CompSciSi
@compscisi.bsky.social
Educator, hobbyist coder, sim game enthusiast, home cook, general geeky, sarcastic guy.
I will post profanity. I will argue with you about shit.
I will post profanity. I will argue with you about shit.
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this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
Is anyone still paying for Microsoft Office? Don't most people only use at home it because their workplace is being rinsed for a sub whilst handing over their data for AI training?
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Is anyone still paying for Microsoft Office? Don't most people only use at home it because their workplace is being rinsed for a sub whilst handing over their data for AI training?
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Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Another day, another job rejection.
At least I got told this time rather than just ignored.
FFS. What the hell am I going to do?! Sick of being #unemployed and just want work!
At least I got told this time rather than just ignored.
FFS. What the hell am I going to do?! Sick of being #unemployed and just want work!
November 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Another day, another job rejection.
At least I got told this time rather than just ignored.
FFS. What the hell am I going to do?! Sick of being #unemployed and just want work!
At least I got told this time rather than just ignored.
FFS. What the hell am I going to do?! Sick of being #unemployed and just want work!
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Reading this, one proposal is to raise state pension age to 70, which is fine except our ageist society routinely forces people out of work in their 50s. Add to that most people can't afford to retire in their 50s and you potentially have a giant fucking crisis right there
Beyond Our Means - Policy Exchange
Download Publication Online Reader The UK faces a twin-pronged fiscal crisis. At about 100% of GDP, public debt is inordinately high and is set to rise a good deal further. Debt interest alone account...
policyexchange.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Reading this, one proposal is to raise state pension age to 70, which is fine except our ageist society routinely forces people out of work in their 50s. Add to that most people can't afford to retire in their 50s and you potentially have a giant fucking crisis right there
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Dropping this here without comment...
Next week LinkedIn will use your personal data for AI training by automatically enabling permissions.
To manually turn off go to:
Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ under
“How LinkedIn uses your data” click “Data for Generative AI improvement” ➡️ toggle off
To manually turn off go to:
Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ under
“How LinkedIn uses your data” click “Data for Generative AI improvement” ➡️ toggle off
November 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Dropping this here without comment...
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
My iPad has become nothing more than a glorified media player and colouring book. If it wasn't for a couple of graphics apps I use for a few projects I'd bin it off. I've dusted off my old surface pro, stuck Ubuntu on it & it's a million times more useful.
Everyday I realise my iPad is just getting less and less useful and I really would love to talk to someone who can explain how and why the apple ecosystem is so great.
I'm sure you'd try to convince me wearing a red hat and sucking up to the orange one is great too.
I'm sure you'd try to convince me wearing a red hat and sucking up to the orange one is great too.
October 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
My iPad has become nothing more than a glorified media player and colouring book. If it wasn't for a couple of graphics apps I use for a few projects I'd bin it off. I've dusted off my old surface pro, stuck Ubuntu on it & it's a million times more useful.
Everyday I realise my iPad is just getting less and less useful and I really would love to talk to someone who can explain how and why the apple ecosystem is so great.
I'm sure you'd try to convince me wearing a red hat and sucking up to the orange one is great too.
I'm sure you'd try to convince me wearing a red hat and sucking up to the orange one is great too.
October 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Everyday I realise my iPad is just getting less and less useful and I really would love to talk to someone who can explain how and why the apple ecosystem is so great.
I'm sure you'd try to convince me wearing a red hat and sucking up to the orange one is great too.
I'm sure you'd try to convince me wearing a red hat and sucking up to the orange one is great too.
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South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.
restofworld.org
October 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
You gotta love it when your fully charged MacBook discharges overnight.
If I had the money this thing would be gone!
If I had the money this thing would be gone!
October 6, 2025 at 6:19 AM
You gotta love it when your fully charged MacBook discharges overnight.
If I had the money this thing would be gone!
If I had the money this thing would be gone!
Recently started working as an ESL teacher.
I don't think it is for me. There are so many things that go against all I learnt whilst teaching in the (secondary) classroom and through CPD.
I don't think it is for me. There are so many things that go against all I learnt whilst teaching in the (secondary) classroom and through CPD.
October 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Recently started working as an ESL teacher.
I don't think it is for me. There are so many things that go against all I learnt whilst teaching in the (secondary) classroom and through CPD.
I don't think it is for me. There are so many things that go against all I learnt whilst teaching in the (secondary) classroom and through CPD.
Apples universal control is awful. Why does it work so inconsistently? Sign out, sign back in, reboot, restart, mess about, repeat. The next device will not be made by Apple & all of their OSes can get in the bin!
