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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 8h

I won’t be impressed till we have an AI existentialist.

Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you look at my main TL (not just replies), you'll see I'm not an unqualified enthusiast for AB. But I don't think it's going to be helpful for anyone on the Left to let misinformation about the pensions proposals get a foothold.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'd almost be willing to get on board with Burnham's program of 'Starmerism with better comms today, maybe a bit of social democracy and electoral reform in the manifesto for next time' if he hadn't left Mahmood and Phillipson with the Home Office and Equality Briefs.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you're thinking about the proposed changes to pensions uprating, they're due to start in 2031 (and pensions will still rise by at least the rate of inflation.)

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

James Wood and James Woods Loretta Lynn and Loretta Lynch Susan Collins and Suzanne Collins I also sometimes wonder what Rupert and Iris Murdoch ever saw in one another. Attraction of opposites I guess.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You don’t know it, it lives in Canada.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Devil's Bridge in Wales gets you three for the price of one.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think I'd rule that you don't get a pencil, but maybe the Constitution precludes that.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also puzzling that Australian innings last until the team batting has 10 runs no matter how many wickets have fallen.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If they did that they wouldn't be a mainstream politician any more.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Guess they couldn’t really call it Bouba.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Friends don’t let friends write treatises.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You shouldn’t take it personally: it’s your principles they object to.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is it that you don’t recognize that there’s a phenomenon of medical doctors wanting to be called ‘doctor’ outside of a medical context, or is it that you think it’s fine for medical doctors to want to be called doctor in everyday life but not people with a PhD? If the latter, why?

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Superficial Intelligence might be a good compromise.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sure. We were talking about people using titles like ‘doctor’ outside of their professional context.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don’t much care either way. I’m puzzled by people who think there’s a difference between medical doctors doing it. I mean, there are places where people put the fact that they are an engineer on their letterbox and that doesn’t bother me either.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not many of us put ‘vegan’ on our letter-head.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As far as I can see, it’s the same thing in both cases. It’s just that you’re fine with doctors and not with academics.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

OK but why do medical doctors feel they need to tell everyone their job whenever they introduce themselves.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If only the Home Secretary knew about these damaging and counterproductive proposals!

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Immortality sounds bad till you consider the alternatives.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The PA protestors received terrorism enhancements to their sentences because PA was a proscribed organization (whereas PP is not.) Whether to proscribe an organization depends on the decision of the Home Secretary. That doesn’t seem entirely independent of politics to me.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It will, I think, be a while before an AI is able to cook a risotto as well as me and a good deal longer before it is able to appreciate one as well as me. At that point, sure, let the machines take over.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A true-born Englishman’s a contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction. A banter made to be a test of fools, Which those that use it justly ridicules. (Daniel Defoe, via @dsquareddigest.bsky.social.)

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Guise of the good stuff seemd relevant here

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We could end illegal immigration at the stroke of a pen. It is literally the easiest problem in the world to solve (and not the problem that anyone who says they are concerned about illegal immigration is really bothered by.)

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thrasymachus has stormed out of the class-room after pointing out that different classes have different AI policies and suggesting that professors typically pick the one that makes their life easiest rather than the one that’s best for the students.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No real attempt to motivate the problem.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wouldn’t play well in Makerfield, I suspect.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If only the Home Secretary knew about this!

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also true here: Amazon < Ama uzun (‘but it’s long’, Turkish)

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Frighteningly, I’m now twice the age my parents were when they were half as old as me.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Some of the apocryphal gospels have a very AO3 vibe…

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fair enough. Difficult to tell on here sometimes.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He wasn’t much good at the Classics in any case.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do you feel the same way when it’s academics leaving the country for the sake of a higher salary/better job security?

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah, we might have fascists openly marching through the streets.

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wait, have I finally managed to fetch up in one of the timelines where French is the dominant language in England? (I mean, I get and agree with the underlying argument, and obviously there’s importantly relevant stuff like legal French persisting until the Revolution.)

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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg. @pgbarebones.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Why are two white guys less bothered about by the normalization of racism than a non-white guy? Dunno, beats me.

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