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I have a question - why do they keep designing electric cars to look like that

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I don't know for sure what the solution is but it's probably state mandated In Our Time listening

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Finally a colour for my stoke-on-trent based pro-driver party

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This. Media writ large has decided (patronisingly imo) that people want universalising, steamrolling simplicity without complexity from public thought. Short form socials and publishers seeking mass market heavily incentivise the death of nuance. It's one-neat-trick self-help intellectualism.

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'A strike ballot has been opened at the University of Glasgow over planned job cuts, with the University and College Union (UCU) urging the institution to rule out compulsory redundancies.' Move responds to voluntary redundancy scheme and organisational change project. Promotions paused for 2026-27.

timeshighereducation.com

University of Glasgow UCU opens strike ballot over cuts

Union calls on institution to rule out compulsory redundancies as fears grow over state of Scottish sector

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Table disappointingly not sortable by by colour preventing a rainbow scale to try and work out where the gap in the political market is colour-wise

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No you misunderstood, he actually *wrote* 300 million books. Remarkably prolific.

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One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Fascinated by a politician who'd look at the bin fire in GPEW and think you'd like to be involved

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Works in something in the city? Perhaps?

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It is remarkable/cringe-inducing how much of the output of the modern British right (all stripes) is just damp pastiche of the US.

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My partner was skeptical (understandable, given it's a curry made with baked beans) but we were both very impressed. Creamy and warming for autumn. Terrific!

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Now there's a good question. It'd be fantastic on toast, but we had rice and naan.

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"London needs a bear of a man" ahhhhhh

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Just a whole area of activism dominated by people for whom practical steps we could take tomorrow (nationalise Elbit's UK operations, expel the Israeli ambassador, seize the assets of entities building on stolen land) are completely secondary to a desire to impose purity tests.

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Indeed - following the proscription of PA, political energy was focused on direct action against that, encouraging people to get arrested on terrorism charges (!), rather than getting people to use that appetite for direct action on opposing the genocide itself and Britain's involvement therein!

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Hmm I wonder if Andrew has any idea of what might have happened in 2016 to trigger an inflation of the civil service headcount...

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It has crossed my mind that the Man City financial investigation may throw a spanner in the works of the potential/planned NBA Europe franchise in Manchester given that Pelicans v Spurs is being played at the Coop arena, which is owned by the City group...

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Also a beleaguered centre-left party, accused of straying from it's core values, trying to stay in power by positioning itself as the option vs the barbarism of the far right... where have I heard that one before?

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Defeat/removal from power for Sanchez and PSOE would mean there are only 2 centre left govts in all of the EU, DK+MT, not worth much in population-weighted European Council votes

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Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez calls snap election after housing law fails to pass

News like this makes me miss my time on the Europe Elects podcast. Podcasting is a terrific medium, but this is such a significant moment for the European left. Housing, climate, migration as key points in PSOE's attempts to stay in power, will prove instructive for many other countries...

theguardian.com

Election called after rightwing parties voted down emergency legislation aimed at tackling housing crisis

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She comes out with the occasional odd reactionary opinion on RiE. She came out batting against trigger warnings once for example. That last line is quite something - seems pleasant!

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why doesn't AB just simply, unilaterally resolve the fuel crisis? Just do the big stuff.

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This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I promise you if I tried this even once I'd be hauled up into a disciplinary. But Dr Orr? Little research, no teaching, no problem. www.varsity.co.uk/news/32175

varsity.co.uk

Orr’s lectures covered by a postgrad

James Orr had a postgrad cover approximately seven lectures, allegedly without the Divinity Faculty’s knowledge

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If we introduce SV rather than an actual proportional system I will become ungovernable

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Ah now I understand what you mean. Much less of a leap than STV lower tier!

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Crap is a sliding scale, but I broadly agree - but I don't think they're going to do open list!

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That would be cool and pretty favourable but a big leap to combine both systems? Is that done anywhere else? I'd expect they'd just do normal MMP as in Scotland and formerly Wales.

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I don't think STV is that complicated. AMS is also complicated but voters manage to express divergent preferences through it! You can also minimise the complexity of STV by having an above the line/below the line split in Australia where you can elect to just follow the party's order of pref

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I think they'll land on AMS, for all its flaws. Even though it is a poor man's proportional system. MPs with constituencies heart constituencies, who'd have thunk it.

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I'd strongly doubt AV because it would genuinely please noone. Also this app here (by which I mean me) would flip out hard

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Does feel like "can we stop this tech company putting children at risk" is a litmus test our regulators seem to keep failing

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Indeed its abolition is a precondition of EU accession!

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