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Once more for the haters...
December 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Once more for the haters...
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this is insane
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
December 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
this is insane
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and also, kids, for God's sake stuff as much money as you can into a pension, even if it's literally only a fiver a month. Your 60s will arrive far faster than you can possibly imagine 😬
December 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
and also, kids, for God's sake stuff as much money as you can into a pension, even if it's literally only a fiver a month. Your 60s will arrive far faster than you can possibly imagine 😬
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Why stop at asking LLMs to generate references for you? The logical response if you can't find an article reference generated by LLM in a library is to get the LLM to generate the article for you, as it is clearly all-wise and knows everything. Job done.
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
December 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Why stop at asking LLMs to generate references for you? The logical response if you can't find an article reference generated by LLM in a library is to get the LLM to generate the article for you, as it is clearly all-wise and knows everything. Job done.
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It's time once again for my annual #treebybike post. This is the 12/19/42 cover of @newyorker.com, so one full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This would be the first real Christmas alone, or without a family member, for millions in the US. Gas and tire rationing had begun earlier that year.🗃️
December 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It's time once again for my annual #treebybike post. This is the 12/19/42 cover of @newyorker.com, so one full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This would be the first real Christmas alone, or without a family member, for millions in the US. Gas and tire rationing had begun earlier that year.🗃️
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A decade old tweet, still going strong.
December 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A decade old tweet, still going strong.
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On TMS they interviewed some teenager who left England in August to walk to Australia to watch the cricket . He’s reached Singapore now and if I was him I’d turn round and head home #ashes
December 6, 2025 at 7:45 AM
On TMS they interviewed some teenager who left England in August to walk to Australia to watch the cricket . He’s reached Singapore now and if I was him I’d turn round and head home #ashes
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EXCLUSIVE AUCTION ALERT
Hi everyone. Never before have I sold any signed SgtPepper framed prints but to commemorate 10 years (and the end of the project) I am auctioning off one professionally hand framed large signed print of each year starting tonight at chrisBarkerprints.co.uk
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Hi everyone. Never before have I sold any signed SgtPepper framed prints but to commemorate 10 years (and the end of the project) I am auctioning off one professionally hand framed large signed print of each year starting tonight at chrisBarkerprints.co.uk
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December 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
EXCLUSIVE AUCTION ALERT
Hi everyone. Never before have I sold any signed SgtPepper framed prints but to commemorate 10 years (and the end of the project) I am auctioning off one professionally hand framed large signed print of each year starting tonight at chrisBarkerprints.co.uk
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Hi everyone. Never before have I sold any signed SgtPepper framed prints but to commemorate 10 years (and the end of the project) I am auctioning off one professionally hand framed large signed print of each year starting tonight at chrisBarkerprints.co.uk
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political science
Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
December 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
political science
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But still doesn’t beat the fact that Cleopatra is closer to us in time than she was to the building of the Great Pyramid.
😱 "For example, the release of The Beatles’ first UK number one, Love Me Do, is closer to the reign of Queen Victoria than it is to the present day." @jackkessler.bsky.social
Time catches up with us all
When your memories become someone else’s history
www.linestotake.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
But still doesn’t beat the fact that Cleopatra is closer to us in time than she was to the building of the Great Pyramid.
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I have a theory.
Infantino isn’t bald.
But he has his head waxed and lubed to make it easier get it up the hoop of whichever authoritarian leader he has to obsequiously charm that week.
#WorldCup2026
Infantino isn’t bald.
But he has his head waxed and lubed to make it easier get it up the hoop of whichever authoritarian leader he has to obsequiously charm that week.
#WorldCup2026
December 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I have a theory.
Infantino isn’t bald.
But he has his head waxed and lubed to make it easier get it up the hoop of whichever authoritarian leader he has to obsequiously charm that week.
#WorldCup2026
Infantino isn’t bald.
But he has his head waxed and lubed to make it easier get it up the hoop of whichever authoritarian leader he has to obsequiously charm that week.
#WorldCup2026
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Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value
New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says
A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...
www.404media.co
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value
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Rest in peace, mighty Steve Cropper.
