Wow Wix is terrible, slow and constantly trying to shove AI in your face. The latter problem seems endemic among site builders. Just want something simple that non techies can update easily *sigh*

Hate that AI is killing so many good online educational resources, and forcing content creators to move on. LLM is good for on the fly learning but good quality structured content is still very much worthwhile.

Being British or settled doesn’t mean your spouse can live with you 🇬🇧 Earn under £29k? No visa. Can’t save £88,500? No visa. Have kids together? Doesn’t matter. 🚨 We're launching this campaign today—help us tell the gov to stop profiting from tearing families apart reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/sign

Experimented with public transport on Friday. Bus + Lime Bike (the latter being an new experience). £6 and 30 minutes vs £10 and 10 minutes in a taxi. What shocked me most is how expensive the Lime Bike was - £3 for just ten minutes. Hard to see how people are going to be parted from their cars.

Sad that Forvo seems to be going downhill, such a great resource but so many recordings don't play correctly any more. #langsky

Seems quite cheap compared to chess.

‘A fire that’s burning again’: Welsh language resurges thanks to adult learners buff.ly/lGXcMcp #langsky #xl8

The decision to end the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme has created real uncertainty for churches and faith buildings, many of which rely on local donations for essential repairs. Ministers must now make clear how they will be supported if this VAT relief ends.

We need it for our security. It’s not a real country anyway. Where have we heard that narrative before? #Greenland

Has lichess lost the option to turn off chat recently? Got some unpleasant comments for the first time in forever, but couldn’t find anyway to turn it off. #chess #lichess

Tax dodging millionaire joins reform. What a surprise. And people still think Nigel is going to be looking out for them…

Really hate that YouTube has now started automatically dubbing videos into English using AI 🤮 No I’d like to the original please, if I don’t understand I’ll turn subtitles on thanks.

Why has the tech world collectively decided that the year ends in mid December? I'm inundated with "years in review", none of which are interesting and all of which are two weeks early.

Antisocial behaviour is normally associated with young people, but recently got on a bus full of pensioners and couldn’t hear myself think for all the nattering. Was too intimidated to say anything.

Went to the local Remembrance Sunday Parade today. It didn’t look like 30% of the adult population were there. It’s almost as if Reform voters are not actually patriotic…

Sorry but as a Brit every time someone says "Abigail Spanberger" all I hear is "Abigail Spam Burger".

Uber locating a driver is the new Microsoft progress bar - a totally unpredictable work of fiction.

The paradox of being old: you can’t hear what anyone is saying anymore yet the audio at the cinema is painfully loud.

Great post by @richardjameschess.bsky.social highlighting some of the real problems with how we are raising our children. We’ve struggled to get our daughter the social life she needs because her peers have little time left over after their crammed schedule. open.substack.com/pub/richard9...

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?” “Because that’s what they are” @vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference. #Newsnight

Say hello to Mr Orangepants whom we met on the way home from school today.

At a time when new cyberattacks debilitate British businesses seemingly daily, the UK government is demanding that security is made worse for UK users.

I'm glad Keir Starmer is finally stepping up the fight against Nigel Farage, and I hope this will mark the end of his government parroting Farage and copying his divisive politics.

I was going to vote Labour to keep Reform out, but that seems rather a pointless idea now…

Oh look Mandelson had to be sacked for being dodgy. That’s never happened before…

I wrote about how I built my app Ductts! cassidoo.co/post/ductts-...

Reform can't cope with the local press, what a bunch of snowflakes!

Moses Itauma is just absurd... #boxing

World’s most pointless email from my bank. It tells me that the base rate has changed but not what it is nor if or when it will affect any of their rates. 🤷‍♂️

I refuse to watch…

Unbelievable from Usyk, no questions this time #boxing

Tried to let my daughter win a game of #chess but blundered and she ended up with B&N vs K. Oops, draw it is then 😔

Those on the right: "I walk down the street and hardly anyone is speaking English. Being able to speak English is important for integration." Firstly that's an exaggeration and secondly (this may blow your monolingual mind) they almost certainly speak English just fine too.

The Week in Chess 1600 of 7th June 2025 by Mark Crowther. 49 stories and 8891 games. theweekinchess.com/html/twic160... theweekinchess.com Another milestone but things are tough right now, please consider donating to support the work. Also starting to look for part time work myself.

For all those people who think men don’t have an advantage in #chess: we do. We don’t suffer from harassment and discrimination. When we play in a tournament we don’t have to worry about anything other than the moves on the board. Unfortunately, for women that is often not the case.

The state of British political discourse right now: "Let's not convert a disused building into flats so that young people can get onto the property ladder, because immigrants." Ok, so we can't help any British people on the off chance some foreigner might benefit.... Sheesh...

Hurry up!!! Last day to ⬇️ download for 🆓 @perez-paredes.bsky.social & Boulton, A. (2025). Data-driven Learning in and out of the Language [email protected] . 👇👇 #corpuslinguistics #languagelearning #technology www.cambridge.org/core/element...

So excited to discover this. While most boys were probably admiring some footballer or other, Jeff Minter was my childhood hero.

A very welcome arrival to the chess scene on Bluesky! If you're not familiar with Mark and his fantastic project The Week in Chess, you absolutely should start reading and subscribe: theweekinchess.com?go (resending to fix my typo)

Seeing lots of these little dudes about, but I don’t remember ever seeing them before 🤔

The Chessable co-founders are involved in a new venture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=laJ-... #chess

Well done Kier Starmer for validating the arguments of the far right and propelling Reform into power and the country into the bin.

Damn you red squiggle for making me doubt my spelling of grabbable!

Just discovered En Croissant - an open source cross platform database. Wil definitely check this out further. #chess encroissant.org

Haney is a total snooze fest 😴 #boxing

If you have the opportunity to vote for anybody but Reform today, please do so!

Looks like the beginning of the end for Chessable... www.chessable.com/discussion/t... #chess

I hear WeightWatchers has filed for bankruptcy, I guess they lost too many pounds...