For anyone wondering why a slim majority of us decided for Brexit. We need Full Fact. And they need the budget of a small country. Because engagement driven. Social media is so good at its job, and informing you truthfully is not part of it.

Never pass up a chance to post this speech.

Technically a Caesar cipher is military-grade encryption. They don’t mention *which* military

If only there was a sign nature hates the direction we're going...

Happy to have the biggest and most amount of trees in our small garden. We get wildlife we should never expect in a developed suburb: woodpeckers, badgers, foxes, hedgehogs, bluejays, so many finches and tits, once even a grouse that looked very, very lost. No, MIL, we don't need to trim them.

We get this at work. People using copilot to transcribe a meeting and NEVER checking its accuracy. How could you? You aren't presented with the transcript to edit until after. So meeting minutes, which are meant to settle arguments now hallucinate fictional characters in attendance.

Intel in 1985 starts manufacturing biblically accurate Angels. 4 years later the Berlin wall falls, and Russia soon says the cold war was a dumb idea and can't we all just be friends?

Hahahahaha… Brexit has been a success… I can hardly breathe. Can “Lord” Frost get any more ridiculous?

The 'OpenAI deleted all my beloved AI models' complaints lose a little of their sincerity when you realise many used the new model to write the complaint.

People say “you can’t put the genie back in the bottle” re: technology. But that’s why the bottle was there in the first place. Someone decided it was bad having the genie running loose, and bottled it.

Beautiful.

Just saw that the state pension age could hit 80, and as scary as it might be to work until then, having seen my retired neighbours loose their damned minds watching tv or mowing grass that doesn't grow if they don't look for work (like charity or family) I'm glad I'm not retiring for a while!

So how good is LinkedIn? Well I just spotted the profile of a guy I went to school with. A friend. A guy I hung out with often. And apparently he went to the same university as me, at the same time as me, studying the same course as me. And I never once saw him in lectures or labs... So...

As much as I loath this... Do you know what every job vacancy is? A numbers game. You'd be surprised how few applicants actually get through based on annoying hurdles like this. And how many working humans you'll meet that would fail a Turing test once you do get that job. Stay strong folks.

After I fixed my then 4yo's toy lawnower with duct tape and twigs, he said 'Good job, Dad! You fixed it. High Five!', and I've never needed any praise from anyone but him. A note from him that says 'dad I luv you' is one of my most treasured possessions. Parents get it.

Not a fan of useless crappy 3d printing, but thinking of the backlash printers get for selling cool articulated models at craft faires, surrounded by folks selling cheap shit manufactured by children, or buying ready mix off the shelf. Really? Your home made donut recipe requires soy flour?

I can't believe it's been 2 years since my boy started school. 2 years watching him become a smart, literate, emotionally attentive child. And 2 years listening to the laziest able parents (with living grand parents for constant support, if not holidays) whine about how difficult it all is.

GDPR at no point says you can't transfer customer data from your old website to the new. It does however have a lot to say about deleting data without a good reason. Like the Online Security Act, there are plenty of people happy to misinterpret the law and choose the easiest path for them.

If anybody else has to go through this, BURY them in paper work. List every hardship your sickness or disability puts you through, no mater how trivial it seems to you compared to other problems. My partner was reviewed, we sent back a volume of extra pages. She ended up getting more. Fuck them.

We have such a simple understanding of food that now we have to worry about fibre because some people are replacing their ultra processed diet with another. Conflating upfs with basic healthy macronutrients is why the avg family can never 'just eat healthy'. Healthy diets can't be copyrighted.

Open notepad.exe Write the word 'Halo' Save and close Double click to play your newly written game.

Another reason I don't think I'll ever retire: my 60+ year old neighbour has spent the best part of the morning mowing his lawn. It is 4x4m patch of grass. It should take 10 minutes. Today it should take 0 minutes because due to the heat, it's not growing at all! The 'garden' is brown!

Huh, Blusky now asking me to verify my age in the UK. I'm ok with this. I'm also now using a VPN. I'm ok with this, too. Why am OK with both? Because I've seen the behaviour of only a small set of 4-7 year olds, and it's getting scary. 1

It's like a thread of journals entries to be found after the robot revolution. It's not like every relevant movie/video game uses this trope. Willful ignorance and hubris will kill us all before climate change.

The best thing about Vibe Coders becoming unashamedly proud of the fact they're stealing apples from a tree the didn't tend to, is I could actually use AI to filter out their CVs with high accuracy. Coding is easy. Reliability is hard.

I might trip into some cultural quagmire, but is it a thing for Polish men to spend half a day building a fire to incinerate some burgers? Are they afraid of propane and an easier life? Or is this a 'I'm an accountant by day, so must show my manliness by narrowly avoiding setting fire to a fence'?

