Chris
@chris4man.bsky.social
Long time software developer, SF&F enthusiast, Trekkie, comics, Discworld, Dr. Feelgood, Kraftwerk and Michael Nyman fan
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A brief thread on Trump renewing his threat to sue the BBC.
(Note I am not an American lawyer, this is perspective of an English legal commentator.)
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(Note I am not an American lawyer, this is perspective of an English legal commentator.)
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November 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A brief thread on Trump renewing his threat to sue the BBC.
(Note I am not an American lawyer, this is perspective of an English legal commentator.)
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(Note I am not an American lawyer, this is perspective of an English legal commentator.)
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What could possibly go wrong?
New from 404 Media: Microsoft and nuclear power company Westinghouse Nuclear want to use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants in the United States.
"may lead [..] to catastrophic nuclear consequences" and distrust of nuclear tech
www.404media.co/power-compan...
"may lead [..] to catastrophic nuclear consequences" and distrust of nuclear tech
www.404media.co/power-compan...
Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
What could possibly go wrong?
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Here's my plea to the government, media and everyone else to stop treating NHS administrators as a problem to be eliminated, rather than the glue which holds the whole organisation together.
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Here's my plea to the government, media and everyone else to stop treating NHS administrators as a problem to be eliminated, rather than the glue which holds the whole organisation together.
Still not seen Toy Story 4...
‘The age of toys is over’: first Toy Story 5 teaser trailer introduces a new tech foe
‘The age of toys is over’: first Toy Story 5 teaser trailer introduces a new tech foe
Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack are joined by Past Lives star Greta Lee in Disney’s highly anticipated sequel
The first trailer for Toy Story 5 has provided a brief glimpse at the highly anticipated animated sequel out next summer.
The teaser introduces a new arrival and “all-new threat to playtime” with the tagline “the age of toys is over”. The latest character is a smart tablet called Lilypad, voiced by Past Lives and Tron: Ares star Greta Lee, bringing new tech to the old toys. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Still not seen Toy Story 4...
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AI is not the Dot com bubble
It's much worse
The internet did become a massively useful technology
"AI" is almost useless. The massive resources out into it are just being burned. Literally.
It's much worse
The internet did become a massively useful technology
"AI" is almost useless. The massive resources out into it are just being burned. Literally.
November 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
AI is not the Dot com bubble
It's much worse
The internet did become a massively useful technology
"AI" is almost useless. The massive resources out into it are just being burned. Literally.
It's much worse
The internet did become a massively useful technology
"AI" is almost useless. The massive resources out into it are just being burned. Literally.
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I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery
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Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
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The team behind a planned collection of the newspaper strip “Eartha”, by Donne Avenell and John M. Burns, are still looking for five more pieces of original art. If you have any of the attached, please e-mail johnmburnsart@googlemail.com | downthetubes news story downthetubes.net/comic-art-ap...
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The team behind a planned collection of the newspaper strip “Eartha”, by Donne Avenell and John M. Burns, are still looking for five more pieces of original art. If you have any of the attached, please e-mail johnmburnsart@googlemail.com | downthetubes news story downthetubes.net/comic-art-ap...
In the next week or so I should be getting:
The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor by @bryan-talbot.bsky.social
S 2 of Blake's 7 on blu ray
A 1,000 piece jigsaw of Josh Kirby's cover of @terryandrob.bsky.social 's Hogfather
And I'm equally excited about all 3. Not quite sure what that says about me.
The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor by @bryan-talbot.bsky.social
S 2 of Blake's 7 on blu ray
A 1,000 piece jigsaw of Josh Kirby's cover of @terryandrob.bsky.social 's Hogfather
And I'm equally excited about all 3. Not quite sure what that says about me.
November 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
In the next week or so I should be getting:
The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor by @bryan-talbot.bsky.social
S 2 of Blake's 7 on blu ray
A 1,000 piece jigsaw of Josh Kirby's cover of @terryandrob.bsky.social 's Hogfather
And I'm equally excited about all 3. Not quite sure what that says about me.
The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor by @bryan-talbot.bsky.social
S 2 of Blake's 7 on blu ray
A 1,000 piece jigsaw of Josh Kirby's cover of @terryandrob.bsky.social 's Hogfather
And I'm equally excited about all 3. Not quite sure what that says about me.
We need this law in the UK!
New national law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms
New national law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms
Starting this month, parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports. But, unlike similar laws that have been proposed in the US, this new law doesn’t just apply to new construction – existing lots will have to comply as well!
more…
electrek.co
November 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We need this law in the UK!
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(explaining an american car to a european) yeah so imagine if you were sitting in the back seat while driving,
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
(explaining an american car to a european) yeah so imagine if you were sitting in the back seat while driving,
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I’ve just launched my #Christmas Gift Guide
Here’s an offer that might tempt you to have a look
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-gi...
Here’s an offer that might tempt you to have a look
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-gi...
November 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I’ve just launched my #Christmas Gift Guide
Here’s an offer that might tempt you to have a look
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-gi...
Here’s an offer that might tempt you to have a look
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-gi...
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Reality v. msm fearmongering.
