Daz
@dazwright.com
Here for video games, cats, and the popular music of the day. I live in Moseley in Birmingham. I make electronic music as Indolent Child.
https://indolentchild.bandcamp.com
https://indolentchild.bandcamp.com
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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The signs from Australia (their worst flu season on record), Japan (where they’ve had to close schools) and India indicate that this could be a long, drawn out flu season here with hospitals at capacity
If you haven’t had your flu vax get it
Covid as well if possible
inews.co.uk/news/doctors...
If you haven’t had your flu vax get it
Covid as well if possible
inews.co.uk/news/doctors...
Why doctors fear this winter's flu crisis will be the worst in years
An aggressive strain of flu causing record-breaking cases in Australia has been an early warning sign for the UK
inews.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The signs from Australia (their worst flu season on record), Japan (where they’ve had to close schools) and India indicate that this could be a long, drawn out flu season here with hospitals at capacity
If you haven’t had your flu vax get it
Covid as well if possible
inews.co.uk/news/doctors...
If you haven’t had your flu vax get it
Covid as well if possible
inews.co.uk/news/doctors...
I like a cycle route as much as the next man but how can 6km cost £22.5m?
That's £3750 per meter?
BBC News - New £22.5m Birmingham cycle route plan set for approval - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
That's £3750 per meter?
BBC News - New £22.5m Birmingham cycle route plan set for approval - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New £22.5m Birmingham cycle route plan set for approval
The 6km link from the city centre to Longbridge is expected to be safer and help cut car dependency.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I like a cycle route as much as the next man but how can 6km cost £22.5m?
That's £3750 per meter?
BBC News - New £22.5m Birmingham cycle route plan set for approval - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
That's £3750 per meter?
BBC News - New £22.5m Birmingham cycle route plan set for approval - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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My latest: Move over bat tunnel, here’s the wild story of how HS2 were forced to build a multi-million pound bridge for a road that… doesn’t actually exist.
How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere
A state-of-the-art road bridge has been built deep in the heart of rural Buckinghamshire. Designed to carry traffic over the HS2 railway, there's just one tiny problem - there's no actual road.
martinrobbins.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM
My latest: Move over bat tunnel, here’s the wild story of how HS2 were forced to build a multi-million pound bridge for a road that… doesn’t actually exist.
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55 minutes from first Trick or Treating child to the last child looking tearfully at our empty bowl
October 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
55 minutes from first Trick or Treating child to the last child looking tearfully at our empty bowl
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Parker board games actually used to do this and everybody thought it was normal
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The perfect game for Halloween – a portal to hell: the Stephen Collins cartoon
Mr Shimmer, the new marketing director, has come up with a new board game
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Parker board games actually used to do this and everybody thought it was normal
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
An interesting result. Labour threw everything at this (albeit not a well known local candidate), there was a well resourced independent that clearly took votes from Labour.
Lib Dems didn't appear to campaign more than normal, but that is active. Greens did absolutely nothing to win this
Lib Dems didn't appear to campaign more than normal, but that is active. Greens did absolutely nothing to win this
Moseley (Birmingham) Council By-Election Result:
🔶 LDM: 34.7% (-11.9)
🌹 LAB: 24.4% (-14.1)
🙋 Ind: 19.6% (New)
🌍 GRN: 10.1% (+1.5)
➡️ RFM: 7.3% (New)
🌳 CON: 2.4% (-4.1)
🙋 Ind: 1.7% (New)
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2022.
🔶 LDM: 34.7% (-11.9)
🌹 LAB: 24.4% (-14.1)
🙋 Ind: 19.6% (New)
🌍 GRN: 10.1% (+1.5)
➡️ RFM: 7.3% (New)
🌳 CON: 2.4% (-4.1)
🙋 Ind: 1.7% (New)
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2022.
October 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
An interesting result. Labour threw everything at this (albeit not a well known local candidate), there was a well resourced independent that clearly took votes from Labour.
Lib Dems didn't appear to campaign more than normal, but that is active. Greens did absolutely nothing to win this
Lib Dems didn't appear to campaign more than normal, but that is active. Greens did absolutely nothing to win this
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October 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
In a surprise twist my Reels are all people being attacked by mountain lions
I hold my hands up. I did linger over one video
I hold my hands up. I did linger over one video
October 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
In a surprise twist my Reels are all people being attacked by mountain lions
I hold my hands up. I did linger over one video
I hold my hands up. I did linger over one video
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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So, is there a vacancy for being the Duke of York now?
Will this be advertised?
What are the hours like?
Will this be advertised?
What are the hours like?
October 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
So, is there a vacancy for being the Duke of York now?
Will this be advertised?
What are the hours like?
Will this be advertised?
What are the hours like?
