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Alistair Davidson
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For a Scottish Socialist Republic

Sometimes write for @bellacaledonia.bsky.social

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Post an image that will always make you laugh
Scottish politician Ash Regan quoted "You cannot possibly drive prostitution underground. If you had women in underground cellars with a locked door, how would punters get to them?"
November 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Liz Warren's memoir
Larry’s tone was in the friendly-advice category. He teed it up this way: I had a choice. I could be an insider or I could be an outsider. Outsiders can say whatever they want. But people on the inside don’t listen to them. Insiders, however, get lots of access and a chance to push their ideas. People — powerful people — listen to what they have to say. But insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: They don’t criticize other insiders. I had been warned.
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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I've been trying to express exactly this discomfort with modern interface design and especially LLM design and this lady nailed it back in *1993*

("A Small Matter of Programming", Bonnie A. Nardi)
What interests me about these scenarios is not that they make fantastic, unrealistic promises (though I think they do), or that the instructions given by the user are couched in simple English (Tesler at least concedes that more structured languages may be needed), or that they embody such a grand vision (though the vision has much appeal). Rather, it is interesting that it is the programmer who is to control all of the computational magic. As Tesler says, programmers will endow computer-agents with their basic capabilities, even meeting such exciting challenges as pro gramming the computer to know what users will think before they think it! By comparison, notice the relationship of the end user to the computer; the end user is engaged in the most humdrum activities: making queries regarding a phone conversation, asking the computer to set up an appointment, requesting articles from the library (Tesler, 1991). Now contrast this vision of the computer-agent with what Alan Kay (in the same issue of Scientific American) envisions for educational software: children writing simulations of complex natural phenomena such as bi ological and physical systems to better understand how they function. Kay's colleagues have created a simulation construction kit for children so that they can build their own simulations. The construction kit lets children write simple scripts that model animal behavior. Using the kit they can change parameters to see how changing conditions affect the animal. This use of computers is an instance of what Tesler called the "personal implement": the children are doing nothing more or less than programming. With the kit, the children have tools that give them tremen dous scope for intellectual exploration and personal empowerment.
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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The guy from the Hudsucker Proxy, holding a drawing of a circle
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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It is clearly being used a lot more now, probably in an effort at trans and intersex inclusion, but is absolutely dwarfed by "pregnant women", a phrase that has also been used a lot more over the same time period
Google ngram of uses of "pregnant people" - first use is 1814, usage trends upwards from the late 60s and then sharply from 2009 Google ngram for "pregnant women" vs "pregnant people", showing that "pregnant people" is hardly used at all in comparison, and "preganant women" has been trending upwards sharply since the 1960s
November 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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How do you avoid hitting people with your car www.howdoyou.guide Avoid driving into people Watch the road Watch the road with your eyes All the time Yes really all the time No games or movies No texting Sometimes it's boring, but you do need to watch the actual road with your eyes the whole entire time Note: to play games or text or watch movies, take the bus. Bring headphones as a courtesy. Slow down Speed limit means the maximum Do not drive faster You can drive slower Note: this means you
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Facebook has added AI assistants to all groups 😂
Basic Fantasy RPG Facebook group admin "We now have an AI named QuestGuide. I have done all I can to disable it. If you manage to interact with QuestGuide please let me know so I can try to cut off that head also"
November 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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We're reaching unprecedented levels of Yglesias
Matt Yglesias: "I think the American right is in fact correct about several things and it would be wise to concede that"
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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oh, lol
A man at the Cuomo party is holding a sign saying "Curtis Sliwa is the spoiler!"
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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what is going on
The Andrew Cuomo election night party. A balding man is holding up a weird sign. Sorry I don't know what's going on here.
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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People will claim the left doesn't have a Joe Rogan - a figure who mostly does lifestyle/fun content but whose politics show up too - while this guy can sell out Madison Square Gardens
The haters are gonna tell you that you can’t vote for @zohrankmamdani because they’re afraid of a powerful, joyful, united movement of New Yorkers centered around human dignity and the belief that government can deliver meaningful change for the working class. They’re gonna try to force you to dream small, they’re gonna tell you “No, Mr. Mulligan, I’m saying you literally cannot vote for him, you live in Los Angeles. See here on the ballot, you just voted Yes on Prop 50, that’s… this is California, we’re in California right now.” And I’m here to tell you: Don’t let the haters win. Our dreams are achievable if we believe in each other, and wherever you are on this fine Election Day, I know you’ll vote hard enough to also be able to vote for Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of New York City.
November 5, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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The St Enoch Centre replaced this station and hotel :( :( :(
Black and white photo of a grand railway hotel
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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"I have a cunning plan!"
Charles I of England
October 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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True liberals and socialists need each other especially at a time like this
Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech"
October 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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You don't have to take it from me, because helpfully the financier Marc Andreesen explained why he's funding Trump in the New York Times
And then of course, Covid hits, which was a giant radicalizing moment. And at that point, we had lived through eight years of what was increasingly clearly a social revolution. Very clearly, companies are basically being hijacked to engines of social change, social revolution. The employee base is going feral. There were cases in the Trump era where multiple companies I know felt like they were hours away from full-blown violent riots on their own campuses by their own employees. he problem is the raw application of the power of the administrative state, the raw application of regulation and then the raw arbitrary enforcement and promulgation of regulation. It was increasing insertion into basic staffing. Government-mandated enforcement of D.E.I. in very destructive ways. Some of these agencies have their own in-house courts, which is bananas. Also just straight-up threats and bullying. Mark Zuckerberg just talked about this on “Rogan.” Direct phone calls from senior members of the administration. Screaming executives ordering them to do things. Just full-on “[Expletive] you. We own you. We control you. You’re going to do what we want or we’re going to destroy you.” Then they just came after crypto. Absolutely tried to kill us. They just ran this incredible terror campaign to try to kill crypto. Then they were ramping up a similar campaign to try to kill A.I. That’s really when we knew that we had to really get involved in politics. The crypto attack was so weird that we didn’t know what to make of it. We were just hoping it would pass, which it didn’t. But it was when they threatened to do the same thing to A.I. that we realized we had to get involved in politics. Then we were up against what looked like the absolutely terrifying prospect of a second term.
October 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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A hat that says "hello, I am fleeing the American century of humiliation. Can you show me where to buy White Monster Energy Drinks?" followed by the same (I assume) in chinese script.
October 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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I feel like this parent who was just trying to organise a Halloween parade should be everywhere

