sleepywillowgirl

WHAT DID PEOPLE THINK IT WAS USING TO BEGIN WITH?

Doesn't anyone remember that math has to come from numbers?
Percentages and graphs have to come from data. Where's the data?

AI doesn't "show its work" because it can't!
Everyone is going to fail their audits.

My brother Garry has dementia and is currently lost somewhere in the Chester area. If anyone should spot him please call the police on 999. We'd appreciate reposts. @shitchester.bsky.social

Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?

Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

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We're all trying to get by, in our own way.
And if your way involves ancient books of magic, dark spirits, and secret meetings with the old gods in the forgotten end of the forest, so much the better.

Ich koude wynne a gold medal at the olympics yf ther was an olympic sport called worryinge about everyethinge all the tyme

Do take 15 minutes out of your day to read this @andrewprlevi.bsky.social 🧵 The signs were there for decades

It isn’t possible for PMs to be expert in all fields…or indeed in many. Which is why having the judgement to identify very high quality advisors and really listen to them really matter..

Have you hearde the joke about a catte who doth lyve with a witch? Ich kan tell thee the punch lyne ys familiar.

This is overt racism. Full stop. There’s no ‘misinterpretation’ and no excuse. This is who he is, who he’s always been, and why he should never be anywhere near power again. And there’s a reason the tapes from The Apprentice have never been released.

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

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This is what they have in the USA and what Nigel Farage wants to bring to the UK.

Another classic takedown of a right-wing grifter wedge issue by Emma Monk - this time 15 Minute Cities*
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*sensationalised by GB News & outrage farmer types as "libtard schemes to stop you using your car to visit your granny"
(and get back in your car & keep using oil for our sponsors, f***wits)

constructivist-inspired banner in red and cream with black lettering bearing the legend STOP FORCING AI INTO FUCKING EVERYTHING - nobody asked for it everyone hates it

(from www.instagram.com/nobodyssweet...)

Leaflet issued during the May 1926 General Strike in support of the government: The General Strike. MESSAGE FROM THE PRIME MINISTER. Constitutional Government is being attacked. Let all good Citizens whose livelihood and labour have thus been put in peril bear with fortitude and patience the hardships with which they have been so suddenly confronted. Stand behind the Government, who are doing their part, confident that you will co-operate in the measures they have undertaken to preserve the liberties and privileges of the people of these Islands. The laws of England are the people’s birthright. The laws are in your keeping. You have made Parliament their guardian. The General Strike is a challenge to Parliament and is the road to anarchy and ruin. STANLEY BALDWIN.

Front page of the Daily Graphic, 13 May 1926. It includes photographs of strike breaking activities, including medical students and soldiers moving goods.

The Leeds Citizen, a special strike bulletin published on behalf of the local strike committee. This edition dates from 8 May 1926 and includes the Trades Union Congress' statement that the General Strike was an industrial dispute (rather than a revolutionary challenge to the constitution), information about the local situation, and a report on debates in the House of Commons.

Leaflet issued by the Trades Union Congress during the May 1926 General Strike: TRADES UNION CONGRESS CONSTITUTION NOT CHALLENGED The General Council of the Trades Union Congress does NOT challenge Constitution. It is not seeking to substitute unconstitutional government. Nor is it desirous of undermining our Parliamentary institutions. AN INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE The sole aim of the Council is to secure for the miners a decent standard of life. The Council is engaged in an Industrial dispute. THERE IS NO CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS. THE ONLY ISSUE In any settlement, the only issue to be decided will be an industrial issue, not political, not constitutional. Printed and Published by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, 33 Eccleston Square, London, S.W

As the General Strike centenary gets closer, we've been boosting our digitised content!

560 original documents have now been digitised & are free to access, including strike bulletins, radio transcripts, union communications & more... #GeneralStrike100

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CHARLES RAFFERTY The Problem with Early Warnings People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres. How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives. Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.

This hit so fucking hard today.

At Nuremberg, Julius Streicher was not convicted of having committed or participated in any crimes or acts of violence himself, but was convicted on the grounds that as a journalist his many speeches and articles supporting and excusing violence made him an accessory. He hanged.

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum

Hi Richard, thank you for doing this x
1) Jeff Buckley- Grace (5pts)
2) Manics - Generation Terrorist
3) Radiohead - Pablo Honey
4) Levellers - A Weapon called the Word
5) Charles & Eddie - Duophonic

#5debutalbums9094
Prob not the best at the time, but the ones I still play often x

Staff are leaving in their droves and aren’t replaced, leaving classrooms overcrowded and pupils without the support they need.

On 28 Feb, our indicative ballot on pay, funding, and workload opens.

It’s time to act – get ready to vote to #SaveEducation

Check your details are correct👉 myNEU.org.uk

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H.L. Mencken

“We’ve just thrown a live grenade into the room but it would be highly unseemly to throw it back”

So how should Europe divvy up the USA after conquest? Imho the Welsh should get Pennsylvania, keep the tradition going.

The Long Neolithic is continuity with our fundamental nature. To step into a stone circles is to know we are pattern makers, season markers. It is a knowing we have always looked to sky, always had our rituals and mysteries of death. We are lithic. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

The Power of Poetry   with things falling apart and anarchy let loose,   it was only poetry, he found, which had any use,   so he reached for his copy   of The Complete Works of Yeats   and bludgeoned the President of the United States Brian Bilston

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?'
And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'

Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky

“It’s an unfair world, child. Be glad you have friends.”

All That is Gold Does Not Glitter by J. R. R. Tolkien All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.

Never far from my mind, this poem.