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As a general rule, the state should over-supply services. There should be slack in the system almost all the time. Relaxed GPs with lots of time to talk to their patients. So many teachers that the main trouble is finding rooms for them all.

Not only does this see a better quality of service mostly, but it also cushions the system in the event of an unexpected shock.

If you have just enough professionals to deliver at 100%, you don’t have enough professionals.

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@amckinstry One of the best books I have read in business is this one amazon.com/Slack-Getting-Burno…

Key principle: we need to allow for slack in processes so they can absorb delay, prevent burnout, but also have some reserves in the tank to deal with crises.

If @Tupp_ed wants to borrow my copy this can be arranged.

@Simon McGarr @Alastair McKinstry
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@DaraghOBrien @amckinstry
Another factor infecting taxpayer-funded public services is the Toyota Production Method (called Lean in North America).

It's predicated on minimalism in everything. Flat management. Limits on staffing. "Just in Time" Processes. Employee training replaced by manuals. Making the staff do the janitorial work.

Unpaid overtime to make up for inadequate staffing during vacations season, flu or hurricane season, or other "unexpected" events like pandemics.

1/2

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the perfect wikipedia paragraph doesn't exi-
Despite the presence of these counsellors, Babar's rule seems to be totally independent of any elected body, and completely autocratic. However, his leadership style seems to strive for the overall benefit of his elephant subjects—a form of benevolent dictatorship.[citation needed]

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Revolutionaries come for Babar. #GuillotineWatch
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It’s also occurred to me that screwing up the country with the worst generational equality in history then training a bunch of young people how to use the guns you just gave them is… an interesting decision.

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but the army needs lightly-trained poorly-motivated manpower, right?
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If the old people elect the Tories, young people will have (1) even more reason to resent them, and (2) military training.

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@goatsarah I hereby declare “guilloteen” to be a word, and I promise to continue doing my bit to educate them.
@Sarah Brown

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The three genders: with shoulders, with elbows, and handbag.

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So doge, very meme, I old; go bye now
Classic viral photo of Kabosu, the shiba inu dog behind the "doge" meme, who has just died.
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My enemy paid me a call
and though I'm not evil at all
I showed him the sherry
then got a bit merry
by bricking him up in the wall
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Funny how Brexit was the nation defining act we absolutely had to see through to it's bitter end (which will never be in sight) and now in General Election 2024 nobody wants to talk about it, and those whose identity is forever entwinned with the thing are shunned (like David Frost) or are fucking off out of politics (like Brexit 'Hardman' Steve Baker)

But don't anybody talk of undoing the mess, how dare you, ....unperson! unperson!

#Brexit #GE2024 #DavidFrost #SteveBaker #UKPOL

#brexit #ukpol #ge2024 #DavidFrost #stevebaker

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See also: places where LTNs got ripped out, and the streets became more dangerous and filled with cars. "Oh no, we can't try that again for another decade at least! Shhh! Don't wake the car-mad reform-dot-uk agitprop machine!!!"

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It's been too long since I did DNS stuff apparently. At least half an hour of "why isn't this doing anything" before I remembered an nsupdate message needed "send" to actually, um, send.
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It’s meant to be.
Bindependence Day
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And should we win today, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American Holiday. It will be the day when the nation of Britain declared in one voice "We WILL take out the trash!" - today, we celebrate our Bindependence Day!!" (cue swell of patriotic music)
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I think we have to acknowledge the robustness and strength of Rishi Sunak’s hairdo
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I am entirely unsurprised by the discovery that he is repellent to water, too .
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We have bats 🦇 in the area! Was able to record their ultrasonic sound #bat
Spectrum of the ultrasonic sound of a bat
Spectrum of the ultrasonic sound of a bat
Spectrum of the ultrasonic sound of a bat
Spectrum of the ultrasonic sound of a bat
#BAT

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FROM ADMIN: Oooh 4k, Fesshole on Mastodon is quietly our favourite version coz Threads is a pain in the arse coz we're not allowed to use the API yet, BlueSky is a bit *tumbleweed* and Mastodon, although the numbers are modest, is actually rather chatty. Do tell your friends to follow @fesshole here, we mean, share this ok? Get the word out. THANKS.
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do you cross fess? ie post confessions from one platform onto another? Be interesting to compare confession styles…

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Am I upright or inverted conical flask?
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That’s one of those “glass half full…” questions, isn’t it?
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Boggle. So women wearing 90s shoulder pads to the left, men with beer guts to the right? I certainly wouldn't want to turn up there for the first time with a full bladder that's for sure! I can see myself jiggling indecisively outside the doors.
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What happens after the end of the second year of hormonal transition, once all the doctors say you've seen everything you're going to see. Why is it that basically everyone sees... well, a heck of a lot more?

This week on #StainedGlassWoman, we're talking about Transition Timelines, and the science--and lack thereof--of later transition!

#Nonbinary #FtM #MtF #Trans #Transgender

stainedglasswoman.substack.com…

A clock on a half pink half blue background. On top of it says "Transition Timelines: The long, slow tail end of hormonal transition when you're an adult."

