Chris Boyle
@chris.boyle.name
Oxford-based software engineer, amateur pilot, and singer. He/him or they/them.
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In shock news, it turns out that Brexit punched the UK economy in the face, much in the way that official forecasts in 2016 said it would punch the UK economy in the face, that were dismissed as nonsense by lying rightwing shills at the time.
Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
In shock news, it turns out that Brexit punched the UK economy in the face, much in the way that official forecasts in 2016 said it would punch the UK economy in the face, that were dismissed as nonsense by lying rightwing shills at the time.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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@hypervisible.blacksky.app
"Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) is working on an AI to interpret emojis and the slang used online by Generation Z and Generation Alpha, so it can understand them when they discuss crime online." what could possibly go wrong
www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/a...
"Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) is working on an AI to interpret emojis and the slang used online by Generation Z and Generation Alpha, so it can understand them when they discuss crime online." what could possibly go wrong
www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/a...
Australian police build AI to translate emoji used by crims
: Five Eyes intel alliance has created a team to target these scum who prey on kids
www.theregister.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
@hypervisible.blacksky.app
"Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) is working on an AI to interpret emojis and the slang used online by Generation Z and Generation Alpha, so it can understand them when they discuss crime online." what could possibly go wrong
www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/a...
"Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) is working on an AI to interpret emojis and the slang used online by Generation Z and Generation Alpha, so it can understand them when they discuss crime online." what could possibly go wrong
www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/a...
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Like (so it seems) every other author on the planet, I too am now getting those fake "We Are A Book Club, Honest, Plz Pay Us To Read Your Novel Thnx" emails. These are scams, folks, don't fall for it. Don't engage. Delete & Block!
October 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Like (so it seems) every other author on the planet, I too am now getting those fake "We Are A Book Club, Honest, Plz Pay Us To Read Your Novel Thnx" emails. These are scams, folks, don't fall for it. Don't engage. Delete & Block!
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Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):
October 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):
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Every even-numbered thing you read about AI is "they've checked yet again and it turns out everything it says is wrong" and every odd-numbered thing you read about AI is "they've given OpenAI a new contract to decide who goes to prison and it has all your names to pick from"
October 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Every even-numbered thing you read about AI is "they've checked yet again and it turns out everything it says is wrong" and every odd-numbered thing you read about AI is "they've given OpenAI a new contract to decide who goes to prison and it has all your names to pick from"
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Good morning from these Halloween goblins
October 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Good morning from these Halloween goblins
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- I'm going to analyse the Welsh by-election result
- Caerphilly?
- Nah, I'll probably just fire off some hot-takes
- Caerphilly?
- Nah, I'll probably just fire off some hot-takes
October 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
- I'm going to analyse the Welsh by-election result
- Caerphilly?
- Nah, I'll probably just fire off some hot-takes
- Caerphilly?
- Nah, I'll probably just fire off some hot-takes
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Truer words were never spoken.
October 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Truer words were never spoken.
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I love living in a country where the law about what bathroom I can use is genuinely UNKNOWABLE, it’s like something from a Joseph Heller novel
This is 100% correct. Including as to the chaos the Gender Critical Ideological Movement so beloved of Labour has now descended into as their facade of respectability crumbles like the Berlin Wall.
www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...
www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...
Nobody Knows What UK Law on Toilet Access is
The lawlessness of the government's response to For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I love living in a country where the law about what bathroom I can use is genuinely UNKNOWABLE, it’s like something from a Joseph Heller novel
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what the fuck is starmer even saying
October 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
what the fuck is starmer even saying
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Can you drive west to lengthen the sunset?
What the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8F7...
What the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8F7...
Can you drive west to lengthen the sunset?
YouTube video by xkcd's What If?
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Can you drive west to lengthen the sunset?
What the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8F7...
What the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8F7...
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How people perceive their colleagues who produce workslop.
October 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
How people perceive their colleagues who produce workslop.
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Permanent residence means permanent residence you absolute fucking ghouls. We don't need someone to contribute more than they cost but that's not even relevant; threatening peoples' ability to plan is heinous.
Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR
This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"
NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt
No govt since Idi Amin has done this
This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"
NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt
No govt since Idi Amin has done this
October 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Permanent residence means permanent residence you absolute fucking ghouls. We don't need someone to contribute more than they cost but that's not even relevant; threatening peoples' ability to plan is heinous.
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got this ad on reddit and yeah thank you AI, this is absolutely my wildest fantasy. cant wait to live this thrilling dream at last
October 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Buses reduce traffic leaving cleaner air, safer roads for cycling and quicker journeys for those who have to drive.
It's a no-brainer to have buses connecting up with trains.
Ask Network Rail to do the sensible thing, sign the petition!
#Oxford #cycling #CleanAir #NoToPollution #ActiveTravel
It's a no-brainer to have buses connecting up with trains.
Ask Network Rail to do the sensible thing, sign the petition!
#Oxford #cycling #CleanAir #NoToPollution #ActiveTravel
Bus user group Oxon4Buses has launched a petition calling on Network Rail to provide a proper bus hub at Oxford Rail Station, please sign and share widely! www.change.org/p/sign-for-a...
@cohsat.bsky.social
@cycloxoxford.bsky.social
@emilykerr36.bsky.social
@cohsat.bsky.social
@cycloxoxford.bsky.social
@emilykerr36.bsky.social
Sign the Petition
Sign for a bus hub in Oxford
www.change.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Buses reduce traffic leaving cleaner air, safer roads for cycling and quicker journeys for those who have to drive.
It's a no-brainer to have buses connecting up with trains.
Ask Network Rail to do the sensible thing, sign the petition!
#Oxford #cycling #CleanAir #NoToPollution #ActiveTravel
It's a no-brainer to have buses connecting up with trains.
Ask Network Rail to do the sensible thing, sign the petition!
#Oxford #cycling #CleanAir #NoToPollution #ActiveTravel
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If we make it illegal to steal paintings from the Louvre then the entire industry will be unsustainable
you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
October 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM
If we make it illegal to steal paintings from the Louvre then the entire industry will be unsustainable
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"we are all, how you say, trying to find l'homme who did this"
October 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
"we are all, how you say, trying to find l'homme who did this"
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This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
October 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
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The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes
“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”
Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...
www.stereogum.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes
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the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"
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It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
October 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
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This is spot on. The only I would add is that this spiral of madness is being turbocharged by a national media that is also increasingly unhinged and vastly exaggerates the public demand for these policies. Westminster is trapped in its own reactionary bubble.
British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.
Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁
Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁
October 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This is spot on. The only I would add is that this spiral of madness is being turbocharged by a national media that is also increasingly unhinged and vastly exaggerates the public demand for these policies. Westminster is trapped in its own reactionary bubble.