I Am Incorrigible
@imincorrigible.bsky.social
Libidinous curmudgeon & faux intellectual snob. Not Red or Blue. Merit not Money. Evidence not Ideology. #CSA survivor. Blogger. Existentially Geeky. © Rights reserved.
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February 16, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Suspect Goodwin thinks he can bully the female Green candidate.
She should accept, I'd bet she has much bigger balls than the racist and misogynist Reform candidate.
#bbcpm
She should accept, I'd bet she has much bigger balls than the racist and misogynist Reform candidate.
#bbcpm
Matt Goodwin of Reform wants a head to head debate with the Greens, suggesting a Green-friendly host like Novara.
Why?
Normally an underdog/challenger tactic, not a frontrunner move
And/or Goodwin wants to boost Greens - and frame as Reform v Greens, more than Reform v Labour
Why?
Normally an underdog/challenger tactic, not a frontrunner move
And/or Goodwin wants to boost Greens - and frame as Reform v Greens, more than Reform v Labour
February 16, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Suspect Goodwin thinks he can bully the female Green candidate.
She should accept, I'd bet she has much bigger balls than the racist and misogynist Reform candidate.
#bbcpm
She should accept, I'd bet she has much bigger balls than the racist and misogynist Reform candidate.
#bbcpm
Another part of McSweeney's legacy which has come back to bite Starmer in the backside, and may well prove to be his undoing in May.
#bbcpm
#bbcpm
Following legal advice, the Government has withdrawn its original decision to postpone 30 local elections in May.
Providing certainty to councils about their local elections is now the most crucial thing and all local elections will now go ahead in May 2026.”
Providing certainty to councils about their local elections is now the most crucial thing and all local elections will now go ahead in May 2026.”
February 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Another part of McSweeney's legacy which has come back to bite Starmer in the backside, and may well prove to be his undoing in May.
#bbcpm
#bbcpm
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Not great when students include AI hallucinated references in their assignments.
Really not great when they include hallucinated references from the lecturer teaching the module.
Really not great when they include hallucinated references from the lecturer teaching the module.
February 16, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Not great when students include AI hallucinated references in their assignments.
Really not great when they include hallucinated references from the lecturer teaching the module.
Really not great when they include hallucinated references from the lecturer teaching the module.
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On the one hand, I do reluctantly accept there's probably a role for AI in the future of journalism. But on the other, I am rather wondering why a local newspaper in Manchester thinks I'm a critic for the Daily Telegraph who really likes Katherine Jenkins.
February 16, 2026 at 4:53 PM
On the one hand, I do reluctantly accept there's probably a role for AI in the future of journalism. But on the other, I am rather wondering why a local newspaper in Manchester thinks I'm a critic for the Daily Telegraph who really likes Katherine Jenkins.
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You cannot politically coexist with such extreme views, but it's taking time for that penny to drop for half-sane Rightists.
The latest British ethnic identity nonsense from Lowe and his lot makes the ghastly Kisin and his ethnic English nonsense look almost liberal.
bsky.app/profile/rola...
The latest British ethnic identity nonsense from Lowe and his lot makes the ghastly Kisin and his ethnic English nonsense look almost liberal.
bsky.app/profile/rola...
Morning.
This clearly goes much further than the previous Populist formulation that 'English is an ethnicity but people can become British'.
This clearly goes much further than the previous Populist formulation that 'English is an ethnicity but people can become British'.
February 16, 2026 at 3:52 PM
You cannot politically coexist with such extreme views, but it's taking time for that penny to drop for half-sane Rightists.
The latest British ethnic identity nonsense from Lowe and his lot makes the ghastly Kisin and his ethnic English nonsense look almost liberal.
bsky.app/profile/rola...
The latest British ethnic identity nonsense from Lowe and his lot makes the ghastly Kisin and his ethnic English nonsense look almost liberal.
bsky.app/profile/rola...
Employment law, Hillsborough Law, environmental action, housebuilding has anything Starmer's govt promised not been watered down or amended out of meaningful existance?
#SLAPP
#SLAPP
Happy SLAPPing?
It looks like the government’s crackdown on using vexatious litigation to silence people is cracking up before it’s even begun:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/72083754-3a92-427d-85bb-18c5b33def2e
It looks like the government’s crackdown on using vexatious litigation to silence people is cracking up before it’s even begun:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/72083754-3a92-427d-85bb-18c5b33def2e
Fears for free speech as crackdown on Slapps is shelved
The editors of The Times and The Sunday Times have urged No 10 to end the use of strategic litigation against public participation
www.thetimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Employment law, Hillsborough Law, environmental action, housebuilding has anything Starmer's govt promised not been watered down or amended out of meaningful existance?
