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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 2d

Incredibly sad and shameful.

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2d

#OtD 9 Oct 1945 the UK Labour govt defended its jailing of 226 Spanish Civil War and anti-Nazi resistance fighters, describing them as "members of an enemy paramilitary organisation". Some killed themselves, others were deported to Spain for execution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 7d

Like I said mate, priorities. Let’s maybe do cards in good time after we don’t have people living in cold and squalor.

Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 7d

It’s not the just the cards, it’s the tone deafness of it. I want hospitals and schools that work, I don’t want money wasted on ID schemes. Priorities.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 8d

Status quo, with Anglican priests sitting in the House of Lords, but the boss is a woman.

That does not strike me as the breakthrough the OP perhaps thought.

Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 9d

No Pasaran.

Memorial to the British and Irish members of the International Brigade.

Inscription for the London International Brigade memorial.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 10d

This is the confluence of two things I really like, graph databases and renewable electricity:

neo4j.com/customer-sto...

Enel Rebuilt Its Grid as a Digital Twin — Now It Sees, Plans, and Acts in Real Time with Neo4j

ENEL delivers real-time grid intelligence across 9 countries, automating 80% of customer quotes that once required manual processing

neo4j.com

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 15d

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 15d

LOL, ok boomer.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 15d

I don’t think it’s an upgrade thing. Take a web site that has a black background and slide the window over eg a Word document. Apple thinks it’s nice that you can sort of see the word doc behind the browser window. It’s fancy but actually unhelpful.

Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 15d

Does anyone know how to completely turn off (not just tone down via accessibility) the transparency options on Mac OS?

It's dumb that I see through web pages to other stuff that changes the colours of the page I'm viewing.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 16d

Yeah, but authoritarian "communism" lacked both and it still sucked.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 18d

Yup. His focus on simple (and wrong) messages is amazing. The closest we ever came was "Rise like lions from slumber" which remains evocative but a bit middle-class pretentious.

Don't remind me about Labour's "Controls on Immigration" because that failed in all possibly dimensions.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 18d

"Take back control" was, frankly, brilliant politics. The complex, technocratic pitch that remain rolled out was difficult to understand, and defensive. TBC was simple and empowering (and yes, wrong).

We must learn from Reagan of all people: if you're explaining, you're losing.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 18d

Nah.

Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 18d

The logos are all lovely but the name doesn’t work well in my English-hardwired brain.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 20d

Aloof and oblivious?

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 23d

Have patients, you just need to practise.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 25d

I think about this a lot. From parliamentary conduct, to professionalism in the (office) workplace. These are behaviors that entrench interests and alienate people from other backgrounds.

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 25d

With nuclear it’s always follow the money.

Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 26d

The UK has no domestic uranium mining nor does it have the technology to reprocess waste any longer.

This is swapping one set of overseas dependencies for another, even if the tech can be made to work.

This does not make any sense.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

UK and US line up string of deals to build modular nuclear reactors in Britain

Agreements include plan to build 12 reactors in Hartlepool with Centrica, creating 2,500 jobs, and fast-tracking UK and US safety checks

www.theguardian.com

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · 27d

Man has poor accelerator control. I had a family member with the same - constant speed up or slowdown which made us feel seasick. They changed, the symptoms stopped. This is not an EV problem.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Extreme nausea’: Are EVs causing car sickness – and what can be done?

Phil Bellamy’s daughters refuse to ride in his electric car without travel sickness tablets. Are there other solutions?

www.theguardian.com

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · Sep 8

Mark summarised the growing conflict well when we spoke: “The basic idea is whoever controls the energy infrastructure of the 21st century runs the world, and the Americans are very scared that it's not gonna be oil and gas, and they're doing everything they can to make sure that it is."

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Trump Is Trying to Kill Renewables Everywhere

The US government is trying to strangle renewables to save fossil fuels. Trump wants other countries to do the same.

drilled.media

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tomaz-b.bsky.social @tomaz-b.bsky.social · Sep 7

Did some exploration over the weekend on how to enhance @neo4j.com Cypher MCP server. Here are my thoughts:

towardsdatascience.com/preventing-c...

Preventing Context Overload: Controlled Neo4j MCP Cypher Responses for LLMs | Towards Data Science

How timeouts, truncation, and result sanitization keep Cypher outputs LLM-ready

towardsdatascience.com

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Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · Sep 7

It’s deeply disappointing that all the new Labour corpses and pol profs are now on here as well as Twitter.

They’re on a intellectually equal footing with any bunch of drunks with opinions down the spoons.

Jim Webber @jimwebber.org · Sep 7

How about maybe you political geniuses just move the Overton window somewhere else that isn’t Farage’s fertile racist territory? It’s not that hard mate. Just stop parroting all that nonsense and act like the grown ups you’re keep telling us you are.

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