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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 06/08/2025

I will add, though, that I don't find it plausible this was deliberately done by anyone with intent to convince anyone that the new version was the actual text of the constitution unless they, the person doing it, was incredibly stupid.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 06/08/2025

"Operator error" I could just about consider plausible. "Coding error" would seem incredibly unlikely, but also unlikely to be fixed that quickly. Not impossible. But pretty implausible. Just from a technical point-of-view.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 06/08/2025

It's actually possible that this whole furore of reaction is the intended effect, then they can claim people are being reactionary over what's obviously an error. (What makes it less likely to be an error is that the corresponding annotations to the removed parts of section 8 have also disappeared)

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 06/08/2025

Well, no. It's just the Library of Congress's "annotated constitution". The senate's version is intact, and even if it weren't it would have no effect. That is, as I suspect you know 😉, not the point. No-one doing this would think it changed anything. It raises the questions of who did it, and why.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 05/02/2025

Fortunately, I was asleep when you posted that😄 I'm definitely going to need today to recover, though. I have chronic balance problems, and it's still off from baseline.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 04/02/2025

Taxi to my home station has been laid on.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 04/02/2025

Yeah, though it usually takes physical contact.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 04/02/2025

There is a non-trivial risk that I will end up in Scotland even in that case. If I fall asleep, I'll miss my stop.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 04/02/2025

I am trapped in St Helens. Replacement bus showing up as being in one hour. My narcolepsy meds start to be unreliable in about ten minutes.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 13/01/2025

I don't think this suggests there's anything wrong, I'm sure it's just me adjusting to the new prescription, but it's kinda disturbing.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 13/01/2025

Since I got my new glasses, both with the varifocals and the readers, when I watch someone doing face-to-camera on the TV, my depth perception goes weird sometimes. Like it looks like someone's head has been recorded separately and stuck on to the video, like it isn't really attached to their body.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 11/01/2025

I really wish that celebs and major institutional users (like media, government etc) - and, frankly, anyone else in a position to - actually used domain verification on Bluesky. Always feel a sense of doubt if accounts are really what they claim to be if they haven't.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 11/01/2025

Knowing that the reason one has exaggerated emotional reactions is emotional dysregulation/lability due to #ADHD doesn't actually help deal with them as much as one might hope. Easier to be kind to yourself about it, but the emotions are still there.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 03/01/2025

Really sad to have learned that Lisa Egan - @lisybabe.bsky.social - has died. Dedicated, passionate and also capable of being a lot of fun. Will be sorely missed.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 02/01/2025

You mean like an entirely philological structure for his fictional languages? ;)

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 02/01/2025

Looking at data dispassionately, there are a number of ways that the US doesn't fit in with the global economic north. This is one of them.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 02/01/2025

Moving my head up and down all the time (and somewhat left and right) is annoying, and not great for my balance (positional vertigo - not BPPV, some other unspecified cause of positional vertigo and imbalance).

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 02/01/2025

I recently got my first ever pair of varifocals. Optician does free second pair (with single vision lenses) so ordered readers as well, thought it would be useful sometimes. Readers were delayed, finally got them, and my god it's better to use them if I'm doing mostly close stuff.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 26/12/2024

As a postscript... anyone know *why* every #rollator I could find on sale is wider than the one I got like ten years ago?

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 26/12/2024

That last thread was quite banal, but this sort of thing is actually a significant part of the life of some of us, so, yeah. If you get it, you get it. If not, might be worth learning more about the everyday realities of being disabled.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 26/12/2024

So the search ended up being much quicker, and I should have a new rollator Monday-ish. Same as the old one but updated, slightly wider (which is annoying but I didn't find *any* significantly narrower), and with big front wheels. The end.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 26/12/2024

A short time into my search, I discovered that a new iteration of the same range was being made, just with a different manufacturer name. And they were still making a version with larger front wheels (an upgrade I'd been wishing for, for white a while)

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 26/12/2024

I had found out, over a year ago, that the company that made my current one didn't do rollators any more, so was resigned to arduously searching and making compromises.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 26/12/2024

Opportunities to buy a new one in person are limited, though I was near a store for work recently, so tried some out, and figured that I had enough info from that to find what I wanted online.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 26/12/2024

The other week, a nut fell off my rollator. I still had the bolt and wheel, and fortunately my selection of bits at home included an appropriate sized locknut, but getting home with 3/4 wheels was interesting.

