'Nother music recommendation. Newcastle desert rock, Dunes. https://dunesncl.bandcamp.com/album/land-of-the-blind #bandcamp #musicrecommendation #desertrock #altrock #stonerrock #ukmusic

Long bet: Within the next 5 years, a country currently within the EU or Five Eyes will pass legislation to restrict the use of VPNs for personal use; either requiring linking VPN accounts with official ID, requiring VPN providers to monitor and store user usage data, or blocking their use […]

"Electricity demand in Great Britain has been fully covered by the output of clean-energy sources for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, new Carbon Brief analysis shows. This is up from just 2.5 hours in 2021 and 64.5 hours in all of 2024, ahead of the government’s clean-power target for 2030." […]

Update. "#austria's military has switched from #microsoftoffice to #LibreOffice. The move was all about digital sovereignty, not cost savings. Other governments are moving away from Microsoft to protect their citizens' privacy." […]

At last, countries are standing up to Israel https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/the-spanish-italian-and-greek-navies

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it. Yes, they might. And he should wear it as a badge of honour. Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet. Where's the hazard in that?

Green Party of England and Wales membership from 2024 to 20 September 2025.

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 "Reform UK leader Nigel Farage faces pressure to account for how his partner paid for a £885,000 home after a BBC investigation raised further questions about his previous explanation." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce845w70g0yo

You can use an AI-free version of DuckDuckGo by using the subdomain “noai”. https://noai.duckduckgo.com/search?q=%s You can add that as a Bookmarklet or your default search engine or whatever. #ai

In short, if Starmer's Labour Party had set out to destroy its chances of re-election, and roll out the red carpet for Reform, it could not have done a better job.

One of the ways that LLM-authored code improves productivity is by merely SAYING it does things. It's way faster than the whole time-consuming process of actually doing things. This is real code someone sent to me for review.

Farage uses every tool to avoid paying his fair share: ✅ Set up offshore trust ✅ Avoided stamp 2nd home stamp duty ✅ Uses a company to reduce income tax https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/05/nigel-farage-uses-private-company-to-pay-less-tax-on-gb-news-earnings

🔔 Rise & shine, UK! Every day outside the EU is a missed opportunity for unity, strength, and progress. But it’s never too late to turn back. Let’s Re-Join the family. 💛💙 #RejoinEU #togetherstronger #fbpe

Let's see if a man named Nigel gets the same treatment from the UK press, for tax issues, as a woman called Angela. #Rayner #farage #ukpolitics Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings […]

The Wikipedia front page News panel needs a _Recent Births_ section. It would be useful to know who the future notable politicians, actors and sports stars will be.

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One of my favourite ever views! What a landscape. #uffington #whitehorse

1. What my daughter posted on Instagram. 2. What Instagram put over her post.

Never ever ever never ever use a free #vpn (except Proton VPN, but it will be slower if you don't pay) or a VPN from some unknown company. Pay some money!!, or you WILL get scammed and robbed. "FreeVPN.One, a Chrome extension with over 100,000 installs and a verified badge on the Chrome Web […]

people keep mentioning me whenever altbot makes a mistake, and honestly it's annoying. its an LLM. LLMs make mistakes. I've said hundreds of times you should always review and edit the text that it writes. and I'm self hosting it. i made the conscious choice to pick user privacy over performance […]

It always pleases me that the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) are in alphabetical order top to bottom. Handy if you need to remember the order for whatever reason.

I'm pretty sure, it is not a new idea, but as I was waiting for the bus, it suddenly struck me: LLMs (falsely called "ai") are a cargo cult. Some people dropped a few boxes with apparently magic qualities on this planet, and we're increasingly rebuilding all our civilisation around them.

I've been putting my phone on charge downstairs at night to try to prevent me from using it at night and in the morning but on several days after putting it to charge I've found it back in my pocket when I get to bed. I feel like Bilbo Baggins with the ring.

