Cameron McGrath

@camgottaplan.bsky.social

🖋️ Screen and Copywriter 🍹 making sense of things one drink at a time ✨ Nicholl QF

I guess we will need another generational cycle before enough policymakers and analysts in London realise that loudly joking in panel events about the "plotting French, noisy Poles, plodding Germans and silly Italians" is not the best way for Brits to win friends and influence people in Brussels

Remember the magical nudity detection software being mandated for UK phones, the one which prompted Jess Phillips' resignation? It's not just that the product is snake oil. The whole company is smoke and mirrors. Albeit smoke and mirrors invested in by Rupert Lowe of the Restore party.

Martin Calladine@uglygame.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨Exclusive🚨 Two ministers filmed a video for a child-protection software firm that lost £17m in three years, made just *£112* in the UK in 2024 and gets 90%+ of its income from overseas subsidiaries that haven't cooperated with auditors for three years. 1/ theuglygame.wordpress.com/2026/07/15/p...

I, a human, wrote and drew this cartoon with my human body and sent it to human art printers who printed it with their human hands and you a human (?) can now buy a ltd edition print of it in my shop! Link in bio

[Scene is a kitchen, a person is boiling some peas on the hob]

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PERSON 1:
Oh dear! 

PERSON 2:
What is it babe?

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PERSON 1:
I am so overwhelmed with cooking these peas...

PERSON 2:
You mean you’re not using AI peas?

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PERSON 1:
AI peas?

PERSON 2:
They’re peas with AI!

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PERSON 2:
AI powered peas harness the potential of your peas

PERSON 1:
What

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PERSON 2 [Now in voice-over as hi tech meaningless graphics play]:

Taking your peas to the next level with new AI features powering your peas

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PERSON 2 [V/O over increasingly ridiculous graphics]:
Each pea has AI in a way we haven’t quite worked out yet but it’s fine

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PERSON 2:
Putting  AI to work for your peas and connecting every corner of your peas
 
PERSON 1:
Peas don’t have corners 

PERSON 2:
It does not matter!

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PERSON 2:
Our game-changing PEA-AI gives you the freedom to get the peas done 

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PERSON 2:
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas

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PERSON 2:
to spending millions on adding AI to the peas and then having to work out what that means

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PERSON 1:
Is it necessary to - 

PERSON 2 [grabbing her buy the cardigan]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET

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[Advert ending image showing the product, a bag of peas, with its slogan]

PEA-I AI PEAS WITH AI

Just ‘peas’ for God’s sake buy the AI peas


[Ends]

An interesting aspect of US politics is this Weekend at Bernie's routine that happens now and then. Like a chief justice being propped up until they disintegrate, of a key GOP senator being "totally alive, but you can't see him". For sure the sign of a healthy society.

Sometimes I wish I could design my own house, but then I build a house in The Sims with unlimited money and resources and I’m like, “wow this is 100% atrocious”

Did a close read on a children's story I wrote to help kids diagnosed with T1D understand what it means, and lord I think the heat baked my brain. So much doubt about dialogue punctuation rules. Thought I was going insane.