Hard Boiled Egg
@perigominas.bsky.social
Dilettante, but quite good at it because I put the hard yards in. I contain multitudes, it's a shame they don't get on.
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
How I'm rolling up to Thanksgiving
November 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
How I'm rolling up to Thanksgiving
I own a washing machine that has mastered both the concept of time and lying about it. Surely personhood beckons.
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I own a washing machine that has mastered both the concept of time and lying about it. Surely personhood beckons.
Self Immolation is a BBC specialty
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Self Immolation is a BBC specialty
Can't believe Gibb would do the dirty on Mason like that. Absolutely bodied.
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Can't believe Gibb would do the dirty on Mason like that. Absolutely bodied.
A fresh slice of brie and I'll throw in a box of crackers to anyone who can explain why a US invasion of Venezuela would be materially different from Operation Z / 3 Day SMO
SOUTHCOM is curbing holiday leave as it prepares for potential land strikes in Venezuela within the next 10–14 days, NewsNation reports.
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A fresh slice of brie and I'll throw in a box of crackers to anyone who can explain why a US invasion of Venezuela would be materially different from Operation Z / 3 Day SMO
They come at night, mostly, Charlie Brown
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain, Charlie Brown.
You're too short for that gesture, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
They come at night, mostly, Charlie Brown
Like their brains
November 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Like their brains
"You're mentioning someone that is extremely controversial.
"A lot of people didn't like that lady that you're talking about. Whether you like her or didn't like her, things happen.
"But Macron knows nothing about it, you don't have to embarrass our guests."
"A lot of people didn't like that lady that you're talking about. Whether you like her or didn't like her, things happen.
"But Macron knows nothing about it, you don't have to embarrass our guests."
A friend has alerted me to this pressing and very real international incident involving the very sane Candace Owens.
November 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
"You're mentioning someone that is extremely controversial.
"A lot of people didn't like that lady that you're talking about. Whether you like her or didn't like her, things happen.
"But Macron knows nothing about it, you don't have to embarrass our guests."
"A lot of people didn't like that lady that you're talking about. Whether you like her or didn't like her, things happen.
"But Macron knows nothing about it, you don't have to embarrass our guests."
Up there with having a poverty surcharge that poor people have to pay and integrating NHS access to the National Lottery as an unnecessary and utterly self-defeating policy dick move
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Up there with having a poverty surcharge that poor people have to pay and integrating NHS access to the National Lottery as an unnecessary and utterly self-defeating policy dick move
Ear worms of tracks that don't exist are the worst. Currently have William Shatner covering MC Hammers "You Can't Touch This" in my head and he's putting the emphasis somewhere different each time.
YOU can't touch this,
You can't TOUCH this,
You can't touch THIS
You CAN'T touch this.
My my my.
YOU can't touch this,
You can't TOUCH this,
You can't touch THIS
You CAN'T touch this.
My my my.
a man in a star trek uniform is talking to another man in a yellow shirt
Alt: Spock looks on as Kirk whirls around to shout What !
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Ear worms of tracks that don't exist are the worst. Currently have William Shatner covering MC Hammers "You Can't Touch This" in my head and he's putting the emphasis somewhere different each time.
YOU can't touch this,
You can't TOUCH this,
You can't touch THIS
You CAN'T touch this.
My my my.
YOU can't touch this,
You can't TOUCH this,
You can't touch THIS
You CAN'T touch this.
My my my.
Me as Bluesky therapist
November 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Me as Bluesky therapist
"Marjorie Taylor-Greene is playing 4D Chess" is making my head spin.
Is she lining up a Senate run?
Is she lining up a Senate run?
As a retiring but still sitting member of the House, MTG has the opportunity to read into the public record documents that otherwise could not be released... and would be protected by the constitution's speech or debate clause from prosecution.
November 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
"Marjorie Taylor-Greene is playing 4D Chess" is making my head spin.
Is she lining up a Senate run?
Is she lining up a Senate run?
If you see this, quote post with the energy you bring to bluesky:
November 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If you see this, quote post with the energy you bring to bluesky:
Advanced is of course contextual, depending largely on the perspective of the viewer, but:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke
There's a lot of magical thinking in Government right now when it comes to AI
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke
There's a lot of magical thinking in Government right now when it comes to AI
Government launches major push for AI-driven science.
Strategy focuses on five areas of “existing UK strength” with £137m in funding.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Strategy focuses on five areas of “existing UK strength” with £137m in funding.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Government launches major push for AI-driven science - Research Professional News
Strategy focuses on five areas of “existing UK strength” with £137m in funding
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Advanced is of course contextual, depending largely on the perspective of the viewer, but:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke
There's a lot of magical thinking in Government right now when it comes to AI
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke
There's a lot of magical thinking in Government right now when it comes to AI
Currently revelling in the joy that is realising Brian Bilston might be one of the most powerful hackers on Earth
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Currently revelling in the joy that is realising Brian Bilston might be one of the most powerful hackers on Earth
BREAKING: Unconfirmed reports Pete Hegseth considering new tattoos
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
BREAKING: Unconfirmed reports Pete Hegseth considering new tattoos
I'm in favour of this, but only if we also bring back Regency-era titling conventions.