#SLAPP
#SLAPP
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We will still put up our breaking news and investigations for nothing on the free news site, but we also have to find a way to pay our journalists now that advertising is broken by Google/Facebook etc
February 16, 2026 at 11:47 AM
We will still put up our breaking news and investigations for nothing on the free news site, but we also have to find a way to pay our journalists now that advertising is broken by Google/Facebook etc
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So much of Bluesky can be explained by it having one population whose primary mode of interaction is jokes and another population who have taken a vow against ever getting a joke.
February 16, 2026 at 11:11 AM
So much of Bluesky can be explained by it having one population whose primary mode of interaction is jokes and another population who have taken a vow against ever getting a joke.
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, #GMB has replaced the Daily Mail & GB News mouthpiece, Andrew Pierce, with the virulent Daily Mail columnist Sarah Vine.
February 16, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, #GMB has replaced the Daily Mail & GB News mouthpiece, Andrew Pierce, with the virulent Daily Mail columnist Sarah Vine.
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NEW from @tbij.bsky.social:
The government has rejected calls by its OWN independent Migration Advisory Committee for visa reforms to protect migrant farm workers from exploitation
Labour seems wedded to a model of immigration based on creating a subclass of exploited worker.
It's sick.
The government has rejected calls by its OWN independent Migration Advisory Committee for visa reforms to protect migrant farm workers from exploitation
Labour seems wedded to a model of immigration based on creating a subclass of exploited worker.
It's sick.
February 16, 2026 at 8:43 AM
NEW from @tbij.bsky.social:
The government has rejected calls by its OWN independent Migration Advisory Committee for visa reforms to protect migrant farm workers from exploitation
Labour seems wedded to a model of immigration based on creating a subclass of exploited worker.
It's sick.
The government has rejected calls by its OWN independent Migration Advisory Committee for visa reforms to protect migrant farm workers from exploitation
Labour seems wedded to a model of immigration based on creating a subclass of exploited worker.
It's sick.
That's a great ad - totally captures the problem with Collins.
February 16, 2026 at 8:22 AM
That's a great ad - totally captures the problem with Collins.
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Gisele Pelicot told us ‘shame must shift sides’
I have received this from one viewer ..
❤️
I have received this from one viewer ..
❤️
February 16, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Gisele Pelicot told us ‘shame must shift sides’
I have received this from one viewer ..
❤️
I have received this from one viewer ..
❤️
Done safely, there is nothing wrong with selling plasma. Indeed, it should be encouraged if the plasma is being used to save lives.
Ideally, it should be voluntarily donated, but that can lead to shortages.
#r4today
Ideally, it should be voluntarily donated, but that can lead to shortages.
#r4today
February 16, 2026 at 6:59 AM
Done safely, there is nothing wrong with selling plasma. Indeed, it should be encouraged if the plasma is being used to save lives.
Ideally, it should be voluntarily donated, but that can lead to shortages.
#r4today
Ideally, it should be voluntarily donated, but that can lead to shortages.
#r4today
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🚨 Yesterday afternoon, wind power reached a new high on the island of Ireland: 4686MW, equal to 73.5% of electricity demand and 66.8% of total generation at the time.
The previous record which stood for just over two years has now been broken twice already this winter 🥇
The previous record which stood for just over two years has now been broken twice already this winter 🥇
February 15, 2026 at 10:36 AM
🚨 Yesterday afternoon, wind power reached a new high on the island of Ireland: 4686MW, equal to 73.5% of electricity demand and 66.8% of total generation at the time.
The previous record which stood for just over two years has now been broken twice already this winter 🥇
The previous record which stood for just over two years has now been broken twice already this winter 🥇
We did a class read of Lord of the Flies, & our English master insisted on reading the page where Jack says "bollocks to the rules"
When he read it, he spoke so quickly it sounded like "blicks"
We all burst out laughing, & spent the next 5 years shouting "blicks to the rules" every time we saw him
When he read it, he spoke so quickly it sounded like "blicks"
We all burst out laughing, & spent the next 5 years shouting "blicks to the rules" every time we saw him
February 15, 2026 at 10:35 PM
We did a class read of Lord of the Flies, & our English master insisted on reading the page where Jack says "bollocks to the rules"
When he read it, he spoke so quickly it sounded like "blicks"
We all burst out laughing, & spent the next 5 years shouting "blicks to the rules" every time we saw him
When he read it, he spoke so quickly it sounded like "blicks"
We all burst out laughing, & spent the next 5 years shouting "blicks to the rules" every time we saw him
I'm assuming they didn't use a real animal in the 'kill the pig' scene of Lord of the Flies because of what I also assume are the rules, but it did look pretty terrifying for the victim.
