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From AS/400 midrange core business development to hobby crafting on ESP32C6 (and other) micro-controllers. Who knew that C would be so easy if it wasn't for the build files and linker 😉 !
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Ben Jennings on Elon Musk’s AI chatbot – cartoon
Musk’s artificial intelligence firm, xAI, has deleted antisemitic posts made on X by the chatbot Grok
www.theguardian.com
Hoooooly fuck! Elon Musk is going to have a shitting fit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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As opposed to our egalitarian present, where all people are equal
February 18, 2026 at 5:28 PM
As opposed to our egalitarian present, where all people are equal
That's a lot of words to say "no".
I mean, if you're not uncomfortable with being on a website that produces child porn and non-consensual adult porn (aka visual rape of everyone who didn't explicitly agree to have grok undress them) then have at it. But at least be honest.
I mean, if you're not uncomfortable with being on a website that produces child porn and non-consensual adult porn (aka visual rape of everyone who didn't explicitly agree to have grok undress them) then have at it. But at least be honest.
February 18, 2026 at 7:54 PM
That's a lot of words to say "no".
I mean, if you're not uncomfortable with being on a website that produces child porn and non-consensual adult porn (aka visual rape of everyone who didn't explicitly agree to have grok undress them) then have at it. But at least be honest.
I mean, if you're not uncomfortable with being on a website that produces child porn and non-consensual adult porn (aka visual rape of everyone who didn't explicitly agree to have grok undress them) then have at it. But at least be honest.
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Papers who genuinely care about antisemitism as a bad thing, rather than as a handy weapon with which to berate the left, would not behave like the Times. This isn’t some random commenter on a FB page, this is *Reform’s campaign manager in the most consequential by-election in years*, & it’s gross.
I keep checking The Times homepage, knowing how red hot it was on AS under Corbyn, and… amid plenty of Reform coverage, this story's conspicuously absent.
February 18, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Papers who genuinely care about antisemitism as a bad thing, rather than as a handy weapon with which to berate the left, would not behave like the Times. This isn’t some random commenter on a FB page, this is *Reform’s campaign manager in the most consequential by-election in years*, & it’s gross.
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three answers suggesting you might want to think about the question a little bit and one releasing you from ever thinking about anything again
February 18, 2026 at 4:59 PM
three answers suggesting you might want to think about the question a little bit and one releasing you from ever thinking about anything again
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Iain Dale asks @zackpolanski.bsky.social : "You've only been leader for not even 6 months yet.. you've taken the Greens to get to 15-17% in the opinion polls, in one or two polls you've actually overtaken Labour. How do you think you've managed that..."
February 18, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Iain Dale asks @zackpolanski.bsky.social : "You've only been leader for not even 6 months yet.. you've taken the Greens to get to 15-17% in the opinion polls, in one or two polls you've actually overtaken Labour. How do you think you've managed that..."
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My (long) read through of the book that Labour Together sent the legal warnings to the papers about, here bsky.app/profile/flyi...
Right: I already read the other two books with McSweeney and Reed bragging to journos about how excellent their campaigns of lying and wrecking were, so I’m not expecting revelations here: details, basically. So I’ll try to avoid doing 😲😲😲 every time there’s some new piece of despicable bastardry.
February 18, 2026 at 11:24 AM
My (long) read through of the book that Labour Together sent the legal warnings to the papers about, here bsky.app/profile/flyi...
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The thing Matt doesn't acknowledge is that the right will just tar civil rights protections with fears about bathrooms, sports, and trans youth. One reason Iowa stripped trans people of civil rights protections is because they couldn't ban medicaid coverage for GAC without doing so.
Like this. "You must strategically abandon the specific issues that the right has rendered toxic & focus on others."
But then ... why wouldn't the right just be able to do the same thing on those other issues?
But then ... why wouldn't the right just be able to do the same thing on those other issues?
February 18, 2026 at 11:39 AM
The thing Matt doesn't acknowledge is that the right will just tar civil rights protections with fears about bathrooms, sports, and trans youth. One reason Iowa stripped trans people of civil rights protections is because they couldn't ban medicaid coverage for GAC without doing so.
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Like this. "You must strategically abandon the specific issues that the right has rendered toxic & focus on others."
But then ... why wouldn't the right just be able to do the same thing on those other issues?
But then ... why wouldn't the right just be able to do the same thing on those other issues?
February 18, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Like this. "You must strategically abandon the specific issues that the right has rendered toxic & focus on others."
But then ... why wouldn't the right just be able to do the same thing on those other issues?
But then ... why wouldn't the right just be able to do the same thing on those other issues?
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The Dirty Business of #water in Britain...
