🐳 You’re God damned right @hesterblum.bsky.social & I made a TWENTY-FIVE EPISODE PODCAST just about 𝐌𝐎𝐁𝐘-𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐊. Subscribe now at exploringthegreats.com/moby-dick & enjoy our thrilling trailer:
David John
@davidajohn.bsky.social
Software developer, photographer. Moving further left as he gets older.
Fucking hell as if receiving automated rejection letters for jobs wasn't bad enough.
Tuchel is right about England's DNA. If anything things are worse in that respect than five years ago, due to English football's huge shift towards intensity & set-pieces. Controlling a PL game has become impossible, so don't expect control from England. ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/746...
Thomas Tuchel was right – England’s DNA doesn’t allow them to control matches
Head coach's comments may have provoked a spiky reaction, but recent Premier League trends suggest he was correct
nytimes.com
Private Eye tells me that How Green Was My Valley is one of Andy Burnham’s favourite books. Oh dear. I write a PhD on 1930s Welsh mining novels, including a whole chapter on Llewellyn’s work. I even read the terrible sequels. It really, really isn’t a story of working-class solidarity etc.
The gaslighting in the UK is absurd. My kiddo has been fully included for years. This segregation has a start date, September 1st. It is a 180 of school policy, that they are being forced to follow by Government policy. Yet not one newspaper is mentioning this HUGE change to trans kids' lives.
Quick tutorial on how to opt out of Meta's new feature which allows anyone to tag your Instagram handle to generate AI images of you. @evystadium.bsky.social on Muse Image in 40 seconds:
I genuinely can't hear Andy Burnham's name at the moment without thinking of this episode of Harry Hill's Show: youtu.be/ql4Qk7iocik
The Harry Hill Show - Nish Kumar
YouTube video by HARRY HILL
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I mean, I’m not brain smart but it seems to me you stop fascists from rising to power by doing bold things that will make life materially better for everyone so they don’t blame being poor on poorer people.
In March, I went to watch France and Brazil play a pre-World Cup game—half the game from an on-field VIP club, half from the cheap seats. Today I’ve got an essay out about what live sports are for, which seems like something a lot of us are thinking about right now. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
I Tested the Best and Worst Seats at a World Cup Stadium
As World Cup ticket prices top $10,000, a trip from the VIP area to the nosebleeds reveals what spectators are really paying for.
bloomberg.com
Immigrants do not have to contribute exceptionally to deserve safety Immigrants do not have to permanently grovel to their new country to justify their existence Immigrants are allowed to be just as mediocre, grumpy or homesick as anyone else
Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.
I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1
Delaney detainees are fed worm-infested food, forced into slave labor in exchange for showers, being denied cancer and HIV meds. A woman miscarried inside and was denied medical care. They are being denied water. People are being forced to sit in their own menstrual blood with no sanitary supplies.
"Save our women and children" from asylum seekers, they said. And yet again, it was projection. They hunt what they see in the mirror. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
One in five people arrested over 2024 riots have since been reported for domestic abuse
Exclusive: Police data shows 21% of the 949 people detained in England and Northern Ireland were later accused of violence against intimate partner
theguardian.com
Very little as unsettling as seeing an out-of-context QR code. I'm not clicking on that. No telling what dimension it might lead me to when my camera finally recognizes it.
I save photographs depicting traumatic experiences in my life because I think it’s important to remember the bad times, as well as the good. This one is from the occasion when some sheep I’d put my trust in threw me off a cliff for kicks then cut the rope as I tearfully begged for their assistance.
I think my inherent disgust towards LLM AI is because it divorces the user from the weight of creation. What brilliance illuminated your life? What insights left you breathless? What strange paths did you wander? What work did you put in towards understanding what it means to be human?
I still need someone to outline for me how creating a massive unemployed & unemployable class out of your mid-level professional taxpayers "benefits the economy".
Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 3mo agoAnd we have the right preconditions for AI leadership. Now, we need to accelerate and continue to deliver these benefits for our economy.
AI chatbots were all trained off everything ever written on the internet and designed to sound realistic to a tech CEO and you’re surprised it’s an over confident bullshitter yes man?
If you've never listened to The Bugle before this would be a fantastic place to start. Not only are @zaltzcricket.bsky.social, @alicefraser.bsky.social and @natogreen.bsky.social as funny and intelligent as ever, but hearing Nato talk about finding hope in the world was wonderful and very moving.
Nato Green@natogreen.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis weeks episode of @thebugle.bsky.social podcast was needed for my mental health. Spending time with the brilliant and hilarious @alicefraser.bsky.social and Zaltz is a salve. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic
How does the new Senedd election voting system work? I tried to do 2 impossible things: 1. Explain it simply. 2. Explain it in one take. This election really matters so please share to help as many people as possible exercise their right to have a say over their futures.
A few hours ago, my timeline happened to go from some extraordinary photographs from the Artemis II crew 250,000 miles away exemplifying expertise, courage, and the fragility of our planet, to one of a screenshot of Trump threatening to wipe a "whole civilization" from the face of the Earth.
The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military. The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him. Words aren't enough - it's time for action.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4mo agoGod help us.
