Two people check tide times with ChatGPT, almost die. uk.news.yahoo.com/restaurant-b...

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today David tells the tale of the Dreyfus Affair that split France down the middle and revealed the grip of a whole host of conspiracy theories. The story of a letter found in a wastebin turned into a saga about who really controlled the country. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

As somebody from Florida now living in Oxford, 32C *is* dangerously hot when virtually no houses and very few public buildings have aircon and almost all of them are masonry built and designed to retain heat, you cannot be comparing hot weather here to heat in a place EQUIPPED for it, come tf on

Fortunately the abolition of unfitness for work has not made it into the current proposal. A small relief. New claimants in the support group will 'merely' have a large cut to the money.

I really have to question if podcasters and bloggers (etc.) close to Labour understand what they're doing? Abolishing PIP for most claimants *and* abolishing unfitness to work for everybody? As virtually their first act? And using all the Duncan Smith language to launder it?

Just before the Labour government announced its proposed changes to PIP, there was a major overhaul of the claim form which makes it more complicated to complete. (thread)/

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today another trial that forms the basis for great drama: the case of Thomas More, tried and executed in 1535, events dramatised by Robert Bolt in a Man for All Seasons and Hilary Mantel in Wolf Hall. Was More really ‘the Socrates of England’? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Family outing

"My name means 'to deceive' in French, what about yours?"

"Don't Be A Sucker" makes it clear that you only stop Nazism by not letting it divide. By acting together the very first time a minority law is passed. Because whatever they do against one group, they will do against everyone, in time, revoking worker rights and finding excuses for war abroad.

New boiler is more efficient -> unhappy cat

A powerful sense of dread www.youtube.com/watch?v=obXq...

If they made Mr Benn today it'd be all woke plots about animal rights and trees.... Hang on... 🤔

Wait a minute, steel? But my company uses steel.

New video by me: Back to the pseudoscience Commentary on Susan Oliver's comparison with antivaxxers (contains only my voice). www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ-p...

I'm begging the media to learn to use units correctly.

Do the idiots with exploding exhausts know that shit cars are called 'bangers'? It's not because they look like sausages.

I made a video about The Mail's Trial podcast. youtu.be/O72Ol5-l9iI?...

Red Squirrel - oil pastels

I thought convicted felons were barred from holding any official office. I suspect Penguin has done his civics homework well, Robin. vm.tiktok.com/ZNdJRsvm1/

It says something when even the Nazis think you’re too much of a Nazi for them

Apophenia - The Story of Operation Hummingbird A video collage by me youtu.be/HLORNCytWKs

I had measles as a little girl in I think 1967, before the vaccine was available. Nobody should get measles in the 21st century. America is going backwards.

Me, trying to pass a Duolingo speaking exercise.

Glad she was found not guilty. An absolutely farcical prosecution. Public order offences are badly in need of a shake up. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/feb...

Liz Hull seems to now be arguing the equivalent logic that the Birmingham Six might still have done it, because they could have found an explosive that wasn't picked up by hand swabs. Surely that's not the right question? #lucyletby archive.is/V3Lc3

🧪Measles “is the thing we see first when public health starts to falter,” Ratner said recently from his office in New York City. www.latimes.com/science/stor...

“Today, DEI has become the new N-word; the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism.” My latest for the Guardian, in which I cite Lee Atwater, and bring lots of receipts. Sorry, but it has to be said:

Fortunately I'm not overly hassled by Universal Credit, because I manage some work. For anyone who has to access their journal constantly, this is their helpful advice if your phone is having a problem:

Lots of special animals and pets buried in the PDSA London animal cemetery. But my first visit is always to Able Seacat Simon. Only feline recipient of the animal Victoria Cross. "During the Yangtse Incident, his behavour was of the highest order." Thread below. #navalHistory

If you look beyond the BBC's awful tabloid headline, this is somewhat interesting. 'If they have support' and 'if their health improved' means just that. So imposing sanctions is the first thing to definitely not do. Forcing them into inappropriate job applications is the second.

@davidallengreen.bsky.social Do worry that if it keeps doubling down, especially on strict procedural grounds, the whole legal system will end up looking like Jarnail Singh and Vennels did last year? Singh essentially relied on the '2 juries, load of nutters' argument about campaigners.

My blog looking at the Dreyfus case was overtaken by events yesterday. I think it has even more relevance today: From a dodgy expert to a major scandal, and how a culture war forms along partisan lines. circularityandbias.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/t...

I look back at a much earlier miscarriage of justice: The Dreyfus Affair - From Cock-up to Culture War circularityandbias.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/t...

Excel Parking lose in Derby County Court after pursuing a paying customer who completed the transaction after 5 minutes www.bbc.com/news/article...

I was forced into paying for parking by internet today due to non-functioning machines. If anyone ends up taken to court due to alleged slow payment I am happy to provide a witness statement on how long it took me.

The aviation industry has a fairly healthy and rational safety culture and isn't likely to stand for unfair scapegoating.

One of the major mistakes in the WCA cuts consultation is that Social Engagement can be removed because of working from home. Engaging with people by remote means is harder though. I can't do it except in writing.

If these people don't work for him directly, it's unlawful to interfere in their employment contracts like this as a third party, but surely as a brilliant businessman and not just a Trump impersonator he knows this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The king is in the altogether..." Wrote something about re-reading an old fairytale, and finding a modern truth in it. open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...

Another 500 cases where no one at the Magistrates Court noticed a problem. Next it might even dawn on them that the Railways Act offence requires proof of intent. news.stv.tv/west-central...

Do one thing well #ai #gpt

The key point in this: "What makes these [attacks on free speech] particularly perverse is how they are often cloaked in the language of defending free speech." For the last few years I've felt like I must be taking crazy pills as I tried to raise the alarm on this, with little reaction.

An ad on Politics Weekly from PWC mentioned AI four times and emphasised how they want to add it to everything. Who is this for? Buzzword-obsessed managers?

An absolute must read on barristers' sophistry and unreliable advocacy. People seem extremely convinced by this stuff, but it's worthless and can't be relied on as a way to find the truth. www.reddit.com/r/LucyLetbyT...

People I took a ludicrous amount of time to realise are the same actor, part #7498

The DWP said introducing mandatory reconsideration before appeal was to allow wrong decisions to be addressed by it at an earlier stage. Instead, as widely predicted, it's become a gatekeeping tool, where the only aim of the claimant is to get past it. www.rightsnet.org.uk/forums/viewt...