I hate what the machines have taken from us.

Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.

What’s the closest real world parallel? Net Zero - if most of the world stops CO2 emissions we might save the whole planet. If a country does it on its own, they just damage their economy and society with basically no benefit.

From where I live I can walk to my children's school, the local pub, a post office, a mini supermarket, various churches and a park, all within 15 minutes. During COVID, I worked (or mostly, applied for jobs) from home, the weather was great, I spent lots of time with my kids, and we played in the garden a lot, and went on great walks in the countryside. But I campaigned against lockdowns, and I am campaigning against the imposition of 15 minute neighbourhoods. Why? Because I know not everyone is like me. I know, or can imagine, that lots of people live in places with no services or facilities nearby, or don't have good mobility, or simply choose to live some distance from work or don't have good schools nearby, and rely on a car or van to live their life. Just as I could imagine that, during lockdowns, life was miserable for people who lived in a flat in a city, didn't have a garden or a park to go to, had to continue working while simultaneously home schooling their kids. And I care about those other people and what sort of society we are creating for ourselves and our children. And I can also see that both lockdowns and 15 minute cities are part of an agenda which involves less freedom, less mobility, and more control. It's one thing applauding people who choose to live their life within a small area and are able to; it's quite another to mandate it for everyone. What really troubles me, then, is the arguments that the people who support 15 minute cities come up with seem to amount to "well I can live my whole life within 15 minutes walk from home, so what's the problem?" Same energy as "Well I thought lockdown was wonderful" 🙄 I mean, how little imagination, how little vision, and how little empathy do you have to have to come out with statements like that? When did we become such an "I'm alright Jack" society?

The new movement.

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I didn't receive 15 years of notice that my taxes were going up to fund the retirements the WASPI generation failed to save for. My friends learned about 18 months in advance that going to university would cost them £9k a year rather than £3k. I also don't recall ministers setting out 15 years in advance that housing would become unaffordable as a result of government decisions pandering to homeowners, or that having a family would be an increasingly unrealistic dream for so many of my friends, with their incomes swallowed up by rents and taxes funding retirees. Perhaps rather than sacrificing every single future prospect on the altar of boomer entitlement, we can just tell them "no" for once?

So, some property developer picked the unfortunate name "The Gaslight" for this redevelopment of a former industrial area. Then, not joking, they renamed it "The Lantern" and erased all references to the old name. But I knew I wasn't making it up. And now I can prove it...!

Is there any telephone support available for AerClub @AerLingus ? I'm missing some tier credits from April and consequently have missed out on Silver status. I've filled in the online form but heard nothing.

Great wee flight on @AerLingus Regional MAN-BHD. Thanks for the tea and biccies Ken and Sharon!

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hey @JetBlue I've been charged twice each way for seat reservations, but your iMessage customer service rep insisted that couldn't have happened and just disconnected. Do you have any UK based customer services I can contact?

any suggestions on fun things to do in Dallas in early January? Visiting for a wedding on New Years and can't get back until a few days later. @HeikoBenjamin your neck of the woods, right?

You can build software really quickly. Building well thought out, robust, well tested, performant, scalable, accessible software? That takes a surprising amount of time. No matter how talented your team is.

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If you’re thinking of joining a company, download their app IPA and peek into the frameworks folder. If you see three analytics SDKs, that’s all you need to know about the culture.

"Fine," stropped Macron. "We didn't want your stupid vaccine anyway - it's rubbish!"

Apparently @tomrosenthal I’m in your top 1% of listeners on Spotify for last year. Certainly you made my year better - thank you. #2020Wrapped open.spotify.com/wrapped/sha…