Caitlin de Jode
@caitlindj.bsky.social
Shouty Irish gal in Oxford. Expect general rambling on politics, education, telly, food & reproductive rights. Views mine obvs.
Christmas Dinner from New Zealand!
December 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Christmas Dinner from New Zealand!
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When you go around talking to people, it is screamingly obvious that the decision tree is:
1) Are you feeling economically insecure and hit by the cost of living?
2) If 'y', how do you feel about immigration
3) If you answer 'positive', please tick the box marked 'Zack Polanski'.
1) Are you feeling economically insecure and hit by the cost of living?
2) If 'y', how do you feel about immigration
3) If you answer 'positive', please tick the box marked 'Zack Polanski'.
Economic Insecurity is foundational for Labour’s electoral losses, and key to any potential recovery - Nuffield Politics Research Centre
politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
When you go around talking to people, it is screamingly obvious that the decision tree is:
1) Are you feeling economically insecure and hit by the cost of living?
2) If 'y', how do you feel about immigration
3) If you answer 'positive', please tick the box marked 'Zack Polanski'.
1) Are you feeling economically insecure and hit by the cost of living?
2) If 'y', how do you feel about immigration
3) If you answer 'positive', please tick the box marked 'Zack Polanski'.
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Tbh this feels absolutely like something Charlotte Church would do
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Tbh this feels absolutely like something Charlotte Church would do
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i really believe in tackling gender inequality but few things seem quite as wrongheaded to me as the demand to transfer wealth from poorer younger generations with a far-distant retirement age, lower real wages and very little hope of property acquisition, to wealthy boomers who didn't read a letter
'Irresponsible Waspis have no right to state pension compensation. The women who missed out when the retirement age changed should have checked how much they would get and when' | ✍️ Tom McPhail
Irresponsible Waspis have no right to state pension compensation
The women who missed out when the retirement age changed should have checked how much they would get and when, says savings expert Tom McPhail
www.thetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
i really believe in tackling gender inequality but few things seem quite as wrongheaded to me as the demand to transfer wealth from poorer younger generations with a far-distant retirement age, lower real wages and very little hope of property acquisition, to wealthy boomers who didn't read a letter
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The new Lily Allen album is brat for people with mortgages and back pain. (High compliment.)
October 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The new Lily Allen album is brat for people with mortgages and back pain. (High compliment.)
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.
October 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.
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Traitors is a good demonstration of how the worst strategy in the game is to try and apply logic. Just leads to people saying “well a Traitor would say that!! I’m going to keep in the nice grandma because a nice grandma could never be a Traitor!”
October 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Traitors is a good demonstration of how the worst strategy in the game is to try and apply logic. Just leads to people saying “well a Traitor would say that!! I’m going to keep in the nice grandma because a nice grandma could never be a Traitor!”
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ah I see the government has decided to scrap the very real, not already scrapped target of 50% going to uni
September 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
ah I see the government has decided to scrap the very real, not already scrapped target of 50% going to uni
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Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths?
Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.
Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.
September 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths?
Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.
Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
this exists it is called thinking
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Rachel Reeves: You know you’d be personally richer and the economy would be better and you wouldn’t have to fix strangers’ boilers if you just put any savings you have in a stock tracker rather than buy to lets.
Everyone in the UK with any money: all my life I have dreamed of being a landlord.
Everyone in the UK with any money: all my life I have dreamed of being a landlord.
August 8, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Rachel Reeves: You know you’d be personally richer and the economy would be better and you wouldn’t have to fix strangers’ boilers if you just put any savings you have in a stock tracker rather than buy to lets.
Everyone in the UK with any money: all my life I have dreamed of being a landlord.
Everyone in the UK with any money: all my life I have dreamed of being a landlord.
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Thank god the cost of government borrowing doesn’t rise every time I cry
July 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Thank god the cost of government borrowing doesn’t rise every time I cry
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Guess which of these stories came first on both the BBC One and Radio 4 bulletins.
June 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Guess which of these stories came first on both the BBC One and Radio 4 bulletins.
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If a government with over 400 seats and 4 years left to govern cannot summon the courage to level with the public on social care then I despair at the capacity of our political system to ever deliver the change we need.
May 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
If a government with over 400 seats and 4 years left to govern cannot summon the courage to level with the public on social care then I despair at the capacity of our political system to ever deliver the change we need.
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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I know I always sound a bit glib when I say this but: this is an entirely universal teenage sentiment, the answer to it is "get drunk and do drugs until you've grown up enough that those questions no longer feel completely, cripplingly overwhelming"
May 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I know I always sound a bit glib when I say this but: this is an entirely universal teenage sentiment, the answer to it is "get drunk and do drugs until you've grown up enough that those questions no longer feel completely, cripplingly overwhelming"
Comment is Freed remains my top source of political analysis, depressing as said analysis usually turns out to be
New post just out:
"Terminal Decline"
My review of a dramatic set of elections and what it means for all of the parties.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"Terminal Decline"
My review of a dramatic set of elections and what it means for all of the parties.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
Terminal Decline
Local Elections Review: 2025
open.substack.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Comment is Freed remains my top source of political analysis, depressing as said analysis usually turns out to be
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My lesson of last night’s elections (so far) is that Labour are getting outflanked on cultural right and economic left by Reform (ie complaints about WFA, PIP) but seem to have chosen so far to worry only about former.
May 2, 2025 at 7:16 AM
My lesson of last night’s elections (so far) is that Labour are getting outflanked on cultural right and economic left by Reform (ie complaints about WFA, PIP) but seem to have chosen so far to worry only about former.
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They gotta make a 30+ railcard
April 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
They gotta make a 30+ railcard
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One idea I have is not turning the country where the putative child would be raised into an authoritarian hellscape. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...
Trump Aides Solicit Ideas to Raise Birthrate, From Baby Bonuses to Fertility Planning (Gift Article)
The White House is soliciting policy proposals designed to give women incentives to have more children, a priority for many social conservatives.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
One idea I have is not turning the country where the putative child would be raised into an authoritarian hellscape. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...