Reposted by Jack FlemingDr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/20261/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵 3312153
Reposted by Jack FlemingStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Some people seem to think I'm referring to, I don't know, Coldplay's later works not hitting the same way, no, I mean this. This objectively sucks! 1322144
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Honestly I think IHT is great and OT should be a core pillar pf the tax system, combating generational inequality by taking money from people who are literally dead. 020
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Why oh why are massive cars the norm these days? We managed to haggle the size of our hire car down sightly (though not ad much as I'd have liked, as we needed an automatic, but parking in a small village in the south of France is still a darn sight harder than I'd like 010
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Why oh why are massive cars the norm these days? We managed to haggle the size of our hire car down sightly (though not ad much as I'd have liked, as we needed an automatic, but parking in a small village in the south of France is still a darn sight harder than I'd like 000
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Item 1. Blog post from yours truly, 22 July. Item 2. @politico.eu London Playbook this morning Clearly where I go, journalism follows! 🤣 000
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I honestly see no good reason to oppose a cap on individual gifts. Democracy should not be for sale. Also, no good reason not to ban *all* donations from any organisations. Union donations are aggregated member donations anyway, so a union carve-out just offers a work around for individual caps. 052
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Even if you choose to ignore literally all climate science, this finding alone should be enough to convince you that burning fossil fuels is a bad idea. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comUlez led to better lung size and function among London children, study findsResearchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone 022
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Second time around #ToKillAMockingbird remains one of the most powerful pieces of theatre I have ever seen. Please do see it if you have the chance. 111
Reposted by Jack FlemingWill Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Hope @andyburnham.bsky.social doesn't open up more North Sea fossil fuels during UK heatwaves and fires. 1258
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I understand the politics around the PC Harper early releases & sympathise with his family. But any early release cut off will include *someone* who society has decided should be in jail. Changing the cut off just opens the PM up to pressure from the next victim's family. 100
Reposted by Jack FlemingReal Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 06/08/2026"Solar farms covered 0.06 per cent of UK land, as of 2024, and are likely to cover “far less” than 0.5 per cent by 2030." I wonder how much of that land is "Best quality" farmland or is used to grow biofuels. 3193
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Starting to think that, just as you need Home Office certification to experiment on live animals for science, anyone doing AI work should be certified. And perhaps we need some non-proliferation treaties or sale licensing as we have for arms? 010
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Went to see the #JonathanLarsonProject at @swkplay.bsky.social tonight. Its genuinely brilliant. Captures the breadth of everything Larson's early death denied the musical theatre world. Please go and see it, there are far too many tickets left. www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j...theguardian.comThe Jonathan Larson Project review – Rent composer’s lost songs find a glorious new homeA lesser-known selection from the composer and lyricist’s archive is full of heart and humour, swinging between cabaret blues and pop bangers 010
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 26/07/2026@hankgreen.bsky.social listening to your newest episode of humans, I really hope you've read the Redwall books! 120
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 15/07/2026One pub near me has no TV screens. Reader, I had a delightful evening with some choir friends. 010
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I will now be able to rollmout mynstock IT crowd quote tomorrowstatic.klipy.comIt Crowd Moss: Ludicrous DisplayALT: It Crowd Moss: Ludicrous Display 000
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Rayner angling for Greater Manchester mayor anyone? 010
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Evidence of my disinterest in football - I didn't know they're was more than one 000
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 23/06/2026That thunderstorm felt like nothing I've seen in the UK before. But if wouldn't have felt out of place in the tropics.... 020
Reposted by Jack FlemingJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Seeing this movie around the same time your actually read Romeo and Juliet is a *very* specific generational calling card that I’m more than happy to carry 2334590431
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 21/05/2026If the reporting is anything to go by, the new EHRC guidance seems to make life worse for literally all its key stakeholders 110
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Jonn: Asks for views from the Lib Dems. Lib Dems:static.klipy.comCaptain Healthy Health Squad Dog PileAlt: Pile on! 020
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 18/05/2026This is London was a staple of my childhood. Iconic. 181
Reposted by Jack FlemingJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 13/05/2026This really is quite something. In the 15 years @carbonbrief.org have tracked UK media, 2025 was first ever year where more newspaper editorials opposed #climate action than supported it. Meanwhile, the *actual* climate crisis deepens by the month. Go figure. 14348197
Reposted by Jack FlemingThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Angela Rayner “no longer listening to HMRC hold music”. 918518
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Maybe I should get on with de-googleing my life... But it's an overwhelmingly massive task. 001
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Tara's completely right. Painting the local elections as anything more than a disappointment for the Lib Dems does as huge disservice to all the activists who wore out their shoe leather only for Greens to swoop in and take a seat with little or no work.. www.libdemvoice.org/politically-...libdemvoice.org“Politically Stagnant” – Local Elections 2026 reflectionsThis election has revealed issues with the Party’s messaging approach, policy approach, and electoral distinctiveness. These need to be reckoned with very soon if the Party is going to remain relevant... 020
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Just realised I think this is likely to be the second election in my life (and the first since the 2016 European Elections) where the candidates I voted for stand a decent chance of actually winning! 000
Reposted by Jack FlemingPseudomorph81 @pseudomorph81.bsky.social · 30/04/2026This is one of my all time favourite pieces of public realm. It works on every level. It's a beautiful space that is well used and activated. Cities need to think big - this is what you can achieve if your bold 313139
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Olly Robbins' testimony made clear that the risks DV flagged (which Foreign Office felt it could mitigate), were not the Epstein links which got him turfed out as ambo. The political decision was the original sin, the vetting process threw up unrelated issues, which FO seems to have mitigated. 000
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Hot take - there should be a tram between Hatfield and St Albans... 110
Reposted by Jack FlemingTom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 06/03/2026"North American city planner sees lots of potential to transform successful bike city Amsterdam to unsuccessful car-dependent suburb." 3979
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Classic Sadiq Khan - taking a good thing (Oxford Street pedestrianisation) and using it to undermine cycling... 110
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 24/02/2026recently, I've noticed conversations here, on Reddit etc, where people flag tell-tale signs of AI generated text. Patterns of tone and rhythm. Stock phrases etc. See for example bsky.app/profile/youn... Often these are correct. But not always. 100
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 16/02/2026If the UK is serious about retaining any global leadership on any issue, the Government cannot allow our soft-power to atrophy like this... 010
Reposted by Jack FlemingChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it. 329391
Reposted by Jack FlemingJosh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 21/01/2026The disconnect between management and employee on AI usage is big. At the same time, CEOs are reporting they aren't seeing any revenue growth from AI. 🤷 www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...wsj.comCEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story.How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report. 162658785
Jack Fleming @jfefleming.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Far left German terrorism? We really are back in the cold war aren't we... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBerlin power cut: Activist group says it was behind fire that cut electricity supplyThe far-left Vulkan Gruppe says in a statement that targeting the fossil fuel economy, not cutting power, was the goal. 010
Reposted by Jack FlemingZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 29/12/2025A look at global temperatures so far this year (January to November) compared to each other period since 1850... 2025 is the 2nd highest on record! Data from www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan... 19842