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Very unimportant person with very unimportant views. Am I being serious? Am I joking? Have I completely misread the room? Welcome to Autism Roulette Views my own, name is someone else’s.
This whole mayoralty thing sounds less like devolution and more like Feudalism and fiefdoms. Every part of the UK gets its own head of state.
Jules Birch@julesbirch.bsky.social · 6h agoFeels like there’s an untested assumption here that mayors will only use their new powers in favour of development www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The UK is world beating in: 1) Plugs and sockets 2) Motorway signage 3) Hot puddings Let’s celebrate that!
Brilliant Maps@brilliantmaps.bsky.social · yesterdayThe two types of people in this world Explanation: brilliantmaps.com/uk-plugs/
One thing I missed when I saw X-Men First Class in cinema but picked up on the rewatch. Shaw tells young Magneto the Nazi’s we’re right except mutants, not aryans were the master race. Magneto tells Shaw he agrees with everything he said but Shaw shot his mum. Magneto sided with Nazi ideology 😬
Optimist: the glass is half full. Pessimist: the glass is half empty. Wonder Twin Jayna: Zan, knock it off…
They jest but this is my Europa Universalis map with mods on.
cole@cole1.bsky.social · 22h agosomeone posted this seriously on linkedin
X-Men First Class is not a good movie. It’s over long, underbaked and is both doing too much and too little. Characters are flip flopping all over the place, their motivations change with no external influence. It also relies on historical events to give gravitas in the cheapest ways possible
Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Guy in your Bsky Replies: must be nice to have a cup
Sean Carroll@seanmcarroll.bsky.social · yesterdayOptimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Philosopher: can 'emptiness' be said to 'fill' a cup? Is 'fullness' something that can exist 'halfway'?
Rewatching the X-Men movies, and (not) sorry to say but X-Men Last Stand is better than First Class and Days of Future Past
Ordering pizza and my son's ordered the Meat Lovers and because he's 10 I can't make any jokes.
It's only August but we have a goal of the season candidate in the English Championship from Bristol City's Dom Ballard.
It feels too early for the football season to have restarted. I personally like a bit of time to read up on the transfer market, have a chat in work about fantasy football picks, get excited. I'm watching Final Score and I don't know who's in and out for the Swans
As a matter of fact 1. Nobody 'automatically' qualifies for ILR now, at 5 years, nor under the plans, at 10 years. (The govt uses the language of "too automatic" and the commentator follows this) 2. The proposal is 8+ tiers. 10 years will be a norm, but will in fact be rather rare (1 in 10 people)
As an ex-Public Sector worker, that is public data paid for by the British public via taxes. It is also how we allow for scrutiny and robust challenge to policy. It’s not horse armour.
peterkwells@peterkwells.com · 2d agoDid you know UK govt has published a call for evidence on charging for public sector data, w/examples like bus timetables and environment data? Well, here's a thing on how that will make a lot of things a bit worse and increase costs of providing public services peterkwells.com/2026/08/21/c...
When it’s only 114m away from being a mountain it’s annoying to say tube just been up a hill
Considering I wasn’t even planning on doing this walk, I’m quite chuffed with myself
Son’s doing a sponsored walk up a big hill. Thought I’d get bored in the car so walking up it myself. Probably not the best footwear
Do other disabled communities have conversations internally and about them like the ASD one has? Do people who’ve had their hand amputated say they shouldn’t be called amputees because it’s disrespectful to those who’ve had their leg amputated?
Not true. The true lesson is never trust your dad’s DIY jobs.
josh (oldfriend99)@oldfriend99.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe story of Icarus provides us with a valuable lesson: never fuck up real bad
Just saying, a LOT of those questions are part of the ASD diagnosis process. Also, there’s no real benchmark. I’m not spiteful, I have a very high tolerance for arseholes but once you’ve gone too far, I want nothing to do with you ever again. www.idrlabs.com/interpersona...
I am a slight red flag; 17.63% more difficult than the average person.
Social Red Flag Test
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Doing a little bit of research on UK Supreme Court voting records. The courts decisions are based on a majority vote, so when a judge's name is listed as "agreed" on the court summary, does that mean they are part of the majority vote or agreed with the summary?
I googled her name and she’s a health policy researcher who writes think tank reports about gambling harms, we have found the patron saint of UK Bluesky
Qagggy!@qagggy.bsky.social · 2d agoUK transit nerds are next level.
@thedailytism.com new diagnosis method incoming.
Qagggy!@qagggy.bsky.social · 2d agoUK transit nerds are next level.
James Arday using lawfare to block a TES story was bad. It was not using lawfare to remove it from Google Drive and the Wayback Machine bad
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3d agoI've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
I appreciate your points. It is, of course, complicated. I would say we didn't overlook them - we just chose a less bleak view of the profession. Those willing to do what you say, rise to the top. But I don't accept that two dozen politics hacks are a fair sample. What about war correspondents, 1/2
Nobody here is insisting the original soundtrack was a classic. It was fun 80’s power metal for kids who were watching their hero die on screen. This is….I’ve heard AI music better than this, it is worse than AI and they paid people to make it.
Thew Adams@toygrind.bsky.social · 3d agoLet's listen to #Transformers: The Movie's reformatted soundtrack and rank all the songs by how much they miss the point!
I once got bullied in work by a mental health advocacy group. I told the Time To Talk Champion, that every one loved, he should give attendees of our mental health sessions time to talk, and not spend the session talking about himself. Issues about social media aren't just people being too online.
So I get that there's (yet again) a big debate going on about AI on Bluesky. I am turning off replies to this post because I don't want to have notifications flooded one way or the other on this one. I just want to share what I've heard multiple times in just the past two weeks.
