Edward
@fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social
Nobody very important. Ferrets, greyhounds, poorly thought-through opinions. Englishman living in rural Northern Ireland. he/him
Sure, this sounds bad, but actually it was a very productive discussion about the inspiring example set by Jagmeet Singh.
After Starmer said this, they moved onto discussing the “lessons for the re-elect from Canada”, where, again, how would you stop yourself from laughing at the obvious lesson from Canada?
January 6, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Sure, this sounds bad, but actually it was a very productive discussion about the inspiring example set by Jagmeet Singh.
Ofcom has responsibility for the behaviour of broadcasters, it does not responsibility for flagrantly criminal behaviour. This would be like insisting phone-hacking was solely a matter for the Press Complaints Commission.
Technology secretary Liz Kendall says the mass of indecent and child sexual abuse material on X via Grok is "absolutely appalling, and unacceptable in decent society". No new action for now, but govt will back any Ofcom enforcement.
January 6, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Ofcom has responsibility for the behaviour of broadcasters, it does not responsibility for flagrantly criminal behaviour. This would be like insisting phone-hacking was solely a matter for the Press Complaints Commission.
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Can I reuse my joke about the "four Es" in Jeremy Hunt's Budget?
January 6, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Can I reuse my joke about the "four Es" in Jeremy Hunt's Budget?
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2am: scared by Ramsay MacDonald PM turning his face very slightly between multiple identical photos of Stanley Baldwin PM
January 6, 2026 at 2:03 AM
2am: scared by Ramsay MacDonald PM turning his face very slightly between multiple identical photos of Stanley Baldwin PM
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One of the rare times St. Nicholas of Myra interacts with Goths without the urge to call them out on their Arianism.
"Huh... you just discovered what it takes to become a legend, grab your iron, lets mobilize."
January 6, 2026 at 1:58 PM
One of the rare times St. Nicholas of Myra interacts with Goths without the urge to call them out on their Arianism.
Greyhound is haunted again.
January 6, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Greyhound is haunted again.
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A lot of people criticising this, but I am choosing to believe that this is finally the anti-Richard I film that England deserves.
January 5, 2026 at 9:34 PM
A lot of people criticising this, but I am choosing to believe that this is finally the anti-Richard I film that England deserves.
What are you chances this fake stat was sourced from an AI system?
If there is an argument then this is the argument. But lol I can’t find where this obviously false stat is coming from. And if the government does believe more than half the families in the UK are using it as their primary news source then woah maybe time to up the scrutiny of it!
January 5, 2026 at 8:31 PM
What are you chances this fake stat was sourced from an AI system?
Even if nobody wants to take action against Musk for building a CSAM generator, there are people using it who are based in the UK and those prompts are absolutely something that would get you on the sex offender's register. Absolutely no justification not to try to identify and prosecute users.
January 5, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Even if nobody wants to take action against Musk for building a CSAM generator, there are people using it who are based in the UK and those prompts are absolutely something that would get you on the sex offender's register. Absolutely no justification not to try to identify and prosecute users.
Absurdly stacked selection.
Then: Starcraft, even if I was rubbish at it
Now: Fallut 2
Then: Starcraft, even if I was rubbish at it
Now: Fallut 2
Quote this with your favourite game from 1998 NOW, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one)
Localisations/expansions count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
Localisations/expansions count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
January 5, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Absurdly stacked selection.
Then: Starcraft, even if I was rubbish at it
Now: Fallut 2
Then: Starcraft, even if I was rubbish at it
Now: Fallut 2
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Embodies the underlying weirdness of this government - the minister in question hasn't tweeted for *OVER A YEAR* because the site is a cesspit.
Cabinet Office Minister Baroness Anderson tells the Lords the Government will keep on using X.
"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."
"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."
"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
January 5, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Embodies the underlying weirdness of this government - the minister in question hasn't tweeted for *OVER A YEAR* because the site is a cesspit.
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If your version of freedom of speech includes the freedom to create child abuse images you should be in prison
Cabinet Office Minister Baroness Anderson tells the Lords the Government will keep on using X.
"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."
"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."
"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
January 5, 2026 at 4:30 PM
If your version of freedom of speech includes the freedom to create child abuse images you should be in prison
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Not obvious to me why Ofcom is leading the effort either, rather than Scotland Yard. It's a crime, not a regulatory breach.
January 5, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Not obvious to me why Ofcom is leading the effort either, rather than Scotland Yard. It's a crime, not a regulatory breach.
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Look I understand the team is very comfortable with 3 at the back right now but I just worry his formation of choice is going to cede too much in the midfield and going forward
January 5, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Look I understand the team is very comfortable with 3 at the back right now but I just worry his formation of choice is going to cede too much in the midfield and going forward
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Workplace comedy about Sloth having to clock to at their job in Hell when they really just want to sleep all the time.
