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@andrewgowen.bsky.social

Happy to tell anyone their beliefs are stupid and then defend their right to believe it. Member of Colonel Samuel Jones Regiment of Foote, Sealed Knot 17th century reenactment. Leatherworker. Woodworker.

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Trouble is that the tipping point has been passed, so talking about climate change is pretty much all we can do about it now.
We are merely along for the ride and our only choice is how fast we go.

17.10.2025 10:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is a matter exclusively for the risk assessment of the police. It must not be a political decision.
We must not police by political dicta or we will quickly move to the current American disaster here in the UK.

17.10.2025 10:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

4. We first need to teach CRITICAL THINKING; to thoroughly test any โ€˜factsโ€™ and to reach your own informed conclusion based on those facts and not your opinion.
If you change your opinion in the face of facts, you are intelligent. If you choose facts over โ€˜likesโ€™, you are the hope of us all.

17.10.2025 10:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

3. If you donโ€™t know what facts or mere opinions form the basis of an answer, or the motivation for that basis, or the way information is gathered, extracted and presented, you have NO IDEA of what you get.
You accept the answer on PURE FAITH.

17.10.2025 10:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

2. To the majority of users, AI is a matter of religious faith.
- You have no idea what is in the Large Language Model used as the basis of the answer.
- You have no idea of the motivation of the people creating the LLM or the software.
- You have no idea of the algorithms used to give the answer.

17.10.2025 10:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

1. Social Media set the ground work for the easy adoption of AI. In SM, it is more important to be โ€˜likedโ€™ than to be right; so facts matter less.
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17.10.2025 10:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is Netanyahuโ€™s plan. He knows it will take weeks, if not months, to recover bodies in the rubble he created and will use this to claim breach of ceasefire and restart the attack.
Noticed how quiet all the far-right Nazis are in his cabinet? They know the war will restart soon.

17.10.2025 08:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Same here. It is always the innocent who get hurt.

17.10.2025 08:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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16.10.2025 19:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is exactly why Reform gets the Labour votes.
They are no longer Labour.

17.10.2025 08:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

London cannot operate if there are no houses for people doing the lower wage essential jobs like street cleaning, shop assistant, or NURSE.
Do your bloody jobs and be a LABOUR government you weak-kneed sell-outs.
This is exactly why Reform get Labour votes.

17.10.2025 08:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The business genius doing the same trick again.
Everything he touches turns to shit; or ends up in a particular cluster of unreleased files.

17.10.2025 08:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthrightโ€™: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the kingโ€™s brother In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an โ€˜apex predatorโ€™ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

"Epstein... walked around his desk, picked up a grainy photograph, and handed it to me. The image had been taken from some distance, but it was unmistakably my little brother. I felt a stab of fear.

โ€œWe know where your brother goes to school,โ€ Epstein said."

This man was a monster. I feel sick.

16.10.2025 20:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 413    ๐Ÿ” 212    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Far too lateโ€ฆ

17.10.2025 08:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fri 17 Oct: Climate scientists show for the 1st time how GHG emissions from a fossil fuel development can be linked to human deaths & enviro harms ๐Ÿ‘‰ theconversation.com/for-the-firs...

It's why we keep up our protest of the @albomp.bsky.social gov's approval of Woodside's North West Shelf Extension

17.10.2025 07:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What is the point of building new homes, if they are:
a) too expensive for people to live in, and
b) don't have essential services like a GP surgery or a school nearby?

Very concerning that the Housing Secretary doesn't seem to understand that... or doesn't care.

16.10.2025 10:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 313    ๐Ÿ” 85    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
Top US Army general says heโ€™s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

Top US Army general says heโ€™s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated

17.10.2025 02:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6389    ๐Ÿ” 1352    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 396    ๐Ÿ“Œ 330

Israelโ€™s refused entry to Turkish rescue experts who would help recover the remaining dead kidnap victims.
Starting to wonder if this is Netanyahuโ€™s plan; feint the cease fire, rearm and reequip, then complain about the โ€˜breachโ€™ of terms and go back in.
Right wing settler Ben-Gvir is very quiet.

17.10.2025 08:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is that a pedophile standing next to a Trump family member?
I wonder if Radcliff is in the Epstein files?

16.10.2025 18:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Also making it more likely genuine police will be shot.

16.10.2025 18:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Always a good idea to set-up the escape route so criminal prosecution is less possible.

16.10.2025 17:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This is todays Republican policies

16.10.2025 03:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The House is now sitting, starting with questions to Culture, Media and Sport ministers.

Watch today's proceedings live โฌ‡๏ธ
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16.10.2025 08:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Really?
You bought one?
Thatโ€™s an expensive bit of real estate at the distant back of the cupboard. Rather, โ€˜wasโ€™ expensive. Not even Apple wants it now.

16.10.2025 08:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Getting out the vote to install people-positive politicians is essential. Preventing blindingly obvious tax avoidance is also essential.
Charity giving is possibly the best reason to give a tax break.

15.10.2025 13:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sorry Jeremy but that is a very simplistic interpretation of what I said. Charity does a lot for society, so why not exempt charitable giving from IHT?
IHT does, as a matter of fact, go to the Exchequer. What then happens to the money depends on government spending policy.

15.10.2025 13:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Here we go. The real reason for AI.
A glorified subscription wank service.

15.10.2025 12:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Republican Party; protecting pedophiles while trampling on American democracy.
Is it possible they are protecting one, individual, high level pedophile?
Release the Epstein files and we will see.

15.10.2025 12:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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15.10.2025 05:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 172    ๐Ÿ” 144    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Giving to charities in a Will has always been an IHT saving venture; and why not? The effect is to give the charity the IHT that otherwise would go to the government.

15.10.2025 12:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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