February 15, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm assuming they didn't use a real animal in the 'kill the pig' scene of Lord of the Flies because of what I also assume are the rules, but it did look pretty terrifying for the victim.
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cool pincer movement if you truly grasp:
AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a quija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out
🧵
1/n
AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a quija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out
🧵
1/n
"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 5:51 AM
cool pincer movement if you truly grasp:
AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a quija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out
🧵
1/n
AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a quija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out
🧵
1/n
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I think this is only some journalists, but it includes BBC News, @itvnews.bsky.social, Sky News, and talk radio.
Obviously, all the explicitly right wing funded channels (GB News, Talk TV, Times Radio etc) are also content with interpreting X as a proxy for the will of the people.
Obviously, all the explicitly right wing funded channels (GB News, Talk TV, Times Radio etc) are also content with interpreting X as a proxy for the will of the people.
It's galling to contemplate but I really think you have to admit that Musk buying X was an unqualified victory. It can't be exaggerated just how much prominent journalists, pundits, business type, etc. mistake the vibe on X for "how the country is feeling."
February 15, 2026 at 9:01 PM
I think this is only some journalists, but it includes BBC News, @itvnews.bsky.social, Sky News, and talk radio.
Obviously, all the explicitly right wing funded channels (GB News, Talk TV, Times Radio etc) are also content with interpreting X as a proxy for the will of the people.
Obviously, all the explicitly right wing funded channels (GB News, Talk TV, Times Radio etc) are also content with interpreting X as a proxy for the will of the people.
This is utter madness.
In 2025/6, the BBC World Service has been funded by £137m from the Foreign Office & £221m from the licence fee.
This is after a 21% (£54.2m) real terms cut since 2022.
The return on this investment in terms of soft power this brings the UK is incalculable.
In 2025/6, the BBC World Service has been funded by £137m from the Foreign Office & £221m from the licence fee.
This is after a 21% (£54.2m) real terms cut since 2022.
The return on this investment in terms of soft power this brings the UK is incalculable.
And another bites the dust?
The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial
Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:45 PM
This is utter madness.
In 2025/6, the BBC World Service has been funded by £137m from the Foreign Office & £221m from the licence fee.
This is after a 21% (£54.2m) real terms cut since 2022.
The return on this investment in terms of soft power this brings the UK is incalculable.
In 2025/6, the BBC World Service has been funded by £137m from the Foreign Office & £221m from the licence fee.
This is after a 21% (£54.2m) real terms cut since 2022.
The return on this investment in terms of soft power this brings the UK is incalculable.
The world had a Private Equity problem first, so maybe let's deal with them in order.
As software ate the world, private equity drank champagne. Now Claude Code threatens to shatter this alliance econ.st/4reIuIB
Illustration: Brett Ryder
Illustration: Brett Ryder
February 15, 2026 at 8:12 PM
The world had a Private Equity problem first, so maybe let's deal with them in order.
Just watched the first episode of #HowToGetToHeavenFromBelfast and it was hilarious, so I'm going to watch another.
That's how it works.
That's how it works.
February 15, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Just watched the first episode of #HowToGetToHeavenFromBelfast and it was hilarious, so I'm going to watch another.
That's how it works.
That's how it works.
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Making an accurate assessment of public opinion is tricky. Questionnaires have to be carefully constructed to avoid skewing the results. Here's an example of how not to do it -
February 15, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Making an accurate assessment of public opinion is tricky. Questionnaires have to be carefully constructed to avoid skewing the results. Here's an example of how not to do it -
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This is the Gov looking for your input on the BBC. It takes a while to complete (15/20 mins) but it’s pretty comprehensive and covers most aspects.
Please share. I’m surprised many people haven’t seen it yet.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Please share. I’m surprised many people haven’t seen it yet.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Britain’s Story: The Next Chapter - BBC Royal Charter Review, Green Paper and public consultation
www.gov.uk
February 15, 2026 at 6:19 PM
This is the Gov looking for your input on the BBC. It takes a while to complete (15/20 mins) but it’s pretty comprehensive and covers most aspects.
Please share. I’m surprised many people haven’t seen it yet.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Please share. I’m surprised many people haven’t seen it yet.
www.gov.uk/government/c...