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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 16h

NOW THAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MITIGATE THE SERIOUS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES

i am going to lose my entire fucking mind

Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 16h

i feel like i’m going mad

“now that we have mitigated the serious mental health problems”

sam it is under two months since parents filed a lawsuit claiming your product killed their son and there is a novel form of psychosis that has been named after your product

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 16h

if i had build a product that had led to a novel form of psychosis i probably wouldn’t be this quick to declare that i had “been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues”

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 2d

is it slightly concerning that the most amoral people you have ever met in your life all seem to be simultaneously gravitating towards “responsible AI” like a school of terrible fish

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 2d

Any excuse to repost the best piece of prose ever written www.vice.com/en/article/i...

I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out

The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

www.vice.com

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 2d

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 2d

Some other nuggets of complete insanity from this story:

- This data centre is planned to be 5 gigawatts. That's 1/6 of the National Grid's *peak demand* added by a single project
- It 'would pave the way for a British ChatGPT' - sorry, wtf??

www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 2d

The consequence of this: at the time the Teesside data centre plan was approved, we (and the approving council!) had *zero* idea how much energy it would use or what its emissions would be.

www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/tees...

Teesworks data center gets approved despite clash with BP over planned hydrogen plant

Can these two big UK developments co-exist?

www.datacenterdynamics.com

Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 2d

You can submit an Outline Application w/ minimal environmental assessments, for a warehouse.

Then submit a Reserved Matters app. When ppl ask for envi disclosures so they can comment, you refer them to the minimal disclosures made at Outline.

www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/tees...

Teesworks data center gets approved despite clash with BP over planned hydrogen plant

Can these two big UK developments co-exist?

www.datacenterdynamics.com

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 2d

The Data Centre, btw, got approved with *basically zero* environmental disclosures.

How? They exploited a loophole in planning legislation by which Data Centres are *technically warehouses* so have minimal environmental impact assessment reqs at outline planning stage.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Stockton AI data centre plans approved

The new data centre could see 150 jobs created and will be "future proof", according to its owners.

www.bbc.com

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 2d

'will Teesside be developed into a 5GW (!) Data Centre or a Blue Hydrogen Plant' is a real Alien vs Predator situation huh www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

Ed Miliband’s split with Starmer over a £100bn mega-project

A bitter cabinet division has opened up over the future of Teesside. Will AI datacentres or a net zero-linked hydrogen plant get the vote?

www.thetimes.com

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 3d

initial take on “chatfishing”: wow PUAs in the fucking mud, turns out women want to be listened to
2nd take: maybe PUA market isn’t dead - you turn up to a date who expects you to be witty & empathetic but you don’t have those skills because you chatfished
3rd take: who the fuck finds chatGPT witty

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3d

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 3d

Working on a take that’s like “this is just PUA but effective, turns out women just want to be listened to”

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 10d

You could do a *great* Good For Her slasher with Maniac slowed down and made melancholy

Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 11d

No, the whole lot, weren’t you listening

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 11d

a veterinary practice once told me over the phone that GDPR meant they couldn’t give me an update on the status of a stray cat I’d brought in half dead

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Sep 15

‘My Government Must Quit Twitter and Call Out Elon Musk’s Far-Right Hate’

Labour MP Noah Law explains why it’s time for Keir Starmer to start treating the billionaire X owner as the ‘foreign extremist’ he now is
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/15/m...

'My Government Must Quit Twitter and Call Out Elon Musk's Far-Right Hate'

Labour MP Noah Law explains why it's time for Keir Starmer to start treating the billionaire X owner as the 'foreign extremist' he now is

bylinetimes.com

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 29d

“free speech” is just an empty signifier at this point and has been for at least 20 years (i am not a historian please don’t be mad if its way longer i am only a man)

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 29d

twitter is rotting the brains of a good portion of britain’s polticians and commentariat and i dont think they even realise it, the sooner the campaign to get govt off twitter gathers steam the better

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · Sep 8

Chatbots, and particularly Google's AI Overviews, are having a devastating impact on publishers' traffic (and therefore revenues). www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/07/29/g...

Revealed: Google’s news-stealing chatbot is pinching 79% of traffic from real journalists

Google isn’t just nicking the work of human reporters – it’s stealing the clicks that helped pay for that work in the first place.

www.foxglove.org.uk

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · Sep 8

AIO is having a massive impact on journalism. But Google is itself a competitor for ad revenue (against media websites) so using AIO to drive clicks away from news publishers is a form of self preferencing and an abuse of its dominance in search. www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/07/29/g...

Revealed: Google’s news-stealing chatbot is pinching 79% of traffic from real journalists

Google isn’t just nicking the work of human reporters – it’s stealing the clicks that helped pay for that work in the first place.

www.foxglove.org.uk

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Foxglove Legal @foxglovelegal.bsky.social · Sep 8

“It’s alarming that the Environment Agency has been handing out licences for datacentres to extract hundreds of millions of litres of water from the environment – while failing to keep track of the total.” observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Fears as datacentres ‘fail to disclose water usage’

Campaigners want companies supplying AI infrastructure to publicise water consumption

observer.co.uk

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · Sep 6

really enjoying the arc where Asif Aziz is slowly revealed as the season finale big bad of London Centric

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · Sep 5

finally some good fuckin news www.ft.com/content/8f8b...

EU hits Google with €2.95bn antitrust fine

Sanction comes despite Trump’s threat of retaliatory tariffs over digital regulations

www.ft.com

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · Sep 5

farewell Peter Kyle, I will miss coming up with new and imaginative ways to say you’re getting your wallet inspected by big tech

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