Stephen Moran

Clever to clarify about f.o.m. first. Then "all" that's left is trading arrangements, virtually. BBC News - Burnham leaves door open to referendum on EU free movement www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #bbc

What about if AI were only allowed to provide answers and do tasks that it is specifically instructed to do? I think that would be a good principle to start from. How is it that we hear AI "agents" are doing things that nobody told them to do and are illegal and harmful? We need licensing and fines.

Lula's win by 4 million votes is not only great for people and the environment, it's great for democracy. It also shows why "first part the post" in multi-candidate elections is unsatisfactory. If it had been used in the Brazilian presidential election, a president for the minority would have won.

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

Idea for volunteers. If someone who knows hairdressing could visit ladies in hospitals or care homes or living housebound and give them haircuts. It would be so wonderful. Details to be worked out. Payment optional? Maybe do rounds. #Hairdressing #Volunteers #Charities #NHS #Hospitals #Housebound

Elon Musk is a dickhead. One day everyone who outlives him will be richer than Elon Musk, because he can't take it with him. I look forward to that day.

A new era for Oxford Street starts now.

Mona is working from home now, no longer an Agony Auntie, she has rebranded herself [sounds painful - Ed] as an Ecstasy Auntie. Here's one of her old pieces of advice. www.facebook.com/share/1H98vr... #WillesdenHerald

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Three poems by John Redmond badlilies.uk/john-redmond-1

Someone should follow Donald Trump everywhere he goes, dressed up as a duck with a blonde wig and a bandaged leg, and quacking a duck lure. #LameDuck #MidTerms #QuackQuack

AUTUMN IN SPITALFIELDS on www.spitalfieldslife.com today

C.O.M.A.L. is the Confederacy of Oligarchs Misers and Liars. Reject Comal. Show them the door. Goodbye Trump. Goodbye Farage. Goodbye Putin. Goodbye Musk. Goodbye Comal.

Jesus was a Palestinian.

What's the difference between Trump and Zelensky? Zelensky gave up his career as a comedian when he became president.

It’s come to something when a photographer has to get legal advice, before displaying this photo in an exhibition, due to the risk of being prosecuted as a terrorist, but that’s exactly what I had to do yesterday. What a state this country is in.

Seagulls 5 : 0 Eagles #motd

A thought I had I don't know when

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like. On the Grand Union canal at Greenford

I wrote this "How to Make Multi-Track Audio & Video with Freeware & a Headset" and included an example of the results, with my woeful singing voice, music and text effects. stephenmoransmuseumofillusions.wordpress.com/2026/10/19/h... #HowTo #MultiTrack #Audio #Video #Media #Freeware

Wembley Central London Underground sign

#Apocrypha. "My stones think I have fathered thousands." The Book of Onan (1:1)

Putin, Trump, Netanyahu - snakeheads. Trump, Vance and Netanyahu - a confederacy of liars.

"Requisition all of McDonalds' BIODIESEL from recycled cooking oil." (Prof. Kronk) Solution to world diesel shortage willesdenherald.wordpress.com/2026/10/18/s...

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Lament by Edna St. Vincent Millay

NHS waiting times in A&E - proposal willesdenherald.wordpress.com/2026/10/17/n... #QueueTheory

Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […] [Original post on river.geek.nz]

Award-winning American photojournalist Heidi Levine describes being violently attacked by a mob of Israeli settlers while covering the olive harvest in Turmus Ayya near Ramallah this morning. By Oren Ziv @mekomit.bsky.social

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

"Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enamelling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come."

You can't buy Sally Rooney's "Normal People" in the UK anymore but you can buy Hitler's "Mein Kampf".

#Dictators