Good #FIFAWorldCup

Again, any time someone says, "An AI detector thinks I write like AI!" It means that the person writes more like AI *source training material* than like a lazy American college student trying to cheat their way through a college paper. I play a game called "Writer, Professor, or Anti-colonial.🇳🇬🇮🇳🇰🇪"

That should not be a penalty. VAR did not show the right angle. Norway are very very unlucky

There is clear water between Greens and a Burnham Labour. I'm genuinely surprised at how similar Burnham is going to be. Just making a "No 10 in the north" isn't different enough

It's definitely Formula 1 race day because we've got *LOADS* of helicopters flying from (I assume) Cranfield to Silverstone. They're all going in the same direction from the same source.

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Watching swifts flying really fast around the Victorian terrace streets where I live is a joy

This is what we mean by the whole “not everything is digitized” — not everything is fully *catalogued* yet! This is at the UK National Archives at Kew.

Tech is really in crisis at the moment. People are being absolutely chewed up and spat out.

I've had two conversations today about how bad school is for kids. One is a teacher who said that the "compliant" kids who do what they're told are so anxious and it's awful. The other was a parent and their kids have said there is no value in their GCSEs or A Levels so why should they try?

When AI annoys me, which is often, I sometimes ask it to do something absurd just to make me realise that it really isn't very clever. Here is "Cats playing Catan"

Was watching the football and was so bored watching Egypt v Australia my mind wandered to when I was a kid at church and a Dad of another kid was caught by police riding his bike around a roundabout the wrong way. A few months later he was caught again at the same roundabout doing the same thing!

Actually do I have an eyetracking person among the bsky community here? Because I see claims like this all the time in software and I need your take: "fixations have also been used to discern shallow information scanning (i.e., effortless) from deep mental processing (i.e., mentally demanding)..."

Dunno why they think this is so hard. I've done it loads on kerbal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This post is excellent and well worth a read. Well done @whitep4nth3r.com for being honest and open. Dev rel is not easy, and it can have a significant impact. Look after yourselves people.

As a Brit, it does make me wonder if they understand that they gained independence from us. We're *so* much better at this stuff than they are. The King proved that by going and giving a single speech to Congress.

BBC Sport survey England v Mexico: stay up or catch up? 1am kick off. 52% stay up 48% catch up It's Brexit all over again.

IS THAT DOUBLE HEADED VIOLIN "MADE TO PRODUCE MUSIC" OR NOT???

The strangest thing about this is that everyone used to complain about how the captcha was being used to train AI. Now AI is producing mad captcha scenarios with metal sloths, squirrels with basketballs and frankly bonkers things. Apparently one was "click on the things slower than a toddler"!!!

My daughter is using the driving test website which is mad. The weirdest bit is the captcha. LOOK AT THE SQUIRRELS WITH THE BASKETBALLS

Why? Because leaving a platform is assuming that a movement of people doing the same will affect the financial status of the company. But the company is public and the value is not based on turnover or profit but on shits and giggles. So leaving is irrelevant and disinformation spreads faster

Part of the problem is that if everyone leaves, it doesn't actually make a difference to the spread of disinformation. You have to legislate to stop that, not just leave.

Mexico v England is going to be a horrible watch, made all the worse by being at 1am onwards on Monday morning. Mexico have to be favourites for the game. Pretty sure England will be underdogs for any games going forward.

Adorable Swift fact: Swifts' Latin name 'Apus apus' comes from the Greek 'a pous' which means 'without foot'. Their feet are so tiny it was believed they didn’t have any! 😭 💚 #SwiftAwarenessWeek

Thought England had a great escape but then I watched the Belgium - Senegal match. Good lord!

To give you an idea of scale, the planned total energy use from data centres from the UK NESO Future Energy Scenarios report: "High uncertainty on future growth of data centres leads to their 2050 demand ranging from 30-71 TWh" UK 10 yr forecast is only 33 TWh www.neso.energy/publications...

Google energy consumption jumped 12 TWh from 31 to 43 between 2024 and 2025. That's a roughly 40% increase in a year. The only significant difference is AI. There is no way any Government can build that much energy capacity at that speed across an entire industry. ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

‘I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from Google’s latest climate report, but holy hell, I did not expect this. The company’s total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025.”<unsustainable. How much is due to AI slop? ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

This is Porter. He's had a long day. Needs a pup cup on the rocks. And make it a double. 13/10 (TT: drunkengolden)

Senegal deserved to win that. But Belgium just kept going somehow. Wow #FIFAWorldCup

Trying to decide if I'm going to stay up on Sunday night/Monday morning or just not bother

Has to be said: I'm very glad it's not England v Argentina in Mexico. #FIFAWorldCup

I genuinely don't think that we're going to beat Mexico in the Azteca. #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup #England

Totally agree with this. Cannot understand why anyone is surprised.

Tell you what. Proper round of applause for the Democratic Republic of Congo. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇨🇩 What a team. What a performance.

To be fair Congo look very very tired in defence now. They've been so good. But Kane is a world class striker. #England

I really don't know what Tuchel is doing. We look like we need to score 3 in 5 minutes. #England

So 2 at the back seems to work #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup #England

BRING SOUTHGATE BACK #England

Good grief. England score. But it was mistakes from Congo. And England now have about 8 attackers and 2 defenders. Not confident still but at least we're not losing. #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup #England

England deserve to go out at 70 minutes. Honestly just so unsurprised at this point. The "lesser" teams are much much better than they used to be. Congo are very good and deserve to be ahead. #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup #England

England are so poor today. 25 minutes or so to go. Really don't understand what Tuchel actually does if this is the team that turns up. #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup #England

Madueke can't cross it seems #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup #England

England don't have a divine right to score. Congo have a very good goalkeeper today and he's keeping them in the game. Need more quality to get past him. #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup #England

SEE MY PINNED POST I've been shouting about this research for a long time

Half time and England deserve to be behind. But they absolutely should have had a penalty too. VAR is a joke if that's not given. #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup #England

I genuinely don't understand why the England defence is so badly prepared. No settled back 4. Leaving proven internationals at home. I just don't understand why we're so poor. Is it how we're set up? Is it poor coaching? It's so unclear. #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup #England

Mexico are currently laughing. I was at the gym today and there was someone very confident that England were going to: a) "thrash" DR Congo and b) "easily beat" Mexico I almost said that he's deluded. #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup #England

England look awful today defensively. Really poor. Cannot believe how badly prepared our defence appears to be. #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup #England

The treatment of this woman is absolutely outrageous and one of the most egregious corporate violations of free speech I've seen. I have just bought the book as a fuck you to Facebook. It's available here uk.bookshop.org/p/books/care...