pickwick
@pickwick.bsky.social
just another angry glaswegian leftie
Ohhh I see "dead dove: do not eat" is an Arrested Development thing rather than just AO3 fic tags getting abstract
November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Ohhh I see "dead dove: do not eat" is an Arrested Development thing rather than just AO3 fic tags getting abstract
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November 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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"We need to stand up against unaccountable NGOs", says Maria Steen, spokesperson for the Irish. NGO, The Iona Institute. At the "Battle Of Ideas", an event hosted by Gript Media, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Life Institute, another NGO.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"We need to stand up against unaccountable NGOs", says Maria Steen, spokesperson for the Irish. NGO, The Iona Institute. At the "Battle Of Ideas", an event hosted by Gript Media, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Life Institute, another NGO.
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He joined Labour because his mother survived labour
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
He joined Labour because his mother survived labour
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Maybe someone else he knows died of cerebral palsy and he has also refuted anything cerebral.
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Maybe someone else he knows died of cerebral palsy and he has also refuted anything cerebral.
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Note from my producer:
The scene with the blue Labour academic is implausible and needs work, no one in real life would say: “the lanyard is the ultimate symbol of the technocratic managerialism, wokeness and identity politics that has infected British politics and desecrated the working class.”
The scene with the blue Labour academic is implausible and needs work, no one in real life would say: “the lanyard is the ultimate symbol of the technocratic managerialism, wokeness and identity politics that has infected British politics and desecrated the working class.”
November 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Note from my producer:
The scene with the blue Labour academic is implausible and needs work, no one in real life would say: “the lanyard is the ultimate symbol of the technocratic managerialism, wokeness and identity politics that has infected British politics and desecrated the working class.”
The scene with the blue Labour academic is implausible and needs work, no one in real life would say: “the lanyard is the ultimate symbol of the technocratic managerialism, wokeness and identity politics that has infected British politics and desecrated the working class.”
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This is what the British state and NHS are doing to trans children.
In a "study", designed by associates of a designated hate group, into which these children are being coerced, because their internationally-endorsed healthcare has been banned on the bigoted whims of a religious ideologue.
In a "study", designed by associates of a designated hate group, into which these children are being coerced, because their internationally-endorsed healthcare has been banned on the bigoted whims of a religious ideologue.
(trying to gauge child mental wellbeing) Are you a criminal? Are you a criminal? Are you a criminal? Do you want to surgically alter your body? Do you want to surgically alter your body? Are you sexually active? Are you sexually active? Are you a criminal? Are you a criminal? Do you want to surgical
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
This is what the British state and NHS are doing to trans children.
In a "study", designed by associates of a designated hate group, into which these children are being coerced, because their internationally-endorsed healthcare has been banned on the bigoted whims of a religious ideologue.
In a "study", designed by associates of a designated hate group, into which these children are being coerced, because their internationally-endorsed healthcare has been banned on the bigoted whims of a religious ideologue.
If you were this incapable of dealing with lexical ambiguity you would not be able to function as an English speaker.
He's lying his arse off because he thinks it'll help him, though I can't imagine how
He's lying his arse off because he thinks it'll help him, though I can't imagine how
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
If you were this incapable of dealing with lexical ambiguity you would not be able to function as an English speaker.
He's lying his arse off because he thinks it'll help him, though I can't imagine how
He's lying his arse off because he thinks it'll help him, though I can't imagine how
Politicians' fetish for factories and Traditional Industry is so wild. I bet dozens of companies in Scotland have made 150+ people redundant this year, but obviously if it's IT or insurance or retail then that's fine. But a factory! Suddenly it's a crisis and there are summits everywhere
November 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Politicians' fetish for factories and Traditional Industry is so wild. I bet dozens of companies in Scotland have made 150+ people redundant this year, but obviously if it's IT or insurance or retail then that's fine. But a factory! Suddenly it's a crisis and there are summits everywhere
I assume Scotrail do rail works in November mainly because someone gets a kick out of watching people queue miserably in the pissing rain for a bus that may or may not go where they're headed
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I assume Scotrail do rail works in November mainly because someone gets a kick out of watching people queue miserably in the pissing rain for a bus that may or may not go where they're headed
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This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth.
