paddyalton.bsky.social
@paddyalton.bsky.social
Linear combination of astronomy, data science, catholicism, and politics.

paddyalton.substack.com
Me in 2015: write code, go make coffee while it's running
Me in 2025: describe code to AI, go make coffee while it's writing
January 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
This Friday (29th of November 2024), Parliament will vote on the ‘Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill’.

In this article I argue against the Bill. If you agree with what I've written and are in the UK, I urge you to write to your MP to ask them to vote against:
open.substack.com/pub/paddyalt...
It can never be safe
Against the Leadbeater Bill. As a warning, this article will necessarily touch on potentially distressing topics.
open.substack.com
November 24, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Thoughtful and important intervention by Gordon Brown
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It seems the man only surfaces once a decade to save this country from doing something misguided and self-destructive.
Spending time with people in their final days showed me that we need not assisted dying, but better end-of-life care | Gordon Brown
We can and must improve on our current end-of-life options – ‘Switzerland, suicide or suffering’, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Normally around about now I start complaining about Advent calendars being the wrong length.
HOWEVER, this is the rare year when Dec 1st is a Sunday! (stopped clocks etc)
SO: instead I'm confining myself to a more standard gripe: Christmas tunes in the middle of November. Absolutely not.
November 22, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Ah so that's where you all went...
November 21, 2024 at 10:25 PM