Mark Kennedy
@mrmonkington.bsky.social
Head of Technology, MicrobesNG
Head of Lunch, Brighton, UK
Also this guy https://hostux.social/@mrmonkington
And this guy https://www.instagram.com/mrmonkington/
Oh and https://github.com/mrmonkington
Head of Lunch, Brighton, UK
Also this guy https://hostux.social/@mrmonkington
And this guy https://www.instagram.com/mrmonkington/
Oh and https://github.com/mrmonkington
Catherine O'Hara is great in #HomeAlone isn't she? Not something 10 year old me really appreciated but she plays it completely straight the way it needs to be and with genuine parental warmth.
December 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Catherine O'Hara is great in #HomeAlone isn't she? Not something 10 year old me really appreciated but she plays it completely straight the way it needs to be and with genuine parental warmth.
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
I think you had to expect the total death of ad funded content when the ad industry took control away from website owners. Google, etc are all on a path to a fully closed eyeball ecosystem: they will control the content and the ads. A machine for keeping people idle and buying.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I think you had to expect the total death of ad funded content when the ad industry took control away from website owners. Google, etc are all on a path to a fully closed eyeball ecosystem: they will control the content and the ads. A machine for keeping people idle and buying.
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Fewer than half of NHS staff have flu jab
Fewer than half of NHS staff have flu jab
Fewer than half of NHS workers across Sussex are having a flu jab, according to a report to councillors, putting staffing capacity at risk during the busy winter months. Health chiefs are now trying to increase vaccination rates as part of the “system-wide” winter plan in Brighton and Hove and beyond. A report to Brighton […]
dlvr.it
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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amazing that charlie chaplin conceived his last child at the age of 73
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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The question people aren’t asking Farage: so, if you weren’t a racist when you were at school… when did that change?
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The question people aren’t asking Farage: so, if you weren’t a racist when you were at school… when did that change?
Getting my occasional reminder that aws S3 access logging is absolutely deranged. Might spend more money investigating this cost anomaly than I will save fixing the root cause, so perhaps I should give up. I guess that's the business model 🧌
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Getting my occasional reminder that aws S3 access logging is absolutely deranged. Might spend more money investigating this cost anomaly than I will save fixing the root cause, so perhaps I should give up. I guess that's the business model 🧌
Please stop sharing pictures of that horrible man's face
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Please stop sharing pictures of that horrible man's face
I laugh at mum for withdrawing from culture because she can't discriminate good tech from bad, to know she's using an app correctly, or getting scammed.
That's happening to me now: I feel flooded with the synthetic, I don't have the muscle memory to sort the good from the malign. It's exhausting.
That's happening to me now: I feel flooded with the synthetic, I don't have the muscle memory to sort the good from the malign. It's exhausting.
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I laugh at mum for withdrawing from culture because she can't discriminate good tech from bad, to know she's using an app correctly, or getting scammed.
That's happening to me now: I feel flooded with the synthetic, I don't have the muscle memory to sort the good from the malign. It's exhausting.
That's happening to me now: I feel flooded with the synthetic, I don't have the muscle memory to sort the good from the malign. It's exhausting.
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"You, like Nigel Farage, are simply lying about what the ONS says."
I somewhat lost my patience with Reform Councillor Bill Piper here.. (from about 1h 27 min in)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I somewhat lost my patience with Reform Councillor Bill Piper here.. (from about 1h 27 min in)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Stephen Nolan - 08/11/2025 - BBC Sounds
The day's main news stories, topical debate and interviews.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
"You, like Nigel Farage, are simply lying about what the ONS says."
I somewhat lost my patience with Reform Councillor Bill Piper here.. (from about 1h 27 min in)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I somewhat lost my patience with Reform Councillor Bill Piper here.. (from about 1h 27 min in)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
it's usually fun the way Youtube and Youtube Music share playlists but you do sometimes end up with a classic Pate a Choux recipe pop up in the middle of your "kneecapping jungle bangers" playlist
November 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
it's usually fun the way Youtube and Youtube Music share playlists but you do sometimes end up with a classic Pate a Choux recipe pop up in the middle of your "kneecapping jungle bangers" playlist
Don't worry Google, it's an easy mistake to make
October 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Don't worry Google, it's an easy mistake to make
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Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
October 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
Flu jab done. Get yours! There are almost no downsides, the chief one in my case being I now feel a bit naughty for getting an unnecessary second breakfast from the cafe next to the pharmacy.
October 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Flu jab done. Get yours! There are almost no downsides, the chief one in my case being I now feel a bit naughty for getting an unnecessary second breakfast from the cafe next to the pharmacy.
