Reposted by Paul PodTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026Oh look. More things that makes sense happening in these United States. 1530663
Reposted by Paul PodParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Andy Burnham is coming for your pension! By... er... increasing it by slightly less. Whereas Reform will scrap it completely. 26970364
Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Not online that much just recently (finally moved to Hastings) but ... news ... i mean, is everyone losing brain mass or something? 131
Reposted by Paul PodGeneral Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026£900,000,000 Nine, hundred, million, new, English, pounds - strip the titles - put a massive asterisk next to the Pep years - expel them from the league - forced sale of club due to owners failing 'fit and proper' test - turn Etihad into dog racing tracktheguardian.comManchester City found guilty on all Premier League charges over rule breachesManchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period 126915
Reposted by Paul PodEmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The companies crying for a slow down are the same ones that have been jamming their half-baked tech into critical systems (including schools, hospitals & our military) Apparently the only risk they care about is the literal extinction of our species — everything else is acceptable collateral damage. 1174
Reposted by Paul PodSeth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats 33672911087
Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I swear there was a fairly good tv show once called "The West Wing" about a non-lunatic US president set in The West Wing 230
Reposted by Paul PodCllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is what we are up against. It’s why I’ve always said the under 16 social media ban doesn’t go far enough. We shouldn’t be banning it for children, we should be properly regulating it for everyone. This is scary. How do we fight this? 65530
Reposted by Paul PodCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5843181182
Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Working on the design of a thing where some of the UX risks are making my hair curl. Yikes. 000
Reposted by Paul PodAnthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So stitching together Tony Blair's interventions of recent months the argument seems to be: become a vassal to US bigtech/Government, then "from a position of strength" rejoin the EU that won't have any issue there. I see flaws. 2235
Reposted by Paul PodWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is what happens when you don’t nip things in the bud. Rampant paramilitarism. 525848
Reposted by Paul PodTim Schofield 🌹 @timschofield.org.uk · 24/09/2026Nigel Farage says an attack on Russia pushing disinformation in the UK is an attack on Reform UK When they tell you who they are, believe them. 20824267
Reposted by Paul PodSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I mean, don't forget the Nazi font in all this 56610
Reposted by Paul PodWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103194381
Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Cool cool www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comAn OpenAI agent infiltrated Medicare – and Australia only found out months later. Here’s what we know so farExperts say ‘fairly minor’ breach is a portent of things to come and proprietary closed systems like OpenAI are ‘the least of the worries’ 000
Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is true, and many people find it confusing. Names are words, do what you need to do with this information. "True names" was such an internet nonsense, glad I did not play along with that rubbish. 030
Reposted by Paul PodBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026something has gone very, very wrong with the UK 1153334751
Reposted by Paul PodMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026staff at the boiling people alive factory complain of mental toll of boiling people alive 281661307
Reposted by Paul Podwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876-1923) Linden Avenue on Lijdijkweg and Oostkapelle near Domburg, 1909. Dutch painter who specialized in semi abstract landscapes #WomensArt 256691
Reposted by Paul PodGeneral Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026*this is a sub-epistle* 101037166
Reposted by Paul PodJack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I tell you what you've got to do right. You've got to force people out of their cars onto public transport, and you do that by doubling the price of petr- 4687
Reposted by Paul PodSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026when ai leaves u behind 74255249554
Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Phew, at least i'm not moving to the orange bit next week 001
Reposted by Paul PodWarrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 19/09/2026I feel like this should be bigger news in the UK than two horrid aristos carrying on a decades-old grudge. 2308
Reposted by Paul PodM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Fred profits off gambling addiction he is a scumbag 49321
Reposted by Paul PodLiam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Lord give me the arrogance of a tax exile who feels the right to comment on the tax policies and general running of a country who you have deprived of billions by registering yourself in Monacobbc.co.ukBillionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UKIneos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea. 721181326
Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Fix your roof and pay your fucking taxes catweasel www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBillionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UKIneos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea. 160
Reposted by Paul PodThe Azure Guardian 🔵🛡️ @theazureguard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Firefox literally just doing this right now by announcing this shit... 4265162656
Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Nothing worse than people who you think are good ones turning out to be bad ones ... and then they join Palantir to seal the deal 140
Reposted by Paul PodMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026'The Labour peer and former deputy leader will operate alongside Palantir’s UK and Europe chief executive, Louis Mosley, as the company attempts to fend off pressure on Burnham’s government to axe its £330m NHS contract.'theguardian.comFormer Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins PalantirPeer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan 122119
Reposted by Paul PodJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1 4253422317
Reposted by Paul PodThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort. 9768051544
Reposted by Paul PodMike Shaw @zax2000.bsky.social · 17/09/2026If this administration is so eager to replace its own workers (who are supposed to be doing work for the American people) with AI, how can we trust them to propose or enforce any kind of regulations on big tech that are meant to protect workers? Spoiler: We can't. 0196
Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Yeah i wasn't nicking your bank details i was just a bit misaligned while near a photocopier 000
Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Yeah i wasn't going through your bins i was just a bit misaligned 010
Reposted by Paul PodPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026you, behind the times: still getting your ducks in a row me, business thought leader: getting my ducks into an n-dimensional matrix for maximum performance throughput 5284
Reposted by Paul PodRobin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 16/09/2026This is as egregious as it's hilarious. Can we *please* get DMA horizontal interoperability for social media @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu, the European social internet is more than ready, we just need an open market to compete in. 35115
Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Noticing that use of the term "vibe coding" is turning derogatory ... well, that was quick. 200
Reposted by Paul PodOisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Okay, for people of a certain age, this is funny. 113527
Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This would be like me explaining the rules of snooker to my cat 131
Reposted by Paul PodMarios Richards @mariosrichards.bsky.social · 12/09/2026UK parliament is sovereign, it is not actually the case that people can simply break the law by "getting in X days early" - there's no impediment to "individual donations above £X are illegal and that includes the ones that happened two weeks ago". No impediment, that is, except lack of will. 3135
Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Wild how walking around thinking about the thing you are working on usually helps sort it out while sitting staring at it does not 0121
Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I keep seeing people's little vibe coded side projects. They sound so proud as a pointless thing does it's pointlessness. We definitely need to get back to starting with user needs. 040