I think that political players worldwide have realised that you only need to fool stupid people in order to gain power, and this playing out in the UK right now.

Uncommon rear wheel drive Hondas in the car park day today.

The Italian referendum ballot papers are so cute I kinda want to keep them

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So MAGA are all saying Pope Leo is a woke Pope and they don't like him. Yet he was voted for entirely by men. Men who have a lot of opinions about women's reproductive rights. And that's a hive of wokeness? Yeah right.

If a celebrity, deity or some other guru is used on scammy advertising then that means their followers have a higher chance of being credulous and prone to not applying critical thinking.

Citizen Kane showed how dangerous the newly super wealthy press barons of the thirties were, how they supported fascism, and how they descended into isolated madness in time. I wonder if there are any parallels in today's world 🤔

This is just brilliant. The thing about well designed walkable, bikeable cities is they are better for everyone, however you get around. It doesn't need to be tribal.

I honestly think that in a few years time, experienced devs and their employers will make a LOT of money out of rescuing firms who really messed up with vibe coding by AIs.

That's it, Fg Off is now my official title. "Fg Off David Coveney!" they will shout. And Fg Off I will.

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Thanks @markpackuk.bsky.social for sharing the news about our fantastic candidate Paul Duffy. www.markpack.org.uk/174445/runco...

Big accidental loss of data in Google Timeline got me. I know for some it's not a service they trust, but for me it's handy. Thankfully I'd already switched to local storage so it was easy to recover. Story by @happygeek.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...

Some More Mr. Nice Guy #webcomics

Running a workshop. Fairly even split of Macs and Windows machines, and of Android and iPhones. So at lunchtime half the Windows and iPhone users are charging, and the MacBook and Android users all have something to be smug about. I have an Android phone and MacBook so I'm doubleplus smug.

F*cking hell...

The # key on UK Mac keyboards is so incredibly dumb. But at least the incredibly useful* § is just one press away 🤦🏻‍♂️ * It is not.

Been properly poorly for the last two and a half weeks but starting to feel almost normal at last. Voice is still very broken, I'm still coughing, but the antibiotics and steroids seem to have cleared the worst of it. Starting to get back some productivity and energy for day to day life now.

Two tech-enabled humanitarian orgs, Sunflower Relief and Techfugees, are asking the European Tech industry to show its support for Ukraine. If Ukraine is not defended, the war could escalate and lead to an even greater humanitarian crisis. Sign the petition here: chng.it/z9gHx9GhsF

So, on holiday last week I picked up a bug that ruined most of it. Travel home was horrible. Only now do I feel vaguely human and am starting to look at work again, but I've completely lost my voice and I cough like a veteran 40 a day smoker. Is this a bug travelling the UK? Lots seem to have it.

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Quite proud of my fourteen year old. He said: "Trump saying it was pointless to have Zelenskyy at negotiations is just like the Nazis and Czechoslovakia negotiating for a piece of the country without including Czechoslovakia but only talking with France and Britain. And we know how that went."

Worst. Episode. EVER.

A lot of modern software people have this habit of thinking that if a feature isn't used 95% of the time it can probably be removed. If electric cars were like this most wouldn't have rapid charging...which would be really annoying. Be careful about how you use statistics. They can trick you.

Zelenskky in Munich today: “Not once did he [Trump] mention that America needs Europe at the table. That says a lot. Ukraine will never accept deals behind our backs. The same rule should apply to all of Europe. No decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine. No decisions about Europe without Europe.”

There's a certain class of business leader who believes that every supplier runs on massive margins and easy profits. They're projecting. Because that's what they want or try to do themselves. The honest and humble can end up in trouble when dealing with those types. Nail down your contracts!

You know, I've had a long career. Old systems. Big systems. Government systems. Enterprise stuff. Then I got into dinky website stuff. That really widened the people I dealt with. I mean, really really. So I know tech. I know politics too. And some history. And this guy is right on the mark.

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The world's richest man - perhaps the richest man who has ever lived - gloating about shutting down aid for the world's poorest people. All while posing as the champion of the common man. The great lie of populism in its most naked and morally putrid form.

If the US government decides to go full fash, Musk's cars all have cameras and internet connections. Bear that in mind when making decisions and taking action. I've lived in a fascist police state. It can happen pretty quickly. Be careful over there!

This is at the FBI Academy. If ever a single picture could tell a single story, this is it. It was submitted anonymously to the NYT so I feel it's fair to reshare.

Quite exciting to see @richersounds.com advertising on the still very new Design Week Jobs Board! Quite a few of the team here are old fans of the firm, remembering it in its early years. www.designweek.co.uk/jobs/

Should I have jogged most of the way to the GP for my cardiac health check?

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Talking to someone today whose household budget shot up by £200 a month because their mortgage fixed rate expired. On top of that households have had sharp rises in the cost of domestic heating. These aren't great days in the UK. Here's to a turnaround soon.

Are we sleepwalking into autocracy? Yes! Well, probably not YOU – my community is wide awake! But I try to shake many others out of their slumber in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com w/ @kimlanelaw.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/o...

Water on top of ice since yesterday and it's incredibly slippy. Be careful out there. Youngest couldn't get enough friction to open the car door last night and it's even worse this morning!

Well worth a read to help understand how different people think. This affects life, politics and business. If you play by the rules and they don't...and they get away with it...how do you compete?

Snivelling cretin joins Bluesky. Also happens to be a much respected leader of the Lib Dems. Which is my party. So yay! Give him a follow.

AI agents are soon going to make your web analytics a moot point. And also make it expensive to serve traffic when one visitor might end up generating the traffic impact of a hundred as their agent goes scanning around for things. Either that or people using them are going to get blocked.

The 'Nduja Ortolana vegan pizza at Rudy's is the best vegan pizza I've ever had. Lovely.

Not many people know that the Lada Niva was named after the excellent French-Armenian world music duo, Ladaniva.

Gisèle Pelicot. What amazes me is how many men went along with this. How many took part in this grim attack over years. What's their logic? And these are the ones caught. There must be many out there who would do the same. I hate them. And I'm in awe of Gisèle Pelicot's strength.

This has had me giggling all afternoon. It was posted by @lisagillmore.bsky.social on X, but unfortunately she is not very active here, and I just have to share it. "Planning Christmas dinner like"

"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'." "Okay, now don't be mad but..."