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Loevy plays a video of a woman's arrest. Hewson says the woman was "assaultive" because she kicked a can of tear gas that had been deployed.
Loevy: "When you tear gas somebody … and they try to kick the tear gas canister away from them, that's assaulting?"
Hewson: "Yes."
Loevy: "When you tear gas somebody … and they try to kick the tear gas canister away from them, that's assaulting?"
Hewson: "Yes."
November 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Loevy plays a video of a woman's arrest. Hewson says the woman was "assaultive" because she kicked a can of tear gas that had been deployed.
Loevy: "When you tear gas somebody … and they try to kick the tear gas canister away from them, that's assaulting?"
Hewson: "Yes."
Loevy: "When you tear gas somebody … and they try to kick the tear gas canister away from them, that's assaulting?"
Hewson: "Yes."
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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I'm not a fan of Labour but the pressure put on a working class woman to resign when she broke no laws has been astounding compared with the fact that Sunak and Johnson both broke their own laws and continued to be PMs and cabinet minsters.
September 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I'm not a fan of Labour but the pressure put on a working class woman to resign when she broke no laws has been astounding compared with the fact that Sunak and Johnson both broke their own laws and continued to be PMs and cabinet minsters.
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The only people who have spoiled the nature of this area were the mindless thugs who came to our homes last evening and created chaos.
I’ve never been scared by the asylum seekers. I’m terrified that the angry mob will return.
So, how do I get *my* country back from them? I’ve genuinely no idea
I’ve never been scared by the asylum seekers. I’m terrified that the angry mob will return.
So, how do I get *my* country back from them? I’ve genuinely no idea
August 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The only people who have spoiled the nature of this area were the mindless thugs who came to our homes last evening and created chaos.
I’ve never been scared by the asylum seekers. I’m terrified that the angry mob will return.
So, how do I get *my* country back from them? I’ve genuinely no idea
I’ve never been scared by the asylum seekers. I’m terrified that the angry mob will return.
So, how do I get *my* country back from them? I’ve genuinely no idea
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The day I stopped caring if people shoplift was the day Tesco put security tags on the baby formula.
August 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The day I stopped caring if people shoplift was the day Tesco put security tags on the baby formula.
Saw a black hot air balloon in the sky as I drove home, and reached for my rifle because I've been playing too much Death Stranding 2
August 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Saw a black hot air balloon in the sky as I drove home, and reached for my rifle because I've been playing too much Death Stranding 2
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one of the great tragedies of our age is how many people are willing to view AI as magic because they don't understand how it functions but unwilling to exhibit any humility at all towards more important things they understand even less (like the climate or medicine)
the program is tokenizing inputs into vectors, then doing matrix multiplication to probabilistically compute which token should follow those tokens.
as usual, you are mystified by systems beyond your understanding and come to a bad conclusion (coincidentally the one you know will get you yelled at)
as usual, you are mystified by systems beyond your understanding and come to a bad conclusion (coincidentally the one you know will get you yelled at)
August 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
one of the great tragedies of our age is how many people are willing to view AI as magic because they don't understand how it functions but unwilling to exhibit any humility at all towards more important things they understand even less (like the climate or medicine)
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I do understand that NHS waiting lists for ADHD diagnosis are shit, but buying a package off Groupon where you are only seen by a pharmacist on a zoom call who subsequently “diagnoses” you with ADHD after a single consultation does take the piss.
This is why GPs decline shared care, it’s unsafe.
This is why GPs decline shared care, it’s unsafe.
August 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I do understand that NHS waiting lists for ADHD diagnosis are shit, but buying a package off Groupon where you are only seen by a pharmacist on a zoom call who subsequently “diagnoses” you with ADHD after a single consultation does take the piss.
This is why GPs decline shared care, it’s unsafe.
This is why GPs decline shared care, it’s unsafe.
These jeans are both the same size, according to the label. 🙄
August 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
These jeans are both the same size, according to the label. 🙄
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Would anyone like a free ticket to the first two nights of my Edinburgh Fringe show? This Wednesday and Thursday? DM me! They are technically previews so perfect technical goofs guaranteed
July 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Would anyone like a free ticket to the first two nights of my Edinburgh Fringe show? This Wednesday and Thursday? DM me! They are technically previews so perfect technical goofs guaranteed
I have an awful obnoxious neighbour who constantly blasts out music and sings along loudly.
She particularly likes Adele. I daydream about paying Adele to come over and tell her she's a cunt.
She particularly likes Adele. I daydream about paying Adele to come over and tell her she's a cunt.
July 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I have an awful obnoxious neighbour who constantly blasts out music and sings along loudly.
She particularly likes Adele. I daydream about paying Adele to come over and tell her she's a cunt.
She particularly likes Adele. I daydream about paying Adele to come over and tell her she's a cunt.
