Paul Pod
@paulpod.bsky.social
Designer. Ex GOV, NHS, startups. Lives in Wales, London @paulpod on most things 🏴 website: Neuromantics.net 📨 signal: paulpod.404
😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:
😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮
YouTube video by Aaron Rupar
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Once this current interconnected stack of incredibly stressful situations have passed, i may go on a very lazy holiday.
I mean this is really interesting but also *i am in shock* at this ... the things, the costs, the asymmetry, and the price of cigarettes! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘£5,800 on a watch?!’ What happened when five couples kept separate money diaries – then revealed all to their partners?
Rachel forked out £700 for beauty treatments, Kojo confessed to a £25 cigarette habit, and Jake indulged his love of fancy timepieces. Were their other halves forgiving or furious?
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She’s the most hilariously bad politician - she makes her ENTIRE week about insisting that this guy has turned over a new leaf, is very virtuous and the party is behind him, and then almost *shouts* ‘But I don’t like the things he’s doing now either! I actually HATE them!’ Lunatic.
“Elon Musk kind and considerate lover, possibly true representative of the godhead on earth, certainly a genius, and also good at computer games, says Elon Musk”
I have a small side project that is making me do graphic design. Graphic design is hard. I had forgot.
right, ok, enough self-pity, I need to turn my shit pub around. it's in Stratford, it's got a (small) stage, there has to be someone who has something cool they want a space for queer-run, extremely diverse venue (we even let mumbling old white geezers in) what I'd call 'mostly accessible'
Might as well stick a "windfall tax me" sign on energy companies ... again
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d agoBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
"Dear Diary The launch of our scheme to use the Royal Navy to stop small boats has gone exactly to plan. It is so patently absurd that it is all anyone can talk about, providing the perfect distraction from all our dodgy financial dealings"
For a less GB-News-of the-Left account of the data centre consent (which isn't actually in Brick Lane itself) and the three other applications determined by the government, see this by me from last week: davehillonlondon.substack.com/p/government... #london #guardian.
Government gives go-ahead to Truman Brewery planning applications
A trio of schemes originally submitted to Tower Hamlets Council has ended up being favourably determined by Angela Rayner's department
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FYI the states that generate the most wind power are Texas, Iowa, and Oklahoma
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Any country with windmills is a loser"
I don’t know how she felt about Hansard, but I find myself thinking a lot about Sinead O’Connor these past few days. She tried to warn everyone about everything and was destroyed for it.
"I want other people's kids to have the chance to do a vocational route, so there will be plumbers and electricians to fix Leo & Jessica's student flats."
But why would anyone use an AI-generated travel itinerary in the first place? I feel like people are just trying to use AI for things that already have solutions. Like, travel itineraries are a solved problem. Why are AI people making it an unsolved problem?
Mark Lemley@marklemley.bsky.social · 3d agoImportant safety tip for AI users: when relying on a proposed travel itinerary generated by AI, double-check to make sure that the dates AI proposes actually exist before making reservations. No, Claude, September 24, 2026 is NOT a Friday
Put up a data centre 500m away from Eton, you cowards. Stick one in the middle of Oxford University…
Real or AI? Expect less guessing. From 2 August, under new EU rules, anyone using generative AI professionally must be clear about: • AI content that could be mistaken for real • public-interest text that isn’t human-reviewed • chatbots interacting with users AI Modified ©nejdetduzen/Adobe Stock
Personally I think there are "legitimate questions" about COVID. Like why Michael Gove and Matt Hancock got away with giving away contracts to their mates. And why the fuck Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman haven't been prosecuted.
"..water companies are prohibited from restricting water to them even in times of drought. Households will lose water first." [just as they say pumping oil in a seal reserve of the Pacific Ocean is necessary for the 'war effort'. Corporate bribery. ww]
@windwords.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is very serious but also ridiculous as this is *a bit* of a rainy country. Just highlights how poor we are at managing the resources we have. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘We cannot magic up more water’: the supply problems putting housing targets in England at risk
Council leaders say crumbling infrastructure and lack of water are jeopardising government’s plans for new homes
theguardian.com
I've been arguing for many years that the team is the real product of software development, learning is the real outcome, and that organisations need to optimise for *that* Software, and its impact in the real world, is an ephemeral byproduct of learning. (1/)
😳 “A law to sell [parts of] Argentina to the ultra-rich of the world *** On Aug 6, the Senate plans to vote on Milei's new bill, the Private Property Inviolability Law. If approved, tech tycoons like Peter Thiel will be able to keep the water, energy & climate of Patagonia” By F. Gomez, 7/31/26… 1/
I think i have a killer app for gen x - email summaries of tiktok trending rubbish
Why does transphobia in particular so often lead to psychological collapse? This makes Morrissey look like a live-and-let-live kind of guy
Miffythegamer@miffythegamer.bsky.social · 6d agoRoisin Murphy trawled through Instagram and found one of her old pop songs. When she saw that almost every commentator was critical of her newfound status as a deranged swivel-eyed TERF, she screenshotted their profiles & made a video of them. All completely normal behaviour 😬
I am a recent convert to the frozen cubes of spinach, chuck a couple into almost everything i cook
Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · 7d agoAdding that we also place too much value on 'fresh' food, when we should be looking to preserve more of what we grow to last longer Frozen vegetables especially are usually far more nutritious than fresh And a reminder that tinned and frozen fruit/veg still counts towards your 5 a day!
