Faux Brummell
@shodanalexm.bsky.social
Person of disinterest.
Member of the Liberal Elite (Non-Metropolitan branch).
Same username at the other place.
Living a peripatetic life across the English-Welsh border.
Perpetually trying, and mostly failing, to write something substantial.
Member of the Liberal Elite (Non-Metropolitan branch).
Same username at the other place.
Living a peripatetic life across the English-Welsh border.
Perpetually trying, and mostly failing, to write something substantial.
What a world.
The capacity to generate ever more, ever more pointless, if not outright damaging, AI slop takes precedence over providing homes and livelihoods for actual people.
The capacity to generate ever more, ever more pointless, if not outright damaging, AI slop takes precedence over providing homes and livelihoods for actual people.
AI to cause job losses and homelessness?
'Power hungry' data centres making London housing crisis worse by delaying new homes
Electrical grid capacity in west London stretched to limit as AI ‘factories’ compete with housing developments for energy"
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
'Power hungry' data centres making London housing crisis worse by delaying new homes
Electrical grid capacity in west London stretched to limit as AI ‘factories’ compete with housing developments for energy"
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Power-hungry! Data centres making London housing crisis worse by delaying new homes
Electrical grid capacity in west London stretched to limit as AI ‘factories’ compete with housing developments for energy
www.standard.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
What a world.
The capacity to generate ever more, ever more pointless, if not outright damaging, AI slop takes precedence over providing homes and livelihoods for actual people.
The capacity to generate ever more, ever more pointless, if not outright damaging, AI slop takes precedence over providing homes and livelihoods for actual people.
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2025:
A WordPress plug-in accidentally pushes something to live - the chair of a national institution resigns
OpenAI intentionally release products to a mass market that includes errors, manipulations and stolen material - cool, cool
Is this how it works?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
A WordPress plug-in accidentally pushes something to live - the chair of a national institution resigns
OpenAI intentionally release products to a mass market that includes errors, manipulations and stolen material - cool, cool
Is this how it works?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
2025:
A WordPress plug-in accidentally pushes something to live - the chair of a national institution resigns
OpenAI intentionally release products to a mass market that includes errors, manipulations and stolen material - cool, cool
Is this how it works?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
A WordPress plug-in accidentally pushes something to live - the chair of a national institution resigns
OpenAI intentionally release products to a mass market that includes errors, manipulations and stolen material - cool, cool
Is this how it works?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Whose opinion keeps changing? Not mine. It was, is, and always will be - they're OK, to be honest, I can take it or leave it.
The long and winding road: Stuart Maconie on why our opinions about the Beatles keep changing
The long and winding road: Stuart Maconie on why our opinions about the Beatles keep changing
Fans and historians have spent 60 years debating what the band means – and which member is greatest. Will the returning Anthology project and Sam Mendes’s planned biopics create new arguments?
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Whose opinion keeps changing? Not mine. It was, is, and always will be - they're OK, to be honest, I can take it or leave it.
'Sright
Just utter imbeciles pulling out every cable that holds together the modern world in a desperate hunt for immigrants
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM
'Sright
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Parliament & press are having the most basic seminar on ‘media bias’ after decades of denouncing Media Studies.
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Parliament & press are having the most basic seminar on ‘media bias’ after decades of denouncing Media Studies.
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The Age of the Toddler
November 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The Age of the Toddler
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Moose is great, I mean really great.
I genuinely hate having to plug my work on here. I would rather post my cartoons and drawings without a link to my website, but unfortunately social media is an important element of our business, so I have to do it. I do appreciate the reposts and thank you for the support since I came to Bluesky.
November 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Moose is great, I mean really great.
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One cannot overstate America's insanity
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
One cannot overstate America's insanity
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Cover version suitable for a laidback Sunday morning ...
youtu.be/rOIGiOqPjvQ?...
youtu.be/rOIGiOqPjvQ?...
Should I Stay or Should I Go | @theclash | funk cover ft. Sophia James
YouTube video by Scary Pockets
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November 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Cover version suitable for a laidback Sunday morning ...
youtu.be/rOIGiOqPjvQ?...
youtu.be/rOIGiOqPjvQ?...
