Asking immigrants for 'A-level English' is absurd | Letters
#CommunicationSkills #OrwellianPolicies #ALevelEnglish #AbsurdRequirements #CitizenshipDelay
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/23/asking-immigrants-for-a-level-english-is-absurd
p.p.s. By their web-based design, web apps have much less access to the data stored on your phone. It's much harder to spy on people from web apps.
That's why so many companies try so hard to push you away from their websites and towards their app store apps, because app store apps make it much easier for them to spy on you.
Developing Rosebank oil field 'pure climate vandalism', Scottish Green insists
#ScottishGreens #ClimateAction #OilFieldDevelopment #Sustainability #RosebankOilField
More Labour selling the country for tuppence shenanigans https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/15/labour-housing-memo-leak-steve-reed
Our country is being sold under our feet to big US vulture capitalists. This needs to be shared widely. https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/10/14/free-zones-rachel-reeves/
@mark I like the Rails active record stuff does this well. The simple cases are really well done, and if you want SQL you can just write some.
@gardiner_bryant I tried to sign up on my phone and the form seems broken.
Keep it up. I found what he regurgitated about the UK particularly egregious. All of those tropes have been thoroughly debunked.
Message in a bottle time again #GetFediHired #jobsearch #needwork. Might have to add smoke signals, sky writing, and shortwave radio (via @va2nw ?) channels to get the word out.
Growing increasingly needy in search for software developer work in the #Ottawa #Montreal areas. #C #C# #Erlang #Java #NodeJS #Forth #Shell #SQL #BSD #Linux #English #French and more. Very versatile, adaptable, experienced. I cook too; every office should have someone who can make Neapolitan style #pizzas for team lunches & parties.
Here is the Web URL for the site archiving ICE arrests, that Apple is now censoring from their app store
Spread the word.
DHH is now officially attracting all the shitbags out there.
#dhh #omarchy #codeofconduct
We fetishize the 22-year-old founder and the 30-under-30 list.
But the masterpiece that made Kurt Vonnegut came at 47.
The truth is, you've still got time.
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.