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Great EP that. 🫡

Some lush deep house music for your ears, including the absolute stone cold classic from Global Communication, The Way. #ilovethewayyoumakemefeelsatisfytheneedinme
#afternoonshiversyesimrushing

BBC, Sky, all UK media - you NEED to do better.

This isn’t “balance”.

Iterations of this meme keeps doing the rounds for a reason - it’s because the press keep doing this!

Stop it!

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Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.

Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.

You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!

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It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security.

The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government.

You won't win him over with another conference on AI

I agree, adding that I’m very concerned about its effects on adult brains too. I think it’s much more psychologically dangerous to interact with an LLM designed to reflect your own ideas back flatteringly than to post on social media, where someone will always be ready to call you a c***

Always fascinating watching people underestimate the size of London vs other UK ciries.

On an average weekday, more journeys are made on JUST the Elizabeth line than the ENTIRE population of Liverpool.

If the Tube was a city, its average daily passengers would make it the 2nd largest in the UK.

Comet Lemmon taken from my backyard

Despite a very strong wind, I managed to salvage about fifteen minutes of exposure out of an hour and a half of tracking before it set, just enough for a last-minute farewell to Comet Lemmon, capturing it a second time after my first shot in early October. 🔭

#Astrophotography

Is it a tiny stadium for tiny players?

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

Big Brand Names were massive 100,000 years ago when we were evolving from our primate ancestors.

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A politics that claims to speak for "the people" against its "enemies" is always dangerous.

"The people" are a glorious array of different ideas & interests, with democracy a dialogue between them.

Populism is founded on a lie,so its fruits are always authoritarianism, simplism & conspiratorialism

We are so sad to hear that Dave Ball, the keyboard genius of Soft Cell, has died. He was an electronic pop pioneer and with Marc Almond made a unique catalogue of songs, completely original in sound and content. Our love and condolences go to Marc and all those close to Dave. Neil and Chris xx

Sadly, there's a lot to be said for Marina Hyde's analysis here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Word Hurdle - Guess the hidden word | Solitaired.com Word Hurdle is a game where you guess six letter words in six tries. There are also four-word and five-word gameplay options available daily.

me and my Dad do this 6 letter one daily as well as Wordle/Connections.

solitaired.com/wordhurdle

He's part of the same class.

Hope this is true.

There are less than 200 constituencies across the entire UK in which the right cannot win. The only way to beat them is to vote tactically. In most parts of England, if you do not vote for your sitting Labour MP you will be making it easier for Reform to take power. That's just a simple fact.

Sprint training isn't the best way to get faster at the mile, which is a middle distance race.

My tinnitus is pretty close to stopping me being able to hear myself think. 😢

The salmon population of the Wye is in collapse, and Atlantic salmon are now endangered in the UK. Those bringing the court case argue the needs of intensive farming cannot be permitted to outweigh the needs of fish, wildlife + river users.

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Jubb describes the decline of the river really got going from 2016 onwards, when licenses for intensive chicken farms began to be granted in numbers not seen before - leading to a burden of phosphate + nitrate more than the river can process:

We spoke to Nathan Jubb, a fly fishing guide who's fished the Wye for 45 years. He describes the change he's seen in the river + the impact on fish:

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Wonder if his publishers will try and reclaim the advance? Although one assumes an even vaguely competent editor would have noticed...

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#idonthavethatkindofmoney

Close up image of the Photoshop toolbar. The colour picker displays blue and yellow while below the Quick Mask tool is reminiscent of the EU flag

Had a subtle EU moment in photoshop. 🇪🇺

#rejoineu #fuckbrexit

Very few printers print the actual white as an ink. The white parts of the TIFF would be transparent if printed on glass/perspex/acetate.

You’d think Farage believes Brexit is the best thing to happen to Britain. But the Kremlin r🐀t’s Freudian slip showed his real preferences - the first country that came to his mind as benefiting from Brexit was Russia.