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“Why do you think Russia paid your close, but less well known, colleague to say the sort of things that you were saying for free at the same time?”
November 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“Why do you think Russia paid your close, but less well known, colleague to say the sort of things that you were saying for free at the same time?”
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NEW: It’s takes a moment for this to really sink in.
Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.
Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
NEW: It’s takes a moment for this to really sink in.
Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.
Guardian reporting that key parts of Trump’s peace plan was drafted IN RUSSIAN first.
Pretty sure that's not how anything works ...
Mortgage brokers say house buying at risk from surveyor ‘down valuing’
Mortgage lenders say house buying at risk from surveyor ‘down valuing’
London and the south-east said to be worst affected, with valuations often coming in at 10% below the agreed sale price
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Pretty sure that's not how anything works ...
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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
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It's always the ones you most expect...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
It's always the ones you most expect...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
This is a revealing thread, from the perspective of the Government's (lack of) commitment to good governance ...
I am currently, because I know how to enjoy a Saturday morning, writing some guidance for people on filling this consultation in. As I do several things are highly apparent. Before I go through them though I don't want this to put people off of filling it in. It is important to do so nonetheless. 1/
Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
November 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This is a revealing thread, from the perspective of the Government's (lack of) commitment to good governance ...
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Nathan Gill was a 'bad apple' says Head Bad Apple of the Bad Apple Party.
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Nathan Gill was a 'bad apple' says Head Bad Apple of the Bad Apple Party.
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🇬🇧 ⚠️ A billion-dollar money-laundering network in Britain bought a bank in Kyrgyzstan to help Russia evade Western sanctions and funnel funds to its war in Ukraine, UK police said on Friday.
Read more here 👉 https://go.france24.com/JVH
Read more here 👉 https://go.france24.com/JVH
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🇬🇧 ⚠️ A billion-dollar money-laundering network in Britain bought a bank in Kyrgyzstan to help Russia evade Western sanctions and funnel funds to its war in Ukraine, UK police said on Friday.
Read more here 👉 https://go.france24.com/JVH
Read more here 👉 https://go.france24.com/JVH
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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Yeah this was a very depressing article because I do not see how a government changes this without getting eaten alive.
This (from: www.ft.com/content/75ce...) is something you can *feel* if you are in the UK, especially if you've experienced living abroad. But infuriatingly successive governments and our entire media are somehow absolutely committed to suggesting anyone who wants to change this is the devil...
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Yeah this was a very depressing article because I do not see how a government changes this without getting eaten alive.
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PSA: Using #AI to do your homework/assignments is the cognitive equivalent of taking all the ingredients of a healthy meal and dropping them directly into the toilet.
Same end result, none of the essential benefits.
Same end result, none of the essential benefits.
November 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
PSA: Using #AI to do your homework/assignments is the cognitive equivalent of taking all the ingredients of a healthy meal and dropping them directly into the toilet.
Same end result, none of the essential benefits.
Same end result, none of the essential benefits.
@rafaelbehr.bsky.social Thanks for the escape routes recommendation for scary pockets. Just had a very enjoyable evening listening to some great covers and phenomenal musicianship.
November 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
@rafaelbehr.bsky.social Thanks for the escape routes recommendation for scary pockets. Just had a very enjoyable evening listening to some great covers and phenomenal musicianship.
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Remarkably simple solution. If you don't want the backing of the far-right for your immigration policy, or to have people point out that you have their backing, don't base your immigration policy on the far-right's rhetoric and ideology.
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...
Shabana Mahmood hits out at Tommy Robinson’s backing of Labour’s migration policy
Shabana Mahmood has said she finds it “deeply offensive” when MPs quote Tommy Robinson at her in the Commons, after the far-right activist backed the government’s sweeping asylum reforms. Asked about ...
www.independent.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Remarkably simple solution. If you don't want the backing of the far-right for your immigration policy, or to have people point out that you have their backing, don't base your immigration policy on the far-right's rhetoric and ideology.
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...