Where private companies, their greedy shareholders and vastly overpaid directors, make us swim and bathe in the effluent they dump into our rivers and seashores.
Just one of the ways #capitalism harms humanity and all living things.
#ukpolitics #bbcnews
Where private companies, their greedy shareholders and vastly overpaid directors, make us swim and bathe in the effluent they dump into our rivers and seashores.
Just one of the ways #capitalism harms humanity and all living things.
#ukpolitics #bbcnews
February 17, 2026 at 12:11 PM
The Dirty Business of #water in Britain...
Where private companies, their greedy shareholders and vastly overpaid directors, make us swim and bathe in the effluent they dump into our rivers and seashores.
Just one of the ways #capitalism harms humanity and all living things.
#ukpolitics #bbcnews
Where private companies, their greedy shareholders and vastly overpaid directors, make us swim and bathe in the effluent they dump into our rivers and seashores.
Just one of the ways #capitalism harms humanity and all living things.
#ukpolitics #bbcnews
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Meanwhile Elon Musks robot self destructs, smashes water bottles, and keels over, when its human remote control operator removes their helmet.
And the amount of cope that Georg Stieler is huffing could power a 1000 houses for a year.
Meanwhile Elon Musks robot self destructs, smashes water bottles, and keels over, when its human remote control operator removes their helmet.
And the amount of cope that Georg Stieler is huffing could power a 1000 houses for a year.
China’s dancing robots: how worried should we be?
Eye-catching martial arts performance at China gala had viewers and experts wondering what else humanoids can do
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2026 at 8:48 AM
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Meanwhile Elon Musks robot self destructs, smashes water bottles, and keels over, when its human remote control operator removes their helmet.
And the amount of cope that Georg Stieler is huffing could power a 1000 houses for a year.
Meanwhile Elon Musks robot self destructs, smashes water bottles, and keels over, when its human remote control operator removes their helmet.
And the amount of cope that Georg Stieler is huffing could power a 1000 houses for a year.
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They've voted Labour all their lives.
Now they'll never vote Labour again.
Now they'll never vote Labour again.
February 17, 2026 at 7:13 PM
They've voted Labour all their lives.
Now they'll never vote Labour again.
Now they'll never vote Labour again.
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You're joking. Steve Reed, a bully? Housing Secretary and close ally of both Morgan McSweeney and Keir Starmer? Who sat on the board of Labour Together, the 'think tank' now being investigated for running dodgy smear campaigns on journalists (which Starmer knew nothing about)? That Steve Reed?
![Director of Labour Together
McSweeney is regarded as the leading architect of the think tank Labour Together.[7] He became director in 2017, reporting to a board that included Reed, Lisa Nandy, Jon Cruddas and Trevor Chinn, and also serving as company secretary.[4] As Labour Together director, he declared his aims to be "to move the Labour party from the hard left" and to "build a sustainable winning electoral coalition."[9] Under his leadership, Labour Together worked on a strategy to remove Jeremy Corbyn from the party leadership and to institute reforms to Labour Party processes to prevent the left-wing of the party from subsequently regaining the leadership.[7]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xusvyqwadkmbbd67hz7eyeqj/bafkreiakb5ljply52uxhmtp5b34qd3virc4hvcuzn55ourk4sazd26c2i4@jpeg)
February 17, 2026 at 8:08 PM
You're joking. Steve Reed, a bully? Housing Secretary and close ally of both Morgan McSweeney and Keir Starmer? Who sat on the board of Labour Together, the 'think tank' now being investigated for running dodgy smear campaigns on journalists (which Starmer knew nothing about)? That Steve Reed?
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I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
February 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
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Isn't it interesting that the British press can be staffed with people who all know that the most likely incoming Prime Minister needs to be spared from too much scrutiny, and can say this out loud where people can hear, and that's just no big deal.
Pogrund himself speaking, here: Nobody wanted unsparing scrutiny, as you’ll remember well. That’s how it was, and what everyone thought.
February 17, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Isn't it interesting that the British press can be staffed with people who all know that the most likely incoming Prime Minister needs to be spared from too much scrutiny, and can say this out loud where people can hear, and that's just no big deal.
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"We look after each other and we work hard."
Hannah Spencer providing the antidote to Reform's hate and division in the BBC Gorton and Denton by-election debate 💪
Hannah Spencer providing the antidote to Reform's hate and division in the BBC Gorton and Denton by-election debate 💪
February 17, 2026 at 3:03 PM
"We look after each other and we work hard."
Hannah Spencer providing the antidote to Reform's hate and division in the BBC Gorton and Denton by-election debate 💪
Hannah Spencer providing the antidote to Reform's hate and division in the BBC Gorton and Denton by-election debate 💪
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i saw owen jones interviewing her. i like that she isn't afraid to say she's angry about the immigration system.
