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I'm just over 100 days as the leader of the Green Party.

We've had several polls where we're in second place above Labour.

And today we found out we are closing in on overtaking Labours membership.

Then we're coming for Reform.

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December 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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"LLMs are simply tools that emulate the communicative function of language."
Large Language Models Will Never Be Intelligent, Expert Says
The AI industry is staking its future on language models. But LLMs, an expert argues, are fundamentally incapable of being intelligent.
trib.al
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
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November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Absolutely freezing ride today but it was good to get out on the bike

#cycling #bikesky
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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📷 Edit 010 - another one from the Pitt Rivers Museum roll. 35mm through a Holga 120 CFN

#photography #believeinfilm #lomo #lomography #holga
Colour film photography, multiple exposure of some kind of deer skull
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Film photography is getting too expensive for me so i've dug this out of the camera box to try & get back in to shooting more

I remember it not doing too well in gloomy conditions, so this is the perfect time of year to start 😑

#camera #olympus #canon
Canon Eos 1000d body with an Olympus om system adapter + 50mm lens
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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📷 Edit 009 - olympus om2
#photography #believeinfilm
Colour film photograph of Birnbeck Pier in Somerset. Midground: The pier extends from the right of the image to a small island covered in run-down wooden buildings. Foreground: muddy beach + water of the Severn estuary
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

The first album I spent my own money on
November 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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📷 Edit 008 - some cheap 35mm through a Holga 120 CFN. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

#photography #believeinfilm #lomo #lomography #holga
Film photograph - skeleton animals in a museum setting facing the camera
November 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Tomorrow I'll be on Laura Kuenssberg.

Will I be able to say "I can announce the Green Party have just overtaken the Tories in members!"?

It's tantalisingly close to happening!

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October 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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unenthusiast.com Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · Oct 12
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/
hammancheez.bsky.social hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · Oct 12
"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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futurism.com
"So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?"
Cory Doctorow Says the AI Industry Is About to Collapse
Famed sci-fi author and tech journalist Cory Doctorow has a spectacularly grim warning about the coming AI-fueled economic disaster.
trib.al
October 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
t-epps.bsky.social
Today's lunchtime distraction courtesy of the IKEA museum archive of catalogues

The stuff from the 70s & 80s is particularly great 👌

ikeamuseum.com/en/explore/i...

#design
Browse the IKEA catalogue from 1984 - IKEA Museum
Browse the IKEA catalogue 1984, with products and interiors popular at the time. Explore and let yourself be surprised and inspired by life at home 1984.
ikeamuseum.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Excited to get started on @joshwcomeau.com's Whimsical Animation course today!

whimsy.joshwcomeau.com

#webdev #frontend #animation
Whimsical Animations
Learn how to create charming interactions and delightful touches using the magic of CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and Canvas. I’m sharing all my tricks in this one!
whimsy.joshwcomeau.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Suns out, so I had a quick cycle up to Norton's wood & back through the lanes

#cycling #bikesky
September 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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"Sam Altman thinks we're close to AGI ... they can't even make a circle" - @davidimel.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Yesterday's spin around sunny Somerset

#cycling #bikesky
August 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Edit 007

Shot on a Holga 120 CFN with a janky cardboard & tape 35mm film adapter

#photography #believeinfilm #lomo #lomography
Double exposed film photograph. The first exposure is of a landscape of mostly fields, the second is an old fashioned window with lots of metal bars across it
August 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Edit 006

Shot on an Olympus om2 + ilford hp5

#photography #believeinfilm
Black & white photograph. A small concrete platform held about 3m above water on rusted steel legs. On the platform there is a bundle of lobster pots.
July 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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frontenddogma.com
Implementing Accessible SVG Elements, by @a11ycollective@front-end.social:

https://www.a11y-collective.com/blog/svg-accessibility/

#accessibility #svg #images #fundamentals
Implementing Accessible SVG Elements
Master SVG accessibility: Learn techniques for ARIA roles, testing, and creating inclusive graphics that work for everyone.
www.a11y-collective.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Edit 005
Shot on an Olympus om2 + ilford hp5

#photography #believeinfilm
black & white photograph of a field of corn
July 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Lunchtime cycle around Bristol airport

#cycling #bikesky
Sheep in a grassy field with trees in the background & an overcast sky Bright yellow, steel framed road bike with black lettering on the down tube "Ribble". It is leaning up against a very rusty metal barrier in the middle of some trees
July 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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People say “I miss the old web.” So I built something new that revives what worked back then and fixes what didn’t.

Here’s how I rebuilt webrings for 2025:

webringstudio.com/we-dont-just...

#indieweb #webrings #nostalgia #rebuildingtheweb
We Don’t Just Miss Webrings - We Fixed Them - Webring Studio
Webrings died for a reason. We fixed it. No dead ends. No loops. Just a better way to connect sites that belong together.
webringstudio.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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benschwarz.bsky.social
Want to build faster websites? Here's how:

- Learn how browsers parse, layout & paint
- Treat JS as a tool, not the foundation(!)
- Favor static HTML or server side rendering at all times
- Use Core Web Vitals alongside other metrics to learn shortfalls, improve and iterate

Then keep doing that.
July 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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No idea what this is ~ some kind of tree prison 🤷

Edit 004
Shot on an Olympus om2 + ilford hp5

#photography #believeinfilm
Black & white film photograph: A metal spherical pillar, very worn & rusty. Likely hollow. It has a flat top that looks like it is held on with a small padlock. In the background is a low wall & a large tree that fill the frame
July 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM