LukeBMTB
@lukebmtb.bsky.social
Usual Twitter transfer. Dog walks, phone photo's, dad puns, education, some politics, some family stuff, trying to maintain a 600 year old house.
Just knocked a pint of water over my laptop keyboard.
Darn.
Darn.
January 29, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Just knocked a pint of water over my laptop keyboard.
Darn.
Darn.
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Heeeey I actually sold a book yesterday by posting this link, what if I could sell another one today? 👀
If you would like to read it but you live outside Canada, you can get the ebook here: ko-fi.com/s/a00aca22ef
The Last Band On Earth (complete digital edition) - ElaineMWill's Ko-fi Shop
At long last, the COMPLETE graphic novel, in DRM-free PDF form!
Nat and her bandmates in The Dead Layaways want to go on tour, but the demonic entiti...
ko-fi.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Heeeey I actually sold a book yesterday by posting this link, what if I could sell another one today? 👀
I know where this is - it'll be whoever owns the house on the other side of the road restoring their sea view.
www.brightonandhovenews.org/2026/01/29/c...
www.brightonandhovenews.org/2026/01/29/c...
Council investigates after tree ‘vandalised’
An investigation into how the top of a tree in a leafy Hove suburb was hacked off has been launched.
www.brightonandhovenews.org
January 29, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I know where this is - it'll be whoever owns the house on the other side of the road restoring their sea view.
www.brightonandhovenews.org/2026/01/29/c...
www.brightonandhovenews.org/2026/01/29/c...
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Advanced lanyard technology. Patented this week.
US 12532956
US 12532956
January 29, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Advanced lanyard technology. Patented this week.
US 12532956
US 12532956
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This is 2.5 UK’s worth of power.
i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts
Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:58 PM
This is 2.5 UK’s worth of power.
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Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
Of the 85,000 women killed by men in 2023, 60% died at the hands of a partner or family member, new UN figures show
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Of the 85,000 women killed by men in 2023, 60% died at the hands of a partner or family member, new UN figures show
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
Of the 85,000 women killed by men in 2023, 60% died at the hands of a partner or family member, new UN figures show
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
Of the 85,000 women killed by men in 2023, 60% died at the hands of a partner or family member, new UN figures show
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Of the 85,000 women killed by men in 2023, 60% died at the hands of a partner or family member, new UN figures show
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
I do wonder if the murder rate for women has changed as much as it has for men - I'm not sure they're always safer at home.
January 29, 2026 at 2:48 PM
I do wonder if the murder rate for women has changed as much as it has for men - I'm not sure they're always safer at home.
January 29, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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little chudlet among the fungus, go little chudlet 💗
January 28, 2026 at 9:45 PM
little chudlet among the fungus, go little chudlet 💗
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I genuinely don't know what to say about this stuff anymore. It's deliberate disinformation. There can be no other explanation.
This is a disgracefully dishonest headline from the BBC. Its motivation can only be deliberately to mislead the public about who lost the case.
January 29, 2026 at 12:33 PM
I genuinely don't know what to say about this stuff anymore. It's deliberate disinformation. There can be no other explanation.
If you want to laugh for ten minutes play this audio clip.
(contestants have to guess when the person speaking is telling the truth)
www.reddit.com/user/pfobwpf...
(contestants have to guess when the person speaking is telling the truth)
www.reddit.com/user/pfobwpf...
From pfobwpfo's profile on Reddit: Nuts
Explore this post and more from pfobwpfo's profile
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January 29, 2026 at 12:45 PM
If you want to laugh for ten minutes play this audio clip.
(contestants have to guess when the person speaking is telling the truth)
www.reddit.com/user/pfobwpf...
(contestants have to guess when the person speaking is telling the truth)
www.reddit.com/user/pfobwpf...
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Zoe Hamburger benoemd tot Managing Director van McDonald's Nederland
www.mcdonalds.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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Here comes the sun: After two months of polar night, the orangish-glowing 🌞 returns over the horizon seen from the windows of the Barents Observer newsroom in #Kirkenes 🇳🇴. Temperature this morning is -24°C.
January 29, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Here comes the sun: After two months of polar night, the orangish-glowing 🌞 returns over the horizon seen from the windows of the Barents Observer newsroom in #Kirkenes 🇳🇴. Temperature this morning is -24°C.
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I saw someone rather thoughtfully saying that we shouldn’t be dunking on the 9-9-6 bro but instead interrogating the culture that spawned him… But while that nuance is interesting, I feel like this is one of those “yes, and” situations.
Personally I feel I have more than enough scorn to go around?
Personally I feel I have more than enough scorn to go around?
January 29, 2026 at 11:41 AM
I saw someone rather thoughtfully saying that we shouldn’t be dunking on the 9-9-6 bro but instead interrogating the culture that spawned him… But while that nuance is interesting, I feel like this is one of those “yes, and” situations.
Personally I feel I have more than enough scorn to go around?
Personally I feel I have more than enough scorn to go around?
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“What I’m waiting for, still, is a nuanced portrayal of autistic adults on our screens.
I’d like to tell you how your world looks equally baffling to ours, except your absurdities are our social expectations. We’d be amused by it all, just like you’re amused by us, but we have to play the game.”
I’d like to tell you how your world looks equally baffling to ours, except your absurdities are our social expectations. We’d be amused by it all, just like you’re amused by us, but we have to play the game.”
