Retired literacy specialist.
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Last Notes npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦wawd Oh God. A school needs IT support thatās proactive when it can be and supportive when it needs to be. And a ānot on the listā approach is a nightmare for teachers. Who surely will make waves. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦rxg6 A big part of Thatcherism was not the policies as such, but rather the myth making that supported those policies. Her legacy was not just the policies, it was the myths. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦qagn A kid- even an adult- who could afford and bought a game and shared it with their friends was a sale. If each member of the group did that each member had n games, and the publisher had n sales. If they canāt share they still have one game each. i.e. if buyers buy what they can afford it doesnāt matter if they share. Copying loses sales, of course. But not as many as the companies claim. i.e not all or even most copies are lost sales. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦rxg6 No. To me Labour seem to have a habit of giving leadership to the wrong candidate. One that suits internal politics rather than unselfishly choosing one who can lead a country. Like the wrong Milliband. Maybe, just maybe, this will be right. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦q90h You can buy all sorts of proprietary fertiliser- but follow the instructions and under use rather than over. And when you water, unless you have specific instructions otherwise, when the soil is dry and let it drain. You could also start with dilute black tea or coffee dregs too. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦peee @nprofileā¦cmq0 The Manchester* museum of technology, when last I was there, had an entire gallery recreated as a sewer npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦839u Yes and no. Arguably Dr. Whoās first iteration had been deliberately allowed to stagnate until it was ripe for axing rather then being paused. So it could have continued. Unless youāre of the mindset that simply links old with stale. i.e that if itās from the previous generation it canāt be any good, by definition. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦t2gq The nightmare is that when we go to that Great Kennel in the Sky our heirs wonāt know how to remove us from the heating/security camera/fridge/etc because they canāt find/figure out the passwords. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦38ue Actually that should be āā¦donāt lumber your kid with a *clever* nameā. Remember that cute baby will be 7, 14, 21 years old. If you wouldnāt have wanted to be called itā¦. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦rxg6 AI also differs from previous new technologies in that its financial benefits are largely presumptive rather than demonstrable. Itās not laying off weavers because now we have a steam loom. Itās merely the generalised belief that AI will do jobs that people did. Laying off people because they believe that AI can do their jobs. Mostly because the C Suite havenāt a clue what staff put into it. The effectiveness or reliability of this is largely magical thinking by bean counters. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦rxg6 On the other hand my long, painful experience* of the UKās āspend it or lose itā bureaucracy makes me suspect that there will be some very rapid wasteful expenditure to beat the deadline. And a fair bit of creative accounting. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq Because criticism of Israel is rarely criticism of a specific action, seldom balanced, seldom distinct from claims that Israel has no right to defend herself, seldom acknowledges the actions that lead to her reactions (justified or not) and frequently is based on a denial of Israel's right to even exist. And more to the point, is focussed on Israel while being massively unconcerned about, say, the treatment of Uyghurs or Rohingyas. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦azwa @nprofileā¦vppf @nprofileā¦x9tq Visibility may help but I doubt it breaks through Entitlement. Also Hampstead Garden Suburb was founded on precisely that principle. No walls between the Rich and Poor etc. And the wealthy and privileged still look(ed) down on the poor neighbours. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦vppf @nprofileā¦x9tq Is it that? Or merely a learned lack of basic empathy and heightened self-regard? npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦q4x0 No. All I have is a lack of something that used to be there. Last night I had a list of 20 odd invigilation sessions.Some with AM written in the RH column some PM. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦q4x0 Hmm. Just discovered that #LibreOffice have removed the Find and Replace > Format option. Apart from the fact that itās a major piece of functionality for me, the attitude that they can just strip out a significant tool just for idiosyncratic reasons makes me truly angry. Maybe the EU suite would be better than putting up with MS Office. I canāt be doing with LO anymore. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦wsyy Interesting. Does this refer to proper MahJong with a board etc. or the computer game? npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦hlzw Ah. The correct response to any get rich scheme is always "If it works why are you needing to sell it to make money". npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦qprr Ah USA. And St. Louis is the Jazz place. