Paul Pod
@paulpod.bsky.social
Designer. Ex GOV, NHS, startups. Lives in Wales, London @paulpod on most things
🏴 website: Neuromantics.net
📨 signal: paulpod.404
🏴 website: Neuromantics.net
📨 signal: paulpod.404
Hahahaha is he this thick? Are they all this thick? Amazing bullshittery
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Hahahaha is he this thick? Are they all this thick? Amazing bullshittery
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This perfectly encapsulates why we need the BBC
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This perfectly encapsulates why we need the BBC
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The clever thing about going for stuff like the cycle for work scheme is it’s really noticeable, affects people with lots of media access and platforms, annoys green groups, and raises almost no revenue at the same time. Real win/win/win there.
November 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The clever thing about going for stuff like the cycle for work scheme is it’s really noticeable, affects people with lots of media access and platforms, annoys green groups, and raises almost no revenue at the same time. Real win/win/win there.
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The UK just has incredible attention to detail when it comes to making sure the people who pay all the taxes can’t have nice things. Child benefit? No. Free Child car? No. Cut price bike to cycle to work? No.
Functionally we are telling people they pay too much tax to get anything from the state.
Functionally we are telling people they pay too much tax to get anything from the state.
Rachel Reeves is setting the Cycle to Work scheme on fire as part of the war on salary sacrifice policies! on.ft.com/4oKXNrC
Rachel Reeves to curb bike purchases through salary sacrifice in Budget
Introduction of new cap comes after retailers warned some higher-rate taxpayers were exploiting the perk
on.ft.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The UK just has incredible attention to detail when it comes to making sure the people who pay all the taxes can’t have nice things. Child benefit? No. Free Child car? No. Cut price bike to cycle to work? No.
Functionally we are telling people they pay too much tax to get anything from the state.
Functionally we are telling people they pay too much tax to get anything from the state.
So i assume number 10 ditches the troublesome staff before this leads the entire weekend headlines, and impinges on week-before-budget stories? Right.
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
So i assume number 10 ditches the troublesome staff before this leads the entire weekend headlines, and impinges on week-before-budget stories? Right.
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They're going to crash the global economy by attempting to create an artificial general intelligence, despite having no idea what that is, no proof they can build it & no hope of doing so. Cunts just read too many sci-fi books.
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
They're going to crash the global economy by attempting to create an artificial general intelligence, despite having no idea what that is, no proof they can build it & no hope of doing so. Cunts just read too many sci-fi books.
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flat out lies. these tech ceos take regulators and the masses for fools
![“If you want to know how a model will behave, the only way of doing it is to run it,” Mensch also suggested. “You do need to have some empirical testing, what’s happening. Knowing the input data that has been used for training is not going to tell you whether your model is going to behave well in [a healthcare use-case], for instance. You don’t really care about what’s in the training data. You do care about the empirical behaviour of the model. So you don’t need knowledge of the training data. And if you had knowledge of the training data, it wouldn’t even teach you whether the model is going to behave well or not. So this is why I’m saying it’s neither necessary nor sufficient.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:26hkfmtr7jrchexamh7hk6rz/bafkreibp7oaeovg7xt43dlk3qtmkft6irldgf44tz75sbaiqvoqdq4kpjy@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
flat out lies. these tech ceos take regulators and the masses for fools
Intersex births and lives don't get enough attention, no doubt because it wrecks the flawed binary laws and approach we have
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘I don’t want anyone to suffer like I did’: the intersex campaigners fighting to limit surgery on children
What should be done about the small proportion of babies born with genitals that are neither typically male nor typically female? Many of those affected believe parents and doctors are often too quick...
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Intersex births and lives don't get enough attention, no doubt because it wrecks the flawed binary laws and approach we have
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC
Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.
It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.
It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC
Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.
It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.
It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
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As we've all been talking about Bond today, why not enjoy the opening page of Ian Fleming's classic, "Goldfinger"?
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
As we've all been talking about Bond today, why not enjoy the opening page of Ian Fleming's classic, "Goldfinger"?
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If Starmer wants to stop a leadership challenge, he just needs to change direction. It’s not hard. Have the brains to realise that the Blue Labour approach is failing dismally.
November 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
If Starmer wants to stop a leadership challenge, he just needs to change direction. It’s not hard. Have the brains to realise that the Blue Labour approach is failing dismally.
What even is the offer to young people at the moment?
Support for Labour among young people has collapsed in recent months, exclusive polling for ITV News and ITV Peston programme has found, while backing for the #GreenParty from 18 to 25 year olds has doubled
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
What even is the offer to young people at the moment?
Smiling welcoming faces at the new entrance to Cabinet Room this morning
November 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Smiling welcoming faces at the new entrance to Cabinet Room this morning
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PEOPLE JUST WANT SOME FUCKING JOY, KEIR
Not endless tweaks and burbles about "it must be right" and "hard working fucking families" and "smashing the mythical gangs" it's all so shit
Not endless tweaks and burbles about "it must be right" and "hard working fucking families" and "smashing the mythical gangs" it's all so shit
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
PEOPLE JUST WANT SOME FUCKING JOY, KEIR
Not endless tweaks and burbles about "it must be right" and "hard working fucking families" and "smashing the mythical gangs" it's all so shit
Not endless tweaks and burbles about "it must be right" and "hard working fucking families" and "smashing the mythical gangs" it's all so shit
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I would quite like his high-collared winter overcoat. And those natty little yellow gloves.
The Orange Fruit Dove decorates the treetops with its flame-like plumage. This species lives in forests on the islands of Fiji, where it munches on fruits and berries. Only males display bold orange plumage; females are green.
Photo: Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist
Photo: Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I would quite like his high-collared winter overcoat. And those natty little yellow gloves.
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'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'
Winston Churchill, 1936
Winston Churchill, 1936
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'
Winston Churchill, 1936
Winston Churchill, 1936
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Then it's not a fucking ceasefire, is it.
Since the ceasefire took effect one month ago, Israeli attacks have killed at least 242 Palestinians and injured 622.
How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers
Since the ceasefire took effect one month ago, Israeli attacks have killed at least 242 Palestinians and injured 622.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Then it's not a fucking ceasefire, is it.
Amazon / Bond PR team rub hands, clock off early for the pub "well that went well!"
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Amazon / Bond PR team rub hands, clock off early for the pub "well that went well!"
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Let us simply not check that figure after they stuck most of the BBC in the US behind a paywall a few months ago to increase revenue at the expense of British soft power and influence.
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Let us simply not check that figure after they stuck most of the BBC in the US behind a paywall a few months ago to increase revenue at the expense of British soft power and influence.
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The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
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Mister Gorbachev, cheez down this burg!
The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Mister Gorbachev, cheez down this burg!
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Dang. That hit me in my soul.
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Dang. That hit me in my soul.
Did see a timesheets n expenses company valued at $17bn so thats totally normal right?
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Did see a timesheets n expenses company valued at $17bn so thats totally normal right?
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?