Transition Timelines

The long, slow tail end of hormonal transition when you're an adult
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#trans #transgender #nonbinary #ftm #mtf #stainedglasswoman
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@valdelane THAT HAPPENED TO A CIS FRIEND OF MINE TOO!!

Literally, flat as a board her whole life, and then at 30 she went from A's to DDD's in a single year. She was thrilled by it, just mystified.

@Val Delane
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My GP is skeptical about prog and doesn't recommend it. She says none of her patients that have tried it found any positive effect.
I think she would give me a script if I insisted. I'm just trying to work out at what point that would be a good idea...
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I remember talking with @Tony Finch in the pub about how awesome Ansible was. I am now using it again. I would like to apologise for my previous enthusiasm. Fortunately, I have plenty of time to.
@Tony Finch
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WPATH, the global governing body for transgender medical care, have responded to the CASS report. They are not impressed. wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/…
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Boost with CW, response to medical transphobia

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I have a headache and just basically Why Are Bodies?
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Five years ago, the East Of England Liberal Democrats posted a photo of two transgender women, me and @Zoë O'Connell, wearing “Bollocks to Brexit” T-Shirts.

It is a sign of how far UK politics has fallen that that is utterly unthinkable now. Both the total erasure of transgender people’s existence and acceptance of Brexit are utter orthodoxy across the political spectrum there now.

@Zoë O'Connell
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Something that's not as important as the hatred, but seems incredibly weird to me, is how it's suddenly become important for politicians. Doesn't that seem really weird? Compared to like the 90s and 00s. That this is suddenly so important for non-trans people who have no real contact with trans-people other than them being a part of the population. I mean, what's going on in their head that it's suddenly important for them? If it's because of social media /éminences grise/, why is it important to *them*? It just seems bizarre. I mean I suppose I *understand* it, but it's always like *so, that's a thing*.
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People always point to ghouls like Musk when they say that money can’t buy happiness.

Counterpoint: Enya. She made a load of money. She bought an actual castle. She retired to said castle to become a reclusive cat lady.

Inspirational!

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The people that say "money can't buy happiness" always have some stupid hobby that makes them sad instead of happy.
People with creative hobbies get happier with more money they have.
I have a dozens of things i want to do that i can't because i don't have money.

Elon bought a social media because people made fun of him there.

Mark spends his time stalking millions of people and running psyops with CIA.

Bill Gates is testing how awful a OS can be before people stop using it.

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@void Bill Gates has been running that experiment since the 80s and, it turns out, he hasn’t come close to bottoming out yet.
@void
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Remains to be seen if this was a one off but the first water quality test by the Environment Agency in the River Cam found E-Coli was offscale high.

Most other sites the graph only goes up to 2 000cfu/100ml. Cambridge levels are 2 700, and the limit for bathing is 900. environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/pr…

Hats off to the Cam Valley Forum for campaigning to get this monitored!

Bathing water profile

Details of the current observations of bathing water quality, with additional profile information describing the bathing water site
environment.data.gov.uk
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Suspect it might make the papers, if only because it's hot and the picture editors will love photos of undergraduates punting.

They'll just happen to be ligher-skinned, probably blonde but definitely predominantly women of course...

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The Cam is full of E. Coli apparently. environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/pr…
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I see the current lot in power can't even get reimplementing section 28 right without effing it up. They're de-facto section 28ing the straights too.

No discussion of sexual assaults and consent until MINIMUM age 9. (Some kids will be 10)

No discussion of actual sex or the negative effects of porn until MINIMUM age 13. (Some kids will be 14)

Have they actually ever met a teenager? Do they think nobody experiences sexual harassment or assault before they're 10?

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Tory policy soundbites are designed to motivate Tory voters in the coming election.

Tory voters (and brexiters) tend to be older and poorly eduated: the average Tory party member is over 60.

So no, they mostly don't know any current generation kids/teenagers, don't understand the cultural changes of the past 30-50 years, and they resent the young and educated.

So this policy is working precisely as intended (not to fix anything, just to energize Alf Garnett and make him vote).

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@cstross
Which explains why so many of their policy announcements are best understood only as announcements, with some kind of follow-up and implementation to be expected only if someone stands to take a nice cut out of it.
@Charlie Stross
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@cstross I It's not just about age and education.

I'm 67, and got a good state education in a rural and conservative area. I was a fairly narrow-minded teenager as were my friends and probably would have remained so had I not left the area, travelled widely, and ended up in suburban London.

Those left in the country are still conservative and narrow-minded; easily disturbed by social trends, by immigration that has zero effect on them; and oh yes - "anti-woke".

Location matters.

@Charlie Stross
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@cstross Unfortunately, I think in cases like this, “Next election” often means the Tory leadership election in 2025 and the policies are pitched accordingly. Sunak has to go along with it or the right wing of his already rather right wing party will try to oust him.
@Charlie Stross
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@cstross #Sunak is toast, no matter what’s coming. Many of my school friends never left Galloway- the epitome of rural living- and have closed minds about so many things. Change is scary for those who have never forced themselves to experience it. #tacticalvoting
#Sunak #TacticalVoting @Charlie Stross
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perhaps what you get with legislation by folks who went to single sex private schools eh
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"Who's been a naughty Gosling!!!!!"