It is really funny that media about personifications of the seven deadly sins rarely if ever depict sloth. Just a sleepy little guy (gender inclusive).
January 5, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Workplace comedy about Sloth having to clock to at their job in Hell when they really just want to sleep all the time.
People keep saying that Ofcom should investigate Twitter, but I think the more urgent need is for the CPS to do so. Running a network that creates and shares CSAM is the sort of thing that gets you upwards of a decade inside ordinarily.
January 5, 2026 at 2:02 PM
People keep saying that Ofcom should investigate Twitter, but I think the more urgent need is for the CPS to do so. Running a network that creates and shares CSAM is the sort of thing that gets you upwards of a decade inside ordinarily.
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Every time Grok does something vaguely woke Elon swoops down with the calipers in hand to re-lobotomize it. He doesn't in this case. It's because an environment where the remaining women (1/3 have left Twitter) are afraid to be themselves is one he implicitly likes
The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
January 5, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Every time Grok does something vaguely woke Elon swoops down with the calipers in hand to re-lobotomize it. He doesn't in this case. It's because an environment where the remaining women (1/3 have left Twitter) are afraid to be themselves is one he implicitly likes
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If only there was some kind of OFfice of COMmunications that could do more than hope
Keir Starmer's spokesman asked if Government will still use X now it posts indecent images of children, replies "we always keep communication channels under review to reach public in most appropriate way possible”
"Operators are under obligation to act appropriately. We always hope they would do"
"Operators are under obligation to act appropriately. We always hope they would do"
January 5, 2026 at 12:57 PM
If only there was some kind of OFfice of COMmunications that could do more than hope
At the time: Driver (probably the only one I played in the year of release)
Now: Alpha Centauri, and it's not even close
Now: Alpha Centauri, and it's not even close
Quote this with your favourite game from 1999 NOW, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one)
Localisations/expansions count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
- PSA: Metal Gear Solid and Half-Life were 1998 -
Localisations/expansions count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
- PSA: Metal Gear Solid and Half-Life were 1998 -
January 5, 2026 at 11:18 AM
At the time: Driver (probably the only one I played in the year of release)
Now: Alpha Centauri, and it's not even close
Now: Alpha Centauri, and it's not even close
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I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.
A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.
January 4, 2026 at 11:25 PM
I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.
On the one hand, Trump is definitely that petty. On the other hand, the pull quote is bollocks - if she'd turned it down Trump would have forgotten about her by now anyway and she'd still get nothing.
He's capricious, but he doesn't care enough about others to repay favours.
He's capricious, but he doesn't care enough about others to repay favours.
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 7:45 AM
On the one hand, Trump is definitely that petty. On the other hand, the pull quote is bollocks - if she'd turned it down Trump would have forgotten about her by now anyway and she'd still get nothing.
He's capricious, but he doesn't care enough about others to repay favours.
He's capricious, but he doesn't care enough about others to repay favours.
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I know RUK ignores NI, but surely there should be more public horror and indignation about the fact that not 6 months ago part of the UK saw a pogrom that drove an ethnic group (the Roma) out of a sizeable town
Ballymena riots six months on: fear, formidable obstacles and official silence
Ballymena riots six months on: fear, formidable obstacles and official silence
After attacks on immigrants’ homes, groups patrol the streets to intimidate potential victims, who try to keep a low profile
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I know RUK ignores NI, but surely there should be more public horror and indignation about the fact that not 6 months ago part of the UK saw a pogrom that drove an ethnic group (the Roma) out of a sizeable town
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This is not a good thread, it's conspiracy thinking. Venezuela pricing oil in Yuan is not a threat to dollar hegemony. It's clever-clever sub Adam Curtis / Noam Chomsky ism
A very long and important THREAD -
The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.
And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.
Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/
The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.
And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.
Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/
January 4, 2026 at 3:04 PM
This is not a good thread, it's conspiracy thinking. Venezuela pricing oil in Yuan is not a threat to dollar hegemony. It's clever-clever sub Adam Curtis / Noam Chomsky ism
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Idk who needs to hear this but ACAB includes barbers
January 4, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Idk who needs to hear this but ACAB includes barbers
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However! in this case they seem to have gotten the information *while the operation was taking place*, which is a genuinely different set of considerations.
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
News organizations held off on reporting Venezuela raid
The American news organizations held their stories over concerns about endangering US troops.
www.semafor.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:09 AM
However! in this case they seem to have gotten the information *while the operation was taking place*, which is a genuinely different set of considerations.
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...