“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Happy birthday to the great eighteenth-century critic and lexicographer Samuel Johnson.

I'll be there.. .. .. .. Sorry, I'm supposed to be encouraging people to come

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

There are folk out there using .NET who never had to think about the Global Assembly Cache. In some ways nature is healing.

I like presidents who know Slavery is bad, not "WOKE."

I scored 17/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media. Email validation is _hard_ and a lot of websites are waaay to strict

This is owned by a LANlord

Tell me you're in SE Asia without telling me you're in SE Asia

Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.

Propaganda: trans women are going to assault you in the ladies’ room Reality: Drunk armed border patrol agents are going to assault you in the ladies’ room

Bit poky this stadium

It's always Teams... Or maybe my colleagues are all gits?

"By all means, let’s make Mark Zuckerberg’s name a curse for a thousand years. But let’s not forget that he was able to do what he did because policymakers over and over again deliberately failed us." – Cory Doctorow bylinesupplement.substack.com/p/engineered...

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?' Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

I would like to recommend a fantastic way for parents to turn a mid-life crisis into cultural exchange across the generations The lifetime mixtape (as a spotify playlist) The rules are - choose one song per year - but only one song per artist - you can phone a friend for the last decade or so

Because in none of those cases was copyright infringed. There are many more applications of advanced ML, what we now call AI, than LLMs. And frankly every other application seems much more valuable to me (at least in a societal sense) than LLMs are.

welp I sent an email

"It’s like being a canary in a coal mine. The early poisonous gases of fascism, the hatred, the propaganda, the calls to purge “undesirables" hit you first. We notice the atmosphere becoming toxic before others do, because we are the ones struggling to breathe." www.thedissident.news/how-do-you-e...

Will be writing more about the asylum thing. On delivering on potholes etc though, a reminder of how little £ wriggle room some of these councils actually have

who called it woke pope and not Opus DEI

When there’s an economic emergency, a climate energy, or a security emergency, our leaders take immediate action. The child poverty emergency has been with us for some time now, yet action seems further away than ever.

good morning, found out about the news by waking up, opening WhatsApp and seeing that a friend had messaged "Oh my god JD Vance has Liz Trussed the pope"

How it would really have ended.

Agreed. If they leave, we should bolt the door behind them. 99-percent.org/what-if-we-s...

Come on, no way is Kemi still leader by the time this show airs.

The Lib Dems are an existential threat to the Tories. Does Kemi Badenoch realise? www.newstatesman.com/politics/lib...

stealmytesla.com Chortle

I am 99% sure that this whole Greenland thing is because he can’t comprehend the Mercator projection

Swipe right on Timber.

I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date

Paying my Tax (in the nick of time). Halifax bank: "Is this a scam?" Me: 🤔

the proper way to eat eggs is with hot sauce, and I cannot stress this enough, NOT ketchup

Today is like the true modern day pancake day, where we consume the last of the twixtmas glut of treats in preparation of the New Year / New Me... Proper start of dry January... Veganuary rituals

Back to the Future, Part II (1989)

Ahh Christmas

Better still Vote using this link then you don’t have to go onto the Express page. Let me know if anyone finds out how the current vote share is swinging! Link 👇 xd.wayin.com/display/cont...

Good talk tonight on copilot by @rickgarner.bsky.social at @dotnetnorth.bsky.social

Hello to all the MPs joining Bluesky, just so you know, for verification purposes you need to post a clip (no more than 60 seconds) of you singing Mr Blue Sky before we approve your account Thank you for your co-operation General Boles - Bluesky VP Safety & Security

I've done a starter pack. Here you go.

I mean @markhamillofficial.bsky.social is here now