Richard Vranch

I’m old enough to remember when a comment like this would have been a resigning matter…

Maybe this year...

Centre of Mass.

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Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

What do we know about the arrests at the ‘Unite The Kingdom’ march? – Full Fact Claims that most of those arrested were counter-protesters don’t tally with what the police have said.

We’ve seen social media posts claiming 70% of those arrested at the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march were counter-protesters.

There’s no evidence for this. The Met Police said only one of the 24 arrests was someone believed to be involved in the counter-protest.

Photo of the building headquarters for the Washington Post with a headshot of the opinion columnist fired for quoting Kirk. Blue patch of sky up top with beige building and silver lettered sign attached. Below on black background is bold yellow type with regular white type below it

Photo of David Quantick's book And Other Stories

I really enjoyed @quantick.bsky.social 's latest book 'And Other Stories.' Highly recommended.

Barrister cites fictitious case (from ChatGPT). When challenged by Tribunal, uses ChatGPT to confirm the case exists. This does not go well.

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Saying that the St George flag waved at a far-right march is a symbol which “belongs to all of us” is like calmly discussing the elegance of Sanskrit symbolism and design during a Nuremberg rally.

TERFs regard people like Lizzy as just collateral damage, and believe hating trans people justifies it. The right-wingers they make common cause with want all women to be tradwives. Either way, women of all kinds are the targets.

Elon Musk calls for change of UK government at Tommy Robinson rally Elon Musk spoke with Tommy Robinson via a video link to the thousands of people at Saturday’s ‘unite the kingdom’ rally

Foreign billionaires don’t get to incite violence against Britain.

We cannot stay silent. 1/5

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Before the Nazis engaged in mass murder of Jews, they did mass murder of people with mental illness and disabilities.

YouTube video by Mat Ricardo 6 Things I Didn't Know Were Autism

So happy that this is being received so positively...
6 THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW WERE AUTISM

#actuallyautistic #autistic #autism #audhd #neurodiverse

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Sneak preview of the improv line-up @thecomedystore.co.uk on Sunday 2nd November. With special guest Julian Clary. Full details and ticket link via www.comedystoreplayers.com/events/comed...

The Freddy Mercury hoovering display team were also a particular highlight...

Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar Carbon Brief factchecks 16 of the most common myths about solar power

Great work here from @carbonbrief.org , debunking common myths about solar power.

The reason that solar power makes so much sense is fundamental physics - it takes energy in its most useful form, as soon as it arrives on Earth, before it's "taxed" in entropy. Making use of it is a slam-dunk win.

Excellent as always. Congratulations all round.

Here's how the real two-tier Britain works:
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵

Screenshot of a reddit post: ChatGPT asked if I wanted a diagram of what's going on inside my pregnant belly. A screenshot of ChatGPT's response. It is a side view of a foetus gestating in the uterus. The foetus is head-up with no umbilical cord or placenta. Behind the uterus is the rectum, which is unlabelled. Trailing down from between the rectum and spine, extending beneath the buttocks to the inner thigh is a yellow line labelled "pudendal nerve. At the front is an oval-shaped part labelled "cervix". And then we really struggle to image describe this bit. The uterus and the bladder are both attached to a single part which is long inside, then extends downwards into a penis with a single exist. This penis is labelled "rectum".

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.

Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

The Comedy Store Players ❤️

I can't be the only British person depressed at being born in a country where, if you see the country's flag everywhere, you know with certainty they were put there by absolute arseholes who might attack you and who definitely mean harm, whereas in Scandinavian countries it's a +nice+ thing.

More Edinburgh recommendations: Bec Hill! Joz Norris!

Last chance to see some wonderful shows at the Edinburgh Fringe: Scaramouche Jones with Thom Tuck; Elf Lyons' Bird Trilogy; The Spy Who Went to Rehab with Mike McShane & Co; Revolver by Emily Woof; WIP by John-Luke Roberts; ACMS at the Monkey Barrel; Impro All Stars at the Frankenstein Bar.

Just said hello to Bob on Islington Green.

The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) *fresh! Sisyphean! comedy!* Monkey Barrel, One 23:55-02:45ish Sundays-Wednesdays August 3-6, 10-13, 17-20, 24 £8.50/PWYW on exit noblefailure.org tinyurl.com/acms25 monkeybarrelcomedy.com AltComMemSoc theacms | #ACMS

#ACMS
🗓️ TONIGHT!
🏰 @monkeybarrelcomedy.bsky.social, One
🕛 23:55-laaaate
🎟️ £8.50 from www.edfringe.com/tickets/what..., or PWYW on exit
😻 hosted by @turlygod.bsky.social & Rajiv Karia, with e.g. @joznorris.bsky.social, @maxfulham.bsky.social, @steffanalun.bsky.social and @richardvranch.bsky.social

Hope all is going well in Oz. Edinburgh next week… X

Home now so probably not.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.