I am a rebel, I care nothing for consistency.
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I am a rebel, I care nothing for consistency.
half a year and twice a year. simples ;)
On paper the utility is huge, but the camera thing is so creepy I cannot imagine it ever being socially acceptable. I could be wrong though, those things do change.
Breadmix and Tastybix
they have indeed failed in many many ways, but the pothole thing has uniquely turned people into Nazis, like @tom-phillips.com said, and it is trivially cheap and easy to fix (in comparative terms).
Yes absolutely, and I have much sympathy for local authorities. That is entirely possible for central government to do something about though, and they really should have done. Just create a pothole fund or something.
an even better reason to get started sooner really :)
why no government has fixed the potholes is baffling
Invented a new meal last night. It's called Deconstructed Full English Breakfast For Dinner: Quattro Samwaggi Edition. Fried mushroom sandwich Fried egg sandwich Sausage sandwich Bacon sandwich Might sound a lot of sandwiches, but each one split in two, to serve two. It was fucking glorious.
we need @dieworkwear.bsky.social to get on the case and shame them into correcting it
Perhaps the distinction is more that between purposeful and purposive activity?
This is brilliant - and actually rather useful for anyone teaching methods (correlation isn't causation etc.) to undergraduates.
First Kirk, now Kimmel. What a month it's been for people I was only vaguely aware of by clicking on links by accident.
A decent amount of world history is explained by the facts that some proportion of people are creepy weirdos who hate being contradicted and love exercising dominion over their fellows, and that communal or political turbulence tends to filter for the worst of those types obtaining office.
one of the funniest things about AI art is that everybody decided to do their aesthetic Direct Preference Optimization with what one billion morons think is cool rather than one thousand starving artists
This is real and I need to have a lie down
A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."
I'll never refer to Myers-Briggs as anything but Linkedin Astrology ever again
Exciting to see this ancient law, which baffled scholars for centuries, finally being used.
Our Discord support agent was kind of annoying, so I asked it to pretend to be a 58-year old systems administrator from Ohio that wrote on forums a lot. Turns out -- this makes your support bot extremely competent. The quality of its support responses are now far better.
The Great British Public need a collective slap this is the sort of cutesy shite they’re pulling
Being an adult means having twenty apps with names like “Together” or “Omni”, and one of them controls your heating and one is your bank and none of them work
[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
The wealthy pensioners are wealthy because of private pensions and housing though, not the state pension. It is a bit of a red herring in terms of the gap i think?
I do think anything that mentions the triple lock should be legally required to include "from a very small base"
Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...
The comments though! Oh my god the comments.
Politics is increasingly divided between those who are comfortable with the complex systems of modernity and those who would rather burn the world down than accept that things are complicated now.
Last year Betty Crocker shrank the size of their cake mixes. Decades of cake-mix-based recipes are now broken. www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...
When it is used as pride in the country as a concept and as a whole it seems to be used as a razor to separate those who properly belong to the nation and those who are not *really* British. Is it an attempt at describing a "phenomonology of nationalism"? This is how being of a nation feels?
Yes your distinction between those is good. I do feel pride when Ben Stokes does yet another superhuman thing, by association. Whatever tenuous overlap there is between us, I'll take that and it makes me feel good.
I don't think i have ever heard a normal human in this country ever say anything about pride in their country, one way or another. It's just not a thing anyone talks about. It is a talking point in politics and the media, but as a cipher, representing some other nebulous thing.
I think a lot of these guys (and also a lot of white people) essentially have a wellspring of self-generating grievance. They're not mad about a thing, they're mad and they decide what thing they're mad about later. It's not just unaddressable by politics, it's unaddressable by society.
As I say, it really does demonstrate why political leadership on racism matters - a non-trivial chunk of people will follow where leaders of their big party move. Heath and Wilson proved that in 1968, and Starmer and Badenoch are proving it in 2025.
People on Bluesky of all places should be in the habit of distinguishing between algorithms instead of sorting platforms into “algorithmic” and “natural.”
A more complicated and sophisticated economy needs more complicated and sophisticated regulatory structures. You can't prove anything with a chart like this.
This isn't even party political. Responding to this stuff is basic Prime Ministering. What's the mechanism for change though? Could drag on for years.
Constantly amazed at the desperation to make “young men love Reform a thing”, despite all evidence to contrary
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
Seems like what they want is a simulacra :)
Absolute legends: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
FT mag piece from me: Spent a long time looking into the Britannia hotel chain, beneficiaries of a vast amount of taxpayer money via the asylum system on.ft.com/47HEE46
this mentality is, ironically, one of the main reasons we're losing the tech race with China on much more important things, like clean energy
More importantly than this Kirk nonsense is an amazing England innings. 🏏
Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...
Oxford Clarion doing God's work
extremely interesting indicator of where we are in postmodern syncretism that the guys making Kirk out to be a hero of the Christian faith will simply not comment on a Hindu proposing that he is now in the afterlife of Norse Paganism.
