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Richard Bairwell

@rbairwell.bsky.social

Mainly hanging around on the Fediverse (Mastodon) at @rbairwell@mastodon.org.uk . Might setup my Bsky profile soon.

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David K. Barnes@davidkbarnes.com · 2d ago

Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 2d ago

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2d ago

The Fae: so we’re going to take you away from here and— Me: I accept! The Fae: and you won’t remember anything and you will not return for a century— Me: I ACCEPT HARDER

Small Robots@smolrobots.bsky.social · 4d ago

Anyway, everything that people rightly lay at the feet of lockdowns for COVID mitigation is not actually a problem inherent to lockdowns themselves, but caused by the declining level of support the government provided for us as they continued because they were ideologically opposed to them.

Sooz Kempner@soozuk.bsky.social · 4d ago

Clavicular live-streaming coming out of the cinema saying "Chad Ebenezer totally moggs beta cuck Bob Cratchitt and his mid wife leaving Tiny Tim dead-ass washed on Christmas Day".

Callum May@callummay.co.uk · last wk.

Shout out to the man on the train calling his bank about ID theft and who has read his name, postcode, and the long number on his card to the whole carriage.

Nome@nome.bsky.social · last yr.

It's why, incidentally, we're at SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED RISK OF DEATH FROM ALL CAUSES when medicated. Medicating helps us avoid risky behaviors - but it also helps regulate our basic maintenance behaviors. We can sleep, do things on regular schedules, have healthy intakes of food/water.

ADHD medications use and risk of mortality and unintentional injuries: a population-based cohort study

We assessed the association between the use of medications for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and the risk of all-cause mortality and unintentional injuries leading to emergency depar...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Steve@chompmancobra.bsky.social · last wk.

And then try to live on the fucker, *without* relying on the stored capital in the form of all their existing clothes, what's in their freezers, invites to dinner from lobbyists and pals returning favours, their expensive cars...

Richard Bairwell@rbairwell.bsky.social · last wk.

Does anyone happen to know how many of the "independents" standing for the Clacton by-election are ex/current Reform members? Heard a rumour it might be quite a few and would like sources if possible.

Anil Dash@anildash.com · last wk.

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

DHH tweet saying “This is why we need competition and open weights in Al. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K).” when presented with his blog post using a slur about the Roma people.
Neil Turner@neilturner.me.uk · 2w ago

Absolutely this. We shouldn't be making people download proprietary software to file their tax returns. Surely by offering decent, easy to use apps, HMRC will get more one-time and correct tax returns?

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2w ago

ultimately I think that if HMRC had done its own free software and explained clearly what it wanted from freelancers, I would have been alright with it as such, the whole scheme just feels undercooked and not ready and chaotic for no reason anyway! now I will go have a bath then drink some wine

Nicholas G@spindubtracks.bsky.social · 2w ago

As usual, @doctorow.pluralistic.net is the tech oracle of the modern era. People whose jobs were “replaced” by AI got fucked, the companies who put all their chips on AI are entering the FO phase of FAFO, and everyone with a 401k is about to get fucked. Yay. pluralistic.net/2026/07/24/s...

When the AI bubble bursts, the defective chatbots that replaced skilled workers will disappear with it, leaving us scrambling to get that work done after the workers who understood it have retrained, retired, or exited the workforce. AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/

A carny barker waving his top-hat and selling tickets from a roll; his head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a magnified, halftoned detail from a US$100 bill. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Imagine the alternate timeline where Ask Jeeves became the dominant search engine and we’re now being ruled over by a malevolent AI based on a dubious understanding of P.G. Wodehouse.