Chris
@chriswalker.scot
Software developer (mostly Java). I blether about:
- dev and tech
- politics, from a Scottish perspective
- cycling as transport
- learning Hungarian
- slice of life stuff
I’ll probably mention Star Trek and Sonic the Hedgehog more than I really should.
- dev and tech
- politics, from a Scottish perspective
- cycling as transport
- learning Hungarian
- slice of life stuff
I’ll probably mention Star Trek and Sonic the Hedgehog more than I really should.
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Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
December 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
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Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
December 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
In 2025 I moved from a company that uses Azure Devops for git repositories to one that uses GitHub, and… I hate it.
December 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
In 2025 I moved from a company that uses Azure Devops for git repositories to one that uses GitHub, and… I hate it.
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Awful as this is, it's nowhere near as bad as it could have been if William McGonagall had been here to commemorate it
December 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Awful as this is, it's nowhere near as bad as it could have been if William McGonagall had been here to commemorate it
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Can confirm. This was me 👼
December 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Can confirm. This was me 👼
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The only thing I really have to say about this is: 90mph winds due later today.
December 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM
The only thing I really have to say about this is: 90mph winds due later today.
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I've been asked whether Algernon Goldfish might have done it. While he was just the kind of fishy character who might have attempted a crime on this scale, he was struck off the register after I wrote the article, which left him floundering. At the time he was almost the only operator who had been.
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I've been asked whether Algernon Goldfish might have done it. While he was just the kind of fishy character who might have attempted a crime on this scale, he was struck off the register after I wrote the article, which left him floundering. At the time he was almost the only operator who had been.
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I’m old enough to remember when the BBC used old footage of Johnson at the cenotaph, to cover the fact that he was hung over and looked like a burst mattress on a tip.
The DG didn’t resign though
The DG didn’t resign though
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I’m old enough to remember when the BBC used old footage of Johnson at the cenotaph, to cover the fact that he was hung over and looked like a burst mattress on a tip.
The DG didn’t resign though
The DG didn’t resign though
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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My mind had been blown by the BBC’s representation of “13.5 million litres”.
October 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
My mind had been blown by the BBC’s representation of “13.5 million litres”.
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Williams calling AI the human centipede of content is what I needed to hear today.
October 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Williams calling AI the human centipede of content is what I needed to hear today.
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Charles makes final preparation to "welcome" the King Across the Water.
September 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Charles makes final preparation to "welcome" the King Across the Water.
I know country buses stop absolutely everywhere but I don’t think I’m prepared for it to stop at the Leaderfoot Roundabout and then drive right round for another go
September 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I know country buses stop absolutely everywhere but I don’t think I’m prepared for it to stop at the Leaderfoot Roundabout and then drive right round for another go
Bit disconcerting that the dog food trays that used to be marked with the flavour (chicken, duck, turkey) now simply say ‘dog’…
September 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Bit disconcerting that the dog food trays that used to be marked with the flavour (chicken, duck, turkey) now simply say ‘dog’…
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Punches are not being pulled
September 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Punches are not being pulled
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we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
August 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
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Look, I am just not ready for something that was built in my lifetime to be archaeology.
August 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Look, I am just not ready for something that was built in my lifetime to be archaeology.
I am JUST young enough to not be contemporaneous with a structure that is about to undergo archaeological excavation, thank fuck www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Scotland's first skatepark to be dug up by archaeologists
A University of Glasgow team will undertake excavation and survey work at the former Kelvin Wheelies park.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 20, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I am JUST young enough to not be contemporaneous with a structure that is about to undergo archaeological excavation, thank fuck www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
They’ll find it much easier to keep gangsters apart once they realise that Jimmy ‘The Monarch’ King can be moved anywhere, not just to an adjacent cell. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Game of chess' to keep gangsters apart in jail as attacks rise
Hundreds of gang members are being held in Scotland's jails, where violent incidents are on the increase.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
They’ll find it much easier to keep gangsters apart once they realise that Jimmy ‘The Monarch’ King can be moved anywhere, not just to an adjacent cell. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bike delivery day. Our van guy is working on harvest in Borders so we're trying out the cargobike provision on ScotRail's 8am train to Glasgow. Staff not really aware but pretty OK once I showed him web pages etc. Other bikes in 2nd area as 8 coach train. @edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @spokes.org.uk
August 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Bike delivery day. Our van guy is working on harvest in Borders so we're trying out the cargobike provision on ScotRail's 8am train to Glasgow. Staff not really aware but pretty OK once I showed him web pages etc. Other bikes in 2nd area as 8 coach train. @edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @spokes.org.uk
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love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics.
IG nytimes
IG nytimes
August 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics.
IG nytimes
IG nytimes
August 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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They need to ditch this law before the next General Election or it could genuinely have the power to swing some votes.
You can argue about as many other policies as you want, but make it harder for angry men to access porn and abuse people on social media and they will do what it takes to undo it
You can argue about as many other policies as you want, but make it harder for angry men to access porn and abuse people on social media and they will do what it takes to undo it
And Nigel Farage's far-right Reform party is calling to scrap the law entirely.
This is three days in.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
This is three days in.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Reform pledges to scrap Online Safety Act over free speech concerns
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage acknowledged that his party did not have ‘a perfect answer’ for what could replace the Online Safety Act.
www.independent.co.uk
July 29, 2025 at 7:12 AM
They need to ditch this law before the next General Election or it could genuinely have the power to swing some votes.
You can argue about as many other policies as you want, but make it harder for angry men to access porn and abuse people on social media and they will do what it takes to undo it
You can argue about as many other policies as you want, but make it harder for angry men to access porn and abuse people on social media and they will do what it takes to undo it