Joe Ward
@riverseo.bsky.social
Irish Nurse in Manchester via Belfast
The thing that I notice the most about AI generated images, more than weird hands or blurry faces is that the eyelines are always all over the place, they never seem to quite connect with what they are meant to be looking at.
November 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The thing that I notice the most about AI generated images, more than weird hands or blurry faces is that the eyelines are always all over the place, they never seem to quite connect with what they are meant to be looking at.
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Call of Duty isn't even hiding the fact that loads of its calling cards and other unlockables are AI generated this year.
For one of the biggest video game franchises in the world this is pretty disgusting...
For one of the biggest video game franchises in the world this is pretty disgusting...
November 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Call of Duty isn't even hiding the fact that loads of its calling cards and other unlockables are AI generated this year.
For one of the biggest video game franchises in the world this is pretty disgusting...
For one of the biggest video game franchises in the world this is pretty disgusting...
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I see it's time for me to make the point again that the poppy is a fundraising campaign for the Royal British Legion, a specific, mundane entity that is not exempt from scrutiny and does not own the concept of remembrance.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I see it's time for me to make the point again that the poppy is a fundraising campaign for the Royal British Legion, a specific, mundane entity that is not exempt from scrutiny and does not own the concept of remembrance.
You can read its 2024 accounts here: storage.rblcdn.co.uk/sitefinity/d...
You can read its 2024 accounts here: storage.rblcdn.co.uk/sitefinity/d...
World is weird but weird in a very worrying way. This is just some awful health advice that will have repercussions beyond the US but at least people in UK don't know Tylenol is paracetamol
September 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
World is weird but weird in a very worrying way. This is just some awful health advice that will have repercussions beyond the US but at least people in UK don't know Tylenol is paracetamol
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Trump: "Taking Tylenol is, uh, not good. I'll say it. It's not good."
September 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Trump: "Taking Tylenol is, uh, not good. I'll say it. It's not good."
What research? The stuff you pulled from your arse?
September 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
What research? The stuff you pulled from your arse?
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Broadcast media both sides the issue either because of their politics, instinct for self preservation, and or their own shallow grasp of the issue. Talking heads available to make claims for each side of the argument.... we know where this story leads!
September 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Broadcast media both sides the issue either because of their politics, instinct for self preservation, and or their own shallow grasp of the issue. Talking heads available to make claims for each side of the argument.... we know where this story leads!
If the Epstein connection is eventually enough to sack Mandelson why the hell are we still inviting Trump over??
September 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
If the Epstein connection is eventually enough to sack Mandelson why the hell are we still inviting Trump over??
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Low Culture Essay: Marie Le Conte on Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | The Quietus
The video no longer exists but, if it did, you could click play right around now and find yourself transported to the living room of a provincial French home. You’d hear the first few notes of the son...
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September 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Active Legal Challenges
The Good Law Project has sent pre-action letters challenging the NHS Federated Data Platform agreement and launched legal proceedings against NHS England over heavily redacted contract details
The Good Law Project has sent pre-action letters challenging the NHS Federated Data Platform agreement and launched legal proceedings against NHS England over heavily redacted contract details
August 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Active Legal Challenges
The Good Law Project has sent pre-action letters challenging the NHS Federated Data Platform agreement and launched legal proceedings against NHS England over heavily redacted contract details
The Good Law Project has sent pre-action letters challenging the NHS Federated Data Platform agreement and launched legal proceedings against NHS England over heavily redacted contract details
Absolutely mental there is no belief system in this government. It's politics for politics sake, they have no purpose or even the will to pretend they have one.
No10 spokesman not prepared to criticise anything about Farage speech today.
Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.
Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.
August 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Absolutely mental there is no belief system in this government. It's politics for politics sake, they have no purpose or even the will to pretend they have one.
I don't understand this reporting. A lot of tech reporting by main stream outlets is bad (see also science/health reporting) but this is just weird. Is it aiming to make us believe AIs are sentient? tinyurl.com/5cut3pwe
AI called Maya tells Guardian: ‘When I’m told I’m just code, I don’t feel insulted. I feel unseen’
Cofounder with Michael Samadi of AI rights campaign group Ufair says it should watch over the technology in case an AI becomes conscious
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I don't understand this reporting. A lot of tech reporting by main stream outlets is bad (see also science/health reporting) but this is just weird. Is it aiming to make us believe AIs are sentient? tinyurl.com/5cut3pwe
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English Festival Wouldn't Have Put Outspoken Political Band On Bill If They Knew They Were Going To Be Outspoken, Political https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/08/25/english-festival-wouldnt-have-put-outspoken-political-band-on-bill-if-they-knew-they-were-going-to-be-outspoken-political/
English Festival Wouldn’t Have Put Outspoken Political Band On Bill If They Knew They Were Going To Be Outspoken, Political
A MUSIC festival in England has held its hands up and admitted that it would never have booked The Mary Wallopers, known for their rousing politically charged songs about inequality, class and injustices, if they …
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August 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
English Festival Wouldn't Have Put Outspoken Political Band On Bill If They Knew They Were Going To Be Outspoken, Political https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/08/25/english-festival-wouldnt-have-put-outspoken-political-band-on-bill-if-they-knew-they-were-going-to-be-outspoken-political/
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Hozier's speech at Reading Festival, since the BBC won't broadcast it. #Hozier
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BBC boycotted Hozier’s ‘Free Palestine’ speech at Reading Festival / Hozier tem discurso boicotado!
YouTube video by Portal Hozier Brasil
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August 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Hozier's speech at Reading Festival, since the BBC won't broadcast it. #Hozier
www.youtube.com/watch?si=7mP...
www.youtube.com/watch?si=7mP...
“this is a violent organisation that has committed violence, significant injury, extensive criminal damage, and as I say, it has met the tests as set out under the Terrorism Act to be proscribed.”
Downing street could be describing the police.
Downing street could be describing the police.
August 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“this is a violent organisation that has committed violence, significant injury, extensive criminal damage, and as I say, it has met the tests as set out under the Terrorism Act to be proscribed.”
Downing street could be describing the police.
Downing street could be describing the police.
Labour are just increasingly awful www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer to remove Labour whip from at least three ‘persistent rebel’ MPs
Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman and Chris Hinchliff to be pushed out as PM takes action
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Labour are just increasingly awful www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I support Palestine Action.
I hate all forms of violence.
I wish no harm on anyone.
I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world.
Apparently this makes me a terrorist.
But I am the opposite of a terrorist.
I hate all forms of violence.
I wish no harm on anyone.
I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world.
Apparently this makes me a terrorist.
But I am the opposite of a terrorist.
July 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I support Palestine Action.
I hate all forms of violence.
I wish no harm on anyone.
I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world.
Apparently this makes me a terrorist.
But I am the opposite of a terrorist.
I hate all forms of violence.
I wish no harm on anyone.
I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world.
Apparently this makes me a terrorist.
But I am the opposite of a terrorist.
Something I don't really get with the disability benefit cuts. Give someone a benefit it generally goes back into the economy right? They aren't hoarding it, they are spending that on rents, being able to go to the shops, get a haircut etc People being able to live a normal life should make sense
June 30, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Something I don't really get with the disability benefit cuts. Give someone a benefit it generally goes back into the economy right? They aren't hoarding it, they are spending that on rents, being able to go to the shops, get a haircut etc People being able to live a normal life should make sense
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fuck the home office, fuck the labour party, and fuck yvette cooper specifically.
May 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
fuck the home office, fuck the labour party, and fuck yvette cooper specifically.
Madness, poor woman. What is the punishment for? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK woman loses jail term appeal after killing man as he sexually assaulted her
Martyna Ogonowska was sentenced in 2018 to 17 years in prison for stabbing Filip Jaskiewicz to death in a car park
www.theguardian.com
May 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Madness, poor woman. What is the punishment for? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Britain permanently weakened itself strategically, put an axe through its most important trading relationships, gutted the City of London and disrupted the lives and opportunities of millions to satisfy this guy, and it's still not enough. It will never be enough.
Farage:
"7.2 million foreign-born people have registered with GPs in the last 10 years... All I'm doing here is giving you cold hard facts".
Well here's another cold hard fact - 40.6% of GPs in England and Wales are foreign born.
The NHS would completely collapse without workers from abroad.
"7.2 million foreign-born people have registered with GPs in the last 10 years... All I'm doing here is giving you cold hard facts".
Well here's another cold hard fact - 40.6% of GPs in England and Wales are foreign born.
The NHS would completely collapse without workers from abroad.
April 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Britain permanently weakened itself strategically, put an axe through its most important trading relationships, gutted the City of London and disrupted the lives and opportunities of millions to satisfy this guy, and it's still not enough. It will never be enough.
Had my second ever smashed burger last night....I still don't understand the why of them
April 11, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Had my second ever smashed burger last night....I still don't understand the why of them
The world is a backward place. You can raise more money from taxing these companies properly than you save from the cuts you are making to people's benefits which are already meagre. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Starmer offered big US tech firms tax cuts in return for lower Trump tariffs
Exclusive: UK willing to placate Trump with lower digital services tax rate also encompassing non-US companies
www.theguardian.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The world is a backward place. You can raise more money from taxing these companies properly than you save from the cuts you are making to people's benefits which are already meagre. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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March 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM