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kate , 3 days ago to random

You can travel between the four Green constituencies without going through any Conservative constituencies (spotted by @jen):

kate , 3 days ago to random

You can now travel from Devon to London without leaving Liberal Democrat constituencies:

kate , 18 days ago to random

I’ve been told to stop referring to the git commit history as “the public chronicle of our errors”

kate , 1 month ago to random

In the same way most of us say “goodbye” without realising it derives from “god be with ye”, maybe one day people will end conversations with “likensubscribe”

kate , 1 month ago to random

We blocked Anthropic’s ClaudeBot across the 6,000 sites we host at 7:55 this morning. On our busiest server this caused traffic to drop from a peak of 493 requests per second to just 90:

kate , 2 months ago to random

Brits ask “A penny for your thoughts?” and Americans respond with “Just my two cents”. At current exchange rates ($1.00 = £0.80) this means Brits are receiving 1.6p of American thoughts for just 1p. In this paper we propose an alternative asset pricing model for the marketplace of ideas, considering—

kate , 2 months ago to random

Hilary Cass’s report on gender identity services in England mirrors the arguments of an internet troll:

1. Claim to be unbiased and reasonable (she calls for evidence-based treatment)
2. Dismiss actual evidence (she claims almost all existing research is “weak”)
3. Offer individual anecdotes as a substitute (from detransitioners and selected “influencer” accounts)
4. Allege a conspiracy to suppress the truth (she claims a “coordinated” effort to “thwart” her attempts to access medical records)