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Iain AF Fleming 🐧

@legalweasel.uk
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Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines Computer scientist (compilers & networks), lawyer, urban geographer, bassist, and beer drinker. Francophile/phone. Quoad ultra denied [Clackmannan, Scotland]

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 10h
Just saw folk who join the uncritical rush towards AI referred to as "LLMings", and I am stealing that.
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Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings
Alt: Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings
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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 15h
Feeling incredibly proud to finally hold my 2027 Tube Mapper Calendar in my hands! The shipment landed yesterday, so I’m now busy getting calendars out to everyone who has already ordered. I couldn’t resist matching my T-shirt to one of the gorgeous pastel colours on the cover!
Me holding my tube Mapper calendar
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edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · 15h
Snow White was very different when i was young
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Iain AF Fleming 🐧 @legalweasel.uk · 16h
Share someone who looks stylish posing in or next to a car.
A famous photo taken in 1940s Bronzeville features five young African-American men, wearing suits and holding hats, siting on the front of a stylish car
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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 22h
Itō Jakuchū's 'Frog' of 1790 for me is the iconic image of numbed uncomfortable bafflement at the predicament of existence in the coming modern world, much as Munch's 'Scream' expressed it through horror.
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Iain AF Fleming 🐧 @legalweasel.uk · 28/09/2026
But his Sunday name was Lieutenant Frilly Cuffs
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grumpinuts.bsky.social @grumpinuts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't know why the police don't just go round arresting people with pixellated faces. If you think about it, it's a dead giveaway..
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Iain AF Fleming 🐧 @legalweasel.uk · 28/09/2026
The most perfect dog in the world!
A black greyhound/GSD cross, with a red collar, sitting at the edge of a recently harvested barley field, with her right paw slightly raised.
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Kjell @ferrex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
hell yeah
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Iain AF Fleming 🐧 @legalweasel.uk · 27/09/2026
This is quite the image.
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Fietser Brandon @americanfietser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One of these is an oversized, elitist mobility vehicle. The other is an e-cargo bike. One tears up our local infrastructure and is a threat to people outside of it. The other weaves into the urban fabric, accomplishing a lot and asks for very little.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
Having a bacteria alignment problem. I made a really infectious bacteria, and then at the weekend when only Bill was in it got out and spread all over Paolo Alto. Anyway don't worry we are working hard on aligning the bacteria better.
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Keith Edwards @kedwards.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's cool and awesome that every century or so we have to relearn the hard lessons about why we invented government because some dumb motherfuckers forget that the cornerstone of Civilization is a thousand boring little bureaucrats doing their job, not Great Men Being Violent.
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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Quite disappointed, really, that Pope Leo is on his way to France on a plane when he's got a railway station on his doorstep
The Vatican's railway station
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Iain AF Fleming 🐧 @legalweasel.uk · 25/09/2026
And the Tayto man is from the South.
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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have compared AI to the legal concept of fruit of the poisonous tree for my students. Because the chain of custody of evidence is tainted by the black box, we cannot trust anything it produces because citation IS the evidence, and using AI breaks that chain.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/09/2026
see now this, this is time-honoured british piss-taking
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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
Dunno man the other side are like "let them drown" and the left's institutions put out statements like "we share your anger but please be skeptical of misinformation." I think our message has to be more "these dangerous lunatics are bringing violence to our communities and we reject their presence"
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got
Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026
7. "some people find LLMs useful" is a different claim than any of the following: a) LLMs are good at doing the things people use them for b) LLMs are well suited to the tasks for which they are advertised c) LLMs "can do" something
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Electronic Immigration Network @ein-website.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lords committee raises concerns over Home Secretary’s power to change immigration rules with no parliamentary scrutiny www.ein.org.uk/news/lords-c...
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Lords committee raises concerns over Home Secretary’s power to change immigration rules with no parliamentary scrutiny
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee draws attention to powers under section 3(1)(b) of the Immigration Act 1971 after error in March's HC 1691
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Iain AF Fleming 🐧 @legalweasel.uk · 22/09/2026
Mr Wortley being as forceful & pellucid as usual in in his championing of the teaching of legislative interpretation.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass.  It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots.  This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.
