Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org

So you want a quote for a thing, say a storage space, and the website is making you put in a phone number before they tell you how much the thing costs? Is the website validation preventing you from typing in a completely random number?

Worry not. Ireland has valid mobile and landline phone numbers reserved for use in TV and movies and absolutely nobody is validating for that.

Pick one from the range and be uncallable:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_telephone_number

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland#Special_numbers

#mastodaoine #LifeHack

"Those who will mourn Navalny have fled abroad. They will sigh sadly from their permanent exile, secretly glad all the same that it was he and not them that paid the price.
Some may think about protesting or holding public vigils in major Russian cities. It is a dangerous idea, and so most mourners will dismiss it out of hand. They will go back to their families, huddle together, grateful that they can at least think freely, even if they no longer can freely say what they think. "

"But for the vast, tired, apathetic, silent majority, Navalny’s death will barely register. ‘Who? Navalny? He knew what he was getting himself into.’ He knew."

Above quotes from Sergey Radchenko's opinion piece in the Spectator:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/category/international/

'Judging by Reeves’s recent performance, they seem to care more about the fiscal hawks in their midst and in the Tory press. So much so that, to prove their mettle as bona fide austerians, they adopt the most pernicious allegory to have disgraced economic thinking.'

Why is Labour still using the self-defeating, discredited ‘maxed out credit card’ analogy? | Yanis Varoufakis | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/15/labour-credit-card-analogy-mendacious-tory

> DR. FRANKENSTEIN: I'm just saying, it's a very misleading flyer

> BODY BUILDING COMPETITION JUDGE: again, we can only apologise

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Folks, as you're spinning your quips about Navalny and the Putin regime in your reactions to today's news, please remember that Alexey's family and millions more people are in mourning.

Hmmm.... the #LabourParty has overturned sizeable majorities in tow previously 'safe' #Tory seats in this week's two by-elections (in #Kingswood & in #Wellingborough).

But, while these may be indicative of a swing to Labour, they may also indicate a swing (on the right) towards Reform, which likely compounded a voting 'strike' (staying at home) by previous Tory #voters.

For leftists, the problem will be if #KeirStarmer takes this as vindication of his tack to the right & policy weakening!

Florida authorities want to make it sound like this particular school just messed up - but they deliberately created the environment in which this is bound to happen.

This is the feature, not the bug of the reactionary assault on multiracial pluralism Florida has spearheaded. 1/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-school-asks-parents-permission-african-american-author-read-st-rcna138685

The emphasis on “parents rights” is part of an attempt to make every reactionary white person a deputy of the reactionary state and have them help weed out and oppress dissent and deviance. It’s a fundamentally authoritarian vision of society. /end

“We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.”
― George Orwell

Are economists selfish? Not according to Monopoly

Against my better judgment, I was recently prevailed upon to play a game of Monopoly with the family. It soon developed in a fashion that has become familiar: everyone tried to rip everyone else’s face off, except me. I proposed a mutually beneficial deal to each player, offering extra concessions myself to make sure those deals go

https://timharford.com/2024/02/are-economists-selfish-not-according-to-monopoly/

#UndercoverEconomist

Wellingborough voters facing historic opportunity to reject cronyism by giving disgraced MP’s job to his girlfriend https://newsthump.com/2024/02/15/wellingborough-voters-facing-historic-opportunity-to-reject-cronyism-by-giving-disgraced-mps-job-to-his-girlfriend/

Vote Count Binface for Mayor of London and I will rename the Overground lines, as follows... #VoteBinface #MakeYourVoteCount

#bird #crow #smart #spikes

These crows removing the bird-prevention spikes from this new condo. They are not having it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bn9FONAkUA