One thing the past eight months have made clear to me is how central terminally online culture is to US politics right now and how much you miss without an understanding of the memes, poasters and tribes that make it up. I'd be missing 90% of the references if it weren't for @sharonk.bsky.social.
christ :\
Utah Governor Spencer Cox: “Social media is a cancer right now. I would encourage you all to log off, be with your family, and touch grass.”
My personal opinion is that it would be better for everyone if we just put up a barrier between the US internet and everywhere else for like most content
Uh, wow, Kash Patel just ended his comments saying "Rest now brother, we have the watch. I'll see you in Valhalla" lmao.
the suspected Charlie Kirk shooter has been identified as 22 year old Tyler Robinson from Utah very little in his family socials other than that Tyler was very online and dressed up on Halloween specifically to emulate this meme knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultur...
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I saw it described yesterday as "Typical vetbro gear"
Transmetropolitan is what keeps coming to mind for me
maybe social media is the Great Filter, given how we're all trapped into the vortex of the world it creates
The Barbican is a relatively recent building complex but it just feels totally beyond the capacity of our society to make anything this cool now, like the remnant of some fallen civilisation whose ruins we live amidst.
Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai
Yeah agreed I've just looked at it in Spotify and it's definitely intentional.
A template error and those are alt tags?
It was the Bush what won it
Again, I really do have concerns about exactly how Justin Webb is acquiring his knowledge of US politics or what prompted him to make this exact point.
British politicians and journos writing heartfelt tributes to Charlie Kirk is at least as weird as when they were writing heartfelt tributes to George Floyd. What happened to This Is Not America.
I don't think it is callous of me to observe that it is weird to see the PM of the UK, the leader of the Opposition of the UK, and the ex UK PM all putting out solemn and devastated tweets about the death of a podcaster who is only a big name if you're constantly on Twitter
I was just reading this article about reptile radiography and look what they do with snakes to x-ray them! Poor tube dude! todaysveterinarypractice.com/radiology-im...
One of the few truly reliable heuristics from nearly three decades working in financial markets is „people who bang on about Sun Tzu are wankers”.
"why does restaurant food taste better than food cooked at home" The cook does not care if you live or die and uses salt and butter accordingly
i'm fairly optimistic about individual usage and very gloomy about organizational usage
I can’t believe we’re having the kind of day where congress releases a video of a UFO flying off after being hit by a hellfire missile and it’s not even one of the top three news stories of the day
We all dodged a bullet https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/we-dodged-a-bullet/
To be absolutely clear: pure narrative energy like this is a high calling and a skillset of immense power. It’s like being able to whistle Rachmaninov so well you can fill the Albert Hall. I don’t want to be that kind of writer (and likely couldn’t) but WOW.
The way my jaw dropped reading this thread...
Genuinely wonder if pizzagate etc was an intentional op to mess up the information space, in preparation for anything Epstein-related emerging.
is this maybe yet another case of "socially liberal" getting mixed up with "left-wing" in the USA?
It’s an important football milestone this week. 32 years since Teddy Sheringham scored a contender for The Best Shit Goal Of All Time. Beautiful. Just beautiful.
It’s great when an embittered generalist gets bodied by a fucken nerd (complimentary) with domain expertise and a grudge.
everyone's gonna be mad at me when tomorrow isn't saturday, huh
The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.
Bridlington, 1925, by William H. Barribal.
There was a huge battle when the Online Safety Act was going through parliament as to whether “protections” from “legal but harmful” content should apply to everyone – because it’s an obvious free speech threat. The gov agreed just to appoint to children. That’s now being overturned.
I'm going to put aside the weird feeling of seeing a saint born after I was, but since we know the guy was big on halo 2 there are now people who in 2004-2005 got fragged by a saint on xbox live
Has always just been a weird flex from wannabe road warriors.
There used to be an argument for not getting to the airport too early because you'd be sitting around doing nothing, but at this point you're going to be on your phone wherever you are, so might as well just go to the airport.
Slightly diminish a book. The Dawn of Something
They did manage to mostly cancel a high speed rail line. And nearly ban smoking
I was initially surprised that Rayner hadn’t sought more advice on her tax liability. And £40k is a lot of money. But @timleunig.bsky.social makes a good point here, especially as a court told her to set up the trust. Goes to show quick takes can be bad ones. open.substack.com/pub/timleuni...
I had this done a few years ago and it was weird but ok. Wasn't offered any drugs tho.
When talking about the next election, it's important to remember that we are currently roughly half way between this tweet and when the next election will actually be held. Good luck predicting anything
This is a good post on how to get better at using AI. It's the product of pretty intensive research on what consistently works although I don't surface that research directly in it. Bluesky and AI, so obviously comments on this are off. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/is-the-llm...
ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file
The previously sensible advice to never use ChatGPT for search needs to be rethought - GPT-5 in thinking mode is shockingly good at running searches now simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/r...
I know many Brits working US hours for US companies, and it is absolutely brutal.
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Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists
