A short video of a few of the 10000+ House Martins #Bockhill this morning, gathering on the Monument.
Jonathan Dent
@jwdent.bsky.social
Lancastrian in Reading and Oxford, lexicographer.
I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.
I’m unclear on why tech guys are surprised that more and more normal folks think they’re ontologically evil
Palmer Luckey Made a VR Headset That Kills the User If They Die in the Game
The man who created the Oculus Rift has invented a virtual reality headset that will explode the forebrain of a user who dies in a video game.
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Wakes Week. When whole towns closed for the week & the workers headed for the seaside. 👇 BBC News - When whole towns closed and headed to the seaside for Wakes Weeks - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
When whole towns closed and headed to the seaside for Wakes Weeks
Mill and factory closures every summer meant their workers had the chance to flock to the seaside.
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Tony Blair on my radio doing full AI Silicon Valley boosterism Unrelatedly…. Tony Blair’s personal think tank has had or been pledged $350 million from Oracle boss Larry Ellison democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Inside the Tony Blair Institute
A former PM, Trump's 'CEO of everything' and NHS data - what could go wrong?
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Here is the apotheosis of the insanity: we must burn through our remaining fossil fuels in order to "take advantage of #AI". AI can give us NOTHING that will make worsening & accelerating climate crisis worth it. This 'last gasp tech-as-saviour' attitude is cult-like.
Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 5mo agoIt's worth noting, though, that media reporting of what he's said is a bit breathless and misleading. For example, he doesn't say net-zero should be "abandoned". Here's what he actually says...
UK is more likely to be tipped into a skip. There is no legal or constitutional rule which requires a general election if a PM is changed mid-term. Since 1974 every UK PM has either entered or left office mid-term (or both). Silly, misleading stuff from a senior politician.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5mo agoUK may be ‘tipped into a general election’ if Burnham replaces Starmer, says Harman
Showing this heat who's boss by wearing all my clothes. Let's see who blinks fir
Iona, East Bay – The Little Island and Mull, painting by Francis Cadell (1883-1937), Scottish colourist.
I am proud to play with Arthur as with all my trans teammates. This guidance is horrifically short-sighted and dehumanising. We cannot let this pass without a fight.
Arthur Webber 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈@bernietranders.bsky.social · 5mo agoWrote a letter to my MP, it’s probably not the most coherent thing in the world but I couldn’t not say anything.
Wrote a letter to my MP, it’s probably not the most coherent thing in the world but I couldn’t not say anything.
Higher than it looks with incredible wear where many boots have stepped. Shap to Rosgill.
Andrew Fisher in a few sentences exactly sums up the economic situation people are facing, why and what the alternative is.
Andrew Fisher@fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 6mo agoOn the #Today programme this morning discussing corporate profiteering and the debate around windfall taxes and price caps ...
Overheard on the Manchester train this morning: ‘Well, we’re off to a WONDERFUL place called Barrow in Furness.’ It’s pure cross-Bay prejudice, but I feel like Coral Browne deciding that the three sisters’ enthusiasm for Moscow gave the whole play a very sinister slant.
Right time, right place - so thrilled to get these heavily cropped shots of a pair of Kestrels. Don’t think he looks too impressed that she’s not sharing! @severnsidebirds.bsky.social @andy-1963.bsky.social #southglosbirds #bristolbirding
So farewell then Ianto's shrine Created as a So farewell then For Ianto Your show was dark, wild and sexy Now you're a risk to health and safety On TripAdvisor You were #43 in Things To Do In Cardiff Now Cardiff is down to Only 42 wonders.
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moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!
Astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the #ArtemisII, and his family. They must be so friggin proud.. www.nasa.gov/learning-res...
