LukeBMTB
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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.
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little chudlet among the fungus, go little chudlet 💗
January 28, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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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
If you want to laugh for ten minutes play this audio clip.

(contestants have to guess when the person speaking is telling the truth)

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January 29, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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The director of McDonald's Netherlands is called... Zoe Hamburger

www.mcdonalds.com/nl/nl-nl/con...
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
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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?
January 29, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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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.”
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
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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
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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
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Am really enjoying squirrel boxes on Instagram
January 29, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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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
January 29, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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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
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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."
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.
January 28, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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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’.
January 28, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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.
...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!
January 29, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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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...
January 28, 2026 at 7:21 PM
It's first thing in the morning, I don't have enough 'Oh mate.' available for this.
I wish I could remember where I parked my Porsche.
January 29, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban https://aje.news/ljjuww
January 29, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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60% of women limit how much they cycle due to safety concerns.🚲

Too often women must choose between busy roads with little protection or quieter routes with poor lighting. Both are unsafe.

I’m calling on the Government to build the infrastructure needed to make women feel safe on our roads.
January 28, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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SOMEONE CALL THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS. I have found the most middle class review ever on Ocado for Comte cheese.

Steady yourselves for this

Ready? You’re not even close to being ready
January 28, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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"bring back see through cases where you could see the electronic"
January 28, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Labenhosen.
Finally found how a dog would wear trousers
January 28, 2026 at 9:43 PM