Hugh
@maccy143.bsky.social
Ex-pat Aberdonian. Loves Europe, books, travel, music, words.
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“A nation of sheep will always beget a government of wolves.”
― Edward R. Murrow
― Edward R. Murrow
Can someone show the White House Press Corpse a montage of the reporters who covered previous administrations, the ones who weren't complete cowards?
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 1:35 AM
“A nation of sheep will always beget a government of wolves.”
― Edward R. Murrow
― Edward R. Murrow
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
Radical I know, but what about just using Irish actors?
‘If you get it wrong, it’s sacrilegious!’ TV’s problem with Irish accents
‘If you get it wrong, it’s sacrilegious!’ TV’s problem with Irish accents
From James Norton’s ‘terror’ at playing a Dubliner in House of Guinness to Helen Mirren doing an impersonation so atrocious it went viral – why do actors struggle to play people from Ireland?
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Radical I know, but what about just using Irish actors?
A long thread but worth reading to the end. Tanja sums up what a great many people are thinking, but in clear and concise language. Let's hope our government can change course before it's too late.
When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵
September 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A long thread but worth reading to the end. Tanja sums up what a great many people are thinking, but in clear and concise language. Let's hope our government can change course before it's too late.
We watched SHAUN OF THE DEAD tonight, another hit with the kids.
September 27, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Poland's statement to Russia at the UN.
"If another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission, deliberately or 'by mistake', and gets shot down, please don't come here to whine about it. You have been warned." ~AA
"If another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission, deliberately or 'by mistake', and gets shot down, please don't come here to whine about it. You have been warned." ~AA
September 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Poland's statement to Russia at the UN.
"If another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission, deliberately or 'by mistake', and gets shot down, please don't come here to whine about it. You have been warned." ~AA
"If another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission, deliberately or 'by mistake', and gets shot down, please don't come here to whine about it. You have been warned." ~AA
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If using AI is such hard work, why not just write the thing yourself in the first place and save some time!
That last line is one of the absolute single scariest things to me and that it was said with such casual happiness is even more disturbing.
Not distressing.
Full tilt disturbing.
Not distressing.
Full tilt disturbing.
imagine relying on AI to write your bio and then having the nerve to say you're witty and full of personality
September 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
If using AI is such hard work, why not just write the thing yourself in the first place and save some time!
ROFL!
“[Kash Patel] always has this expression that suggests that he just bargained on a fart and lost.” - @kenwhite.bsky.social
🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣
September 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
ROFL!
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1 September 1939 | Germany invaded Poland which began the World War II.
288 days later the first Poles became prisoners of a new concentration camp created in the occupied Polish territories annexed into the Third Reich: #Auschwitz.
Learn more: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_1/
288 days later the first Poles became prisoners of a new concentration camp created in the occupied Polish territories annexed into the Third Reich: #Auschwitz.
Learn more: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_1/
September 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
1 September 1939 | Germany invaded Poland which began the World War II.
288 days later the first Poles became prisoners of a new concentration camp created in the occupied Polish territories annexed into the Third Reich: #Auschwitz.
Learn more: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_1/
288 days later the first Poles became prisoners of a new concentration camp created in the occupied Polish territories annexed into the Third Reich: #Auschwitz.
Learn more: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_1/
This!
New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
August 29, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This!
Good start!
NEW RESULT: Democrats have flipped a state Senate in Iowa.
This was a seat Trump carried by 11%, but Democratic nominee Catherine Drey has just won it by 10.4%.
This is the second legislative flip by Dems in Iowa this year. It also means the GOP loses its supermajority in Iowa’s senate.
This was a seat Trump carried by 11%, but Democratic nominee Catherine Drey has just won it by 10.4%.
This is the second legislative flip by Dems in Iowa this year. It also means the GOP loses its supermajority in Iowa’s senate.
August 27, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Good start!
The replies kinda write themselves, don't they!
Tory MPs complain party attack ad on asylum hotels ‘makes us look silly’
Tory MPs complain party attack ad on asylum hotels ‘makes us look silly’
Backbenchers say party leadership is criticising Labour government for policies introduced by Conservatives
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UK politics live – latest updates
Conservative MPs have expressed frustration at their party’s “piss-poor” messaging over hotels housing people seeking asylum.
Leaked WhatsApp messages show members are concerned that the party’s leadership is attacking Keir Starmer’s government for policies introduced by the Conservatives. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The replies kinda write themselves, don't they!
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AI is for writers who don’t like to write but want to have written, and readers who don’t like to read but want to have read.
Into the sea with the whole miserable joyless fucking lot of them.
Into the sea with the whole miserable joyless fucking lot of them.
People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.
August 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
AI is for writers who don’t like to write but want to have written, and readers who don’t like to read but want to have read.
Into the sea with the whole miserable joyless fucking lot of them.
Into the sea with the whole miserable joyless fucking lot of them.
Amen!
Dress it up in progressive language but you're cheating yourself by not doing the work. This is the worst thing about AI: millions of students refusing to learn, taking zero interest in the world around them, empty in mind and heart. Your punishment is the person you will become.
June 20, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Amen!
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May 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.
May 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.
Streeting is utterly delusional! He wants to wreck the NHS and the country with it.
I wonder how his private healthcare stock is doing …
I wonder how his private healthcare stock is doing …
In Canada, people voted against Maple Trumpism because there was a principled centrist leader who said "elbows up". In Australia, people voted against Bunyip Trumpism because their centre left leader made the rightwinger look like a pound shop villain. In the UK, .... errr, ... words.... fail.
#trevorphillips: "It sounds like... you're about to drive off a cliff and your answer is, put your foot down on the accelerator, don't change direction"
West Streeting: "No.. we've got to go harder and faster... on deportations we've got deportations up"
West Streeting: "No.. we've got to go harder and faster... on deportations we've got deportations up"
May 4, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Streeting is utterly delusional! He wants to wreck the NHS and the country with it.
I wonder how his private healthcare stock is doing …
I wonder how his private healthcare stock is doing …
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This is about all of us. Never forget that.
May 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This is about all of us. Never forget that.
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Why should we not forget the Holocaust?
🧵 1/n
Because it was one of the most horrific crimes in human history.
Because it was committed by one of the most advanced countries in the world, disproving the idea that more advanced societies are inherently more moral than less advanced societies.
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Because it was one of the most horrific crimes in human history.
Because it was committed by one of the most advanced countries in the world, disproving the idea that more advanced societies are inherently more moral than less advanced societies.
May 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Why should we not forget the Holocaust?
🧵 1/n
Because it was one of the most horrific crimes in human history.
Because it was committed by one of the most advanced countries in the world, disproving the idea that more advanced societies are inherently more moral than less advanced societies.
🧵 1/n
Because it was one of the most horrific crimes in human history.
Because it was committed by one of the most advanced countries in the world, disproving the idea that more advanced societies are inherently more moral than less advanced societies.
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Europeans, as US tariffs force them to rely exclusively on German cars, French wine and Italian fashion.
April 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Europeans, as US tariffs force them to rely exclusively on German cars, French wine and Italian fashion.
This! 100% this!
How many times, in how many countries, do we have to go through the same dynamic, with the same result.
💯% predictable 🙄 (source: link.news.inews.co.uk/view/6154b3e...)
April 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This! 100% this!
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Current US trade talks. The leader of Heard Island, Prime Minister Penguin, is adamant that there is nothing about these tariffs to be grateful for.
April 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Current US trade talks. The leader of Heard Island, Prime Minister Penguin, is adamant that there is nothing about these tariffs to be grateful for.
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She gets it.
April 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
She gets it.