David Hamilton

Restless Billionaire Regrets Having Infusion Of Child’s Blood After 4 P.M.

Restless Billionaire Regrets Having Infusion Of Child’s Blood After 4 P.M. theonion.com/restles...

This abuse of the terrorism definition is a clear threat to freedom of speech in the UK.

This precedent would allow a future authoritarian UK government to arbitrarily ban and arrest those expressing any differing opinions.

The banner that the statue of suffragette Millicent Fawcett is holding reads: "COURAGE CALLS TO COURAGE EVERYWHERE".
#PalestineAction #ProtestIsNotACrime
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IRS, White House clashed over immigrants’ data before tax chief was ousted The Trump administration’s move to push out IRS Commissioner Billy Long came after the agency said it couldn’t release some information on taxpayers suspected of being here illegally.

🚨 WaPo EXCLUSIVE

Hours before Trump removed Billy Long as IRS commissioner, his agency clashed with the White House over sharing immigrants’ tax data.

ChatGPT File • • Edit View Window Help ChatGPT 5 > How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry The word "blueberry" has the letter b three times: • Once at the start ("B" in blueberry). • Once in the middle ("b" in blue). • Once before the -erry ending ("b" in berry). Total: 3 O92 Show me where the letter b appears in the word please. Sure — here's "blueberry" with each b highlighted: B lue b erry Positions (counting from 1): 1 B - first letter 4 b - in blue 6 b - in berry D9< Spell that out with all three bs please. I mean, just spell the word. Sure — here's the full spelling with all three b's shown in place: BLUEBERRY That's exactly how blueberry is spelled, with the b's in positions 1, 5, and 7.

ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help E ChatGPT 5 > You wrote "BLUEBERRY". There are only two bs there. Ah - I see the mix-up. Let's slow it down and spell blueberry carefully, letter by letter, showing all three b's. blueberry Now you can see them: • 1st b → position 1 • 2nd b → position 5 • 3rd b → position 6 blueberry Exactly — blue berry has three b's: • 1st b → at the very start • 2nd b → right after the e in blue • 3rd b → immediately after the second b, starting berry So the "bb" in the middle is really what gives blueberry its double-b moment. Its double-b moment; I see. Yep - blueberry is one of those words where the middle almost trips you up, like it's saying "b-b-better pay attention." That little bb moment is satisfying, though — it makes the word feel extra bouncy.

 ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help 巴 • ChatGPT 5 > My students get you to write their essays for them, you know. Ah, the old "ChatGPT, do my homework" routine — I'm familiar with that one. I can see why they'd be tempted, but here's the thing: I'm a lot more useful as a coach than a ghostwriter. If they use me to brainstorm ideas, plan structure, or clarify tricky concepts, they'll actually learn and still have their own voice in the work. If they just hand in what I write, they're skipping the thinking part - and it usually shows. I'm good, but I still leave a trail of... telltale ChatGPT-isms. A trail of blueberries, as it were. Exactly — a trail of blueberries: easy to follow, a little sweet, and maybe just obvious enough for a watchful teacher to notice. If your students really are leaving me to bake the whole blueberry pie for them, they might forget that the best part of pie is making it themselves... even if it gets a little messy. "Blueberry" only has two bs. Nope - blueberry really does have three b's. Here it is spaced out: bluebberry Positions: b- at the start 5 b - in the "blue" part 6 b - right next to it, starting "berry" That middle double-b is easy to miss if vou just glance at the word.

I had to try the “blueberry” thing myself with GPT5. I merely report the results.

Ponte, quanto si pagherà di pedaggio: le due versioni della Stretto Spa MESSINA. Sulle tariffe di attraversamento dello Stretto di Messina con l’entrata in esercizio del ponte, la Stretto spa, società concessionaria per l’opera di attraversamento stabile, è passata dal di...

A year and a half ago the company overseeing construction of the Messina Strait bridge said that tolls for cars to cross the bridge would be €35-€40 (roughly in line with current ferry prices). Now, they are saying €4-€7. Where have these miraculous new numbers appeared from? Thin air?

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

I am horrified. If you use US material, download all old reports you use. The record will be erased. Even that might not save you: every report sourced from the US will now have to be suspected of politicised manipulation and will in the future the same credibility as Iran’s human rights reports

If you’re on Instagram, it’s now tracking & sharing your location.

This piece tells how to opt out. (Though I personally would just avoid all Meta products, altogether.)

England’s swimming waters five times more likely to be polluted than in EU, research finds Experts warn country is in danger of becoming ‘dirty man of Europe’ as it falls to bottom of bathing water leaderboard

💥 NEW RESEARCH FROM @bestforbritain.org 💥

Once again, when it comes to environmental regulation, enforcement and protecting people’s health, the European Union leads the charge.

