Sadly not surprised by Panorama showing such shocking behaviour by police, but also thankful they have documented what’s actually going on. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is not a particularly new finding; as Susan Soloman and colleagues put it in their groundbreaking 2009 paper, "the climate change that takes place due to increases in carbon dioxide concentration is largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop" www.pnas.org/doi/10....

I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is. Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!

Don’t mind me, I’m just only going to watch this peculiar genre of Czech sci-fi comedy for the next few months. (The video essay on the history of the genre on this disc is astounding) thegeekshow.co.uk/who-wants-to...

Road Casualties data for 2024 in Great Britain published this week: www.gov.uk/government/s... Thanks to @pactsuk.bsky.social, there is an important new chart on the vehicles involved in fatal crashes:

Four days of cycle touring and camping are lovely but gosh it’s nice to be back in my bed. Time to sleep like one of the logs blocking the national cycle network.

tired: defensive walking wired: offensive walking

Scarily Spaced also started airing the week before I went to university. One’s a life changing event that defined the rest of my life and the other was a course in computer science and AI.

Research 2025. Have had to order a second hand book because the moment anything from Before The Internet becomes part of a controversy From Internet Days, you can no longer find any other information about it online by searching. The now floods the past completely. History gets buried.

James Barr, Labour MP, United Free Church of Scotland Minister, pacifist, and socialist, debating the Hydro-Electric Development (Scotland) Bill in 1943.

The shortest distance across the border from England to Scotland is over 130 miles

hate to say I told you so www.theverge.com/policy/69730...

The important thing to understand about TikTok is that it is not a social media platform that has shopping features, it is a shopping platform with hyper-optimized data tracking that has social media features. (This is, incidentally, why I’ve never had an account & don’t have the app on my phone,)

I don’t think British political commentary/chatter has ever got over the adrenaline rush of 2016-19.

We know who made this number up - it was the Centre for Policy Studies. However, after I pointed out two major errors, they have admitted it is completely wrong and have withdrawn it - see note on their webpage here. cps.org.uk/research/her...

Life After Cars is kicking up your feet and relaxing on a hammock in the middle of a busy city on a street that’s been closed to automobiles and opened up to people.

who wants to read an article about some incredible 1990s direct action? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

And literally four days later from this story Open AI admits what we all know to he true. That when a model generates bullshit, that’s no flaw, that’s just how it works. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Indeed. Seattle used to produce maps of which downtown streets had the most people walking on them to help accurately price real estate

You’d think this would be a fairly simply one for an AI to parse but no. Admittedly it’s not just a problem for computers that adding a mention of QGIS leads them to spiral off and forget things.

Wow we should base our entire economy on this technology

I hate telling this story, but when tear gas is in the news... telling always feels importantm Tear gas is an abortifacient. When I was tear gassed, we were trying for a baby. The following day, I bled in a way I never have before. Like no period of my life before or since. Horror movie stuff.

On the off chance anyone else thinks of a 2003 register question our 2000 onwards spreadsheet is here pages.mysociety.org/parl_registe...

I don't really believe in hell, but the TOTP repeat of the 1998 edition with all the World Cup songs in is pretty close. #totp

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing,” as the from SF author Joanna Maciejewska memorably put it, “not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.”

the government and the people who control AI are erasing history and research in real time to distort reality www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Proud to be part of the Assembly Oversight Committee and hope that our recommendations are picked up. We heard loud and clear the importance of fiscal devolution to maintain trust in democracy, which feels particularly relevant at this moment. 👏 our Chair @bassammahfouz.bsky.social.

This is moving in exactly the wrong direction! Education & meaningful activity in prison is crucial to reducing violence and improving outcomes

incredible that people are writing long, brow-furrowing posts about "blueskyism" while the owner of x, the everything app whips up one hate-filled mob after the other

Yeah, it doesn’t fit with the evidence. Tackle the failings of the economy anyway - of course - but don’t assume that stops racism.

Also worth noting in the aftermath of yet another round of 'Twitter-nee-X is still the place for persuasion, discussion and debate' discourse. It is not.

Cannot give a judging look hard enough to the man with a Pepe the frog badge on this train. Like, I don’t think there’s any ironic context left you can wear that with, is there?!

As it is ever more clear that the right’s invocation of freedom of speech isn’t remotely content-neutral, the government adopts a position which is content-neutral to the point of vacuity: isn’t it great that there was so much freedom of speech yesterday? Never mind the message, taste the liberty!

Time for a Sunday morning bath and @warringtonruncorn.com’s mix of electronica for the Freak Zone. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

When Ted Heath sacked Enoch Powell he was acting in the face of a majority in favour. Harold Wilson backed him up and called the speech “evil”. Long past time for Keir and Kemi to do the same.

Government and the main opposition can and should convene civic society! All that is being asked is that the government show as much leadership and integrity as the world’s best Arsenal blog.

Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.

Can’t think of a better day to give Pagan Wanderer Lu’s anti internet anthem a whirl. youtu.be/dlWYPDhjvJM?... And he’s made his back catalogue free/pay what you want. (2.0 The Bridge of Sighs is on Fight My Battles For Me) paganwandererlu.bandcamp.com

Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!

Anybody still using X needs to ask themselves what would it take for you to leave it?

It is absurd how little consequence we are letting Musk’s rhetoric and politics have. Every time we ignore it and pretend it will go away it gets worse.

Another cis woman harmed by #LaboursTransBan and the Prime Minister’s weaponised transphobia Told to use the men's toilets bcos strangers refuse to believe she's a woman - she’s just tall A direct result of the government legitimising narrow, sexist beauty standards and giving cover to harassment

yeesh so much disinfo out there about the gunman "Notices bulges, OWO whats this?" - Meme about furries/roleplaying; not political "hey fascist! Catch! Up, right, down x3" - From Helldivers 2, satirical game, you nuke 'fascist' aliens even though you're a fascist yourself; the code launches a bomb

Utterly shameful. “A component for cluster munitions, banned under international law, on full display.” …. at the DSEI Arms Fair. How do people at the Arms Fair sleep at night? What do they tell their children? Thank you @sianberry.bsky.social for spotting that.

Of course today I managed to miss the cycle bus by about thirty seconds both ways to/from Work. And then overtake it because it was stuck in traffic.

The great thing about cycling to work is you can avoid being stuck on a bus in a traffic ja- oh.

Absolutely shocking story - Downing Street apparently hired a guy whose lawyer would like to make clear that he's not an aggressive incompetent bully who has a problem with women then were surprised it didn't work out

(To the tune of White Punks On Dope)