Associate Prof in Economics: environmental, spatial, behavioural, wellbeing (Mappiness project). Coder. Parent. School governor. Bass 1. http://mackerron.com
George MacKerron
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4000 vs 300. Never change, Brighton.
I do love it when "the silent majority" turn up to do some shouting about flags, and find themselves outnumbered by more than ten to one.
Status this week: XKCD 303, but replace 'Compiling' with 'Actualizing', 'Boondoggling', 'Flibbertigibbeting', 'Clauding', ... xkcd.com/303/
The Trump administration is attacking our democracy. Not in secret, but openly on social media.
Starmer needs to show some backbone and call this out today. We can’t turn a blind eye to this blatant interference any longer.
My new standard response to missed deadlines.
My goodness, Ed Luce is furious
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As Lord Acton warned in 1887, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority".
Power on this scale is dangerous, and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
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Thought experiment. If guns were more widely available in Belfast, who would be the most likely to have them?
Our next @bfchorus.bsky.social concert: Howell's Hymnus Paradisi, 18 July, Hove. Should be beautiful.
Elon Musk is poised to become the world’s first trillionaire. It’s a staggering amount of wealth never seen before in the history of human commerce.
Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat
Karl-on-Sea
Jo Wolff
Fintan Burke
The second amendment can be hard to defend because when things are going even moderately all right, you do not need to own a gun
When shit like this starts happening, though, it's a damn good right to have
Laura Jedeed
A Warning for America: White Nationalists 'Taking Notes' on Belfast Race Riots www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/a-warning-...
