Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦
@breffers.bsky.social
Interested in brands and marketing. Love history, art deco, cricket, opera. Busy creating a garden. #deeds not words. Loved the old Twitter and stayed too long...mea culpa.
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Not only but also …?
November 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Not only but also …?
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I am moving to Dubai because England is so dangerous. www.ft.com/content/9bf6...
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I am moving to Dubai because England is so dangerous. www.ft.com/content/9bf6...
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Give your plants a cozy blanket! 🌾
Straw mulch is a garden superhero:
✅ Insulates roots from temp swings
✅ Locks in moisture
✅ Suppresses weeds
✅ Feeds soil as it decomposes
Apply a thick layer around the base of your plants (just keep it a few inches from the stem!) for a happier garden. 🌱
Straw mulch is a garden superhero:
✅ Insulates roots from temp swings
✅ Locks in moisture
✅ Suppresses weeds
✅ Feeds soil as it decomposes
Apply a thick layer around the base of your plants (just keep it a few inches from the stem!) for a happier garden. 🌱
November 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Give your plants a cozy blanket! 🌾
Straw mulch is a garden superhero:
✅ Insulates roots from temp swings
✅ Locks in moisture
✅ Suppresses weeds
✅ Feeds soil as it decomposes
Apply a thick layer around the base of your plants (just keep it a few inches from the stem!) for a happier garden. 🌱
Straw mulch is a garden superhero:
✅ Insulates roots from temp swings
✅ Locks in moisture
✅ Suppresses weeds
✅ Feeds soil as it decomposes
Apply a thick layer around the base of your plants (just keep it a few inches from the stem!) for a happier garden. 🌱
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Non-industry compromised scientists keep saying these models don't become safe, no matter what, but people keep thinking just because the concept of guardrails is mentioned it must work. By definition, it doesn't. This is not something open to discussion, unless you're a paid shill.
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Non-industry compromised scientists keep saying these models don't become safe, no matter what, but people keep thinking just because the concept of guardrails is mentioned it must work. By definition, it doesn't. This is not something open to discussion, unless you're a paid shill.
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Crikey, Government actually doing something good and remembering to tell people. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown
Touts – and ordinary consumers – will no longer be able to charge anything more than price at which they purchased ticket
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Crikey, Government actually doing something good and remembering to tell people. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Some good news...
Getting prison leavers into work
In the last 12 months over 300 top businesses have joined the government's recruitment initiative to take on prison leavers.
For those with sentences of 12 months or more, employment rates after 6 months have so far risen to an all time high of 38%.
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In the last 12 months over 300 top businesses have joined the government's recruitment initiative to take on prison leavers.
For those with sentences of 12 months or more, employment rates after 6 months have so far risen to an all time high of 38%.
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Crime-cutting jobs plan sees hundreds of firms join hiring drive
Britain’s biggest businesses have joined the Government’s hiring drive to get prison leavers into work in effort to cut crime as part of the Plan for Change.
www.gov.uk
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Some good news...
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Here are some facts about the asylum plans that I've found in various sources (mainly the Guardian).
Rather than being negative about it all, identify the parts you don't like & discuss alternatives.
There are many things people have said they want to see & others which are being misreported.
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Rather than being negative about it all, identify the parts you don't like & discuss alternatives.
There are many things people have said they want to see & others which are being misreported.
1/6
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Here are some facts about the asylum plans that I've found in various sources (mainly the Guardian).
Rather than being negative about it all, identify the parts you don't like & discuss alternatives.
There are many things people have said they want to see & others which are being misreported.
1/6
Rather than being negative about it all, identify the parts you don't like & discuss alternatives.
There are many things people have said they want to see & others which are being misreported.
1/6
The FT reporting tomato news via Tomato News 😉
November 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The FT reporting tomato news via Tomato News 😉
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☄️Out of this world. 🔆A bit of warmth and light for the darker days.
The medieval St. Thomas Becket, Fairfield, Romney Marsh—once part of a thriving village, now isolated by time and circumstance.
The medieval St. Thomas Becket, Fairfield, Romney Marsh—once part of a thriving village, now isolated by time and circumstance.
November 17, 2025 at 6:32 AM
☄️Out of this world. 🔆A bit of warmth and light for the darker days.
The medieval St. Thomas Becket, Fairfield, Romney Marsh—once part of a thriving village, now isolated by time and circumstance.
The medieval St. Thomas Becket, Fairfield, Romney Marsh—once part of a thriving village, now isolated by time and circumstance.
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This is how the Reform UK propaganda machine works.
Chief Bullshitter Nigel Farage feeds some bullshit claim to a friendly journalist
They repeat the claim
No one cites any evidence other than their own claim
It's claimed as fact
Start small. End big. Get away with it
Chief Bullshitter Nigel Farage feeds some bullshit claim to a friendly journalist
They repeat the claim
No one cites any evidence other than their own claim
It's claimed as fact
Start small. End big. Get away with it
November 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This is how the Reform UK propaganda machine works.
Chief Bullshitter Nigel Farage feeds some bullshit claim to a friendly journalist
They repeat the claim
No one cites any evidence other than their own claim
It's claimed as fact
Start small. End big. Get away with it
Chief Bullshitter Nigel Farage feeds some bullshit claim to a friendly journalist
They repeat the claim
No one cites any evidence other than their own claim
It's claimed as fact
Start small. End big. Get away with it
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We know — from first principles — that LLMs can only create AI slop.
Why do people keep needing empirical tests?
Why do people keep needing empirical tests?
The intractability proof (a.k.a. Ingenia theorem) implies that any attempts to scale up AI-by-Learning to situations of real-world, human-level complexity will consume an astronomical amount of resources (see Box 1 for an explanation). 13/n
October 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
We know — from first principles — that LLMs can only create AI slop.