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Pip @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Chatted with a bloke who felt he should have moved on his wife’s death by now and be feeling Mwrry about Christmas. She only died in August 2023! If you’re finding the festive season tough due to bereavement, you’re not alone. There’s space for you here. #JoinIn

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 25/12/2024

I would comment, but you knew what you were doing...

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 25/12/2024

This year's Christmas dinner. Not entirely happy with it. Potatoes should have been in #sousvide longer, and both the meat stuffing and the dryer stuffing have the wrong texture. But I'm not beating myself up about it. So, score one for #mentalhealth I guess.

A picture of plated Christmas dinner, with slices of rolled turkey breast stuffed and wrapped in bacon, pigs in blankets (sausages wrapped in bacon), a meat stuffing ball, a piece of baked stuffing, and roast potatoes, carrots, parsnips and beetroot. Cranberry sauce on the side.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 25/12/2024

Happy Christmas to all, and any other relevant season's greetings.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 21/12/2024

I got Whammed by the London International Horse Show #whamageddon.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 08/12/2024

People can just mute certain words. Blocklists are a weird way to do it.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 07/12/2024

Like "MAGA trolls, crypto scammers, follow spammers, content scrapers," or "Nazis, rapist, vatniks, over the limit porn(animals), MAGA, Assadist etc", or "Larger fake news promulgators RT, Sputnik, Novo, AfD. Reform UK, Corb" [those are, obviously, truncated descriptions]

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 07/12/2024

(I don't care personally, but I am concerned about the impact of this on the platform and communities)

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 07/12/2024

I'm beginning to suspect that entryists attempting to disrupt Bluesky as a place for liberal/left wing/just generally chill people by use of blocklists that appear to be sincere are being fairly successful and bizarrely inclusive. Some of the ones I'm on are just bizarre.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 06/12/2024

It would seem to me that the intention is that capacity is assessed proactively at the time. I mean, even solicitors are supposed to do that at times, AIUI.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 06/12/2024

I wonder if many Americans have been served a British corned beef sandwich without being told what "corned beef" is over here, and how they felt about what they received?

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 05/12/2024

Wouldn't a purposive reading combined with simple logic suggest that anyone who doesn't not have capacity, has capacity? I mean, in the mental capacity act it's very much read as an either-or proposition. There's no in between state for capacity (bearing in mind capacity is decision-specific).

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 02/12/2024

Red wine triggers both my migraines and IBS. Which puts a bit of a crimp in some cooking. Finally found a simple substitute! A bit sweet, which will be a problem in some recipes, but easy to do. White wine and pomegranate molasses. Still working on ratios. (Don't drink it, though)

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 02/12/2024

That doesn't really apply to content as it exists on Bluesky. That's newspaper and magazine articles. Hard to monetise those on this platform.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 02/12/2024

If only they'd picked entomologists as their example, they wouldn't have gotten owned. Well played.

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Dan Maier @danielmaier.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Importing the archive: The New Scientist is the only source of band names you’ll ever need. #newscientistbandnames

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 01/12/2024

I feel quite sure we've had a similar dialogue elsewhere in the past.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 01/12/2024

Sounds like it ends up as more than full-time total workload - I couldn't cope with that these days. These last 12-14 years or so, I should say.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 01/12/2024

I went with grounded theory (Corbin/Strauss version) for my MA dissertation. But I've used things more like RTA during the degree. I like the interaction with both the data and the participant that GT promotes. The analysis being less systematic is harder in some ways, easier in others.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 01/12/2024

Will that affect the possibility of seeing posts about a popular bakery chain?

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 01/12/2024

Personally, I have no problem with Friends who consider the inward teacher I experience to be Christ. My problem is with those who insist I must do so as well. But I acknowledge they are still part of the worldwide family of Friends.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack @sambc.barnett-cormack.co.uk · 01/12/2024

Payments to look at content don't make sense, but tipping may - appreciating content here (more likely art etc) or elsewhere linked here. People may be more willing to tip without going to a third party, and also if they know it supports Bluesky.

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