Bruce McPherson
@brucemcpherson.bsky.social
🏴🇫🇷🇪🇺 ex @brucemcpherson on 🐦 Scottish/French/EU: Politics,musician,geekery #gde https://developers.google.com/profile/u/brucemcpherson #blog https://mcpher.com #books https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/6781
Here's the deal that gave us brexit. They both get 1m, Farage gets Brexit without the consequences and can blame others for the shitshow,takes his shorting profits and absconds with Brexit party candidate fees. Johnson gets to be PM. Boris's dad pays for the meal and fine wine.
Another #geekpost today. Combining local and hosted llm to minimize token cost. ramblings.mcpher.com/combining-lo...
Combining local and hosted llm to minimize token cost - Desktop liberation
Minimize AI token cost by using a hosted LLm (eg Gemini) as a strategic planner and a local model (eg Gemma) as the executor.
ramblings.mcpher.com
First #geekpost for a while. We're not just emulating Google apps script. We're liberating it. ramblings.mcpher.com/the-why-and-...
Bringing Apps Script to the desktop - the why, where and how of gas-fakes - Desktop liberation
We are not just emulating Google Apps Script - gas-fakes is liberating it by bringing it home to run in your local development environment.
ramblings.mcpher.com
Me! I am one of those academics and you can be one too!
Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI
Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.
nature.com
In Scotland we vote for a constituency msp. There are also regional seats, allocated proportionally from a 'losers list' of those that have been rejected by the electorate. Reform had zero elected candidates,yet brag endlessly about being 'elected', when they've just been selected from a loser list.
Presumably everyone now agrees that Liz Truss is clearly a raging lunatic. Many of those that were in her cabinet and orbit are now in reform, this time with a grifting con man as their boss. What drives these people to make these startling errors of judgement.
“And when Iran refused Donald’s demand to stop shutting down traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, Donald got back at them by shutting down traffic in the Strait of Hormuz himself!”
My Easter reading: "..the Lord said I was hungry and you told me I could make a meal for 30p, I was a stranger and you told me to fuck off back where I came from, I was sick and you said I should get private health insurance..."
Christianity is the biggest, most profitable scam in America.
We are starkly underestimating the impact of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. This is a much graver situation than people realise iandunt.substack.com/p/the-mad-em...
Scotland's crime clear up rate and NHS service performance both far outperform England and Wales. Farage is England's problem. Don't let him become ours too. www.gov.scot/publications... talkingupscotlandtwo.com
NHS performance comparisons across the UK: FOI release
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
gov.scot
In anything but the most corrupt tin pot dictatorships, trump, his family, his cronies and half his administration would all be in jail by now.
Brits - your cut out and keep guide to when to expect Reform Rage.
Nick Timothy is an uncannily perfect encapsulation of the crapification of public life in the UK: a bigoted failure blithely oozing from one disaster to the next while being rewarded at every turn by the far right media/political ecosystem. A golf club boor with the intellect of a burst balloon.
A rare bright spot to smile at.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 7mo agoLove is in the air at Edinburgh zoo. Pebbling marks the start of the breeding season for Gentoo penguins. Kids at Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity painted pebbles for the penguins to choose from and present to their mates.
Has the mint started producing commemorative Epstein medals yet?
How Matt Goodwin's definition of "the Elite" focuses on university workers and civil servants, while excluding the investment bankers, asset managers and global real estate executives who pay him bylinetimes.com/2026/02/25/r...
Reform UK's Matt Goodwin Advised the Wealthiest 1% While Claiming to Stand Against ‘The Elite'
Goodwin's definition of “the elite” includes university professors and civil servants while seemingly excluding the investment bankers, asset managers and global real estate executives who pay him
bylinetimes.com
“The guy did a great job for a competitive rate. I’m really pleased with it”
Peter Mitchell@pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 8mo agolol
How about a remake of twin peaks with dale cooper as the ethical, hard working FBI agent sent coming to terms with having to redact all mentions of trump's activities from the Epstein files.
So maga have accidentally backed themselves into that depressing corner where they only allow themselves to listen to shit music.
apnews.com/article/dono... Disappointed to find @google and @apple amongst those donating to trump's ballroom baloney.
These are the 37 donors helping pay for Trump's $300 million White House ballroom
The White House's list of 37 donors to President Donald Trump's $300 million ballroom project includes crypto billionaires, powerful financiers, tobacco companies, tech giants, media companies, longti...
apnews.com
fullfact.org/politics/nig... What kind of scumbag fakes something like this? "The image shows Mr Farage smiling, next to a child in a hospital bed. The captions claim it depicts him visiting a seven-year-old girl with terminal brain cancer whose “final wish” was to meet him." But it's a fake.
Picture of child with cancer edited to include Nigel Farage – Full Fact
An image which has gone viral on Facebook and supposedly shows the Reform UK leader fulfilling a child’s “final wish” by visiting them in hospital isn’t real.
fullfact.org