Why do people keep needing empirical tests?
Why do people keep needing empirical tests?
Threads like this restore my faith in social media...
Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Threads like this restore my faith in social media...
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Ok. I want to know more about this please.
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Ok. I want to know more about this please.
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At what point will Labour politicians, locally and nationally, really start to push back against the endless underfunding of local authorities?
We know what damage this does, and how it will verberate into our futures.
How is there not louder, insistent opposition to this?
We know what damage this does, and how it will verberate into our futures.
How is there not louder, insistent opposition to this?
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
At what point will Labour politicians, locally and nationally, really start to push back against the endless underfunding of local authorities?
We know what damage this does, and how it will verberate into our futures.
How is there not louder, insistent opposition to this?
We know what damage this does, and how it will verberate into our futures.
How is there not louder, insistent opposition to this?
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The Covid inquiry delivers its report on phase 2 on Thursday at 4pm.
I can think of no finer marker than to prosecute Tory ministers and former PMs for their part in the absolute criminality of the pandemic.
Thousands dead. They deserve justice, be who you are meant to be Keir and go after them.
I can think of no finer marker than to prosecute Tory ministers and former PMs for their part in the absolute criminality of the pandemic.
Thousands dead. They deserve justice, be who you are meant to be Keir and go after them.
November 15, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The Covid inquiry delivers its report on phase 2 on Thursday at 4pm.
I can think of no finer marker than to prosecute Tory ministers and former PMs for their part in the absolute criminality of the pandemic.
Thousands dead. They deserve justice, be who you are meant to be Keir and go after them.
I can think of no finer marker than to prosecute Tory ministers and former PMs for their part in the absolute criminality of the pandemic.
Thousands dead. They deserve justice, be who you are meant to be Keir and go after them.
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Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
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It’s not just your circle, Trump is pretty much universally disliked in the UK. This data is from August and shows he’s almost as hated as Putin with everyone except Reform voters - and I’m not sure his ratings have improved since then…
November 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
It’s not just your circle, Trump is pretty much universally disliked in the UK. This data is from August and shows he’s almost as hated as Putin with everyone except Reform voters - and I’m not sure his ratings have improved since then…
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I've been critical of the BBC for their over coverage of Farage, but if it comes to choosing between the BBC and Trump, then there is no choice
November 15, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I've been critical of the BBC for their over coverage of Farage, but if it comes to choosing between the BBC and Trump, then there is no choice
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Buckle up - because this now amounts to a direct and deliberate attack on our country and its cultural sovereignty. Which side our politicians take - Trump's or the BBC's - over the coming days and weeks will speak volumes about their patriotism.
Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit
The US president confirmed he intends to sue the broadcaster for at least $1bn over the Panorama edit of a 2021 speech.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Buckle up - because this now amounts to a direct and deliberate attack on our country and its cultural sovereignty. Which side our politicians take - Trump's or the BBC's - over the coming days and weeks will speak volumes about their patriotism.
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And as @stephencushion.bsky.social has written ‘The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands’
BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands
The Prescott memo contained no research questions or objectives, method, sample, time frame or, crucially, analytical framework for examining output.
theconversation.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
And as @stephencushion.bsky.social has written ‘The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands’
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Good ploy from Australia to either:
a) win the Test without Cummins and Hazlewood, shattering England confidence
or
b) lose it, but be able to say ‘engh, you beat a team without Cummins and Hazlewood - you must be soooooo proud of yourselves’
Next level stuff. England in tatters. #Ashes 🏏
a) win the Test without Cummins and Hazlewood, shattering England confidence
or
b) lose it, but be able to say ‘engh, you beat a team without Cummins and Hazlewood - you must be soooooo proud of yourselves’
Next level stuff. England in tatters. #Ashes 🏏
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Good ploy from Australia to either:
a) win the Test without Cummins and Hazlewood, shattering England confidence
or
b) lose it, but be able to say ‘engh, you beat a team without Cummins and Hazlewood - you must be soooooo proud of yourselves’
Next level stuff. England in tatters. #Ashes 🏏
a) win the Test without Cummins and Hazlewood, shattering England confidence
or
b) lose it, but be able to say ‘engh, you beat a team without Cummins and Hazlewood - you must be soooooo proud of yourselves’
Next level stuff. England in tatters. #Ashes 🏏
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Sybil Andrews,
The Gale (1930)
Linocut, Art Deco style print from the Modernist Printmaker
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers
The Gale (1930)
Linocut, Art Deco style print from the Modernist Printmaker
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers
September 28, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Sybil Andrews,
The Gale (1930)
Linocut, Art Deco style print from the Modernist Printmaker
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers
The Gale (1930)
Linocut, Art Deco style print from the Modernist Printmaker
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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The Rule of Law in England.
Legal-aid is scarce.
Backlog of 78,329 Crown Court and 361,027 Magistrates’ courts cases. No speedy hearing.
The Post Office scandal shows that corporations can hound innocent people. No one charged for false prosecutions and ruining lives.
Legal-aid is scarce.
Backlog of 78,329 Crown Court and 361,027 Magistrates’ courts cases. No speedy hearing.
The Post Office scandal shows that corporations can hound innocent people. No one charged for false prosecutions and ruining lives.
Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few
leftfootforward.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The Rule of Law in England.
Legal-aid is scarce.
Backlog of 78,329 Crown Court and 361,027 Magistrates’ courts cases. No speedy hearing.
The Post Office scandal shows that corporations can hound innocent people. No one charged for false prosecutions and ruining lives.
Legal-aid is scarce.
Backlog of 78,329 Crown Court and 361,027 Magistrates’ courts cases. No speedy hearing.
The Post Office scandal shows that corporations can hound innocent people. No one charged for false prosecutions and ruining lives.