephenkb.bsky.social
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Yeah - we’re seeing that the UK pollsters’ difficulties in really grip ethnic minority voting is causing some misses.
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Judah Grunstein
@judah-grunstein.bsky.social
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2. Labour held steady in total votes, but combined with the fractured vote on the right, won a historic parliamentary majority. This is in line with trends elsewhere in Europe. The far right rises and wins when the center-left atomizes (Italy, France) and falls short when it holds (Spain, Portugal).
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Stephen Bush
@stephenkb.bsky.social
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That said, I also agree with Jamie that we need to work out if voter ID was part of the picture.
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Stephen Bush
@stephenkb.bsky.social
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Another dynamic worth noting is Labour has never won a majority without turnout dropping. In 1945, 1964, October 1974, 1997 and 2024 turnout was lower than in the previous defeat. And in 1964 and 2024 they got fewer votes. I do think there’s a type of British “Tory or nothing” voter…
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Stephen Bush
@stephenkb.bsky.social
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“Sectarianism” is when a British Muslim feels the same way about the Israel-Hamas war as a white Guardian reader.
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Stephen Bush
@stephenkb.bsky.social
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Yeah - two of the last three leaders have been ousted because the rules can be changed by fiat.
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Mary Branscombe
@marypcbuk.bsky.social
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And if you are unemployed and going for a job interview, they will dry clean your suit for free
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Simon Bisson
@sbisson.com
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A nice progressive move from Labour: apparently James Timpson is being given a peerage and made prisons minister. For non UK folk, his high street chain of key cutting and shoe repair shops has a policy of employing ex-convicts giving them decent jobs to avoid reoffending. It works.
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Dr Kat Day (she/her)
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So it looks like we are actually getting the dreaded “technocratic” government 👻 Attorney General with long experience in domestic and international public law Housing secretary who actually lived in social housing Science minister who studied Geography as a mature student 😱
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Dr Kat Day (she/her)
@chronicleflask.katday.com
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Minister for Prisons, Parole and Probation is someone who’s spent his life advocating the employment of former prisoners Chief Secretary to the Treasury is an expert in cyber-security and telecommunications Horrifying stuff
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Nick McLoughlin
@nickmacwrites.bsky.social
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We organized our family holiday around the General Election, and arrived home this afternoon. No way were we going to miss the fun tonight. 😊
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Transgender World
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Anti-trans campaigner Posie Parker has lost her deposit after receiving a dismal number of votes for the Party of Women in the general election.
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
lection-party-of-women-depowww.thepinknews.com/...'>sit/'>www.thepinknews.com/...
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin
@microsff.com
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A squire rushed in to the great hall.
"Someone," he shouted, "has taken the sword from the stone!"
The assembled knights halted their dinner.
"At last, a king?"
"Who?"
"I don't know," the squire said. "The sword is gone!"
Elsewhere:
"This," Indy muttered, "belongs in a museum.
#MicroFiction
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Ted Wicks
@t166er.bsky.social
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The WHOLE of Cornwall is TORY free .
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Mary Branscombe
@marypcbuk.bsky.social
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It usually says “come to the surface; if you can’t hear radio 4, it’s all over, head for New Zealand and see if you can be useful for anything there”
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Alex von Tunzelmann
@alexvont.bsky.social
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Seen some kick off about this because they’ve decided it’s telling them they must use titles. By all means drop Sir & call him Starmer: most UK papers do. But if you’re offering your opinion on UK politics & call him “Prime Minister Starmer”, it sounds like you don’t know much about UK politics 🤷🏻♀️
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Santiago Andrés Triana
@repepo.bsky.social
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The distracted reader might get the impression that the core has stopped and is now spinning the other way. It isn't. It's just spinning a teeny-weeny bit slower than the rest of the planet. It is not going backwards. 🧪
edition.cnn.com/2024/07/05/s...
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Moon-faced Assassin of Joy
@nome.bsky.social
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And we're currently driving up a summer surge in the west. Just a heads up, folks - you can go back to masking if you stopped! It's only reasonable to change your behavior based on new evidence. The current variant involves gastro distress. Who wants to spend a week imitating a hose at each end?
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CJ Lemire
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The coming Tory civil war is going to be epic
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Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social
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Meanwhile Boris Johnson has said the Conservatives should *not* invite Farage in at any cost. So all looking good for calm discussions in the Conservative Party.
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Eadris
@eadris.bsky.social
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What do you call the past 14 years then? You utter plank.
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Erin Biba
@erinbiba.bsky.social
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The new COVID variant seems to be evading immunity from vaccines and past infections. COVID cases are up 250% in NYC. Remember the more you get covid your risk for long covid increases significantly.
gothamist.com/news/nyc-cov...
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Mary Branscombe
@marypcbuk.bsky.social
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I’m actually getting kind of excited by some of the appointments like bringing in Timpson to run prisons; a prison reform enthusiast whose company provides assistance and jobs to ex cons because they believe in rehabilitation. Lots of work needed in other areas but nice to see anything progressive
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Ann M. Lipton
@annmlipton.bsky.social
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This is marvelous. Class action alleges Walmart systematically puts one price on the shelf, and charges a little more at the cash register. Walmart claims consumers can see the prices actually charged, so no harm. CA7 rejects.
www.law360.com/securities/a...
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Mary Branscombe
@marypcbuk.bsky.social
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There is a *lot* of residential tucked right in next to Oxford Street. In fact there are very few areas of London that aren’t dense housing cheek by jowl with shopping streets
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Katie Martin
@katie0martin.bsky.social
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hmmm
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Kingfisher & Wombat
@tkingfisher.com
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And if my comments follow my career forever, so be it. “Do we have a reliable source on this?” ain’t the worst epitaph.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
@shengokai.bsky.social
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War is a mass disabling event and any approach to disability justice should demand an end to war and a free Palestine, full stop.
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Stephen Bush
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I think misplaced cynicism about election promises is causing a lot of people to work too hard on “why did the Tories lose so badly?” It’s not that deep: most parties keep at least 80 per cent of their pledges. This one…really the only one is that they didn’t raise VAT. How else was it gonna end?
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Dave Hutchinson
@hutchinsondave.bsky.social
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“What did you say? Behind me? Don’t be silly, there’s nobody behind me.”
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Mags L Halliday
@magslhalliday.bsky.social
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Larry the cat now holds the record for Prime Ministers a single Chief Mouser to the Treasury has tolerated. 6 PMs: Larry (2011-present) 5 PMs: Peter III (1947-1964) and Peter (1929-1946) 4 PMs: Wilberforce (1973-1987) 3 PMs: Humphrey (1989-1997) and Peta (1964-1976)
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Nikhil Shah
@grandmastershah.bsky.social
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I saw this was trending and had to google it "The post alleges that Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for this year's presidential election, "forced" young girls to "perform lesbian sex acts."
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