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I am utterly delighted by this subversive use of the Bluesky label feature, where you can subscribe to a custom app that then adds visible labels to profiles This one shows you which posh expensive private school British public figures attended, plus their current fees bsky.app/profile/dadd...

I went to a private/public school, but got an "assisted place" so almost all of my fees were paid for by the government. There's no other way a lad like me from a working class family could have attended.

I'm explicit with the labeller that scholarship pupils, grant pupils, etc, are still included - because it's the later effects that are useful context - students from these schools get a leg up and a degree of privilege, which contributes eg to the overrepresentation in British media/politics

Fair, though I would argue I've never had a leg up in my entire life other than the assisted place. More importantly, I have zero interest in politics other than voting the Tories out.

The Private School Labeller only labels accounts belonging to public figures in the media or UK politics, so you should be safe from its attention!

Tbf I do also label accounts sometimes that self report, or ones who start arguing about, but yeah I'll leave this guy