Don't tolerate the media legitimising thugs who attack people for the colour of their skin. They aren't 'anti-immigration campaigners' like the BBC said this morning, they are violent scumbags. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

Get your nu metal and cooking content in one place youtu.be/Ru4aqzjvplw?...

Fun watching the same guys who were making jokes ten years ago like "Hur hur, women's cricket, hur hur hur" suddenly get very concerned about the "sanctity" of women's sports.

They made AI Chevy Chase

"You have to vote for us because Reform will be so much worse" says the party whose boot is on your neck

Labour have spent the last 6 years trying to imitate the Cons who have been haemorrhaging votes to Reform for the last 12 years. Their push to the right legitimise Reform's policies. Yet it is the Green voters who are getting brow-beaten over how it will be their fault if Reform wins in three years.

I have family members who are very reliant on the state. And I use the NHS a lot for endometriosis. Sometimes I think the eye-rolling I see on here in response to voters' belief that everything is broken is because the eye rollers are middle class and don't interact with the welfare state much.

As is now painfully obvious, political centrism (government by neoliberal technocrats) is in its final death throes. The only beneficiary of their demise is the racist, nativist, xenophobic, idiot-right. The only viable alternative to the catastrophe of their rise is an avowedly antifascist left.

Finally, some good news www.wired.com/story/scienc...

I wonder what is the exact amount of money an individual can have before it makes them go insane. It's probably less than you'd think.

Spent the afternoon making homemade sweet potato dog treats because Oreo had to go gluten free due to seizures and all his favourite treats are now off limits. Luckily they were a hit.

FOSS4G UK is always a great conference - I'm already thinking about what talk I could submit...

Climate breakdown is happening now. We can't ignore it. #bbcdn

Ew

I'm not sure which is worse between whether these people have put any thought into the implications of what they're doing or that they have thought about it and know exactly what they're doing www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNaJ...

Libraries are awesome

This can only good happen

Today we launched our 2026 manifesto! 🟢 Want free bus travel for everyone? 🟢 Want accessible and affordable childcare? 🟢 Want to tackle the climate emergency? 🟢 Want to tax the rich? We've got you covered. Read the manifesto at: www.greens.scot/LetsDemandBetter

This is why I self-host on Ghost

Okay the movie about blocked trade routes and a decrepit old creep who seized power and became a dictator was better than we initially gave it credit for. Sorry George Lucas.

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

“It’s too soon to know exactly how AI will affect our work. Rather than make promises we can’t responsibly keep, we are exploring how these technologies can create more space for investigative reporting and thinking deeply and creatively, not less,” [Director of Communications] Stephens said. 😑🙄

The US military has 22 sites in the UK. Every day long range US bombers are taking off here to drop bombs on Iran. This is a rogue state carrying out war crimes, and threatening more. The UK Government must grow a spine - and stop our bases being used for this war.

As a big space nerd, I was feeling a bit bummed out that I can't enjoy the Artemis mission because the US is threatening nuclear genocide on another country, then I remembered the Apollo missions were just a sideshow distraction to this bullshit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...

why the hell would we put windows 11 in space

If you are looking for work and have experience as a #PostgreSQL sysadmin (GIS experience a plus but not required), my team is hiring. The role is fully remote. I'm happy to answer any questions about the job but I am not involved in the hiring process: www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/vacancies#ge...

New paper! Colorful map draining your phone battery? Hongyue Zhang and colleagues evaluate how to balance user preference, visual quality and energy efficiency in maps for mobile devices doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat

If you are in Scotland and want to know more about opposing the excessive build up of datacenters in rural communities, or are interested in navigating the planning system in general, @aprscotland.bsky.social are hosting a free webinar tomorrow evening aprs.scot/wednesday-25...

When will all these AI boosters in the tech industry wake up and realise they're feeding the beast that wants to eat them? Do you think they'll stop with websites? Why do you think Google is locking down its app environment with developer registrations? www.forbes.com/sites/joetos...

I decided to write stuff on the internet, I'm sorry blog.fifegeo.co.uk/old-man-yell...

Based on the oft-touted 'Rules of Bob' for using AI, if Bob the intern blew up a few schools last week, would you still keep him on the payroll? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

So many are trading short-term convenience without thinking about who is really benefiting when adopting AI (read energy-hungry LLM) workflows. Great blog by Adam Steer at Spatialised: www.spatialised.net/no-ai/

Did somebody mention charm Quarks? home.cern/news/news/ph...

How you can tell the economy is going well, like so well www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

This is from 1975.

leland palmer in the black lodge

I can write a FOR loop without boiling the ocean but you do you

My hairdresser and friend opened her business last week. Tonight it burned to the ground. This is devastating. I’ve set up a fundraiser. If you haven’t done anything for international women’s day yet, here’s a chance to support a women-run business in need: www.paypal.com/pools/c/9nhn...

War Pigs

ICYMI: Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future phones

Jobs are woke

AI and its supporting infrastructure is just wasteful crap promoted by VCs and property investors that nobody in the real world wants

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Anas Sarwar proudly stood by his "old friend" Peter Mandelson despite his dodgy past and links to Jeffrey Epstein. Scotland deserves better.

"Maybe the leopard eating my face doesn't realise that it is eating what appears to be my face." -The New York Times

Ned Ludd would have some ideas about what to do here, just need to figure out the equivalent of frame breaking for datacentres www.knittingtogether.org.uk/industry-tim...

The money I dumped into visa fees and double-paying into the NHS before getting ILR has materially harmed me and my husband, wiping out our savings and keeping us in precarity. And for what? It's pennies to the state, but everything to us. And we got it easy compared to a lot of other migrants!

Worth noting that migrants have a net-positive impact on public funds while Labour UK accepted one of the largest campaign contributions in history from a hedge fund located in a tax haven in 2024 vanessaganguin.com/news/how-to-...

Is this a bit? It has to be a bit ... someone please tell me it's a bit marchforbillionaires.org#why

So much of public discourse around religion has been shaped by the legacy of new atheism, which spent all its time calling the beliefs themselves stupid and evil, while failing to attend to the wider political context in which both secular and religious beliefs operate.