October 2, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Apples universal control is awful. Why does it work so inconsistently? Sign out, sign back in, reboot, restart, mess about, repeat. The next device will not be made by Apple & all of their OSes can get in the bin!
Ah FFS. Fucking @vercel.com. Good job I'm lazy and haven't updated the site in a while. Guess now is the time to plan and do the updates I wanted as I shift to a new platform.
October 2, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Ah FFS. Fucking @vercel.com. Good job I'm lazy and haven't updated the site in a while. Guess now is the time to plan and do the updates I wanted as I shift to a new platform.
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this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life
Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."
September 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life
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Carl Benz has an idea
![[Scene is a 19th century drawing room with a sign outside saying TRANSPORT INVENTORS CLUB. Inside, the German Engineer KARL BENZ is addressing a meeting of gentlemen about his new transport idea]
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KARL BENZ:
OK guys - you’re gonna love this
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KARL BENZ:
So it’s like, a box made of metal that goes at up to 120 miles an hour, yeah?
[Karl shows them a diagram of a car]
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KARL BENZ:
And your drive it down one side of the road, and the boxes going the other way go on the opposite side, so we don’t need to build two roads!
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OTHER GUY:
What’s down the middle?
KARL BENZ:
A white line.
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OTHER GUY:
So like, a white barrier…
KARL BENZ:
No a white line. Drawn on the floor.
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OTHER GUY:
And who’s piloting these machines?
KARL BENZ:
I was thinking: random members of the public.
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[Pause, the other guys all look with concern at Karl]
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OTHER GUY:
Karl are you OK
KARL BENZ:
No listen it’s fine
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OTHER GUY:
You know we’re worried about you, don’t you?
KARL BENZ:
No really it’ll work -
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KARL BENZ:
Once hundreds of millions of people have died and the world’s started ending because of the fumes it’ll all be normal.
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OTHER GUY:
Is that normal like the ‘commuter travel device’ you brought in last week which was just…
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OTHER GUY:
…an iron maiden fired from a catapult?
[The other guy displays a diagram of an iron maiden being fired from a catapult]
KARL BENZ:
THAT WOULD’VE WORKED!
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September 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Carl Benz has an idea
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A therapist who doesn't respect your pronouns has someone else as a client; they are serving an interest that is not yours and you shouldn't participate.
Safety Advice:
I keep seeing young trans people on social media talking about therapists disrespecting their pronouns and parents telling them that the therapist has a right to their beliefs.
I want to be clear: you have a right to the therapy room being a safe supportive space for YOUR growth.
I keep seeing young trans people on social media talking about therapists disrespecting their pronouns and parents telling them that the therapist has a right to their beliefs.
I want to be clear: you have a right to the therapy room being a safe supportive space for YOUR growth.
September 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
A therapist who doesn't respect your pronouns has someone else as a client; they are serving an interest that is not yours and you shouldn't participate.
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September 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.
September 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.
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A particular characteristic of fascism is the fetishization of masculinity and the subordination of women. Fascism is virulently male supremacist, uber machismo, and rife with sexual anxiety about gender roles. This is 100% Fascism.
Vance: "If you're a man and you see the pleading eyes of a girl looking up for protection, then we have to protect our girls and our women in this country."
September 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A particular characteristic of fascism is the fetishization of masculinity and the subordination of women. Fascism is virulently male supremacist, uber machismo, and rife with sexual anxiety about gender roles. This is 100% Fascism.
Christ, where did the last hour go? Have to get back to some really shitty training soon. I was supposed to have a nap after dropping the OH off this morning and narrowly avoiding a crash on the autovia. In stead I'm going to make 2 coffees, cross my fingers and hope.
September 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Christ, where did the last hour go? Have to get back to some really shitty training soon. I was supposed to have a nap after dropping the OH off this morning and narrowly avoiding a crash on the autovia. In stead I'm going to make 2 coffees, cross my fingers and hope.
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"there'll be lots of people in the LGBT community and allies who would say that's outrageous"; yeah, like me @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social. Please explain how this treats trans people with "dignity and respect". You're an abject disgrace on trans rights. As a gay man my message to you is "resign".
Streeting confirmed that he will push trans women into "third spaces", saying that his plans for segregation are based on "respect" and "empathy".
September 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"there'll be lots of people in the LGBT community and allies who would say that's outrageous"; yeah, like me @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social. Please explain how this treats trans people with "dignity and respect". You're an abject disgrace on trans rights. As a gay man my message to you is "resign".