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Tories just outright invoking child abuse is pretty on brand by now.

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@octopus.energy Seems to be a bug with the latest android app version - at the same time as the usage graphs changed to a green colour scheme, it's stopped showing new electricity usage. No data for about two days now; gas shows still and live consumption for electricity working though.

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We go live to the view into The Abyss...

He's right, but needs to win a couple of GEs - and convince the EU he can - for it to be worth trying

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 29/09/2026

First time getting the train to work since COVID. Not much has changed so far, certainly not the rubbish UI on the ticket machine...

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You absolutely can be "hard-working" if you're relying on the state pension: there are plenty of people still working after pensionable age. And that's not counting grandparents stepping up to look after children, or pensioners caring for their unwell partner etc.

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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Probably not the first one to notice this, but the rise of the beasts transformers film has the two smallest members of the party go into a lava filled mountain while the rest of the party stage a suicidal distraction. That's got to be deliberate, right?

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They're not mutually exclusive, you useless fuckwit. BBC News - Best thing we can offer young people is a job, not benefits, says chancellor www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Best thing we can offer young people is a job, not benefits, says chancellor

John Healey's speech comes ahead of next month's Budget, as he faces pressure to bring down government borrowing costs.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know this is about a particular image. But AI models do this for everything and don't make clear to users that the output is essentially noise generated by training data.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It feels like everything labour does these does is trampling our world class HE sector. I get that MacSweeney's fictional ideal labour voter hates universities, but why is that continuing after he left?

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Talk of re-industrialisation in certain sectors like defence is good, but making it the key pillar of your overall economic strategy when services make up 80% of GDP feels like a mistake.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"vast lumbering bombers" Says someone who couldn't distinguish a bone from a Cessna, and really shouldn't be writing about the subject.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So much this. Assuming that anyone from a "classical" working class background is uncultured and/or stupid is nothing but bigotry. I could be wrong, but I fear a few more recent media tropes haven't helped...

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Replacing Mahmood was a "day one" job for Burnham. The longer he leaves her in post, the longer he stains himself with her moral bankruptcy and shameful incompetence.

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This week I interviewed some of the nurses and healthcare staff who worked in intensive care during covid. One of them wanted to go on record as saying how utterly fucked - dead - we’d have been (and still would be) without migrant healthcare workers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Angela Rayner criticises worker visa plans on eve of Labour conference

The housing secretary says the government's plans to change wait times for permanent residency are unfair because they "change the goalposts".

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Angela Rayner criticises worker visa plans on eve of Labour conference

Let's stop pissing about: the plans are evil and utterly racist. Anyone supporting them is either an evil racist, or too thick or spineless to object. Stop giving evil racism an out. BBC News - Rayner criticises visa rule proposals ahead of Labour conference www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

The housing secretary says the government's plans to change wait times for permanent residency are unfair because they "change the goalposts".

Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 26/09/2026

This feels like the coverage we needed first - a decent critical* review of the actual book. Doesn't reflect well on Spencer... *As in analytical, not negative, although this isn't *positive*.

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We're trying to find a home for, and I quote, "the Pissfingers of cats." Any takers? ❤️

Three screenshots of our facebook post about Jaffa Cake the unlucky mog

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Spot on - they were obsessing over symptoms not causes.

Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The only pain here is in my forehead from repeated impacts with my desk. No, of course a program doesn't feel pain, and anyone claiming one does is a complete imbecile and should be treated as such.

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Burnham knew who Mahmood was when he kept her on. He has no excuses here, this is on him as much as the home secretary.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

*sigh* Half the point of EVs is that charging at home is cheap as chips. Unless someone can make fast charging cheap, we don't need faster fast charging, we need home charging infrastructure for everyone without a driveway.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 22/09/2026

Dear God, Daniel Thomas and his mates really are absolute scum.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The thresholds do need unfreezing and adjusting, but not sure funding that from hypotheticals works - just balance the tax books at the same time (IE, put the tax rates up).

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The only vaguely charitable explanation for this ongoing nonsense is that the beeb is petrified of being seen as too pro monarchy and has overcorrected like a drunk driver...

Cam Schlittler Enthusiast (NYY 2-0) @njstopwonk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Yep, he’s going all in on “Charles wanted the children to walk behind the casket with no consideration of their mental health” while hocking a book which with no consideration for their mental health

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Progress slowed indeed. Trains to Milton Keynes are two fecking years late because some idiot decided it was worth having a pointless unwinnable bunfight with the union.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A lot of Labour people visibly believe that a Labour government gives off tolerance particles, and therefore sitting mute is fine and good. The reality is that it took a cross party, whole society effort to make us, as Sunak says, the most successful multiethnic, multifaith democracy in the world:

thetimes.com

Rishi Sunak: Britishness must not be turned into a DNA test

I worry that the immigration debate is going far beyond arrival numbers

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Still, at least they’re not minting symbolic tokens with animals on them." Quite...

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This really is the only worthwhile take, isn't it?

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It really is the very height of corporate tech incompetence that Tesco have rolled out QR barcodes on products long before they patch their scanners to read them. MuppetShow.gif

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It really is damning of Starmer that comparing him with the guy who wanted a royal mint NFT is even meaningful.

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