Jprwg

No idea if that's true, but it is at least faintly entertaining.

[Jprwg @jprwg]

“No, no, this— this whole thing, all of this! …it’s all about memes.”

[Juliet Samuel @CitySamuel]

Widdecombe parliamentary debate veering somewhat worryingly in a distinctly “online safety” direction.

[Louise Jensen Duffy (also Ernest Jensen) @LouiseWeebe]

You’re listening to Sisyphus FM, the home of non-stop rock.

[Jprwg @jprwg]

The problem with "skill shortage" lists is the entire premise is nonsensical. You don't need policymakers to work out which skills they reckon are in shortage and so deserve a lower salary threshold for work visas. The salary IS the skill shortage metric — that's what it means!

[UK Decline Statistics @UKDecline]

Incredible.

One single Domino's franchise in West Malling brought in 26 "skilled workers" between 2021-2024.

The Sponsor: MDJ Investments Limited T/A Domino's Pizza is still active on the sponsor list.

[Jprwg @jprwg]

I’m also not sure exactly what Passivhaus means, but based on these and the other examples I’ve seen described as such, my impression is it’s some sort of slur.

[Jprwg @jprwg]

I don’t understand the mindset of someone who’d see these as something to be proud of. Who wants to live like this?

[Gavin White @gavinwhite76]

These 46 affordable homes were built to Passivhaus standards on two sites in Harpurhey for local families, including 28 for Social and Manchester Living Rent.🌹

Both part of our Project 500 scheme with @ManCityCouncil to use our own land for more low carbon and social housing.🏡

[Jprwg @jprwg]

@andrastimot Allows longer for people’s investments to grow, meaning there’s more to tax when they do eventually die (and so the govt can borrow more in the meantime in anticipation of this higher eventual tax take)

[Jprwg @jprwg]

Increasingly feels a bit futile to try to reason about the mechanics of different policies, and what they might be able to achieve, while the ‘sharp edges’ that make anything work are just going to be shaved off in implementation.

[Jprwg @jprwg]

It’s hard to model the effects of policies when they all seem to include endless case-by-case exemptions. 1:1 boat migrant exchange with France would work great, fully removing the incentive to come, IF applied uniformly; individual appeals break the entire logic of the policy.

[The Mercian @TheMercianNews]

🚨JUST IN: 5 illegal migrants, four from Eritrea and one from Sudan, have won a High Court appeal against their deportation order.

3/5 of them had already been deported to France by the Home Office, but since returned.
https://t.co/gAYQ82r7Sz

[Jprwg @jprwg]

See also: dog attack insurance, which would accurately price the risk from different dogs — unless, of course, the most dangerous breed of dog gets an opt-out because it’s unfair that their insurance is so expensive. Yes it is expensive, that’s the point!

[Dr Lawrence Newport @lawrencenewport]

Bully XL owners no longer have to insure their dogs.

Why?

Because the Dogs Trust stopped offering the insurance and no one else will... so DEFRA is just cancelling the requirement.

Why won't Dogs Trust insure them? Too many claims, the insurance wasn't viable.

I wonder why.

[Jprwg @jprwg]

If seed corn isn’t meant to be eaten, then why does it taste so good?

[Jprwg @jprwg]

Did you know? Many fruits we see as berries, eg blueberries, aren’t berries at all! They’re unit fruits, a category that also includes peppers, bananas, & pumpkins. Only berries formed from flowers with multiple ovaries, eg strawberries & raspberries, are considered true berries.

[Jprwg @jprwg]

Regarding social housing: perhaps the best argument for it, in theory, is re: positive externalities. Maybe we should be subsidising Proper Cockneys to live in central London, because the tourism revenues they’d bring in from Charmed Americans would more than cover the cost?

[Jprwg @jprwg]

It’s just like a game, yeah. Isn’t it. The Trading Game. These fat cat, bankers, gambling, with billions of pounds. And it’s all a game to them. But it’s not a game, is it. It’s not a game. It’s people’s lives what they’re gambling with. Ordinary people’s lives. It makes me sick

[Jprwg @jprwg]

I love Kazakhstan, but I couldn’t eat a whole one.

[𝔞𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔞 @haunt0l0gy]

getting some remarkable targeted ads lately

[holden m. accountable @noahpasaran]

have dined with orc before? orc do things differently here. orc actually recommend start with two or three small meat to share. meat get bigger as you go down menu. orc restaurant rated highly in new orc times

[Po the Person @PoThePerson]

I don't expect I'll ever see flying cars, but I hold out a modicum of hope to see the end of road signs and markings one day. When every vehical is adequately kitted out with augmented reality and whatnot, surely we won't need these ugly things festooning every street corner.

[Jprwg @jprwg]

“Tranz Kafka”

[Jprwg @jprwg]

No plant is invasive on stolen land

[Having fun... and Playing too! @makingtronics]

“this isn't a ravaged wasteland - it's deforested hills with no wildlife and invasive plants!”

[Overeducated Gibbon @MostlyMonkey]

I think he could, actually

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

"God, what have you done?
It's a big pony cull, and you're there with a gun,"
oh, Mama
I'm just having fun
On the moor with a spade, it's where I belong, down at the
Big pony cull