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦qprr Sounds interesting. Where is Festus Mo? What country is it in, not a City Iāve heard of and the name doesnāt sound like any language Iām familiar with. āMoā? npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦0qnq @nprofileā¦x9tq Yes and no. It rather depends on who we're talking about. The world is full of people who do one thing (hopefully) well. With skills they acquired a long time ago. Linuxes like Zorin and Mint are ideal, if the reluctance can be overcome. Ditto LibreOffice. But only if Linux snobs don't turn up their noses and loudly tell everyone that only Nightmare Linux v 17 is any good and Systemd is the curse of Satan etc. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦2mmh Does it have to be actual water, or tea etc. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦c43l @nprofileā¦x9tq The instrumentalisation of Education means it can be treated as a political football. Once it ceases to be a Good Thing in its own right, and becomes a means to an end the value of it becomes that end. So training supersedes understanding, because to be employed the workers need training. The reality is; people who never read if they donāt have to, graduates working in jobs once held by school leavers, and a public who donāt know how to question assumptions. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦c43l @nprofileā¦x9tq Teaching has been reduced to a box ticking activity, by the Behaviourists. Itās the only field where they still hold sway. The research by The Goodmans, Smith etc came from cognitive Psychology. But politicians like Behaviourism because itās controllable and measurable *and cheap*. It deprofessionalises teachers, turning us into deliverers of scripted content. And there are tests. That measure something that can be treated as a proxy for education. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦c43l @nprofileā¦x9tq I think the academics remember Goodman & Goodman, Frank Smith etc. But even 25 years ago it was knowledge mostly held and promoted by literacy teaching specialists or lecturers. And most of us are retired or sidelined. Teaching training has none of this stuff anymore. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦c43l @nprofileā¦x9tq OFSTED was invented to be an enforcer. Under guise of frequent independent inspection they were created to make sure teachers did what govt policy makers wanted instead of what professional judgment demanded. Hence the absurdity of Phonics. A sounds reasonable but mostly useless approach to teaching reading that governments love. Measurable & easy to show to voters. Can be inspected & enforced. Makes Ā£Ā£ for publishers. Leaves kids barking at print & not really reading. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦qrep @nprofileā¦x9tq I agree, but not just the Right. Left wing purists whoād rather see Tories win than an imperfect Labour etc. Ditto USA with the Democratic Party. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦c43l @nprofileā¦x9tq Yeah, thatās a newish aspect and feeds into a wider social issue that having a policy is somehow seen to be the same as doing stuff (often stuff that professionalism, common sense and compassion would have you doing anyway if you actually had the staff to do it). OFSTED are more interested in paper than people. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq Interestingly it seems that thereās a vocal section of society wants to remove rules and expenses etc that donāt benefit themselves, but strangely want to keep the ones that do. Theyāll happily see cuts to the NHS and equally happily accept a govt subsidy. Or see their council close libraries and schools as long as the roads are repaired. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq Ah yes, I get that. For decades Iāve been saying that schools would work so well if we could only keep the kids out. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq Policy is wonderful. Over a lifetime of teaching kids with SEN in their own schools Iāve seen lots of policies. Policies in folders, in booklets,in packs,in websites,in pamphlets. They come, they go. What I havenāt seen since about 1986 has been the funds to actually meet the kidsā needs. On the contrary, the expensive, shiny policies seem to exist to replace actually paying for teachers to get stuff done. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq In other words; If markets are already not working āproperlyā whatever that even means, thereās nothing to stop those caps anyway. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦v9sf Iāll be knackered because I lose an hour of sleep- then when they go back Iāll be knackered again because Iāll be wake an hour too early. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq If the experience of vetsā is to be any indication, God help us all. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq I just remembered. A number of companies, including one my dad worked for. Where the bosses refused to reduce the margin on the product, to potentially achieve massively greater sales and total profits. Because they believed that selling 10000 items with Ā£1 margin on each rather than 1000 with Ā£2 was being robbed. (āThat coat is worth Ā£14 Iām not selling it for Ā£13ā) npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq The definition of āmarkets working wellā seems somewhat nebulous. Which to my naive mind seems inevitable. The point about an auction is that one party is under pressure to pay more than they want and the other to accept less. In theory that should lead to compromise, but in reality things are different. One party may not be acting rationally or have different leverage. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq The Tory cries, here, strike me as being no more than echoes from MAGA. Both being essentially fossil thinking from fossils wanting to turn back the clock to an age where exploitation was seen as OK. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦fsmv 100% this. Itās a statement that needs to be made over and over. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq We have a Secret Ballot. This is why. My late mother-in-law always insisted her husband had to vote Tory. And he always voted Labour, but didnāt bother to tell her. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦9cfc Or you could of course accept the right of Jewish people to return to our own home. Be aware that Arabic was brought to the region by settler colonisers, from Arabia. That the name āPalestineā was imposed after the Roman Conquest of the Levant. That there had always been a Jewish presence in our homeland against all the odds. That the term āPalestiansā was adopted by Levantine Arabs only in the 1970s. And so forth. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq It also assumes that the market works towards maximising competition and all that stuff. Whereas it likely works towards maximising cherry picking, short termism, corner cutting, collusion etc. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq As a 1970s graduate from Harold Wilson's Bradford Uni I can only agree. Most of us were working class kids.(And my tutor became the country's highest paid Vice chancellor before she was hounded out by the press. Would a man have been? Overpaid or not.) npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦m74z Oh yes. You just reminded me (how could I forget!?). The exam coming up and realise I forgot to go to those lessons- for two years. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦m74z Still have exam nightmares 50 years on npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦4znh oh! I get it. I did know Americans used the old Imperial units for body weight. Never occurred to me that it could be used in large amounts too where tons/tonnes are appropriate. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦4znh Itās the-k lbs. Iāve never heard of such a measure. Is it a technical frame of reference that equates to tonnes in some way? npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦4znh 50-80k lbs? npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦jxjq @nprofileā¦x9tq Exactly npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq Perhaps more than suspect. While I donāt have a very wide range of experience or knowledge of this, I have seen it in education and heard of it in health and policing. Admin staff lost, but not the admin tasks. So āfront line ā staff get lumbered with it. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq Note the word ājustifyā too. When there is financial stress around even those who can, just, afford stuff may feel reluctant to spend so much for so (in practical terms) little. When a meal out = a pair of shoes then itās hard to justify the meal out. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq How much of that, I wonder, is directly connected to the political approach of promising increases in āfront lineā service by cutting backroom āwasteā, but ignoring that in backrooms are health promotion teams, admin support (to free up doctors, teachers etc), maintenance staff (so people actually have somewhere to work), teaching support staff, advisory teachers and a whole bunch of others who arenāt just superfluous luxuries. Arguably none of these are. Thatās why they exist. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq My son-in-law was studying HS2 as part of his degree (heās a Chartered Survey now) and the conclusion even then was that it was far from value for money. A big part of the problem is how it was sold on speed, not capacity. The latter is necessary. The former is a trivial gain even if everything is completed fully, but gaining it vastly increased the cost. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦02n5 Never mind that. The aliens are so going to be pissed off with us all for hijacking their domain. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦uk8k Yes. And frankly no one has the right to impose purity tests. It's the Socials, not a religious community. It's a bit of fun and a way to communicate. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq The Howls of Brexiters have manipulated English politics for far too long. They temporarily convinced enough voters to give them a narrow win in that dodgy referendum and then to prevent any questioning of it. Fuck 'em. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB #DogsOfMastodon npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦094f Post something engaging and hope people respond. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦t2gq We are careful only to use dog friendly scraps as food. So no chilli, no sugary stuff. Not too greasy. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦t2gq And Bella, while still too young (7m) to come off puppy food, is getting some real food too. Since she's a grazer, like Domino our late Sheltie was, it encourages her to eat. This afternoon I dropped some boiled chicken bits into the bowl that's barely been touched since early this morning- and now it's almost empty. