Yf thys skeet doth receive 3,000 reposts then the Tolkien Estate will sue Palantir.

At this point the only reason to call it the Labour Party is it lasts too long, hurts like hell, and people keep popping in and out to check on your genitals.

The way I see it is like this:-🧵 People need stuff to live. People live in places where there is stuff. There are lots of different kinds of stuff, and they are not evenly distributed. So, if you need or want stuff that isn't available locally, you must deal with people who live where it is.

We should be learning from other countries...

The Good Lord knows I have no love for Peter Mandelson (The Sleaze That Walks Like A Man), but it does seem a little silly that he should be done for "misconduct in public office" when that was basically his job.

Signed this one. There is so little I can do, but I will do what I can.

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

Looks like someone had a better hat than @wulfhelm.bsky.social ....

The general theme is that people supporting "AI" can't find any use for it in $specific_field_they_understand, but can see how it would be useful for $field_they_understand_superficially_at_best. Now, of course, the big boosters for it are claiming that it's useful for *everything*....

My Hugo nominations are complete! If you are eligible to nominate and you cannot say the same, there is still time to fix that!

Bluesky. Come for the left-wing echo chamber, stay for the unbalanced centrifuge discourse.

Signed this one. If Wes Streeting had been around in 1348, he'd have been insisting the problem with the Black Death was "overdiagnosis".

If you don't dig "Telstar", you need to get a bigger shovel. Have a great look at Joe Meek's magnum opus.

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Post your favourite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

🧵I find the recent "political" rhetoric about churches being “repurposed” into mosques both misleading and disingenuous. The number of such cases is small, and they have largely involved former Nonconformist chapels already redundant within their denominations. To present this as a widespread

Email from WordPress yesterday: "Upgrade to unlock the WordPress AI Assistant". I'm trying to think of a less appealling offer, but it's not easy.

I hate Dyson with every fibre of my being & will never ever buy anything made by him. He’s a piece of shit who treats people like meat. It was always obvious why he put his money & mouth behind Brexit. More people in this country need to be aware of his Machiavellian ways & boycott the bastard.

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

Last, from me - #WSPit AGENT OF DAMNATION - #Dis #PN #LGBT This one hasn't yet been released into the wild, but I wouldn't mind getting some eyes on it anyway - see if the pitch below piques your interest. (Think THE MALTESE FALCON meets THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS.)

Next #WSPit THE NINTH KNIGHT - #P #Dis #F #LGBT Eight knights set out on quests for adventure - but an enigmatic ninth knight shadows them all. Features fights against the traditional enemies of knights - dragons, ogres, poor people, poor map reading, mid-life crises...

OK, let's go: #WSPit First up, FELONS IN THE EYES OF GOD - #P #Dis #SF #LGBT Two ambassadors clash with each other and the baffling AI governing a planet, while a starship captain approaches, carrying a cargo which might mean the end of everything. Diverse cast, high concepts, 'orrible monsters.

Doric Ionic Corinthian Tuscan or Composite

so I don't use AI stuff. There are many arguments to be made against it, but a very fundamental objection for me is that it doesn't work. It has never worked, I'm not optimistic about that changing in the near future. But I'm willing to be surprised, so sometimes I test, and NOPE STILL DOESN'T WORK

Ladies and gentlemen, Please meet Tim Nott, the chair of the Reform UK Party in Bath. He likes to do..."acting." (yes, that is him.)

Share and enjoy.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

- Today is my Birthday! I have autism and I officially turn 29 years old. I would like to receive lots of birthday wishes from people around the world! please Share/Like! to help make my birthday wish come true! ❤️

Random thought: people say lots of bad things about fly-tipping, but, let's face it, it's a lot less effort than cow-tipping.

Sorting out my pills earlier today, I found myself muttering "Clopidogrel and Indapamide", and then deciding it sounded like a mediaeval romance. I do not know how the bold Sir Clopidogrel won the heart of the fair maiden Indapamide. Yet. But I'm working on it.

Some might say that, since they have special powers and privileges, police officers should be held to a higher standard of conduct. Some might say that, since police officers are paid from the public purse, the public should have a right to know what they do.

Well, I'll give it a whirl. 1 like = 1 random line from one of my WIPs/(self)published works.

Bigass MUST-READ thread. (Click through, scroll *all* the way up and read the WHOLE thing. Worth it.)

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. Unemployment, disorder, and stern repression increased as the economic system disintegrated.

Oddly enough, this is also a very handy image for UK politics, though you have to imagine the two pigeons are in complete agreement....

to young people: you may at some point have heard about the Y2K problem. some people may have told you it wasn't a big deal i need you to understand the only reason it wasn't a big deal was that everyone spent loads of time fixing code before it could become a problem, which is why it never did

Keir Starmer exposed as a clockwork automaton. Gear Starmer.

Hanging out with sex workers is the Christian way. And visiting prisoners. And looking after the poor. And visiting people who are ill. And taking distressed strangers into your house. All of this is the Jesus way according to the scriptures. So I'm dubious when Christians are against these.

I don't use any generative AI. A statistical word-string vending machine offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy as research. The environmental impact is appalling and these companies stole copyright intellectual property knowing that's illegal. GenAI is dishonest at every level.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Birthday today! Not going to say which one, but if arithmetic can be trusted, I should be getting the keys to three doors. (Also, I can rewrite the opening of a certain Beatles song: "When I get older, losing more hair, One more year from now....")

Slightly diminish a game: Morrowdraught

Sorry, but I kept thinking about Trump's overall "strategy" for the whole Venezuela thing, and this image formed irresistably in my mind.

Put up new 2026 calendar, go me. (It's a paper thing with the days of the year on it, kids, for more details, ask your grandparents.)

Well, the clock has rolled over midnight here, so, happy new year, Bluesky! Let's hope it's a good one, eh?

I was going to do "add one letter, ruin a superhero", but I found that, in many ways, you can add a letter to *improve* them.

... points for trying?

My mother had Alzheimer's. I've seen, up close and personal, the fear and distress that came from not being able to trust her own memories, the paranoia that came from knowing *something* was wrong, but not being able to remember what. Using "AI" to make up fake memories - well, it's abusive.

My dear sister has sent me woolly things, including one of those neck gaiter affairs, so I can cosplay as a cuddly ICE agent.