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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

While I’m here, plug for my theory that governments should take a more active interest in the size of their construction industries if they want to bear down on the cost of living acjsissons.medium.com/what-can-gov...

Alongside this, governments should also perhaps take a more active interest in their construction sectors. Building more stuff - homes, infrastructure, storage facilities - should help bear down on the cost of living over time. Avoiding labour shortages and bottlenecks in the construction industry
should make all of these investments more affordable, and limit price shocks from inflation in construction costs. Investing more in construction skills is the most obvious policy priority here, but providing a smoother, more predictable stream of demand to the industry could also help.

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nor(DEV): Norfolk Developers @nor.dev · 29/01/2025

Read more of Dom's thoughts on speaking at conferences and the benefits at: norfolkdevelopers.com/posts/2022-06…

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nor(DEV): Norfolk Developers @nor.dev · 29/01/2025

The "corridor conference" is one of the best reasons to attend an in-person conference! Talks, ultimately, "you can watch most of those on the internet". Engaging with both speakers and delegates on the talk though... there's no better place!

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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

My best advice to moderate politicians everywhere who want to defend democracy: move fucking fast and fucking fix things!

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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

"The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." - Antonio Gramsci

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Peter Ungphakorn @coppetainpu.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

Remind me, please. How much do the performing arts earn for the British economy, from films, TV and music to all genres of live performances, and of course tourism? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

theguardian.com

Ministers to cut funding for performing and creative arts courses in England

Gillian Keegan will also squeeze funding for programmes to widen access to higher education

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Cath Hodsman @cathhodsman.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

Do you fancy a weekend getting away from it all? If you do, why don't you sign up to my two-day bee painting retreat on the 13-14th April. 3 places have just become available. Bees and paints what a fab combination 🪲🐙🐡 www.newbreweryarts.org.uk/twoday-paint...

Part of a painting I did of a Patchwork Leaf-cutter bee. Its shiny compound eye, clear to see as well as its dark golden body hairs. So much fluffier than you think.

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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

"Norfolk was probably 17th Century's most industrialised county, with 63% of adult men in industry by 1700." But it had deindustrialised by 18C "men in industry dropped to 39%, while share in agriculture jumped from 28% in the 1700s to 51%."

bbc.co.uk

Cambridge study reveals Britain industrialised earlier than thought

Records reveal

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Roger Everett @yachtlily.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

Rebuild went very well. Delighted with our new cockpit which gives us so much more storage

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Ann Hawkins @annhawkins.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Yeah, no surprise but what do they get out of it? Why does it matter to them?

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

I would probably skip the coyness and go for a straightforward headline like "RNC makes election denial a litmus test for new hires," but that's why I'm not a big city politics editor

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Ann Hawkins @annhawkins.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Meta and Google acting as judge and jury on women's reproductive information around the world. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Jennie Jordan @jenniewren.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

I’m going to keep reposting this. Why would anyone want to exclude ice cream from the list of healthy foods ?

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🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · 26/03/2024

It’s so funny how every study shows that ice cream is good for you but this makes scientists mad so they don’t talk about it web.archive.org/web/20240122...

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wrong. But the same paper had given them another result that they liked much better. The team was going all in on yogurt. With a growing reputation as a boon for microbiomes, yogurt was the anti-ice-cream-the healthy person's dairy treat.
"Higher intake of yogurt is associated with a reduced risk" of type 2 diabetes, "whereas other dairy foods and consumption of total dairy are not," the 2014 paper said. "The conclusions weren't exactly accurately written," acknowledged Dariush Mozaffarian, the dean of policy at Tufts's nutrition school and a co-author of the paper, when he revisited the data with me in an interview. "Saying no foods were associated-_ice cream was associated."

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

I think about this all the time, especially when I eat ice cream.

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Richard Evans @richardev.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Remarkable story – thanks for drawing attention to it!

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

Reporting on climate change is awesome because the people who think everything else is a conspiracy will say there’s no evidence besides the oil company memos that say like “make sure you lie about this, so we don’t make less money”

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

"After more than a decade of austerity, British five-year-olds are a full centimeter shorter now than they were in 2010, and they are becoming significantly shorter than children in other countries." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

nybooks.com

Small Island | Gary Younge

What has happened to Britain?

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Roger Everett @yachtlily.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

Winter shadows in the cathedral cloisters

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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

Pressure that the Ukrainians should absolutely ignore - especially when the US has stopped supplying them with weapons. Ukraine needs to identify every Russian weakness that it can exploit, & hit it as hard as it can. This is a war Ukraine has to win, for its own sake & for the security of Europe.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

One of my crunchiest enviro opinions is that everybody should stop using gas-powered leaf blowers AND lawn mowers. The leaves are fine, chill. Lawns are unnatural monocultures that suppress biodiversity. Let 'em grow, or replace with native plants, or if you gotta mow, get a manual reel mower.

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Pernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

Not just the Garrick Club. Foreign Office officials may wish to reconsider their membership of the Travellers Club, which still doesn't admit women. Current British ambassador to Japan is a woman and many other ambassadorships past and present increasingly female. 1/2

thetimes.co.uk

Chiefs of civil service and MI6 resign from all-male Garrick Club

Simon Case and Richard Moore defended their membership by saying they were trying to make a change from within

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Rob Yaxley @robyaxley.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Makes sense if the lifeboatmen are actually in the boathouse before the storm arrives!

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Rob Yaxley @robyaxley.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

Interesting position for the lifeboat house. Makes sense there today, but would have taken a while to get out there then? By boat?

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Roger_TL45Y @rogerhorton.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

The Lodge vanished from OS maps between 1838 and 1904 it seems.

Two maps 1838 and 1904 of Lodge Marsh Wells-next-Sea.

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Tim Worfolk @timworfolk.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

Maybe a rather unproductive spot? 'Bugger all' > 'B- all' > 'Bob 'all': perhaps sanitised for the map reading gentry?

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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Sunrise 🌅 at 0608 Sunset 🌄 at 1800 Almost 12 hours of daylight. Loving the natural variation in our self seeded primulas. #Norfolk #Garden #springtime 🌱🧑‍🌾🦋🏡

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Rob Yaxley @robyaxley.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

For no particular reason, Wells Harbour from James Wyld’s map of 1838 (railways added at a later date).

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Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

USA Democracy under threat from Christian Nationalists. Supporters have (among many other things) called for "an end to no-fault divorce and abortion and for reduced access to contraception." They have also said they consider giving women the right to vote to be "a bad idea". You've been warned.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

In my innocence, I thought Project 2025 was just about firing the qualified civil servants so that the federal government would fail, and with it the economy. I hadn't realized there was a Christofascist angle. buckscountybeacon.com/2024/03/shoc...

buckscountybeacon.com

Shocking Online Manifesto Reveals Project 2025's Link to a Coordinated ‘Christian Nationalism Project’ - Bucks County Beacon

“The Statement on Christian Nationalism” seeks to implement a Scripture-based system of government whereby Christ-ordained “civil magistrates” exercise authority over the American public.

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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

This is a terrible and significant story - not just for South Asia but for India's massive diaspora, which is rising in power & influence worldwide. I'm not sure Western governments can ignore the India problem much longer. bit.ly/43e0ebY