Very nice #emergency alert on Smarty/Three network, Google Pixel 7a phone. Quite classy, in fact, I'm impressed. Am curious if it'll work over WiFi Calling....
...but will eventually get to where I want to go. Brit. Interests include travel, hiking, photography, cooking, singing and enjoying other people's pets.
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Very nice #emergency alert on Smarty/Three network, Google Pixel 7a phone. Quite classy, in fact, I'm impressed. Am curious if it'll work over WiFi Calling....
Jealous. In And Out Of The Kitchen is a cult classic...
Question: who actually had the tax expertise in this transaction? It looks like neither, and both relying on the other for it...
When you see so many kitten rescue videos on YouTube, that you eventually hit the ones about kittens which died a few days later............
Radio too, if you stream it via app.
Interesting... the trend now is to pay broadcasters a little extra so you don't see ads....
Matt Oversharing Again -- Nick.
Immediately makes me think of the first frame to this.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=55gp...
Experimenting with making unleavened bread. This one was cooked on the stove-top, but the dough was too wet, didn't have salt, and was fried in too much oil. Tasted nice, though, nice thin crust skin, but doughy middle. Will tweak recipe.
The Labour Party machine should have caught this in background checks and nipped this in the bud one way or another. The responsibility for this goes beyond Rayner.
Damn it. Labour were meant to be the grown-ups in the room, the problem-solvers. There's no one else out there who takes a pragmatic approach to our problems. We're screwed.
It's astonishing. The way to fight the far right is to fix problems and show that your ideas actually have beneficial outcomes. Not this fluff about flags. Why aren't Labour hammering the fact that getting rid of asylum hotels in the next year was always the plan?
Homemade potato wedges. Kinda a cross between jacket potatoes, roast potatoes and wedges - each wedge is HUGE....
*shrug* Maybe you're over-thinking it? They're just producing something from the same books in a different form - yes, the movies exist, but that fact doesn't block new TV series, audio dramas, plays, etc from the same base material. And actor overlap really isn't a problem - see: superhero movies.
That muscle memory of pressing down on the foil top with my thumb is still there....
So tasty. Flavoured with garlic, black pepper, mustard seed, Italian herbs and salt.
Attempting to bake my own crackers....
I have never seen newspaper laid down when cooking before, and now wondering what the hell I've been doing these past fifty years....
Beautiful, beautiful song. "The dice was loaded from the start"
Mate, that's not normal. And it's why we shouldn't give people like you the power to moderate.
Simple solution: make lists and labels consensual on both sides - i.e. no one can label me or put me on a list without my agreement. Lists and labels can be useful - but are wide open to abuse if they are used for unofficial moderation.
That's pretty much why the EU switched away from holding the community responsible for their own content on any given platform, to holding the platforms responsible for what happens on it. Trusting the community to "do the right thing" just doesn't work out well.
And when it comes to beliefs, one person's "reputable" is another's "unconscionable". Moderation simply cannot be done on a community basis. It has to be run by someone on a Bluesky paycheque so at least there's some legal accountability.
Alignment with EU regulations, specifically prevention of discrimination.
Unfortunately that assumes that people aren't discriminatory by nature. Everyone has prejudices, these lists and labels just allow them to practice them on a large scale.
The EU would determine which organisation is responsible for providing that framework, or which organisations are relying on that framework, and ensure that they're not allowing the outsourcing of discrimination on their systems.
The EU prohibits discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age, and sexual orientation. Any shared block list would have to avoid doing that - and I can't see a way of guaranteeing that. Community block lists and labels should go completely.
I suggest doing a deep data analysis on the labels and types of people involved when it comes to any block list subscribed to by, say, 100,000+ people. Don't be surprised if they're blocking by race, politics and/or beliefs. In the EU, expression of these are protected...
Perhaps not giving people the tools to label people by belief and subsequently block them on a large scale would help towards tolerating people with different beliefs. The community-led "moderation system" has to go, and be replaced with something far more accountable.
This should not be so captivating.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zk_...
Hmmm...
Hmmm...
Haven't they killed momentum? We're meant to get back into it after a gap of a few years?
Probably if you eat seventy of them. Worth giving a go.
Just what you need after hiking through some hilly woods: all trains home cancelled. Just endured one and a half hours on three different buses.... 🤢
Getting into nature at Abbey Wood. #photography
Oh, so they've reduced that?
Don't worry, they'll be installing the ice rink soon... 🎄🎶🎧
The Radio 2 Breakfast show really is moronic, isn't it?
