Andrew Cherry
@kolektiv.xyncro.com
Tech-person, primarily software, occasionally hardware. Somewhat of the left. Dog-dad (also actual child-dad). He/Him. European.
I wouldn't hire anyone who didn't think about Enron at least hourly, and - oh, hang on, there's some police at the door, I'll get back to you...
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I wouldn't hire anyone who didn't think about Enron at least hourly, and - oh, hang on, there's some police at the door, I'll get back to you...
"Would benefit from some modernisation", a phrase I once saw attached to a highland Croft which had one less wall than usual, and no connection to mains water or electricity.
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"Would benefit from some modernisation", a phrase I once saw attached to a highland Croft which had one less wall than usual, and no connection to mains water or electricity.
It is a shame - I would have sponsored any kind of shotgun license; it would be such a shame if we were to lose him to some kind of bizarre hunting accident just after he's amended his will.
November 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
It is a shame - I would have sponsored any kind of shotgun license; it would be such a shame if we were to lose him to some kind of bizarre hunting accident just after he's amended his will.
I think I'd retaliate by playing the theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind at them...
November 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I think I'd retaliate by playing the theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind at them...
I looked at this and wondered if he was still at Durham when I was there - it turns out he was there 8 years after! What the actual... He's got a portrait in the attic getting prettier, he must.
November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I looked at this and wondered if he was still at Durham when I was there - it turns out he was there 8 years after! What the actual... He's got a portrait in the attic getting prettier, he must.
But there is a finite supply - rationing in some sense is inevitable. Surely letting artists/promoters actually determine the prices their fans pay is more appropriate? They can charge more if they wish.
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
But there is a finite supply - rationing in some sense is inevitable. Surely letting artists/promoters actually determine the prices their fans pay is more appropriate? They can charge more if they wish.
The problem is that there's not a level playing field between touts and public. Touts can invest in systems to monopolise ticket purchase, then resell at higher prices. What value does that add for consumers? What value does that add for promoters? In what way does it improve allocation of resource?
November 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The problem is that there's not a level playing field between touts and public. Touts can invest in systems to monopolise ticket purchase, then resell at higher prices. What value does that add for consumers? What value does that add for promoters? In what way does it improve allocation of resource?
So majority of positive responses to Labour proposals on asylum seekers coming from Tories, Reform, and likes of Tommy Robinson. Majority of horror from rest of Labour and everyone else. If you were a Labour minister, shouldn't that make you stop and think? To doubt, to question? Shameful.
November 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
So majority of positive responses to Labour proposals on asylum seekers coming from Tories, Reform, and likes of Tommy Robinson. Majority of horror from rest of Labour and everyone else. If you were a Labour minister, shouldn't that make you stop and think? To doubt, to question? Shameful.
Absolutely disgusting. Disingenuous, borderline just-this-side-of-racist propaganda masquerading as political direction. Inexcusable, especially from people who can be proven, by dint of profession, to know better.
November 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Absolutely disgusting. Disingenuous, borderline just-this-side-of-racist propaganda masquerading as political direction. Inexcusable, especially from people who can be proven, by dint of profession, to know better.
Oh, 100%, not excusing Tories/Reform for an instant - but with Labour I expect them to be better, with Reform I have low expectations to say the least. Media very much stoking things, but Labour seemingly incapable of putting out messages which quell that - inept/cowardly/amoral, hard to know which.
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Oh, 100%, not excusing Tories/Reform for an instant - but with Labour I expect them to be better, with Reform I have low expectations to say the least. Media very much stoking things, but Labour seemingly incapable of putting out messages which quell that - inept/cowardly/amoral, hard to know which.
Yup - and potentially some form of registration/temporary visa at many (all?) British embassies/consulates, etc. Not beyond our supposed "innovative Britain" talent to come up with a reasonably efficient, fair, and above all safe system, surely? Willing to bet it could even be cheaper.
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Yup - and potentially some form of registration/temporary visa at many (all?) British embassies/consulates, etc. Not beyond our supposed "innovative Britain" talent to come up with a reasonably efficient, fair, and above all safe system, surely? Willing to bet it could even be cheaper.
I'd like you to be right, but it feels generous. They're leading with the language of the right, seemingly hoping to appeal to them. They could be leading with "we'll make asylum application safe + legal", instead, they're going with "we'll make it less attractive". Inept, at the very best.
November 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I'd like you to be right, but it feels generous. They're leading with the language of the right, seemingly hoping to appeal to them. They could be leading with "we'll make asylum application safe + legal", instead, they're going with "we'll make it less attractive". Inept, at the very best.
Yeah, I get your point, and a universal agreement is the only sane/practical thing long term. In the short term, we can absolutely be less appalling! (We're on the same page though, not aiming anything at you!)
November 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Yeah, I get your point, and a universal agreement is the only sane/practical thing long term. In the short term, we can absolutely be less appalling! (We're on the same page though, not aiming anything at you!)
There's definitely some of that. Getting MPs, departments, and anything else meaningful off, and away from, X would be a good start. They are astoundingly inept at politics though, to the extent that they don't seem to understand what politicians are, or can be.
November 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
There's definitely some of that. Getting MPs, departments, and anything else meaningful off, and away from, X would be a good start. They are astoundingly inept at politics though, to the extent that they don't seem to understand what politicians are, or can be.
You wouldn't need draconian policies if safe routes existed. Right now, we're creating people smugglers markets for them. We're trying to compete with war and oppression in terms of least desirable. We might be able to win that, but only by becoming the very worst that humanity has to offer.
