Quite pleased with this shot of the trans protest at Westminster. 🏳️‍⚧️

Next up at @GreenwichSitP: Dr David Miles (aka @Variolator) on "The Common Cold: 30,000 Years of the Sniffles" at 7:30 pm, 8/6/26, at the Plume of Feathers, 19 Park Vista, Greenwich, London SE10 9LZ. Free, open to all, no need to book.

Always funny to hear the "Big Pharma" accusation but never the "Big Supplement" accusation.

Bunu bir sürü gazete basmış. Haber diye verdilerse haber değil, makale 2017 tarihli ve bunun üzerine 50 bin tane daha yazıldı). Bilgilendirme için yapıyorlarsa makalenin abstract'ı daha detaylı bilgi veriyor. Birisi detaylı bir yazı yazmak için oturmuş, sıkılıp bu kadar yeter demiş sanki :)

Join us on Monday, 18 May at 19:30 for Horror Everything: 2016 - Forever with Dr Joe Ondrak at The Plume of Feathers, Greenwich. @theondrakguy.bsky.social explores how horror, social media, and conspiracy culture blur the line between fiction and reality. More info: sitp.online/sitp/greenwi...

Top Comment podcast is a treasure for anyone interested in the behind-the-scenes dynamics of how weird trends and misinformation campaigns take over social media feeds. Really enjoying listening to @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social and @mattashea.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Today we spoke to the booking system of a restaurant chain. They gave the bot a human name, added fake restaurant background noise, and even tried to talk us out of speaking to a real person. Why does this stuff always end up feeling so awkward?

Köpek seven tüyüne katlanır…

Maintenance!

Leaving #engageug and heading back to London. It’s been busy for me with three sessions and a speed sponsoring for @openntf.org. Thanks to Kris, Tom, the team and all sponsors. If you liked the LotusScript class map, please share your feedback and help improve it.

OpenNTF brings a classic back to life. The LotusScript Class Map Online, designed by Graham Acres: @gacres99.bsky.social #engageug www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0UT...

I didn’t know the dragon in the Gulden Draak comes from Gent’s Belfry. I officially started #engage!

Join us on Monday, 13 April at 19:30 for What We Talk About When We Talk About AI with Wendy Grossman at The Plume of Feathers, Greenwich. What do we really mean by “AI”? @wendyg.bsky.social unpacks the hype, the myths, and the reality behind the term. More info: sitp.online/sitp/greenwi...

The new @engageug 2026 mobile event app is now available for iOS and Android 😎 Download it from your favourite mobile App Store or from onelink.to/engage and #AssembleYourAgenda #dominoforever

My talk from State of the Browser is available to watch now. This was so much fun to do, and thanks to @londonwebstandards.org @letorey.co.uk for asking me to be part of it.

I’m really looking forward to seeing @spookybarrister.bsky.social again. Naomi is such a great speaker, and the topic sounds exciting! If you happen to be in London tonight, our venue is quite close to King’s Cross station. Feel free to pop in and say hello!

One of those stories that breaks your heart and makes you furious at the same time... What kind of ideology makes you so stupid that you exclude vulnerable young people while pretending to care about inclusion and dignity?

Our next talk is on 1 April with Naomi Ryan - @spookybarrister.bsky.social! The Devil’s Advocate: Demons and the Law. A look at real legal cases involving possession, witchcraft, and other supernatural claims — and how courts have handled them. More info: sitp.online/sitp/london/...

Tarihin en büyük dolandırıcılıklarından birisi... Orijinalini görünce bunu gerçekten nasıl yedirmişler diye daha çok merak ediyorum. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651 (Thx to @meiriontweets.bsky.social)

Listening to the Joe Rogan Experience for a living really does a number on your face. Here's @mrmmarsh.bsky.social, who's been in need of a new profile picture for a while. How about one of these, Marsh? (Oh, and go listen to @knowrogan.bsky.social.)

In other news, members of the family Ursidae defecate in forested areas. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Artık "sinemaya geldiği gün mutlaka bilet alayım" diyeceğim bir film olmaz diyordum. Project Hail Mary son olacak herhalde. :)

I am speaking at #engageug one more time! - Mark Leusink and I will host a roundtable: "Bring Your Own IDE: Sharing Experiences Beyond Domino Designer" - Also presenting "HCL Domino Application Development - State of the Union 2026" with @hvoigtsit.bsky.social Looking forward to it!

Anthropic made defence contracts forbidden fruit for AI firms. Legal fine print will not save you when you jump into bed with the Department of War while Trump is trampling over AI ethics. openai.com/index/our-ag...

If you are aligned with Reform UK, why are you trying to stop them in the first place? Perhaps you should join them as a token political figure from a minority immigrant background, taking a leading role in promoting strongly anti-immigration and anti-asylum policies.

