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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.

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