Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England. And they're marked by St George's flags www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I always like visiting Sloans because my great grannie who was born in 1902 frequented it. When I think of how my mum grew up in one room with ten people living in it.. It's a reminder of how fast things can change for the better.

Make your own gonks

A must read for the Home Secretary: Guess what: safe, legal routes save lives but U.K. has barely any and keeps closing them because it now favours necropolitics on steroids reliefweb.int/report/world...

This is similar to what we're finding with LLM assisted coding. Software engineering is so much more than writing syntax, it's a more abstract skillset than that. But the best method we have for helping people acquire that skillset is by learning to write (and read) code.

As instructors the most important curricular question is always: what is it that is worth learning—from students‘ own volition and from our expert perspectives? The answer is unlikely to be „outsourcing all parts of a task.“ We are at a point where my first-year students tell me as much, unasked.

There's a bit in the Golden Girls where Blanche says "I know I'm feeling better, my craving for cheesecake has returned" and in my household we use this routinely to indicate feeling better, "yer craving for cheesecake returned yet?"

One of the things I'm perhaps optimistically hoping comes out of the LLM panic is those of us in developer tech being more intentional about what learning is worthwhile. It's highly personal, but finding methods to determine it should help navigate the harms and benefits of these automations.

Exceptional *and* useful? Me and this magic glove have so much in common.

u have been visited by the WE WILL REMEM BEP THEM goat

I've got a jacket I thought was white but I've just noticed is actually slightly pink which of course reminds me that's what terry wogan called simply red 🤣

Hope the two folk who just spent several minutes getting off wi one another right outside my living room window have a fun night

"I will always love you"

In my household we practice intersectional bigotry

Always love Vangelis smoking tabs while watching the Chariots of Fire boys run youtu.be/8a-HfNE3EIo

"I was kissing Valentino by a crystal blue Italian stream" is such a Prince lyric lol

Would love to know why so many Glasgow newsagents have lighting you could use to perform surgery

There's a breathy acoustic white boy version of Sister Sledge's Thinking of You on in this pub and I almost spewed ma fucken ring

Welcome to my world 🎶

I had an interaction earlier this week where I was bending over backwards to be polite and was still accused of "yelling" lol, honestly find it hard to understand how men remain alive with this level of fragility

Ah but I have a bespoke and arcane setup that disproves the generic point you made about a technology! Fucking mastodon man.

This really underlines the deception of transphobic rhetoric about "women only spaces" tbh, this *is* a successful safe, inclusive space for women and people who don't attend it are trying to ruin it for the women who do.

🏊‍♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision. In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019. Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts. 1/5

This observation reflects so much of what's wrong here eh. The avoidance of any real exploration of the actual utility and limitations of this technology.. No good comes from arguing with folk who are not engaging in good faith!

lol "fans who sound like hecklers" basically describes all glaswegian friendliness

Amazon sending out physical catalogues of Christmas toys seems.. interesting lol, is it possible how useless their search algorithm has become is finally hitting sales hard enough they're getting desperate 🤔

May this be the turning point for racist politicians using "working class" to refer only to white people

Green councillors in Glasgow have secured a pilot scheme for free public transport! 🙌 In 2022 we delivered free bus travel for under 22s. It's reduced climate emissions and congestion, and increased mobility and the money in people's pockets.

AI generated remembraslop must surely be rife on facebook

I love how these are all such great ads for new york ❤️

We need ways to defend working artists against being devalued by this shit but classist definitions of AI generated artworks as being in bad "taste" are not it ffs

Time to (re)read the 2017 Teen Vogue essay, “we need to talk about digital blackface reactions gifs” www.google.com/url?q=https:...

we saw a car going through Craigmillar with a bumper sticker that read "Honk if Thatcher's Deid". We hooted, hollered and clapped like seals as we are simple folk

A few years ago I fell down an escalator, bounced on my arse all the way down it. A few days ago I fell down the stairs in my house. I have to tell you I don't recommend either. 👎🏻

How is it shut that fuckin door behind ye season already

Thinking about how small book and record shops have made such a resurgence in recent years and how central the practice of human curation is to why.. Something similar on the web would help us reclaim it from the rubble of the algorithmification that's fucked it up.

I'll torment your nexus pal

He's back and he's pissed off, in a Halloween no one will ever forget etc

Is it OK to jump queues, is it OK to reuse teabags, is it OK to shit on your neighbour's lawn, how did the guardian turn into AITA for middle class British people

I have a strong feeling that avoidance of the fear of death underlies a huge amount of right wing ideology, it's why there's so much nostalgia in the rhetoric

Of course that ai generated sitcom is based on friends, take something dreadful and make it even worse, just like all the shambolic vibe coded react apps, truly an unprecedented time for utter shite 👍🏻

Every developer survey ever conducted: the docs are terrible Tech: we're gonnae automate coding using docs, lol

I find some of this framing helpful in articulating the skills experienced engineers bring and that will persist through LLM assisted coding, but I'd add that specialist skills will still be needed because LLMs can only automate solutions a human being already created www.oreilly.com/radar/ai-is-...

Omg he calls his dad's cousin his aunt Scotland: So fuck we call two sausages a single sausage

Annoy the absolute fuck out of anyone who ever worked in a bookshop by telling them you always wanted to work in a bookshop

Can not use a plant mister without thinking of this moment

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There's a Golden Girls episode where Sophia remembers they'd made a mistake on the paperwork when she arrived in the country and that when she thought she was turning 48 she discovered she was actually turning 50 and if that happened to me I'd be absolutely fucking furious lol

There's a line from Rab Nesbitt that I still use regularly, Jamesie Cotter is going on about having the male menopause and incredulous Rab says "first it's a fitted kitchen noo it's a male menopause" ❤️🤣