Reposted by Liberal JimocratAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 02/10/2026The kicker is *chef's kiss* 511440242
Reposted by Liberal JimocratStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11hI really don't think that what people want is more expensive takeaway and more listless men hanging around with nothing to do while their asylum claims are processed:ft.comAre Deliveroo riders really self-employed? Labour wants to change the testBusiness secretary Jonathan Reynolds proposes that rules place less emphasis on whether workers can appoint a substitute 23989
Reposted by Liberal JimocratDewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 10hOMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳 2202976534
Reposted by Liberal JimocratGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 16hThe show I'm watching just had someone listening to Insane in the Brain on a discman plugged into their car and then it did a smash cut to the present day with "31 years later" and I have suffered fatal xennial psychic damage. 1132029
Reposted by Liberal JimocratDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20hIgnoring advice to secure and monitor your sandboxes during testing then blaming it on your AI being so smart that it’s a threat to humanity is nasty work 17603157
Reposted by Liberal JimocratScott M | Haunted Edition 🎃 @voxparlour.bsky.social · 14hMy fave is this diagram that basically shows that "dice rolls make outcomes different" 3134
Reposted by Liberal JimocratSteph @fistfulofcrits.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Me: I have made a 32 page SRD and a workbook and this is my first time running a thing @gshowitt.bsky.social, with a single pen and paper: here is how to fight God 1317
Reposted by Liberal JimocratShawn Connolly @divinecoffeebinge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026this is useful context and also absolutely indicative of why this is a mess because the only reasonable conclusion I can draw from what's stated here is "when Aaron wants something posted and the comms team doesn't, he just posts it himself" and, like WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE A COMMS TEAM FOR 3227
Reposted by Liberal Jimocratrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026this is exactly my opinion. there may be a superstrate of extremely difficult and unique safety problems around AI, but the substrate is simply that no one takes basic precautions seriously becasue they imagine (or pretend to imaigne) that it is futile, and basic precautions slow down launches. 14705120
Reposted by Liberal JimocratDylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 03/10/2026He hasn't used AI-generated synthetic focus groups to test public opinion, though, has he. For the same reason that I couldn't use Grand Theft Auto to drive a car. 210926
Reposted by Liberal JimocratJonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 21/11/2025A really hard thing to explain to non-Brits is our combination of chaotic incompetence in all bureaucracy and lack of genuine corruption. Anyone would naturally assume that the comical bumbling is a deliberate ploy to create bribery openings, but it isn't. 7708
Reposted by Liberal JimocratRyan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight. 5761191661
Reposted by Liberal JimocratTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026RIP to everyone punished by their gods for their hubris, but I'm different, and better..maybe even better than the gods? 416728
Reposted by Liberal JimocratDylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Aside from the whole "Peter Mannion: that's fucking mental" of it all, it's just incredibly lazily done. They might have an approximation of the colour palette, but the actual visual style, typeface, use of white space is all wrong. Plus, isn't "doth" Germanic, which the original famously is not. 118310
Reposted by Liberal JimocratMike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/ 737225157754
Reposted by Liberal JimocratGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Narrator: Badenoch is not favourite to win the next general election 4407
Reposted by Liberal JimocratMarco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 02/10/2026(D)ROU @cultureshipnames.bsky.social 072
Reposted by Liberal JimocratNational Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 03/10/2026We have the best-named machinery ever. 336065
Reposted by Liberal JimocratWorld Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025LIVE SCENES FROM WALES #WorldBollardAssociation 🏴 2695084
Reposted by Liberal Jimocratreni 🦌 @reniadeb.com · 02/10/2026just remembered this NYT correction for @jillian.bsky.social, a halloween special 1519
Reposted by Liberal JimocratStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A rich text. Robert Jenrick, who this time last year Kemi was defending and wanted to run the justice system, depicted frequently as an unperson. The multiracial crowd celebrating Kemi, the monoracial one on the boats (are Albanians, Iranians, Iraqis and Syrians black now?) 4120650
Reposted by Liberal JimocratM@ @mattfromlondon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Thameslink’s new advertising campaign reckons “Every stop is a story”. This one seems to be the screenplay to an episode of Casualty. 1223
Reposted by Liberal JimocratKate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In lockdown, my kid was 10 and we got them a mobile phone early to encourage keeping in touch with friends while isolated. The kids would call up and play Minecraft together, using it for game chat that they didn't have via another route. It was ambient and companionable and just nice togetherness. 1141
Reposted by Liberal JimocratDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The sweetest moment in every capital markets banker's career is the moment he gets to explain to a stroppy investor thatn if they don't buy it somebody else will. 314125
