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That's me switched away from the Bluesky server to the Eurosky server. Seems to have worked. Can you hear me?! Only took about 10 mins and is automated via move.eurosky.tech Worth it if you are concerned about your data siting in the US. (Thanks @moh-kohn.eurosky.social for the push!)

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

LNER going for an ad strategy that is localised enough to name the correct city but not localised enough to realise the phrasing is going to annoy the city in question.

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

this one is amazing

Also thinking about the time the taps stopped running. Immediately went out and bought several huge bottles of water to ride it out. The water was off for half an hour

I’m in the opposite situation, moving house this month and currently trying to eat all the food in the kitchen rather than have to bring it with me

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

Reminds me of a former colleague tbh

I tried to do something with the help of Claude Code that to be fair was impossible, and I did enjoy its assessment of its performance: “…every time … the result has been a different flavour of wrong”

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland is one of the hardest hit regions w ~9% GVA loss by 2023 The biggest sectors (whisky & food, oil & chemicals, professional services) make up 44% of its EU exports. Brexit erected barriers across all of them. And Scotland didn’t vote for this... brexitcost.org/itl1/TLM.htm... 4/...

Musk could probably afford to turn Washington into his own Tracy Island at this point. Demolish the East Wing and build a circular gallery, with a rocket launching out the middle Thunderbird 3 style. Make the Reflecting Pool retract to reveal another rocket. Retractable trees.

jesus this is so sad www.france24.com/en/culture/2...

Help, I apparently need the phone number for ‘Scotland’.

Fair enough if you spend more than 5500 £ of embezzled money on high-end coffee machines. But then spending a further 81.16 £ on Nescafé Gold Blend? Straight to jail.

ACAA* my latest for @newscientist.com *a cartoon about abbreviations

It seems that @proton.me have fundamentally degraded the usability of the Drive iOS app, and slipped out the change in a “Bug fixes and performance” update. It’s deeply frustrating as a user, and makes it difficult to recommend Drive to those wishing to de-Google themselves.

I look forward to how all the "but he's so good at foreign policy" Starmtroopers rationalise "loosening sanctions on Russia because doing anything to reduce fuel consumption is too scary and hard". Grim we still have to have this weak, visionless idiot in power for at least a few more months

Got to be honest, loosening sanctions on Russia before we’ve even tried any basic demand-side measures is not filling me with pride or joy

BBS Open Letter on Improving Scottish Parliament Results Reporting An open letter from Ballot Box Scotland urging significant improvements to reporting on Scottish Parliament elections; or, why does a hobbyist publish more data on the regional vote than the BBC?

The noise must be unbearable

It makes me wonder what would happen if I phoned up the MOD and told them I had the robot that they lost. Just, you know, speculatively. To find out if they’d lost any robots at that particular time.

I’m just thinking about how Stephanie Speck phoned up and asked, “I'd like to speak to one of your head warmongers, please” and actually got through to one of them.

The party led by Six Boats Offord came third in a contest that was all about boats.

The Bylines Network livestream is providing fascinating commentary on the Scottish and Welsh results all day long, with lots of great guests! Check it out anytime --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks1C...

It never ceases to amaze me how many election pundits don’t understand the dynamics of First Past the Post, and how vote-splitting works under the UK’s electoral system. John Curtice does. Listen to John Curtice.

i made this youtu.be/KnUFH5GX_fI

A new ad uses a line from Norway's most famous anti-fascist poem in a disturbing way, and LLMs can't spot the connection until I ask very leading questions. Could this be an example of an ad inspired by brainstorming with an AI that doesn't get cultural references? jilltxt.net/du-ma-ikke-s...

What THE FUCK I say THE FUCK is this

Taskmaster has become pretty intense since the last time I watched it

I’m not the only one who thought this was weird.

Complete lack of decorum. Didn’t even thank us for our attention to this matter.

I love that phrase "spending time in the space where the problem lives". It applies to so many things.

The emotional crisis is an essential part of the work.

This is so, so well-articulated.

This is where the debate should be, rather than on the distraction of North Sea drilling. What can government do to move faster on clean tech and green buildings? Can it afford to be more ambitious and demand new homes are passivhaus and zero bill? How quickly can it bring down fossil fuel reliance?

💥Russian interference in Hungary’s election campaign and the Kremlin’s open support for Viktor Orbán are now a key issue. No wonder this guy and his Matryoshka creation were very popular at today’s opposition march in Budapest

Can this be a solution?

FACTS: Net Zero barely nudges your bill. Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof. So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

The wealth of individuals should be limited in the same way that the power of politicians is limited, and for the same reasons. Wealth equals power, and it is entirely unchecked.