Michael McC
@michaelmcc.bsky.social
43yo
He/Him.
Scottish geek.
Progressive.
Wishes you well.
He/Him.
Scottish geek.
Progressive.
Wishes you well.
Pinned
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Current Labour is now to the right of where David Cameron's Tory party was in 2010.
Current Labour is now to the right of where David Cameron's Tory party was in 2010.
Some migrants to face 20-year wait for settled status
Shabana Mahmood says becoming part of the UK is
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November 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Current Labour is now to the right of where David Cameron's Tory party was in 2010.
Current Labour is now to the right of where David Cameron's Tory party was in 2010.
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Keep this in mind as we start seeing more and more large scale outages from AWS, Cloudflare, Github, etc. These are the companies hoping to increasingly automate their systems with AI
![https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation
Paradox of automation
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The paradox of automation says that the more efficient the automated system, the more crucial the human contribution of the operators. Humans are less involved, but their involvement becomes more critical. Lisanne Bainbridge, a cognitive psychologist, identified these issues notably in her widely cited paper "Ironies of Automation."[49] If an automated system has an error, it will multiply that error until it is fixed or shut down. This is where human operators come in.[50] A fatal example of this was Air France Flight 447, where a failure of automation put the pilots into a manual situation they were not prepared for.[51]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:byjjq67p7iau6qufzjmizpbn/bafkreie4ootzzyowpylsxjg7gxsp63iujxh4qceuuxxhwm63yrm2qffa4e@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Keep this in mind as we start seeing more and more large scale outages from AWS, Cloudflare, Github, etc. These are the companies hoping to increasingly automate their systems with AI
Well played Spotify algorithm, well played...
#Truss #Porkmarkets #Spotify #audiobooks #corydoctorow #anthonyseldon
#Truss #Porkmarkets #Spotify #audiobooks #corydoctorow #anthonyseldon
November 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Well played Spotify algorithm, well played...
#Truss #Porkmarkets #Spotify #audiobooks #corydoctorow #anthonyseldon
#Truss #Porkmarkets #Spotify #audiobooks #corydoctorow #anthonyseldon
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The irony of Danny Kruger accusing the BBC of left-wing bias when Reform UK - with just 5 MPs - gets more airtime than the Liberal Democrats, who have 72 MPs.
The BBC doesn't have a left-wing bias.
The BBC doesn't have a left-wing bias.
November 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The irony of Danny Kruger accusing the BBC of left-wing bias when Reform UK - with just 5 MPs - gets more airtime than the Liberal Democrats, who have 72 MPs.
The BBC doesn't have a left-wing bias.
The BBC doesn't have a left-wing bias.
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"Legitimate concerns" has become the magic laundering process for overtly racist beliefs or actions.
October 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
"Legitimate concerns" has become the magic laundering process for overtly racist beliefs or actions.
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My not particularly hot take is that Waitrose should have been paying him all along, the exploitative bastards. They're a big company.
Waitrose-rejected autistic volunteer receives job offer from Asda
Tom Boyd's mum says she is
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October 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
My not particularly hot take is that Waitrose should have been paying him all along, the exploitative bastards. They're a big company.
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The 5 Stage of Reform UK Councillor
October 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The 5 Stage of Reform UK Councillor
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"That's a robot, a Nazi, and a poorly-disguised Russian. Give us your phone, love."
Brilliant. ~AA
Brilliant. ~AA
![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
7
Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
9
Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
10
woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreicahofq6s4xow7vowj7dx6odw6ejdwr4kwcmzta7qwi4hg2nvywji@jpeg)
October 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"That's a robot, a Nazi, and a poorly-disguised Russian. Give us your phone, love."
Brilliant. ~AA
Brilliant. ~AA
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No Kings 10/18/2025
October 19, 2025 at 12:39 AM
No Kings 10/18/2025
If you see this, quote post with your favourite Pokémon.
(Wrong answers only)
(Wrong answers only)
October 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
If you see this, quote post with your favourite Pokémon.
(Wrong answers only)
(Wrong answers only)
The Great Gatsby is in fact... Not actually that great.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The Great Gatsby is in fact... Not actually that great.
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Thatcher's birthday being marked appropriately
October 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Thatcher's birthday being marked appropriately
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Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
October 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
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Someone meme'd the meme.
September 29, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Someone meme'd the meme.
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"AMELIA EARHART IS THE ZODIAC"
September 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
"AMELIA EARHART IS THE ZODIAC"
When you bump into Farage in the park...
a swan is standing in the grass next to a lake with the caption better you run
ALT: a swan is standing in the grass next to a lake with the caption better you run
media.tenor.com
September 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
When you bump into Farage in the park...
Paragraph from a BBC article today...
Maybe they should have access to the NHS cos they are still actual real life human beings!!
FFS!!!
Maybe they should have access to the NHS cos they are still actual real life human beings!!
FFS!!!
September 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Paragraph from a BBC article today...
Maybe they should have access to the NHS cos they are still actual real life human beings!!
FFS!!!
Maybe they should have access to the NHS cos they are still actual real life human beings!!
FFS!!!
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Taking Tylenol while pregnant so in 10 years I'll have someone who can help me with computer. Take that, Geek Squad
September 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Taking Tylenol while pregnant so in 10 years I'll have someone who can help me with computer. Take that, Geek Squad
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Americans I am begging you to sort this out. Your mad racist uncle has shat himself in public again.
Trump to the UN: "I have to say, I look at London where you have a terrible mayor -- terrible terrible mayor -- and it's been so changed, so changed. Now they want to go to Sharia Law ... both their immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe."
September 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Americans I am begging you to sort this out. Your mad racist uncle has shat himself in public again.
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Neurodivergent people have existed far longer than Tylenol, but yes please find new ways to blame women for something with zero actual scientific evidence.
September 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Neurodivergent people have existed far longer than Tylenol, but yes please find new ways to blame women for something with zero actual scientific evidence.
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JD Vance, the guy who called Donald Trump "America's Hitler," is going to host Charlie Kirk's podcast to say that the Democrats need to be eradicated for calling Donald Trump Hitler.
Peak fascism right there.
Peak fascism right there.
September 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
JD Vance, the guy who called Donald Trump "America's Hitler," is going to host Charlie Kirk's podcast to say that the Democrats need to be eradicated for calling Donald Trump Hitler.
Peak fascism right there.
Peak fascism right there.