I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.

Posted to Twitter eight minutes before it was copied and pasted onto bluesky

Road pricing is so easy. We already take mileage at every MOT. Don't overthink it/

bsky.app/profile/c-so... the thing that's really noticeable about this is he knows to shut the fuck up

i won't be on the cube?

Every day I learn some new fun little cockup from the last government. Today it’s the fact that my flat is required to have separate terrorism insurance on top of its buildings insurance, with premia that imply a full fifth of the risk of damage comes from terrorism. My house lies in a floodplain.

This week my daughter has managed to require A&E, 111, and emergency GP for three completely unrelated incidents

If you saw this chart in isolation it would be incredibly hard not to conclude that being connected to nature sucks www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You guys have got to stop saying things are made with AI just because you think they’re bad

Fun fact via @ironeconomist.bsky.social: the national minimum wage is £12.21. If you are over 21, it is illegal to have a low-paid job in the UK.

As the Queen’s First Troll™ , today feels like a long awaited victory

The counterparty’s conveyancer

the thing about the mamdani auntie is that the Post transparently thought they had a killer scoop – "you told this story about your aunt but we've found your only aunt and she wasn't in New York" – and basically just didn't know what to do when he said "no that's not my only aunt"

Sincerely think one of the most useful tips for parents dealing with the NHS is “you can just self-discharge”

trying to domain block a particularly pointless PR agency only to find that they've been emailing me from five different domains for the last six months… feels like they maybe have experienced this before

Why am I so stressed every evening? Oh well probably nothing let’s spend another hour trying to clear Coral Tower before bed

£1,800 pcm no pets no dss

One point I've not seen flagged in the discussion around Apple not including chargers in the box for the EU is that it's very useful for the company to ship different SKUs to the US and EU given Trump's tariffs, if you need to quietly raise prices for Americans

“If you didn’t have [uniquely American legal concept] you wouldn’t have [thing that every developed nation has]” is one of my favourite flavours of yank supremacy

it's very nice to be invited to something but if you send me the invitation on the 23rd of october with an "RSVP by" date of the 20th of october it's slightly too obvious that i'm on the b-list

this makes me so profoundly patriotic

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Have we considered he might just be a big John Cale fan

An opportunity to join the staff of The Economist

For context, crowdstrike estimates that the entire global revenue of ransomware outfits in the whole of 2024 was $800m. Cybercrime is so incredibly destructive.

Today’s the day I remember why I don’t have a smart home

End of Act 2

Parenting a two year old means having hushed conversations about whether you can get rid of the acorn collection in your kitchen, like you’re a fucking narc for squirrels

The penalties for dangerous driving should be largely unrelated to whether you got unlucky while doing so, which means we should have many many many more driving bans and slightly fewer jail sentences

Eventually I won’t think “rayner?” But not yet

I’m going insane, how can you write a letter “I’m giving up my titles” and then head it “statement from Prince Andrew”

I’m wildly on the pro end of AI for bluesky but it is completely insane to me that Tyler Cowen is now regularly writing blogposts by asking Perplexity or ChatGPT a question and then printing its answer verbatim. Have some self respect

good news! Claude no longer tries to kill people if you put it in extreme situations. bad news! It does this because it knows it's being tested. assets.anthropic.com/m/99128ddd00...

Watching X-Men ‘97 while my partner’s sick in bed and it’s a tremendously good pastiche, huh?

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weyyyyyyyy

the shoe that hasn't dropped is people adding Sora logos to real video to discredit it

huh. would love to know what's happening on Duck Duck Go's image search for this very specific error to be so firmly embedded

With the vast array of cures, treatments, power dampeners and the like now available across the marvel universe it is frankly irresponsible that the x-men insist on what is essentially a second amendment right to own nuclear weapons provided you’re born with them

I am annoyed by how much of this episode involved me wishcasting for how Digital ID could work if the government were competent, strategic, thoughtful or politically savvy. It shouldn't be my job to go "here is the left-wing case for digital ID", it should be Keir Starmer's!

This is my base scenario for an AI bust.

Friends car was just totalled by an uninsured banned driver _with a court date for driving offences tomorrow_. Three kids in her car when it happened, thankfully only one broken collarbone between them.

A couple of times I’ve had the pleasure of asking “are you saying the school week should be longer or that there are things that should be cut from the curriculum” and strangely no-one wants their name attached to either of THOSE proposals

METR has updated its LLM time-horizon chart for Claude 4.5 Sonnet and we're still above the trendline. Slowdown? What slowdown? metr.org/blog/2025-03...

The other way of looking at this is that Hackney Council spent £269,950 to get someone to give up their council tenancy

On the one hand, it’s great to be making progress in reversing millennia of sexism in who gets lauded for sporting achievements. On the other, people tweet about football twice as much now

Unquestionably good that the conclusion of the Your Party/Green Party tussle seems to be no leftism without trans liberation.

Bloody tiktokers

exquisite timing