"Too confusing for certain people". Yup.
As ever when Morrissey becomes 'news', I have to remind myself just how good The Smiths were. I remember this bursting into my teenage life - its assurance, its clattery rawness, its strange falsetto coda. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axg3...
This seems literally unbelievable. I suspect reluctance to point out the nakedness of the emperor's 'war strategy', rather than ignorance of it.
The Community Life Survey gets at some of this. Manchester and Tameside (like other urban areas) tend to score slightly lower than average on indicators such as people getting on and pulling together to help. But overall levels of cohesion quite high (imo) everywhere. www.gov.uk/government/s...
I applied for a job recently. For reasons I get, online forms rather than CV and letter. And they insisted that each of 20+ competencies etc should be specifically addressed. It took me hours, and made me reflect: If we make job applications this much of a slog, is it any wonder people deploy AI?
Excellent - that was my alternative 'clever' reply!
Pills and booze?
Studio sessions for 'I'm Your Man'...
I think the ad may overcook it slightly, but at last manufacturers of old age accessories are realising that ageing boomers may not want everything in NHS beige plastic.
Saw a post recently about challenges finding a new carer for an old person, after one got back problems. Not reposting, as do not want to impute blame, but debate about careworkers often overlook how physically demanding the role is, and how poor protection/support is for freelancers working alone.
I've shared this before, but it always makes me laugh. The pettiness of the joke.
The playful, prolific use of hyperlinks in online journalism (eg Slate, Pitchfork) didn’t anticipate link-rot. Now so many articles are pock-marked with cryptic allusions that some long-dead link once explained. Weird how quickly a new style comes to feel more archaic than the traditional format
I'm sure 'Mussolini and Shirley Temple' feature in one verse of Desolation Row.
That's so right, and is loosely related to why I am always pleased to see gay conservatives as well as progressives (with the exception of a few I want to shove firmly back in the closet). But has the divergence of (shorthand) wide gay acceptance from narrow queer activism let the walls close in?
No other artist articulates the tension between city, suburbia and LGBT+ lives quite so beautifully as Pet Shop Boys, says John Grindrod
How Pet Shop Boys Sold City Glamour to Queer Suburban Kids
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On BBC News last night, no scales to show whether surges are big or small, measured over months, days or hours. Taking the urea.
Looking at Truth Social is a very strange affair: crazy posts alternating with weird geriatric-focused health scams.
The endless plugs for this on BBC radio make me want to listen to drill or death metal.
This lunch is full of treats, like this on the sheer bothersomeness of junkiedom.
Thank you for your service!
Bumper crop of #sadmanmusic for this #BandcampFriday. Pay for music!
Good morning!
It's funny how so many apps (duolingo, fitness gizmos etc) are focued on 'streaks'. I have to remind myself constantly that making a cartoon owl happy is quite low priority.
Looking at the site, I suspect the wildlife at risk may be rats.
Not their finest work, but still...
Colm Toibin says that Eliot argued that rhymes in English were "too emphatic". This, from Little Gidding, must be some sort of illustration, Three -ove words that don't rhyme. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Are you a social scientist who has been hearing about Claude Code but hasn't checked it out yet? Or are you a social scientist who has been playing with Claude Code and has been wondering what it means for the future of social science research?
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The time of year when our cat would start greeting dawn every day by punching us in the face, with increasing claw, until we tended to his needs. Missing him.
Conversely, when British Social Attitudes used to find people saying they wanted more tax and more spending on services (around 2022), I suggested that they ask which taxes should go up and/or whether respondents themselves should be paying more tax. But no dice.