If you want to hear more about the fantastic guitarist, songwriter and producer he was, he features in two episodes of the podcast.
Below you can listen to Episode 105: “Green Onions” by Booker T and the MGs.
If you want to hear more about the fantastic guitarist, songwriter and producer he was, he features in two episodes of the podcast.
Below you can listen to Episode 105: “Green Onions” by Booker T and the MGs.
Episode 105: “Green Onions” by Booker T. and the MGs
Episode 105 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Green Onions”, and how a company started by a Western Swing fiddle player ended up making the most important soul …
500songs.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Rest in peace, mighty Steve Cropper.
If you want to hear more about the fantastic guitarist, songwriter and producer he was, he features in two episodes of the podcast.
Below you can listen to Episode 105: “Green Onions” by Booker T and the MGs.
If you want to hear more about the fantastic guitarist, songwriter and producer he was, he features in two episodes of the podcast.
Below you can listen to Episode 105: “Green Onions” by Booker T and the MGs.
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There’s also Episode 163: “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay”.
He produced, co-wrote and played guitar.
He produced, co-wrote and played guitar.
Episode 163: “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” by Otis Redding
Episode 163 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay”, Stax Records, and the short, tragic, life of Otis Redding. Click the full post …
500songs.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
There’s also Episode 163: “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay”.
He produced, co-wrote and played guitar.
He produced, co-wrote and played guitar.
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I love the fact that the Telegraph tried to cover the Rachel Reeves chess 'truth' story, and had to include the fact that even their own chess correspondent thinks it is utter bollocks.
I think if i won the under-14 title for the British Women’s Chess Association (BWCA) Girls Championship, you would probably hear me say quite a bit i was the champion. The Telegraph's own chess correspondent points out here why Reeves's is quite right to do so www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
December 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I love the fact that the Telegraph tried to cover the Rachel Reeves chess 'truth' story, and had to include the fact that even their own chess correspondent thinks it is utter bollocks.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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God, I hate the 21st Century.
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 7:37 AM
God, I hate the 21st Century.
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That's no way to talk about Michael Ball #CelebrityMasterchef
December 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
That's no way to talk about Michael Ball #CelebrityMasterchef
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I do sometimes wonder if I'm losing my mind. thecritic.co.uk/full...
December 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I do sometimes wonder if I'm losing my mind. thecritic.co.uk/full...
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I wonder what it is about Rachel Reeves that they hate: a woman who went to a comprehensive school, who rose from relatively humble origins to the top and who still speaks with a South London accent. I wonder why they hate her so much. It's a mystery.
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I wonder what it is about Rachel Reeves that they hate: a woman who went to a comprehensive school, who rose from relatively humble origins to the top and who still speaks with a South London accent. I wonder why they hate her so much. It's a mystery.
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James Cameron on how close he came to directing 1993’s Jurassic Park & what he thinks of Steven Spielberg’s adaptation. I love this for the honesty, modesty & graciousness of Cameron’s reflections. (It’s from the latest edition of the estimable Empire magazine.)
December 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
James Cameron on how close he came to directing 1993’s Jurassic Park & what he thinks of Steven Spielberg’s adaptation. I love this for the honesty, modesty & graciousness of Cameron’s reflections. (It’s from the latest edition of the estimable Empire magazine.)
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As I have noted before, almost half of everyone ever born died in childhood. There are people alive today who were already alive when this stopped being true for everyone born in the future.
All of pre-20th-century history is an emotional foreign country, for this reason alone.
All of pre-20th-century history is an emotional foreign country, for this reason alone.
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
As I have noted before, almost half of everyone ever born died in childhood. There are people alive today who were already alive when this stopped being true for everyone born in the future.
All of pre-20th-century history is an emotional foreign country, for this reason alone.
All of pre-20th-century history is an emotional foreign country, for this reason alone.
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Here is a godawful joke in chart form to ruin your Christmas season 🤪🎄
December 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Here is a godawful joke in chart form to ruin your Christmas season 🤪🎄