Michael

Suggestion: Get Rowling to pay for a tunnel straight from Kings Cross to Harry Potter World and call it the Hogwarts Express

classic line. underrated post

Dogma! It’s been a long time since I watched that.

I think I mainly was interested because it had Matt Damon and Ben affleck in it though…

This feels like quite a drastic solution honestly

My head nearly fell off. The actual Minister for Health said this?

m.independent.ie/irish-news/t...

I don’t know but I do know the number of times he has cried in parliament is still 1 time crying parliament.

“Lammy breaks ranks on Brexit. Rejoining the customs union would boost growth, says Deputy Prime Minister, days after Starmer ruled it out.”

Fortunately David Lammy you have the chance to vote for a customs union by backing our bill next week.

See you in the Aye lobby?

Congratulations greens

Will this be addressed in a new defence policy brought to conference?

Winkleigh (Torridge) Council By-Election Result:

🔶 LDM: 42.3% (+8.7)
➡️ RFM: 32.8% (New)
🌳 CON: 24.9% (-23.7)

No LAB (-17.8) as previous.

Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.
Changes w/ 2023.

End the election delay stitch up is written in a stitched font - the words 'give people their say' appear below.

Delaying these mayoral elections is a disgrace. Democracy delayed is democracy denied.

We are fighting to end this blatant stitch up and give millions of people their vote back in May.

Unsurprisingly, there’s functionally no public mandate for the government to roll out AI systems. It is hugely unpopular as an idea.

It's worth watching this incident from five years ago...

The Met Police set up live facial recognition cameras in east London. One passerby didn't want to have his face scanned, so he covered up his face. He was issued a £90 fine.

#politicslive

Your reminder that Labour has actively chosen not to carry out real reform and regulation of political donations. Millions in dodgy foreign money is going to flow to Farage because that is what Labour have chosen to allow.

Alt text: A screenshot of a post on X by Alex Edmans (@aedmans). His profile photo shows a smiling man in a suit and tie. The post reads: “Finally home after > 8 hours of lectures and a conference keynote in my lunch break. My 3-year-old: ‘Do you need to work hard because the villain is taking our money?’ ‘Which villain?’ ‘Rachel.’”

Finally home after > 27 hours of grindset creating shareholder value through AI agentic workflow and guiding a warrior-ethos meditation during my ketamine break.

My 8 year old dog: "Do you have to slay so hard because the villain misrepresented an OBR analysis to Parliament?"

Me: "Bitcoin."

This is so delightfully stupid thank you

Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion' The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms

A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...

Please provide a single piece of evidence to suggest that any woman has ever been harmed or negatively affected in any way by one of the tiny handful of trans girls who are members of the girl guides.

What happens when ChatGPT cites to a real case but misstates what the case stands for? That doesn't fly for Judge Behm in Michigan. The court says that while a litigant could make the same error based on faulty reasoning, LLMs can't, because they can't reason.

And while a litigant might get away with similar overstatements because they could, perhaps, reason their way to showing how a case's stated holding might extend to novel situations, an LLM does not reason in the way a litigant must. To put it in a slightly different way, LLMs do not perform the metacognitive processes that are necessary to comply with Rule 11. When an LLM overstates a holding of a case, it is just piecing together a plausible-looking sentence

h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social

holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content

Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman

Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If you are:

I can see how how this could be seen as prioritising to save some other government service but as a solution for the justice system? No, it’s killing the patient.

Only first instance but this feels quite significant - it was lawful, post For Some Women Scotland, to offer trans inclusive workplace toilets.

Congratulations!

The only 'peace' which Russia will accept is one which carves up Ukraine's territory, destroys its sovereignty and turns it into vassal state for Putin to plunder.

We Europeans cannot let that happen.

'Danny Chamber's Animal Welfare Bill Made Law' with a photo of a happy dog

The Animal Welfare Bill by @DannyChambers.bsky.social has become law. 



This is a turning point for animal welfare in the UK - eradicating cruel practices, stopping pet mutilation and cracking down on the scourge of illegal puppy smuggling.

Agree with others that yes if you’re worried obvs get medical advice but I just wanted to say before when I have experienced pain around the shoulder girdle a good professional massage has sorted me right out.

Perhaps that’s an obvious suggestion 🤷‍♂️

Also massages are just nice so not much to lose

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

The original sin of BBC News 24 was to ape the cable news rolling hourly format. A programme that could have been dedicated to depth and breadth of news coverage and analysis instead constrained by hourly cycles of headlines. Why? They don’t have to compete with anybody!

But at least the Women’s Institute will be safe now!!!!!!!!!