Holy shit. We're expecting a huge police operation similar in size to project branchform them (the SNP case that was about the same value). Digging up McSweeney's garden. Tents on Starmer's lawn. Arrests. Wall to wall media coverage. Right?

I went back to the short story dispenser at Gare Du Nord! This one is ominously titled "Inheritance"

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

I think today has demonstrated that, if anyone thinks the media is not the driving force behind the rise of fascism in the UK, they are either dishonest and culpable themselves or total deludinoids. 100,000 trans people: crickets 100,000 fascists: max publicity.

She has a point

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Gail's work is beautiful. One for fellow brutalism fans ⬇️⬇️

Doesn't Banksy use stencils? I mean, surely he still has the stencil. Idk I just feel like if I instructed the removal of a piece of graffiti like that I'd have to wonder if copies of it were going to show up everywhere within a few weeks. Maybe that's true even without the stencil

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Gen Z in Nepal burned down the parliament, burned down the homes of government officials, forced the prime minister to resign, and paraded the finance minister through the streets nearly naked.

still listening to the national alert through an extensive delay pedal rig

Holy fuck.

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Reinstalling Disco Elysium. Gonna be a superstar cop.

20 miles down, 80 miles to go! 🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏻‍♀️ Had some good walks (and blessedly fortunate weather) this week, but I need to keep up the pace! If you're able to make a donation and help me raise money for the homeless, I'd be very grateful: fundraise.social-bite.co.uk/fundraisers/...

standing with glinner? no. i'm SITTING for DINNER. with my wife, who has not left me,

He should be arrested and charged with genocide, the moment the plane lands.

“Got treated like a terrorist lads” “Tell us what happened lad” “Got accused of encouraging violence on Twitter” “Yea but why” “I was encouraging violence” “On Twitter?” “Yeah it was on Twitter”

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

Used to be if you didn’t like your social media platform you had to move to Geneva with your coterie and have ghost story competitions 🤔

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/chew #smbc

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Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

The Bingley Arms at Bardsey-cum-Rigton cheerfully bills itself as the “oldest pub in England,” with a backstory stretching all the way to 953 AD. Sadly, Historic England, archaeologists and historians don't agree suggesting something more like 1738, give or take a bit of Georgian

"You couldn't make Life of Brian now" No Michael, for many reasons, not least because if someone did you'd sue them for copyright infringement

Started my day with a mushroom omelette, an iced coffee, and news that Trump might have kicked it. Honestly it's hard not to feel optimistic about the weekend with a start like that

Me, looking at timestamp: This seems like a long time to get to the joke Me, watching for 15sec: I am absolutely watching this whole thing

Come on, man

A little reminder for everyone, particularly our friends in the Labour government:

We don't decide to build bridges based upon the number of people swimming across rivers, so why do we apply this logic to building protected bike infrastructure in cities?

128 new mergers between black holes and neutron stars. Today we're revealing the biggest ever update to our count of gravitational wave detections. New data from May 2023 to January 2024 has more than doubled the number we've seen. 🧵 1/3 @ligo.org #Virgo #KAGRA #GravitationalWaves 🔭 #GWTC-4 #O4a

Hello Bluesky friends, please recommend me a book I should read on holiday next month?

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Its very impressive that we managed to get a shard of molten sand to pretend it can write advertising copy, and I'm sure that's a tempting time saver if you have no art in your soul, but I'm from the species of bald monkeys who invented writing 5,000 years ago and it won't do

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text

I last did a twitch stream in like 2022, does obs still suck?

Tonight I'm wearing a skirt that I bought in 2005 👵🏻

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Love love love the client who, in a call with my boss today said, "we've spoken with three of your competitors but Rebecca is better than all of them so we're not moving". If he could just time a repeat of that for a week before my next annual review I'd be much obliged

Doing the basics well (not just shiny tech/gadgets) is a huge part of reducing emissions & we need to recognise + embrace that. We have just tested a simple change to the hot water system in a big university building & it reduces energy use by ~20%. Users won't notice. Yay for the simple stuff!

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

So they’ll arrest 474 people for holding signs opposing genocide, but the people trying to burn down immigration centres have legitimate concerns? Is that right? Have I missed something?

Learnt from the TF podcast that the UK government didn't apply the Online Safety Act rules to online gambling, and I think that tells you everything you need to know about how the country is run.

Scottish strawberries are amazing just now. I bought a punnet at the farmers' market on Saturday and they're roughly the size of peaches and so incredibly strawberry-y it's almost offensive. I should have bought more

the paradox is that all Nazis deserve to die but nobody who is good enough to kill a nazi deserves the punishment that they would receive for doing the right thing

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 6 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas. The UK would be screwed without them.