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owl tree vole eat cake pudding ('the famous')
“What are you laughing at, Frog?” said Toad. “I am laughing at you, Toad,” said Frog, “because you DO look funny in your bathing suit.” “Of course I do,” said Toad. Then he picked up his clothes and went home.
Common pet flea treatment ‘should be banned’ due to environment concerns www.channel4.com/news/common-...
Common pet flea treatment ‘should be banned’ due to environment concerns
A House of Lords committee is urging the government to ban pet flea and tick treatments from general sale.
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Every week they have one story about good AI and one story about someone with dual citizenship but no British passport who got stuck in Portugal
The Guardian receives vital funding from I can't remember which AI company
Journalism’s over eagerness to write its own obituary baffles me sometimes.
Rob Beschizza@beschizza.com · 59m agoWell this turns out to be misleading! The LLM was used to rewrite human-written stories in commercial registers ("literary magazine", "published short story collection"). You'd have to read supplemental materials from a zip fle to know that was the methodology. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
You really have to take a moment and think about how insane this is. That’s a quarter of the entire output of the country’s public infrastructure going to support about one hundred sites.
StephDickenson.bsky.social@stephdickenson.bsky.social · 4w ago“Data centres accounted for almost one quarter of the electricity consumed in Ireland last year, up from 5% in 2015, the CSO said today. A total of 7,663 gigawatt-hours of electricity was used by data centres in 2025, up 10% from 6,973GWh in 2024.” www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
Calle me sentimental but we sholde not be throwinge burninge trasshe at the moone.
George Holmes departs as University of Greater Manchester vice-chancellor amid ongoing police investigation into the institution www.timeshighereducation.com/news/george-... via @twilliamsthe.bsky.social
George Holmes departs as Greater Manchester v-c
Governing body terminates contract amid ongoing police investigation into financial irregularities
timeshighereducation.com
But wait. There's more. bsky.app/profile/joan... Wonder which police force allowed this to happen.
Joanna Hardy-Susskind@joannahs.bsky.social · 3h agoMeanwhile, on Twitter, Chris Philp is wearing a police vest over a suit and tie.
Aside from *everything else*, this continues a dangerous tradition of politicians wearing police uniforms. Politicians should not be allowed to use 'POLICE' uniforms. For one thing because they are not police.
Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · 24h agoI grew up among Conservative politics. This is beyond that now. Defending a neo-nazi candidate shows how far Badenoch has shifted them to the far right. There is now no difference between her party and that of Restore and Reform. That should not be normalised. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
What??? An opening scene of countless possible sci-fi movies. You know. The kind where you think to yourself: UH OH. (He was with SpaceX before his NASA gig…)
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoNASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."
Credit to Badenoch, this was a totally unsurprising news alert until the final clause when my eyes popped out of my head like a cartoon character.
🟣 SUBSTACK Why Ceuta Was Not Actually the 'Migrant Invasion' Widely Reported By @goldbergradio.bsky.social Read below. ↓
Why Ceuta Was Not Actually the 'Migrant Invasion' Widely Reported
Professor Stephen Zunes tells the Byline Times podcast what was really going on when more than 50,000 people descended on Spain's North African enclave
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'The name's Wimsey. Lord Peter Wimsey, egad. And this is Bunter.'
The Independent@the-independent.com · 9h agoJames Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’
Hm.
Dr Craig R McClain@drcraigmc.bsky.social · last mo.The sea mouse is not a mouse. It's a chunky marine worm covered in felt-like hair that diffracts light into shifting reds, blues, and golds, some of the best natural photonics we know of. A brown lump on the seafloor that turns into a rainbow when the light hits right. #WormWednesday #marinelife
[Hm. That Max Miller is apparently in US politics aged 132 is both confusing and completely believable.]
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Frog and Toad jumped into the water. They swam all afternoon. Frog swam fast and made big splashes. Toad swam slowly and made smaller splashes.
They're using our money to buy the world, so they can continue ruling over it as the tyrants they are, even when the oil's finally gone.
Kate Mackenzie@katemac.bsky.social · 6h agothe thing is how it's just mentioned in passing that these rich petrostates are going hard to guarantee their post-oil economic security; like it's hardly worth elaborating upon and yet it's very significant in the context of more, er, 'frontier' petrostates, or indeed oil demand
#OwlAwarenessDay 🪶 Meine Kleine schmückt sich zur Feier des Tages mit vielen Mustern. #kleineKunstklasse #wattiskunst #zentangle #kleineFreudendesTages