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦cslf Agreed. There is no reason to post stuff you don't agree with. No one would say that thing irl unless they mean it. So why do it online. Unless you do agree really. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦t2gq Last two dogs were mostly given whatever food came to hand - mostly left overs- alongside some generic dog food and some supermarket short dated (i.e. cheap) meat. But balanced in terms of meat and fibre/veg. The only specific care beyond that was nothing with salt etc. Both lived to nearly 17. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦jhhq I think thatās a very fair point. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB #DogsOfMastodon npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦m7l3 Err. It isnāt day light savings. Unless you happen to be in America. But International? No npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB Last night we went to see #MothersPride at our local #Vue #cinema. Such a good film. Really enjoyable British film. We donāt often go to the cinema, least of all together, this was the first time since #Paddington but so glad we did. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦y00q Thatās what the game was actually designed to illustrate. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦h5nk Job in HR? npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦e762 Interestingly in UK HMRC want submissions from small charities claiming Gift Aid in ODF format and supply a spreadsheet to make claims on and require users to submit these claims saved in ODF not.xlsx npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦l6w9 Why not, though. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦2mmh OUCH!! npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦qxqf OTOH npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦sl6q All voice to text does that. If AI lived up to its supposed promise it would be able to filter out that background. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB #DogsOfMastodon Lunch companion npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦m7l3 Ah yes, but if you trip and fall you might be prosecuted for being negligent to yourself. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦rkhh I can. But I've also noticed that there seem to be times where nothing appears for quite a while. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB #DogsOfMastodon npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦fqts "Everyone was guilty of something. Vimes knew that".Terry Pratchett. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦jm8s It already is. Otherwise we couldn't buy it. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦6hz6 Instant mark as Spam. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB #3goodthings npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦l9lt "Awake" is a relative term. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦02n5 At last npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq My thought about this is that it's one of those things that will cease to be effective if used more than a couple of times. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB Last night went to the last night of #Space light show at St. Martins-in-the-Field (Trafalgar Sq.). npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦y00q Speaking English (with an American acc). npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq This is not new within the Labour Party; or the Labour movement as a whole. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq That said, how much value does any security guarantee hold? npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq @nprofileā¦utjz The irony being that "European Army" was one of the scare stories used to promote Brexit.The deeper irony being that there were no such plans *but there bloody well should have been!* npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦fq46 Automatic classify as Spam. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq Possibly it's not even just to avoid challenges. But rather that they refuse to believe the evidence of scientists etc. so don't want to provide them with the facility to research and disseminate npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦02n5 And that's a sentence I never thought I'd read. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦3dms AI might. Being so stupid that they hear an alarm and start a thread about it instead of getting out certainly will. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦fns8 "Verification! Call that verification?? When I were a lad we had to chop off our fingertips and send them in the post".š¤ššššš npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦hpxu I read that a while back.Fun, but the happy ending was a bit forced and (ironically) predictable. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦02n5 Likely, if he'd already used far too much. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦02n5 Hmm. White vinegar is a good alternative to nasty fabric conditioner - but I can imagine overdoing it in the final rinse š² npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦0hde And alt text npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦wawd She's my hero from her role in Going Postal. And that's all that matters to me. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦x9tq I do wonder how much our political elite draw upon a shared sense of privilege. Especially the men. Private school + Oxbridge. npub1f0pj9hsvrfvdyuuhvg7g2putx0j6ehj4wfsjf27g8ey5evdw3tysq8yrac TerryB @nprofileā¦fy2r Thanks for saying that. Makes for an easy mute.
