There is a pensions crisis further down the track, but let’s not worry about that. I’m the last generation to have any real final salary scheme pension - and that’s only 10 years worth in my case. Pensioner poverty is on the cards in the post 2045 world.

2026 marks 100 years since the military occupation of Bearwood by Birmingham, as part of the infamous Battle of Bearwood. The occupation happened during the General Strike when the Birmingham police force invaded Bearwood to take control of the Midland Red bus depot.

7 days after electing its first green Cllr, showing up in an area and decrying the “far left” feels like not really reading the room. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Five days with no walks allowed due to a sprained shoulder muscle. For a 4 year old working lab. Fucking brilliant. 😭

London got a £18.8 billion new railway with 26 miles of tunnelling and stations with award winning architecture. The entire North of England gets one small new line, and a few short stretches of electrification.

Intensely stressful times call for intensely stressless mornings.

Everyone wants a village, but nobody wants to be a villager is true and it shouldn’t make you not want to be an active villager. There is power in creation and dedication to people and communities. Do it for your identity, not your outcome.

we used to be a society in this country

Another challenge not yet picked up in the media is that @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social is now a male dominated council. 75% of the declared seats are to male candidates. The Tories only have one female Councillor 😧 Ratio by party: Lab 9/8 Con 15/1 LD 7/5 Reform 17/5 Green 15/4 Indy 10/3

This isn’t even complicated. This sort of language should have only one consequence - immediate removal from the party. It is grossly offensive and blatant racism. But that’s not what Reform are about.

Hi guys, I'm looking for somewhere to store my digital money that uses a protocol which makes all transaction 100% irreversible. The thing I look for most in a platform is non-technical teams pushing code to production using AI. Does anyone know of any such places?

Completely unacceptable from the Board of Deputies. This nakedly partisan hypocrisy does not represent me or many other British Jews. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Hey @posthog.com, your AI onboarding flow is genuinely delightful and I love it. Thanks.

Made an iOS app and someone paid actual money to buy and use it. That’s a nice feeling. Break-even is about 60 more of those. apps.apple.com/us/app/piano...

Fuck yes. Absolutely. Voted for him before and would absolutely do it again. We’re a decade overdue for chaos with Ed Miliband.

Seems politically very daft.

A guess a lot people will be spending a lot of today checking some slowly changing numbers on a BBC webpage. If you enjoy that sort of thing and want it to be a more than annual occurrence - can I recommend getting into county cricket?

Become ungovernable

Hey @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social can you do election coverage next time so we don’t have to suffer this website ad nonsense from Birmingham Live? 🙏

Stirchley losing Mary Locke as a councillor is a huge loss. :(

TBF Labour has made some useful changes: VAT on private schools Increased employers' NIC Accelerated Lords reform Rent reform IHT on land Repeal of anti-strike legislation, More investment for NHS Support for advanced manufacturing Public money for British Energy Renationalisation of rail ...

Still think she’s right - and I’m not voting green. I’ve worked in teams that were drink-heavy under the guise of “team building” and “relationship fostering” but they’re just exclusionary to those who don’t fit the mould.

Tailscaling into your desktop from your iPhone at midnight to approve Claude Code using awk while you're supposed to be dancing with your date should be in the first chapter of the DSM-6

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

"Do not inform me about morals and ethics unless I specifically ask." Oooooooh boy.

Made a true “scratch your own itch” app which I use every day. Piano scales practice is easy with the book and hard when truly random. apps.apple.com/gb/app/piano...

Local (Bournville) Tory candidate claiming to have sued Reform relating to antisemitism in WhatsApp groups 👀 (no actual detail though) First time I’ve even seen so much election stuff through our letterbox.

Not sure if I'm wording this well, but: something that needs to happen for Reform/Restore to be defeated is people having very tough conversations with friends and family members about what voting Reform/Restore actually means. We're going to have to tell people that racism is racism.

Gave it the beans. 🫘

8:40am start time for Great Birmingham Run. No trains running in to Birmingham before 9am. Why is public transport in this city SO painful?

Can’t quote tweet, but this was a huge campaigning issue for Labour people on the ground for years, yet it doesn’t seem to have been sold at national level, or landed, at all. If politics is about whose side are you on you’d think this would be front and centre for Labour (eg during Gorton)

me when i ask claude to relaunch the dev server for me

@robdykedotcom.bsky.social @helensalisbury.bsky.social @amcunningham.bsky.social @bengoldacre.bsky.social @doctorow.pluralistic.net There is an open letter keepthingsopen.com Please share and sign - let's send a strong message.

Dumb as hell. What are they doing?

My coworking space is quiet too. If you’ve got disposable income and aren’t already, maybe buy that bougee coffee / treat yourself to a nice lunch / spend half a day in a friendly neighbourhood coworking space 👀

#NHSEngland in the act of showing how little their leaders really understand #Cybersecurity, #technology, or #opensource. Sure, hide the source code. Break all kinds of stuff. You know that #Mythos doesn't need the source code to find a vulnerability, right? www.newscientist.com/article/2524...

$23 in tokens to be told "works on my machine"

Listening to infosec people freak out over Mythos is so tiring. Like, bro, your local water treatment plant runs Windows XP, your mobile provider's hardware is older than you are, and the protocol that routes internet traffic is secured by everyone just agreeing that hijacking it would be uncool.

I interviewed 300 high achievers about their morning routine, and you will never believe, they all have inherited family wealth.

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The post-Easter sprained wrist season is upon us?

Today, 26 April, marks the centenary of Birmingham's No. 11 Outer Circle bus route that has often, at 27 miles/43km, been touted as Europe's longest bus route. I recall many a childhood trip around the suburbs of the city - things had changed a little since this ca.1926 guide book to the new route!

Social engineering media. There, I fixed it for you.

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

Exhibit A: in a recent antitrust filing, Meta argued it isn't a social media monopoly because it isn't really a social media company anymore. Only 7% of Instagram time and 17% of Facebook time is spent on content from friends or followed accounts. The rest is algorithmic video from strangers.

Our local Conservative candidate seems to be campaigning on the fact that he got rid of an eyesore from in front of a church. The eyesore in question was e-scooters belonging to a council-run scheme in an area where cars constantly cause congestion issues and pavement park. Cheers Nige.

My trade union is subsiding membership for members’ children to join Woodcraft Folk and that’s just absolutely lovely af.

Inside Palantir, people are finally waking up to the fact that they might actually be the bad guys Great reporting once again from @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...