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@mckjerral.bsky.social

Coder, dog wrangler and mildly incompetent autist

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Eli is really really good, you should absolutely get along to this if you can!

18.11.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Like some kind of grim Omen of things to come, #Hawaii ’s #Kilauea volcano just unleashed a MASSIVE WING SHAPED eruption with lava fountains soaring 1,500+ feet high

17.11.2025 07:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1217    πŸ” 376    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 235
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The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"

That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims

17.11.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 936    πŸ” 487    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 40

Fewer live-action versions of computer games. More computer games of classic live-action films. I want a first-person-shooter version of Rita Sue and Bob Too.

17.11.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 73    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 3
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β€œWe welcome migrants, we don’t scapegoat them".

How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration

17.11.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 710    πŸ” 256    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 29
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did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal

12.11.2025 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1045    πŸ” 224    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

The article notes the β€œArtist” has only 35k followers on Instagram, but millions of streams on Spotify, and has not taken over any of the actual song charts beyond β€œdigital sales.” I can’t prove this is a faked campaign to push AI music, but those would be exactly the circumstances I’d expect.

11.11.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 138    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

So looking at the actual SF chronicle article, the only place this song is accruing notice is on Spotify, which is easily gamed by bots. If I were an AI proponent who desperately needed to boost the validity of my investment, this is exactly what I’d do.

11.11.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 916    πŸ” 274    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 18
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Murder inc presents: Clue Dunnit The North’s finest comedy actors and improvisers return to Thread with a brand new murder mystery! We guarantee you won't be 'board' watching our November Murder Inc show. It’s the 40th anniversary y...

Two weeks until our next comedy murder mystery! Murder Inc presents: Clue Dunnit?

Thurs 20th November @ Thread
wegottickets.com/event/676338

#stockport #comedy #improv #murdermystery

06.11.2025 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A very nice last outing though

13.10.2025 10:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

11.10.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 923    πŸ” 292    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 5

The political/media class really doesn't want to talk about this.

13.10.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think there's an interesting delta between the two (not that 2 is great representation, but it's markedly changed from the first)

12.10.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
BBC news website headline that reads
"Paedophile singer Ian Watkins dies after prison attack"
The word paedophile replaced the word lostprophets that the headline was originally published with.

BBC news website headline that reads "Paedophile singer Ian Watkins dies after prison attack" The word paedophile replaced the word lostprophets that the headline was originally published with.

I grumble about a lot of BBC news editorial decisions. However the change from lostprophets to paedophile as the start to this is exactly the right

11.10.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As a kid I bought 1kg of really fizzy cola bottles and mainlined them. Stopped eating them at the point my tongue was bleeding...

11.10.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development Whitehall analysis provides no data or research to support the government argument that environmental legislation holds up building

The analysis by Whitehall officials provides no data or research to back up the government’s central argument that it is environmental legislation that holds up building.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

07.05.2025 05:33 β€” πŸ‘ 279    πŸ” 131    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 6

Fucking hell Pellis

09.10.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"It’s worth remembering that governments are not their people."
Sure Omid, but in this case you were being booked, paid for, and having your performance rules dictated by the government, and in fact performing on their behalf.

09.10.2025 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If I were an optimist I'd hope it was an end to the race to the bottom and campaigning purely on "we're not x", but sadly...

09.10.2025 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Starmer's trying to frame it that pro Palestine is anti jewish. It's so facile. I don't want jewish people to die. I don't want Palestinians to die. I do want our government to stop giving succour to an obviously radical theocratic government committing genocide.

07.10.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The thing about Thunberg is that you don’t have to like her or think she’s doing anything β€˜meaningful’, any publicity to a cause is good and she holds a mirror or to world leaders being cunts and it may seem hollow but it’s not really

06.10.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 519    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 2

Fully deserving of each other

06.10.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And the king has to authorise the government's existence.

06.10.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It wasn't the noisiest place but gave them a go. I could hear everyone else at the table fine and they definitely cut down on the people behind me talking as well as the background music. Only thing I wasn't sure about, they made my voice sound quite boomy to me, but my other half said I was quiet.

05.10.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

NB, for the technicality, the delegated control of the armed forces is not to parliament, but to the defence council, less than half of which is made up of ministers.

05.10.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

So he's not the highest rank in the army? Might want to let him know.

05.10.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean he does already have an army doesn't he? Not sure they got their uniform printed online though

05.10.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

You're a nonce or a bot, either way nobody cares what you have to say

05.10.2025 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nobody gives a fuck about America, you always thought you were more important than you were and you're now a dying country under a fascist regime.

05.10.2025 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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