Comptroller has existed in British English for a long time as well (I first came across it because the UK IPO has a comptroller). It's definitely a stupid word, though.
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Comptroller has existed in British English for a long time as well (I first came across it because the UK IPO has a comptroller). It's definitely a stupid word, though.
Holy shit. We're expecting a huge police operation similar in size to project branchform them (the SNP case that was about the same value). Digging up McSweeney's garden. Tents on Starmer's lawn. Arrests. Wall to wall media coverage. Right?
Oh ok wow this one was much darker than the previous ones (which were about a cool treehouse and a wonder dog, respectively). Guess these machines dispense a few stories that aren't for kids 😬
I went back to the short story dispenser at Gare Du Nord! This one is ominously titled "Inheritance"
It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack
Nvm, they say they'll look you up
I know someone, will ask if they're interested. Can I ask generally what it's about?
Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
I think today has demonstrated that, if anyone thinks the media is not the driving force behind the rise of fascism in the UK, they are either dishonest and culpable themselves or total deludinoids. 100,000 trans people: crickets 100,000 fascists: max publicity.
She has a point
Professor Sir James Hough of @uofgphysastro.bsky.social and @uofgravity.bsky.social, one of our longest-serving and most distinguished researchers, will receive the Baird of Bute Innovation Award todayAport for his work in gravitational research. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Gail's work is beautiful. One for fellow brutalism fans ⬇️⬇️
Doesn't Banksy use stencils? I mean, surely he still has the stencil. Idk I just feel like if I instructed the removal of a piece of graffiti like that I'd have to wonder if copies of it were going to show up everywhere within a few weeks. Maybe that's true even without the stencil
- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
Gen Z in Nepal burned down the parliament, burned down the homes of government officials, forced the prime minister to resign, and paraded the finance minister through the streets nearly naked.
still listening to the national alert through an extensive delay pedal rig
Holy fuck.
Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
Reinstalling Disco Elysium. Gonna be a superstar cop.
20 miles down, 80 miles to go! 🚶🏻♀️🚶🏻♀️🚶🏻♀️ Had some good walks (and blessedly fortunate weather) this week, but I need to keep up the pace! If you're able to make a donation and help me raise money for the homeless, I'd be very grateful: fundraise.social-bite.co.uk/fundraisers/...
standing with glinner? no. i'm SITTING for DINNER. with my wife, who has not left me,
He should be arrested and charged with genocide, the moment the plane lands.
“Got treated like a terrorist lads” “Tell us what happened lad” “Got accused of encouraging violence on Twitter” “Yea but why” “I was encouraging violence” “On Twitter?” “Yeah it was on Twitter”
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
Used to be if you didn’t like your social media platform you had to move to Geneva with your coterie and have ghost story competitions 🤔
Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/chew #smbc
I don't think in miles but it works out at ~4 km per day (except I'm lazy and will want to skip days so I should probably aim for at least 5 km most days). Anyway it'll be worth it! We'll raise some money for the homeless and I'll probably only get soaked in the Scottish rain a handful of times! 😬
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Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
The Bingley Arms at Bardsey-cum-Rigton cheerfully bills itself as the “oldest pub in England,” with a backstory stretching all the way to 953 AD. Sadly, Historic England, archaeologists and historians don't agree suggesting something more like 1738, give or take a bit of Georgian
Agreed. Interesting that it could only barely be made then, and still got banned a lot. I think it probably wouldn't face that challenge now
"You couldn't make Life of Brian now" No Michael, for many reasons, not least because if someone did you'd sue them for copyright infringement
This afternoon we're popping by to see a friend who has been doing maintenance on some jewellery for us (Saint Tenue in Glasgow is a genius), then heading to a retro games shop, then later getting Thai food. Even if he hasn't yet kicked it, that's still a pretty great day
Started my day with a mushroom omelette, an iced coffee, and news that Trump might have kicked it. Honestly it's hard not to feel optimistic about the weekend with a start like that
Me, looking at timestamp: This seems like a long time to get to the joke Me, watching for 15sec: I am absolutely watching this whole thing
Come on, man
A little reminder for everyone, particularly our friends in the Labour government:
We don't decide to build bridges based upon the number of people swimming across rivers, so why do we apply this logic to building protected bike infrastructure in cities?
128 new mergers between black holes and neutron stars. Today we're revealing the biggest ever update to our count of gravitational wave detections. New data from May 2023 to January 2024 has more than doubled the number we've seen. 🧵 1/3 @ligo.org #Virgo #KAGRA #GravitationalWaves 🔭 #GWTC-4 #O4a
I'm not opposed to non-sci-fi picks! Will take a look, thanks!
Oh I like Becky Chambers, haven't read anything of hers for a while though - might be time!
Books I read on my last trip: - All Systems Red (loved); - The Autumn of the Patriarch (hard but great); - Remarkably Bright Creatures (decent beach read); - Piranesi (fantastic); - Glyph (great, can't wait for Gliff). It was a good run!
