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@simmo42.bsky.social

Science, music, travel and opaque jokes. I prefer "progressive liberal" to "lefty". I don't follow back people who push Crypto. If you're really desperate to know more you can ready my autobiography..

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Only works if the AI has been told what defines winning.

The Forbin Project in the 60s is where we're going. USA hands control of defence to an AI, but the *spoiler* US AI soon starts taking to the Soviet one and they unite to control humanity..

25.02.2026 18:52 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

He's campaigning for the Dems now?

25.02.2026 06:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The USA already incarcerates a larger proportion of its population than any developed country. If everyone is either a prisoner or a guard, who's going to pay the tarrifs?

23.02.2026 07:06 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Very good. But who has their sofa with it's back to the TV?

22.02.2026 19:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Can't he put his own swastika on his door, does he have to get everything done by other people?

22.02.2026 15:42 — 👍 20    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well, he'd waddle..

22.02.2026 15:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

There is an argument that both summer and winter Olympics, and presumably things like the football World cup, should just rotate around cities with the facilities,rather than building a whole load of white elephants every few years.

22.02.2026 11:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I think the US needs medical assistance from other countries.

22.02.2026 10:40 — 👍 20    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Can we send him?

22.02.2026 07:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Bit thin on desserts. Jam Roly poly, spotted dick, Manchester tart. Not even trying

21.02.2026 12:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

La La Land gets better as it goes along as there are fewer songs.

Following that meme - I cannot watch anything with Will Ferrel in it, including Elf. Over the top, unfunny frat boy humour. All the time.

20.02.2026 08:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not a controversial opinion. The only bit worth watching is Richard Geer's tie during the polo sequence (the knot changes almost every shot)

20.02.2026 08:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I remember a Blue Peter episode where they demonstrated a TV remote which was basically a long wooden pole. They said it would be helpful for disabled people.

My current TV doesn't have any buttons on it.

18.02.2026 22:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What are these "Christian principles"? If they include tolerance, understanding and acceptance of others maybe he should have a look in the mirror.

17.02.2026 06:59 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Somebody told him to say that. He doesn't have words that long in his normal vocabulary.

17.02.2026 06:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can we just lock him away with an artificial news feed saying how great he is, while the rest of us just get on with our lives?

16.02.2026 17:15 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Possibly because people don't write very well either. Make your point clearly, don't ramble on and put a question mark at the end or we won't know what you want.

16.02.2026 14:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I want to hear more about the wedding

15.02.2026 07:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think she was a "movie star" already..

14.02.2026 17:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

An example of "smart" something getting in the way. Any vaguely technically literate person could work out inputs, outputs,media source,etc until smart things started trying to help. Now I often know what I want to do but have to wade through settings to find the right one. Enshittification indeed.

13.02.2026 09:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good for her. Thus demonstrating it isn't the flags it's the people who put them up.

I've pulled a few down myself, though only when I've been on my own and cycling over a motorway bridge. Getting honked by white vans was quite satisfying.

13.02.2026 08:55 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

It has Obama's name on it. That is all. It will make America less competitive in the world markets and hand another advantage to the Chinese, who are leading the way on green technologies. But it's fine, he and his buddies will make a few more billions in what little time he has left.

13.02.2026 08:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A metaphor for his entire presidency. Destroying the work of previous presidents with no real plan to improve or replace it, all while pocketing the money.

12.02.2026 19:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was about to post exactly this. He isn't sorry, he's blaming those offended by his words.

12.02.2026 13:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He'll get the top job when his boss pegs out, but I suspect the house of cards will collapse then so his will be a short stint in the Oval Office.

11.02.2026 16:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And to make sure you haven't hacked the "maximum page count" because it says it's printed as many pages as it's allowed, even though it's still working perfectly. Didn't even know this was a thing until it happened..

10.02.2026 12:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Or maybe there just won't be any visitors to Washington..

10.02.2026 06:59 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trouble is you'll get the knuckle dragging "but we haven't had a proper Brexit yet" response, which is the usual answer to any criticisms.

08.02.2026 19:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Likewise, although they may have blocked me.. Saw a long report the other day showing fully transitioned female athletes had basically no advantage over their cis female competitors.

Trans people have dealt with considerable challenges already, not just to win at sports..

08.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My barber does an excellent cut, charges £25 (slightly more than other customers I have discovered) but doesn't talk. He's also Iranian and his shop now displays the old Iranian lion and sun flag (pre 1979 revolution). I'm unlikely to get any Reform propaganda from him..

07.02.2026 16:44 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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