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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 10h

A very nice last outing though

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sqooky from:me @skeet.best · 2d

jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 2d

girl are you chatgpt because your KPIs are crazy

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Shared row data file with GPT5 to analyze, the result KPIs were crazy, so I naively asked, and innocently it responded.
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Did you make up these numbers?
Good catch - I wasn't able to actually open and parse your CSV file yet,
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Paul McMc @paulmcmc.bsky.social · 10h

The political/media class really doesn't want to talk about this.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 1d

I think there's an interesting delta between the two (not that 2 is great representation, but it's markedly changed from the first)

DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 2d

I grumble about a lot of BBC news editorial decisions. However the change from lostprophets to paedophile as the start to this is exactly the right

BBC news website headline that reads
"Paedophile singer Ian Watkins dies after prison attack"
The word paedophile replaced the word lostprophets that the headline was originally published with.

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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 2d

As a kid I bought 1kg of really fizzy cola bottles and mainlined them. Stopped eating them at the point my tongue was bleeding...

jain edwards @jainedwards.bsky.social · 2d

wow.... so let me get this straight... we all care about men's mental health... until a man tries to end it all by eating 3kg of cola bottles over 3 days?.... I guess some of you aren't as "right on" as I thought you were smh.

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Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social · May 7

The analysis by Whitehall officials provides no data or research to back up the government’s central argument that it is environmental legislation that holds up building.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development

Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building

www.theguardian.com

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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 4d

Fucking hell Pellis

DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 4d

"It’s worth remembering that governments are not their people."
Sure Omid, but in this case you were being booked, paid for, and having your performance rules dictated by the government, and in fact performing on their behalf.

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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 4d

If I were an optimist I'd hope it was an end to the race to the bottom and campaigning purely on "we're not x", but sadly...

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D A V I E M O o O o O o 👻🎃 @daviemoo.bsky.social · 6d

Starmer's trying to frame it that pro Palestine is anti jewish. It's so facile. I don't want jewish people to die. I don't want Palestinians to die. I do want our government to stop giving succour to an obviously radical theocratic government committing genocide.

David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 6d

Incredibly dangerous for a senior politician to suggest that there's some zero-sum game to be played between mourning the losses of Oct7 and protesting an ongoing genocide. And incredibly cynical given that the protests are directed at his own complicity

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keir Starmer calls student protests on 7 October anniversary ‘un-British’

Prime minister urges students not to protest on the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel

www.theguardian.com

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 7d

The thing about Thunberg is that you don’t have to like her or think she’s doing anything ‘meaningful’, any publicity to a cause is good and she holds a mirror or to world leaders being cunts and it may seem hollow but it’s not really

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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 7d

Fully deserving of each other

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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 7d

And the king has to authorise the government's existence.

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DaVe @mckjerral.bsky.social · 7d

It wasn't the noisiest place but gave them a go. I could hear everyone else at the table fine and they definitely cut down on the people behind me talking as well as the background music. Only thing I wasn't sure about, they made my voice sound quite boomy to me, but my other half said I was quiet.

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