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Keeping Safe on Twitter, Blackstone’s Ratio, and Ways to Support Victims
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7–11 minutes·
No comments on Keeping Safe on Twitter, Blackstone’s Ratio, and Ways to Support VictimsA lot’s happened since my “Innocent until proven guilty in a court” isn’t the end of the story went viral on Twitter. New and credible allegations of abuse in the games industry have emerged, and the pushback from those who believe all the allegations are lies has been typically fierce. And yes, there has been…
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“Innocent until proven guilty in a court” isn’t the end of the story
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“Innocent until proven guilty in a court” is, at best, childishly naive and, at worst, dangerously obtuse when it comes to accusations of abuse (which I fully believe) against game devs like @alexiskennedy. Stop saying it. Just 1.5% of rape cases lead to a charge or summons in the UK. The proportion will be even…
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BREX IT! Meal Kits
Take back control of your hunger! Inspired by various doomsday scenario planning guides that are telling Brits to stock up on beans and bottled water, I created the BREX IT! Meal Kits website in between laughing and crying about the political disaster that’s befallen our country.
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Injured Sovereigns, Foucault, and Jessica Price
Why does Jessica Price’s firing continue to attract so much attention? There’s plenty of other subjects I want to write about, but there is something about the story that draws me to it, just as it’s drawn literally thousands of people to my Twitter this blog, some of whom have called me “subhuman scum” and…
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TSB and Bank Account Number Portability
Even after the TSB banking debacle, it’s unlikely that many of their customers will switch to another bank, given that just 1-2% of UK consumers switch each year with most being put off due to the hassle. Yes, the new Current Account Switch Service has made the process easier, but it’s disappointing we never got the true “bank account…
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China, a Land of Contrasts
Extended excerpts from four recent pieces on China. It’s impossible to generalise about a country of 1.4 billion people, but there are plenty of interesting nuggets here. The quiet revolution: China’s millennial backlash (Financial Times, semi-paywalled) by Yuan Yang: Faye Lu, a Beijing-based businesswoman, chose the Chinese new year after her 30th birthday to come…
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History suggests a silver lining to Brexit
Linda Colley on the lessons history can teach us about the aftermath of Brexit, and how it could have a silver lining: By instinct I am a Remainer, but I think that some form of Brexit may now be unavoidable. If that does turn out to be the case, I suspect that the resulting disruptions…
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More Calories Please
Public Health England now recommends that: …adults try to limit the calories of their three main meals to 400 for breakfast and 600 each for lunch and dinner […noting] that the remaining calories of the daily guidelines – 2,000 for women and 2,500 for men – are likely to be made up of snacks and…
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Valuing Friendship over Principle
Lately, I’ve been spotting more and more cases of people valuing friendships over principle. Here’s what Quinn Norton, who was hired and then swiftly fired from the New York Times Opinion section for her offensive comments in the past, along with her friendship with neo-Nazi Andrew Auernheimer, said: I was called a Nazi because of…
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