"We look after each other and we work hard."
Hannah Spencer providing the antidote to Reform's hate and division in the BBC Gorton and Denton by-election debate 💪
Hannah Spencer providing the antidote to Reform's hate and division in the BBC Gorton and Denton by-election debate 💪
February 17, 2026 at 3:04 PM
i saw owen jones interviewing her. i like that she isn't afraid to say she's angry about the immigration system.
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"The images were fake. But the loss of power was real. The humiliation was real. The sense of being reduced to a body – something they could manipulate and degrade – was painfully real.
"And this abuse was a warning. A message to women like me: 'This is what happens when you challenge us.'"
"And this abuse was a warning. A message to women like me: 'This is what happens when you challenge us.'"
Jess Davies: Grok deepfakes – sexual abuse isn’t a bug, it’s a feature | Good Law Project
Men using images to abuse women didn’t start with Grok – while tech bros are making money out of online harm, women will keep paying the price, says Jess Davies
goodlaw.social
February 17, 2026 at 3:29 PM
"The images were fake. But the loss of power was real. The humiliation was real. The sense of being reduced to a body – something they could manipulate and degrade – was painfully real.
"And this abuse was a warning. A message to women like me: 'This is what happens when you challenge us.'"
"And this abuse was a warning. A message to women like me: 'This is what happens when you challenge us.'"
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🔥 the only appropriate reaction to Lydia Moynihan
February 17, 2026 at 3:39 PM
🔥 the only appropriate reaction to Lydia Moynihan
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The anti-trans side made bomb threats to children's hospitals. They spent a billion dollars messaging this over the last 7 years while the Dems mostly stayed silent or ducked away. But somehow, they always seem to blame trans people for their own persecution.
archive.ph/E2pfS
archive.ph/E2pfS
February 17, 2026 at 4:40 PM
The anti-trans side made bomb threats to children's hospitals. They spent a billion dollars messaging this over the last 7 years while the Dems mostly stayed silent or ducked away. But somehow, they always seem to blame trans people for their own persecution.
archive.ph/E2pfS
archive.ph/E2pfS
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Trump has no memory of endorsing someone to fill Marge’s seat — which he did two weeks ago 🤷🏼
Can’t wait to read @jaketapper’s book about this!
Can’t wait to read @jaketapper’s book about this!
February 17, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Trump has no memory of endorsing someone to fill Marge’s seat — which he did two weeks ago 🤷🏼
Can’t wait to read @jaketapper’s book about this!
Can’t wait to read @jaketapper’s book about this!
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it's going well, @lucympowell.bsky.social. 👍
February 17, 2026 at 2:12 PM
it's going well, @lucympowell.bsky.social. 👍
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How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
February 17, 2026 at 3:17 PM
How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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"The US.. is attempting to overcome our sovereignty, to try to impose through force, threats & coercion its own neocolonialist interests. We will not cede to blackmail, we will continue to defend our independence"
Cuba speaking at the UN special committee on decolonisation
Cuba speaking at the UN special committee on decolonisation
February 17, 2026 at 4:30 PM
"The US.. is attempting to overcome our sovereignty, to try to impose through force, threats & coercion its own neocolonialist interests. We will not cede to blackmail, we will continue to defend our independence"
Cuba speaking at the UN special committee on decolonisation
Cuba speaking at the UN special committee on decolonisation
The Times straight up saying: "When its used against people we don't like its good, when its used against people we like its bad".
Fucking cunts.
Fucking cunts.
What do we always say? That for these terrible people any means justify the ends so long as that is fucking over the left & other pig people. But the second these same tactics are turned back on one of the lxds, someone who matters, well. Then that's outrage of the highest order
February 17, 2026 at 1:41 PM
The Times straight up saying: "When its used against people we don't like its good, when its used against people we like its bad".
Fucking cunts.
Fucking cunts.
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It’s the Government’s duty to protect all communities - including trans people.
They’re failing to do that.
Trans people deserve safety and dignity.
www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...
They’re failing to do that.
Trans people deserve safety and dignity.
www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...
Zack Polanski on how Keir Starmer could have changed the April 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling to protect trans rights (EXCLUSIVE)
Zack Polanski revealed how Keir Starmer could have acted to protect trans rights after April 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling.
www.attitude.co.uk
February 16, 2026 at 2:06 PM
It’s the Government’s duty to protect all communities - including trans people.
They’re failing to do that.
Trans people deserve safety and dignity.
www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...
They’re failing to do that.
Trans people deserve safety and dignity.
www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...