Andrew Yool

This is why I despair of professional chefs. Why write recipes - whose entire raison d'être is to help amateurs - if you're just going to bullshit on quantities? Sure, some things can be finessed to personal taste, but just say that while giving a default quantity to start with. Assholes.

Good news everybody - rather than being chased-down by skeletal human-shaped robots, cf. #Terminator2, we will actually be chased-down by adorable dog-shaped robots ... 🤖 (Thanks to @jeremyhsu.bsky.social for the heads-up)

Tell me you don't know how to control the y-axis limits of your plots without telling me you don't know how to control the y-axis limits of your plots ... (Nice one @yougov.co.uk! Also: great work on making your blues for the Tories and Reform indistinguishable)

If only there was some explanation for why Reform continues to attract people with such views, and why its vetting "procedures" (and members!) seem so poor at spotting them? Hear me out - it's almost like, by occupying the same part of the political spectrum as the BNP, Reform assimilated the BNP.

Room With A Parallax View.

US caves to demand of imprisoned Jihadist to be barbarically martyred in full view of the world www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm sure that the Conservatives and Kemi Badenoch will want to correct this error right away and not double-down on it like a rabidly tribal political party so insecure that it can't admit a typo. Right?

Enemies of America have never had it so good. A govt decimating its own talent, actively pushing a dangerously AI-heavy economy, flushing science down the pan, sending debt through the roof, and now expediting this total clown into helping disease overrun its citizens. Enjoy it future historians! 🤦

Very much one of those occasions where, since the consequences largely fall on those who willingly consume anti-health propaganda, I'm too spiteful not to think "Darwin Award Contestants". However, as with anti-vax zealots, it's never as simple as that. Anyway, ... 🤦

So ... dev creates software, AI clones software, dev goes bust, no-one creates software, AI inherits the Earth? Feels like there's a gap in the thinking here. Or that this form of #OpenSource is just #AI destroying things again (like journalism, art, media, etc.). (Thanks to @kyleor.land)

Your regular reminder that no matter how clear the evidence, fishermen steadfastly refuse to recognise the main problem they face is other fishermen. Pretending a natural predator outcompetes industrial fishing suits captains and politicians. Still, the Tragedy of the Commons has gotta tragedise. 🌊

As #ncview has hitherto had the world's worst colourmap by default (at least in the installs I've used), this is great news! 🌊 However, it does mean that we no longer have a ready "don't do this" exemplar to point at as a colourmap abomination.

Breaking News: Well-made, self-contained #BBC drama with clear story arcs, a definite end, no postponed denouement, and no requirement for further continuity cancelled after just one series! Outrageous!

The temptation is to view amped scooters 🛴 as simply increasing the supply of #DarwinAward candidates but, as the article highlights, no matter how careful and considerate a pedal cyclist you are 🚴, they're a hazard to us all.

Alternatively: Climate refugee desperately rolls reproductive dice on Southern California coast 🌊 🐢 🌡️

So close ... This could have been a reference to a #SpermWhale rather than a #HumpbackWhale. For an #astronomy account, you've clearly not been leafing through your #HitchhikersGuide recently enough, @apod.shinyakato.dev! 😉 🐋 💐 ⬇️

Hasn't someone done the obvious thing yet and taught the #AI 🤖 to play noughts and crosses, followed up with some iterative rounds of Global Thermonuclear War? I mean it worked for Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy. #WarGames

Ouch! Our poor visiting fox 🦊 seems to have picked up an injury. 😢 We'll be keeping an eye out for them now. #GardenFox #InjuredWildlife

What a rabbit hole to fall down! A fantastic tale that both sheds light on a forgotten / overlooked (female, naturally 🤦) figure and illustrates the vicissitudes of life and contingencies of history. #VincentVanGogh

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I hate to say it, but UK union leaders, when faced with a choice that potentially threatens their influence, are pretty great at choosing the wrong answer. Even when - as here - they're good at spotting the serious threat to wider civic society that unlimited political donations presents.

More accurately: Resource extraction business that pays no downstream externality costs and has no plan for future other than "continue extraction" urges govt to let it keep more profit behind fig leaf of "helping consumers" and continuance of "ignore socioeconomic / environmental costs" model

Another generation, another #Commons. We're now treating low-Earth orbit just like we've been treating the atmosphere for decades. Short-term gains for some create long-term problems for us all. Again. But, of course, doing anything else would be government red-tape, regulation, anti-freedom, ...