I do feel the obvious way to ensure HS2 got built in its entirety was to start in Manchester and work towards London, rather than the other way around tbh

So close! This is actually the opposite of the lesson of HS2.

Thought on "move fast and break things" and its new stage of evolution, "AI agent loops" meaning small teams have "impossible velocity." This methodology relies entirely on being able to externalise the costs of bad software. From stuff just not working, all the way up to facebook enabling genocide

Failing to challenge a racist claim about your colleague (that because he's a Muslim he must secretly be a homophobe) is completely unacceptable. Absolutely disgusting stuff.

of course this is being framed as some kind of experience of injustice rather than simply "my political views, deemed abhorrent by many, rendered me unelectable"

The same sort of thing happens with Scots, but with more oppression. In Fraserburgh 60% of people reported they speak or read Scots. Out of the 700 books acquired by Fraserburgh library in the last six months, just one is listed as being written in Scots.

In very specific terms, a quarter of taxpayers in Islay said they spoke Gaelic and the librarians decided to ignore their linguistic preferences and disproportionately spend their budget on English language books. We can see specifically which books have been acquired and they're all English.

The Isla of Islay in Argyle and Bute has about 500 Gaelic speaking households according to the census, making up a quarter of the population, they are served by a mobile library carrying 2,217 books of which just 19 are Gaelic.

Can't believe there's a "green entrepreneur" proudly sharing daily express articles on here about how he's blocking the centre left's pick for chancellor using his political donations.

It is the dawn of a new era. Hear our battle anthem. Welcome to the new InfoWars.

Tune in LIVE to be throttled by the truth. Stream wherever you want to be perceived.

It's weird how games make all this money but the industry is also in a permanent rolling crisis

(psst, the Scottish Government should do this too and it will frankly be a bit embarrassing if Labour, who have been worse than useless at countering the far-right, figure this out before my party does)

Reddit on mobile has become the latest place to force-default you to a "for you" page. My reddit feed is carefully customised! Why is every internet company making their product more annoying in the same ways!!

Someone like Nandy going is actually quite important

That 4% of the population who oppose or strongly oppose the use of renewable energy sure do seem to get a lot of airtime and column inches.

RENEWABLES: They're still wildly popular with the British public, not that you'd realise from news coverage * Only 4% are opposed Even for wind/solar farms in your local area, opposition is very low * 74/68% would either be happy to have a local solar/wind farm, or don't care

The EHRC is adamantly ignoring the reality that trans people do not want to be segregated and will not voluntarily comply and are setting themselves up wether intentionally or not to have to force compliance somehow

Helen Lewis is here to tell us which bits of the Christian Nationalist agenda we should embrace

This lady Bayes

War of 1812 re-enactment incoming?

I want Steve Clarke back :(

As far as I can tell, still only a handful of ships are making it through Hormuz, and reserves are still being depleted to cope. There has been various mitigations including demand destruction in Asia. But the crunch all the oil guys were talking about must still be on the way? I think?

I guess I'm not sure I believe that the deprofessionalisation of the videogames industry is a natural outcome of Market Forces; it looks more like the result of a coordinated capital strike

Oh and my credentials (other than the obvious)? 🌉 Worked on an alternative plan for the bridge. 🌉 Used to be a London borough highway structures manager.

Ah, the politicians are finally catching up with the experts. It's only taken years. We need to plan for a low traffic future and use our assets for better places, not traffic sewers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Crazy how the terf and reactionary centrists both are ending up at "speaking at far right conferences is actually good," did anyone try to warn them over the last decade?

I made a new t-shirt that I think has an important message about the future and also about friendship and i think maybe you will like it roryblank.bigcartel.com

Living Streets says pavement robot, which are programmed only to use pavements, will make crowded footways even more congested, posing a particular problem for older people, those who are blind or partially sighted and those who use mobility aids.

Put them on the roads or gtf

doctor: you have synesthesia me: I see what you’re saying doctor: yes I know, you can stop telling me that

A 68-year-old-woman has been killed by an HGV driver on Saracen St, Glasgow. Road safety proposals for Saracen are currently held back / reduced in scope because the council had three different consultations about it and treated the 3rd as a referendum with veto power.

Naxalite youtu.be/QjdK9oRdKGM?...

this wouldn’t work legally because a President has no authority to remove a Supreme Court justice. however the President could instead simply drone strike them. it sounds like i’m being snarky but as a result of the immunity decision this is the actual law.

Game over. It will NEVER get better than this. #WorldBollardAssociation

This is a truly remarkable development: A carbonized scroll, sealed since the eruption of #Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and successfully deciphered in its entirety. What informations will the other carbonized scrolls reveal? What an exciting project! scrollprize.org/firstscroll

Although to be honest the fact that there is no way to be involved in the process other than through lodging an objection is a perfect microcosm of what's wrong with British planning.

friend at a big tech co just told me that her company's chatbot and their client's chatbot have been caught in a mutual support loop for several days that has generated nearly 20k emails

Sorry American friends but we are going to have to mock you when a top team turns you over, given this

I saw someone say neoliberalism is a leftist fantasy or similar because welfare spending has gone up and taxes as a share of GDP have held pretty steady. I don't want to get into a back-and-forth with an aggro-looking person. But this is fractally wrong.

Trending topics on X, must be great getting to decide which "organic" "discussions" to surface

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

When you see outrage from the US about EU heat excess deaths calculations it's worth remembered that there is no equivalent data for the USA at all. You can't compare deaths for the same weather, and the USA does not do heatwave excess death calculations or even record secondary causes from heat.

The graph that went viral recently was comparing ICD-10 coded individual causes of death from heat in the USA, with gun deaths, and with excess deaths in Europe during heatwaves, which is a completely bogus comparison and is to blame for a lot of the shouting here recently.

next time you hear someone “throws like a girl” this is what you should assume they mean

The most obvious answer for “Why is MAGA’s most respectable far right propagandist hiring so many mainstream British political commentators” is “The British press is ram-packed with utterly repellent wingnut cranks”.

I just want to put this "fun" blast from the past here--an article in late 2004 in which Democrats can be seen blaming gay marriage activists for losing John Kerry the election by bringing lawsuits to enforce marriage equality. This article was not the only one.

Well, Scottish fans and the press got what they wanted, our most successful manager in many decades is gone. Hope you were all right that he was actually holding us back.