Chris Connolly

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

sun ))) @revhowardarson none of these reactionaries understand that the last time they made liberal democracy upset, effete Berkeley liberals (followed by communists) invented a way to drop the sun on an entire city

As a wise man once said

A world without Keir Starmer Is it time to change the Labour leader?

On the “no-one knows about it” point: I follow the news fairly closely and education policy for professions reasons and I didn’t know until Lisa Andy mentioned it on question time last night that the govt had extended preschool meals.

They really are shit at this.

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We all have our limits.

Looking forward to the next album from the Andrew formerly known as Prince.

Maybe that’s a product of your bubble ̷s̷a̷m̷p̷l̷e̷ anecdote?

It is.

Which is why you use weightings to create a representative sample.

7k sample respondents out of a target population of 600k is a massive sample, and it is then post-stratification weighted using census data to create a representative sample that would have a margin of error of <1.5% on a 95% confidence interval.

An excellent piece, but I struggled to get my head around this statement.

Surely there are real economies of scale on the last two of these (and to a lesser degree in the first, though much harder to achieve if you are poor?)

we ate a lot of Acadian and British food growing up, and I just assumed that we were poor. Then I got a little older and realized my parents made those foods to celebrate their cultural heritage. Now I realize that our main cultural heritage was being poor.

“Supplemental”

15% of the population of London is Muslim.

I have a friend who fell into the woo-woo -> fascist infosphere. They were absolutely convinced the Tommy Robinson march (of which they didn’t approve) was going to be the spark of civil war. Most people don’t understand how dangerous the current climate is.

Brúghrúpa sa Tuaisceart.

The NYT thinks it’s important you know Gaza Health Ministry numbers don’t distinguish between combatant and civilian dead Palestinian children.

As my grandfather used to say, if a job’s worth doing it’s worth doing badly.

I literally squealed.

Íosa, chomh morto le rud mór morto ar son An Dream Dearg. #speirgorm #anamcara

@mattlevineofficial.bsky.social on the money as ever (pun intended).

Renters Rights Act now law www.gov.uk/government/n...

It’s kind of remarkable that the passage into law of the biggest overhaul to the private rented sector, directly and materially benefitting 20% of the population, isn’t considered important enough to make the BBC News headlines.

To “have sbagliato” literally means to have made a mistake 😅

I’d like a federal sex grant on my birthday please.

This is normal post stroke follow up, sometimes on a 30 - 60 - 90 day schedule.

You get an MRI for post stroke because you’re measuring infarcted tissue, which is not evident on CT scan.

He’s exhibiting something called recrudescence, or a reemergence of symptoms after the initial stroke.

I don’t know how your Monday morning is going, but I just spent five minutes trying to clean a glint of sunlight off the living room rug.

the last few years of my job at google were surreal -- watching the executives talk in increasingly positive terms about Elon Musk's management style while objective metrics at his companies were becoming dangerously unstable. it wasn't until 2023 that i realized that they didn't care about profits.

ICYMI The CEOs of 9 supermarket chains which collectively have profits of £6bn just wrote an open letter to the Chancellor saying they couldn’t possibly afford to pay more business rates.

What’s interesting about this is that when you strip out refuseniks and IDKs, the vote split in N.I. is pretty much bang on what the result in the Republic was.

The realists will tell you that either way it’s still piss.