"The Electronic Mind: or A Treatise on the Hallucinations and Errors of the Sundry Artificial Intelligencef &c Now Permeating Our Commerce"
"The Electronic Mind: or A Treatise on the Hallucinations and Errors of the Sundry Artificial Intelligencef &c Now Permeating Our Commerce"
man we should bring back the pamphlet
Hey historians 🗃️: Do you know of presses that publish short books (around 30K words / 90 pages plus notes)? I have been working on an article project that could easily turn into an great micro-history of that length, but I'm not sure it would make it to the usual full 60-90K words...
November 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I'm in favour of this, but only if we also bring back Regency-era titling conventions.
"The Electronic Mind: or A Treatise on the Hallucinations and Errors of the Sundry Artificial Intelligencef &c Now Permeating Our Commerce"
"The Electronic Mind: or A Treatise on the Hallucinations and Errors of the Sundry Artificial Intelligencef &c Now Permeating Our Commerce"
BUT MOMMMMMM, IF I DO THAT THEN THEY WON'T LET ME RIDE ON THE BIG PLAAAAANE
Journalists - if the person you are all trying to question insults one of your peers and them comes to you, the only reasonable response is to defer back to the insulted journo or to repeat their question. It’s not just about integrity - our main job is to make sure difficult questions are answered
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
BUT MOMMMMMM, IF I DO THAT THEN THEY WON'T LET ME RIDE ON THE BIG PLAAAAANE
Stephen smashes another one clean out of the stadium and through someone's windscreen in the car-park
![[Scene is MCcDONALDS PICKUP POINT but for the most part we can only see the close up faces of tha CUSTOMER and the McDONALDS EMPLOYEE at the serving point].
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CUSTOMER:
Hi - I’m afraid this isn’t what I ordered
2
McDONALDS EMPLOYEE:
Number 187?
CUSTOMER:
Yes
3
CUSTOMER:
Maybe I pressed the wrong thing?
I just ordered one strawberry milkshake.
4
EMPLOYEE:
Oh - yeah sorry
5
EMPLOYEE:
The milkshake machine’s not working.
6
EMPLOYEE:
The only flavours we can do are vanilla, banana, and Labour Leader Pretending to be Nigel Farage.
7
CUSTOMER:
Is that a new flavour?
EMPLOYEE:
Yeah
8
[We now see that the employee has placed a gigantic milkshake cup on the counter]
EMPLOYEE:
If you look inside, there’s a Labour leader pretending to be Nigel Farage.
9
[Customer looks inside the cup]
10
[Show Keir Starmer dressed as Nigel Farage inside the cup]
CUSTOMER:
So there is
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CUSTOMER:
Is that something people want, then?
EMPLOYEE:
No! No, not at all.
12
EMPLOYEE:
It just keeps happening when we press banana.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Stephen smashes another one clean out of the stadium and through someone's windscreen in the car-park
The pattern for this Government (sic) is becoming clear:
1. Terrible policy trial balloon
2. Awful feedback
3. Cosmetically tweaked double down policy release
4. Astonishing cack handed framing which somehow makes it all look even worse
5. Rock solid competent execution of things we don't want.
1. Terrible policy trial balloon
2. Awful feedback
3. Cosmetically tweaked double down policy release
4. Astonishing cack handed framing which somehow makes it all look even worse
5. Rock solid competent execution of things we don't want.
Labour’s “we have to do it, or racism will get worse” argument is striking. Any other public policy failures British ethnic minorities should be on the hook for? Can we be blamed en bloc for Rachel Reeves’ budget next week too? www.ft.com/content/37b0...
Defence of Labour asylum policy reveals backsliding on racism
Home secretary’s framing of failures is partly low politics, but also a result of ministers’ poor approach to race relations
www.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The pattern for this Government (sic) is becoming clear:
1. Terrible policy trial balloon
2. Awful feedback
3. Cosmetically tweaked double down policy release
4. Astonishing cack handed framing which somehow makes it all look even worse
5. Rock solid competent execution of things we don't want.
1. Terrible policy trial balloon
2. Awful feedback
3. Cosmetically tweaked double down policy release
4. Astonishing cack handed framing which somehow makes it all look even worse
5. Rock solid competent execution of things we don't want.
The Garden of Christmas Delights
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The Garden of Christmas Delights
Suggests "25th Talk" has moved from "Idle" to "Watercooler"
LMAO -- Ted Cruz is on Fox News talking about running for president in 2028
November 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Suggests "25th Talk" has moved from "Idle" to "Watercooler"