Verify that you're human: #gazagenocide

If a boardgame or role-playing game is so complicated that I wish there was software to help me get everything right, then it should just be a video game instead. #BoardGames #ttrpg

New fire shed in the locality over from ours. Fully decked out with kitchen, comfortable couches etc. Meanwhile, bunch of crafting grandmas need somewhere to meet after losing their previous location. A brigade member tells them to use the new fire shed, it’s empty most of the time anyway […]

Whatever happened to paid Android apps? Now they are all either subscription based or have an unendurable amount of ads. I long for when you could pay like 2.99 to keep for something simple that just worked.

📣 Is "disable" the same as "uninstall"? We do not believe it. Google does. Under the DMA, the FSFE with a coalition of civil-society organisations prompts the @EUCommission to open proceedings to investigate Alphabet's (#google) regarding the uninstallation of pre-installed apps in Android […]

If you search "Trump" on Duck Duck Go the first auto suggestion is "Trump Epstein" If you search "Trump" or even "Trump E" on Google, there's no mention of Epstein whatsoever. One of these platforms is juicing its results.

A good analogy for dealing with encroaching technologies. https://blog.foxtrotluna.social/theyre-putting-blue-food-coloring-in-everything/

Am I hallucinating or was there a segment on a recent episode of BBC radio 4 More or Less about what percentage of the oceans is whale semen. Am I getting my wires crossed with a similar topic? Genuine question. #moreorless #bbcr4 #bbcr4moreorless

Tech execs don't want it. https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/csuite_sours_on_ai/ Consumers don't want it. https://www.beingguru.com/customers-dont-want-ai/ They have nothing to stop competitors from undercutting them using open models […]

I recently downloaded the ObsIdentify app. https://observation.org/apps/obsidentify/ Take photos, identify the species with ML (you can decide whether to accept the identification). Earn badges for capturing species in a certain category (e.g. bees, butterflies, flowering plants). Compete with […]

My village only posts important information on Facebook. I don't have a Facebook account. Many US government offices and departments, esp on the local level, only post official messages on proprietary social media platforms like Twitter X and esp, Facebook. That is the only place they post, not […]

I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2016! #adventofcode https://adventofcode.com/ Now on to 2017!

The Met Office is currently looking for people to suggest up to 5 names for storms... It would be great if thousands all suggested the same 5 names (in alphabetical order as that's how storm names appear): BigOil, BP, Equinor, Exxon, Shell. Met Office page is […]

Is the correct plural Raspberry Pis or Raspberries Pi?

In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"

Quite a day!

New datacenters should be required to support themselves using renewable energy.

Not the first performance to take place in a shower this contest. #eurovision #denmark #latvia

Why does Iceland's song mka me think of "They're Taking The Hobbits To Isengard"? #eurovision

Ok, I might stop after this one: The new Pope has a degree in mathematics from Villanova University. This guy doesn’t just understand sin. He understands cos.

Here in the U.K. most people have never heard of Chinese EV brands Jaecoo and Omoda. That's probably because they only sold about a 1,000 cars each last month. The fun part is that this is TWICE as many as Tesla sold in the U.K. #BoycottTesla […]

OXFORDSHIRE COUNCIL ELECTION RESULTS 🟠 Liberal Democrats: 35 (+12) 🔴 Labour: 12 (-3) 🔵 Conservative: 10 (-15) 🟢 Green Party: 7 (+4) ⚫ Independents/Localists: 3 (+1) ⚪ Reform UK: 1 (+1) Lib Dems GAIN from No Overall Control. Changes with 2021. #ukpolitics #ukpol #electionresults […]

This may explain some things https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html

💫 Wake up, #UK! Trump is putting all of #Europe at risk. 💣 His deals with dictators endanger our future. Britain can’t stand alone—we need the strength of our European allies. Let’s bring Britain back where it belongs. 🇪🇺💪 #RejoinEU #fbpe