Alan Brookland
@alanbrookland.bsky.social
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Software developer, occasional juggler. @
[email protected]
This doesn't feel great from
@theguardian.com
. Paid 'news' stories from McDonald's?
14 days ago
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Listening to
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's Legenda which is fascinating so far. I do think if your brother's name was "Henry the Fratricidal" you'd keep more of an eye on him though.
23 days ago
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Is the Sheriff of Nottingham in charge in the US now?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
about 1 month ago
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Nice to see a company where you can go from the shop floor to CEO
about 2 months ago
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Oasis better watch out.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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French woman in mother of all trademark battles with DC Comics over parenting app Wondermum
Lise Sobéron’s Wondermum app has name and graphics allegedly similar to DC’s Wonder Woman, lawyers claim
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/oct/14/france-wondermum-app-trademark-battle-dc-comics
3 months ago
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Be right back, just adding "Sponges do not have mouths, instead having tiny pores called ostia, and therefore Spongebob would be unable to laugh or talk" to the errors section of
spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Encyclo...
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Encyclopedia SpongeBobia
https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Encyclopedia_SpongeBobia
3 months ago
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Hey AI: Can you curate a mash-up of Damien Hirst, Shepard Fairey and Invader?
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Triple Trouble: Fairey, Hirst, Invader review – the most revolting visual soup imaginable
Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst and Invader join forces to make an exhibition that’s so bad, it’s like walking in on a crime scene
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/oct/11/triple-trouble-shepard-fairey-damien-hirst-invader-review-newport-street-gallery-london
3 months ago
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Petition for a tentacle eyeball spinoff along the lines of Quantum Leap starts here.
#AlienEarth
#NextLeapWillBeTheLeapHome
4 months ago
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What we need in the middle east is a fresh pair of eyes. I'm sure they'll pick someone with no partisan history in the area to help sort things out. -takes big gulp of coffee-
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Washington backing plan for Tony Blair to head transitional Gaza authority
Reported proposal for international body to oversee Gaza for up to five years counters UN-backed plan for faster transition to Palestinian rule
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/washington-backing-plan-for-tony-blair-to-head-transitional-gaza-authority
4 months ago
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That didn't take long. Nearly 900,000 signatures already
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194
4 months ago
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Now we're going to name and shame people sentenced to community work too and publish photographs of them? Too woosy to go full Cersai walk of shame
#Labour
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4 months ago
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Alistair Carmichael MP
4 months ago
“I am a Liberal, and I am against this sort of thing.” Liberal activist Harry Willcock spoke these words upon being stopped by a policeman 75 years ago. He was the last person in this country to be prosecuted for refusing to produce an identity card when demanded to do so by the authorities. 2/
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Open Rights Group
4 months ago
We're in a cost of living crisis and Labour wants to bring in digital ID cards for everyone. They're risking turning the UK into a pre-crime state where we constantly have to prove who we are just to go about our daily lives.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Keir Starmer expected to announce plans for digital ID cards
Measure could be announced as soon as Friday as government looks for ways to tackle illegal immigration to the UK
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/25/keir-starmer-expected-to-announce-plans-for-digital-id-cards
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And now we're proposing digital ID cards again. Gotta say, it's getting harder and harder to try and support this government.
#Labour
4 months ago
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Can you imagine how Republicans woukd be reacting if a Democrat pulled something as petty and pathetic as this?https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/25/trump-hangs-autopen-photo-instead-of-biden-portrait-in-new-presidential-gallery
4 months ago
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I'm sure Farage's UK doge attempts will be much more successful though. After all I'm sure all those Reform councillors have loads of relevant knowledge and experience.
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4 months ago
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I would encourage everyone in the UK to write to their MP to encourage them both to comdem Musk's comments and also remove any official accounts from Twitter/X. Make them know that we do not find his behaviour acceptable.
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4 months ago
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Ed Davey
4 months ago
Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️
4 months ago
A Labour government that does not fight back against the far right, racism and extremism fundamentally misunderstands the nature of its electoral support.
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I could really do with a strong statement from the government right now condemning Musk's statements at the far-right rally today. We need to be highlighting that these views are not acceptable in democratic society.
4 months ago
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Jason Kirk
4 months ago
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
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Does anyone actually care how slim their iPhone is? You're just going to slam a case on it anyway. Feels like we're optimising for the wrong things here.
4 months ago
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Libraries in metro stations is an awesome idea. Can we have this over here please?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Warsaw opens metro station ‘express’ library to get commuters off their phones
Metroteka aims to encourage people to read more in country that lost majority of libraries in second world war
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/07/warsaw-opens-metro-station-express-library-smartphones?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
4 months ago
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Alan Brookland
Ryan Estrada
4 months ago
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
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I'm dumbstruck by this. It can only lead to new cars being made for the EU market using weaker US safety standards in a race to the bottom. I pray this doesn't hit the UK too.
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5 months ago
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Alan Brookland
Hypervisible
5 months ago
Another Black person will be next, and another, and…
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Facial recognition cameras mistook me for a wanted man – I worry who’ll be next
Shaun Thompson was wrongly identified as a criminal by new police cameras. Here, he explains why, if this technology is rolled out across the country, or is used at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival, ...
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/live-facial-recognition-police-shaun-thompson-black-b2807818.html
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Amazed I've never heard about this before. A spoof BBC radio news broadcast from 1926. It's like Chris Morris jumped in a time machine:
pca.st/episode/e47b...
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Broadcasting The Barricades
https://pca.st/episode/e47bf07d-75de-463d-bee3-72da886d1440
6 months ago
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I'm so far behind on Fortean Times at the moment. Have they found Bigfoot? Are ghosts real? I'm so out of touch. (no spoilers please)
6 months ago
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I will echo this sentiment (and I didn't even write it!)
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6 months ago
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Alan Brookland
Tracy King
7 months ago
Hello! I am working on a project with the Royal Institution about the Christmas Lectures, and would love to talk to people who grew up watching them on TV, or now watch them with their own kids (or, ideally, both). Please share 🤗
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Saw this and thought of you
www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=36604
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Krull 4K Blu-ray
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=36604
7 months ago
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Alan Brookland
Adam Sternbergh
7 months ago
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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There's an awful lot of people feeling betrayed by the Labour party today. Are we ever going to give taxing the rich a try?
10 months ago
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Since we seem to be all about old fashioned masculinity again, let's not forget that that included protecting those weaker than you because it's the right thing to do, not for what you might get out of it.
11 months ago
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1) Borrowed a Ferrari 2) Visited an art gallery 3) Lunch 4) Went to a baseball game 5) Sang in a parade
11 months ago
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
11 months ago
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
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Well, that was fun.
#InsideNo9
#StageFright
11 months ago
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Buckle up. New curse incoming.
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11 months ago
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And that's
#Box2
from Theory11 and
@nphstuff.bsky.social
completed. Beautifully put together as was
#Box1
and reasonably priced, although taxes and shipping to the UK are a bit much (I guess at least I got in before Trump introduces a puzzle tarriff!)
11 months ago
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I feel the bar for something being a 'plan' is getting lower:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Donald Trump’s Gaza plan: the key takeaways
The US president has unveiled a plan for the US to take long-term ownership of the Gaza Strip. Here are are the key points from the press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/05/donald-trump-gaza-strip-plan-take-over-move-palestinians-ownership?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
11 months ago
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Alan Brookland
Richard Herring
12 months ago
Remember to eat as many Soleros as you can today as tomorrow No-Solero-February begins. Sponsor me here
www.justgiving.com/page/nolero
This video explains it all
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuCR...
. Well maybe not all.
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Richard's fundraiser for Scope
Help Richard Herring raise money to support Scope
https://www.justgiving.com/page/nolero
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Alan Brookland
LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit
12 months ago
This CANNOT be allowed to happen. Also: chlorine-washed chicken, GMO crops, high fructose corn syrup.
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Roxi Wheels
12 months ago
Today and in the coming days, remember
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I always imagined Lynch as an alien who trained itself on blending in by watching 1950s American TV shows and then was always really impressed on what a 'normal' facade they managed to maintain having snuck down to Earth.
12 months ago
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Chris Person
12 months ago
One of my favourite small David Lynch moments is when he tried to do one of those ceramic art cows for New York City and submitted this and was rejected.
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Well that's another bugger for the week. No more Lynchian weirdness.
#rabbits
12 months ago
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Bugger. Not Tony Slattery.
12 months ago
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Googly!
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about 1 year ago
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Bit late for the Christmas tree this year, maybe next time!
#Guybrush
#MonkeyIsland
about 1 year ago
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Alan Brookland
Tracy King
about 1 year ago
The older I get the more I am Wonko the Sane.
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