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent
The government’s ban on puberty blockers undermines clinical expertise and targets trans youth with a policy that lacks evidence, consistency and fairness.
theconversation.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth.
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
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Now we have the capacity today to have restored it to a completely upright position, as it was built! But then it wouldn’t be itself. So they stabilised it to a lean of 3.97 degrees instead.
November 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Now we have the capacity today to have restored it to a completely upright position, as it was built! But then it wouldn’t be itself. So they stabilised it to a lean of 3.97 degrees instead.
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The leaning tower of pisa wasn’t meant to lean. It was built on unstable ground and the lean has increased gradually over the centuries. By 1990 that was at 5.5 degrees and it was at risk of toppling completely.
November 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The leaning tower of pisa wasn’t meant to lean. It was built on unstable ground and the lean has increased gradually over the centuries. By 1990 that was at 5.5 degrees and it was at risk of toppling completely.
It's Muriel's dream city
What do you think of this: a new urban environment built mainly of wood, linked by #trams: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How ambitious ‘forest city’ plan for England could become a reality
Cross-party coalition behind proposals hope eco-friendly scheme for million people could begin before end of decade
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It's Muriel's dream city
I don't really care what shade of blue the bsky logo is but I'm baffled about why they'd change it so it stands out less.
Basically the same colour as FB, Signal, Discord, my VPN, shazam, Ticketmaster, etc
Basically the same colour as FB, Signal, Discord, my VPN, shazam, Ticketmaster, etc
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I don't really care what shade of blue the bsky logo is but I'm baffled about why they'd change it so it stands out less.
Basically the same colour as FB, Signal, Discord, my VPN, shazam, Ticketmaster, etc
Basically the same colour as FB, Signal, Discord, my VPN, shazam, Ticketmaster, etc
* in England
* some of them
* some of them
November 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
* in England
* some of them
* some of them
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If there is any Doctor Who news today, I hope it will be scheduled for 5:15pm and then get delayed by news of the American president being assassinated - After all, it's how it all started.
#DoctorWho
#DoctorWho
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
If there is any Doctor Who news today, I hope it will be scheduled for 5:15pm and then get delayed by news of the American president being assassinated - After all, it's how it all started.
#DoctorWho
#DoctorWho
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One of the most infuriating genres of anything is: person integrally involved in fuckery saying "WOW everything is so fucked now!"
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
One of the most infuriating genres of anything is: person integrally involved in fuckery saying "WOW everything is so fucked now!"
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "A household economy is nothing like a national budget, and we really need to break that metaphor"
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "A household economy is nothing like a national budget, and we really need to break that metaphor"
Anyone who thinks they're one of the "grown-ups in the room" is by definition not one of the useful people in the room
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Anyone who thinks they're one of the "grown-ups in the room" is by definition not one of the useful people in the room
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if only paul knew the editor of a national news station.
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
if only paul knew the editor of a national news station.
The news mentions, in the midst of extended speculation about the budget and irritation that MPs won't pre-leak the budget to them, that economists say all this pre-budget speculation is damaging to the economy
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The news mentions, in the midst of extended speculation about the budget and irritation that MPs won't pre-leak the budget to them, that economists say all this pre-budget speculation is damaging to the economy
I actually love how people keep bringing the hypnoboobs thing up to criticise Zack Polanski, because if one minor bit of daftness he was pressured into in his early 20s is still the worst thing they have on him, he's doing all right
November 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I actually love how people keep bringing the hypnoboobs thing up to criticise Zack Polanski, because if one minor bit of daftness he was pressured into in his early 20s is still the worst thing they have on him, he's doing all right
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The actual real explanation always turns out to be way more dumb and insulting than you imagined it was.
November 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The actual real explanation always turns out to be way more dumb and insulting than you imagined it was.