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Here’s some general interestingness for your perusal complemented with a few words by the British politician, serving (since 2015) as the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley, Jess Phillips: “One of the things I want to achieve in the potentially short time I’m in Westminster is to stop people thinking we’re all the same. Because while they believe that, the establishment stays in the same people’s hands.”
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Sea Power: Why we dropped the word ‘British’ from our name
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Making changes can be hard but very often worthwhile.
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If we were called British Motorcycle Club we wouldn’t be changing our name. It was the combination of ‘British’ and ‘Power’ that no longer worked for us. We imagined a youngster at a European festival in the 21st century looking at the programme and seeing a band name including the word ‘Hungarian’ or ‘Russian’ alongside ‘Power’. It would likely send your mind in a certain direction – quite possibly to the isolationist, adversarial nationalism that has recently taken a hold around the world. We’ve always wanted to be an internationalist band – as heralded in our track Waving Flags, a song of pan-European idealism.
Sea Power
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Photography
Found via Daring Fireball
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Glass
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“Your photography is the point” as they say and Glass looks rather swish and elegantly focussed on helping you, the user, see, search and share your photography on your terms. As John Gruber at Daring Fireball writes...
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Glass is doing its own thing in a bunch of subtle ways. But it’s certainly a lot more like Instagram circa 2010 than Instagram is today. In spirit, it feels a lot like the early days of Flickr. I’ve been beta testing Glass for a few months and it’s an absolutely lovely, exquisitely-designed app. It’s downright serene scrolling through my Glass timeline, something that I haven’t been able to say about Instagram in many years.”
John Gruber
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Unfortunately it is iOS-only at the moment but, with Glass’s motives...
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Glass is an independent company. We charge for our product. We haven’t taken any venture capital or outside funding. With your help, we’re building a sustainable home for photographers on the internet.”
Glass
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...you would like to think they will eventually go wider... you know, like making it work without a certain brand of device!
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Recommended reading
Linked to the book’s listing at Goodreads
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Everything You Really Need to Know About Politics: My Life As An MP
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A thoroughly decent read that will delight you with its honesty, humour and downright clued-up sense of what’s right and worth fighting for. The author’s writing style is informative and to the point and is complemented by quite a few footnotes* throughout the book.
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Imagine having the power to actually change anything you wanted. You could come up with a solution for social care, or support for the elderly and disabled. You could make sure people were treated fairly at work or could definitely access care and support if they had been abused or harmed. Imagine having that power and not using it. My position means that I get a platform to shout about this stuff, but we all have the power to change laws, to fight for better, to demand more at work, in our towns, cities and across our country. We all have the power to make our politicians really work for us. The greatest trick ever played by the powerful was to convince the population that we couldn’t change things, when the truth is that we can.”
Jess Phillips
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* Which are rather entertaining.
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Welcome to the end of issue 286
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Plus, in case you’re interested, the previous issue was opened by 16 of its 29 subscribers and it got 2 unique clicks.
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