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Iain AF Fleming 🐧 @legalweasel.uk · 18/09/2026
We’ve held a village referendum.
Summerisle May Queen celebration
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Levi Anthony Luckenbach @lluck002.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Comic by @ahoy_universe demonstrating how smaller government in what is supposed to be a representative democracy actually results in less opportunity for the people to participate in decision-making.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A bit insane that councils have written to the Chancellor to complain that a new tax targeting wealthier home owners means the wealthier home owners in their boroughs will have to pay more tax "This tax has a disproportionate impact on our residents" I mean, yes? That's the point?
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Mansion tax ‘as bad as 1696 window tax’, councils tell Healey
Four London boroughs have written to the chancellor to oppose the charge on high-value homes
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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yeah, I mean "my wife's hot, gender isn't real, we don't give a shit if you think we're trans or not, go fuck yourselves" while whirling a claymore round your head in nipple stickers is about as good a response as anyone has ever given.
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wirralexpat.bsky.social @wirralexpat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Inheritance tax is "a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue," Labour Chancellor Roy Jenkins
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Iain AF Fleming 🐧 @legalweasel.uk · 14/09/2026
That's gotta hurt!
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Iain AF Fleming 🐧 @legalweasel.uk · 14/09/2026
This is magnificent!
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 14/09/2026
Tech oligarchs agree calling AI "too dangerous" way cooler than just admitting it doesn't work
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Tech oligarchs agree calling AI "too dangerous" way cooler than just admitting it doesn't work
SILICON VALLEY - The CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and GrokAI have released a statement agreeing that claiming artificial intelligence "could potentially kill all humans" sounds much more awesome than just admitting that they blew a fortune on glorified chatbots.
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
2020 v 2026
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Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm resharing my FWS paper in its close to final form. It's been heavily revised, thanks to comments from two excellent reviewers and some of you. I'm proud of the new title. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Reassigning 'Sex'
<p><span>I argue that the Supreme Court’s conclusions in <i>For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers </i>[2025] UKSC 16 involve a series of compounding inter
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Elisabeth @affabletoaster.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#KidicalMassHfx And to the twit who got mad that we were “bringing the kids into [our] agenda,” behold, the kids’ agenda:
An elementary-age girl is riding her bike in the centre of the lane, with her left fist proudly and powerfully raised over her head. She is wearing a black tutu, teal helmet, and probably high heels. A stuffed penguin is in a doll seat on the back of her bike. She is plainly thrilled.
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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Night night sweet dreamies Just a little reminder: you don’t have to get everything right, and you don’t have to have everything figured out. All you can ever do is the best you can with the day you’ve been given. That is enough. You are enough
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Everyone’s Favourite Jim @jimmeruk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Cunts have just stolen my bike from the garage and fucked my garage door. If anyone sees this around Croydon, let me know.
Norco Threshold A1 with orange Brooks bartape and saddle.
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Iain AF Fleming 🐧 @legalweasel.uk · 13/09/2026
Now trying to work out where on my house I could get something like this done.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?” burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation
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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
We should really ban dockless cars - people leave them all over the pavement.
A red car, a black cat and a blue car all parked entirely on the pavement. Most people could walk past (very close to the road but without leaving the pavement) but it is impassible with most wheelchairs, pushchairs, etc. Corner on a residential street.
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Iain AF Fleming 🐧 @legalweasel.uk · 11/09/2026
We are in all Hell, aren't we?
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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
First HEI to go mask off and offer an MA in Motivated Reasoning will clean up.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Why is there any doubt that the Norman conquest was bad for England, as in just twenty years it led to a Domesday scenario.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This report made me realise yes, of course people are going to ask AI who they should vote for, and I will now walk into the sea.
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Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Let's normalise not having an opinion on everything.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
People are always trying to entice introverts out of their comfort zone and "let their hair down" a little. Why doesn't anyone ever ask extroverts to calm down and shut the fuck up for a few minutes?
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
german porn is just so weird
A black Volkswagen Beetle rests atop an upside-down white Beetle.
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