Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
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There's a reason decades of psychiatric research and feminist theory eventually converged on: "Fuck it, who cares what gender is. Just let people do what makes them happy."
Because the alternates were untenable and always ended up being abusive and oftentimes deadly.
To which the conservative response has been: "But we like that."
Behind every "family values" conservative is the belief that them having power over someone else is more important than that person's happiness. And that's evil.
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Ten reasons I’m happy to be autistic 😎
A thread...
🧵 ⬇️
@KatyElphinstone Love this list. Wishing I could get my ADHD teen to recognise some of these postitive aspects (as I have).
@lloyddavis Not sure how useful they ever were. Lots of spurious ones, and even serious ones were pretty much ignored if the government chose to.
Personally I got a bit more satisfaction writing to my MP, and getting a decent response on her view/interpretation of a policy matter.
"Good data is not cheap to collect — but it is good value, especially when thoughtfully commissioned or built into policymaking by default." Tim Harford on the warped priorities that have been handed to the Office for National Statistics.
https://econtwitter.net/@TimHarford/112808830670751890
@sohan @NanoRaptor White is sus.
Dave T-W
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We are delighted to introduce…The McBollard!!
#WorldBollardAssociation 🍔🍟
@garius Curious to know what's the future for these TOCs? Do they just disappear? What about assets and staff?
Lovely little film, one for my fellow misanthropes.
https://www.orartswatch.org/sometimes-i-think-about-dying-qa-with-the-director-rachel-lambert-and-actor-dave-merheje-of-the-oregon-shot-film-starring-daisy-ridley/
@cfbolz @davidallengreen Aah, now I get it.
Dave T-W
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Look, having goals is great.
Working towards something can give your life meaning and direction. But the self-help industrial complex has turned goal-setting into some kind of extreme sport. It’s not enough to have goals anymore. You need to have SMART goals, stretch goals, 10-year vision goals. And you better be crushing them, smashing them, absolutely obliterating them.
What happened to just doing your best?
When did that stop being enough?
@CppGuy @neil
"From time to time we all get a bit restless
With no one advertising to us constantly
But the tribe at the former airport
Some nights has meat and dancing
If you don't mind gathering and hunting
We're all still pretty good at eating on the run.
Things it would have been helpful to know before the revolution" - Father John Misty
Similar time, similar story:
Trevor Brooking:
"I think a lot of older players in the system are damaged goods because technically they're not able to cope with the demands," he conceded.
"If you can't play it from the back, or in tight areas, it doesn't matter how good the coach is, you're not going to make it."
Yes, it's the Daily Mail, yes, it's 2007, but doesn't this sound familiar?
"#England and the #FA get themselves in this position because they do not learn the lessons of history and are thus destined to repeat them.
...
Never mind the performances of its foreign-driven club sides, the English game is on its knees. It didn't need its own governing body to kick it when it was down."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-502576/Same-old-England.html
@oldrawgabbit I read yesterday that the shooter had been identified by fingerprints and DNA matching, so I'm thinking this is a no.
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You read this and it gives you hope the #Olympics in #Paris2024 may actually be a sustainable and lasting celebration of sports and its infrastructure
#green #architecture #Sport
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/jul/15/french-revolution-can-paris-deliver-the-leanest-greenest-olympics-yet
Unpopular opinion: Apart from the one manager who led England to victory in the 1966 England World Cup (side eye), Southgate has been the best #England manager ever: WC QF and SF, two Euro finals.
Via reddit:
@gpollara Some beautiful examples of buildings that have been restored and repuposed. One of the main architects mentioned there have more examples on their website.
https://www.chatillonarchitectes.com/en/portfolio/halles-du-boulingrin/
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#TimothySnyder : Political Violence: Reflections from the 1920s and 1930s
"Nothing in recent American political life resembles Trump’s call for “Second-Amendment people” to kill Hillary Clinton, his mockery of Paul Pelosi after an attempted murder, his belittling of Gretchen Whitmer after a kidnapping attempt, the stochastic violence he directs against critics to intimidate them and against his fellow Republicans to keep them in line..."
@urbanfoxe Jealous looks from over here. You got Shakira, we had Shearer.
- Location
- Mostly London
- Pronouns (plz)
- he/him
Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
