Reposted by Huw SayerAndrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 29/01/2025While 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... 281
Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Chimes with my 'Pothole theory of everything' (they even affect the price of homes). Poor quality roads mean people opt to move closer to work to shorten horrific journeys (bus, car, bike, foot), creating property hot spots. Fix potholes and build more homes. www.linkedin.com/posts/huwsay...linkedin.comHuw Sayer on LinkedIn: The pothole crisis is costing £14.4 billion a year in economic damage in…Unless the government starts fixing the basics (roads, rail, public transport, education, health) the economy will continue to struggle. Poor infrastructure… 010
Reposted by Huw Sayernor(DEV): Norfolk Developers @nor.dev · 29/01/2025Read more of Dom's thoughts on speaking at conferences and the benefits at: norfolkdevelopers.com/posts/2022-06… 041
Reposted by Huw Sayernor(DEV): Norfolk Developers @nor.dev · 29/01/2025The "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! 131
Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Inspired by a Tim Urban post, I decided to ask an AI about the date of the 'singularity' - we had a fun and interesting conversation.huwsayer.wordpress.comHuw Sayer in Conversation: The Future of AI and HumanityThe other day I was reading a long, long (2-part) post from Tim Urban about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) - you really should read it. The most fascinating thing about it was that he had written it in 2015, which seems like an age away now. In it he discussed the accelerating developments that we were already seeing - check out the… 141
Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024My best advice to moderate politicians everywhere who want to defend democracy: move fucking fast and fucking fix things! 040
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 020
Reposted by Huw SayerPeter Ungphakorn @coppetainpu.bsky.social · 04/04/2024Remind 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.comMinisters to cut funding for performing and creative arts courses in EnglandGillian Keegan will also squeeze funding for programmes to widen access to higher education 3499
Reposted by Huw SayerCath Hodsman @cathhodsman.bsky.social · 05/04/2024Do 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... 2315
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.ukCambridge study reveals Britain industrialised earlier than thoughtRecords reveal 020
Reposted by Huw SayerRoger Everett @yachtlily.bsky.social · 04/04/2024Rebuild went very well. Delighted with our new cockpit which gives us so much more storage 111
Reposted by Huw SayerAnn Hawkins @annhawkins.bsky.social · 27/03/2024Yeah, no surprise but what do they get out of it? Why does it matter to them? 101
Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 28/03/2024A "discussion impossible to have without having to join a whole load of nutjobs who have their problem with it" - Nick Cave sums up the problem with too many issues these days. Fascinating interview.theguardian.comNick Cave on love, art and the loss of his sons: ‘It’s against nature to bury your children’In the past nine years, the musician and artist has lost two sons – an experience he explores in a shocking, deeply personal new ceramics project. He discusses mercy, forgiveness, making and meaning 010
Reposted by Huw SayerChris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 27/03/2024I 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 852695
Reposted by Huw SayerAnn Hawkins @annhawkins.bsky.social · 27/03/2024Meta and Google acting as judge and jury on women's reproductive information around the world. www.theguardian.com/global-devel... 111
Reposted by Huw SayerJennie Jordan @jenniewren.bsky.social · 27/03/2024I’m going to keep reposting this. Why would anyone want to exclude ice cream from the list of healthy foods ? 031
Reposted by Huw Sayer🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · 26/03/2024It’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... 772224674
Reposted by Huw SayerElizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 26/03/2024I think about this all the time, especially when I eat ice cream. 811733
Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 27/03/2024The sort of person they never tell you about in school! 010
Reposted by Huw SayerRichard Evans @richardev.bsky.social · 27/03/2024Remarkable story – thanks for drawing attention to it! 111
Reposted by Huw SayerHuw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 27/03/2024More on the amazing Charles Waterton here historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...historicengland.org.ukWaterton Park, Walton, Wakefield, Walton - 1487471 | Historic EnglandList entry 1487471. Grade II Park and Garden: Waterton Park, Walton, Wakefield. May include summary, reasons for designation and history. 011
Reposted by Huw SayerHuw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 27/03/2024Hats off to pioneering environmentalist Charles Waterton Love the house on the island. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...theguardian.comYorkshire estate known as world’s first nature reserve gets Grade II listingEccentric Victorian owner of Waterton Park, near Wakefield, made pioneering decisions to protect wildlife 211
Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 27/03/2024More on the amazing Charles Waterton here historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...historicengland.org.ukWaterton Park, Walton, Wakefield, Walton - 1487471 | Historic EnglandList entry 1487471. Grade II Park and Garden: Waterton Park, Walton, Wakefield. May include summary, reasons for designation and history. 011
Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 27/03/2024Hats off to pioneering environmentalist Charles Waterton Love the house on the island. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...theguardian.comYorkshire estate known as world’s first nature reserve gets Grade II listingEccentric Victorian owner of Waterton Park, near Wakefield, made pioneering decisions to protect wildlife 211
Reposted by Huw SayerPascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 26/03/2024Revolution Bars in secret talks about sale and mass venue closures | Business News | Sky News news.sky.com/story/revolu...news.sky.comRevolution Bars in secret talks about sale and mass venue closuresThe London-listed owner of Revolucion de Cuba is plotting an emergency fundraising and bar closures that will threaten hundreds of jobs, Sky News learns. 001
Reposted by Huw SayerInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 26/03/2024Reporting 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” 11806174
Reposted by Huw SayerNick 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.comSmall Island | Gary YoungeWhat has happened to Britain? 12311160
Reposted by Huw SayerRoger Everett @yachtlily.bsky.social · 18/01/2024Winter shadows in the cathedral cloisters 031
Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 23/03/2024Hope the rebuild went well. Looks like a cracking good day for a first of the season sail on the Broads. Moderate to Fresh (4-5) westerly. Remember your sunscreen. 100
Reposted by Huw SayerIan Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 22/03/2024Pressure 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. 44814
Reposted by Huw SayerDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20/03/2024One 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. 2516436
Reposted by Huw SayerPernille Rudlin @pernillerudlin.bsky.social · 21/03/2024Not 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. 1/2thetimes.co.ukChiefs of civil service and MI6 resign from all-male Garrick ClubSimon Case and Richard Moore defended their membership by saying they were trying to make a change from within 113
Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 21/03/2024Could be like Three Days of the Condor (brilliant film) which was based on the book Five Days of the Flying Goose (or something like that). 010
Reposted by Huw SayerPlease Follow the Official AP News Account @apnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 21/03/2024Turkish central bank raises key interest rate to 50% as inflation soarsapnews.comTurkish central bank raises key interest rate to 50% as inflation soarsTurkey’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by 5 percentage points, resuming a policy of rate hikes aimed at combating soaring inflation that is causing households severe economic pain. 023
Reposted by Huw SayerRob Yaxley @robyaxley.bsky.social · 15/03/2024Makes sense if the lifeboatmen are actually in the boathouse before the storm arrives! 011
Huw Sayer @huwsayer.bsky.social · 15/03/2024Love this green horse statue - seriously spooky.theguardian.com‘Everywoman’ and horse sculptures chosen for display at London’s fourth plinthLondon mayor’s office hopes works for Trafalgar Square will continue tradition of fostering debate over art 010