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Brian Ronald

@brian.ppcis.org

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Spellwright. Practitioner of technomancy. Ally.

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Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 6h

Alt text done right. It's here for everybody, not just those who can't see the pictures.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15h

Morning Bluesky.

A van parked in a flat landscape with a big blue sky. In the distance you can hear the drone of some mechanical tool

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 7h

I ditched Revolut. Turns out that just using my UK bank card abroad isn't all that expensive, although if I don't let my bank know I'm about to do it it does trigger the anti-fraud alarm.

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 3d

"Industry" is wording it strongly.

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 3d

Parties also operate in the local and regional electoral process, not just Westminster. Sad fact is, Reform have succeeded in elections. Locking parties out because they don't have MPs brings a load of problems of its own.

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 3d

It's a Reform council.

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 5d

Ramble

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6d

PSA for night sky watchers:

October 2025
Don't Miss! These Amazing Celestial Events
October 6
Moon-Saturn Conjunction
October 7
Hunter's Full Moon
October 8
Draconid Meteor Shower
October 21-22
Orionid Meteor Shower Peak
October 20-22
Double Comet Show
October 29
Mercury at Greatest Eastern Elongation

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 7d

He did, for a bit, host the equivalent Radio 4 show, The News Quiz.

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 7d

Bleeding heck!

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 7d

@privateeyenews.bsky.social Here's a golden opportunity for some self-deprecating jokes. 😀

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 7d

Oh great. Now our future includes actual haunted processors.

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 7d

He's a hypocrite when it comes to most things. The fact that he makes no exception for women's safety didn't even move the needle on my surprise-o-meter.

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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 9d

No one who understands how “ai answer engines” actually work (and who isn’t committed to magical thinking about them) can take them seriously as trustworthy sources. You appear to believe they actually search for information. They do not. They synthesize responses based on proximity vector analysis.

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 8d

Ooh, a plot twist there in the alt

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 9d

The US would probably like to sell Israel some Ukrainian drones

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 9d

I won't ride a bicycle without mudguards.

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 9d

Why do your federal agents dress like bank robbers?

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 9d

Well, they are actual NATO members, so that stands to reason.

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 10d

Consent that can't be withdrawn isn't consent. This means you have to eat them while they're conscious.

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 12d

Terrible headline on a good article. It’s the world’s taste for MEAT that’s fuelling Amazon destruction. The soya is cattle feed.

How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon

Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness

www.theguardian.com

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 12d

This almost makes me want a telly.

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 13d

You can always warm food over the hot air exhaust fan of a 19" datacentre rack.

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 13d

They certainly do.

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 13d

I'm going to schism you right there with a counter-proposal for a four o'clock tea alarm.

Brian Ronald @brian.ppcis.org · 13d

Well yeah, it's other people. "Other people" has always been a core stressor in my life.