[Graylag Goose and goslings from Furzton Lake today]

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK

a photo where it appears a mother goose is bellowing at her goslings, she is in fact bellowing at a swan. More to follow......
#wildlife #photography #nature #uk #NaturePhotography #birds #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon

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JUDGMENTS IN THE NEWS
Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, Re Application for Judicial Review
[2024] NIKB 35
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(Re Declaration of Incompatibility - Illegal Migration Act 2023 - Art. 2 Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol (Windsor Framework) - s.7A EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018 - Sections of IMA Disapplied in Northern Ireland)

#law #NorthernIrelandLaw
#ImmigrationLaw #asylum

Cell phone screen with text about the judgment on it

Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, Re Application for Judicial Review [2024] NIKB 35 (13 May 2024)

www.bailii.org
#law #asylum #northernirelandlaw #immigrationlaw

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Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes 👉 This deployment is starting today and we will post another update in a few weeks when it is completed aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats… #AWS #Storage #FinOps

Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes

Amazon Web Services, Inc.
#storage #aws #FinOps

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#pizza #pineapple

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@lime! My arteries wish to register a complaint
@lime!
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@ajlanes in case you want even more heart disease by proxy, i once went to a place in northern sweden that had a pizza bolognese which included the spaghetti.
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Trust the Swedes to out-Scotland the Scottish. What a triumph of food-nightmare engineering 🤭

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Today's new word is "zemiotics" which is apparently the study of social harm and loss, though this is unknown to the Oxford English Dictionary.

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The zemiotics of gambling | Supervisor Connect

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Me, in southern Portugal: you seen that Spain and Morocco are contemplating a rail tunnel?

@Zoë O'Connell, also in southern Portugal: But they won’t build a rail line to here? WHY EVEN IS SPAIN?

Me: That would be HARD, Zoe. They’d have to build a rail line over at least THREE KILOMETRES of line across land nobody lives on and construct a bridge of about TWO HUNDRED METRES.

So difficult.

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There could be an underwater tunnel linking Europe and Africa by 2030

Eurostar, you have competition
Liv Kelly (Time Out)
@Zoë O'Connell

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Spanish railways were originally built to six (Castilian) feet. Portuguese ones to five (Portuguese) feet. These are, however, only 8mm different - Portugal being 1664mm, Spain 1672mm.

When the two networks joined up (1880s), they agreed a compromise "Iberian" gauge of 1668mm, and gradually all track was switch to that, which was officially completed in 1955.

So yeah, they already fixed *that* problem 70 years go.

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Today I learned the word cumbia. #Eurovision
#eurovision

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Possible UK aurora tonight!

Ben Evans

2024-05-10 09:08:33

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There is a decent chance of seeing the #aurora tonight, over a huge chunk of Northern Europe (perhaps as far south as Switzerland) - space.com/solar-storm-coronal-… - the sun is having a major geomagnetic event. #space #science


4 large incoming solar bursts could supercharge the auroras this weekend

Increased solar activity has prompted the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) to increase their vigilance heading into Mother's Day weekend.
Meredith Garofalo (Space)
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The 3D printed arcade cabinet's been completed & it does look beautiful with it's resin coating

#computerSpace #arcade #rmc #arcadeArchive #retroGaming #3dPrinting

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Computer Space Replica - 3D printed full size arcade cabinet.

In this post, our commercial director, Richard Horne shows the steps of how to design, 3D print and build a full sized replica of the worlds very first video arcade machine (Computer Space) from 1971.
Heber Shop
#retrogaming #arcade #3dprinting #rmc #computerspace #arcadearchive
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In relation to this: 404media.co/google-delists-sit…

I offer this: inhousepharmacy.vu/p-1120-prog…


Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government

“In the short term, they will be left with no healthcare at all. However, they will find alternatives, as they always have.”
Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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whenever Vanuatu is mentioned I always think of IHP and feel grateful to the nation of Vanuatu for helping me through the first months of my transition while the gatekeepers were keeping gate

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New tenants! And they’re HUNGRY!
A shot inside a bird box. Toward the bottom are several wide open yellow beaks attached to small birds.

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Antisocial transition.
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If you get a machine with one of the new m4 apple processors do NOT type “dnl” or you will break the cpu.

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@RevK :verified_r: @Christopher Biggs It's a bad joke. In the preprocessor language M4, DNL is "discard until newline", i.e. a comment.
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@revk there is a venerable and primitive programming language called m4 which is (many would say alas) still in use. One of its weird quirks is that it uses “dnl” as its comment syntax “delete through new line”.
@RevK

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Ok Boulmer
A shipping village between a grey blue sky and white topped waves

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Ok boomer.
A white and brown bird with a big beak against a background of grass and reeds
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Magpie is back on TV
A magpie sat on a TV aerial against a blue sky.

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Watching a bit of the snooker final. I had forgotten just how infuriating a commentator John Virgo is.
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I was so glad they switched away from him after the interval!
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