Kiiiing! There are so many perspectives on the war that just feel soul-crushing, but many of them are utterly absurd due to us apparently having become very tolerant of things that would've been ludicrous to countenance just a few years ago. Kasparov pointing that out with the defence of […]

Plus sides to today: Two-child benefit scrapped. Largely progressive tax implications. Good market reaction. No big spending cuts. Nightmare prospect of cutting funding to net zero etc avoided. It's a left-wing budget. Those who say there's no difference between Labour and Tories are bananas.

RE: https://c.im/@jemmesedi/115618635764928991 We're in a deeply regressive anti-intellectual spiral of conspiracism and xenophobia and all kinds of hate and weirdness from both left and right as we head toward this looming decline of liberal-democracy, the rule of law, and NATO-led pax […]

🧵 2/4 This is clearly more than a strongly felt antizionism:

🧵 4/4 Repugnant neonazi stuff. Making excuses for Aladwan and people like her not only foments hatred and violence against Jews, but also hands a propaganda gift to the Israeli right.

@jemmesedi I do not want to vote Green, who've been gradually improving for years and just had their best election ever but are now turning toward populist nonsense I do not like. I do not want to vote Plaid, who, despite my affectations, insist on independence and increasing devolution past […]

Had a budget party with some pals tonight and reiterated where my political allegiances lie. I've been a Labour Party member since I was about 12-14, save for 2017-19 when I quit and voted Change then LibDem out of the belief my party was dead. But I rejoined knowing we're the party that's […]

Budget day! I am either going to be an intolerably gleeful partisan or I'm going to be eating a bucketload of shit later — but regardless, I love budget days. #ukpolitics #ukpol

This ought to be the scandal of the century. The US envoy for peace is caught on tape accepting maximalist Russian demands as the basis for their so-called peace plan. They don't realise it given they're a real estate developer, but they've betrayed both Ukraine and the entire western world and […]

I do not like this. Leveson's recommendation didn't go this far, and even they were made with severe reservations. As a point of principle, our justice system has been built in part to protect the citizenry from abuse by the powerful, a D a key part of that has been deferring judgement to their […]

This has been a top 10, possibly top 5 gig of all time for me. Holy crap. #music #hives #thehives #cardiff #caerdydd

I can't believe Ukraine isn't grateful that Witkoff took a Russian plan for Ukrainian capitulation, ran it through Google Translate, and mandated that Zelenskyy accept it by Thursday! My soul is shattered over the impact of Americans having not elected Kamala. All the pain and suffering — […]

I obviously don't go nuts about #blackfriday like half the world does, but it is an excellent time to shop around for your digital subscriptions. Hosting, domain names, usenet, nzb indexers, all of them are likely to have huge discounts and deals going on. Just make sure to consider the cost at […]

In Landman, Sam Elliott plays Billy Bob Thornton's character's father. Elliott is 81. Thornton is 70. 🤔

I think this is a point that's underappreciated by many. A great many of our green initiatives in this country are funded by adding costs onto energy bills. It's a sort of stealth taxation, and will likely be removed soon, but it's what feeds into lines about net zero and such not reducing our […]

We acquired a porch goose at the flea market. He came with a bucket full of seasonal clothes, with outfits for every occasion. 🪿

One of the hardest things about senior leadership is not stepping in to fix things myself. It's bad to do that for tons of reasons, but gosh it takes some willpower sometimes to sit on my hands and not cut code. I don't workpost in detail but I have one today which would be about ~30 minutes of […]

Never lose sight of who #reform are. There's a global attack on liberal-democracy that's seeing Western nations slide backward to a more cruel, less just, less free state, and Reform are the vanguard for it in the UK. They're an existential threat to our democracy and the very soul of our […]

We will struggle to explain to future generations how something so transparent and stupid was able to take place youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...

I won't have time to read the full report for a while, but the #covid inquiry report seems fascinating. Wales got picked on a lot during and after the pandemic, but much of it was silly, failing to acknowledge the differences in our population, regional health service availability, and funding […]

My heart breaks for #ukraine. In large part due to Americans who didn't vote for Harris, Ukraine is likely going to have to accept terms no country would ever deem acceptable. They'll likely claw back some ground — halving their military is likely movable — but the great injustice of having to […]

Very cool that after inventing and gifting to the right wing their *only* effective political wedge issue that one may soon be judged on whether they are sufficiently feminine/masculine enough to use either toilet. An obvious regression back toward restrictive gender norms and control that's […]

I think he's right here, and I know some other kernel maintainers agree. They view LLM-assisted coding tools as just another abstraction mechanism, just as compilers and higher level tools are already. They're also right that kernel dev is an area where it's not appropriate. In general though […]

Where, new toy! I fancied an upgrade and wanted to gift my K702 set to a pal, and I absolutely love AKG sets for their huge cans that fully surround my huge ears. Super comfortable even when wearing them all day. #headphones #tech

I'm not a single issue voter and never will be, but if I ever were to be one, it'd be on this issue. Build shit. I almost don't care what. Build tons and tons of shit. Nuclear plants, solar farms, skyscrapers, houses, bridges, tunnels, parks, monuments, office buildings, railways, whatever […]

Cloudflare down — it's a techworker snow day!

I have sworn an oath on the blood of my ancestors not to turn the heating on until December. Today I may dishonour their memory by succumbing to the sweet promise of a warm hearth granted by the grace of Octopus Energy.

Very good on the legal implications of today's proposals. There's still a lot of missing details.

#dispatch was excellent despite being such a simple game. Fantastic writing. The romance subplot was superb. I genuinely went back and forth changing my mind at various points in the plot. And I uhhh, I guess I'm an 8 percenter. #games #gaming

Not posting much lately but still reading and enjoying all your wonderful, beautiful, weird, sociopathic, disturbing, wonderful toots 🥰

It is fair to say that far too many people have not done enough since the Paris Agreement was signed to reduce their carbon footprints, but it's not fair to say that nothing has been done.

This is cool. Small, self-contained compute leased to run in residential environments as a heating solution. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rpy7envr5o

I love my city. It's beautiful, unique, oozes with music and culture, and I love living here. Except on match days. Frigging sports fans, man. #cardiff

I have some genuine empathy here because this does sound toxic, and in line with some of the illiberal tendencies often observed in other parts of the weird left. I am also still perpetually enjoying the absolute shitshow. They're speedrunning the sort of left-wing infighting and chaos my party […]

I'm beginning to think that maybe there are some differences between the Republicans and Democrats 🤔 (image shamelessly borrowed from elsewhere, not mine) #uspolitics #uspol

This is excellent! GB Energy has procured the site on Ynys Mon and will be running the project to build initially three, growing to eight, SMR reactors for the site from Rolls Royce. The initial three will supply about half the energy of a traditional nuclear plant — but if all eight get built […]

Lots of people very angry that it seems Reeves is not going to do a thing she never said she'd do and actually promised not to do. The politico media circlejerk is ridiculous at the moment. It seems somewhere between elderly relatives in a group chat and mystic diviners interpreting hints and […]

RE: https://mas.to/@RikerGoogling/115544687396775325 Testing quote posting after finally updating my Mastodon instance.

One advantage of having trashed my rating this week while being wracked by a cold/flu is that my opponents fall for some really fun stuff at this level. #chess

I like the little game I get to play when a page doesn't load. - is it NoScript? - is it uBlock Origin? - is it just a shit site? - is it PrivacyBadger? - is it CookieAutoDeleter? - is it because of geoblocking? If it's not NoScript, it's usually geoblocking, and both parts of that are […]

What in the goddamn fuck is wrong with Democrats!? Tonight I specifically mean those ten in the Senate. The tide had turned, the party finally had momentum, and the perception of the party being weak and feckless was breaking. They could've achieved a huge political victory *and* won extended […]

The Telegraph, is of course, an unimpeachable source, a citadel of journalistic integrity: https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/faked-telegraph-article/ #ukmedia #telegraph #bbc #TimDavie

This is the most abysmal, pathetic thing. The BBC head resigning because the corporation is not supine *enough* to the far-right.

Article hasn't quite caught up with news alerts, but Tim Davie has now resigned. It's weird because this edit was kinda normal, and certainly the least of the crimes and follies that have occurred at the Beeb under his stewardship. I think he sees the writing on the wall with the whistleblower […]

First off, I hate this, "The <whatever> Files," trend. Second, this is mildly interesting. An IP geoblock of the UK may be good enough for the OSA, but it seems to depend on how it's implemented as a site mirror here that did use the geoblock but could easily be circumvented still falls foul […]

I am a god at Victoria 3. I am competent at Stellaris. I can sorta play Crusader Kings 3 but I am not good at it. Europa Universalis 5 however, my first EU game, is kicking my ass. #games #gaming #europauniversalis

In the latest episode of The Morning Show, in a demonstration of their characteristic approach to writing, one character explains in excruciating detail how Columbia House Record Club worked. And now a joke in Archer from 2011 suddenly makes sense to me.

Some days, you knock off work at 5pm by SLAMMING that laptop lid shut.

This one is comical. This dude was sent to prison and when being ingested prison offers incorrectly entered 'suspended' instead of 'custodial' when registering him and so he was released *on the same day*. He then handed himself in some point later, I think today, making that one day later […]