Telly is weird. As an autistic person, I’ve never felt ‘wholesome’
The microphone is passed to a young man sat along the row. He laughs a little, avoiding all eye contact, and suddenly struggles to speak…
medium.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:24 AM
“What I’m waiting for, still, is a nuanced portrayal of autistic adults on our screens.
I’d like to tell you how your world looks equally baffling to ours, except your absurdities are our social expectations. We’d be amused by it all, just like you’re amused by us, but we have to play the game.”
I’d like to tell you how your world looks equally baffling to ours, except your absurdities are our social expectations. We’d be amused by it all, just like you’re amused by us, but we have to play the game.”
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Quite a telling quote from previous coverage. Men being disengaged from the real world is a big multiplier for social media brain.
January 29, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Quite a telling quote from previous coverage. Men being disengaged from the real world is a big multiplier for social media brain.
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BREAKING: Head gamekeeper Racster Dingwall pleads guilty to conspiracy to kill a Hen Harrier at York Magistrates Court this morning.
January 29, 2026 at 11:09 AM
BREAKING: Head gamekeeper Racster Dingwall pleads guilty to conspiracy to kill a Hen Harrier at York Magistrates Court this morning.
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Consultation results published on Hampstead Heath bathing ponds
Consultation results published on Hampstead Heath bathing ponds
More than 38,000 people responded to the consultation86% felt the ponds should remain trans inclusive spacesResults will help inform an updated access policy for the pondsThe results of a consultation on future access arrangements at Hampstead Heath bathing ponds have been published, with 86% of respondents favouring keeping the current trans-in...
news.cityoflondon.gov.uk
January 29, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Consultation results published on Hampstead Heath bathing ponds
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Me having drawn loads of Valentines Cards for you all and having sold about four… WHERE IS DA LUV?
They’re all here. I need knickers and frazzles money
Pls buy dem - I hate marketing. I just wanna make ART
linktr.ee/Dippyfishcards
#bsnm
They’re all here. I need knickers and frazzles money
Pls buy dem - I hate marketing. I just wanna make ART
linktr.ee/Dippyfishcards
#bsnm
January 29, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Me having drawn loads of Valentines Cards for you all and having sold about four… WHERE IS DA LUV?
They’re all here. I need knickers and frazzles money
Pls buy dem - I hate marketing. I just wanna make ART
linktr.ee/Dippyfishcards
#bsnm
They’re all here. I need knickers and frazzles money
Pls buy dem - I hate marketing. I just wanna make ART
linktr.ee/Dippyfishcards
#bsnm
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Among the many holes in the "LLMs can do anything" claims, this is definitely the biggest. Unless you know what good looks like, they WILL give you bad. Inevitably. And they aren't really improving in this respect; they're mostly just getting more convincing. And convincingly wrong is worse.
How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.
January 29, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Among the many holes in the "LLMs can do anything" claims, this is definitely the biggest. Unless you know what good looks like, they WILL give you bad. Inevitably. And they aren't really improving in this respect; they're mostly just getting more convincing. And convincingly wrong is worse.
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This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
For all the fearmongering about capital flight from New York City, there’s an exodus few want to talk about: working people.
Sky-high rents and outrageous child care costs are already pushing families out of the city they keep running.
That’s what we have to change.
That’s what we have to change.
January 28, 2026 at 7:59 PM
This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
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Hilltop path this afternoon. The flint cairn on the right has been accumulating for years, probably the farmer stacking stones his plough churns up. But the cairn on the left is new, and its arrival marks this as a doorway.
That’s all it takes - it’s the folklore version of ‘jumpers for goalposts’.
That’s all it takes - it’s the folklore version of ‘jumpers for goalposts’.
January 28, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Hilltop path this afternoon. The flint cairn on the right has been accumulating for years, probably the farmer stacking stones his plough churns up. But the cairn on the left is new, and its arrival marks this as a doorway.
That’s all it takes - it’s the folklore version of ‘jumpers for goalposts’.
That’s all it takes - it’s the folklore version of ‘jumpers for goalposts’.
This is a great thread about the govt AI training thing but the answer to this specific question is always going to be The Old Boys Network.
If people don't/can't trust an application process they'll network instead and then diversity and equality in recruitment are lost and we're all worse off.
If people don't/can't trust an application process they'll network instead and then diversity and equality in recruitment are lost and we're all worse off.
...then everyone sounds the same. Which means interviews become meaningless, and we enter the next phase in the arms race of "how do I evaluate these people in a way they can't fuck about with using AI"?
But sure. My weakness is that I'm a perfectionist, right? Next!
But sure. My weakness is that I'm a perfectionist, right? Next!
January 29, 2026 at 8:41 AM
This is a great thread about the govt AI training thing but the answer to this specific question is always going to be The Old Boys Network.
If people don't/can't trust an application process they'll network instead and then diversity and equality in recruitment are lost and we're all worse off.
If people don't/can't trust an application process they'll network instead and then diversity and equality in recruitment are lost and we're all worse off.
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The Guardian has covered the story that there's no mention of women's safety in new planning guidance, despite it being recommended in two major government reports in the last month. But this is what the Dept of Housing, Communities and Local Gov had to say.
Where's my pitchfork...
Where's my pitchfork...
January 28, 2026 at 7:21 PM
The Guardian has covered the story that there's no mention of women's safety in new planning guidance, despite it being recommended in two major government reports in the last month. But this is what the Dept of Housing, Communities and Local Gov had to say.
Where's my pitchfork...
Where's my pitchfork...