Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]

Good Law Project we’re in court this week holding the EHRC to account over their flawed approach to policy on the spaces trans people can access and now they want OUR help to tackle BBC transphobia. https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?e=e00287e0db&u=f1c42fae5214b3ee59aab75ab&id=c77e09859c

Three of my radiator valves are saying that they want to update their software. What a bonkers world we now live in. #homeassistant

Bubble Burst FAQ #ai #aibubble https://www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/tech/ai-bubble-burst-popping-explained-collapse-or-not-chatgpt

They had me at the headline: AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is "From Amazon to General Motors to Booz Allen Hamilton, layoffs are being announced and blamed on AI. Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs. United Parcel Service (UPS) said it had reduced its management workforce by […]

Kid's just got bounced off a flight due to "overbooking". I get how that was a thing back in the day when everyone had open tickets and the airline never knew who was going to turn up for which flight, and didn't want to fly empty seats they weren't being paid for. But today? When the ticket is […]

It's not much, but at least for #cop30 Republicans have reduced the number of airplanes polluting our atmosphere.

"What does that ticket mean? - I can't make sense of what it's asking me to do." I should have been able to guess the reply, shouldn't I: "Oh, I think that ticket was generated by AI." FFS.

Do YouTubers not look at their stats? They must surely be able to see how many punters gave up after a minute or two, because they still HAVEN'T GOT TO THE F***KING POINT. So why do they keep doing it?

Looks like I might have to spend all day tomorrow on the phone to multiple financial organisations. "Why don't you borrow my phone," she says, "that way you can be in two hold queues at once." I hadn't thought of that!

"He cited how members had been instructed to oppose all renewable energy projects when they came before planning committees - whatever their merit." Um ... that's not exactly what you might call "legal"?? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99347v5m1mo

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Some (more) #brexshit insanity. Some low volume wines are no longer imported to the UK, because the supermarkets etc can't be arsed with the #brexshit paperwork. But there are (just) two EU wine warehouses left (that we've found) which will ship to UK retail customers and do all the paperwork […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mellifluousbox/115417851503228073 Public communications (via platforms like Mastodon) are much too important to be in the hands of a handful of commercial Big Tech companies. Our team continues to engage in active discussions on these topics. We aim to help media […]

Show your signs #nokings

I think this will always be my favourite bsky.app/profile/sand...

An immigrant from the Philippines, he said he had lived through 2 presidents being overthrown before moving to the US—& the actions of federal agents reminded him of what he saw as the #government there grasped to maintain #power. “I know what #impunity looks like. I know what it looks like […]

So I asked some AI how to do something (I'm being very strongly encouraged to use it) and wasted a day because it kept given wrong answers (I eventually discovered that the answer was something completely different). This is apparently my fault for asking it the wrong question. I should only […]

Just tripped and fell. Not clever at my age, but nothing broken. So ... if there's any builders reading this, when you're building a brand new path to brand new houses, laying the paving stones unevenly so that some are higher than others, with trip hazards where they […] [Original post on c.im]

Tories want to put house prices up again. Same old same old. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20zv94ldpko

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy875px79po The Will Of The People. Putin's 17.4m #brexshitters will be having themselves another little **** at the news that even more lives are going to be fucked up.

6th October 2025 Dressing for the environment.

@TimWardCam In 2020 and other major protest years, we have found that it is not solely protests in D.C. that garner media attention. Analysis of protest attendance and sudden employment loss in 491 commuting zones in the United States find that employment loss is positively and significantly […]

Why would anyone vote for Reform-lite and fuck up just 750,000 families when they could vote for the real thing and fuck up the lives of millions? Not a vote-winning strategy. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c708g5x2yqzo

"Overall, the number of new vehicle registrations - 312,887 - marked the best performing September since 2020" - the BBC deciding for us that more cars is "good". Not the remotest suggestion that not everybody might agree with this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyd094168go

Happy Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, to all decent people.

Earlier, from my councillor accounts, I posted about Digital ID. It's been interesting to see the engagement I've had: Bluesky (183 followers): 2 boosts, 2 likes Facebook (204 followers): 7 shares, 5 reactions Mastodon (86 followers): 48 boosts, 23 likes So a clear win for Mastodon on […]

FFS! This isn't a hard one! When the question is "Papers please" the correct answer is "Fuck off mate, we're British and we don't do that."

It seems that https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194 is now getting a thousand signatures a minute. Quite impressive, on multiple levels... #ukpolitics

If anyone ever says to you "heat pumps don't work at low temperatures", ask them "What the fuck do you think is happening in your freezer?" #climatediary

Somebody on the BBC said "you won't get any compensation because this isn't your airline's fault". It's a bit early to say that, isn't it? Surely the airline must be responsible for the acts of its subcontractors? And we don't yet know whether or not the breakdown was due to grossly negligent […]

One of my job duties is to read monthly reports from about 100 small grants. Our grant portal just added an AI feature. If I have to read 100 AI-generated garblefests a month, I will lose my goddamn mind.

If only government were to stop buggering about with the planning system and just let planners get on with it! Every planning officer who is spending their working life trying to understand the latest government dictat and trying to update the local planning policies to match is a planning […]

Via Led By Donkeys!: The story of Trump and Epstein on Windsor Castle, where Trump is staying. Narrated by J. Smith Cameron. Sound on.

Like the Trump Voter, the Reform UK voter just wants to see others suffer. They don't care about the economic arguments, the hypocrisy, the grifting, they just want to see others not like them suffer. You can put words into their mouths, believe what they say at face values, but as we're seeing […]

Many shocking things about the last 24 hours; but the contrast between the Labour government’s response to peaceful protest against genocide, and its non-response to violent racist protest against liberal democracy, is high on the list.

Our GP surgery today: several empty spaces in the car park but the bike racks nearly full. More bikes than cars, and there wouldn't have been room for that many additional cars. That's a change from when I started going there all those years ago: car park always full, overflowing and congested […]

When your code works but no idea how

What is this strange fantasy parallel universe that Labour are inhabiting, in which it makes sense to sack Rayner but not Mandelson? (I don't expect this post to age very well.)

@TimWardCam these are very good questions, to which I do not have answers! I’ll boost your question - perhaps others can supply links or evidence

every time someone says that it's impossible to stop using widespread technology with visible useful results, whole industries built on top of it – and causing irreparable harm to people, i have one word in reply: asbestos.

TIL that there was an episode of Star Trek (TNG) about global warming. In which they decided to carry on burning carbon because it would be inconvenient not to, and besides, we've got plenty of time before it gets that serious, some magical solution is bound to turn up.

So I've read about three pages of this book so far, and so far it basically says that orthodox economics is bollocks. And goes on the list the reasons why. Which are roughly the reasons I'd worked out for myself when I read through a small pile of economics textbooks a couple of years back. I […]

@TimWardCam yeah once you look at the detail it's way too complex and no wonder mistakes are made. I looked at the amount of tax and went eek, no wonder people avoid moving house.

This is a complete bollocks non-story. You shouldn't have to get counsel's opinion to find out how much tax you need to pay, but that's how our system is. It doesn't help that the tax man generally refuses to tell you. (Unless IR35 is involved, when they will tell you, but what they tell you […]

This is what the "add text from image" button does for me.

Is there a way to block or mute posts that contain a tiktok link? If I wanted to see what's on tiktok I would, er, go and look at tiktok?

How the world has changed. Once Upon A Time there was only the black bin, which was put out weekly, almost full. Then recycling, waste reduction, etc, got invented. Today I've decided not to put out the black bin for the fortnightly collection because it's got so little in it that it's not […]