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Dr. Matt Loten
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Japanese Political Communication PhD | Working in Linguistic Validation by day; posting about politics on the internet by night
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That's a real shame, he's a proper unit of a defender. If you need us to rehab him again I'd take him back in a heartbeat.
Atkinson was also superb for Portsmouth at the back end of last season, held our very creaky backline together despite having barely played for 18 months.
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Conversely, plenty of non-UK-headquartered companies, such as Google, have thousands of highly paid employees in this country. What's the rational basis for the Government encouraging you to sell your shares in Google and buy Antofagasta?
I'm trying to figure out which footballer this make Gordon Brown but obviously he's just David Moyes
Thank you for this analogy I'm keeping it
After working in their employ for three years, that's by far the most generous thing I could say about them!
I can, however, confirm that in my time there I served Joffrey from Game of Thrones, Martin Keown, and - most importantly - Big Mo from Eastenders. I really hope she enjoyed her reheated Sunday roast and warm pint.
I used to work at the Turf Tavern in central Oxford while I was an undergrad. We claimed to be the pub at which Bill Clinton 'did not inhale' and Bob Hawke knocked back a yard of ale in record time, and countless historical figures frequented. Let's just say the evidence was...sketchy, at best.
A couple of nice accent walls would make the world of difference
And that's a nice flat too! (excepting that there is a special circle in hell for people who paint every wall of their home retina-searing white)
This looks like an AI botch-job? 'countiest joys', 'spontaneous teasts', 'Ooogle' - it doesn't even get the family name right in the sign-off! For some reason I am not entirely surprised this venture didn't work out.
Someone on the AWS service desk is about to get the bollocking of their life
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"There is no universe in which Sam Ashworth-Hayes – or any of Britain’s array of overpaid columnists, commentators and ideological wonks – is more valuable to this country than a care worker"

I wrote for @samfr.bsky.social's Substack on benefits and "contribution" samf.substack.com/p/the-someth...
The "something for nothing" myth
How should we value people's contribution to the country?
samf.substack.com
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You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on.

Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?
dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated
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Okay. So. Amazing scenes playing out at the vets when i arrived to pick up Napoleon.

Names changed/removed. But get ready for a lost kitty story with a happy ending.

It starts late last year, when the elderly neighbour of a young couple went into a care home /1
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I really do despise the English. You call one floundering Conservative leader Mummy in a national newspaper and you just get laughed at on Bluesky.
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Been to the youngest’s harvest assembly.
Theory: every primary school built pre about 1980 in Britain has some version of this equipment. It is referred to as something like ‘the apparatus’.
No one has any memory of it ever being used.
Admittedly things may have changed in the intervening 20 years, but when I was at secondary school the carpentry/plumbing Friday courses were nothing more than an opportunity for teachers to get the 'problem' lads out of the classroom. Attitudes need totally rewiring for this 'plan' to work.