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Aidan Skinner

@aidan.skinner.me.uk

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Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 13h

I mean

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 15h

Must have sent 20 pictures to my wife the other day basically going HFS etc

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Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 15h

Definitely seen more round our way. Zak is very excited about this.

Also a lot more mushrooms than usual

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Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 15h

Mushrooms and fucked up trees round here

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 15h

America's unions will see you in court.

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Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 15h

i'm currently resting between engagements and likely to be then, i know good coffee

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Adam Posen @adamposen.bsky.social · 16h

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Dom @dommgoss.bsky.social · 16h

Most of us walk the line between body dysmorphia, feeling “good enough”, punishing yourself, fixating on numbers BUT the vast majority of the time using your body with intention, motivated by nothing but your will, forcing yourself to be embodied as one is excellent f’ing medicine pals

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Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 16h

Not pictured but we do "here" where he realises he's not getting a treat from the person he's near but will from the person aways away and the change from "uh?" to "yaaaas, need to run" is beautiful

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Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 16h

Be the Zak you want to see in the world

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 17h

Getting into bed with the devil would be less evil.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 17h

Melania Trump: Putin wrote to me to deal with me directly, we have had open channel of communication regarding welfare of Ukrainian children

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 16h

oh, this is *excellent*; not only a plausible explanation for why investments are happening the way they are but also I very much agree with this assessment of how genAI is going to develop and what the dynamics for company valuations are going to look like

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 17h

We're currently in the biggest game of the Dollar Auction ever created. Each new frontier model represents a bid, whose cost is paid for at the time that it is trained. But the AI market is a most-capable winner-take-most game.

new post by @talor.computer ft me: taloranderson.com/blog/ai-valu...

OpenAI's inflated valuation, as I understand it - Talor Anderson

Blog post: OpenAI's inflated valuation, as I understand it

taloranderson.com

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Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 17h

It's widely supported outside policy / tech nerds

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 17h

The scexit plan of course starts with it issuing £ denominated debt for Some Time

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 18h

Says a man who wants to gift Putin the UK leaving NATO, abandoning our critical role supporting allies in Norway, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and others

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22h

Patriots don't peddle for Putin.

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Farage's top aide in furious BBC Question Time clash over Russian bribe MEP

Reform UK's Zia Yusuf clashed with Green Party leader Zack Polanski on BBC Question Time over the conviction of ex-Reform Welsh leader Nathan Gill, who took Russian bribes

www.mirror.co.uk

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Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 20h

Simple typo, they meant "digital naive"

Frankly I'd have thought Hislop had better things to do with his time

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 21h

"Welcome back 2007"

(h/t @loreandordure.com)

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Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 21h

Just after I turned 18 I went to a Nice N Sleazies where I'd been drinking for years without my matric card and got ID'd for the first time

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 21h

He has a golden opportunity

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 1d

i've read that. they don't mention trade. one of them spends a lot of time on the benefits of the artistic design of notes.

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 1d

do you think that we use paper currency that can be overstamped and did they have a large consumer credit market?

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 1d

scexit, like brexit, will mean additional costs at the new border, replication of some mundane activities etc

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 1d

why isn't it? the Tillicoultry will need to find a level in ERMII and getting that right is going to be critical to our long term entry into the Euro