Fuck me, first day back and I already want to put my head in a wood chipper because of yet a fucking nother 'what if AI is basically magic?' article

Its that time of year again where I proclaim the best story about a boy wizard, who is an orphan, with a pet owl, with glasses, with a vocational surname, that talks to snakes, written by a problematic author - is not that one.

Broke: Die Hard is a Christmas movie Woke: Die Hard is a Metroidvania

There seems to be some sort of logical fallacy at work here. I'm going to call it "transcriptionism"... it's as if some people think all the knowledge is already out there in some sort of grand transcript and all that's needed is better indexing and reading tools to look it all up.

This is absolutely an amazing resource, and just to tack on if you've always thought about donating to a local food bank but haven't done it before, just drop them an email. They will tell you what they need and they will be delighted to hear from you.

“Researcher” Of what? Phrenology?

#MaintenanceHoleMonday Trumpington

As someone who affectionately considers themselves a 'theatre kid', this is sad but true. Can't have shit with fascists about.

Partner asked me to get her pregnancy pillow and I did the Salma Hayek snake dance from dusk til dawn with it. Zero laughs.

If Batman was a Santa, would he wear his hat like this, or like this

this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member

Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.

ahahahahaha yes Labour Together you should definitely set fire to Labour's workers' rights agenda just as the country's biggest trade union votes for a leader who thinks you're shit. that's definitely a good idea. (I don't think for one moment that the govt will actually do this)

It is backwards in a way. The amount of people I know of a certain age who *start* claiming when they are old and infirm, saying something like “I’ve put in all my life”, right but if you’d claimed a bit more when you were younger maybe you’d not be as infirm now you are old and would cost less

Ross Barrett of the MS Society shares his thoughts on the Employment Rights Bill and the difference sick pay reforms will make.

I am seeing far less 'what is the strategy here?' and far more 'yeah idiots do all sorts of dumb stuff idk' And I appreciate we're moving into a shared reality

Starmer: I have my kings speech for the week after of the election, morgan Morgan mcsweeney, crying: yes. keep writing it keir Starmer: its gonna be a reset for my leadership morgan morgan: just write the speech keir. just keep writing it

2001 Leeds supertram approved 2005 Leeds supertram cancelled 2012 Leeds trolleybus approved 2016 Leeds trolleybus cancelled 2024 Plans for 2 tram routes by early 2030s 2025 Plans delayed until late 2030s Meanwhile, we all struggle with a congested, polluted city. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And this is yet another reason why they should have bitten the bullet and raised income tax, because it means there would be less incentive to delay projects like this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very solid question here that was met with a non-answer

The thing about americans that is intrisically odious is that they simply do not behave like they are part of the human race, but they are rather earth's true owners and so are entitled to destroy it

Morgan "midas" mcsweeney

Duck Quacks Ass Off All Day To Come Home To This Shit https://theonion.com/duck-quacks-ass-off-all-day-to-come-home-to-this-shit-1851177872/

When you kick the lefties out so hard you destroy the union

I'm sickened by the level of anti-doctor feeling levelled by govt, sections of the press, and by a portion of the public. Medics are not greedy - they're intelligent people with options. They want to help people; they just need a wage they can live on. 2020 is clearly a distant memory. For shame.

Written two strategy docs today, and I'm trying to motivate myself by remembering the only people who read these are sweethearts who are super energised by the project goals.

What’s a former Tory MP doing fundraising for Labour? Democracy for Sale’s @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social unpick the tangled web: https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/im-a-labour-donor-ex-tory-mp-exposed-china-ben-howlett

Well at least for once it's literally true - there is no less of an authority.

Got sent a working doc from a meeting I wasn't in, and my names all over it. Or some people didn't know me but cited some campaigns or designs I'd worked on as examples of what they wanted to achieve. And looking at my old work being heralded as an ideal I thought 'god that looks shit'

My incredibly woke lefty position of 'JUST MIND YOUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS. Jfc, do you not have anything else going on? Does your lawn not need mowed or something ffs'. Effete over intellectualising tofurati that I am.

Mindblowing courage. He might have turned around, he might had a belt, he might have actually known how to shake someone off rather than falling over like the tragic idiot he is. But there's no knowing that in advance.

Almost universally people hate cowards, bullies and hypocrites, which Labour have somehow managed to hit all 3 on trans rights

Bridget Phillipson knew her history, was told by MPs not to appoint her, insisted on appointing her, and in her first interview the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has ignored super clear and explicit human rights law that trans people are not a third sex. What a disgrace.

Two parliamentary committees recommended against appointing the now chair of the EHRC, not because of her obvious transphobia but because of her lack of experience on race and disability. She also doesn’t seem that up on LGB+ issues either. There are 9 protected characteristics, she’s shit at 4.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss Doubling down on effectively excluding trans and non-binary individuals from public spaces. www.bbc.com/news/article...

They have a lot more to say about Polanski. What straight up cowardice.

The fun thing is in this sentence 'X' could be the platform, or it could be like how we use 'x' as a variable - 'Will Ofcom hold *anyone* to account.' Because the answer to both is no.

My partner is doing various grown up things (boring) for the birth of our child. I have ordered a basketball hoop and the complete last airbender boxset on dvd.

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

The BBCs roast meat timer calculator has a left wing bias

Damn Polanski got an excellent range of coats

Some absolute bangers here! Total bargain.

Having a Glaswegian do the 'wtf he saying' face at me when I am just Midlands and sleepy 😑

We don't get to make this point when our party is using its time in govt to tell immigrants 'you might have wait 20 years until you can settle here permanently, and even then we might not let you'. We don't get to make this point when we're doing nothing in response to rising racism.

Polanski’s line on “bums” was, among other things, a terrible message the two-thirds of people who work in social care who are *from* the UK. But to the people on the sharp end of the ugly turn in British politics since Labour came to office, “crass” is better than “at best equivocal on race hate”.

Jesus wept 😂😂😂😂

Labour as a government is fundamentally racist and xenophobic. Yes, you absolutely can say that a Reform or Conservative government would be worse for people, but you're still arguing over which flavour of racism you are prepared to swallow for a quiet life. 1/7

We simply have to do far right to stop the far right. Only a good fascist can beat a bad fascist. Adult in the room politics baybee