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London is far safer than violent viral videos will have you believe

BREAKING: A gender-critical challenge the City of London's trans-inclusive arrangements at Hampstead Heath ponds has been refused permission, just as consultation responses show majority back trans inclusion pa.media/blogs/pa-edi...

Front page of court judgment in the case this morning

There is therefore no reason to depart from my conclusions on delay/prematurity and on
standing/alternative remedy. I therefore refuse permission to bring judicial review proceedings.

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 29(source)

My local Asian supermarket’s WhatsApp chat is my happy place

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 29(source)

The other thing is that Claude code doesn’t panic when the environment on your Mac is different from the environment assumed by the class

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The Economist@economist.comJan 28(source)

Contrary to social-media lore, it is one of the safest cities in the world

Contrary to social-media lore, it is one of the safest cities in the world

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 27(source)

i'm never getting my deposit back

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Avery Edison@averyedison.comJan 27(source)

ah, here, see—a previous tenant put a marble on the floor to check if the apartment was level, but instead of rolling to the other side of the room it became a fixed point in space around which the entire universe rotates. yeah, the white ball, there. the landlord must’ve painted

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 27(source)

ChatGPT’s free image generator has a radically better sense of York’s geography than I do

Tautology

@tautology.uk

ChatGPT has just given up here. We have the Minster and Clifford's Tower. Street names are random, although I like that it's renamed Coppergate as Willygate! 24/n

Just 45 more Tory MPs joining Reform and Ed Davey becomes leader of the opposition

@anthonypainter.bsky.social

My eldest is in school now but there was a year, when I took a redundancy payment, where my taxable income rising by 1p would have resulted in my disposable income falling by £17,000, a 1.7m% marginal tax rate

Anthony Painter

I think the main point about the £100k+ plus tax system where you can pay effective marginal rates above 100% once childcare is factored in is not that it creates hardship or unfairness but that it's just completely dumb. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

access to the baltic?

think the first order take is the right one: it doesn't make you _stronger_ to hand the guy saying "I will stab you in the front" a knife. Not going to save your life if everyone else is saying the same thing! But still!

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 25(source)

We must anoint Ed

Stephen Bush

@stephenkb.bsky.social

I think this is right. In general the thing that *all* the replacements to Starmer haven't reckoned with (other than Miliband, who doesn't count because IMV he genuinely does not want it), is that Reeves' budgets have placed neither public services nor the public finances on the road to recovery.

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Avery Edison@averyedison.comJan 25(source)

𝙔𝙤𝙪’𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩—wax was a bad call. I should’ve flagged heat resistance as a 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 instead of assuming you’d stay within 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘴. That one’s on me.

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialJan 25(source)

Scrap the online safety act and ban this instead.

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I guess promenade theatre and immersive events too. May as well just tag @adrianhon.bsky.social here

Five years behind the zeitgeist but, wild watching 1917 and realising how much a single shot film reads as a videogame. It’s a walking sim! That’s the only other place you see that sort of pacing, plotting and location-driven narrative!

You can pay 54%

workshopping a new take that the problem isn't that George, 27, is overtaxed, but that greg, 67, is undertaxed. lotta problems with Britain solved if boomers also pay 51% marginal tax at £50k

Katie Martin

@katie0martin.ft.com

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