November 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
You wouldn't need draconian policies if safe routes existed. Right now, we're creating people smugglers markets for them. We're trying to compete with war and oppression in terms of least desirable. We might be able to win that, but only by becoming the very worst that humanity has to offer.
Doesn't need to be a specific point, or a literal specific route, merely the ability to claim asylum from points outside of the UK (ideally many of them, if you're going to actually be generous/moral). Once asylum claim is registered, logistics become much more straightforward/transparent/etc.
November 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Doesn't need to be a specific point, or a literal specific route, merely the ability to claim asylum from points outside of the UK (ideally many of them, if you're going to actually be generous/moral). Once asylum claim is registered, logistics become much more straightforward/transparent/etc.
Reposted by Andrew Cherry
Number of refugees per 1,000 people:
🇱🇧 Lebanon: 137
🇩🇪 Germany: 31
🇸🇪 Sweden: 23
🇧🇪 Belgium: 14
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 13
🇬🇧 UK: 6.5
We are not a "generous country". There is no crisis, other than a bankrupt political elite scapegoating the most vulnerable people on Earth.
🇱🇧 Lebanon: 137
🇩🇪 Germany: 31
🇸🇪 Sweden: 23
🇧🇪 Belgium: 14
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 13
🇬🇧 UK: 6.5
We are not a "generous country". There is no crisis, other than a bankrupt political elite scapegoating the most vulnerable people on Earth.
November 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Number of refugees per 1,000 people:
🇱🇧 Lebanon: 137
🇩🇪 Germany: 31
🇸🇪 Sweden: 23
🇧🇪 Belgium: 14
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 13
🇬🇧 UK: 6.5
We are not a "generous country". There is no crisis, other than a bankrupt political elite scapegoating the most vulnerable people on Earth.
🇱🇧 Lebanon: 137
🇩🇪 Germany: 31
🇸🇪 Sweden: 23
🇧🇪 Belgium: 14
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 13
🇬🇧 UK: 6.5
We are not a "generous country". There is no crisis, other than a bankrupt political elite scapegoating the most vulnerable people on Earth.
It's baffling as to what they went into politics *for*. It's scarcely believable that you could ever have had liberal left views and yet abandon them so readily and so quickly. No imagination, no principles, no meaningful political credo. Just pure amoral power-retention/seeking.
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
It's baffling as to what they went into politics *for*. It's scarcely believable that you could ever have had liberal left views and yet abandon them so readily and so quickly. No imagination, no principles, no meaningful political credo. Just pure amoral power-retention/seeking.
Banality of evil gets chucked about a lot, and it's easy to forget what it means until you see something like this - the sheer weakness, cowardice, spinelessness and acquiescence to whatever fascism might seem popular, by the dullest and most forgettable of people.
November 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Banality of evil gets chucked about a lot, and it's easy to forget what it means until you see something like this - the sheer weakness, cowardice, spinelessness and acquiescence to whatever fascism might seem popular, by the dullest and most forgettable of people.
I have literally used that as a selling point with a potential client in the last few weeks. "My advice will come from me, it's the only way I can stand by it"
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I have literally used that as a selling point with a potential client in the last few weeks. "My advice will come from me, it's the only way I can stand by it"
Reposted by Andrew Cherry
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yes, it was very much like that for kids' TV in my childhood. Blue Peter and Grange Hill on the BBC, and Ancestral Voices Prophesying War on ITV (later replaced by Fun House due to falling ratings).
Absolute racist plum of a man.
Absolute racist plum of a man.
November 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Yes, it was very much like that for kids' TV in my childhood. Blue Peter and Grange Hill on the BBC, and Ancestral Voices Prophesying War on ITV (later replaced by Fun House due to falling ratings).
Absolute racist plum of a man.
Absolute racist plum of a man.
What does AI even mean in this context?! www.theguardian.com/education/20...
It's never clearly explained, it sounds like there's some kind of formula - why would AI even be theoretically helpful here? Uncritical slop reporting of uncritical slop usage - complete absence of journalism. Come on!
It's never clearly explained, it sounds like there's some kind of formula - why would AI even be theoretically helpful here? Uncritical slop reporting of uncritical slop usage - complete absence of journalism. Come on!
All schools in England to be given AI-generated pupil attendance targets
Unions decry move, saying it will put more pressure on headteachers without tackling absence from classrooms
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
What does AI even mean in this context?! www.theguardian.com/education/20...
It's never clearly explained, it sounds like there's some kind of formula - why would AI even be theoretically helpful here? Uncritical slop reporting of uncritical slop usage - complete absence of journalism. Come on!
It's never clearly explained, it sounds like there's some kind of formula - why would AI even be theoretically helpful here? Uncritical slop reporting of uncritical slop usage - complete absence of journalism. Come on!
While I think that fear of phone-snatching in many cities is overblown, Apple have definitely done their bit for the muggers here. Spotting a target while cruising by on a moped is much helped by having it in a soft and grabbable day-glo yellow theft-sock.
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
While I think that fear of phone-snatching in many cities is overblown, Apple have definitely done their bit for the muggers here. Spotting a target while cruising by on a moped is much helped by having it in a soft and grabbable day-glo yellow theft-sock.
It would be vaguely understandable in a series obsessed with gritty realism - Ken Loach's Bond should probably care. But if you've previously run across a pool of crocodiles or fought in a hollowed-out volcano, you can probably assume your audience can suspend a little disbelief...
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It would be vaguely understandable in a series obsessed with gritty realism - Ken Loach's Bond should probably care. But if you've previously run across a pool of crocodiles or fought in a hollowed-out volcano, you can probably assume your audience can suspend a little disbelief...