On my last trip I read four books and started a fifth so I have high hopes for this trip which will also feature lots of train travel
Hello Bluesky friends, please recommend me a book I should read on holiday next month?
Goode bugge
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
Its very impressive that we managed to get a shard of molten sand to pretend it can write advertising copy, and I'm sure that's a tempting time saver if you have no art in your soul, but I'm from the species of bald monkeys who invented writing 5,000 years ago and it won't do
A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text
Good to know! Thanks!
I last did a twitch stream in like 2022, does obs still suck?
Sometimes I go outside and eat an ice lolly about it. Encouraging a slack/teams channel for pet photos also helps. These are not real solutions to the existential dread problem though, as nice as ice lollies and pets are
Oh no! ...I hope my skirt doesn't explode 😬
Tonight I'm wearing a skirt that I bought in 2005 👵🏻
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Love love love the client who, in a call with my boss today said, "we've spoken with three of your competitors but Rebecca is better than all of them so we're not moving". If he could just time a repeat of that for a week before my next annual review I'd be much obliged
Doing the basics well (not just shiny tech/gadgets) is a huge part of reducing emissions & we need to recognise + embrace that. We have just tested a simple change to the hot water system in a big university building & it reduces energy use by ~20%. Users won't notice. Yay for the simple stuff!
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
So they’ll arrest 474 people for holding signs opposing genocide, but the people trying to burn down immigration centres have legitimate concerns? Is that right? Have I missed something?
Learnt from the TF podcast that the UK government didn't apply the Online Safety Act rules to online gambling, and I think that tells you everything you need to know about how the country is run.
Scottish strawberries are amazing just now. I bought a punnet at the farmers' market on Saturday and they're roughly the size of peaches and so incredibly strawberry-y it's almost offensive. I should have bought more
the paradox is that all Nazis deserve to die but nobody who is good enough to kill a nazi deserves the punishment that they would receive for doing the right thing
1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 6 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas. The UK would be screwed without them.
Congratulations!!
Also playing on steam deck absolutely loving this so far. Going to be muttering about all the ruddy mud for a while
Fabulous Bard in the Botanics tonight! Saw Sherlock Holmes in the Kibble and was delighted
Part of a conversation I overheard today: "So the group chat is a support group chat for Amelia, but Amelia isn't in it..." If I didn't have to be somewhere I think I would have followed the people having that conversation for the rest of the night.
I am picturing Hopkins playing Uncle Fester
getting into this template
*ENGLAND* Scotland has its own astronomer royal and she’s not a man! www.bbc.com/news/article...
Seems fair
Were you at the recent GFT screening? First time I saw it as well! Awful, immaculate, 10/10
"Turns out I was wrong about the stopping after the popping" - @paulmul.bsky.social, reaching for more (of my) pringles
Every UK petition is like this
Gross
Sharon I bloody died Sharon. Sharon they sent me to bloody heaven. Where are the bloody flames Sharon. Sharon it’s all bloody choir music up here Sharon. Sharon for fucks sake all the white is bloody blinding me up here Sharon
Ok but I made it exist last week and now I don't want to make it good please advise
Twelve years ago today the Tesco on Byres Rd offered up my favourite tasting note of all time.
IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social
I guess she had to take a leek
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the lads who chopped down that tree got FOUR YEARS
Got called a "prole" for getting a bus to a press event by another journalist. Had to front the ticket myself and claim expenses back, because I certainly couldn't afford a train ticket on £10,200 pa. Welcome to the games industry, kid.
Labour's new Section 28. We will fight and win as we did once before. But never let them forget what they have done.
Smart!
It has just occurred to me that this is probably why the number for emergency services is 999
From age 8 or so I would ride my bike to the local play park to hang out with my friends, and I didn't have a phone or a watch but I had to be home 'on time', so I would periodically ask a stranger if they had the time to make sure I wasn't too late.
Perfect!
Unnecessary words: don't.
I get this ad sometimes about improving brevity in writing and it gives the example, "Stop using unnecessary words that you don't need in sentences." Which it shortens to, "Stop using unnecessary words in sentences." Which is fine but why not just, "Stop using unnecessary words."
no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician
In 1890, the X and Y chromosomes were discovered. It was found that the men who were tested had 46 chromosomes, including an X and a Y, while women who were tested also had 46 chromosomes, including 2 X chromosomes. So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.
Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it’s not stopping. A visionary urban policy lead by @annehidalgo.bsky.social 💫🫶🏻🙏🏻 momentummag.com/paris-cyclin...
fortunately I know there is nothing more important to Republicans than preventing women from being harassed and menaced by men coming into a women’s restroom, so I’m sure that - *taps earpiece* what’s that now
Incontrovertible evidence, now, of *police* investigating families supporting their kids with gender affirming healthcare in the UK. For trying to do the best for your child, following best practice in most of the world, here you get a visit from the police. Thank you, Wes Streeting.
Yes obviously I accepted I'm not daft enough to say no to a free seat