Nigel Farage was humiliated earlier today by a brilliant Rep. Jamie Raskin who called him a “far-right pro-Putin politician” and a “Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe”. Not sure Nigel will want to come back to the US after that 😂
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Nigel Farage was humiliated earlier today by a brilliant Rep. Jamie Raskin who called him a “far-right pro-Putin politician” and a “Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe”. Not sure Nigel will want to come back to the US after that 😂
They're utterly insane. Freedom of speech is about being able to criticise those in charge like the PM. Something everyone seems to demonstrate is alive and well. It's not a freedom to harass / incite or plan violence.
Someone needs to stage an intervention at the right wing rags … they’re really not well
Tesco has fallen.
Prima facie, Elon Musk appears to be manipulating X platform for specific political voices he supports (as well as using his own account to amplify the far right & furthest right). In particular the platform dynamic has shifted & is helping Tommy Robinson to be amplified more than Nigel Farage.
Today was the second biggest turnout on record at our parkrun fyi. 246 finishers, loads of volunteers. No unrest.
Or he's just called Alaska Russian.
My experience of AI is that it generates hallucinations that sometimes might be correct. Enough to fool, but not reliably use. So much money and resources have gone into it that it's a sunk cost fallacy now for a lot of firms.
Meanwhile I've enjoyed the weather with a BBQ. Currently watching "taskmaster" and pondering getting some home made ice cream. As far as civil wars are concerned: I really can't be arsed. In fact I don't know anyone who can be bothered.
BBC among media misreportimg/exaggerating scale of asylum protests Median protest is a few dozen, below 100. "Usually Several hundred at a time" is false. - should say *occasionally* < 1/10 protests have 200 people "Sometimes thousands" I dont think a single 2025 protest had > 2000 people yet
Ministers actually resigning amid allegations of wrongdoing! What's going on?
The US is supposed to be holding the world cup later....
UKs current electricity generation is 85% zero carbon. With 47gco2 /kwh. #energysky #goodnews
I've just woken up to the smell of something burning. My house is ok, but I wanted to check the local area. Googles just returned these results. Notice the date.
Green tech actually makes sense. AI is overrated and crap.
@robinince.bsky.social hello I've just read "Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal'. Great stuff, my son's autistic (diagnosed) we think my SIL has ADHD (misdiagnosed bipolar) My Dad / brother autistic (not officially diagnosed but so much like my son). Recommending it to everyone.
His golf course is 100% powered by wind. Which of course includes those little buggies. Even if he doesn't want it to be.
Different set of stupid in power at the moment. Labour tends to do stupid thing. Faces backlash. Full reverse ferret then takes place. There was the "get apple to stop encryption" and "don't give old people money for heating" as the last two reverse ferrets.
I work full time remotely in the UK. I can't believe they would be this stupid.
Actually his golf course is 100% powered by wind. (source NESO)
We need more wind turbines then. Only 48% zero carbon for the UK at the moment.
I'm curious about access problems, but not particularly interested in the support groups.
I had to "prove" my age in the reddit app. The algorithm showed me something that was popular in a teenager subreddit (the place where ppl were complaining about access to /r/selfharm) I clicked the link and needed to be verified again. I couldn't be bothered so left it there.
I've seen people complain that they are losing access to support groups (self harm / drug addiction etc) on reddit.
Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites go down leaving thousands without internet connection
The right is in their own weird propaganda bubble of utter bullshit.
The US is supposed to be hosting a World Cup.
NESO announced that Great Britain achieved a new maximum solar record on 8 July between 12:00 – 12.30pm, with solar generating nearly 40% of the electricity mix. eciu.net/media/press...
So that means any law to strip / reduce executive power today, cam be reverted by PM Farage. Only a widespread constitutional reform can do that, where parliament ceases to be sovereign. Basically we're stuffed.
Can we? I'm not doubting that reducing executive power is a good idea. But my understanding is that: 1) Parliament is sovereign. 2) If a Parliament passes a law to reduce exec power today, and "locks" it for all time. 3) Future parliament can't be sovereign if 2 is true. ...
I've solar panels, and a house battery. I'm getting air con installed. The amount of extra electricity I'll be using is going to be negligible.
Whoa. So... it apparently when a user asks Grok something it's "customizing" by comparing the user's own post history AND ELON MUSK's (though it keeps that part quiet).
@chrisgiles.ft.com: “Heard the one about how UK services exports were booming after Brexit?? Another myth sadly... My column ft.com/content/3e9dcd…”
NEW: Federal agents rolled into MacArthur Park in LA in an unmarked armored vehicle. My source tells me Mayor Bass showed up with LAPD—and the so-called “agents” got the hell out. Shady AF! (Just west of DTLA)
Blimey. Reform UK MP James McMurdock no longer has the party whip pending “allegations that are likely to be published by a newspaper” into alleged “business propriety during the pandemic”. There are now half as many ex-Reform MPs in parliament (2) as actual ones (4).
Stop using it. Stop using it. Stop using it. It doesn’t work.
And because stuff like this hallucinated automated obituary is now part of the public dataset, and we’re talking about it here, and it will be drawn from again and again, now is the *best* your LLM will be. It’ll get worse.
Real people might not give you the answers you want..?
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
If they are using AI they are so fluffed.
"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.
No idea if the US will fall further into Fascism. But it certainly will not be for the want of trying. Extraordinary sight over the Atlantic of a polity voluntarily self-sabotaging.
Again today Russian papers are reflecting economic concerns: • “New car sales in Russia fall by a quarter” • “Russians struggle to pay off credit card debts” • “Wage arrears have tripled” • “June was most alarming month for manufacturing industry in 3 years” #ReadingRussia
Right I'm so pissed off that we've got London MPs trying to hijack the Local Buses Bill (which is supposed to be about STUFF OUTSIDE LONDON for a change) to try to ban London / all floating bus stops (utter nonsense), that I've stayed up late writing evidence for the committee. Join me! Link ⬇️
Oh god.
Rationing 1 person 1 house. Only uk national (for tax purposes) can buy a house. Air BNP banned. Ban on company ownership.
What about an excess of demand? IE BTL owners buying 500 properties? Would rationing of housing (1 person, 1 house) reduce prices?
Image what happens if Iran attacks the US. Trump then tries to trigger article 5. Since Israel started the war and the US joined in, no one in Nato would agree to help. Trump could use this to leave NATO.
Solution: don't go to the US.
Just for context, here in the UK I've was notified by my supplier to plug my ev to charge. It's because there is so much wind that the wholesale prices have gone negative.
He's playing a game of 1 dimensional chess.
really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency
Company that I work for had their first "I don't know how to program, I just use chatgpt" person in the other week. Cheating your way through uni causes problems when you make contact with the outside world.
That's pretty much a win for everyone else.
Initial report on the Iberian grid outage has been released. @elpais.com has a nice piece on it. Notably the report points to key failures by the grid operator and conventional plants to manage overvoltages. Will do a seperate thread when I've had time to digest the full findings in the report. 🔌💡
I can plug my ev in and the charging schedule is optimised for the greenest / cheapest electricity. Thanks to UK companies octopus and myenergi.
Our electricity grid has decarbonised to an amazing degree in a very short space of time.
... So I don't see how a price based thermostat would work. For heat pumps it's better to leave them on, they'll modulate themselves is my understanding.
I'm using Internet octopus go. So I plug in my ev, and a charging schedule is created automatically. My electricity price plunges to 7p/kwh when that happens (I also get a guaranteed 5 hours at 7p/kwh at night) Gas prices are constant through the day....
Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her
I really cannot stress how contemptible this is – or how deeply offensive it is to the families of people who fought and died in conflicts as America’s military allies, when it asked for help. There are hundreds of such families in the UK alone. And thousands more who served and returned.
Breaking news: The Trump administration is planning a major increase of deportations to Guantánamo, including citizens of Britain, France and other allies. Officials said they are unlikely to inform the foreigners’ home governments about the transfers.
Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Freedom of speech latest.
Reform-run Lincolnshire council have just elected the previous *Lib Dem* chair of local West Lindsey District Council to Chair the County Council. Local source says the fact he's a Lib Dem "shows the lack of faith they have in their own new intake of county cllrs to be able to conduct a meeting"...
Waves from Britain. Pop on over, you're the type of person we would love to visit.
It feels like "urine defeats.." is just the beginning of a prank that's got out of hand by some evil genius that wants to trick people into peeing on themselves.
Tiannamen Square moment
Another very useful example of Russia-MAGA alignment. All of the ludicrous claims here are very telling: the idea that Ukraine couldn't be responsible for anything like this, the desire to destroy NATO, and the claim to still believe that Trump has a peace plan.
🔴 NEW 🔴 Nigel Farage’s “economically illiterate” clean energy crackdown would cost 60,000 jobs, knock £92 billion off the economy, and raise bills.
Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.
There’s only one way to arrest Farage’s popularity: act like a bloody Labour Prime Minister for once!
It's an air gap. And it's a very useful thing. He'll be discovering data diodes next.
Oh bugger I can understand why the US bonds are going up. But why is the UKs?
10yr and 30yr USTs just relentlessly offered after the House passed the tax bill, and continue to take Gilts with them. could be a lively afternoon for equities:
Things are going well on the international bond markets, now Trumps bill has passed I see. Narrator: Things did not go well.
I mean when there's a selection of gifs to show your incompetence.. Well you're special.
Could Canada buy the land and call it the 11th province?
Maybe the UK spy plane is spying for the UK. So the UK can understand what's happening?
It's like they think only brexiter voters exist.
FFS you go for the reform vote Starmer...you are going to need them, as I'm fucking off and Joining the libdems. All he had to do was not be fucking Reform!
Reform: Your autistic son is a vegetable. Me: Ok I won't vote for you. Tories: You are a citizen of nowhere. Me: Message received. Labour: We're copying the other two, but vote for me or Reform will get in. Me: uhu..Better change the system then, as you're now my 2nd preference.
Interesting move. Nice that at least one party wants to challenge Reform rather than dance to their tune.
this is not an exaggeration
Battery costs just keep on falling. Great to see them continuing to follow the rapid cost declines we have already seen in solar/wind. 🔌💡
Have they tarrified / trade war the spare parts for the ATC system? Because they have in addition to every other problem
I've used AI for work. Had to spend a lot of time fixing it's hallucinations. It's useful, but it's a tool that has to be used in competent hands. Remember it's just a glorified stats model. "these words sentences should go with these other words / sentences".
They do increase. 10% rather than 25% and there's a cap on sales.
If its actually cheaper for Americans to buy a Bentley with a 10% tarrif attached than a car made in the US, then the US is utterly fluffed.
BREAKING: Air traffic controllers for New Jersey's Newark airport lost radar again for 90 seconds on Friday, the FAA says.
@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social so there's no physical deal. IE nothing is being signed.
So Sky news reports that the UK US trade deal announced today consists of "no physical UK-US trade document" that will be signed. Trade deal is not a protected term. It really could be anything somehow related to trade. But I did not expect it to be invisible.
Uk here. Has Trump betrayed the deal yet?.. *5 seconds later* Has Trump betrayed the deal yet?
Historical background: the UK has wanted a trade deal with the US since brexit (and basically everyone). Nothing to do with tarrifs. If Trump links it to tarrifs watch Starmers poll ratings collapse further.
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