Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If we can't have Starmers downfall but we get Sarwar and Streeting I'll consider that a good outcome for now at least

I’ve gotten mild pushback on my blog due to my skepticism over AIs supposed complexity but I just keep being proven correct

Trans people for the past decade: This isn't actually about sports or ensuing there's appropriate screening before someone starts medically transitioning. The goal is to effectively criminalize the existence of all trans people. Very Reasonable Journalists: You're crazy

I built “Cycle-Scope” - a weekly-updated active-travel roadworks map using Scottish road works data. It features, Quick filters with (cycle hangers, shared paths, signals/crossings) + extra map layers. Have a look: city-scope.co.uk/cycle-scope

fell for it again award

Everytime I see pictures of the South City Way I think "wow look at that, that must be some new top notch cycleway in Utrecht or something" before realising "oh shoot that's my route into town just from another angle" lol

Glasgow – it’s just like Amsterdam, after all…

jesus. I just switched back to the standard win11 explorer right-click menu to try this, and even on a zen 5 system with gen 5 NVME drive, there is a perceptible delay as everything on the menu loads in. it’s milliseconds, but it’s there. wow. all hail explorerpatcher ig

NEW: There are more bikes than cars on a busy route in Glasgow with a cycle lane at peak times, according to a new study.

If you are in glasgow or know people in glasgow, please urge them out to these meetings, this is a crucial moment for the future of the city.

Seeing an amazing emergent behavior where a document review agent finds internal wiki pages about the struggles of getting LLMs to understand our esoteric internal systems. The agent then decides its won’t be able to do the current task and aborts with a depressive note about its incompetence.

people say this "i wish computers were simpler!" stuff and then just *don't do anything about it*. they will complain that alternatives aren't at feature parity with the software they want to quit, know is evil, and was not a vital part of anyone's life just a few years ago

And if we hit tipping points and are suddenly facing 10°C will we still be doing the "well its not ideal but it's doable 😌😏" then?

Look at what actual real leadership looks like

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, American Academy of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society, Canadian Pediatric Society, American Psychological Association, Japan’s Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, and 27 German medical assocs have all rejected the Cass Review's findings

Lots of good responses to this nonsense in the replies: all parking costs its just who pays, charges create demand management, no incentive for other modes etc. But I'm also thinking about how the New Victoria Hospital car park gets used by people attending Hampden and completely fills on matchdays

One serious benefit to the fact that it's impossible to electrify these things (the whole operational model, not just the HGV) is that logistics in rural areas might scale back down to fit the infrastructure.

This is now literally the lead story on BBC News Scotland. The employment situation of a private individual harassed via lawfare is deemed the main headline for national news. This is genuinely sickening. The media is a cancer upon this country.

BBC celebrating having helped harass a woman out of her job.

Every single person involved in this hate campaign and everyone who has supported them - Anas Sarwar, for example - needs to be run out of public life the way they've run Dr Upton out the NHS. Being trans isn't a risk factor for people around you; this obsessive hate absolutely is.

Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”. Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law. Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.

Why are there cops crushing round queens park in cars fuck off

Though I am looking forward to the boomer Facebook rage posts about being passed on pavements by people at comical power walk speed going ZOOPZOOPZOOPZOOP

Labour: respecting the law only when it serves existing ideology.

closest thing to an admission we’ll get that the government got taken for a ride by a transphobic hate movement, fucking both them and us over, and it’s an unnamed source with a slur in it

In our current electoral system, a vote for Labour is throwing your vote away. I don’t like it anymore than you do, but anyone serious about stopping Farage is going to have to suck it up, do the strategic thing and vote Green.

It brings me great amounts of joy to announce that Labour voters are going to need to vote tactically and get behind the clear left front runner if they want to keep out Reform

Why dualing the A9 is a waste of time, money and opportunity. Recommended viewing for SNP supporters and anyone else keen to push this madness forward.

This guidance is horrifying, and translates as the *expectation* that schools be permitted to force young trans people back into the closet in most circumstances. The expectation that doing so could successfully pressure them into no longer being trans into adulthood. Institutionalised conversion

Labour's Manifesto promised to ban conversion therapy. But I defy anyone to explain how, looking at the totality of its policy platform, Labour's real policy is anything other than promoting desistance.

opening vim on all my friends' and coworkers' computers so they have to learn it to figure out how to close it

Really informative episode here, great to see a collab with a legend like Patrick. Anayway beastings will continue until you listen to @bloodwork.show

Cargo balance bikes! This might be one of the most epic products I've seen in many years. Sold at only €349 and good for kids aged 2+ www.cyclingelectric.com/news/cargo-b...

Cool that one by one were getting our beautiful Dutch cycle and walking only bridges by accident

Completely tangentally this description also works for the car

99% of modern security products are just some company going "would you like this app that gamifies paranoia" and you going "yeag" like just don't do it. just turn it off

A delicious day for those of us who long ago knew that the only thing we could look forward to from this government was revenge upon them.

Tim Allan - ex-Trustee of transphobic hate group ‘Sex Matters’ - has just resigned as Keir Starmer’s Director of Communications following ongoing scrutiny into Peter Mandelson’s dodgy dealings with child abuser, Jeffrey Epstein! ‘Gender critical’ transphobes are always in bed with the worst people!

"Kier Starmer must resign over a decision I supported and celebrated" is the purest distillation of Anas Sarwar, an absolute worm of a man

Difficult to get too excited by the fall of McSweeny and the upcoming fall of Starmer given what we get next is More Starmerism Because All These Ghouls Believe In It and PM Streeting

we're all celebrating now but remember we've just released a new substacker and podcaster into the wild

I've written a blog aimed at cis ppl, on the recent revelations of rising trans suicide rates since NHS England removed gender affirming care for u18s, in particular about my involvement with trying to seek the truth and the trauma the gaslighting by Appleby, Streeting, Cass and the media causes.

[In my opinion] Wes Streeting drove dozens of children to suicide for political advantage and then tried to cover it up.

The new data out today shows there was a fourfold increase, from 5 in 2019-20, 4 in 2020-21: To 22 in 2021-22, the year Tavistock was shuttered We only have this data thanks to a series of FOIs, and press requests - not because officials have taken action. bsky.app/profile/wear...

Epstein was the money-man and organiser at the centre of a group of bigoted academic, scientists and journalists who powered the anti-trans movement. Detailed, devastating journalism from @transnews.network

LITTLE TINY CARGO BIKES LOOK AT THEM

"hey katie where's your post about how trans women have done half of everything because did you know we did model trains too www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdZV... " splendid. i'm learning so much. trans women stay winning.

I always say, see that black shit on the snow? It's from cars. And you're breathing it all the time.