It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌

I vaguely remember the final part of this tale. Good to see that she's been keeping busy since then. Shame they missed out that she escaped justice in Britain disguised as a mime artist. No, I'm not joking.

How can this go on for another 3 years?

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

@octopus.energy Trying to create an Electroverse account. Are you aware just how unhelpful messages like these are? I don't mind being asked for complex passwords (the one I created is pretty complex) but just to reject without giving the rules I need to follow is infuriating.

We have a choice to make. Do we want blindly to follow America in its decline or are we strong enough to choose our own way?

Heavens. Under a post about AI creating false cases in a legal brief I find this out. Using AI to create critical patient notes on handover will end up killing people, if it hasn't already. Why do people trust AI to be in any way accurate?

As my MP, I'm interested in your opinion on this @laboursatvir.bsky.social . Do you approve of the UK becoming involved in Trump's insane and illegal war in Iran?

In an exhibit at the Nantwich museum about the great fire of Nantwich (1583). Not sure he thought that one through...

I have a quantum joke. It's both funny and not funny.

Conversion overheard in the pub last night. "Mum's going through another divorce. She's in her late eighties but she just couldn't give up the... er... infidelity".

"After all, look how well that's worked out for me."

A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

I'm immune to much of what the idiots in and around the US government say but this one made me laugh. 'If the Iranians stopped doing what they are doing in response to our insane attacks, everything would be just fine."

A BBC guide to dealing with difficult times suggests we voice our emotions exactly. I'm struggling to imagine how the conversation would go if my wife asked me how I was and I replied "I'm suffering from existential despair again darling, thanks for asking."

Three weeks into EV car ownership. Conversations include: There's no charging infrastructure. I suppose they're good for round town stuff. We can't have one because we have to go to X, 170 miles away. (They go twice a year, otherwise furthest maybe 20 miles). How long will the battery last?

Calling about your accident despite cars not existing yet.

I still think about this a lot.

I think the right have seriously, catastrophically misread the mood. My business means I talk to a reasonable number of members of the general public, many of them far to help right of me. A small sample but 100% of them are against any UK involvement in this unfolding disaster.

The cosplaying fantasists running the US military at the moment would consider cheap drones beneath them as long as they have sexy Patriot missiles at $5 million a pop. When they run out it'll take twenty years of procurement before they end up with a few hundred drones at $10m each.

For the last few days the President of the USA and the White House communications team have been active agents of Russian influence, spreading the Putin narrative and trying to undermine democracy.

Oh, good, the US military thinks we're heading for the End Days. Against a foe who believes in the same nonsense.

Bumped into someone from my hometown today. "What brought you down here?" she said. I explained. "You?" "I'm just waiting for my father in law to die so I can move back home". Not sure my cheery "Good luck!" was quite the thing to say but out it popped.

My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is very down and it’s difficult to see. He had a thriving writing business until AI came along but now he’s struggling to find work. Please repost this far and wide in the hope that he can find some writing work. www.mathew-owen.co.uk

Another outstandingly good thread. Emma Monk (‪@monkemma.bsky.social‬) is fast approaching national treasure status, I reckon.

Trump inauguration: "We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into. My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier. That’s what I want to be, a peacemaker and a unifier. " Today:

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance. Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

I'd like this a hundred times if I could. Comic perfection from the Telegraph.

You'd think Reform would be delighted that a white, working class plumber got elected and they beat the metropolitan elite university lecturer.

Thanks for reposting. New (older, hairier) headshot on the homepage as of today, and I’ve binned the dreadful wedding website ‘Hitched’ who have been pissing me about.

I thought the redactions were intended only to protect victims. Reading these two documents with that in mind gives me the impression whoever did the work really hadn't grasped that Epstein's victims might be the raped and trafficked girls.

A superb read every month. Subscribe and you're supporting truly independent journalism entirely funded by readers.

Oh I do hope this happens!

Don't travel to the USA. An awful tale from the Guardian of someone who did.

I'll count this hilarious @bergerandwyse cartoon as a map 😉 🗺️ 🐦️

Ooh, look what arrived today!

When you read this paragraph in the linked article below, there's a screamingly obvious point being raised. If you need to check everything LLMs produce then maybe, just maybe, they aren't worth using in the first place. Never trust an LLM.

Even older than the Republic…

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

And they call *us* the snowflakes. In pursuit of their claim that multiculturalism is a failure, these people have lied so often and so consistently about London being a hellhole that they are now terrified of everyone they see. I pity them.

I have friends in Southampton who tell me that it's terribly rough nowadays. I'll send them this thread.

Progress but too slow. Needs more. @billbrowder.bsky.social has it nailed. Impose sanctions on every refinery that touches a single barrel of Russian oil and you pretty much stop the flow of cash that Putin needs to find his war. Stop the money, stop the war. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Still the greatest list ever complied.

Typical Trumpian ignorant nonsense. India Gate is a war dead memorial, not a "triumphal arch".

My absolute favourite response to my gentle Nextdoor post about how LTNs can make roads safer for everyone. 🤯

I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files more to follow www.ft.com/content/c950...

Bellingcat community members have already found two files detailing explicit allegations that President Trump engaged in sexual activities with children. One file is an FBI complaint form and the other is an FBI email chain. www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...