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Published: May 10, 2026 11:12

Maybe someone should ask to speak to the Board of Managers

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Published: May 9, 2026 19:57

if Mike Tapp was rumoured to be launching a leadership bid, everyone would say "is this thing on?" [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 9, 2026 13:49

It is even more grimly hilarious to know that there are plenty of people on the right of the Labour party who will look at this map and go "bloody hell, those Trots and lefties have really shagged this one for us" [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: May 9, 2026 13:36

Hehe, all the local charities have stalls at Exeter Pride and I think Ambrose The Devon Air Ambulance Bear has been saying "no it's just an actual mascot costume" roughly once every 30 seconds for the last two hours

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Published: May 8, 2026 21:07

Seemingly evergreen [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2026 20:58

It is May and the garden is blooming, which is good news for my favourite agricultural pests

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Published: May 8, 2026 17:26

Sorry I never asked, how's *your* da getting along? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01480-1

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Published: May 8, 2026 16:55

I like to imagine him singing this to the tune of "She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain"

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Published: May 8, 2026 15:01

wednesday's post was light, so Friday's is heavy - I consider the possibility that handling crises well makes you more vulnerable precisely because you feel invulnerable https://backofmind.substack.com/p/minsky-and-the-double-tap

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Published: May 8, 2026 13:37

If you think about it this way then I'm afraid the "just need to neutralize the immigration issue then we will win on the centre ground of living costs" seems pretty delusional [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2026 12:10

How's your da getting on by the way?

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Published: May 8, 2026 12:00

And the band played https://youtu.be/ak_C18uh2Bo?si=78EGkTOGaVV1FWeV [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2026 09:18

The thing is, I've been doing that Gramsci line about morbid symptoms while the old is dying but the new cannot be born for a very long time now, probably since the financial crisis. Everyone talks about the weeks when decades happen, but the decades were…

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Published: May 8, 2026 09:00

If only they had listened to Morgan McSweeney

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Published: May 8, 2026 08:56

It feels very copey to say "ha, now that people have a Reform Council they will certainly find out what it's like to have vital services neglected because there is no money for anything other than statutory responsibilities, to the presumed electoral…

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Published: May 8, 2026 08:36

Every mf wants to say they take responsibility, no mf wants to take responsibility [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2026 08:14

"Cybernetic breakdown in the system", as the man said [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2026 07:58

He's just lost the dressing room. As I once said about Rishi Sunak, if one of the other parties launched a policy of "we will kill your nan", the evening headlines would be "Starmer fails to condemn racist Catherine Tate character"

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Published: May 8, 2026 07:12

"no way of preventing this says only country where this regularly happens" [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2026 02:33

Fwiw looks like Exeter will go NOC for its last year of existence; labour have lost three seats to the greens and one to reform (the widgets will say 2 but actually one of them was lost last year in a byelection).

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Published: May 8, 2026 02:10

Not actually a GAIN as far as I can see; the Reform guy is already on the council having won on the exact same percentage of the vote in a by-election last year. Big movement between Labour and Green but still an FPTP cockup. [contains quote post or other…

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Published: May 8, 2026 01:47

FPTP is never a good system but it is sometimes very funny.

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Published: May 8, 2026 01:31

No disrespect to people doing their jobs, but it is not worth reading local election takes for a couple of days, they are almost always based on information that is wrong or incomplete in some way. More than a third of the total seats up for election are…

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Published: May 7, 2026 20:39

As far as I can see, at least two of those districts are only R+10; there is a distinct risk of a dummymander here [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2026 19:06

Once upon a time this country used to be able to airlift dogs out of Afghanistan [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2026 18:58

Anyone who thinks that you can adjust your behavior so that it won't be demonised fundamentally lacks respect for the intelligent and hardworking professionals whose job it is to demonize you. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2026 16:51

I think it might suggest that xAI are no longer interested in training frontier models, so they have spare compute to use on other people's inference; slightly different demand economics but pretty much the same from the point of view of a prospective…

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Published: May 6, 2026 16:43

Get a load of Holmes and Watson here [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2026 13:10

at the 'stack, I break down my daughter's latest funny text and what it tells us about the background workings of chatbots https://backofmind.substack.com/p/a-master-at-work

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Published: May 6, 2026 01:27

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Published: May 5, 2026 17:34

If I were writing for the New Yorker I would be v careful about the subject of "things acquired primarily as a marker of aspirational status and a signal to others which could potentially be produced a lot cheaper because their value to customers is not…

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Published: May 5, 2026 11:22

"borrowing costs" QI klaxon... https://www.ft.com/content/755ebf5e-566a-4209-811e-f277a456fa6f?syn-25a6b1a6=1

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Published: May 5, 2026 11:08

Another post where it would be useful to include an Asian comparator to give some indication of the vulnerability of the statistics. Japan is below the EU average GDP/capita and South Korea almost exactly the same as France, but somehow "Japan is poorer…

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Published: May 5, 2026 10:16

I'm sorry everyone this is not correct (I screwed up the search because I didn't realise it had been devolved). presumably x.com/ace_national will be part of the review of the arts council's links with organisations that platform anti-semitism. [contains…

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Published: May 5, 2026 10:09

As far as I can tell the Arts Council does not have an X account, although Number 10 Downing Street does. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 5, 2026 09:41

I have obtained permission to reproduce the greatest text ever sent. The context was that her mum had asked for help in pruning her Vinted favorites list, which had got rather out of control...

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Published: May 4, 2026 22:03

I think it is always bad to make infrastructure decisions subject to political fashion, but it is really funny the way that the #popularism guys seem to have lost their 'splainin mojo just at the moment where the path of polling driven evidence might have…

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Published: May 4, 2026 20:57

What is this Fergie time bullshit

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Published: May 4, 2026 20:40

Me (Everton sufferer) to the kids (arsenal fans) on the family WhatsApp group https://media.tenor.com/cH_Jr1L6feAAAAAC/maui-nice.gif?hh=206&ww=498

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Published: May 4, 2026 15:38

Watching The Lord of the Rings films with my daughter and there is no way to dress it up - the Gates of Moria scene where Gandalf is temporarily defeated by a pun, it's an embarrassment, should never have been written and definitely should not have been…

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Published: May 4, 2026 11:13

It's all a propaganda joke. R2D2 was flying the ship all the time, from the specialised port which exactly fit him. He was part of a sophisticated automatic gunnery system. "The Force" is the equivalent of the myth that WW2 night fighter pilots ate plates…

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Published: May 4, 2026 09:54

This very much might backfire IMO; as today's FT piece makes clear, a lot of Reform voters are just using them as a generic tool of self expression and making them think about them as an actual government is quite dangerous in marketing terms. [contains…

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Published: May 3, 2026 22:36

My evil daughter has always been an innovator in the field of rude and dismissive WhatsApp replies, but she is now not only responding "that's not just relevant -- it's interesting!" but apparently actually "editing the chatgpt suggestions to make them…

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Published: May 3, 2026 15:26

This is less of a dunk than it appears because this was actually what Dawkins was advancing as a potential theory of mind in 1976; from his point of view his theory has been empirically vindicated. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 3, 2026 15:01

There's a strange Posting tendency to treat some political parties as if they were in the top set for progressive politics, so they ought to be getting better marks in the progressive politics exam, so if they do something that only gets a B-minus, that's…

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Published: May 2, 2026 23:03

Absolutely never bet on a horse with a financial or legal name because it will always be owned by a bunch of City boys, who the breeder hates and sold an absolute nag to [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 2, 2026 16:38

Chris Martin! Adrian Edmondson! Uri Geller! Can you hear me, Uri Geller? Your boys took a hell of a beating! See you in league two I guess.

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Published: May 2, 2026 16:12

It's kind of disgusting to see the American military tradition destroyed in this way. Over the last 200 years the mightiest empires on earth have fallen before a middle class army of citizen soldiers with initiative and intelligence; is it really going to…

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Published: May 1, 2026 14:12

in which, among other things, I note that Charles De Gaulle airport has been used at various times as an example of the superiority of the French planning system over the British, and vice versa…