Reposted by Liberal JimocratPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've been talking to quite a few Conservatives for a piece ahead of their conference, and it's striking how many proactively brought up a reason why they think this year's event will be more positive than last: the fact Robert Jenrick won't be there. Such unananimity of dislike is rare. 910430
Reposted by Liberal JimocratDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Who amongst us hasn't been tempted... 541895
Reposted by Liberal JimocratPhilip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I see speculation that John Curtice may get chosen to lead Labour's electoral reform commission. And I see speculation that Labour want to end up with SV. I doubt both these things can be true. Because I would be very surprised if any commission led by Curtice ended up recommending SV. 1113429
Reposted by Liberal Jimocratmichael veale @michae.lv · 01/10/2026The proposed social media ban, the EU KIDS Act, is perhaps the most chaotic law I have ever read! New paper: Are EU Kidding Me? Notes from a Poorly Drafted Social Media Ban. files.michae.lv/papers/veale_areEUkiddingme.pdf In the spirit of the proposal I have stayed offline and read no takes. 38456
Reposted by Liberal JimocratStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Latest Badenoch: “If [Andy Burnham]’s not calling an election, why’s he talking about things happening in 2030?” - alarming the extent to which so much of our political class cannot process the idea of “planning for events four years in the future”. 3962175
Reposted by Liberal JimocratRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit 465142162835
Reposted by Liberal JimocratNormal Guy @guy-normal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Uhhh is anyone else seeing this ?? 😬 0327
Reposted by Liberal JimocratEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/10/2026This is the dodgiest and most-desperate thing I’ve seen in the bubble so far. Amazon selling their chips to a group of investors and leasing them back - an off balance sheet arrangement done in plain sight. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. And they’ll probably buy more! 621105261
Reposted by Liberal JimocratEmily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you 7142271023
Reposted by Liberal JimocratRichard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 01/10/2026There is also a third question, which is 3) How much of the investment is in infrastructure that will still be useful after a correction? Can the models be operated for much less compute than is needed to train them? Will the GPUs wear out quickly, or will they still be useful in a few years? 122
Reposted by Liberal JimocratAnnalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026After watching the first episode of this season of Slow Horses, I'm dreaming of a show that actually does follow the daring adventures of transit authority operatives, fixing potholes and thinking about many kinds of vehicles. Rescuing pedestrians! Making protected bike lines! Reducing traffic! 1013813
Reposted by Liberal JimocratPaul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Helpful diagram of Man City’s finances. Not entirely sure it’s helpful to the transparency argument 85320
Reposted by Liberal JimocratJeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/10/2025On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read 663696974
Reposted by Liberal JimocratJanelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 01/10/2026#botober2026 is back by popular demand! This year I used 2015-era char-rnn running on my cat hair covered laptop to predict new entries in a list of 42,000 Jockey Club racehorse names. No other training data was involved. I collected the best horseys for you! www.aiweirdness.com/botober-2026/ 6489
Reposted by Liberal JimocratJohn Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 01/10/2026To lose visitors in the year you HOST THE WORLD CUP and celebrate a big anniversary is truly incredible. 25945247
Reposted by Liberal JimocratJo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Your comic book pictograms for the various animals is a level of inaccuracy I can live with. But giving the DLR a pantograph? That’s just taking economy with the actualité a step too far. 3231
Reposted by Liberal JimocratStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A ambitiously have more letters than messages C contrive to repeat yourself across letters Rrepeat yourself across letters O Obscure the message you want to send S stretch one of the letters past breaking point T take more time than is necessary I irritate passers by C cheap out on design 87613
Reposted by Liberal JimocratMichael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 01/10/2026Getting flashbacks this morning. 033
Reposted by Liberal JimocratTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You should never actually watch it, but a key to understanding Kemi is her Triggernometry interview where she explains her immigration policy, the (very friendly) host explains it back to her, and she immediately declares that isn't what she said, so re-explains it, and then it happens again. 517030
Reposted by Liberal Jimocratpeterkwells @peterkwells.com · 01/10/2026TIL: Fylde Council now requires people to create a "personal waste account" before they can check their bin day new.fylde.gov.uk/wasteportal/ 112
Reposted by Liberal JimocratGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Not all GDP is good GDP, exhibit MCCXI 0153
Reposted by Liberal JimocratJon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Paddling (canoeing) across Windermere today, into the teeth of a pretty stiff Force 3 wind - lumpy, and just this side of whitecaps - I came across a swimming squirrel, looking very stressed. Not a planned swim, I'm guessing. It was 300m to either shore, so I'm not sure s/he was going to be okay. 617767
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