Jelly Tots are quite similar to Turkish Delight when you think about it
October 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Jelly Tots are quite similar to Turkish Delight when you think about it
Gen AI the preferred tool of reform egotists for absolutely everything because it produces the vague flavour of truth but the actual value of dog shit.
(And of course they don't know the difference between writing something with an LLM and producing the image of text from an image model)
(And of course they don't know the difference between writing something with an LLM and producing the image of text from an image model)
Reform UK’s Councillor Dave Poole has put out this bizarre graphic littered with spelling errors.
Our favourite part is where it says Reform UK keeps being called the ‘fat right’.
Our favourite part is where it says Reform UK keeps being called the ‘fat right’.
October 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Gen AI the preferred tool of reform egotists for absolutely everything because it produces the vague flavour of truth but the actual value of dog shit.
(And of course they don't know the difference between writing something with an LLM and producing the image of text from an image model)
(And of course they don't know the difference between writing something with an LLM and producing the image of text from an image model)
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Taxpayers and charities helped develop the gene therapy Zolgensma.
Then it debuted at a record price of $2M+ per dose, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry investments in innovation.
(Published Feb.)
Then it debuted at a record price of $2M+ per dose, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry investments in innovation.
(Published Feb.)
What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing
Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices ref...
www.propublica.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Taxpayers and charities helped develop the gene therapy Zolgensma.
Then it debuted at a record price of $2M+ per dose, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry investments in innovation.
(Published Feb.)
Then it debuted at a record price of $2M+ per dose, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry investments in innovation.
(Published Feb.)
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"no criminal record"
there are lots of mandatory refusal reasons for ILR applications already. you even have to list non-criminal fines and penalties alongside any criminal consequences, and have had to do so for years. again: maybe someone could, and should, challenge them on some of this?
there are lots of mandatory refusal reasons for ILR applications already. you even have to list non-criminal fines and penalties alongside any criminal consequences, and have had to do so for years. again: maybe someone could, and should, challenge them on some of this?
September 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
"no criminal record"
there are lots of mandatory refusal reasons for ILR applications already. you even have to list non-criminal fines and penalties alongside any criminal consequences, and have had to do so for years. again: maybe someone could, and should, challenge them on some of this?
there are lots of mandatory refusal reasons for ILR applications already. you even have to list non-criminal fines and penalties alongside any criminal consequences, and have had to do so for years. again: maybe someone could, and should, challenge them on some of this?
There is no more valuable political currency than potholes. Buy anything with potholes. You want basic universal income? Buy it with potholes. Extraordinary rendition? Potholes.
Cannot stress enough how it is already possible to report potholes www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Public backs ‘super ID card’ which could be used to report potholes
Ministers have recently said they are considering introducing a form of digital ID for adults in Britain
www.independent.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
There is no more valuable political currency than potholes. Buy anything with potholes. You want basic universal income? Buy it with potholes. Extraordinary rendition? Potholes.
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Farage shows his absolute weakness as a Trump puppet on LBC. Asked about Trump blathering about a completely unproven link between paracetamol and autism, Farage said “I have no idea, I have no idea” and he would “listen” to RFK Jr.
He went on to say “science is never settled”.
Dangerous.
He went on to say “science is never settled”.
Dangerous.
September 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Farage shows his absolute weakness as a Trump puppet on LBC. Asked about Trump blathering about a completely unproven link between paracetamol and autism, Farage said “I have no idea, I have no idea” and he would “listen” to RFK Jr.
He went on to say “science is never settled”.
Dangerous.
He went on to say “science is never settled”.
Dangerous.
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CRACKS (1975): Legendary Sesame Street animation that was, for decades, considered lost media until it popped up on YouTube. Creepy, queasy, and wonderfully weird, it features legendary sax player Mel Martin and Dorothy Moskowitz from experimental rock band The United States of America.
September 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
CRACKS (1975): Legendary Sesame Street animation that was, for decades, considered lost media until it popped up on YouTube. Creepy, queasy, and wonderfully weird, it features legendary sax player Mel Martin and Dorothy Moskowitz from experimental rock band The United States of America.
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IMPORTANT 🧵
We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US.
But it could happen in UK too.
It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim.
Read on!
1/11
We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US.
But it could happen in UK too.
It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim.
Read on!
1/11
September 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
IMPORTANT 🧵
We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US.
But it could happen in UK too.
It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim.
Read on!
1/11
We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US.
But it could happen in UK too.
It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim.
Read on!
1/11
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Gone are the days of spending painstaking hours writing a speech and fact checking every detail. Just stand up and dribble horse piss for an hour and no one calls it out.
September 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Gone are the days of spending painstaking hours writing a speech and fact checking every detail. Just stand up and dribble horse piss for an hour and no one calls it out.
The babies they have too much liquid
Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."
September 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The babies they have too much liquid