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When we bought our house in 1985 the survey said the garden shed was rotting and advised getting a new one.
We immediately sprang into action and ordered one last month.
It's coming today. The excitement is palpable.

Al Overview Willem Dafoe is not in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but he has appeared in other Star Wars films, including The Last Temptation of Christ (1988).

I honestly can’t believe there are still any AI skeptics out there. This tech is obviously revolutionary

US to rewrite its past national climate reports US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

Fake Daily Mail article about Netanyahu mural resembling Hitler shared online – Full Fact The fake article was created by an Australian street artist as satire, but screenshots have circulated without this context.

Screenshots of a fake Daily Mail article about a mural depicting Benjamin Netanyahu as Hitler are being shared widely.

But the Daily Mail did not publish this article, which was first created by a street artist as satire.

Statement from Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust about measles - Alder Hey Children's Hospital Trust Statement from Alder Hey about media interest in cases of measles

A child at Alder Hey hospital has died of measles. The tragic death came less than a week after medical officials at the children’s hospital warned that cases of the virus were on the rise, severely endangering the health of some of those affected.
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Warner Bros. has said The Hunt for Gollum is in fact the first of two new Lord of the Rings feature films from Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens based on J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, as the company aims to make more of the franchise. With The Hunt for Gollum, we’ll get to see what Gollum was up to in the years between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to

Courts service accused of covering up IT bug that caused evidence to go missing Sources say judges in courts and tribunals will have made rulings when evidence was incomplete.

Faults in software happen, and need to be handled. This is a textbook example of how not to do it, in a situation where correct handling was vital.

BBC News - Courts service 'covered up' IT bug that caused evidence to go missing
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Green Party MP Shares List Of All Her Meetings And Urges Colleagues To Do The Same Exclusive: Green MP and former party leader Siân Berry has shared a list of all her official meetings with lobbyists and has urged all other MPs to...

EXC: Green Party MP @sianberry.bsky.social calls on all MPs to share their meetings with lobbyists, as she shares a full log of her own with @politicshome.bsky.social

“The public has a right to know who their MPs are meeting and who might be influencing our work.”

camp mystic did the same thing btw. beyond tragic.

"Since 2013, the owners have successfully petitioned to remove 30 buildings from the official floodplain, including an infirmary, an arts and crafts building and an office."

Bobo the biscuit thief 🐀🍪

#ratsofbluesky #petrat

writing is thinking, drawing is thinking, telling stories is thinking.

i understand the earnest impulse to get rid of "the boring stuff", but even the boring stuff is thinking.

depriving yourself of time to think about things is sad, but depriving kids of time to think about things is just cruel.

Alt text: A line chart showing government health spending as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) from 1880 to 2024 for five countries: Germany, Canada, Spain, South Korea, and Turkey. At the turn of the 20th century, government spending on health was below 1% of GDP. Since then, spending on health has increased substantially. In many countries, it’s now over 5% of GDP; in some, such as Germany, it’s around 10% or even more. The data source is the OECD (2025, 1993) and Lindert (1994). The chart is CC BY Our World in Data.

Many people today believe that everyone who needs healthcare should be able to get it. In fact, in many countries, access to healthcare is enshrined as a constitutional right.

But societal investment in healthcare is a relatively recent phenomenon...

And not only that, let’s pause to reflect that a) Rubber Soul is less than four months away and b) the vast majority of Rubber Soul has yet to be recorded, because the Beatles don’t begin work on it until 12th October. 💥

The blank piece of paper that cost taxpayers £32,000 Government ‘obsession with secrecy’ descends into farce

🚨 New: The UK government spent £32,251 fighting to hide a blank form.

Yep - 30 grand plus to avoid releasing a blank template of the ministerial interests form.

A wild story - with a surprise twist. Would read to end of this one... 🙄 (🧵)

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We need a realistic, adult conversation about taxes, but neither politicians nor journalists are prepared to have it inews.co.uk/opinion/time...

Somewhere between 1979, when Thatcher was clear that she was switching from direct to indirect taxation, and won, and 1992, when Labour set out independently analysed tax proposals which showed who would gain, and who would lose, and lost, we have lost the ability to have a sensible debate on tax.

Slightly surprised to discover I've been referred to the International Criminal Court in the Hague for war crimes.

It was cited as one of the notable things about Jim’s driving ability that he was brilliant at adapting his driving style to extract the maximum from a car, regardless of how it handled.

Didn’t Chapman give Clark his first Lotus test drive in the Lotus Cortina?

Story goes that Chapman first set the car up to understeer, and then to oversteer, and that Clark returned identical lap times for both set-ups.

YouTube video by FordHeritage Proof Test: The Cortina at Sebring - 1964

Messieurs Chapman and Clark go to Sebring.

Also featuring oh.. everyone who was anyone?

A thing of joy.

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