@paddyalton.bsky.social
Linear combination of astronomy, data science, catholicism, and politics.
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Me in 2015: write code, go make coffee while it's running
Me in 2025: describe code to AI, go make coffee while it's writing
Me in 2025: describe code to AI, go make coffee while it's writing
January 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Me in 2015: write code, go make coffee while it's running
Me in 2025: describe code to AI, go make coffee while it's writing
Me in 2025: describe code to AI, go make coffee while it's writing
This Friday (29th of November 2024), Parliament will vote on the ‘Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill’.
In this article I argue against the Bill. If you agree with what I've written and are in the UK, I urge you to write to your MP to ask them to vote against:
open.substack.com/pub/paddyalt...
In this article I argue against the Bill. If you agree with what I've written and are in the UK, I urge you to write to your MP to ask them to vote against:
open.substack.com/pub/paddyalt...
It can never be safe
Against the Leadbeater Bill. As a warning, this article will necessarily touch on potentially distressing topics.
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November 24, 2024 at 10:30 PM
This Friday (29th of November 2024), Parliament will vote on the ‘Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill’.
In this article I argue against the Bill. If you agree with what I've written and are in the UK, I urge you to write to your MP to ask them to vote against:
open.substack.com/pub/paddyalt...
In this article I argue against the Bill. If you agree with what I've written and are in the UK, I urge you to write to your MP to ask them to vote against:
open.substack.com/pub/paddyalt...
Thoughtful and important intervention by Gordon Brown
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It seems the man only surfaces once a decade to save this country from doing something misguided and self-destructive.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It seems the man only surfaces once a decade to save this country from doing something misguided and self-destructive.
Spending time with people in their final days showed me that we need not assisted dying, but better end-of-life care | Gordon Brown
We can and must improve on our current end-of-life options – ‘Switzerland, suicide or suffering’, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Thoughtful and important intervention by Gordon Brown
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It seems the man only surfaces once a decade to save this country from doing something misguided and self-destructive.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It seems the man only surfaces once a decade to save this country from doing something misguided and self-destructive.
Normally around about now I start complaining about Advent calendars being the wrong length.
HOWEVER, this is the rare year when Dec 1st is a Sunday! (stopped clocks etc)
SO: instead I'm confining myself to a more standard gripe: Christmas tunes in the middle of November. Absolutely not.
HOWEVER, this is the rare year when Dec 1st is a Sunday! (stopped clocks etc)
SO: instead I'm confining myself to a more standard gripe: Christmas tunes in the middle of November. Absolutely not.
November 22, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Normally around about now I start complaining about Advent calendars being the wrong length.
HOWEVER, this is the rare year when Dec 1st is a Sunday! (stopped clocks etc)
SO: instead I'm confining myself to a more standard gripe: Christmas tunes in the middle of November. Absolutely not.
HOWEVER, this is the rare year when Dec 1st is a Sunday! (stopped clocks etc)
SO: instead I'm confining myself to a more standard gripe: Christmas tunes in the middle of November. Absolutely not.
Ah so that's where you all went...
November 21, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Ah so that's where you all went...