My reading notes from Failures of State by Calvert and Arbuthnott. 📚 euanlawson.com/failures-…
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A book I’ve been meaning to read for a while: George Orwell: A Life by Bernard Crick. It is available now for the outrageous price of just 49 of your British pence for Kindle on Amazon. I won’t link as no one likes creepy Amazon links. You know where it is if you are tempted. 😀 📚
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Was just mesmerised by this video. And the best comment BTL: “I came here for light entertainment. I left with an existential crisis.”
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OK, I admit, this answer on an Amazon Q&A page for a monitor made me laugh.
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Now moved my site over to Blot from Wordpress. No longer have to fiddle around with the endless updates… No worries about page speed. Or wrangle plug-ins to fix the page speed problems. (Which reminds me of the clinical hellspiral of prescribing drugs to treat side effects of other drugs…) Massive thanks to David at Blot who has been unflinchingly helpful beyond any reasonable limits. 😀 euanlawson.com
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If you have not already discovered Zeynep Tufekci’s newsletter on Substack then I highly recommend it - the discussions are in-depth and often complicated but well worth the effort. #micro
Most recent: https://www.theinsight.org/p/how-one-epidemiologist-decided-whether
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I’m still wrestling a little with how to link up to Twitter (which for various reasons I can’t quite drop). I know I can send my whole feed there but it feels a bit weird to me and not quite right for all my microblog posts. Some posts work, others not so much. I can just do it manually but I am still looking for a way that could allow me to send stuff selectively. Any Zapier/IFTTT type solutions for example (perhaps with a specific hashtag that trigger) strike me as possible options.
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I am a big fan of the slow journalism at @tortoise. Exactly what we need. This insightful article from @MatthewdAncona is a good example - just how on earth did Cameron ever think this would pan out? And have added the Sasha Swire book on the to-be-read list.
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I’m really having a hard time believing the European Super League will go ahead. The backlash is ferocious and it won’t take much for the clubs involved to panic. If just one club wobbles the whole thing will fold like an origami deckchair. #ESL⚽️
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Had some time to spare late this evening. The sun was, indeed, going down, just kissing this headstone. 📷
#blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #blacknwhitephotography #bnwphotography
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I understand the need to get many sectors up and doing business - there are good health reasons for that. However, struggling to see how any certificate/passport system won’t discriminate and deepen inequalities as well.
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Currently reading: A Pelican Introduction: Basic Income by Standing, Guy 📚
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Actually, meant to write one thing in that last post. Might have been more correct than I care to admit the first time though.
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I have to admit this is the only thing I am really looking forward to - visiting a bookshop.
“It was emotional”: booksellers celebrate the reopening of bookshops
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I’m slightly frustrated with the email-only sign in with micro.blog. I like to stay out of my inbox unless I’m in there clearing it. Being forced there to log-in is digitally coercive. Why can’t I just use a password folks?
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“In principle, the “war on drugs” aims to protect people from harm and promote public health. In practice, it has worsened many aspects of public health while inordinately harming certain racialized communities.”
An appropriate quote (and paper) for my first post.