New Spinsters: I’m not going to follow back until you post a bit. Wider Fedi: I’m not going to follow back if you post too much.
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2026-08-24T22:14:10Z Event JSON
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Last Notes npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick Especially people with cold winters: Any strong opinions on the best (low maintenance, non-slippery) patio paving slab material? I’ve got as far as wanting “riven” stone. Some of the sandstones look like good bets, but the typical golden colours will look bloody stupid surrounded by my walls. https://spinster.club/media/75/02/41/7502414d46d0a2441d7c133d4583a2f8a493a2cf1bd6ff05489db560363fbdd3.jpeg npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick My sister is off staying with my aunt for the weekend, and my mother is positively luxuriating. npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick https://spinster.club/media/bd/ba/8f/bdba8f7651f2f0863aa7dfe1539fb20ad77f9fbb07ac64dd756534a0083df755.jpeg https://spinster.club/media/f0/20/f9/f020f98440cd70ac65ff234d54817e60e07a2045963ef29c76421d4b4c9d7e5a.jpeg npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick Got half a meal into him… hopefully he’ll take the other half if I mix it with some of my dinner. https://spinster.club/media/b3/e1/a1/b3e1a11a9d6c8b8c13710bdd6bea964821ad231d0b2abb4871189a0c7f937a4c.jpeg npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick All fixed, the pipe was full of sludge. and now I know how to take it apart myself. Wouldn’t even let me pay him, as he was passing on his way home from work. #nevent1q…z2kl npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/picture/2026/aug/14/meet-david-advance-plus-genius-of-toothpaste-marketing-the-stephen-collins-cartoon https://spinster.club/media/e7/12/d2/e712d2f089fe2035767531eb498369cb1d9f731faa204abccb1168fca3c580ef.jpeg https://spinster.club/media/05/3d/66/053d66154915e7b91a1f9ab185ec61b6d88ded2a6096730ffd9d8c1be588e501.jpeg https://spinster.club/media/ab/9c/c1/ab9cc18ea749e38cf31cfaf7bf705711ad6bcecb63187038501a2d5294b3e118.jpeg npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick Bad: my water butt is not full. Good: a lad from the village is going to pop over this afternoon to have a look at it. I suspect the diverter from the drainpipe must be blocked. Hopefully a quick fix but annoying to have wasted all that rain yesterday. npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick I guess it’s autumn. https://spinster.club/media/85/3e/0d/853e0d907439eca73d3daf464aa38344428fd448ba3d05e6863a7eca6df72f95.jpeg npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick https://www.neilobrien.co.uk/p/the-returns-to-expanding-higher-education The series of papers on graduate returns which the IFS have produced are superb - and hats off to them for their work. The finding that university was not worth it from an economic point of view for nearly a third of 2007 graduates is very striking. It should lead to a change in policy. In fact, it has already influenced the Conservative pledge to re-introduce number controls on higher education, and use the savings to fund more high quality apprenticeships and the abolition of of real interest rates on Plan 2 student loans. But there are good reasons to think this may be an underestimate of the problem. The graduate premium had continued to decline since 2007, and as the IFS turn to later cohorts, they will need to figure out what to do with people with lower prior attainment who are now going to university. We can see that some of the apparent earnings premium is not higher hourly productivity, but more hours being worked - and that female graduates are more likely to be working more hours due to lower/later childbearing. The further dramatic expansion of mass higher education in the 2010s was justified by analysis of average graduate earnings premiums which now look very crude and misleading. As the analysis gets better we see more nuance - but overall, the picture is looking worse and worse. npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/25/labour-opens-door-ban-cousin-marriage/ The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) acknowledged that there were “serious concerns” over cousin marriage and said it would “look at” whether outlawing the practice was the best way to tackle it. A backbench bill is expected to be laid before Parliament in the new year by Dr Luke Evans, the shadow health minister, in a fresh attempt to ban first cousin marriage. A previous attempt by Richard Holden, the shadow transport secretary, in a private member’s bill last year failed after being blocked by Sir Keir Starmer’s government. Mr Holden urged Andy Burnham not to be a “coward” or “unwilling” to back the new proposals for a ban. https://archive.ph/nPMJo npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick It’s less of a day of existential dread since I got the “new” car, but still, phew: MoT passed with one advisory (I’ll need a new brake line next year). npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick https://spectator.com/article/what-north-devons-maternity-closure-tells-us-about-britain/ The closure of North Devon district hospital now forces North Devon’s heavily pregnant women to undertake an emergency dash to the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, along 54 miles of winding, unlit rural roads often choked with tourist traffic and with long gaps in mobile phone signal. This journey in active labour could easily take more than two hours. The Royal Devon Trust’s response is another damning example of broken Britain. Knowing women will inevitably give birth en route, it implemented a bizarre, fatalistic contingency plan: remaining midwives were transferred to the Royal Devon and Exeter hospital, with non-specialist hospital doctors and nursing staff instructed to take a rapid emergency ‘crash course’ in precipitous, dangerous births. This is third-world crisis management masquerading as modern medicine. npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick https://spectator.com/article/cambridge-professor-study-engineering-to-produce-weaponry-for-jihad/ Cambridge University’s education faculty – former home of Jason Arday – has appointed as assistant research professor a woman who wrote that Muslims should study engineering and computers ‘to produce advanced weaponry for Jihad in order that the deen [Islam] may dominate over all other deens.’ https://archive.ph/UtsAy npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick Blocked drain on the washing machine. Sigh. Ok, sort that out. Come down to a trifecta of Dog excretions. Lovely. npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick Nice lunch out with my mum, and have cemented her view that I am a technological genius (I am not) by reinstalling a calendar app on her very elderly tablet: it mysteriously vanished a few weeks ago, and I took a successful punt on the actual data still being stored locally and accessible to the newer version in the app store. (My assumption is that there was a security issue with the years-old version she had and it was force-deleted.) As an added bonus, I showed her how to actually create new entries in it, so she is delighted to be able to put appointments in it as well as use it to see which recurring bank charges are coming up soon (my father set them up before he died). npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick @nprofile…m6ad "I think the Taliban are scared of educated women," she adds. "That's why they restrict women. They want uneducated women so they can't raise wise men. Because that would end the Taliban." Bingo. npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick @nprofile…la83 Oh, thank you love, that was a really sweet trip down memory lane! npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick Bride of Frankenstein or Deb? You decide! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PniIpM23yqE&ra=m https://spinster.club/media/1d/31/de/1d31de0bc70918875cd6c19ca0c8ccb5b8624973eab49add373c6d9ce5fa2825.jpeg npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick Night, dearies. Going to crack open a book and chill. Tomorrow is my birthday and my mum is coming to take me out for lunch, but I will be in and out to do account authorisations. npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick @nprofile…p288 @nprofile…prf3 @nprofile…kt7g @nprofile…m6ad afraid not, he was a miner then a sheep farmer, flat cap and tweeds seems more likely! npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick @nprofile…p288 @nprofile…m6ad @nprofile…prf3 @nprofile…kt7g you can borrow my Bill, if you like. nice chap. npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick @nprofile…tq8a Export your follows in Spinster (settings/preferences, down at the bottom). you will get a CSV file. Go to spinster.club, create an account. Wait while i approve it (if you message me, that will happen slightly quicker). Log in. Reverse paragraph one. If you go to my profile and look at my follows, you’ll see who’s already moved and be able to quickly follow them. @nprofile…fc2l @nprofile…arf2 npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick @nprofile…tq8a @nprofile…arf2 @nprofile…fc2l Shit, sorry Anung: I assumed you’d seen at least some of my posts. Come on over! npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick How cool is this? #nevent1q…gkfx npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick @nprofile…m6ad I didn‘t grow the olives! npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick Idk if I should make his tail longer Or if he’s done. https://spinster.club/media/68/b8/b6/68b8b625215d5aff963bab5001d5d2c56e10eff70782277851532bcf5bf99bd6.jpeg npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick https://spinster.club/media/52/c7/50/52c75038baf2a72306c7793b7c00d32ef0c5ec23facacc85f978cf341fdbb11c.jpeg npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick You should now be able to log in. npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick People seem to be interpreting / being told that ”waiting for approval“ means that the CAPTCHA failed. Sheri, I’ve approved you. npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick The BBC has started putting adverts in the middle of podcasts, bloody annoying. npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick You’re approved. npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick Oh come on, you know most of the users don't know a pubkey from Adam. Complaining about UI changes isn't the same thing as wanting a site that doesn't fall over and contain security holes. Or, indeed, admins who completely ignore us until we decide to fix things without them. npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick @nprofile…6e53 still federating, it’s only been there for an hour or so. npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick Come on over to spinster.club and sign up. I've got accounts set to require approval, so it will take a little while. In theory you can then migrate your account by scrolling down to the bottom of preferences / settings and clicking through. It failed when I tried just now, whether that is a bug in Spinster 1 or what IDK. However, all that really does is copy your profile and follows, so instead just import that file you downloaded the other day and re-do your profile. BUT right now the TL is absolutely nuts with posts from 2021 and stuff, as this instance is only just federating, so you might want to leave it a few days to actually start using the new instance. Huh: and adding a Subject here results in a CW on Spinster1. Weird. npub1jfqvrfs9ugkatjaz58jlyr0v87eg8hge3mv9v8d4ce95462anjqq046l59 Flick Here we go then...