Gavin Lingiah 🧬⚖️
@gav1nx.bsky.social
Lawyer (IP/ Life Sciences), and very ex-biologist. Likes the colour purple. Riding the unicorn of innovation. 🏴🇬🇧🇨🇦🇪🇺🦤🦄🩷💜💙
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Gavin Lingiah 🧬⚖️
@gav1nx.bsky.social
· Nov 14
a white cat is sitting on a table with its mouth open .
ALT: a white cat is sitting on a table with its mouth open .
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Hello world!
There will be science, law, and me being snarky about innovation policy. Possibly some screaming into the void.
There will be science, law, and me being snarky about innovation policy. Possibly some screaming into the void.
I really feel for the teaching staff. eu.oklahoman.com/story/news/p...
OU student says Bible-based essay grade violated free-speech rights
A student at OU says her free speech rights have been violated after she received a failing grade on an essay she wrote that cites the Bible.
eu.oklahoman.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I really feel for the teaching staff. eu.oklahoman.com/story/news/p...
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idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was
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Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
Society is cooked. youtu.be/3i5r5_Pw_sY?...
RECRUITERS ON LINKEDIN ARE LOSING IT!
YouTube video by Joshua Fluke
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Society is cooked. youtu.be/3i5r5_Pw_sY?...
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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The UPC’s Approach to Inventive Step. www.dehns.com/insights/the...
The UPC’s Approach to Inventive Step - Dehns
Dehns Partner Rob Jackson and Conor Wilman from our Technology, Software and Engineering group explore the UPC's Court of Appeal recent issues of two important decisions about how it will assess inven...
www.dehns.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The UPC’s Approach to Inventive Step. www.dehns.com/insights/the...
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Huge Black Friday lineup turns out to just be for Food Bank
Huge Black Friday lineup turns out to just be for Food Bank
HAMILTON, ON - Local residents this morning report driving past an excitingly long lineup and assuming it was for a blowout Black Friday sale, before realizing that it was just a regular queue for a b...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Huge Black Friday lineup turns out to just be for Food Bank
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getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads
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Indeed. Blair himself recognises this as it happens - he describes politics as an “intellectual exercise” but adds that it is “positively risky” to communicate it like that.
I say this as someone who is very much anti-intellectual - few politicians in this country did more to make anti-intellectualism central to political communication than Tony Blair
He wasn't anti-intellectual himself, but New Labour was very self-conscious about cultivating a "common touch"
He wasn't anti-intellectual himself, but New Labour was very self-conscious about cultivating a "common touch"
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Indeed. Blair himself recognises this as it happens - he describes politics as an “intellectual exercise” but adds that it is “positively risky” to communicate it like that.
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are you black friday because wtf is your deal bro
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
are you black friday because wtf is your deal bro
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OK, who narced?
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
OK, who narced?
Whilst having all your fingers and limbs may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn't always realistic [in the modern factory] , says Textiles (Manchester) Ltd executive vice president, Lord Lancashire.
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Whilst having all your fingers and limbs may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn't always realistic [in the modern factory] , says Textiles (Manchester) Ltd executive vice president, Lord Lancashire.
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Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
November 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
Call me an unreconstructed socialist if you want, but I don't think a bunch of aggressively activist investment funds should control your water supply.
Thames Water’s lenders are not offering enough on.ft.com/4rkHi7f | opinion
Thames Water’s lenders are not offering enough
The water industry regulator should not let the utility’s bondholders take control too easily
on.ft.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Call me an unreconstructed socialist if you want, but I don't think a bunch of aggressively activist investment funds should control your water supply.
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Lots of good stuff in the Budget, but bad news for graduates.
Luckily, it's not like Labour is relying on the votes of young university educated professionals...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/eco...
Luckily, it's not like Labour is relying on the votes of young university educated professionals...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/eco...
Rachel Reeves hits young graduates with a double stealth tax
The Chancellor plans to raise as much money from freezing loan repayment thresholds as from the mansion tax
www.newstatesman.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Lots of good stuff in the Budget, but bad news for graduates.
Luckily, it's not like Labour is relying on the votes of young university educated professionals...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/eco...
Luckily, it's not like Labour is relying on the votes of young university educated professionals...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/eco...
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Guys will nuke an area of comparative advantage rather than get therapy!
November 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Guys will nuke an area of comparative advantage rather than get therapy!
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Starmer and Reeves run probably the most economically left-wing government of past five decades and yet bleeding support to its left thanks to dumb strategy www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Starmer and Reeves run probably the most economically left-wing government of past five decades and yet bleeding support to its left thanks to dumb strategy www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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One of the reasons why we can't have a sensible discussion about immigration is that the modal (and median, and mean) voter really believes immigration reduction can simply be declaratively announced in the same way as a tax rate reduction and they don't understand why politicians don't do this.
The modal British voter thinks that pensioners are the group who gets the least good deal from the state! You can't have a serious conversation either about shrinking the state or expanding the tax base from that starting point!
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
One of the reasons why we can't have a sensible discussion about immigration is that the modal (and median, and mean) voter really believes immigration reduction can simply be declaratively announced in the same way as a tax rate reduction and they don't understand why politicians don't do this.
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It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Deliverables
Let’s all go around the table and say one word we’re thankful for.
November 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Deliverables
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When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