November 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Reality v. msm fearmongering.
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We need one night a year where we turn all the lights off so we can enjoy the stars without light pollution. I think most would think it sounds like the preamble to The Purge but we all just need to agree to be nice while we look at the Milky Way.
November 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We need one night a year where we turn all the lights off so we can enjoy the stars without light pollution. I think most would think it sounds like the preamble to The Purge but we all just need to agree to be nice while we look at the Milky Way.
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Or maybe we should provide a universal basic income for ALL humans, no exceptions, no means tests (just take it back from the billionaires at income tax time).
Humans shouldn't need to work to live.
We are not work machines!
Humans shouldn't need to work to live.
We are not work machines!
Even if you were willing to buy that an LLM/Gen AI tool has human-like intellect, you’re still left with the fact that an LLM doesn’t NEED a job to remain alive under capitalism, but a human does.
morality-wise, surely many would agree that humans should thus be given priority for jobs due to need
morality-wise, surely many would agree that humans should thus be given priority for jobs due to need
November 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Or maybe we should provide a universal basic income for ALL humans, no exceptions, no means tests (just take it back from the billionaires at income tax time).
Humans shouldn't need to work to live.
We are not work machines!
Humans shouldn't need to work to live.
We are not work machines!
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Looking up death statistics (always fun and surprising) half of the 21,000 or so accidental UK deaths are falls, poisonings claim a quarter, far more than road accidents (7%) Knife/sharp object deaths account for around 260, guns 29.
Less than 600 homicides per year seems remarkable for 70m people.
Less than 600 homicides per year seems remarkable for 70m people.
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Looking up death statistics (always fun and surprising) half of the 21,000 or so accidental UK deaths are falls, poisonings claim a quarter, far more than road accidents (7%) Knife/sharp object deaths account for around 260, guns 29.
Less than 600 homicides per year seems remarkable for 70m people.
Less than 600 homicides per year seems remarkable for 70m people.
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Thread.
Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
November 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Thread.
Very much this. I'm supposedly in the Boomer generation, but I was born right at the tail end and I haven't seen the benefits, like we early retirement etc. at all.
The boundaries are arbitrary and therefore meaningless.
The boundaries are arbitrary and therefore meaningless.
The question is not whether you should say "Gen Zee" or "Gen Zed". The question is should you be using these pointless, inaccurate and reductive generation star signs in the first place.
November 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Very much this. I'm supposedly in the Boomer generation, but I was born right at the tail end and I haven't seen the benefits, like we early retirement etc. at all.
The boundaries are arbitrary and therefore meaningless.
The boundaries are arbitrary and therefore meaningless.
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Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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David Lammy seriously attacking Robert Jenrick over the state the Tories left the prison & court systems.
Everything was failure & outrageously the Shadow Justice Secretary tried to claim these problems started just 14 months ago.
Jenrick is just as bad as every single other Tory.
Everything was failure & outrageously the Shadow Justice Secretary tried to claim these problems started just 14 months ago.
Jenrick is just as bad as every single other Tory.
October 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM
David Lammy seriously attacking Robert Jenrick over the state the Tories left the prison & court systems.
Everything was failure & outrageously the Shadow Justice Secretary tried to claim these problems started just 14 months ago.
Jenrick is just as bad as every single other Tory.
Everything was failure & outrageously the Shadow Justice Secretary tried to claim these problems started just 14 months ago.
Jenrick is just as bad as every single other Tory.
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Videos shared hundreds of times online claim that from 1 November the UK government will slow down the internet after midnight.
But this isn’t true. The government has not announced any such policy.
But this isn’t true. The government has not announced any such policy.
The government isn’t going to slow the internet at night from November – Full Fact
Claims being shared in videos on social media that from 1 November the government will reduce internet speeds from midnight until 6am are false.
fullfact.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Videos shared hundreds of times online claim that from 1 November the UK government will slow down the internet after midnight.
But this isn’t true. The government has not announced any such policy.
But this isn’t true. The government has not announced any such policy.
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I‘m mostly vegetarian these days. Helps that I know how to cook, and enjoy doing it. Apparently, going even partially veggie (eating significantly less meat) is one of the best things you can do to help combat climate change, so you should give it a go if you can.
Been up early cooking some of these recipes - dal flavoured with tomatoes and curry leaves and a potatoes cooked in a spicy tomato sauce. Recipes in the blog post in the post below.
October 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I‘m mostly vegetarian these days. Helps that I know how to cook, and enjoy doing it. Apparently, going even partially veggie (eating significantly less meat) is one of the best things you can do to help combat climate change, so you should give it a go if you can.
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It's the Fesshole/Vagina Museum crossover event you've all been waiting for. Tons of you tagged us into this across all of our socials, asking for a fact-check. The consensus of the reply guys is that it Didn't Happen. However, this is in fact very possible. Here's why...
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It's the Fesshole/Vagina Museum crossover event you've all been waiting for. Tons of you tagged us into this across all of our socials, asking for a fact-check. The consensus of the reply guys is that it Didn't Happen. However, this is in fact very possible. Here's why...
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you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"
an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"
an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
July 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"
an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"
an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group