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Nick M

@halfricehalfchips

• Research and evaluation methods, data and public policy • PhD in progress on health policy evaluation

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Introducing the 15-Hour City “The 15-minute city principle suggests you should have your daily needs—work, food, healthcare, education, culture, and leisure—within a 15-minute ...

"The 15-Hour City believes everything has its place. Houses go in one location, businesses in another, and in between is a dark sea of soul-crushing concrete and asphalt."
buff.ly/fLNN71n

01.03.2026 02:30 👍 281 🔁 70 💬 6 📌 16

After Gene Pitney died a friend asked if I'd heard the news about Pete Gibley.

23.02.2026 21:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

All my ales gone

16.02.2026 10:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cor, looks tasty!

05.02.2026 19:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A useful guide to the best techniques to prepare your dough. Maslow's Hierarchy of Kneads.

04.02.2026 10:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of a Financial Times timeline entry from Feb 6 2025 when Peter Mandelson told a reporter that his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was "an FT obsession and frankly you can all fuck off".

Screenshot of a Financial Times timeline entry from Feb 6 2025 when Peter Mandelson told a reporter that his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was "an FT obsession and frankly you can all fuck off".

Only a few days to go until the anniversary of this quote

02.02.2026 21:01 👍 54 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0

Good luck with the Thing application!

30.01.2026 10:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sausage 2: Pig in the City

30.01.2026 09:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The most comical part of this story, for me, is when the person contacts Open AI for help and seems surprised and frustrated that they use AI support chatbots and that it's really difficult to speak to a human there.

23.01.2026 10:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
James Reed of recruiter Reed, which was founded by his father, has warned graduates that they should "think about a job that involves working with your hands" as AI takes on white-collar work.

James Reed of recruiter Reed, which was founded by his father, has warned graduates that they should "think about a job that involves working with your hands" as AI takes on white-collar work.

Or consider being born to parents who can give you a role in the family firm?
www.ft.com/content/c894...

22.01.2026 07:50 👍 820 🔁 174 💬 36 📌 32

Slightly surprised the final line wasn't “Would you like me to refine the tone or make the message more formal?”

14.01.2026 13:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Who was the editor? Was it Gregg Wallace?

25.11.2025 17:37 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
3D graph of banana exports in tonnes by main exporting countries between 1994 and 2005 with a picture of bunches of bananas on the back panel of the graph.

3D graph of banana exports in tonnes by main exporting countries between 1994 and 2005 with a picture of bunches of bananas on the back panel of the graph.

Will this one do?

24.11.2025 14:11 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Manoeuvre

14.11.2025 13:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Although that doesn't necessarily work in Wales, which has PCCs due to the Eng&Wales jurisdiction but doesn't have regional mayors. Could further strengthen the case for justice to be devolved to Wales as in Scotland.

13.11.2025 11:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Interesting thread! On your general lessons, are you aware of this paper? doi.org/10.1177/0003...

11.11.2025 11:30 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Half term!

24.10.2025 11:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot from Google Maps of an area with warning signs and tidal times, relating to the article where some people used ChatGPT to look up tide times for an island that you can reach at low tide got stuck and almost drowned trying to swim back to shore.

Screenshot from Google Maps of an area with warning signs and tidal times, relating to the article where some people used ChatGPT to look up tide times for an island that you can reach at low tide got stuck and almost drowned trying to swim back to shore.

I know this area well and the crazy thing is that there is a live information board about the tide times that you have to pass and it's plastered with warnings about what to do if you get stuck. You can see it on Google Maps.

16.10.2025 10:39 👍 76 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

After that, just Fa.

08.10.2025 21:18 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Victory for Big Beef

08.10.2025 19:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

See the "First they came for..." poem which doesn't start with "First they came for...everyone".

07.10.2025 10:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Police investigate break in at much-loved national museum Museum officials after expressed their shock at the 'targeted attack'

If you are offered pieces of gold Bronze Age jewellery by a bloke down the pub, police in St Fagan’s would appreciate a call following a burglary at the National Museum Of History.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

06.10.2025 18:45 👍 16 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 3

Sarcastic cheer when someone drops a pint in the pub #RealBritain

30.09.2025 20:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It's so weird! Imagine getting that note through the door when you got back: 'Sorry we missed you. Your box of dirty smalls has been left with your neighbour".

08.09.2025 16:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Second place for me was the person who said take strictly one pair of shoes to be super efficient but if you need trainers you can buy some and send them to your home separately to save carrying them back.

08.09.2025 15:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

When he finally coughs up what are the bets he'll pay with a huge bag of 1ps and 2ps?

20.08.2025 08:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

But will we have legs?

30.07.2025 19:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@dandekadt.bsky.social

09.07.2025 18:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

'Basically' doing some heavy lifting there

06.07.2025 21:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In the right pic the modal class is 'Mode' 🙃

03.07.2025 22:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0