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Fancy a new T-shirt?
gailmyerscough.co.uk/t-shirts
Eco Friendly - 100% Organic cotton - Vegan Friendly
gailmyerscough.co.uk/t-shirts
Eco Friendly - 100% Organic cotton - Vegan Friendly
October 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Fancy a new T-shirt?
gailmyerscough.co.uk/t-shirts
Eco Friendly - 100% Organic cotton - Vegan Friendly
gailmyerscough.co.uk/t-shirts
Eco Friendly - 100% Organic cotton - Vegan Friendly
Does this actually say anything other than "could someone sort this out?"
@richardparkerwm.bsky.social statement about Villa looks like when someone needs to make a statement but has no idea what to say or who might be annoyed by it
@richardparkerwm.bsky.social statement about Villa looks like when someone needs to make a statement but has no idea what to say or who might be annoyed by it
October 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Does this actually say anything other than "could someone sort this out?"
@richardparkerwm.bsky.social statement about Villa looks like when someone needs to make a statement but has no idea what to say or who might be annoyed by it
@richardparkerwm.bsky.social statement about Villa looks like when someone needs to make a statement but has no idea what to say or who might be annoyed by it
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Can't believe UEFA banned our clubs for *checks notes* 'antics' in the 80s
October 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Can't believe UEFA banned our clubs for *checks notes* 'antics' in the 80s
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Ola! We were the only outlet outside of Portugal to cover the game last night. That’s not a shot at anyone else, budgets are tight and there are lots of things to cover! Arseblog News paid to cover it, as the site has for many years now.
October 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Ola! We were the only outlet outside of Portugal to cover the game last night. That’s not a shot at anyone else, budgets are tight and there are lots of things to cover! Arseblog News paid to cover it, as the site has for many years now.
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A story in three parts
October 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A story in three parts
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Anyone else think this recipe sounds like a 1950s ventriloquist act?
October 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Anyone else think this recipe sounds like a 1950s ventriloquist act?
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Our programmes this (UK) evening start soon, at 19:00 BST (18:00 UTC), with ‘Tiny Red Dragons #179 - Crawling Moon’, which has experimental, dark ambient and industrial rock music from Dark Sky Burial, Empty DNA, Midwife, Fean and more.
October 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Our programmes this (UK) evening start soon, at 19:00 BST (18:00 UTC), with ‘Tiny Red Dragons #179 - Crawling Moon’, which has experimental, dark ambient and industrial rock music from Dark Sky Burial, Empty DNA, Midwife, Fean and more.
Ring's enthusiasm for selling me more doorbells indicates their marketing team overestimates how many front doors people actually have
October 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Ring's enthusiasm for selling me more doorbells indicates their marketing team overestimates how many front doors people actually have
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Here at the Stirchley Neighbourhood Forum where the headline act is the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Foster. Proceeding are about to begin.
October 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Here at the Stirchley Neighbourhood Forum where the headline act is the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Foster. Proceeding are about to begin.
One key challenge I see to our ability to become more productive is the lack of useful change management across the uk. Investment or innovation is useless without understanding how change works.
For too long we’ve relied on outsourcing change to consultants without developing internal capability
For too long we’ve relied on outsourcing change to consultants without developing internal capability
I've written about the UK's productivity problem for @theobserveruk.bsky.social. Come for the comparison of the UK economy to a hedgehog, stay for the comparison of Rachel Reeves to a Dickens character.
observer.co.uk/news/busines...
observer.co.uk/news/busines...
In Britain’s ‘hedgehog economy’, growth is wild, spiky – ...
The spines on the OBR’s charts are a signal to the chancellor to pull all the levers to improve our growth prospects
observer.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
One key challenge I see to our ability to become more productive is the lack of useful change management across the uk. Investment or innovation is useless without understanding how change works.
For too long we’ve relied on outsourcing change to consultants without developing internal capability
For too long we’ve relied on outsourcing change to consultants without developing internal capability
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Oldie but a goodie, Spice Girls Dune.
October 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Oldie but a goodie, Spice Girls Dune.
1) There are only 3 Tron films so why is this a thing?
2) There are only 3 Tron films how could they get this so wrong?
3) Does me sharing this nonsense explain point 1?
collider.com/tron-movies-...
2) There are only 3 Tron films how could they get this so wrong?
3) Does me sharing this nonsense explain point 1?
collider.com/tron-movies-...
Every Tron Movie, Ranked Worst to Best
This week's Tron: Ares continues Disney's groundbreaking sci-fi trilogy. Which movie in the series is the best?
collider.com
October 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
1) There are only 3 Tron films so why is this a thing?
2) There are only 3 Tron films how could they get this so wrong?
3) Does me sharing this nonsense explain point 1?
collider.com/tron-movies-...
2) There are only 3 Tron films how could they get this so wrong?
3) Does me sharing this nonsense explain point 1?
collider.com/tron-movies-...