Giles Sparrow

"In instances where vigorous activity has occurred..." 😂

Happy Birthday Martin Jarvis!

Incredible that this is all the same article. How utterly pathetic

More than fifty private schools shut since Labour put VAT on fees Department for Education defends ending tax breaks for independent institutions, after parents lost a legal battle at the High Court this year — view map

‘…the number of independent schools still rose slightly over the same period.’
www.thetimes.com/article/19ef...

(h/t youwouldntsteala.website/editor.html)

Today is the official publication day of my @blackarchive.co.uk on #DoctorWho The Devil's Chord from @obversebooks.co.uk. Want to know why Ruby kept making it snow, or why there are no Beatles' on the iPlayer version of The Chase? Get yourself a copy at obversebooks.co.uk/product/78-t... now. NOW!

If you've figured out why Ruby kept making it snow, then you've clearly spotted something the rest of us haven't! 😂

Digital ID is a Blair obsession. ‘Solving immigration’ is simply the latest spin on it.

But it *is* spin. Blair has taken hundreds of millions of tech money to push a corporate AI agenda on Starmer’s government with huge success. This is part of a vast massively resourced big tech lobbying op
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The three attitudes to Aggadoo: Dr. Uncle Beard views it as a war crime, Chris Orton is wondering why the Met haven't got involved, while Margaret has fond childhood memories. I'm category 1.

Black Lace on #totp doing psychic damage to my timeline:

You don't have to be an expert in science, to see that these GMO animals are the AI slop equivalent to nature.

They're a convenient/cheap excuse against real legitimate conservation practices. End of.

You’ll all have seen the many announcements and PR pieces from #ColossalBiosciences. There are reasons to be concerned about the general message promoted by CB, one being that it is seen >by some< (US politicians in particular) as meaning that we can devalue conservation. A 🧵 1/n

This is a horror short

Join @themindrobber.bsky.social, @mrpaulmorris.bsky.social, @gswrites.bsky.social & @richardjsmith.bsky.social for Something Who podcast Ep118, a fun look at #DoctorWho story The Zygon Invasion / Inversion, following on from our Terror of the Zygons chat:
somethingwho.podbean.com/e/episode-11...

In this excerpt from Something Who podcast Ep118 @themindrobber.bsky.social, @mrpaulmorris.bsky.social, @gswrites.bsky.social & @richardjsmith.bsky.social , talk about their experience of watching #DoctorWho story The Zygon Invasion / Inversion:
somethingwho.podbean.com/e/episode-11...

$70 billion in capex this year for this:

Unbound successor Boundless 'goes into administration' after months of financial uncertainty Boundless – the publishing company formed after its predecessor Unbound went into administration in March this year – along with its imprint Neem Tree Press have entered administration and ceased trad...

Sur-fucking-prise.
www.thebookseller.com/news/unbound...

a screenshot of a reddit post with a picture of a bench cut into four square red cushion sections and the text "there are four seats, but the shadow only casts three due to the lighting"

Captain Picard during his four lights torture looking haggard

This is very odd - we've found loads of articles attempting to discredit these scientists, all anonymously published. It's still unclear who is producing these articles, and why

LMAO at the inclusion of That Dragon Show and Lost in the OP's list of obvious exclusions.

Oh dear...

Applause, Orkney Library. APPLAUSE.

If the BBC was doing its job, it would note in its coverage of Reform that 92% of the party's donations come from the fossil fuel industry.

Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura Centuries before photography froze the world into neat frames, scientists, poets, and artists streamed transient images into dark interior spaces with the help of a camera obscura. Julie Park explores...

My essay on how the early modern camera obscura brought us more deeply into our interior lives is now live @publicdomainrev.bsky.social

publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-ea...

Deskilling is real.

This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.

Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

This isn't going to be any fun at all, is it? 🙁

Similar bad maths on display with the WFH story, in which we learn broadband traffic dips by 8% on a Friday afternoon, supposedly showing a bunch of shirkers, but later learn that 30% of firms allow an early Friday finish in summer

Twitter is now 75% bot activity. The dead internet theory aint a theory anymore.