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@flisty.bsky.social
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Editor/publisher in Cambs. She/her. Still trying to master tone while speed typing with thumbs. I mostly live on Mastodon now because it's a bit more chilled out. Follow @ap.brid.gy to bridge your account so fediverse people can follow you from there too.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Quiche Lorraine Whenever you need me
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
You can do this without boiling a lake by typing =rand() into a word document
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
He goes slightly further - it's that you just stop even trying to care, even if you know that something's true or not. It's too emotionally taxing to have that argument.
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I have no idea of its actual origins, of course.
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I watched this the other day and I *cannot* stop thinking about it. youtu.be/BY9uuxC_YAQ Essentially his theory is once you can't trust anything any more, it became too difficult to process anything so you start ignoring it. It's by design.
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I’m Russian. Here’s how propaganda really works.
YouTube video by Silent East
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Climate town (excellent channel) dedicated a whole episode to one scene about wind farms youtu.be/wBC_bug5DIQ
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How Oil Propaganda Sneaks Into TV Shows | Climate Town
YouTube video by Climate Town
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I was wondering this earlier, going through the dead pens in my kids' art box - why hasn't anybody (re?-)invented refillable markers? Or have they?!
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 24/12/2025
If we can't kill foxes, we'll kill our dogs. Your move.
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Also: Right to Roam! Thank you ramblers, you're amazing.
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I absolutely agree but a version of this could definitely also end up in a film as a stereotyped "bumbling Brit PM" - "oopsie daisy! Ah, yes, I'll pick that up" vs Big American President moment. Time will tell what moral/strategic roles each of the characters would play in that film, though.
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Shhhhh, don't tell them - we don't need to argue about it - but we have twice as many varieties (and some of them are bloody lovely)
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Oooooh. TV: you wouldn't get watercooler numbers on the apprentice like that in an age of streaming/YouTube... Internet: targeted ads, misinformation, "fake news". He's a cusper innee
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Horses doovries here
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Cyclists - same reputation, and definitely some angry ones. People are people and some of them are pushy
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Same. But also we are the teacher's pet (because monarchy/empire) and so I think there's maybe a danger we'd face worse treatment than them if we "disappoint" him. Can't we just dump him and buddy up to the EU properly please
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
It is explicitly designed that way - that's the pull down to refresh/ endless scroll www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Social media copies gambling methods 'to create psychological cravings'
Methods activate ‘same brain mechanisms as cocaine’ and leads to users experiencing ‘phantom’ notification buzzing, experts warn
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I mean he would, wouldn't he. Inner turmoil. "God, they already hate me enough back home for being nice to him. Is this really worth it?"
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Same for Clarence House, it seems. Very zoomable! I've never even looked at it before.
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I just went back and read a dag blogpost about it; one of his points in the comments was that the vagueness also means you don't know what technicalities you could abuse, so bad actors face risk. Although if you've managed to turn your party into a cult who knows whether that would matter.
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
As always, there's a good law and policy post about it davidallengreen.com/2022/06/yes-...
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Yes, part of our [expletive] constitution is (or was) a letter written to the Times *under a pseudonym*
30th June 2022 This was an amusing exchange today on Twitter between two journalists: Yes, part of our [expletive] constitution is (or was) a letter written to the Times *under a pseudonym*. Becaus…
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Cameron won the election with "Broken Britain" and used it as an excuse to make govt smaller and let the "Big Society" fill the gaps. And that top-down reorganisation of the NHS he explicitly said he wouldn't do when the NHS was pretty healthy at the time. You're right, we could do with de-dooming.
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
(NB that TikTok account is quite sad really. They've been posting for a while but had no engagement whatsoever)
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Cambridge Analytica
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
www.tiktok.com/@travelthewo... he'd also given up a six figure salary to work from home by 1 Oct 2023, apparently. Impressive
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Working from home isn’t for everyone and it definitely comes with it’s own challenges for the whole family, but it’s not until you or your partner go back to the office five days a week with a long co...