Labour must have thought their immigration stance was still too soft, and decided to toughen it up a bit more, just in case Reform needed another boost at the next by-election. 🤦 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

See you at Engage 2026 in Ghent, Belgium, April 20th - April 23rd. See my Sessions threre, one with the great @serdar.uk ! Https://engage.ug

I stumbled upon this. I know it was way outdated and very difficult to save but Lotus Workflow might have been one of the best half-baked products of Lotus/IBM/HCL. It silently left the stage last summer. support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_ar...

Tüm seccadeleri farklı renk yapmayı düşündün de neden askerler birbirinin aynı ve neden sadece iki silah var. ChatGPT kendine gel! Bu ne ya, fotoşop kopi peyst fırçası gibi.

Every year in Turkey, hundreds of women are recorded as having taken their lives by ‘throwing themselves from a high place’. But many grieving families maintain that investigators are missing the full story, report Ruth Michaelson and Beril Eski. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

This is the historical student residence building of my university, just today. Police used tear gas to the students protesting the removal of student clubs and now they surrounded the building in this way. This is what will happen to the US universities soon and UK universities after that.

Next up at @GreenwichSitP: Dr David Clarke (@shuclarke) on "The National Folklore Survey for England" at 7:30 pm, 9/2/26, at the Plume of Feathers, 19 Park Vista, Greenwich, London SE10 9LZ. Free, open to all, no need to book. NB: Talk will be filmed. greenwichskeptics.org

We know this playbook very well from Taksim Gezi Movement in Istanbul back in 2013. Islamists and the pro-government media tried to frame all the protests as part of a Soros/Globalist/Jewish plot,. The same playbook at a scale.

Join us on Monday, 9 Feb at 19:30 for The National Folklore Survey for England with Dr David Clarke (@davidwclarke.bsky.social) at The Plume of Feathers. The first survey of its kind since 1964, capturing how folklore and belief shape life in modern England. sitp.online/sitp/greenwi...

I just received an email inviting me to play "puzzle game" at LinkedIn! WTF? When I checked the settings, I saw that they keep adding new types of notifications. There are hundreds of options, with sub-categories. It's insane! They try everything to send more notifications.

My name today is Sartai… Not that bad for a situation where an Asian lady speaking to a Turkish guy on the phone in a noisy restaurant. 🙃

Irkçılık, sosyal baskı ve benzeri sebeplerden ötürü (ABD'de) siyahların uymak zorunda kaldığı "yazılı olmayan kuralları" nefis bir arayüzle derlemişler. Yerel emsalleri adına iİlham verici. unwrittenrulesproject.com

This is tomorrow! 🍻 Hope to see you there!

You can totally point out that some aspects of AI are overhyped, you can believe that AGI is not possible, you can criticize how the companies and governments developing AI are using or being coopted by these tools. There is a lot to criticize. But "it doesn't work and is fake" is just wrong now.

Once again, proof positive that it's very easy to sell a $20 bill for $10 dollars. Or to put it another way, turn a $35 million marketing budget into a $7 million box office weekend. (The second highest marketing spend on a documentary in the last decade was about $3 million).

Trump'a yaklaşan kim varsa Epstein'la bağlantısı çıkıyor. Tıpkı zamanında elini attığın AKP'linin Fetoyla fotosu çıkması gibi 😀 En son örnek: Bezos'un Trump'a rüşveti olarak Trump'ın eşi için çekilen milyonlarca dolarlık belgeselin yönetmeni Ratner 🙃 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I even came across the same conspiracy theory after the 2023 earthquakes in Turkey. It was claimed that “globalists” had somehow triggered the earthquake to build 15-minute cities in the disaster zone. I wrote about this for @skeptic.org.uk www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/02/eart...

Really enjoyed the brilliant conversation last night about demonic babies, scary monsters, and, of course, “monster-looking ghost possessions” in horror films 😀 I can never get enough of watching @robinince.bsky.social on stage!

Our events at The Bell in 2026 May - July May 26 – Deborah Hyde – A 21st-Century Werewolf in Hull? Jun 30 – Richard Marshall – The Levitating Hamster Jul 28 – Gary Parsons – The Highgate Vampire Web: forteanlondon.blogspot.com or newsletter: eepurl.com/hV9OAr

"More than 38,000 people took part in the consultation... 84% of respondents to the consultation had swum at the bathing ponds... with 86% of respondents supporting the existing trans-inclusive access arrangements." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Transphobes are an over-represented noisy minority.

So they want to disapply UN Convention Against Torture... What kind of a sick ideology made you say this out loud? (Rhetorical question, obviously)

Just submitted a session abstract!

@isilarican.com sizin mahallenin kedisi kaçmış. Nerede diye merak ederseniz...

London Skeptics in the Pub on 4 Feb with investigative journalist Meirion Jones and How THEY stop you finding out the TRUTH. A look at the Freedom of Information Act, what it briefly revealed, and how secrecy closed back in. @meiriontweets.bsky.social More info: sitp.online/sitp/london/...