We've rescheduled your package to Thursday. We've rescheduled your package to Next Monday. We've rescheduled your package to Saturday. You're requested Monday delivery. You weren't in for Saturday's Delivery so we left it your local collection point. 15 miles away. - UPS. Because fuck you.

'In the beginning, never'.

Fucking finally!

Nothing is more frustrating in software development than feeling like an idiot because the person responsible for something doesn't understand their job, are assuming you can help, and will do their job, even if it's nothing to do with your job. Of course AD is convoluted, you made it that way.

Yet again, I scream into the void, 'Why can't my 6yo boy have normal school friends!?' No exaggeration to say 9/14 boys in his class show a myriad of neuro and social development issues. Those 5 'normal' kids get to be used as lessons that other parents have failed to teach. Heartbreaking.

'We can't switch to Linux, everybody knows Windows' when anybody who's worked in an office knows that not only has the Windows experience deteriorated over 25 years, but average levels of MS Office aptitude are in the toilet.

Picked up a set of 4 Stargazer SD Gundam, thinking all SD were snap out, but no! snippers required! Was hoping my boy could put this together on his own as with previous SD and EG. But he has been patient in snipping the parts free. He does look good though! A cleaner design than the HG Buster.

If AI has succeeded in one thing, it is that we now absolutely judge a book by its cover.

Gonna be warm today, and I don't think Britain is ready for this regularly due to how the noisiest jobs just magically start when the sun is out. So on top of baking in my house, I now have coked up scaffies hopping around my neighbours roof like Dick Van Dyke, to the rhythm of Radio 1's bass.

On my way to the post office, I tried to pretend it wasn't so bloody hot out I couldn't even gauge exposure levels on my phone's oled screen. Anyway, these came out under exposed and over saturated, but I actually think they're quite lovely! #photography

Do you remember the dissapointment the Baudelaire Orphans felt when each of their Adult guardians failed to stand up not only for their rights, but for basic good and decency? That's how I feel about the 'adults' in charge of the world right now. A Series of Unfortunate Events, indeed.

A long time ago, I sat my Computer Science exams. For some reason, Feasibility was a hot topic ('What does Feasible mean in the context of...'). I don't think I got it 100% right. I think about that from time to time. Thankfully, in the workplace I have 12 managers using it 100% wrong, daily.

'Welsh has soooo many consonants' said the English person living in Upton St Balghrychamp Hatch, in a house named Rumrgh Stump, with their pet cats Fhtagn and Flo.

My most unpopular fantasy opinion is that I think authors who do this sort of thing should be blackballed at minimum

De-Aging is not just a garish new CGI fad from an industry that has long run out ideas. It's another way for the old to pull up another ladder for the young. Had they de-aged Brando, would De Niro get his break into mainstream movies like Godfather pt 2, to later de-age himself in The Irishman?

I am 100% I've seen this in a Cronenberg movie, and it's taking every ounce of parental decency not to tell my 6yo boy 'Hey how would you like to watch a movie about a scientist and a fly?' #AccidentalHorror

It's a little crazy that the security of several free US states is being violated, their citizens abducted by despotic government, and yet nobody is mentioning, or acting upon the 2nd amendment. If there's a school shooting, gun sales go up. If the government comes for you? Tumbleweeds.

Ah, another terrible book cover for a classic horror. This doesn't show on screen, but this looked like grungy neon orange spray paint stencil work. You know, the aesthetic most commonly associated with Shirley Jackson. IIRC, the back cover was a quote of the VERY FIRST sentence. Lazy and crap.

I though I'd wandered into an alternate dimension, and discovered an orange dandelion. But a plant identifier thinks it's Hawkweed, which is a slightly cooler name. #wildflowers

My Dad loved movies, he recorded so much from TV on to VHS, editing out the ad breaks. He was good too! I've seen worse professionally edited cuts. But of all the movies he showed us, The 'Burbs stands out as a favourite. To this day I send my brothers gifs about 'Finding Walter' when gardening.

I recently had a meeting an AI consultant, who had mapped out patient pathways at a hospital to allocate beds more efficiently. He mentioned 'not enough staff' several times, but I guarantee none of his pro AI reports will mention, 'maybe hire more staff'.

Happy Fathers day dads and surrogate dads: the mums, older siblings, grandparents, carers, and office dads. You play a vital role in young lives. My boy and I played our first game of Stuffed Fables, a narrative dice-drafting boardgame, saving a girl from the monsters under her bed.

Describe your favourite movie in the most misleading way possible. An exiled prince leaves his peaceful village to re-trace the steps of the beast that gave him rabies. Rather than help a progressive matriarchal village, he destroys it with the help of a girl, radicalised by giant werewolves.

Always wondered how much I'd enjoy a Princess Mononoke game, and turns out I'd be brough to tears by the end of the intro fmv. So, thanks a lot Nomada Studio! #Neva