TikTok video by Travel The World Family
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Hopefully it's CAIE, which is the international sister to OCR. The exams are pretty rigorous. But it's an exam board so it doesn't tell you what the year is like, particularly.
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Their website is excellent for plain-language info on nearly anything health-adjacent as well. My son wanted to know what vegetables (but not fruit) you could get vitamin C from today. To the NHS website we went...
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
CBeebies, including CBeebies radio ❤️
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
So,as a little thought-experiment, tell me something about the United Kingdom that works well and is actually quite impressive. I am not trying to sound like some boosterish politician. I just genuinely believe that making people believe that all is lost is a convenient pretext for shady characters.
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
A general "safe" vibe, certainly in my area, which may just be privilege of course. Free lunch and snacks for my KS1 primary-schooler have been great. He came home telling me he now likes sweet red peppers 😄
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Even the Lords have pulled all nighters to keep us out of (more) trouble as well
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The first Cambridge mayor spent a significant amount on feasibility studies for a "metro" that was kind of an autonomous underground bus-train-tram thing while everyone cried as well en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrid...
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Cambridgeshire Autonomous Metro - Wikipedia
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Cricket bat to the head
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I agree, but checking/editing formal-looking information to make sure it conveys everything you meant is a third skill that requires both. If he's prompting ChatGPT effectively he has a good enough grasp of writing to write what he means. The problem is management being obtuse, not the sewage guy.
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
More consideration needed for this in the UK too. We need way more street trees and to bring back awnings on high streets.
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The Shakespeare play will either be Macbeth or Romeo and Juliet for the same reason. They are the shortest ones.
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The boring answer is: A) schools have class copies in the cupboard and no budget to buy sets of something else 2) there's loads of teaching materials available, and a touring play iii) teachers know it back to front so they know how to teach it d) the themes are obvious and it's not too long
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Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
this on the problem of the "besuited void" of Starmer www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/06/the-...
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The Starmer Problem for Democrats - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The reason why it’s frankly idiotic to say that we shouldn’t be having discussions about the future of the Democratic Party and instead just all get behind Democrats to oppose Trump (a position most s...
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The thing is if he is bad at writing he is likely bad at reading and won't necessarily check that those bullet points are actually accurate. I would prefer that he sent bullet points that are poorly written but accurate. Or sent a voice note tbh
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/eng... if she taught them they would not pass their GCSEs
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AQA | English | GCSE | GCSE English Literature
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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
At this point there is no argument to be made in defense of what's going on here. None. Where these people all thrice removed cousins of hamas agents? Is that the yarn they're gonna spin? The depths of depravity a political regime can enact under guise of state defense is truly unfathomable.
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Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/06/2025
Greatest writer in the English language, curious how he had no themes
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Oh I know! But in the same way "bikers" use bike to means motorbike, vs cyclist/bicycle, it's not *unfair* that ebike means both. There should be access to more official language to distinguish the two when pressed though. EAPC isn't understood.
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
And drag jokes. If all your female characters are played by men it's rich pickings
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Taming of the Shrew? Nothing there either. Pretty well-hidden if it's even mentioned
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Could do with ecycles being a word (but don't want to lose the claim to ebikes either)
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Definitely need common understanding that ebikes and eMotorbikes are not the same thing
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Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
They've been putting off upgrading the rail junction that links the Midlands/North to the East/London *forever*. It's maxed out. No more trains/higher frequency until that's sorted. Aaaaaaargh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Why are Ely North junction improvements taking so long?
There are hopes the long-awaited work could finally find itself on the list for funding.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
We do not need new roads; we need better transport options. Think of what could be done with £9.2bn, which is to be spent on just 14 miles of road! It could transform bus services and/or cycling and pedestrian infrastructure across Britain. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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UK government pledges further £590m for delayed Lower Thames Crossing
Rachel Reeves calls Britain’s biggest road-building project a ‘turning point for our national infrastructure’
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