Philippa Cowderoy

Politicians don't do shitty awful things to distract from other shitty awful things they did. They do shitty awful things because they're shitty awful people, and the sheer volume of that shitty awful stuff is absolutely overwhelming, to the point it's a sign we shouldn't let people be politicians.

Elsewhere cats have already learned to stop, ride and steer them!

(UUID is the more common term for what used to be GUID now: we have enough systems not on or even orbiting Earth, right?)

If your tech/engineering/maths isn't creative and it's not because you're still too early in learning, what're you even doing anyway?

(...being a techbro wanker, I guess)

Global's not really the right scope, let's try Multiversally Unique?

MUIDs being a bit tougher to assign?

"Yer da says cop boots taste best!"

People are shit like that and even non-mobility-impaired disabled queers are :/

don't need a free course to tell me LLMs are plagiarised slop and create *more* not less work to correct the flaws they make because they're glorified text-predictors.

how about the government put money into paid apprenticeships for older adults (not just young folk and new graduates).

"gender is a social construct" is so true that even the right wingers have adopted this line, but only to move towards naturalizing sex & naturalizing misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia to sex. thus, it has little political slogan value today. "sex is socially constructed" is what is provocative

PICT (UK Parliamentary ICT) requires the use of VPNs, I just checked. And, bless them, they’re incapable of rolling out any changes with less than a year’s head start. I think legislation-hungry MPs should be the guinea pigs here, by being blocked access from all PICT systems.

I just want to remind people that when we talk about creating a "British ICE" and a concentration camp as somehow copying America, we already had the previous Tory government set up a concentration camp run by British military personnel for asylum seekers rapidly shut down after legal battles.

Reminder that British journalists have a weird fetish for Harry Potter because it's a fantasy world where nobody mentions how fucking weird it is that everybody was privately educated in just five schools

Reminding you that Britain was trying to deport people to Rwanda throughout the last year's of the previous administration and set up a floating prison for refugees that lasted 2 years.

This American Exceptionalism is weird and when people buy into it our history of our racism is erased.

The Graun exists to define the leftmost edge of the Overton Window in the UK, anything else they do is coincidence

Actually I'd argue given Britain's history as an increasingly secular country which nevertheless was readily infected with complementarían philosophy as a result of TERFs filing the serial numbers off of evangelical & Catholic moral panic, it's good to care about the specific philosophical moves.

UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If the government bans under-16s from using VPNs, then logically they must intend to REQUIRE AGE VERIFICATION FOR ALL VPN USE. Which will affect adults too!

*Your* right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408

I am 100% serious when I say the journalists who helped start the MMR scare should experience consequences commensurate with the fact that they have a body count.

Fuck ICE, fuck Reform, and fuck anyone who actually wants this.

Communication via Singal is insecure. Because, well, Singal.

Signal's fine though.

"pork (long, not for EU, not for human consumption)"

If you were a rude, dismissive asshole to a bunch of marginalised people they do get to be smug about it when you eventually have to admit they were right tbh.

"Adults" Against The Wall tbh

...they can just face it and think about what they've done. I'm not angry, I'm just very disappointed.

Something @pkrugman.bsky.social said years ago about the 2nd Iraq war has stuck with me: to be considered a serious thinker by the mainstream, even in retrospect, you had to have been completely wrong about Iraq for a few years, then have changed your mind. I suspect we’ll see a lot of this.

nah, he can lean against the wall if he insists

(sorry, let me know if you need that in non-bastardised-logician)

ATAC , ACAB => ATAB

This is pretty consistent with the response to the BPP carrying weapons openly tbh

"If you're dicks, why do you have flanged bases?" is a question the creators really should've been asked

I... was subjected to it in the cinema and nearly interrupted a particular speech with a list of alternatives