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We should probably be placing incarcerated people in prisons closest to their homes.
Why?
Assigning individuals to prisons closer to their home reduces recidivism.
Really?
Yep. Being placed close to one's home increases social contacts that appear to reduce reoffending.
Why?
Assigning individuals to prisons closer to their home reduces recidivism.
Really?
Yep. Being placed close to one's home increases social contacts that appear to reduce reoffending.
December 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
We should probably be placing incarcerated people in prisons closest to their homes.
Why?
Assigning individuals to prisons closer to their home reduces recidivism.
Really?
Yep. Being placed close to one's home increases social contacts that appear to reduce reoffending.
Why?
Assigning individuals to prisons closer to their home reduces recidivism.
Really?
Yep. Being placed close to one's home increases social contacts that appear to reduce reoffending.
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Inspector Gadget (SKA COVER)
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December 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Still fuming they are using the Lovelace name to give themselves licence to bring together five dudes to discuss the future of the UK’s research system #AdaWashing
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Still fuming they are using the Lovelace name to give themselves licence to bring together five dudes to discuss the future of the UK’s research system #AdaWashing
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Melissa was one of the strongest storms on record. NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters flew into it without pay.
Crews are asked “To be fully mentally present, especially in this environment, and it’s hard to do that when you know you can’t potentially make ends meet.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/w...
Crews are asked “To be fully mentally present, especially in this environment, and it’s hard to do that when you know you can’t potentially make ends meet.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/w...
Melissa was one of the strongest storms on record. NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters flew into it without pay | CNN
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hurricane Hunters have spent the past week diving into the eye of Melissa — a storm of historic ferocity — to gather life-saving data. But the gov...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Melissa was one of the strongest storms on record. NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters flew into it without pay.
Crews are asked “To be fully mentally present, especially in this environment, and it’s hard to do that when you know you can’t potentially make ends meet.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/w...
Crews are asked “To be fully mentally present, especially in this environment, and it’s hard to do that when you know you can’t potentially make ends meet.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/w...
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The Python Software Foundation has turned down a $1.5m grant from the National Science Foundation as it came with a restriction that they would not operate any programs (at all - not just funded by the grant) that promote diversity, equality or inclusion…
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The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Op...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The Python Software Foundation has turned down a $1.5m grant from the National Science Foundation as it came with a restriction that they would not operate any programs (at all - not just funded by the grant) that promote diversity, equality or inclusion…
pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Today's background listening while working.
Music for Resilience on 19th Century Lute - "Invitation" - Nao Sogabe
YouTube video by Music for Spirit - Nao Sogabe
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October 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Today's background listening while working.
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In my opinion, Trump's shift on this issue ("stop raiding farms and hotels") demonstrates the US needs to have an honest conversation about the role of undocumented immigrants in this country. And who constitutes this population. I'm afraid the rhetoric has already poisoned the well.
SCOOP: The Trump admin has abruptly shifted the focus of its mass deportation campaign, telling ICE officials to largely pause raids and arrests in the agricultural industry, hotels and restaurants, according to an internal email and three officials with knowledge.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...
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Trump Shifts Deportation Focus, Pausing Raids on Farms, Hotels and Eateries
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June 14, 2025 at 3:46 AM
In my opinion, Trump's shift on this issue ("stop raiding farms and hotels") demonstrates the US needs to have an honest conversation about the role of undocumented immigrants in this country. And who constitutes this population. I'm afraid the rhetoric has already poisoned the well.
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The rot in NI politics does not begin or end with the masked youths holding bats and bricks. Contempt and loathing for migrants goes all the way to the top.
June 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The rot in NI politics does not begin or end with the masked youths holding bats and bricks. Contempt and loathing for migrants goes all the way to the top.
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Long delays on the DART all evening due to someone driving into the Sandymount level crossing. Again. We need to fine and punish people who do it but, really, we need to remove these level crossings in the city. Traffic and trains don't mix.
May 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Long delays on the DART all evening due to someone driving into the Sandymount level crossing. Again. We need to fine and punish people who do it but, really, we need to remove these level crossings in the city. Traffic and trains don't mix.
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This, from those notorious Leftists on the…Financial Times editorial board…is bang on the money.
May 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This, from those notorious Leftists on the…Financial Times editorial board…is bang on the money.
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I've spent the day in The High Court listening to Lissan Coal Company v An Bord Pleanála. This is a judicial review of ABP's decision to approve the BusConnects Blanchardstown to City Centre scheme.
May 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I've spent the day in The High Court listening to Lissan Coal Company v An Bord Pleanála. This is a judicial review of ABP's decision to approve the BusConnects Blanchardstown to City Centre scheme.
