The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Tesco cafe have replaced people with ridiculously complex and slow touch screens that are baffling old people and requiring staff to press all the buttons for them. Great timing with flu season too.

Well done Labour. Played to your strengths this last year.

Obvs it won’t have a standard chapter structure but might open with this:

If you want to publish something and keep it as hidden as possible from the public, a journal article is a good choice.

When I worked in academia I never got my head round the idea that I could put an article on our website - accessible to millions - but that wasn't a publication, but an article behind a paywall - read by *precisely nobody* outside academia - was a "publication".

Great piece from Blue Peter in 1975 including a view inside the bothy, looks like it's been smartened up a bit for Peter Purves' visit.. BR branded table cloths! youtu.be/CWtsnvOQsgE?...

Government ministers should be forced to watch this film. It tells of the struggle migrants face even before they get to Europe. It's brutal. The idea that they have any assets to be seized is ridiculous.

If this really is what is being proposed, I think adding the jewellery confiscation policy + the 20 year policy could kick off the kind of PLP revolt that (without rapid u-turn) could entirely destabilise a struggling government that risks falling over on every front www.thesun.co.uk/news/3734007...

'cars and ebikes' Really trying to portray people with nothing as something else, for the benefit of the shitty British public. Awful.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”

They did this in a year when they had accepted the majority of asylum claims by people coming from Rwanda.

‘Damned if we do but completely stuffed if we don’t’: heatwaves will worsen longer net zero is delayed

Just been reminded of the Crackerjack team attempting XTC’s Making Plans For Nigel, which I’m sure Andy Partridge would agree is the the definitive version youtu.be/n5LrRlR2Epo?...

And a reminder that in 2024 jewelley stolen in similar historical policies was returned to families because it was wrong www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

This is the problem & do Cllrs or even Officers have the knowledge & inclination to call this out for what it is every time it gets raised? New guidance might be helpful. One man opposed to all cycle lanes in principle & a tiny extreme charity have been very effective at making this an issue.

Jupiter again. I love it when the big moons all spread out like this. Can't get my head around how fast they move.

I would love it if the BBC's response to allegations of bias were to become incredibly neutral... Farage been on QT forty times? Mo more until Greens have been on another 39 times to balance out the 5-MP parties, which means how many more for the Lib Dems?

No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.

Me? In a chapel on a Sunday? With my reputation etc etc...

And then there’s Big Bob the wood pigeon, drifting about like a Brontosaurus in a cloud of pterodactyls.

Not a joke, and a really bad idea www.france24.com/en/live-news...

The reviews are in! What do you think? Have you got a copy yet? linktr.ee/warringtonru... (Apologies for a ghastly brag of a post, but I've got records to sell.)

'Just as with gun deaths, thoughts and prayers are not enough.' My letter in the Oxford Mail for today's World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. worlddayofremembrance.org

“I can’t say it impacts me." Ancient British proverb.

Dear Mahmood/Labour, Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X. Yours The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK

At a rugby club in small-town Leicestershire. This was on the window ledge in the toilet. Fearing the worst, I scanned the QR & opened it in an incognito window… It’s a link to Amnesty International’s explainer on asylum & refugees 😍

The glorious genius of Neil Innes. (From a delightful thread of RWT clips) I don’t think Neil ever got the recognition he truly deserved. He was a pure artist. He just did his thing.

My 30+ yr career in telly feels seen ;-)

This (and the rest of this thread) is a beautiful tonic.

Oh my

Brightwell Barrow, overlooking Wallingford and Didcot in South Oxfordshire. #BronzeAge

Illegal migration isn't tearing this country apart, but our obsession with it is. It's an obsession fuelled by our media and politicians. Both profit from blowing the problem out of all proportion. It's been happening for decades, but never more so than now

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

Labour pumping the accelerator in the race to the bottom. The Danish policy confiscates jewelry from asylum seekers to cover costs. I'm married to the daughter of a refugee and by far the most important objects in the in-laws house are the handful of pieces of jewelry her family arrived here with.

The best way to understand what is actually “driving the small boats” is “if something carried a one in a 100 risk of death, would you do it it it gave you ten more years of healthy life?”

Sorting family papers and I find myself reflecting on how daunting it must have been for my dad - very much a homebody and a mother's boy - to travel to England in 1959.

... And why he chose England.

Five United Nations experts have again written to the UK government to condemn Keir Starmer’s “unnecessary and disproportionate” attack on the rights and freedoms of UK citizens to speak freely and protest publicly against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Thomson's undercover career was a catalogue of deception, not just of activists and women he targeted for relationships, but he also lied to his bosses, fiddled his expenses, and tried to frame a hunt sab in a gun plot he invented to prolong his cushy deployment.

Hmmmmmmmm

A hand-knotted rug featuring weapons and helicopters against a map of Afghanistan, donated to the Museum in 2009 - just one of the objects on the new 'With These Hands' trail co-curated with MultakaOxford, exploring crafts from different cultures through storytelling. bit.ly/4ojhINP

The light to the west. It’s the Atlantic Ocean’s problem now.

Fly-tippers dump ‘mountain’ of waste in Oxfordshire field

Let's start with the obvious point. Don't use a technology whose purpose is to enable employers to get rid of workers so they can use an app to do the same job badly. Workers like . . . graphic designers for instance. Next, when using a selection of images, VARY your images. Total rookie mistake. 2/

For crying out loud @zarahsultana.bsky.social

Classic information failure; if a sign remains when it no longer has meaning, will anyone take heed next time it does?

It's real, and it's mind-blowing. A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.

If affected by flooding here, imagine what it might be like for displaced people living in makeshift tents...