Brexit-voting Briton can’t get visa to live in his £43,000 Italian home
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/made-huge-mistake-brexit-voting-briton-visa-italian-home-2529765
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James Anthony
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Amateur epistemologist #CardiffUni #JOMEC PhD student: misinformation. Ex-social media strategy, ex-journalist, occasional DJ. Old junglists never die, they just get less massive.
Dropped Mikepeople say the truth is stranger than fiction like it’s a surprise, but the universe has had like fourteen billion more years than us to come up with stuff
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Virtuoso French horn player Felix Klieser has performed all over the world, completed a two-year residency with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and went on tour with Sting. Born without arms, he plays the horn a special stand, and his left foot.
"In the shuddering revulsion from death one turns instinctively to love as an act which seems to affirm the completeness of being."
Lieutenant WN Morgan, my great-grandfather, took photos of his fellow WWI soldiers inside a French brothel. These are believed to be the only surviving photos of their kind.
#firstworldwar #france #war #history #southWales #Army #photography #sexuality #sexwork #wales #cymru #romance #death
Inside the brothels that served the Western Front: How one First World War soldier found love in the arms of a French sweetheart | The Independent
Theirs was an impossible relationship – the Welsh officer and his young French sweetheart. Yet when Lieutenant William Morgan's granddaughter discovered a biscuit tin of photographs from the Great War, it wasn’t the shots of their affair that shocked...
"Meanwhile, in most European countries, the proportion of single-person households is rising steadily..."
‘We could soon see a Jane Austen-style marriage market’: how the housing crisis is turning modern dating on its head
With homes almost beyond reach for all but the luckiest, it’s becoming a truth universally acknowledged that a potential partner’s housing situation has once more begun to have an outsized impact on their romantic suitability
I drive a 3.5l V6 polar-bear-drowner that only takes E5 petrol. I fully support ULEZ, and all measures that make dumb anachronistic vehicles like mine redundant for journeys better served by public transport. (Or a bicycle, or your feet.) London's mass transit infrastructure is in a different class from the rest of the UK. "Oh, but it's more complex than-" NO, NO IT ISN'T. It's a bunch of vile creatures having a tantrum over their entitlement to fuck the planet, and a gov't pandering to them.
Erin KissaneThis week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.
https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt
Mark ReidA friend attending #ICML just sent me a photo of this front runner for best poster award.
"One possibility is that ChatGPT’s most avid users [...are assuming...] that the company’s goal is to make #ChatGPT better and more capable in ways that matter to them; [...assuming...] that their experiences are the ones that #OpenAI cares about in the long run."
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/07/is-chatgpt-getting-dumber.html #AI #Enshittification #digitalhumanities