Phil Gorman

AI will be a huge time saver across our sector as shown by this chart....ah, says I don't have access to this SharePoint folder. Jeff can you? No? It's not letting you either? Well, needless to say the line goes way up on time savings!

Next slide please, Jeff.

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"Hello everyone, today I'm here to talk about how AI will supercharge productivity across the organis--

Sorry, could you all mute your mics please?

-- across the org. Next slide please. N-no, the one after that. Thanks.

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"Well my heart had four chambers,
but after how I left you,
My heart is now a Parliament,
it only has two"

Taylor Swift's next single, Deferred Division

Highlander alone makes it a banner week.

Not ashamed to admit I didn't know what one of those words in purple meant and had to guess it went in that group.

Signalling fault, points failure AND trespassers on the line? It's the Commuter Hell Trifecta!

You know what mum's need? Less.

Not everything needs a comments section.

Ah Logic - did you also to buy a phonebook-sized textbook with the CD-Rom in the back?

The AI summary takes all of the attitude, all of the fire out of the article. My 'key takeaway' from this article is that the outlandish vanity project and the people shielding MBS from the truth of it's failings repulse the writer. That is nowhere to be found in the sanitised autoblurb.

Imagine being this author, seeing your article and then seeing that your organisation has so little faith in your ability to write that it prompts readers to AISloppify your carefully chosen words into a couple of dreary paragraphs.

What time is it? Time for bed, I guess.

Parliamentary Pudding Club ventured outside the Estate walls for today's pud. Whilst tasty, it lacked three important details:
1. Custard
2. A table around which we could all convene
3. The venerable @fantasticlife.bsky.social

Employee satisfaction scores for office workers should be taken with a pinch of salt - over 30% of their job satisfaction on any given day will be directly tied to the number of times they had to authenticate into Microsoft products.

Did you know as a grown adult you can just buy yourself a bag of chocolate coins? You don't have to wait to find them in your stocking on Christmas morning?

Terok Noël

Sounds about right.

Digital advert for a premium subscription to KentOnline, where they openly admit the free version has intrusive ads.

@kentonline.co.uk, saying the quiet part out loud on their ad for a premium subscription

Request for @bsky.app to introduce collapsing reply threads, a la Reddit. Scrolling for days at the moment, trying to read replies to popular posts.

Starting with a fun one:
Commons members, past and present, with iMDb pages (that Wikidata knows about): w.wiki/C6uw

Hello new followers! Chances are if you're following me you're also interested in data on MPs.

I've recently been looking at the data available on MPs in Wikidata, the free, open knowledge base that supports the Wikimedia sites.

Starting a thread on Wikidata queries for MP data:

Gravesend has introduced butt bins, complete with promotional duck mascot. The signs pointing to the bins are meant to be duck feet, but they've ended up looking like arrows pointing directly away from the bins.

w.wiki/BwFA current members, MNIS ids and bluesy handles (where Wikidata knows about them)

We should all collectively make more use of the words nibling (niece or nephew) and pibling (uncle or aunt).

"who is your favourite uncle or aunt?"

Too many words.

"who is your favourite pibling?"

Much more efficient.

Volunteers are adding Bluesky handles to MPs' Wikidata records as they're found. This is a link to all current MPs' handles added so far, and refreshing this page will show new ones when they're added to Wikidata (39 so far): w.wiki/BtLc

Ah a fellow Rest is Entertainment listener

Not even 7 o'clock and I've had to explain that the man on the (children's!) radio show is talking about something that happened a long, long time ago at daddy's work, and I'm not in any danger.

<250k club 😎