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Joel Williams

@jaowilliams74.bsky.social
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UK Head of Methods at Verian, but not entirely defined by that. Tend to tangent.

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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The reporting of questionnaire based research is so credulous. You could ask these same questions about 20 differemt topics and get the same result. Only a handful will have any real effect.
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is sorta a funny thing about philosophy that the questions are inherently fascinating and exciting—there’s a reason people wind up talking about this stuff in dorm rooms—and the best methods we have for investigating them involve being as tedious and pedantic and boring as possible
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Data collection/processing differences between nations would have been my go-to explanation for this puzzle. Good to see the general rule of 'weird = wrong' holding once again.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I suppose Sky et al don't want to provide a crowd-noise-only option because that would stop them cross-selling. I frequently have to watch football on a very low volume just to stop being wound up by the jabbering fools on soundtrack.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Outstanding new voting intention format from local LibDems.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yeah. Something I fundamentally changed my view on. And nice to see some evidence.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Such a weird argument that any focus on bad cycling detracts from the focus there should be on bad driving. It's the pinnacle of whataboutery but the proponents don't see it at all.
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Lady Of Seven @ladyof7.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
AI could never - NEVER - give us the delight of real upside down peas...
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Nativitist parties are always full of blokes you'd cross the street to avoid. Even if you don't pay much attention to the news, you'll eventually notice this. So why the votes?
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
@sport.theguardian.com
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If you standardise tranfer fees by total league revenue (which seems fair enough to me), Shearer cost Newcastle the equivalent of £292m in today's money. Seemed massive at the time and was.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My theory is candidate exposure effects. Reform have quite a lot of wanker candidates : the more you see of them, the less you like them. So early opinion polls overstate their eventual support.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Genuinely beautiful. Was previously proud of my sheet of paper with a hole in it.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The weather app I'm using has scheduled some light showers in 12 days time
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
'Even if'? The voters of Clacton do not collectively form a disinterested jury, sifting carefully through the evidence. Please stop using Farage's own (idiotic) framing of this by election!
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Think Canterbury and Folkestone should switch. Not sure about Swale though.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Apart from anything else, why did we let Messi do that short corner routine so many times? Guys, he's the best player of *all time*, try to get him off easy mode.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
*Possibly* a period effect here...
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Made another low-quality ad board video. Fifty seconds of your life you’ll never see again. .
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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I now have a favourite Norwegian football fan.
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andré @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
diabolical behavior
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I've not seen them all but has there been a more perfect WC goal than Mbappe's tonight?
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
*Farage removes all his clothes in public and takes a dump on the floor* Chris Mason: "some might say this is not the act of a PM in waiting but others note in today's politics the public appreciate authenticity."
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I am assuming that @aedwardslevy.bsky.social has already absorbed this important polling data.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Investors buying the products of an obvious con-man? These are donations.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Can't stand refs who let the underdogs do whatever they like #PARFRA
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Cela, c'est le foot
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Currently the most expensive house available in Kent. You'd need to spend several more £m ripping & replacing the decor.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Women at the front, basic nazi dads rows 3-40.
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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Lots of people in my timeline calling for a leadership contest and discussion of 'big ideas' but I don't see a public appetite for that.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Discussion of the day among whom? Even on X you could curate a feed that doesn't contain loonies.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Yes. It's a parade of people who don't know what they don't know. Bracketing together all European food with a crying-with-laughter emoji is to introduce yourself as 100% moron.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
They should show videos of this stuff in a poll and ask 'patriots or arseholes?'. I doubt more than 25% of Reform backers would select 'patriots'. There's no downside to trashing them and their eggers-on.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Also, just take a stand! (Side point: I'd bet the gross negative consequences for the government of leaving X would be zero, let alone the net consequences, which would be obviously positive.)
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I had no idea this stuff went on.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Well worth reading. Reminds me of Dominic Sandbrook's reconstruction of 60s/70s British history: big at the time, totally forgotten later. ‘I knew it was over for us’: the bands who got left behind when punk exploded www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
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‘I knew it was over for us’: the bands who got left behind when punk exploded
Fifty years ago this week, the Sex Pistols played their first Manchester gig and caused a sonic revolution. What happened to the other bands that were tipped for big things that year – and why did the...
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Jupiter on the left, Venus on the right. Very close right now ic you look west.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Apart from any shabby analysis, why do the Telegraph writers insist on writing in Cringe?
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I like Arne Slot. I was in the 'mitigating circumstances' camp and thought he should get another season. But this must be a dressing room thing. I don't see FSG doing this just because the fans got a bit toxic in the last few months. #LFC
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I think very few people over the age of about 45 have any clear idea of what the 'AI' they jabber about actually is. 'We have to take the opportunities provided by AI!', they say. What precisely do you mean? 'The opportunities for innovation, efficiencies...'. Right. It's all so woolly.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Highest minimums is where the real action is. Tropical nights in May?!
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Some hilarious replies to this from people who *love* spending time figuring out how to get computers to work.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
No there will not be an early election. A man with 400 seats will not risk half of them three years early to satisfy columnists’ belief in mandate fairies.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
As always happens in the SE Water area, heatwave = no water. Always.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Doesn't every PM have glaring weaknesses, including all the most successful ones?
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
What's this?
Cartoon of a man looking at another man on all fours by a raft on which is a pile of rulers and tape measures. The standing man is asking What's this? to which the kneeling man replies You said we need a raft of measures to attract new members to Literalists Club
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Irrespective of what he says, I just don't like Wes Streeting's manner: eager, demanding, yet ingratiating. I can't defend this obviously snobby view, it's just there.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
First Birmingham ward result.... Green 20 Lab 17 LD 17 Ref 16 Ind 14 Con 11
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Community Chaos
ALT: Community Chaos
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Yes, it's pressure - & Starmer was daft to pre-announce the Mandelson appointment - but I read the Robbins quotes yesterday and thought he sounded pretty spineless. His reasoning for saying nothing about the vetting outcome to ministers seemed to boil down to 'it would be against protocol'.
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Joel Williams @jaowilliams74.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
My local countryside is B grade: lovely but no one makes a special trip to it. Means at this time of year you can walk these woods alone.
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