Allan Russell

Rowling could've lived in her castle and tweeted "Hagrid wants you to brush your teeth and have a happy St. Swithin's Day!" a few times a year and HP would've had the same legacy as Pooh or Middle-earth, but she consciously chose Evil For Evil's Sake like a badly written children's fantasy villain

🚨HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds arrested in Parliament Square in protest organised by Defend Our Juries

The arrest of otherwise peaceful protesters is a violation of the UK’s international obligations to protect the rights of freedom of expression and assembly.

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I will never forgive the rotten bastards we have in charge. 14 years of things getting worse, a huge mandate to change things in a meaningful way, and what do they do? Go after marginalised groups for no fucking reason other than spite and appeasing the ghoulish press. A generational betrayal.

r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close

Pair of Montagu’s Harriers breeds in England after six-year absence Press release from RSPB (29 July 2025) BRITAIN’S RAREST BREEDING BIRD RAISED FOUR YOUNGSTERS AT SECRET LOCATION A pair of Montagu’s Harriers, Britain’s rarest breeding bird, have successfully…

Brilliant news!

Let's hope the adults & 4 juvs get out of England alive, unlike some of their predecessors. The area nr Sandringham, Norfolk seems particularly risky for Montagu's. For Hen Harriers, too, come to think of it.

#RaptorResearch

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Everyone understood *for decades* that shouting abuse at minority colleagues out of contempt and disgust for them would drop you in deep shit with HR. This wasn’t controversial until reactionary cranks decided it was totalitarian and they had an unlimited right to behave as horrifically as they want

Have I not been telling you *for years* that all of these jokers - all of them! - that the press throw their weight behind are *always* just bog-standard, run of the mill cranks and wingnuts with horrible views, and that they’re usually active shitehawks pushing agendas into the bargain

‘It’s all a game’ to some politicians, says Labour MP suspended for rebellion over planning bill Chris Hinchliff says language used is indicative of ‘private schoolboy drinking club’ culture within government

I wish I could say I'm shocked by this but I'm not. The Labour government and Rachel Reeves are nature killing scum. There's no iota of difference between them and the tories/Reform www.theguardian.com/environment/...

2 in 5 arrested over last summer’s riots had been reported for domestic abuse Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

The far right terrorising asylum seekers in hotels love to spread the lie they’re worried about the risk of sexual assault. But here’s the truth: Two in five men arrested for last summer’s riots had been reported for domestic abuse. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

dylan saba @shaabiranks Follow The US defunded the primary UN organization feeding the people of Gaza in Jan 2024 and no one batted an eye. They did it to help Israel use aid as a weapon of war. Now as the predicted famine arrives in full everyone is throwing their alibis together and it makes me fucking sick 15:44 • 25/07/2025 • 18K Views 17269 0 649 N26 企 Most relevant replies v dylan saba @shaabiranks •15m They did it all in plain sight on the basis that everyone would either be racist or stupid enough not to notice (or care) 9 ... dylan saba @shaabiran..•30/10/2024 It's been 10 months since the US decided to starve the entire population of Gaza based on "confessions" derived from the torture of several UN employees x.com/

This is it: the UN relief agency doesn’t just accidentally get declared a terrorist outfit on spurious grounds, and aid distribution doesn’t unintentionally turn into the opening sequence from Saving Private Ryan. Hundreds of people from multiple countries need harsh jail sentences for this.

Hen Harrier chicks fledge with RSPB support after suspicious loss of parent birds RSPB press release (24 July 2025) Chicks fledge with RSPB support after suspicious loss of parent Hen Harriers.  In May 2025, over a period of eight days, four breeding male Hen Harriers suspi…

Four adult breeding Hen Harriers 'vanished' from nest sites in Cumbria & Lancashire in May 2025 - silence from police, valiant conservation efforts from RSPB staff & volunteers.

RSPB press release & some questions from me 🔽

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

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A sadly rare example of a bad guy finally dying 🥳

Headline: deputy pm says ministers must accept real concerns people have - regarding migrants - amid fears of another summer of riots

If you take nonviolent direct action, Labour will brand you a terrorist.

If you riot, and try to burn buildings down, Labour will listen to your legitimate concerns.

Take note, comrades

A Comma butterfly sitting on a thistle flower head.

Local patch birding recently has been all about return passage waders, but there's also plenty of butterflies to keep me distracted. This was one of about a dozen Commas on the local patch on Sunday (a recent colonist), plus found a couple of new colonies of Purple Hairstreaks recently

still sometimes sit and think about how horrendous this was. needless, senseless series of events. he did not do anything. they tried to say shit like he jumped the barrier to make it seem like the shooting was warranted. a really truly abysmal bullshit situation that still feels unresolved

Once homes are affordable again, bills stop going up and austerity final ends then I can put more away for a retirement that will likely never come. Until then, Liz can go eat a giant bag of dog shite

I really don't want to go through the whole rigmarole of seeing Farage win power and then fuck everything up and have loads of sympathetic voxpops with dismayed Reform voters expressing their regrets when it was extremely fucking obvious what would happen because his platform is incoherent garbage

British politics in all its diversity on display this morning

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

Reeves says rules and red tape are ‘boot on the neck’ of business At the Mansion House dinner she calls for regulators to allow more risk to clear the way for economic growth

Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs.
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Genuinely funny this idiot uses a wasteland largely devoid of wildlife and functioning ecosystems to get his moronic point across

It never ceases to amaze me how a lot of Brutish people think farmland is pristine and wild.

Quote from Chris Packham: “In pipes, paint and petrol, we said goodbye to lead poisoning in humans years ago. But down to the cruel belligerence of the shooting industry, which ironically and pathetically postures as pro-conservation, 100 thousand wild birds a year have been dying through the accidental ingestion of lead shot. I don’t call that conservation, I call it a colossal, wilful waste of wildlife. Top work from Steve Reed and Emma Hardy - thank you.”

GOOD NEWS: Lead shot will be banned! RESULT!

After years of campaigning, the use of toxic lead ammunition by the shooting industry will be banned. This is excellent news for people's health and for wildlife.

Read the Defra press release here: wildjustice.org.uk/general/toxi...

right but ‘death to the IDF’ wasn’t an internal matter for Glastonbury

How many perpetrators of domestic violence, or child abuse, or sexual assault will Yvette Cooper release early to imprison people aghast at the genocide in Palestine, and her authoritarian response, and wanting to speak of it?

Probably best not to say publicly what I'd like to happen to the Spectator and it's fascist convention garden party

Parliament in a nutshell:

Yesterday MPs, including Yvette Cooper, celebrated the suffragette legacy of civil disobedience that won women the right to vote..

Only to then vote to designate non-violent direct action group Palestine Action as terrorists.

Westminster is broken.

This is a dangerous and deeply authoritarian move from the UK government. Terrorism legislation should not be used against non-violent protestors.

It's been condemned by UN human rights experts and Amnesty International have called it an "egregious abuse" of power.