Highly recommend the virtual tour to get a proper feel of the full charm of this place.

9 yo me: Cyborgs are COOL! I wanna be the Six Million Dollar man! Adult me: Absolutely fucking not. Get that shit away from me or so help me god I’ll Butlerian Jihad your cybernetic ass

One for any radio folk who follow me. :)

I think Rachel Reeves is going to struggle if she wants to introduce measures specifically targeting nervous businesses. I mean, how is she even going to define a nervous business in the tax code?

Barnstaple-Exeter train line closed again this morning, about 5mins after I dropped 16yo at the station. He got a lift home with a friend. At 12.15, GWR reopened the line and 30mins later, the college said 'you have to come in for afternoon classes now'.

"We couldn't make AI actually do anything useful, but we did figure out how to make it say rude words and, because I have the mind of a 5yo, I can't think of anything that's better than this." Can you imagine how excited Elon was when he first discovered how to make a calculator say BOOBS?

The Labour party seems to be obsessed with targeting productive industries and labour rather than targeting the huge amounts of wealth sat growing faster than earnings from labour or industry. There is no shortage of money in this country to do the things essential for national renewal.

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This is a lovely article. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

bravo, @rianjohnson.bsky.social !!!

A classic from the COVID conspiracy genre

It is good to see that that some people a) actually have values/principles and b) do not abandon those when entering Parliament

I know this is not the point of this clip, but men on TV: Listen to me. You don't have to do this. You don't have to sound like Jim Cramer or like you're hoping someone will nickname you "Mad Dog." Just talk like a normal person.

I find insane that shabana mahmood is going out there and saying "white british people cannot be asked to accept too many of us outsiders, it is not in their nature, and their pushback against all of us is to be placated". What???

Love everything about this.

keir starmer: why is nigel farage so racist? 🤔

Online: I hate people, I'm anxious af, I wish I could sleep all day. On resume: I'm an excellent team worker, I can effectively handle stress and anxiety, I display a highly motivated inner drive.

Shabana Mahmood's proposal to stop being told to "go back home" is to send people "home". Her proposal to stop black and brown people from feeling like they don't belong, is to bake in to the immigration system that they will never belong.

The delays are caused by decades of underfunding of the criminal justice system. Blaming it on defendants is obscene. Telling the quotes here referring to 'criminals' etc. presuppose the accused are guilty & the trial process an inconvenience standing in the way of locking them up.

There aren't simple solutions. There are solutions though. You ensure there are genuine safer means for people to seek asylum in the UK. There is no silver bullet, one shot, way of doing that which can be summed up in a three word slogan. It requires a multiplicity of different things, such as: 1/

Maybe start by giving users control over whether or not they use AI in the first place, rather than foisting it on us whether we want it or not.

This is probably the most tone deaf question of the year from a tech exec.

I dunno, buddy, maybe if it didn't encourage young folks to kill themselves, or drink all the potable water, or pollute the Infoverse with fallacies, or add glue to recipes, or be that guy who lies rather than admits a mistake, or, and this is important, buddy, or IF WE WERE GIVEN A FUCKING CHOICE!

Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.

This seems like a good time to remind people that everyone in politics and media knew very well that Johnson was a bent, disastrous imbecile and that he was made Tory leader *specifically because* he was the candidate the Mail, the Sun, the Times, the Telegraph and the Express would all get behind.

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Fantasy politics for the win. As well as raising the higher rate of income tax as far as the game allowed, I imposed a gambling tax, scrapped the two-child cap, closed CGT loopholes, taxed bank profits, and raised the tax on company profits from 19% to 22%. www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

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I don't use the word lightly, but this is really just evil isn't it. "Your identity makes us uncomfortable so be gone from public spaces." Fuck off.

70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

now this is the kind of data-crunching I like to see

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"The Greens are all fantasy politics." It's ALL fantasy politics, wherever you look. Show me one party that's actually doing evidence-based policy with a cogent strategy rooted in actual reality, rather than just a load of unmovable prejudices.

Fish have committed credit card fraud

Think we'd all enjoy Clive standing down and triggering a by-election that Andy Burnham then loses to the Greens.

What I find baffling is that the lesson Shabana Mahmood has taken from her experience of racist bullying is that the role of government is to placate the bully rather than protect the bullied.

Ok, first question: which ones are my minor organs? Are they still ok?

Sorry, you want me to trust my gut? The same gut that thinks we should try and survive on just Wotsits and Caramel Rockys? That gut?

International Men's Day does a great job of raising awareness but unfortunately we're still no closer to finding a cure.

When I arrive at the party

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I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them. The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...

#3157 A helpful tutorial

I have a theory that, in the future, 'the economy' will just be corporate AI systems persuading other corporate AI systems to spend money with them, and there won't actually need to be any products or services. A few human survivors will fight, unnoticed, for any remaining water.

This seems like a good point to highlight, again, just how politically damaging such policies. As @adambienkov.bsky.social aptly points out with two screenshots, but also supported by multiple studies, playing to the far-right just drives people towards them. 64/ bsky.app/profile/adam...

The word twice. So good they named it twice.

I was going to wait until payday, but this has pushed me over the edge. I've joined the Greens. I don't know how anyone in possession of a conscience - MP, activist or ordinary member - can stay in the Labour Party now.

Your regular reminder that there is absolutely nothing "hard" or "tough" about targeting the poorest, most vulnerable, and least able to defend themselves groups of people on the entire planet