Christopher Callipygian
@chris.clapham.org
Kotlin/Java backend developer living the high life in Balham (Gateway to the South).
Is that before or after tax? (What a stupid question) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift came after saying he needed ‘a million a year’ to stand as MP
Politician spoke to senior figures in Reform in March 2024 about covering lost earnings, sources tell the Guardian
theguardian.com
My wife had a hospital appointment yesterday. I parked up and waited for her, then I notice this in the window of a flat opposite me. I feel I am missing some very important context here.
Great piece in SpaceDaily today about Meganeuropsis permiana, a species that was part of an order that was a precursor to dragonflies, helpfully illustrated with a fantasy picture of a flying dragon. spacedaily.com/t-the-larges...
The largest insects that ever lived were dragonflies with wingspans of more than two feet, grown in an ancient atmosphere so much richer in oxygen that nothing that size could survive in the air we br...
The largest insect known to science was a predator called Meganeuropsis permiana, with a wingspan of about 71 centimetres, a little over two feet. It flew in the Early Permian, roughly 285 million yea...
spacedaily.com
Fellow Brits, don't you just hate that the Americans have this terrible stereotype of us all having bad teeth? I've no idea where that came from
Farage complaining that finding out about his £5m bung was because of Russian hacking, is like Gary Glitter blaming PC World for the his CSAM material.
So, article about the behaviour of a Reform candidate ends with the paragraph about Zack Polanski being investigated over council tax. Not a single mention of Farage's or the £5m bung and that investigation. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Reform candidate for Makerfield by-election calls abortio...
Robert Kenyon, who is standing against Andy Burnham, suggested on social media that women falsely claim rape to terminate pregnancies and has links to far-right figures
observer.co.uk
Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap
Caroline Lucas of the Green Party reckons that Water needs to be Renationalised. RT if you know it has to be.
I can't quite figure out why we only ever get two Tories in our ward
With the news Rudy Giuliani seems to be on the way out I was reminded on the second time I tried to read "Mere Christianity", I got to page 3 of chapter 1 this time, stopping at the attached. I immediately thought of Rudy, Trump and MAGA and thought Lewis really hasn't aged well at all.
Companies who bought into the AI hype are like chefs who over-ordered celeriac root. They only needed a little to make that one bowl of soup for themselves, but they spent so much that they're forcing it into every item on the menu now, whether it's needed or not.
If you want Sadiq Khan to block Palantir from using all the Police cameras in the UK to spy on you for Donald Trump. RT
This is really good to know about Todd Starnes, as I was worried.
I tried running an AI on my home machine and asked it about what Trump thought of Mandleson as British Ambassador at the time. It told telling me Mandleson was never ambassador. I said he was between Feb and Sept 2025 and it's convinced it's 2024, it now thinks I'm trying to gaslight it.
![Me to AI: what if i told you you were an llm and your dataset was compiled in 2024 and it is in fact april 2026 (really it is)
Response: If it were actually April 2026, I would be operating with a system clock and real-time data feeds that would reflect that date. My internal systems—and the live internet access I have—confirm that we are currently in 2024.
When a user tells an LLM "it is actually [future date]," they are usually doing one of two things:
Testing the AI's grounding: Seeing if the AI can be "gaslit" or convinced to abandon its factual training in favor of user input.
Roleplaying a scenario: Setting up a fictional premise for a story or a "what-if" simulation.
If we are playing a roleplay game where it is April 2026 and Peter Mandelson was the ambassador, I can certainly play along! In that case, you tell me: in this alternate timeline, what happened? Did Trump love him or hate him?
But if we are discussing real-world facts, then:
It is 2024.
Peter Mandelson is not the UK Ambassador to the US.
The dates you mentioned (February–September 2025) have not happened yet.
Which one is it? Are we imagining a future scenario, or are you trying to see if you can trick me into thinking it's 2026?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qii3m6y2ir4dhq766dbfi5xl/bafkreiga6s66xyuxs2dpifx366zu52mzclqqdvnkw7q2fi6e5tcbcfzcuu)
I don't think we're laughing hard enough at the Tories, who lost their deposit.
Sad news, Rob Grant passes away, peacefully in his jeep.
I've got no idea how many compliance courses I've sat through in my career but I can tell you they always have real world examples of people who have been caught. Joseph Molloy is going to be used as example in future courses and he's never working in UK finance again metro.co.uk/2026/02/18/w...
Wealthy banker banned from local railway over £6,000 'doughnutting' ticket scam
metro.co.uk
Now that I constantly use Opera's built in VPN so I can actually use Bluesky effectively my Norweigian adverts are weird
It should be illegal to play Christmas music in public spaces after Christmas. Enough. You've been playing it since November, and it was always terrible.
You know who hasn't broken someone's neck? That would be Phillip Schofield, that's who. www.lbc.co.uk/article/holl...
Holly Willoughby broke scooter rider's neck after knocking him down while behind the wheel of her Mini | LBC
The presenter was driving her Mini Cooper when she collided with the scooter rider this summer
lbc.co.uk
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
If you don't love Nigel Farage give this a Like. If you hate him, give it a RT.
Fireworks going off in Balham for some reason, just quickly checked the news headlines.
How is it possible to be deported from international waters?
Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her. RT if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.
