Local people have been failed by Royal Mail for too long. Whilst there is no doubt that posties and staff are trying their hardest, Royal Mail must be held to account for the constant local postal issues. I have written to Ofcom calling for action to be taken against the company

Or because it’s trained to mimic a perpetually anxious society.

I have used the missiles that were in the arsenal and which you were probably saving for Russia Forgive me they were powerful so shiny and so deadly

You are trapped in the last TV show you watched. Where are you?

2pm this SATURDAY - I am reading in READING - spread the word - this one has been a bit sluggish www.fourbearsbooks.co.uk/event-detail...

Oh noooo, the company that extracted our data for their models is having others extracting data for their models

Counterpoint: Don’t upload your medical records to any LLM. That’s fucking insane.

Please, of you support NSF, and what we are trying to achieve, sign up here and get EVERYONE you know to do the same. It's free, but also it's vital to us... neverstraysfar.com/pages/sign-up

This is an anti-ICE account.

Another reason not to use AI.

Jim Ratcliffe is a prick. I always thought he was. He has done nothing to suggest that he is not a prick. I loathe Jim Ratcliffe and as a result I find it very hard to get behind his cycling team. He was a prick before he got into cycling. He’s always been a prick. I hope that clears things up.

A good reminder from @billybragg.bsky.social about what Starmer once pretended to be - always worth remembering he threw this all away and managed to get fewer votes than Corbyn

LLM search assistant confidently telling me 32 PSI for car tyre pressure when the manual says 36 front and 35 rear.

That advert in the middle of the rugby on ITV was an abomination. Utterly unnecessary. And to have the sound switch away from the commentary too? Shocking

Sadly suppressing such a devastating report doesn’t make the risks go away - it just makes them even harder to deal with. Facing up to the truth is the first step to coping with it - it’s beyond scandalous that ministers tried to prevent this. They need to act - and fast

Flying to Minneapolis tomorrow to cover the ICE raids for News Agents, what is unfolding and the politics which flows from it. If you’re there or know the city and know people/organisations we should be speaking to, please get in touch. DMs open.

You know how in Wall-E, everyone's lost the ability to carry out basic tasks & they all float around aimlessly in hover-chairs on a spaceship above the Earth, which is itself just a giant garbage dump? Yeah...it's coming.

Non-US authors get zero compensation from the #Anthropic ruling/fine. Anyone know of any Europe-based class-action lawsuits?

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

The bumper says 'rugged working man'. But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’. Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.

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Posting again just to underline the fact that the X algorithm is VERY CLEARLY DESIGNED to feed far right material to new users… It is straight up a propaganda tool and decent people need to LEAVE it.

That's because Chris Mason is too busy explaining why David Lammy is responsible for all the failings of our prison system because he has now been on his role for two months.

Can’t quite believe the Chancellor is seriously considering slashing support for home energy efficiency as a way to cut fuel bills 👀. Locking people into cold & leaky homes which will cost them more to heat & decimating the insulation industry at same time. Total madness 👇

Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement • Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright • OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied

“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.

Hello Bristol. When are you going to be doing this?

Plastic skeletons have a very high carbon footprint, so over Halloween, stick with hanging out the bones of those who wronged you.

We’re just normal men

This is the face of a man whose nation have just scored a great goal to take the lead in a World Cup qualifier in his record-breaking game as manager. 🥳 #NoScotlandNoParty

I’d love to know what Steve Clarke says before games. Just to make sure I know what never to say if I want to motivate someone. So flat on Thursday and again today.

Our flat pack cat hasn’t been assembled correctly.

Searching for “search is broken” turned up no results. Guess it must be just me.

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

This is the most wonderfully Welsh clap back at the flag bullshit. “Flags, is it?”

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

Went for a bike ride strava.app.link/pKB3h35SrWb

Al fresco dining uk version

In the space of a few hundred metres in Bristol I’ve been splashed with dirty water by an inconsiderate driver and come across this selfish obstruction of the footway.

Owners of the Dragon House Chinese takeaway in York were devastated after their business was vandalised with racist graffiti. When local business Crystal Clean York heard they immediately stepped in to scrub off the graffiti for free.

I worked in software from 2021 to 2023, and at that time places were panicking about not finding enough young developers to train properly before the senior devs retired. Im not making any predictions, but i feel pretty certain that a lot of codebases are going to be fried.

I do hope the thermal performance improves soon as my phone felt almost too hot to touch after I restarted it.

J’accuse