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this internet was a mistake, but sometimes it’s the best thing ever created
May 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
this internet was a mistake, but sometimes it’s the best thing ever created
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ok, i need help!! my bestie who lost her husband in august, accidentally gave away this octopus stuffy.
it was sentimental to her daughter, she used to play with it with her dad. she’s been combing goodwills & reverse image searching w no luck.
so: anyone recognize this bug-eyed purple freak??
it was sentimental to her daughter, she used to play with it with her dad. she’s been combing goodwills & reverse image searching w no luck.
so: anyone recognize this bug-eyed purple freak??
March 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
ok, i need help!! my bestie who lost her husband in august, accidentally gave away this octopus stuffy.
it was sentimental to her daughter, she used to play with it with her dad. she’s been combing goodwills & reverse image searching w no luck.
so: anyone recognize this bug-eyed purple freak??
it was sentimental to her daughter, she used to play with it with her dad. she’s been combing goodwills & reverse image searching w no luck.
so: anyone recognize this bug-eyed purple freak??
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everything is so shitty, read this story about a genuinely good man who saw he had an opportunity to save millions of lives and threw himself into doing so. the world is full of heroes like him.
March 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
everything is so shitty, read this story about a genuinely good man who saw he had an opportunity to save millions of lives and threw himself into doing so. the world is full of heroes like him.
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Very sad to see the poet and general sharp observer of life Pat Ingoldsby has died. So, as he prepared for this event, here's to Pat. 🥃
March 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Very sad to see the poet and general sharp observer of life Pat Ingoldsby has died. So, as he prepared for this event, here's to Pat. 🥃
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Friend of mine reported on Bucha, came back with a face like that and told me he had a hard drive full of footage he could never use, because no channel would ever be able to show it.
February 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Friend of mine reported on Bucha, came back with a face like that and told me he had a hard drive full of footage he could never use, because no channel would ever be able to show it.
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What's most tedious about all this is that these tactics aren't novel or ingenious. This is how online bigots have acted for decades. To know this is to have been on the internet. Yet it's being reported on by people who sound like they've heard good things about the web and might try it some day.
January 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
What's most tedious about all this is that these tactics aren't novel or ingenious. This is how online bigots have acted for decades. To know this is to have been on the internet. Yet it's being reported on by people who sound like they've heard good things about the web and might try it some day.
Sitting looking out of the window of my childhood bedroom watching a child on their first 'big bike' trying to manage the pedalling while balancing malarkey.
The footpaths in the estate (and in the park across the main road) are prime surfaces for first cycles. Great to see the tradition continue.
The footpaths in the estate (and in the park across the main road) are prime surfaces for first cycles. Great to see the tradition continue.
December 25, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Sitting looking out of the window of my childhood bedroom watching a child on their first 'big bike' trying to manage the pedalling while balancing malarkey.
The footpaths in the estate (and in the park across the main road) are prime surfaces for first cycles. Great to see the tradition continue.
The footpaths in the estate (and in the park across the main road) are prime surfaces for first cycles. Great to see the tradition continue.
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In October, I had a very long chat with Alan Moore. On magick, sci-fi, the perils of ecological doomerism, the joy of occultist pranks, the psychogeography of Stoke Newington, the invention of the taser - and much more!
As a Christmas treat here it is IN FULL.
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As a Christmas treat here it is IN FULL.
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It’s a rabbit out of a hat: On magick, fantasy and pretty much everything else, with Alan Moore
In October of this year, I spent a balmy evening talking with Alan Moore on the week that he had two — count ’em!— new books on the…
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December 23, 2024 at 1:14 PM
In October, I had a very long chat with Alan Moore. On magick, sci-fi, the perils of ecological doomerism, the joy of occultist pranks, the psychogeography of Stoke Newington, the invention of the taser - and much more!
As a Christmas treat here it is IN FULL.
seamas.medium.com/its-a-rabbit...
As a Christmas treat here it is IN FULL.
seamas.medium.com/its-a-rabbit...
My top 5 podcasts in 2024. I've deliberately cropped out my listening time stats.
1. Knowledge Fight
2. Behind the Bastards
3. Slate News
4. In Moscow's Shadows
5. Lions led by Donkeys
This year, new job means my listening patterns have shifted towards some podcasts that are more commuting length.
1. Knowledge Fight
2. Behind the Bastards
3. Slate News
4. In Moscow's Shadows
5. Lions led by Donkeys
This year, new job means my listening patterns have shifted towards some podcasts that are more commuting length.
December 5, 2024 at 8:44 AM
My top 5 podcasts in 2024. I've deliberately cropped out my listening time stats.
1. Knowledge Fight
2. Behind the Bastards
3. Slate News
4. In Moscow's Shadows
5. Lions led by Donkeys
This year, new job means my listening patterns have shifted towards some podcasts that are more commuting length.
1. Knowledge Fight
2. Behind the Bastards
3. Slate News
4. In Moscow's Shadows
5. Lions led by Donkeys
This year, new job means my listening patterns have shifted towards some podcasts that are more commuting length.
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