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it does not matter how good you make your game’s block/parry system; I will not use it. My defense is “punch more.” I cannot be taught
July 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
it does not matter how good you make your game’s block/parry system; I will not use it. My defense is “punch more.” I cannot be taught
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Visa and Mastercard have killed more art than every studio combined and most people don't even know about it
Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs
July 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Visa and Mastercard have killed more art than every studio combined and most people don't even know about it
I need a new phone, and I don't want an iPhone. Please tell me what is good, oh nerds of Bluesky. Samsung S25 looks nice? Pixel 9 looks good too? I currently have a Sony Xperia 5iii and the fingerprint stopped working properly after about the first year, so I'm not keen on Sony again.
July 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I need a new phone, and I don't want an iPhone. Please tell me what is good, oh nerds of Bluesky. Samsung S25 looks nice? Pixel 9 looks good too? I currently have a Sony Xperia 5iii and the fingerprint stopped working properly after about the first year, so I'm not keen on Sony again.
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Two brothers sold a main road through a town to themselves, and now nobody can fix it except possibly King Charles III, but he's not answering the phone. Welcome to the 🙃 world of local transport.
My latest: An absolutely brain-melting story in which a main road in desperate need of repair is somehow vanished from legal existence. 🤯
The unfixable road that was vanished
A main road through a small town is in desperate need of repair. There's just one small problem: for all intents and purposes, it doesn't exist.
martinrobbins.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Two brothers sold a main road through a town to themselves, and now nobody can fix it except possibly King Charles III, but he's not answering the phone. Welcome to the 🙃 world of local transport.
What kind of dog is this?
June 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
What kind of dog is this?
The sheer thrill and joy of ordering a McBreakfast one minute before the menu swaps over.
June 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The sheer thrill and joy of ordering a McBreakfast one minute before the menu swaps over.
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normalise checking the replies to a post before replying with a joke, just in case you don’t have a unique comic mind
May 3, 2024 at 7:01 PM
normalise checking the replies to a post before replying with a joke, just in case you don’t have a unique comic mind
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Bugs Bunny taught me my choices aren’t limited to fight or flight; I can also pretend I’m a pretty lady.
May 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Bugs Bunny taught me my choices aren’t limited to fight or flight; I can also pretend I’m a pretty lady.
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decades-long manhunt finally ends
May 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
decades-long manhunt finally ends
Okay AI isn't taking our jobs yet, but also if you ask Google to play "the hoa hoa hoa song from Twilight" she knows what you're talking about and plays it. 👀
May 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Okay AI isn't taking our jobs yet, but also if you ask Google to play "the hoa hoa hoa song from Twilight" she knows what you're talking about and plays it. 👀
I've gone to the local chippy. Last time I came here, on the way I encountered an old lady that had fallen and broken her hip and it took hours before I got fish and chips. Wish me luck.
May 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I've gone to the local chippy. Last time I came here, on the way I encountered an old lady that had fallen and broken her hip and it took hours before I got fish and chips. Wish me luck.
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Great episode this week with some head-scratching stats on new-build planning applications.
NEW ABUNDANCE AGENDA OUT NOW!
🏠 Why planning is even more broken than we thought
📈 New @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social polling reveals the British public's secret YIMBY views
🪖 @ersatzben.bsky.social on defence innovation
Listen/Subscribe:
www.abundancepod.com/p/britain-is...
🏠 Why planning is even more broken than we thought
📈 New @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social polling reveals the British public's secret YIMBY views
🪖 @ersatzben.bsky.social on defence innovation
Listen/Subscribe:
www.abundancepod.com/p/britain-is...
Britain is secretly pro-building stuff
Plus how the planning system is even worse than we thought, and how to equip the British military for the future
www.abundancepod.com
May 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Great episode this week with some head-scratching stats on new-build planning applications.
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Vote to strike.
Vote to protect our profession.
Vote because we should be paid more than someone with a two-year medical model certificate.
Vote because they’re taking the piss out of us.
Vote because @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social promised a journey to pay restoration and he’s lied to us.
Vote to protect our profession.
Vote because we should be paid more than someone with a two-year medical model certificate.
Vote because they’re taking the piss out of us.
Vote because @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social promised a journey to pay restoration and he’s lied to us.
A 4% pay uplift, less than current inflation, is an insult to doctors in England. This Government has shown it simply doesn’t value doctors.
“The DDRB has failed doctors. If this is the best they can do, government needs to think again” says @drphilbanfield.bsky.social
“The DDRB has failed doctors. If this is the best they can do, government needs to think again” says @drphilbanfield.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Vote to strike.
Vote to protect our profession.
Vote because we should be paid more than someone with a two-year medical model certificate.
Vote because they’re taking the piss out of us.
Vote because @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social promised a journey to pay restoration and he’s lied to us.
Vote to protect our profession.
Vote because we should be paid more than someone with a two-year medical model certificate.
Vote because they’re taking the piss out of us.
Vote because @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social promised a journey to pay restoration and he’s lied to us.
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dipshits in 2019: you people are NPCs, you don't even think for yourselves
dipshits in 2025: I have outsourced my thinking to Clippy
dipshits in 2025: I have outsourced my thinking to Clippy
May 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
dipshits in 2019: you people are NPCs, you don't even think for yourselves
dipshits in 2025: I have outsourced my thinking to Clippy
dipshits in 2025: I have outsourced my thinking to Clippy