AlisdairC
@alisdairc.bsky.social
Aspirant MD ANT. Faded, jaded but undismayded.
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If this was nationalised, the usual suspects would say "typical government, nothing works!" But things working is a function of care, investment, management, staffing, resource allocation. The only difference privatisation makes by itself is how many middle men you pay.
The state of privatised Post Office in UK...
This is a busy Broadway post office in London ...
Nothing is working
This is a busy Broadway post office in London ...
Nothing is working
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
If this was nationalised, the usual suspects would say "typical government, nothing works!" But things working is a function of care, investment, management, staffing, resource allocation. The only difference privatisation makes by itself is how many middle men you pay.
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What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/
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we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!
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The BBC really is the equivalent of a panda that refuses to fuck to save itself. Its coverage has moved notably to the right and it still isn't enough, on of all things a supposedly misleadingly edited Trump clip, as if he didn't encourage the January 6th uprising.
November 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The BBC really is the equivalent of a panda that refuses to fuck to save itself. Its coverage has moved notably to the right and it still isn't enough, on of all things a supposedly misleadingly edited Trump clip, as if he didn't encourage the January 6th uprising.
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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The BBC when there is a real scandal: takes years to do anything, drags its feet, is very defensive
The BBC when the right wing goes for it: has a panic attack then throws itself on its sword immediately
The BBC when the right wing goes for it: has a panic attack then throws itself on its sword immediately
November 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The BBC when there is a real scandal: takes years to do anything, drags its feet, is very defensive
The BBC when the right wing goes for it: has a panic attack then throws itself on its sword immediately
The BBC when the right wing goes for it: has a panic attack then throws itself on its sword immediately
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Media doesn’t care about the average citizen. Large media corps are perfectly fine with fascism as long as they still get the revenue.
May 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Media doesn’t care about the average citizen. Large media corps are perfectly fine with fascism as long as they still get the revenue.
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It is truly astounding how much they want to hurt people
USDA orders states to stop paying full SNAP benefits and "immediately undo" steps taken to issue them for November. Follow live updates.
https://cnn.it/47LOq3z
https://cnn.it/47LOq3z
November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
It is truly astounding how much they want to hurt people
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Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
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Immortality is a child's answer to death anxiety, not a real thing with which humanity will ever have to contend. No king's alchemist ever granted him eternal life, and it isn't going to start happening now just because of Computer.
October 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Immortality is a child's answer to death anxiety, not a real thing with which humanity will ever have to contend. No king's alchemist ever granted him eternal life, and it isn't going to start happening now just because of Computer.
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They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
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I'm old enough to have grown up with family who fought in WWII. They rarely talked about it and when they did it was to warn, not glorify. Remembrance Day was a time of quiet, sombre reflection. They would be horrified at the twisted celebration it has become.
October 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I'm old enough to have grown up with family who fought in WWII. They rarely talked about it and when they did it was to warn, not glorify. Remembrance Day was a time of quiet, sombre reflection. They would be horrified at the twisted celebration it has become.
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
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October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves has refused to withdraw a misleading and inaccurate statement that scapegoated disabled people and other benefit claimants for the country’s economic problems.
#Budget #DisabilityBenefits
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reeves-refus...
#Budget #DisabilityBenefits
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reeves-refus...
Reeves refuses to apologise for repeating false claim that social security spending is spiralling
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has refused to withdraw a misleading and inaccurate statement that scapegoated disabled people and other benefit claimants for the country’s economic problems. In an interv…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has refused to withdraw a misleading and inaccurate statement that scapegoated disabled people and other benefit claimants for the country’s economic problems.
#Budget #DisabilityBenefits
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reeves-refus...
#Budget #DisabilityBenefits
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reeves-refus...
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Tough old night for Mike Graham. Turns out the bastard who hacked his facebook also shat in his trousers.
October 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Tough old night for Mike Graham. Turns out the bastard who hacked his facebook also shat in his trousers.
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My god, the sheer relief of reading a piece by someone who knows something about this football match and didn't just learn to spell Maccabi two days ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew
Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
My god, the sheer relief of reading a piece by someone who knows something about this football match and didn't just learn to spell Maccabi two days ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We are ABSOLUTELY NOT overturning the police advice to ban.
We are just working with police to ensure the ban does not happen.
We are just working with police to ensure the ban does not happen.
October 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
We are ABSOLUTELY NOT overturning the police advice to ban.
We are just working with police to ensure the ban does not happen.
We are just working with police to ensure the ban does not happen.
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Really odd how GB News, the Daily Mail and Telegraph aren't covering the thwarting of a terrorist plot to attack synagogues in the UK by a group that had amassed a horde of 200 weapons. Wonder what's different about this group?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three neo-Nazis jailed for plotting terror attacks on UK mosques and synagogues
Group of ‘like-minded extremists’ styled themselves after the SS and amassed arsenal of more than 200 weapons
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Really odd how GB News, the Daily Mail and Telegraph aren't covering the thwarting of a terrorist plot to attack synagogues in the UK by a group that had amassed a horde of 200 weapons. Wonder what's different about this group?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were banned because of information from Interpol in Europe, who passed it on to the Home Office, who gave it to the Police, who banned them.
Is our Government really going to endanger the safety of our citizens just so it doesn't upset Israel?
Is our Government really going to endanger the safety of our citizens just so it doesn't upset Israel?
October 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were banned because of information from Interpol in Europe, who passed it on to the Home Office, who gave it to the Police, who banned them.
Is our Government really going to endanger the safety of our citizens just so it doesn't upset Israel?
Is our Government really going to endanger the safety of our citizens just so it doesn't upset Israel?
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Currently labour supporters keep telling us we need to eat a dog turd because if Reform gets in we'll have to eat two dog turds. And they get so mad when I suggest I'm simply leaving the dog turd restaurant.
October 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Currently labour supporters keep telling us we need to eat a dog turd because if Reform gets in we'll have to eat two dog turds. And they get so mad when I suggest I'm simply leaving the dog turd restaurant.