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I mean, I realize not everyone likes the taste of beer and that's fine, but there's still a market for those of us that do (as the heap of crates in my shed will testify)
February 6, 2026 at 7:55 PM
I mean, I realize not everyone likes the taste of beer and that's fine, but there's still a market for those of us that do (as the heap of crates in my shed will testify)
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In the local micropub last night, most ales on draught were variations on grapefruit juice IPA shite but they had one that described itself as a best bitter. I ordered a pint + it tasted like coffee. Bitter does not taste like coffee. Stout, ok, mild, maybe, bitter, no. WTAF is happening to beer?
February 6, 2026 at 7:15 PM
In the local micropub last night, most ales on draught were variations on grapefruit juice IPA shite but they had one that described itself as a best bitter. I ordered a pint + it tasted like coffee. Bitter does not taste like coffee. Stout, ok, mild, maybe, bitter, no. WTAF is happening to beer?
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If it weren't totally inappropriate for classroom purposes, I would use this, together with the passage linked in the quoted post, as a lecture example on confused units of measurement and unreferenced percentage increases.
(Men: you are not going to jump over a 4x4 by making your willy bigger.)
(Men: you are not going to jump over a 4x4 by making your willy bigger.)
Times article has an incredible illustration
February 6, 2026 at 8:12 AM
If it weren't totally inappropriate for classroom purposes, I would use this, together with the passage linked in the quoted post, as a lecture example on confused units of measurement and unreferenced percentage increases.
(Men: you are not going to jump over a 4x4 by making your willy bigger.)
(Men: you are not going to jump over a 4x4 by making your willy bigger.)
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Glasgow City Council are finally relieving Derek Souter of the Egyptian Halls on Union St via CPO. Souter is a provaricating arse with no intention of putting his hand in his pocket.
Here it is in the late 70s, courtesy of the JR James Archive.
#Glasgow
Here it is in the late 70s, courtesy of the JR James Archive.
#Glasgow
February 5, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Glasgow City Council are finally relieving Derek Souter of the Egyptian Halls on Union St via CPO. Souter is a provaricating arse with no intention of putting his hand in his pocket.
Here it is in the late 70s, courtesy of the JR James Archive.
#Glasgow
Here it is in the late 70s, courtesy of the JR James Archive.
#Glasgow
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While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships.
We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
Jeffrey Epstein’s Money Mingled With Silicon Valley Start-Ups
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:38 PM
While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
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Fascinating article from 2017 about how Trump may have been cultivated by Soviet intelligence as early as 1977…
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow
In 1987, a young real estate developer traveled to the Soviet Union. The KGB almost certainly made the trip happen.
www.politico.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Fascinating article from 2017 about how Trump may have been cultivated by Soviet intelligence as early as 1977…
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
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BREAKING: The government is furious that a jury let off the Filton 6 because some idiot forgot to get rid of jury trials in time for a stitch up. What's the country coming to when we can't even jail innocent people for terrorism? 🤬
February 4, 2026 at 7:25 PM
BREAKING: The government is furious that a jury let off the Filton 6 because some idiot forgot to get rid of jury trials in time for a stitch up. What's the country coming to when we can't even jail innocent people for terrorism? 🤬
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Zack Polanski's ( @zackpolanski.bsky.social ) strongly worded open letter to Wes Streeting, rightly urging him to rip up the Palantir contract in light of the Mandelson Epstein revelations
February 4, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Zack Polanski's ( @zackpolanski.bsky.social ) strongly worded open letter to Wes Streeting, rightly urging him to rip up the Palantir contract in light of the Mandelson Epstein revelations
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Under my leadership of the Labour Party, Peter Mandelson had no role, no influence and no part to play, because I do not trust the man and I do not believe the man.
February 4, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Under my leadership of the Labour Party, Peter Mandelson had no role, no influence and no part to play, because I do not trust the man and I do not believe the man.
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worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
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I used to do a thought experiment with students. The Devil appears and offers you a deal: your 2.1 is now guaranteed, but you will never learn anything more in your life. How many people, I asked, do you think would take that deal?
Typical answers were 60 to 75%. I think my students were right.
Typical answers were 60 to 75%. I think my students were right.
‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245
February 4, 2026 at 8:09 AM
I used to do a thought experiment with students. The Devil appears and offers you a deal: your 2.1 is now guaranteed, but you will never learn anything more in your life. How many people, I asked, do you think would take that deal?
Typical answers were 60 to 75%. I think my students were right.
Typical answers were 60 to 75%. I think my students were right.
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Love that he married a highly skilled manipulator.
Imagine Mandelson is under a lot of stress right now so just as well his husband is a trained osteopath.
February 3, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Love that he married a highly skilled manipulator.
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Hertford family brewer McMullen has sold 30 TENANTED pubs to Punch for undisclosed sum. Not good for tenants & for beer choice Full list not yet available. Macs retain 90 MANAGED pubs. Key question: will Macs continue to brew? Will they "do a Youngs" & have the beers brewed under licence? #BskyBeer
February 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Hertford family brewer McMullen has sold 30 TENANTED pubs to Punch for undisclosed sum. Not good for tenants & for beer choice Full list not yet available. Macs retain 90 MANAGED pubs. Key question: will Macs continue to brew? Will they "do a Youngs" & have the beers brewed under licence? #BskyBeer
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Stumbled across video about early 1900s Manchester. All #AI, it's like a fever dream. The absurd narration ("If Manchester sneezes, the global textile market catches a cold") slips between various accents. Most of the visuals are insane: impossible equipment, vanishing objects, plus see Alt texts.
February 3, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Stumbled across video about early 1900s Manchester. All #AI, it's like a fever dream. The absurd narration ("If Manchester sneezes, the global textile market catches a cold") slips between various accents. Most of the visuals are insane: impossible equipment, vanishing objects, plus see Alt texts.
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Peter Mandelson embroiled in scandal on Groundhog Day. Apt.
February 2, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Peter Mandelson embroiled in scandal on Groundhog Day. Apt.
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Feeling almost sorry for mid-tier Labour politicians right now. Roughly once a week you have to change your beliefs in public because some focus group says it'll improve polling in Lincolnshire by 0.1% if you agree that macroeconomics is a fish; then suddenly *gestures expansively at All This*.
February 2, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Feeling almost sorry for mid-tier Labour politicians right now. Roughly once a week you have to change your beliefs in public because some focus group says it'll improve polling in Lincolnshire by 0.1% if you agree that macroeconomics is a fish; then suddenly *gestures expansively at All This*.
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We were told artificial grass was wonderful, turned out it was shit.
We were told artificial flavours were wonderful, turned out it was shit.
We are told artificial intelligence is wonderful, I think we know how this goes.
We were told artificial flavours were wonderful, turned out it was shit.
We are told artificial intelligence is wonderful, I think we know how this goes.
February 2, 2026 at 2:23 PM
We were told artificial grass was wonderful, turned out it was shit.
We were told artificial flavours were wonderful, turned out it was shit.
We are told artificial intelligence is wonderful, I think we know how this goes.
We were told artificial flavours were wonderful, turned out it was shit.
We are told artificial intelligence is wonderful, I think we know how this goes.
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Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.
remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened
February 1, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.
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It's sometimes hard to convey just how nuts it is that in this pathetic gilded age, the most 'successful' human on the planet is also, right out there in public, one of its most ridiculous losers
February 1, 2026 at 8:39 PM
It's sometimes hard to convey just how nuts it is that in this pathetic gilded age, the most 'successful' human on the planet is also, right out there in public, one of its most ridiculous losers
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Repeating my plea for a historian of late C19th/early C20th spiritualism to write something about the chatbot industry, because from where I sit it looks a lot like the same predatory grifting with more expensive ectoplasm.
February 1, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Repeating my plea for a historian of late C19th/early C20th spiritualism to write something about the chatbot industry, because from where I sit it looks a lot like the same predatory grifting with more expensive ectoplasm.
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A family suddenly realises that they are being followed by the extreme right wing UKIP protest, Oxford Street yesterday.
#Photography
#Photography
February 1, 2026 at 4:40 PM
A family suddenly realises that they are being followed by the extreme right wing UKIP protest, Oxford Street yesterday.
#Photography
#Photography
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Today is the last day of Dry January for those of you that have been doing it.
So it follows that tomorrow is the first day of Wet February.
Please note, you don't have to have done Dry January to partake in Wet February.
So it follows that tomorrow is the first day of Wet February.
Please note, you don't have to have done Dry January to partake in Wet February.
January 31, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Today is the last day of Dry January for those of you that have been doing it.
So it follows that tomorrow is the first day of Wet February.
Please note, you don't have to have done Dry January to partake in Wet February.
So it follows that tomorrow is the first day of Wet February.
Please note, you don't have to have done Dry January to partake in Wet February.
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I enjoyed reading this column, which somehow blames Keir Starmer for the result of an employment tribunal following laws passed under the Tory government regarding an incident and suspension that took place before the last election.
January 31, 2026 at 2:48 PM
I enjoyed reading this column, which somehow blames Keir Starmer for the result of an employment tribunal following laws passed under the Tory government regarding an incident and suspension that took place before the last election.