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHats #photography The Manneken Pis in Brussels....
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHats #photography One of my knitting projects - the hat is reinforced with cardboard, then a fitted knitted layer around that.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHats #photography Standard travel attire....
The heatwave has broken and the wind's picked up. My living room temperature has dropped 3C in one hour........
It took me a LONG while to remember how to add and subtract using an abacus just now... I don't think I ever learned how to multiply and divide using one, but I'm sure I remember seeing something about the Chinese having a way of doing that... #RandomFiftySomethingThoughts
I was expecting a more-pronounced curve....
St Paul's Cathedral from the top of One New Change. #photography
Me: Tate Modern: #photography
Oh, Kermit.... Tate Modern #photography
I've known less-practical food stores... Tate Modern #photography
"Let's go to the Tate Modern for a relaxing walk in an air conditioned building..." Tate Modern: #photography
Those socks, though.... 🥵🥵
Working fine for me, through Plusnet.
I went on a stammering minimisation course at the City Lit about 25 years ago, and I'm practically fluent these days. Many different and varied causes - tension, low self-esteem, bad physical speaking technique (mis-timed air flows), fatigue, anxiety... take your pick - what's changed in your life?
Join the #BlueSkyArtShow The theme is #Jagged You could use pretty much the whole of Madeira..... #photography
Join the #BlueSkyArtShow The theme is #Jagged From Monte Palace, Madeira. #photography
Join the #BlueSkyArtShow The theme is #Jagged From Monte Palace, Madeira. #photography
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFire #photography Statue tribute to the Chernobyl firefighters, September 2019.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFire #photography Wroclaw Dwarf firefighters, Poland, July 2021
Oooh, that's reminded me of something....
I see. It's astonishing, from a UK perspective.
Sorry. Wait a minute. I must be missing something. In America, a vote can be blocked by not turning up to it? That's insane.
Permanent mood.
Hmmm. #DestinationX was so unsatisfying to watch. They seem to have poached the clue-writers from The Masked Singer and 3-2-1. And Rob Brydon's cuddly BBC persona felt really out of place. And no resolution at any level in the first episode. No hook or cliffhanger or reason to watch the next episode
Perfectly balanced. Wonderful series.
All said, a draw for the series was the right result. What a match. Both teams truly as good as each other. #cricket
Eight more runs........ #cricket
Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhh.... #EnglandVsIndia #Cricket
#cricket is brilliant. I'm about to have a heart attack, but I'm loving it. They should definitely have a substitute system like football has, though. Ridiculous that injured players cannot be replaced.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFire #photography Having a quick meal whilst hunting for the Northern Lights and waiting for the clouds to break, somewhere in the Arctic (could be Norway or Finland). October 2022.
What's the mood like in the ground?
Oh feck. #cricket
It'll STILL be fine...
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Dinner. With chicken and veg.
The reviews for the new Naked Gun film look promising - Liam Neeson may have pulled off Leslie Nielsen's handbrake-turn into comedy from more-serious roles. Always on the cards - seen him in Extras?
A pier with no boats. Gravesend this morning. #photography
The "rhyming trap" got too annoying for me to stick with it, and its clones.
No surprise, very much an arch-Brexiteer.
The new series of The Summer I Turned Pretty appears to be pretty insistent on hitting every single cliche there is to be had....
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEasyE #photography E for E. Wedel - Wroclaw Airport...
This stuff is surprisingly good, and it's iced coffee, so as close to intravenous consumption that you're going to get...
Nice
No worries, I didn't want to exclude myself from it :)
@juliansimpson.bsky.social Hi, just confirming the details of everything - I was expecting a Mythos download to be listed, is it too early for this?
Truth.
Oh. Was hoping for a closer Fourth Test Match. At least give us a challenge....
What athlete's expression will stay with you for the rest of your life?
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FAO dentists: you are not offering "Emergency Appointments" if I have to wait a week...
He doesn't have a... no, forget it....
Ten-minute warning to the Test Match Special theme being played on 5 Live Sports Extra....
French TwiX block imminent, followed by French eXodus to Bluesky...
My kind of summer sky. #photography
Sunshine on a rainy day #photography
I recognise these sculpts, I named them for your convenience.
@simonmayo.bsky.social FYI :)
Then it has had a truly charmed life and should be commemorated.
Has the hat been "through" anything? I still remember the tale about the zoo keeper........
I dread to think what mood you were in when you drew this...! 😱
Preparations are good, even if the probabilities are still low. Not going to worry about war just yet. Surprised there haven't been any overt assassination attempts.