Jack Russell
Londoner in Norn Iron | Dad of girls | Data Communicator | Inclusive Education Activist | Glastonbury Pilgrim | Gödelian Strange Loop | Runner | ENTP | bit.ly/PfIE
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- The nation already owes you a great deal, Marc.
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- Every American needs to watch this:
- This site is one of the most beautiful things on the internet. Every time you load it, it loads a new letter written by someone who cares and who wants you to stick around. Please share, and please write a letter if you feel called to do so. www.reasonstostay.co.uk?utm_source=i...
- I’ve read letters this morning that have made me cry. Over 300,000 people have written a letter so far.
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- By-election bar charts, off-licence edition
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- Drastic change in Man Utd's fortunes since they ditched a leader who obstinately stuck to a plan his team didn't like and which was clearly not delivering results. May be a lesson there...
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- Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
- The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
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- There’s maybe a few thousand trans kids in the Republic of Ireland, but each week Irish papers pay a bunch of columnists who dedicate a large part of their writing trying to make these kids lives absolutely miserable.
- I’m just a cis straight white middle aged man who happens to work in disinformation and I am *exhausted* by the efforts to normalise British transphobia in Ireland in the last half decade +++ Fuck knows how trans people put up with it..
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- "Across the curriculum, writing is thinking." Shout it from the rooftops! I'm trying not to be end of days about it, but outsourcing thinking in all its guises is not a good thing. Agree with every bit of this.
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- Hi are you one of the most successful writers in the world? We would like to take all of your skills, commoditise them, and thereby remove your unique voice for twice the pay you could make at Trader Joe’s.
- Given his appalling remarks about Sunak its absolutely shocking that Konstantin Kisin is anywhere near the mainstream let alone on #bbcqt
- Konstantin Kisin straight up lying on #bbcqt Douglas Alexander: “When Fraser Nelson put it to you that Rishi Sunak is absolutely english… you said “he’s a brown Hindu, how is he english?” Kisin: “No, that’s not what I said...”
- The Green Party will stop Reform in Gorton and Denton. We'll be announcing Manchester's first Green MP in the morning. Lots and lots of work to do! youtu.be/02HnpczQQnQ?...
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- I read this, and I am freshly reminded that one of the most important insights in humanism is that this our one and only life.
- It is very sad. We are in an age of wonder unimaginable to not even our ancient ancestors, our recent ancestors... and that is what they choose to do with their one go at it.
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- Delighted to have co-organised this special event for academics & journalists with @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Policy Unit exploring data on Gen Z identity, beliefs, & practices. Spoiler alert: there’s no good evidence of a ‘religious revival’ among British youth & plenty pointing the other way
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View full thread‘In an opt-in poll, participants select themselves into the survey – sometimes to earn a little money.’ And it’s clear that the number of people calling themselves Christian up when you use ‘opt-in’ polls compared with gold standard probability-based polls.
- It is simply not true, for instance, that one in two British young people go to church once a month, as opt-in polls tend to find. That’s three times as many as their parents! Hackett says this is likely due to ‘bogus respondents’: people who say they are young giving *any* answer to make money.
- Sex Matters tried to block a ban on conversion practices, but the Council of Europe has voted to make it illegal goodlawproject.org/council-of-e...
- Tables are up now. The number of respondents for the headline voting intention, once don't knows and won't votes are removed, is 51. <Meaningful stare>
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View full threadBy the measure of transparency alone, FON have done nothing wrong (they not only gave the sample size, they've added a specific caveat about it on their website)
- Whether the bpc should have a wider remit is a conversation that comes around... but policing methodology is a much bigger, more difficult and more controversial task (that would involve lawyers and costs!). The bpc is a tiny organisation that just does one small, good thing, very well (imo)
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- The BPC is much less than people believe - it's sort of been a victim of its own success. It is a transparency pact - we all agree to follow transparency rules. It is not a quality mark in any way. Pollsters can be members of the BPC and be rubbish, so long as they are transparently rubbish.
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- It's Greens Vs Reform Hope Vs Hate. We must make sure hope wins. youtu.be/s5HdfCCaUgE?...
- Today we are very proud of our own @javedlove.bsky.social , who has exercised his legal right to withdraw from teaching RE and Collective Worship. Javed is the first teacher in NI to exercise this right for at least 10 years. Find out why he did so below. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- This is today. Get along if you can to show your opposition to these data centres. Cllrs we will be watching what you decide on this!
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