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A woman dressed as a snack variety box saying "and we're just being terrorised by ICE"
October 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Ye gods
“Kids dressed in Halloween costumes walking to a parade do not pose an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer,” U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis said to Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino during an Oct. 28 hearing. “They just don’t. And you can’t use riot-control weapons against them.”
October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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The Herald: "There's a feeling too that the Orange Order has acted in good faith and in the spirit of One Scotland Many Cultures; that they've moved into those values and helped advance Scotland's reputation as an inclusive, tolerant nation"
October 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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retvrn
Black and white photo, two men examine a sign saying "This colliery is now managed by the national coal board on behalf of the people"
October 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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One leopard with a paw over the other looking like it's speaking in the other's ear. The other looks bored or maybe perplexed. The man talking to a bored woman in a club at milk edinburgh meme
October 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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:(
The McCrone report is a document on the Scottish economy written and researched in 1974 on behalf of the British Government. It was composed by Professor Gavin McCrone employed at the Scottish Office using some information that was publicly available at the time and some that was not. The document gave a favourable projection for the economy of an independent Scotland with a "chronic surplus to a quite embarrassing degree and its currency would become the hardest in Europe". It also noted that the Common Market or EEC meant that Scotland could pivot away from the rest of UK (if required) for trade. The report became public in 2005 when new freedom of information legislation came into effect.
October 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Star wars: 'an elegant weapon for a more civilised age'
October 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.
The Rinky Dink, a cartoonishly-coloured bike-powered vehicle that used to tour music festivals and protests. It appears to be drawn by 2 bikes and has 6 wheels behind them.
October 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Morpheus: "What if i told you Scotland are a mid tier international football team and it's a blessing to have a manager who gets us qualifications"
October 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM