Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The people to whom it doesn't mean much are already answering Christian on the census, as shown by how different the results of BSAS are on this question. 010 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 10/10/2026An old colleague of mine was trying to hike the lot, which would have been easier for him if he'd lived further north than Derby 020 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Hills in Scotland over a certain height, there's a list 3110 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Sunder of course he knows, Sullivan has been laundering racism since the Bell Curve. 0261 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Speaking as a parent, these takes always baffle me - I love it, but having kids is hard work and it's expensive, surely the surprising part is how many people choose to have kids not the reverse? 140 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 07/10/2026JFC just have massive snitching bounties and implied mass surveillance - occasional shots from CCTV, drones, doorbell cameras etc, it'll work for the "don't think too hard" level of the film 000 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 27/09/2026British class has more layers than any of us can easily count, I think. From every position in the system there are distinctions you struggle to see 000 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It may have improved, but as a middle class private school kid I went round Exeter twentyish years ago and went "no, too posh". 220 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Right, you can go by what you like. We can mock, e.g. Tommy Ten-Names for SY-L, but mock and ban are very different things 1160 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 22/09/2026(my credentials are arguing about religion online for 20+ years and nothing more formal, size your pinch of salt accordingly) 050 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Dropped the ball _hard_ on child abuse, elevated Ratzinger who was bad, otherwise a better-than-replacement Pope? Probably did the Church good to have a Pole in the top job as the Eastern bloc was falling apart 2200 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The food and company were both great, but the crockery was a total letdown. 010 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 20/09/2026@oldenoughtosay.com regret to inform you that the crockery was not Somervillian whatsoever 111 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I've seen it called critihype - it looks like criticism but it affirms the hype 020 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 18/09/2026There should be, I'm pretty sure there is - there are a lot of individuals who are basically liberal but not SJW. As far as I can tell they don't sort into communities by that kind of politics, I run into them at like, a food bank or the school gate if that tracks? 130 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 18/09/2026So my thing about this is, from my experience in rationalist spaces I recognise the type of person you're talking about. But, I thought Scott Siskind was one of them and it turns out he was always a fascist masking his power level to recruit better - which makes me question my judgement of the type 110 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Fair, but somebody with big public profile - I want to say Jonn Elledge but I'm not certain - has tarred Andy as a NIMBY for having reasoned practical opposition to this project. I should have given you more benefit of the doubt though, to be fair, sorry about that 020 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 14/09/2026There are definitely people whose real objection is that construction will disrupt their daily life, and I judge those people 100 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Honestly in the city I don't hear people talking about it much. Couple of folks complaining about the promised fog on the A34 100 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Because all the forms asking for public comment and the planning process are framed around "which of these narrow grounds do your piddling objections fall under" rather than "what major infrastructure project should we build instead"? Andy Cooke's written about this whole mess v well for the Clarion 200 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I don't know the answer to that, but presumably OfWat should 100 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Ok, probably, but if you start from the assumption of "build STT first", does the reservoir need to be a megaproject like this? 200 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 14/09/2026No because if they actually get STT they shouldn't need this reservoir? So they're very directly linked conversations 100 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 14/09/2026They need Severn Thames transfer, they want a mega reservoir they'll never manage to fill without Severn Thames Transfer. STT solves the problem faster cheaper and with less risk, it's not NIMBYism to say do that first. 110 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Third child's bum didn't agree with sudocrem which was unfortunate as it coincided with nursery going nut free and yellow metanium stopping production 020 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Bepanthen but our nursery don't allow it because it uses almond oil and they're nut free 120 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 09/09/2026You probably have St John's but I'm also there soon, so shout if that's one you need 000 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 09/09/2026A midwife told us mid-late September was their busiest and worst time of year - in late September. Which made their resistance to letting us take our healthy baby home without more observations pretty baffling, but we argued our way out before the buses stopped and the baby's still fine at ~5 so 🤷 060 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 08/09/2026If you need Somerville shout, I'm due for a dinner there next week 110 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 25/08/2026It's this. Not sure how it's device locked, but it's some level of fingerprinting. Personally I prefer a strong password in a password manager 011 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 24/08/2026To me there's a degree of "the show runners don't understand their own show" in that over several series HIMYM established conclusively that Ted and Robin don't work as a couple, then it ends by putting Ted together with Robin. Not the only issue with the show, but I think an indicative one 2100 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Elon Musk's babymama too! Admittedly avant la lettre but it does undermine the film now 000 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 19/08/2026He is not a murderer by pure luck, no I don't want him in charge of a lethal weapon on the roads in 2030 0190 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I might not be seeing it, I criticise Labour from the left - but is there a right-of-centre party with policies that might attract a graduate or professional, or have they given those people up to Labour/Lib Dems/the Greens? 100 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 14/08/2026There's a place for a centre-right party in UK politics; if the Conservatives don't want to be it it's worth somebody else having a go? Between the Tories, Reform, Restore and the other Re-s it feels like the whole right is only offering anti-migration and anti-net-zero. 120 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Also I think because Betriz is Iselle's companion and Iselle is quite young people see Betriz as younger than she actually is? (If memory serves Betriz is early 20s, Caz might be as old as 35, whereas Iselle is late teens) 1130 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The young conservatives of the Oxford Conservative Association were performatively Cavalier and Jacobite 15 years ago. Not sure how many of them honestly believed in anything, but even playing at it like that shocked me at the time 000 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The wedge is the gravitic structure that gets formed when underway above and below the ship, though that description tends to come deeply buried in paragraphs of technobabble 110 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 11/08/2026We successfully banned Cocomelon and they never got into Paw Patrol. I am nonetheless very done with Peppa 000 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Doesn't matter, does it? 72% increase in deaths is too big to be just because of more vehicle miles. UK comparison, we have 18% lower vehicle miles and 40% lower pedestrian deaths between 2004 and 2024 060 0
Flex @flexasync.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Are you aware that we have phones in other countries which have reduced death-by-car in the same time period? 1250 0
