Chris Gannon
@kennyevil.bsky.social
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kennyevil.bsky.social
That dickhead resigned under questionable circumstances and paved the way for Kavanaugh
kennyevil.bsky.social
Same. I love blade runner 2049 but his presence in it is really grating and unpleasant
kennyevil.bsky.social
So they’ve basically given up all their power?
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yolowoho.bsky.social
Since folks were wondering, yes it is yet another Mohamed Fahmy design! He talked about the process of making it over on twitter if you wanna know more.
Tweet by Mohamed Fahmy that says "No AI tools were used in the design process. The illustrations of Hangman and Joe were created manually in Sketchbook Pro. All other visual elements are premium, royalty-free assets sourced from Shutterstock and Adobe Stock." With a photo showing the progression from line art to colouring to final product for the Hangman illustration.
kennyevil.bsky.social
I’m guessing the vicinity will be a couple of hundred miles
kennyevil.bsky.social
It’s really stunning the imagined problems uncreative people have to invent to justify the use of AI in creative processes
junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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leftoutside.bsky.social
If you run a conference in the UAE you have to register every speaker with the ministry. In Qatar the ministry actually signs off your invitation list. Gulf Monarchies have done a great job in some ways, but if you look at them as a British person and envy them you actually just hate your country.
sundersays.bsky.social
Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
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kathyburke.bsky.social
Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
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marisakabas.bsky.social
seeing otherwise smart people share the story that a south carolina judge’s beach house was burned to the ground because of a ruling against trump despite there being no evidence of that has been frustrating. just because the other side has abandoned facts doesn’t mean we can, too.
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robfordmancs.bsky.social
Being reminded that the low level crapness of the West Coast Mainline is as nothing compared to the top tier chaos of the trans-Pennine “express” and indeed any effort to get from one Northern city to another by travelling east-west something God and Whitehall clearly feel should be forbidden.
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robfordmancs.bsky.social
It is also deeply unhealthy to have local govts who don’t provide many visible/valuable services for most residents (because they lack the resources). Encourages distrust and populism - “what am I paying my council tax for? The council does nothing for me.”
stephenkb.bsky.social
Amazed this is still going ahead - basic and obvious problem is that essentially everything local government does now is for the poor. You can’t move it around without really hurting poor people somewhere!
cjayanetti.bsky.social
Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of the children’s services funding formula halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government grants.

By me, for Politics Home: www.politicshome.com/news/article...
kennyevil.bsky.social
For anyone interested in the people imposing flags all over Birmingham the Birmingham Dispatch has done some great investigative work. Long story short, yeah another bunch of grifters. www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/red-flags-th...
Red flags: The non-existent company behind Brum's Union Jacks
'It's 100% legitimate'
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk
kennyevil.bsky.social
One of the things we keep hearing about why the bbc keeps having Farage on is that he “always picks up the phone” and we see how thin that excuse is now.
kennyevil.bsky.social
Mayall’s commitment to making himself look like the worst human being ever is amazing.
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billcorbett.bsky.social
Look at this dumb baby shit. Pure pathetic insecurity in tchotchke form by people who should never hold any power over others. Also not a coin you doofuses!
FBI director’s laughable challenge coins (?)
kennyevil.bsky.social
The whole crap about fat soldiers and generals is the Nazi obsession with physical fitness.
kennyevil.bsky.social
I think having three general elections in the space of five years, followed by three prime ministers in the subsequent five years, probably warped people’s perceptions of the time between them.
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greyskiesthinking.bsky.social
The mainstream response should surely be to refuse to get into the game, to break the equivalence chain at the first link. But that is to assume the mainstream parties perceive a common interest where all they seem to be looking for is short-term competitive advantage vis à vis each other. 4/n
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greyskiesthinking.bsky.social
I understand why racists want to conflate illegal with legal immigration, recently-arrived immigrants with long-term residents, UK-born minorities with non-UK born. They know they are a small minority, so they set up a cascade of equivalences to get from immigration control to mass deportation. 1/n