Alex
@xad.lol
34 years old. He/him.
🇬🇧 UK-based. 🎮 Likes video games.
⚽ Loses at fantasy football constantly.
🐘 https://mastodon.social/@xad
🇬🇧 UK-based. 🎮 Likes video games.
⚽ Loses at fantasy football constantly.
🐘 https://mastodon.social/@xad
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I am likely to post about:
⚽️ Football (Fantasy, #MUFC)
🎮 Video Games (e.g. #Overwatch, #RocketLeague)
📺 TV Shows (popular series, #DoctorWho, #BBUK)
💻 Tech (mostly #Apple)
🎭 Comedy (live shows/TV)
⬅️ Politics
🍔 Food
🎵 Music (Pop/Rock, #McFly)
🎙️ Podcasts
🐉 Nerdy stuff (e.g. #Pokemon, #DragonBall)
⚽️ Football (Fantasy, #MUFC)
🎮 Video Games (e.g. #Overwatch, #RocketLeague)
📺 TV Shows (popular series, #DoctorWho, #BBUK)
💻 Tech (mostly #Apple)
🎭 Comedy (live shows/TV)
⬅️ Politics
🍔 Food
🎵 Music (Pop/Rock, #McFly)
🎙️ Podcasts
🐉 Nerdy stuff (e.g. #Pokemon, #DragonBall)
Disappointing that my local record shop is getting 1 of the Black Friday #RSD releases in that I was after. Next nearest shop is an hour away. So basically I will be relying on Banquet Records online sale on Saturday morning for my obscure, unwanted selection!
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Disappointing that my local record shop is getting 1 of the Black Friday #RSD releases in that I was after. Next nearest shop is an hour away. So basically I will be relying on Banquet Records online sale on Saturday morning for my obscure, unwanted selection!
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Checking in on MechaHitler
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Checking in on MechaHitler
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Musk has apparently manipulated Grok so much that it says he's a better athlete than LeBron James and a funnier comedian than Jerry Seinfeld.
Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that.
Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that.
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Musk has apparently manipulated Grok so much that it says he's a better athlete than LeBron James and a funnier comedian than Jerry Seinfeld.
Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that.
Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that.
Just discovered Goalhanger are doing a new “The Rest Is” podcast for Science… hosted by Hannah Fry and Michael Steven’s (Vsauce) - absolute dream podcast for me!
November 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Just discovered Goalhanger are doing a new “The Rest Is” podcast for Science… hosted by Hannah Fry and Michael Steven’s (Vsauce) - absolute dream podcast for me!
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Great to spend weekend at The World Transformed in Manchester.
- Q&A with lots of students
- spoke on a panel about the future of the left
- another event on housing & rent controls.
- hosted a quiz!
Great energy!
And caught up with @turnleftmedia.co.uk
youtu.be/7ltyShwV-Bc?...
- Q&A with lots of students
- spoke on a panel about the future of the left
- another event on housing & rent controls.
- hosted a quiz!
Great energy!
And caught up with @turnleftmedia.co.uk
youtu.be/7ltyShwV-Bc?...
Reform are Cowards | Zack Polanski Interview at The World Transformed
YouTube video by Turn Left
youtu.be
October 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Great to spend weekend at The World Transformed in Manchester.
- Q&A with lots of students
- spoke on a panel about the future of the left
- another event on housing & rent controls.
- hosted a quiz!
Great energy!
And caught up with @turnleftmedia.co.uk
youtu.be/7ltyShwV-Bc?...
- Q&A with lots of students
- spoke on a panel about the future of the left
- another event on housing & rent controls.
- hosted a quiz!
Great energy!
And caught up with @turnleftmedia.co.uk
youtu.be/7ltyShwV-Bc?...
@greenparty.org.uk Are we not at 100k yet!?
October 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
@greenparty.org.uk Are we not at 100k yet!?
Become "indoctrinated" by @zackpolanski.bsky.social these last few weeks. Listened to him on @podsavetheuk.crooked.com and @boldpolitics.bsky.social; seen him on the news a lot giving grown-up answers; joined the Green Party on Wednesday after Your Party's implosion. Feeling positive!
October 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Become "indoctrinated" by @zackpolanski.bsky.social these last few weeks. Listened to him on @podsavetheuk.crooked.com and @boldpolitics.bsky.social; seen him on the news a lot giving grown-up answers; joined the Green Party on Wednesday after Your Party's implosion. Feeling positive!
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Greens ‘on track’ to supplant Labour as favourite party in London, says Zack Polanski
Greens ‘on track’ to supplant Labour as favourite party in London, says Zack Polanski
Exclusive: poll asked voters to rank parties on how favourably they felt about them, with strong support in capital and among younger voters
The Greens are viewed more favourably than any other party in London and among younger voters, polling produced for the party has shown, with its leader, Zack Polanski, saying this showed they were “on track” to supplant Labour.
