Chris Luxford
@luxfordc.bsky.social
Doctor Who fan, Leyton Orient supporter, morris dancer, fair weather cyclist, ex-goth, History graduate. Not necessarily in that order.
Autistic. Bisexual. He/Him.
Autistic. Bisexual. He/Him.
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there’s a business near me called “Carpets by Raymond” and if it was called Ray’s Carpets I’d believe it was a carpet company, as is I firmly believe he’s a bespoke merkin weaver
November 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
there’s a business near me called “Carpets by Raymond” and if it was called Ray’s Carpets I’d believe it was a carpet company, as is I firmly believe he’s a bespoke merkin weaver
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The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
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It stops sorting your inbox into folders, btw, when you turn this off. As the inbox folders predate Gemini, this is a passive-aggressive attempt to make gmail a miserable experience unless you turn AI on, not a necessity.
Really, *really* inconvenient but makes me more determined to keep it off.
Really, *really* inconvenient but makes me more determined to keep it off.
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 21, 2025 at 7:02 AM
It stops sorting your inbox into folders, btw, when you turn this off. As the inbox folders predate Gemini, this is a passive-aggressive attempt to make gmail a miserable experience unless you turn AI on, not a necessity.
Really, *really* inconvenient but makes me more determined to keep it off.
Really, *really* inconvenient but makes me more determined to keep it off.
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Sign of the times that when waking up to the headline ‘England Collapses Overnight’ I had to check it was definitely about the cricket. 🏏 #MAshes
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Sign of the times that when waking up to the headline ‘England Collapses Overnight’ I had to check it was definitely about the cricket. 🏏 #MAshes
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
These are guaranteed to be terrible translations. Avoid.
Another reason to ditch Kindle.
Readers: please check for the "Kindle Translate" label and DON'T BUY THESE BOOKS.
www.aboutamazon.com/news/books-a...
Readers: please check for the "Kindle Translate" label and DON'T BUY THESE BOOKS.
www.aboutamazon.com/news/books-a...
Amazon introduces Kindle Translate, an AI-powered translation service for authors to reach global readers
The service translates between English and Spanish, and from German to English, expanding opportunities for Kindle Direct Publishing authors.
www.aboutamazon.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
These are guaranteed to be terrible translations. Avoid.
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One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
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If someone has travelled thousands of miles, paying everything they own to an exploitative people smuggling gang, risking their life in a deadly channel crossing, I do not want to be the person who takes their last valuables – a mother’s necklace? A gift? – from them. And nor should the rest of us.
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
If someone has travelled thousands of miles, paying everything they own to an exploitative people smuggling gang, risking their life in a deadly channel crossing, I do not want to be the person who takes their last valuables – a mother’s necklace? A gift? – from them. And nor should the rest of us.
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Tip for the Labour Party. If you have to clarify asylum seekers’ wedding rings won’t be seized, your policy is horrific. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Tip for the Labour Party. If you have to clarify asylum seekers’ wedding rings won’t be seized, your policy is horrific. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Seems like he's plagiarised John Cale's 4'33".
November 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Seems like he's plagiarised John Cale's 4'33".
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If someone asks you what the best movie based on a comic is, the ultimate pretentious dick answer is Powell and Pressburger’s THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (1943)
November 22, 2024 at 7:11 PM
If someone asks you what the best movie based on a comic is, the ultimate pretentious dick answer is Powell and Pressburger’s THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (1943)
He's on a mission from God.
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
He's on a mission from God.
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Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.
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![4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: Some people like to be the big spoon. (2) PERSON 1: Some people like to be the little spoon. (3) [two sets of spoons that don’t lay flat against each other, one arranged with the little one on top of the big one, the other with the big spoon on top of the little spoon] PERSON 1: And some brave truth-tellers point out that the metaphor makes no sense because different-sized spoons don’t nest right *either* way. You nest *same*-sized spoons. (4) PERSON: ...And apparently *we* sleep on the couch. PERSON 2 off-screen: Why are you *still* going on about the spoon thing? PERSON 1: Because I’m *right!*](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicfq5lrhnknblf2ycalxk2vctpeqjzy566xxqjy2xsm67ys5of3j4@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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I truly believe that Wes Streeting has the ideas, the charisma, and the likeability to be an even more historically hated Prime Minister than Keir Starmer
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I truly believe that Wes Streeting has the ideas, the charisma, and the likeability to be an even more historically hated Prime Minister than Keir Starmer
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Oh you've got to listen to this! Sound up 🔊
Olympic Park velodrome reflects 'fireworks as farts'... 😂😂😂
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Olympic Park velodrome reflects 'fireworks as farts'... 😂😂😂
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Olympic Park velodrome reflects 'fireworks as farts'
Clips of the phenomenon have gone viral on social media after it was shared to TikTok.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Oh you've got to listen to this! Sound up 🔊
Olympic Park velodrome reflects 'fireworks as farts'... 😂😂😂
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Olympic Park velodrome reflects 'fireworks as farts'... 😂😂😂
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
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Keep thinking of when Disney tried to sue the BBC when Alexei Sayle’s Stuff parodied Snow White and the BBC legal person was heard to say, ‘Fuck Disney, we’re the BBC.’
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Keep thinking of when Disney tried to sue the BBC when Alexei Sayle’s Stuff parodied Snow White and the BBC legal person was heard to say, ‘Fuck Disney, we’re the BBC.’
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If the BBC is guilty of anything it has been far too ready and willing to follow the right-wing media narratives pushed by the billionaire press barons, instead of pursuing its own independent journalism based on exposing and uncovering the truth – regardless of whether people want to hear it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
If the BBC is guilty of anything it has been far too ready and willing to follow the right-wing media narratives pushed by the billionaire press barons, instead of pursuing its own independent journalism based on exposing and uncovering the truth – regardless of whether people want to hear it.
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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.
While it's a broadly positive thing that the Director General and Head of News at the BBC have resigned due to perceived bias, I don't understand how this is somehow being spun as left wing bias when the bias that's actually been happening is all coming from the Right.
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
While it's a broadly positive thing that the Director General and Head of News at the BBC have resigned due to perceived bias, I don't understand how this is somehow being spun as left wing bias when the bias that's actually been happening is all coming from the Right.
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No Adobe, I do not want to read the "Generative AI Summary" of this script I'm reading. I will in fact never, ever, ever want to read a "Generative AI Summary" of anything ever.
November 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
No Adobe, I do not want to read the "Generative AI Summary" of this script I'm reading. I will in fact never, ever, ever want to read a "Generative AI Summary" of anything ever.
Something other countries should be doing.
Ireland’s Basic Income for the Arts Scheme to Become Permanent from 2026 musiciansunion.org.uk/news/ireland...
Ireland’s Basic Income for the Arts Scheme to Become Permanent from 2026 musiciansunion.org.uk/news/ireland...
Ireland’s Basic Income for the Arts Scheme to Become Permanent from 2026
The Basic Income for the Arts scheme follows a successful pilot set up in 2022 to help Ireland’s arts and culture sector to recover from Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns.
musiciansunion.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Something other countries should be doing.
Ireland’s Basic Income for the Arts Scheme to Become Permanent from 2026 musiciansunion.org.uk/news/ireland...
Ireland’s Basic Income for the Arts Scheme to Become Permanent from 2026 musiciansunion.org.uk/news/ireland...
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“I asked Grok” “I asked ChatGPT” Yeah, well I asked my mother what will I be? Will I be pretty? Will I be rich? Here's what she said to me.
July 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
“I asked Grok” “I asked ChatGPT” Yeah, well I asked my mother what will I be? Will I be pretty? Will I be rich? Here's what she said to me.