The YouGov poll, carried out to coincide with the Greens’ ongoing annual conference in Bournemouth, asked voters in England to rank the five main parties in order of how favourably they felt about them, rather than the usual metric of which they planned to vote for. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Greens ‘on track’ to supplant Labour as favourite party in London, says Zack Polanski
Absolutely inevitable and the reason I will not be verifying my age with ANY private company
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.
buff.ly
October 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Absolutely inevitable and the reason I will not be verifying my age with ANY private company
@greenparty.org.uk @cwacgreen.bsky.social when you sign up for a membership, do you still get a membership card/pack??
October 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
@greenparty.org.uk @cwacgreen.bsky.social when you sign up for a membership, do you still get a membership card/pack??
@gentler.app I can’t see the new location-based widget in the latest… has it got a specific name? I’ve got a focus setup to only show a specific Home Screen when I’m at the gym and I’ve got widgets on that Home Screen - would be nice to add one that triggers a strength workout
September 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
@gentler.app I can’t see the new location-based widget in the latest… has it got a specific name? I’ve got a focus setup to only show a specific Home Screen when I’m at the gym and I’ve got widgets on that Home Screen - would be nice to add one that triggers a strength workout
A random ad-hoc work meeting made me miss the Vault X ME1 drop so I didn't get a First Edition binder >:( Settled for Unlimited. Not that it matters much...
September 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A random ad-hoc work meeting made me miss the Vault X ME1 drop so I didn't get a First Edition binder >:( Settled for Unlimited. Not that it matters much...
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‘Don’t pay any attention to what Trump says about medicine’, Wes Streeting tells Britons – UK politics live
‘Don’t pay any attention to what Trump says about medicine’, Wes Streeting tells Britons – UK politics live
Medical experts concerned alarms after US president warned pregnant women to avoid taking Tylenol in move contradicted by research
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
‘Don’t pay any attention to what Trump says about medicine’, Wes Streeting tells Britons – UK politics live
No link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism or ADHD in children:
news.ki.se/no-link-betw...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
news.ki.se/no-link-betw...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
No link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism or ADHD in children
In the largest epidemiologic study to date of the risk of giving birth to a child with autism, ADHD or intellectual disability following acetaminophen use during pregnancy, researchers found no associ...
news.ki.se
September 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
No link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism or ADHD in children:
news.ki.se/no-link-betw...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
news.ki.se/no-link-betw...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Shame you can’t run 2 workouts on your Apple Watch simultaneously. I want the official Workout app’s voice coach and Gentler Health’s on screen timer :(
September 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Shame you can’t run 2 workouts on your Apple Watch simultaneously. I want the official Workout app’s voice coach and Gentler Health’s on screen timer :(
@gentler.app on the latest beta… widget shows me this but the app doesn’t show me anything except wrist temp and sleeping heart rate. I wear my watch nightly so have all of the other information in vitals. I have provided full permissions to the app in Health…
September 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
@gentler.app on the latest beta… widget shows me this but the app doesn’t show me anything except wrist temp and sleeping heart rate. I wear my watch nightly so have all of the other information in vitals. I have provided full permissions to the app in Health…
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Snoop Dogg says he’s 'scared to go to the movies now' because of a lesbian couple being depicted in 'Lightyear'
"We're watching it ... my grandson is like, 'Papa Snoop, how'd she have a baby with a woman?' ... I didn't come here for this shit"
"We're watching it ... my grandson is like, 'Papa Snoop, how'd she have a baby with a woman?' ... I didn't come here for this shit"
August 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Snoop Dogg says he’s 'scared to go to the movies now' because of a lesbian couple being depicted in 'Lightyear'
"We're watching it ... my grandson is like, 'Papa Snoop, how'd she have a baby with a woman?' ... I didn't come here for this shit"
"We're watching it ... my grandson is like, 'Papa Snoop, how'd she have a baby with a woman?' ... I didn't come here for this shit"
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This is such a novel story idea, and the blog post was a very good read too.
A couple months ago I made an unusual request to my editors at @wired.com: I asked if I could go work at a tech company for a few days to learn how to vibe code. Then, for some reason, the $10 billion dollar startup Notion agreed to let me embed with them. 🧵
August 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This is such a novel story idea, and the blog post was a very good read too.
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Scoop from the #EdTVFest www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/do...
Doctor Who confirmed to continue on BBC "with or without Disney"
"The TARDIS is going nowhere."
www.radiotimes.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Scoop from the #EdTVFest www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/do...
hooray
the UK government has dropped its demand for a backdoor into Apple's encryption. This could open the door for Apple to bring back its Advanced Data Protection iCloud encryption to the UK for new users www.theverge.com/news/761240/...
UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption
Here’s hoping that ADP returns to the UK.
www.theverge.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
hooray
